Loads of things!

Well haven’t written much here… and it looks that in the next months my “regularity” will continue… irregular… it looks like my laptop isn’t fixable. Guess I’ll have to spend time looking for a new one… (and money :-p)
Well I now like my job (in reality I think it’s the first time I can say this), but at the same time, I don’t think I’m quite as good as I thought I would be. The problem is I think I’m able to do better, but for that I would need help (like in school :-p) but as I’m working, I don’t have the support someone would expect in a university (but as I’m not in a university…). Well, even with that in mind, I have to say: I really like my job. I’m learning new things every day and fell that I’m getting better every day. I’ll have to see how the next month or so goes in terms of work productivity, but I really believe that it will be good.
Talking of other things, I went to Porto again and this time was different. We stayed there 3 days and ended up seeing much more… but I guess I’ll have to go back more times… I can’t believe that when I visit a city, the thing that I like most is something that’s not from that city… the thing I liked most was the Salvador Dali exposition… absolutely fabulous… and I have to say: I’m absolutely flabbergasted (weeee I used this word) with one of their traditional dishes: “Francesinha”… I think it’s my new favourite dish... well at least until I try something new :p
To end, my Italian classes have begun and… I’m loving it! I really need this sort of activities… I need to be in a constant learning process… and it’s great to feel that finally I’m able to talk a very rudimentary Italian (ok… any Italian person that tries to talk with me… would disagree with my opinion…). I’m able to sit in the class for two hours and understand everything the teacher says… well almost everything… but she only speaks in Italian… So I feel great…
I just have to start running again… maybe Wednesday I’ll re-start :-D

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

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).

Thoughts and Things

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).

Porto

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