Well, for the second year in a row it snowed where I live. If you ignore the last two years, the last time it snowed in Lisbon was more than fifty years ago.
So, as it is easy to understand, Kyoto was a joke, the goals of the European Union concerning emissions of CO2 for 2010 are also a joke…and what the US, China and India are doing can be considered a world scale crime.
The truth is that no one thought it would come so soon, that the climate changes would occur so rapidly. But the truth is it’s snowing… and it’s not normal.
Yeah… I know… what can we do? The fault is of the big factories… I can’t stop using my car to go to work… there is no public transportation system or if there is, it doesn’t work correctly. True, but if everybody started to use it. Well they would have to change it. Yes I know that’s not the way to go, it should be the other way around, and I guess snow isn’t that bad.

How is it possible for this to be happening? I'm becoming increasingly close to the end of my degree and I still have no idea of what I want to become.
I’m sure about the general area, but when it comes down to saying what I want to do… well at that point I have the certainty of a five year old that wants to be a teacher when he grows up.
I’ve seen lots and lots of propositions for jobs, and all I know is that I don’t want those ones. It should be easy… I like computer and internet security and there are more job offers in that field in my country than there are applications. But now that I have to sit down and try to figure out exactly what’s my desire… well now I’m not so sure.
In the end, I guess nobody is, and that I’m pretty lucky to have figured out what area I like.

I'm becoming tired of this commercial world we live in. Everywhere you look there is always something or someone reminding you that you don’t have some trendy cool gadget or that you don’t have the perfect body or even the perfect girlfriend or family. I guess I’m what they call an outplot, I like great cars, I adore beautiful girls but I don’t fell miserable just because I don’t have the latest Porsche or because the most beautiful girl in the room simply ignores my existence.
And the worst thing you can do to all those companies that want to sell “perfectness” and try to pass there image as the perfect one, is ignore them. Yes I see all those skinny girls and muscled guys and just ignore them… I don’t know if I would be more or less happy than I’m today if I belonged to that group of people, but I know one thing; I’m happy with who I am, and with the things I’ve accomplished in the last few years. Maybe there are people that see a guy like me and think; there’s a guy who lacks ambition… but they’re wrong… I have ambition, the only problem is that my ambition doesn’t involve a Porsche or being known by everybody.
I have my goals and yes they involve some money, the freedom to be able to wakeup in a Friday and decide I want to go and spend the weekend in Rome… but in our days that simply doesn’t require a lot of money.
My dreams tend to have less and less material goods and the only material thing I see myself spending money in, is my dream house near a beach. Living in Portugal that has hundreds and hundreds of kilometres of coast I don’t think I’m dreaming something impossible.

Vs

Well the semester is over (at least the project part of it) and against all odds I made it. I guess I knew I would make it, but at the same time some things happened that made me have my doubts. Things like, when I had no time to spare, almost no time even to sleep… I caught chickenpox… Yes a guy with 24 years caught chickenpox in the most inconvenient month of the last five years… but with the help of friends and teachers I made it and am now very close to finish my course. It’s strange though the felling that my carrier as a student might soon be over… I may find myself as a full time worker in the next 8 months!!!

I’m seriously (more than seriously) considering moving abroad, probably into the United Kingdom. The difference to Portugal is enormous, the carrier opportunities, the kind of work (yes in Portugal there’s no real R&D made, and the one that is, is poorly paid and lacks investments), and the prospect to work in a country where in most of the cases what counts is if you’re really good, instead of the cousin of the friend that knows someone that can get you in… all those and many more aspects make me want to go, but there are some setbacks also; for example, the good weather, the beach from April to October whenever you have a few free hours, and all the people I know in Portugal. It’s a very big decision and I’ll have to think about it very well.
But the prospect is only one:

- It seems 2007 will be a great year.

Marcos Valle
Chup chup

Chup chup,
wa boo day,
wa boo day,
you gonna cry cuz i got away,
got away,
wa dee bo,
chup chup wa bo day,
wa bo day,
you gonna cry cuz i got away.

Don't be a fool baby,
don't play it cool,
don't you know,
that are so many fish in the sea.

Best play with trouts,
and with class and doubt,
what a new,
likes to feel,
it's no different from me.

Saturday I find you,
so love and so on,
Sunday you were as cold,
as can be.
Thought I had yestarday,
turn it to sawimg,
or way,
play you're game,
like you feel,
then one day,
maybe you'll.

Just wait and see,
see how smarter you'll be,
when you look,
at your hock and the fish isn't me.

Chup chup,
wa boo day,
wa boo day,
you gonna cry cuz i got away,
got away,
wa dee bo,
chup chup wa bo day,
wa bo day,
you gonna cry cuz i got away.

Don't be a fool baby,
don't play it cool,
don't you know,
that are so many fish in the sea.

Best play with trouts,
and with class and doubt,
what a new,
likes to feel,
it's no different from me.

Saturday I find you,
so love and so on,
Sunday you were as cold,
as can be.
Thought I had yestarday,
turn it to sawimg,
or way,
play you're game,
like you feel,
then one day,
maybe you'll.

Just wait and see,
see how smarter you'll be,
when you look,
at your hock and the fish isn't me.

Chup chup,
wa boo day,
wa boo day,
you gonna cry cuz i got away,
got away,
wa dee bo,
chup chup wa bo day,
wa bo day,
you gonna cry cuz i got away.

I know that there are a few words wrong here.
If you know them just put a comment.
I couldn't find the lyrics on the web... so I
made a simple transcription.

btw: look at your hook all you want, you won't find me there :-p