Sunday, September 25, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
I don´t always post memes, but when I do...
...they can only be understood by a very small part of the world´s population.
(Sorry guys, I just couldn´t resist)
The interwebz understand me.
Want more Nyan? All your Memes are in our Base.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Stockholm
I know I had promised some pictures from Stockholm, so I finally pulled myself together and put a small slideshow together with a few of the photos I took.
Soon I´ll make a small mash-up of what I filmed (which was, well, a lot) of the Roger Waters concert, which in case you don´t know, was A-w-e-s-o-m-e. But I promise I won´t make it very long and boring, in case anybody´s interested in watching it. :P
Not now though.
Well, that is all.
(PS - I reposted this video because I came to the realization that it would be nicer to have some music in it - if you don´t like the song or are playing another song in your pc already and don´t wanna turn it off - just mute it. Also, I added a couple of photos just to make the slideshow last as long as the track itself.)
PSS - I have noticed that this video might be blocked in some countries due to the existence of a music track owned by EMI ( -.-")so if this is your case you can still watch the older slideshow without the music here. :)
Soon I´ll make a small mash-up of what I filmed (which was, well, a lot) of the Roger Waters concert, which in case you don´t know, was A-w-e-s-o-m-e. But I promise I won´t make it very long and boring, in case anybody´s interested in watching it. :P
Not now though.
Well, that is all.
(PS - I reposted this video because I came to the realization that it would be nicer to have some music in it - if you don´t like the song or are playing another song in your pc already and don´t wanna turn it off - just mute it. Also, I added a couple of photos just to make the slideshow last as long as the track itself.)
PSS - I have noticed that this video might be blocked in some countries due to the existence of a music track owned by EMI ( -.-")so if this is your case you can still watch the older slideshow without the music here. :)
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Winds of change
Hey-yo!
Well, you guys that are on my facebook probably already noticed it, but for you that aren´t or didn´t see it:
I GOT A NEW APARTMENT! *celebrate good times, cmon!*
Out of the blue, 4 days ago, this add comes up on the internet, I send them an e-mail, "hey can I came tomorrow to look at the apartment?" "sure!" I get there the next day, I say I like it and they´re like "well, wanna sign it?", long story short, here I am in my awesome living room with a green sofa.
Been cleaning like a maniac this morning, now it´s all fresh and lemony. ^^
Now I gotta go to work!
Cya! :D
Well, you guys that are on my facebook probably already noticed it, but for you that aren´t or didn´t see it:
I GOT A NEW APARTMENT! *celebrate good times, cmon!*
Out of the blue, 4 days ago, this add comes up on the internet, I send them an e-mail, "hey can I came tomorrow to look at the apartment?" "sure!" I get there the next day, I say I like it and they´re like "well, wanna sign it?", long story short, here I am in my awesome living room with a green sofa.
Been cleaning like a maniac this morning, now it´s all fresh and lemony. ^^
Now I gotta go to work!
Cya! :D
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Too Long; Didn´t Read.
I don´t always feel like writing. In fact I rarely feel like writing anything at all; I have my thoughts, they
go around and around in my head, bothering me, enlightening me, but mostly, just disguising other thoughts, without me feeling any need of writing them down.
Once, many years ago on a rainy day - not because it sounds romantic, just because it actually rains a lot in Sweden - a friend and I verbalized an obvious thought (I´ll get back to the verbalizing concept):
You only write when you feel blue. Why? Because when you´re not, you live.
You do not have the need to illustrate your life when you are enjoying it. It´s redundant.
Like Brian May put it a couple of decades ago, too much love will kill you. It´s the human nature, finding
problems where they don´t exist because there is a very small amount of this world´s population that can combine not having any problems with not creating new ones, these are called naive.
go around and around in my head, bothering me, enlightening me, but mostly, just disguising other thoughts, without me feeling any need of writing them down.
Once, many years ago on a rainy day - not because it sounds romantic, just because it actually rains a lot in Sweden - a friend and I verbalized an obvious thought (I´ll get back to the verbalizing concept):
You only write when you feel blue. Why? Because when you´re not, you live.
You do not have the need to illustrate your life when you are enjoying it. It´s redundant.
Like Brian May put it a couple of decades ago, too much love will kill you. It´s the human nature, finding
problems where they don´t exist because there is a very small amount of this world´s population that can combine not having any problems with not creating new ones, these are called naive.
If you are one of them you call them bon vivants. Reluctantly I admit that with time and power [over yourself] not only great responsibilities come, but also an exponential development of cynicism.
Maybe that´s just me.Or maybe I´m just making more excuses to justify my shortcomings in being truly happy.
I always say life is what you make of it. That is still true, but it isn´t easy and it does get worse when you
realize that the only one standing in your way is yourself - and you still do nothing about it.
This was my first thought when thinking of broken hearts. This tragic unavoidable cliché.
My second thought is that I´m being silly. That is why I never feel like writing.
If I write about trivialities it´s not worth neither my nor your time, neither my energy nor yours. It´s trivial,
pointless, useless - it´s just thoughts disguising other thoughts, as usual.
If I write some deep, poetical text with a lot of fancy adjectives (which scholars love so much) I feel like I´m still bullshitting myself, thinking I´m confronting undisguised thoughts, but I´m just covering them which something else - making something more painful doesn´t make it more truthful, just more valueable.
Maybe that´s just me.
I always say life is what you make of it. That is still true, but it isn´t easy and it does get worse when you
realize that the only one standing in your way is yourself - and you still do nothing about it.
This was my first thought when thinking of broken hearts. This tragic unavoidable cliché.
My second thought is that I´m being silly. That is why I never feel like writing.
If I write about trivialities it´s not worth neither my nor your time, neither my energy nor yours. It´s trivial,
pointless, useless - it´s just thoughts disguising other thoughts, as usual.
If I write some deep, poetical text with a lot of fancy adjectives (which scholars love so much) I feel like I´m still bullshitting myself, thinking I´m confronting undisguised thoughts, but I´m just covering them which something else - making something more painful doesn´t make it more truthful, just more valueable.
The more you suffer for something the more sacred it becomes, thus making it holier and less realistic.
A Romanticized Reality.
(This is something I understood when thinking about the experience of moving to a different country, but that´s another monologue).
Verbalizing a feeling doesn´t make you understand it better, it makes you feel something else.
I guess that´s a good thing, but then again it´s just another disguise (see the cynicism here again, it´s just not my day, I guess).
Brian May was right, according to my ever fatalist view of things: If everything is cupcakes, rainbows and unicorns, either something goes wrong - while doing my best to ignore Murphy´s Law lingering in my brain - or it´s a lie.
But if everybody believes in a lie, then it´s an undeniable truth. Then why shouldn´t we deceive ourselves if it makes us feel better? We ALWAYS do, even if we don´t notice it. Because you make your own interpretations.
See? This is why it´s pointless to me to write about deep stuff - because it´s logical and redundant.
And everybody already knows about it. Maybe they just don´t verbalize it as often.
Freud said that "It is surely of the essence of an emotion that we should be aware of it. Yet it is beyond question that we can 'have' feelings that we do not know about." Now, I´m not a Freud fan. Although he might be right on this one thing.
Verbalizing a feeling doesn´t make you understand it better, it makes you feel something else.
I guess that´s a good thing, but then again it´s just another disguise (see the cynicism here again, it´s just not my day, I guess).
Brian May was right, according to my ever fatalist view of things: If everything is cupcakes, rainbows and unicorns, either something goes wrong - while doing my best to ignore Murphy´s Law lingering in my brain - or it´s a lie.
But if everybody believes in a lie, then it´s an undeniable truth. Then why shouldn´t we deceive ourselves if it makes us feel better? We ALWAYS do, even if we don´t notice it. Because you make your own interpretations.
See? This is why it´s pointless to me to write about deep stuff - because it´s logical and redundant.
And everybody already knows about it. Maybe they just don´t verbalize it as often.
Freud said that "It is surely of the essence of an emotion that we should be aware of it. Yet it is beyond question that we can 'have' feelings that we do not know about." Now, I´m not a Freud fan. Although he might be right on this one thing.
What a great paradox.
How can you have a feeling, if you don´t feel it? Isn´t that the whole concept of being alive?
To me, right now at two AM on a sunday evening, right here in my living room, I think he´s right.
It´s just disguised thoughts.
This is why I am writing now.
Still, words mean nothing without the loving, caring semantics of someone that understands you.
They mean even less because everybody can make their own interpretation of what I mean.
A universal truth is an individual truth and if that makes you feel lonely, then we are all certainly lonely together.
(But is it really loneliness that we feel? Or are we disguising something else with it?
Perhaps the fear of realizing you only feel lonely because you didn´t make it be in any other way,
because you didn´t have the strength, the courage, the will, or the knowledge of making life like you wanted it to
be). Or maybe I´m just bullshitting my way through fancy adjectives.
And this is why I published it.
What is anything worth if you can´t share it?
That´s why I never had a secret diary. I never wanted it to be secret.
To me, right now at two AM on a sunday evening, right here in my living room, I think he´s right.
It´s just disguised thoughts.
This is why I am writing now.
Still, words mean nothing without the loving, caring semantics of someone that understands you.
They mean even less because everybody can make their own interpretation of what I mean.
A universal truth is an individual truth and if that makes you feel lonely, then we are all certainly lonely together.
(But is it really loneliness that we feel? Or are we disguising something else with it?
Perhaps the fear of realizing you only feel lonely because you didn´t make it be in any other way,
because you didn´t have the strength, the courage, the will, or the knowledge of making life like you wanted it to
be). Or maybe I´m just bullshitting my way through fancy adjectives.
And this is why I published it.
What is anything worth if you can´t share it?
That´s why I never had a secret diary. I never wanted it to be secret.
I promise my next post will be trivial.
Nevermind the silly one who thinks she has a broken heart when she doesn´t.
Good night.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Temporary Hiatus
Hello internet! Still alive - barely.
I just wanted to let you all know that I´m going to be on a temporary hiatus - which I have been for a couple of weeks now - until the first or second week of June.
It´s been crazy living, with work, university, courses and everything so I haven´t had time to be online, and wont be until all this is finished. Then I´ll go medieval on this sh*t. xD
When I get back to reality I will start blogging again, post some cool pics from Stockholm and be my virtual self again. Right now, I´m stuck in time and inside my brain.
So I´ll see you all in some weeks, after all this crazy stress is gone.
Hugz!
I just wanted to let you all know that I´m going to be on a temporary hiatus - which I have been for a couple of weeks now - until the first or second week of June.
It´s been crazy living, with work, university, courses and everything so I haven´t had time to be online, and wont be until all this is finished. Then I´ll go medieval on this sh*t. xD
When I get back to reality I will start blogging again, post some cool pics from Stockholm and be my virtual self again. Right now, I´m stuck in time and inside my brain.
So I´ll see you all in some weeks, after all this crazy stress is gone.
Hugz!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Easy like Sunday morning
Why won´t ya come join me in the sun and enjoy this wonderful morning? ^^
(God I love the smell of springtime and sun lotion <3)
Saturday, April 23, 2011
A day in Malmö
This is some pics I took when my friend Teresa came to Copenhagen M (lol) with her kids last week. :)
I found out about the children-friendly sides of Malmö.
Never gave a thought to the fact that there was a huge kids park right next to the library.
We got hunted down by hungry ducks.
Little cute bastards like this one. ^^
They´re surrounding us! We´re doomed!!
The weather wasn't fabulous.
They liked the geese that didn't move way more than the ones that did.
Now I´m chillin with mah homie Vivaldi and Beethoven, mah brotha from anotha motha (Me - making classical music Gangsta since 1988) after spending an awesome afternoon/evening with my portuguese mate Sara Pereira from Lund/Amadora (hehe) in the garden with pizza and having a small nostalgic trip with old Portuguese Eurovision songs. :P Songs like this one (this clip is oddly enough from the Swedish broadcast but with Spanish hosting - do ignore the awful Spanish pronunciation of "Desfolhada").
Cya!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Our very own Stockholm-Lisboa project - take two.
Hey-yo!
Today I´m gonna meet up @Malmö with Maria Teresa Ferreira, one of my good Danish colleagues from my time in Lisbon. ^^ It´s amazing how we can adapt, I find it wonderfully fascinating that we hung out in Portugal and saw each other every day, and now we meet in Scandinavia, it just feels surreal that the situation is the same but the environment is completely different. :P
(apparently Sweden and Denmark have the record of most wars ever fought against each other than any other two countries :P)
Cya! :D
Today I´m gonna meet up @Malmö with Maria Teresa Ferreira, one of my good Danish colleagues from my time in Lisbon. ^^ It´s amazing how we can adapt, I find it wonderfully fascinating that we hung out in Portugal and saw each other every day, and now we meet in Scandinavia, it just feels surreal that the situation is the same but the environment is completely different. :P
Cya! :D
Friday, April 15, 2011
Why the internet is dangerous, part II
xD
Geez, you never do learn anything constructive, do ya? :P
There you go, a bit more college humor. :)
Too bad I´m too much of a sissy to actually dare a small stunt like this. xD But the thought is indeed enticing.
Gotta go work! Cya latuh :D
Geez, you never do learn anything constructive, do ya? :P
There you go, a bit more college humor. :)
Too bad I´m too much of a sissy to actually dare a small stunt like this. xD But the thought is indeed enticing.
Gotta go work! Cya latuh :D
Thursday, April 14, 2011
It´s the Judean People´s Front!
I have spent the last 5 hours preparing for a seminar, reading Hebrew chronicles (these) about the persecutions in Germany during the first crusade and I am so going to fail this. xD I start reading and I can only think of Monty Python´s Life of Brian. I start reading about the martyrdom (aqedah) of the Rock of Masada - and I can only think of the suicide squad....
My sense of humor is ruining my studies (and my empathy). :S
"That´ll show them, huh..."
(EDIT:
I´m back from the seminar and this kinda sums up my day.
)
My sense of humor is ruining my studies (and my empathy). :S
"That´ll show them, huh..."
(EDIT:
I´m back from the seminar and this kinda sums up my day.
)Monday, April 11, 2011
Realm of Dreams
Came back from work with ambitious - as always - projects of finally doing some school work, so I started making a research on the fourth crusade, I have a couple o´things to hand in this week regarding that theme.
But like Peter Griffin and the American Beauty scene (see ref here in case you don´t remember that scene :P) my concentration wasn´t exactly as high as I wanted it to, so I ended up watching a documentary about the Iranian revolution instead which in some inexplicable way lead to me spending the last hour reading about Saami (or Sápmi or Lappish or whatever one prefers) culture, because there was some small song piece on the documentary (which I assume was Iranian music) that reminded me of Joiking. :P
Feel free to call me weird, I still like it.
And so I came across this awesome piece of modern Joiking
(which sounds somewhat like Iron Maiden meets FolkTrad xD): Click here for some Rocking Joiking Dude. ^^
And now, I found this - in my opinion - pretty damn great concert excerpt from a performance by Mari Boine in the Opera House of Oslo, which I find strangely invigorating and relaxing at the same time. :)
And let´s admit it, they do have one of the most awesome languages [evah evah] in the world. :P
Enjoy, and g´night. :)
Wanna hear some more Saami language? Check out this cover of Abba´s Waterloo by Sofia Jannok on the Swedish Eurovision show´s pause entertainment performance. :)
But like Peter Griffin and the American Beauty scene (see ref here in case you don´t remember that scene :P) my concentration wasn´t exactly as high as I wanted it to, so I ended up watching a documentary about the Iranian revolution instead which in some inexplicable way lead to me spending the last hour reading about Saami (or Sápmi or Lappish or whatever one prefers) culture, because there was some small song piece on the documentary (which I assume was Iranian music) that reminded me of Joiking. :P
Feel free to call me weird, I still like it.
And so I came across this awesome piece of modern Joiking
(which sounds somewhat like Iron Maiden meets FolkTrad xD): Click here for some Rocking Joiking Dude. ^^
And now, I found this - in my opinion - pretty damn great concert excerpt from a performance by Mari Boine in the Opera House of Oslo, which I find strangely invigorating and relaxing at the same time. :)
And let´s admit it, they do have one of the most awesome languages [evah evah] in the world. :P
Enjoy, and g´night. :)
Wanna hear some more Saami language? Check out this cover of Abba´s Waterloo by Sofia Jannok on the Swedish Eurovision show´s pause entertainment performance. :)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Springtime has come! :D
Hooray!
Now I´m gonna go be in an office for the rest of the day instead of outside enjoying the sunlight. -.-"
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Scandinavia and the World
I just came across this awesome webcomic, which at least for the time being (that is, this past hour) js the best webcomic I´ve seen. (even more entertaining than Cyanide and Happiness, Wullfmorgenthaler and all of those, which I, more often than i´d like to admit, resort to in moments of sheer boredom).
It´s called Scandinavia and the World and I am so captivated by this because it has stricken one of my favourite and biggest humorist chords: stereotypes.
Personally I love stereotypes. Not because I believe in them or because they have any influence whatsoever on how I see people, if they were to be seen in a serious context I would be outrageously against them, that´s for sure, generalization of individuals has never been something to strive for. But seen in a context of pure humor and with a laid-back attitude it can be - at least for me - one of the most fulfilling genres of comedy, because well, 1. When you do confirm a stereotype, it´s often funny as hell, and 2. it kinda gives a sense of peace knowing that you can make fun of somebody without that person being offended, even better, if that person makes a joke back or confirms the stereotype in a matter-of-fact kind of way.
This webcomic is not always politically correct, that has to be said about it, and it does touch very sensitive issues sometimes, but the internet has no [greater] censorship and well, sometimes you do have to enlighten the most taboo-ish issues. And making harmless - even cute - funny stories about them has got to be a good way to lighten up the mood. But I do believe the author of this comic (I believe it´s ~Humon) has a generally good grip on reality, politics and history which add to the legitimacy and of course the quality of the humor itself.
I like it a lot, and I specially recommend it to all of you who have any personal experience with (or are it yourselves) Scandinavian folks because it´s funny as balls. ^^ (Oh, Iceland always sparkles, Finland never says a word and Sister Sweden has only pink furniture).
The use of flags and national symbols is something that indeed differs a lot between countries. :P
[EDIT: Also, I noticed some partial nudity in the cartoons/drawings can occur, just so you know :P]
It´s called Scandinavia and the World and I am so captivated by this because it has stricken one of my favourite and biggest humorist chords: stereotypes.
Personally I love stereotypes. Not because I believe in them or because they have any influence whatsoever on how I see people, if they were to be seen in a serious context I would be outrageously against them, that´s for sure, generalization of individuals has never been something to strive for. But seen in a context of pure humor and with a laid-back attitude it can be - at least for me - one of the most fulfilling genres of comedy, because well, 1. When you do confirm a stereotype, it´s often funny as hell, and 2. it kinda gives a sense of peace knowing that you can make fun of somebody without that person being offended, even better, if that person makes a joke back or confirms the stereotype in a matter-of-fact kind of way.
This webcomic is not always politically correct, that has to be said about it, and it does touch very sensitive issues sometimes, but the internet has no [greater] censorship and well, sometimes you do have to enlighten the most taboo-ish issues. And making harmless - even cute - funny stories about them has got to be a good way to lighten up the mood. But I do believe the author of this comic (I believe it´s ~Humon) has a generally good grip on reality, politics and history which add to the legitimacy and of course the quality of the humor itself.
I like it a lot, and I specially recommend it to all of you who have any personal experience with (or are it yourselves) Scandinavian folks because it´s funny as balls. ^^ (Oh, Iceland always sparkles, Finland never says a word and Sister Sweden has only pink furniture).
The use of flags and national symbols is something that indeed differs a lot between countries. :P
[EDIT: Also, I noticed some partial nudity in the cartoons/drawings can occur, just so you know :P]
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Eternal Dilemma
(I know I´m just posting pics today, but I really have nothing new to say, and I´m feeling kind of empty of words, I´ve just been very busy lately and the rampant migraine I´ve had today really does not inspire my writing. :P But everything´s rolling, time goes by and I make the best of it, enjoying all minutes of sweet relaxing boredom and invigorating seconds of excitement, whatever they may be. Feeling surprisingly optimistic, though. :D)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Amazing journalism (yet again)
Thank you Capt. Obvious and also congrats on the political correctness fail award.
:D
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