I’ve finally finished reading the last book of Harry Potter. The Order of Phoenix was probably the most expected book of the year, and after reading it I’m able to find many reasons that justify that expectation. The only great difference of it from the other four is the size, everything else stays the same. The power it has to take the reader into a trip along fantasy, the ability it has to make the reader read until it is no longer possible, the capacity it has to change the priorities of the reader’s life during the reading time, all that is exactly the same as it was since the first one. The big problem this book has is the size… It took me 3 days to read it, and I would only stop reading it when it was no longer possible for me to see the letters on the book because I was to sleepy to continue, this had a rather curious consequence, yesterday I went to bed at 8o’clock in the morning, and the main reason for it, was because the minute I started to read the book, I would enter that fantasy world in such a deep way, that I would lose complete track of the time.

I suppose not everyone is capable of entering that fantasy world in such a deep manner but I believe that everyone that is, wished that world would really exist or at least that ours would be a little more like it. And the reason is simple, in that fantasy world where witches and wizards exist, where the common of the mortals is not allowed, in there, the Human values are truly taken in account, in that world even the darkest soul respects values such as loyalty, brotherhood and friendship... values that are not respected by many people we know.

PS: Some of you might be asking yourselves why I don’t say anything of what’s in the book. I believe that everyone that has the curiosity of knowing what’s in it should read it, and not trying to get bits of it, from other places…

Is it normal for people to stagnate during holidays? I don’t understand, we spend a whole year complaining, saying we work to much, that we have no free time, no time to live, but when we have a whole month of holidays, (or 15 days.. depends) there is a majority of people that take one week to go on a trip to a foreign country, were everything is pre-establish and were there is no freedom. The other 3 weeks are spent watching TV, eating large quantities of everything, and going sometimes to the beach, preferably during the hot hours, the same hours witch doctors say are dangerous… At least this is how Portuguese people spend their holidays… They don’t practice any sport, (until watching TV is declared sport) they are one of the most over-weight population in Europe, they don’t go to museums, to theatres, to cinema, they just know their way to the beach and to the couch, this is the Portuguese holidays.

Portuguese people are one of the most over-weight populations in Europe. They have a hilarious excuse for that… lack of money, because for the typical Portuguese, sport can only be practice in a gymnasium, preferably one that has models, actors and politicians… they think that they’ll become famous if they know famous people, they don’t want to think about the possibility of running on the street, to make push ups in their house, etc… No, they don’t have time (there’s too much on TV).

PS: This is only my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.

Our world is to serious, most people are more worried with efficiency and productivity then with comfort and happiness… These two things are only achievable if everybody starts to think more human like and less computer like… In this society most people have goals to achieve, things like best car of the family, best decoration in neighbourhood, best looking wife, best job, best kids, but few of them have goals like, be happy… We’re thinking like machines… and that’s a stupid thing to do… behave like we’re something that we aren’t…
In school we don’t teach children how to play, we teach them how to be good students, and school begins earlier, in these days it’s normal if a 3 year old kid, spends half of his day in school, trying to learn numbers and write down his name… I really think that’s unnatural. If there’s a time to play is when we are kids, and we should play a lot so we don’t forget how to play when we became grownups. I believe I still know how to play… and when somebody calls me kid with the intention of saying I’m immature, I thank that person because for me that’s a complement.
Everyone has a child in them, but some people have forgotten how to play…

Today I received and email, with something I could not believe… The email said that on the 27th of August, Mars will be the size of the moon. I just wouldn’t believe, so I began my research, and I didn’t need much time to understand that the email was very exaggerated, what will happen is that Mars will be the closest to earth in the last 5000 years, but will not have the size of earth. The experts say we should find a Telescope to see the red planet, and at least in Portugal that’s easy to do. If you find nothing, all you’ll see is a very big star with the red colour on.

Sometimes we see in TV the most terrible things and take them as the most natural… Yesterday the UN headquarters in Baghdad was attacked, and we all saw it in TV, it almost felt like natural… But then we received the notice that Vieira de Mello had died in this attack… (He was very cherished by Portuguese people because of Timor), and we felt a little of this attack. Yesterday, I read Raed’s Blog and felt a little more of this attack… I invite you to read it too…

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