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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

Well the initial idea was to put here only the lyrics of the song. But then I went to YouTube to search the music… first I only wanted to hear the song, then I thought I could put here the video clip and I ended up finding this…

Watch it as many times you need… until you understand that they can't do nothing.. it's us that have the power to do something!


Humanitarian Information Centre
World food programme
OCHA

Well I have a new all time favourite book. I've been reading for the last month “The Winds of War” and yes, it has lots of things I usually don't like in a book. It's about the II World War, it doesn't give a fair image of my country and other things I really can't tell because I hope you'll read it and so I won't tell anything about the book.

All I can say is that I understand that whenever you read a good book there is always a chance it becomes your favourite book. It has to do, not only with the quality of the book, but also, with what you're felling on that moment when you read the book.

All I know is that, for me, it's the greatest book I've ever read and I can't wait to get a copy of “ War and Remembrance ” and read the second part of this great story, but I seriously doubt it can beat this first one. In this one I could identify myself with the story, the characters and their way of thinking and behaving and every time I think about this book the same question keeps popping up in my mind:

- Where is my Natalie Jastrow?

I hate being lied to. I prefer a thousand times to be told the truth as much as it hurts than to be lied so I don't get hurt.

I think everybody likes the truth better… because when someone tells you a lie, it's kind of inevitable that you, sooner or later, find out the truth, and it's also kind of inevitable that when you find out it hurts even more…