Friday 21 September 2007

One of the best books I've read this year

This was written in French... I read it in Portuguese... and I'll transcript it in English... but the meaning is almost impossible to be lost.
- Do you know the sentence: "It takes nine months to make a man and only one day to kill him" ... It's not nine months, it takes fifty years to make a man fifty years of sacrifices, of will, of... so many things! And when that man is done, when nothing more in him is childhood, nor teenager, when he is truly a man, all he has got left is to die.

André Malraux
La Condition Humaine

Tuesday 4 September 2007

Sunday

Well to complete the weekend Sunday I went to Grandola.
It's a marvellous place... with fabulous beaches and great landscape. Truly one of Portugal treasures.
Here are the photos of the landscape… the beaches will have to wait (I ran out of batteries).

Monday 3 September 2007

Thoughts and Things

D. Luis Bridge
My first month of work ever. I’m absolutely flabbergasted… not about my work but about the way I reacted to it. It’s absolutely unpredictable the way I’ll feel about my work tomorrow. Each day I have a completely different feeling about it. One day I feel it’s awesome, the other, I hate it. I guess I’ll give it another month before reaching a definite conclusion.
Hum… I guess I’ll have to think more so I can have a more rational opinion about work. But I have to say that there are days when I think: that’s it… for the next 40 years this will be my life. Fortunately most of the time I don’t think that way…
So Saturday I’ll have the last exam of my degree… at least of this degree. Next week I’ll begin gym and the driving licence classes and in two or three weeks time I’ll begin my Italian and English classes… I guess that’s a change to which I look forward.

Last but not least. Last weekend I went to Porto to see Red Bull Air Race 2007. It was awesome… really incredible. But the greatest part of it was the getting away of the routine. It was something completely new... and sometimes (as I write more than I should) new is good, but at the same time it was with a cool group of friends that tends to work great together (although some elements wore missing…). But I really enjoyed the weekend! (Actually it was only Saturday :-p cause Sunday I went to Grandola to the beach).

Sunday 2 September 2007

Porto

Then I crossed the river and went to Porto.
Here are those photos!

Red Bull Air Racing 2007

So I went to Porto to see Red bull Air racing.
I stayed on the Gaia side, and had a hell of a time!
Here are the photos.