Too much news… too much bad news… that’s how TV works today. I would say that only 50% (or less) of the news that are shown on TV are really news, the rest are: Fairy tails, huge exaggerations of the reporters, and made up stories. Today I read a comparison of the same news article given by CNN and by Aljazeera. The difference is enormous, as it tends to get exaggerated by both sides but in different ways (if you know what I mean). And in the end we just have to imagine the true story based on the two presented stories. Why can’t there be a single news channel that limits it self to the presentation of news just as they are…

December the month of kindness…
It’s the month of snow, of cold, of rain, of staying at home, of chattering around a fireplace with the family. It’s the month of the family.
It’s the month of tea, coffee and hot chocolate, it’s the month of worm cloths and worm food.
It’s the month when all problems are forgotten and where we are all kind to everybody.
It’s the month of the glitter, were the city streets show all their enchantment, were the shop-windows show their magic.
It’s a good month to get in love, it’s a magic season.
Is it?… or should it be???
I seem to see everything on the wrong perspective. It does not rain that often, people prefer coca-cola and movies in huge mall. Chatter in family? Tv is much better. Worm food, only if the pizza guy doesn’t get late. And glitter… ohh that one exists… as long as you have money to buy it.
But the christmas that I described earlier never existed, it’s a though, a perfect thought that we try to achieve every year. And every year we fail to achieve it, not because we don’t try hard enough but because it’s unnatural… christmas is something that was invented by humans for humans, and as much we say we love christmas, what we really love is the idea of a perfect christmas.

The other day I was seeing Who wants to be a millionaire? and there was a question that asked the capital of Germany, it would only be normal that the person that was playing the game would answer Berlin, but no… even if it is one of the most important countries in the world, even if it belongs to de European Union, the same European Union to who Portugal belongs, even if the capital of Germany had (I think that there is still a bit of it left) the most famous wall in the world (well maybe the second)… there are lots of people in Portugal that ignore that the capital of Germany is Berlin. And I ask whose fault is it? I really don’t know, and I won’t try to guess, but I would like to live in a country where people would know more things, other than what was on the soap opera yesterday, and what was the score of the football game of the past weekend…
Portuguese people don’t read anymore, all they do is work and watch TV, and worst of all they watch mostly junk TV… and that’s a pity.

Being sick sucks…
This weekend I got a flue, a very boring thing to get. I don’t believe that anybody can say cool I’m sick, I won’t have to go to school/work. I hate being at home, with nothing to do, without being able to do sports, do listen to music with the volume on the maximum (headache), I find it very boring… all I did was sleep, and watch tv, I wasn’t able to read because I couldn’t concentrate (headache again), and the hi fevers only make it worst. I tried to go to school on Monday, but I was worst, when I got home I had higher fever, and I felt like crap… The result… I had to stay home Tuesday and I still don’t feel OK.
But I guess everybody has to be sick every once in a while, maybe we need a little fever and a “great” headache to realize that it’s great to be healthy, and stop complaining when there’s nothing to complain.

NB: The sun is back. I hope it’ll stay for a couple of weeks :)

September…
It’s always a busy month for me. First month of classes, you have to get used to get up early, also there’s no more beach… and this year, there is also no more sun. It rains like hell in Lisbon… Summer is gone just a few days ago and it’s already raining.

Today I read that there’s happening a conference about the global warming in Russia. Two Russian scientists are trying to defend the tease that says that the global worming can be a positive thing. I believe that global warming can have positive aspects, but I’m sure that for each positive aspect I can easily find ten negative… I don’t believe that a serious scientist can even consider the possibility of thinking that global warming is good… Don’t they care about what’s going on in the weather? Droughts, floods, high temperatures in winter, low temperatures in summer, aren’t all this men’s fault? Those two Russian scientists want to blame it on the volcanoes and the oceans (?). I really hope tomorrow they say they wore just kidding…