Happy New Year

With all the luck of a field of four-leaf clovers!

Last of the English Roses

In the ‘94
We all sang
Skipping and dancing hand in hand
Yeah with all the boys together
And all the girls together

She’s the last of the English roses
She’s the last of the English roses

Pete Doherty, Grace/Wastelands

Christmas is just around the corner

And I haven't bought one single present. I've been too busy coughing my brains out and stuffing myself with antibiotics.

Ho, ho, ho.

A Matter of Perspective

Are things finally coming around?

Hoping to be able to get back to dance classes on Saturday.

Back to Bayswater

Ahh... So much cold and so many days in bed make my thoughts fly all the way back to London and rediscover Bayswater, Baker Street, Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Camden Town, Canary Wharf... And God, how I miss Serpentine Gallery and Pret a Manger! 

Did you know Winston Churchill lived in Bayswater? Always learning, thanks to Wikipedia.

A pint of Guiness

Now, there's something I wont be tasting in the next few weeks.

Worst tonsillitis ever!

Sun is shining

We'll lift our heads and give jah praises 
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet.

And it's almost friday!

Half Full Glass

I wonder if it is possible to be a "half full" kind of person these days. I spent four days blissfully without reading/watching/listening to the news and then I return to reality, only to learn more about car accidents, deaths and diseases (now it's tuberculosis?!).

On the other hand, heavy rain gave us a break. That kind of makes things even.

Bonsai day

Today is my b-day! 24 years have passed, with roots firmly dipped in the soil and head waving with the wind. Send in another 100!

Thank you all for the beautiful words. I'll cover you with kisses by dinner time!

Gourmet finding of the year 2009

Soy beans! If the so called magic beans from the tale were those green, tasty little things, I would have also given away the cow! Ok, I'm overacting. But they're good. Really good. Not as good as chocolate, but close.

Word of the day: Colorize! Otherwise, we'll turn grey as the bloody sky. 

Yellow brick road

Next step: find some free time to put on my ruby slippers, click my heels and find myself in Serralves to check the Augusto Alves da Silva photography exhibition.  

"There's no place like home".

Bastet or Luna The Cat

I don´t feel like worshiping her when she becomes Sekhmet and hits the dog, eats the plants, scratches my shoes or steals part of my dinner, but most of the time she is true royalty, with wide green eyes and a very cool temper.

London | Londinium | LDN

I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born Infant's tear

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

London, by William Blake.

Freakonomics

Never thought it was possible to find cheating teachers with an algorithm or to measure human honesty rate (a comforting 83%) through the analysis of bagel sells. Learned that, along with many other freakish social and economic facts and I'm only on page 85.

Wonder what comes with SuperFreakonomics.

Reflexions over bad weather

Bad weather makes me feel good, sometimes. Ok, heavy rain, falling nonstop, is depressing, but those cold winter days can, in way, be rather inspiring. At least to my imaginative stomach: watching clouds floating over the celling makes think of hot baked cakes, dinners with family and friends and Christmas delicacies, all at the same time.

Half a TV

Is all I see, these days.

The World

As the Gods probably see (and keep) it.

Invisible, by Paul Auster

Bought and ready to be devoured in just one sitting.

7th December

Another b-day on its way! 

Ready, set, go!

Beautiful disaster

Kinda feeling like an elephant in a china store, today. That's life, I guess!

Gladly, I have this soothing picture of Claudia to post.

Meet little Maria

Sleeping in yellow.

Congratulations, mum and dad :)

Almost there!

I'm the queen of pursuit.

September came and went

And there are still so many stairs left to climb.

Summer is almost gonne

Like an apple half eaten.

We all have something that digs at us

At least we dig each other.

I need a revolution

I wanna play with the big boys/I wanna ride with the tough guys on a Japanese motorbike/I wanna hold your hand/Hey, what’s your favourite band?

The Divine Comedy, Victory of the Comic Muse

Stairs of light

Climb higher!

Frankenstein

The greatest love of all.

Summer Time in Oporto

Some days are particularly colorful, as if summer could last forever.
Cheers to the great days of 2007, full of books, photographs, smiles, and lots, lots of coffee breaks, all over the beautiful city of Oporto!

Ghost

First of all there is Blue. Later there is White, and then there is Black, and before the beginning there is Brown. Brown broke him in, Brown taught him the ropes, and when Brown grew old, Blue took over.

Paul Auster, "Ghosts", "The New Your Trilogy".

S(h)elfish

"And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed."

Jeremy Irons

The Fall...

... may be the beginnig of the rise, as proved by Sherlock Holmes when he faced his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, in The Final Problem.

Old School brought new friends

Hopefully, and very likely, to the end.

JCC 2005/2008

Once upon a time, there was a class full of young, promising people, who worked together in harmony.

Procrastinate

Procrastinate: [formal] to wait a long time before doing something that you must do. I know I've got to deal with the problem at some point - I'm just procrastinating.

Ceci n'est pas un ananas

Right?

I met a famous Rock Star

And she played no guitar.

Alice in wonderland

She looks down her nose/At the shoes I'm wearing/
And my care-worn clothes/Such a pretty nose

The Divine Comedy, "Diva Lady"

Ultimate new techonology was found

To work better unplugged.

Kick'em!

Just Girls

The Toast

Essays on Red & Pink III

Essays on Red & Pink II

Essays on Red & Pink I

Hometown