I am a Warrior of the light

I am...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:03:26 +0100

...drunk.

Ta ra.

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Benfica vs...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:24:08 +0100

...Everton.

It's on TV.

I was supposed to be there.

Hubby is....

COME ON BENFICA!!!!!!

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Ms Perfect

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:47:12 +0100

I don't know if it annoys me or if it bemuses me or if just fascinates me.

But how can one person be so perfect?

Oh, I'm talking about katherine Jenkins by the way.

She has a perfect face, perfect skin, perfect body, perfect smile, perfect attitude, perfect conversation and the voice...I mean, the voice is just wow! amanzigly perfect!

When she's on TV I just can't stop staring at her. But there isn't one spot on that face!!

Anyway she's such a lovely person, you just have to love her.

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Freedom

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:30:59 +0100

I'm not quite sure why I am writing this.

Maybe because once again controversy arouse in blogland, this time in my last post.
A post I wrote in hope child blog.
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I know for a fact, because my dad taught me, that if you want to avoid a discussion, don't talk about politics, religion or footbal.

But who said a discussion was not good? Just now and then....

What I was thinking with my buttons was, how wonderful Freedom is!

I was born and lived until I was 9 years old in a country ruled by a dictatorship.

Then one day, 24th of April 1974, a revolution happen and we were FREE!

I don't think anyone who has not experienced personally the act of becoming free, has a real idea of what that means.

Living permanently in fear of opening your mouth to express an opinion and being severely tortured and punished for it is the most despised action of all.

And I value my freedom more than anything in this world.

And when something happens that goes against freedom of speech I get angry and very upset.

Like what happened the other day to Professor David Nutt, being fired, after claiming that ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol.

I'm not saying he's right or wrong but what about freedom of speech?

What about this?:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Value your freedom people; and respect the others freedom.

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Have you ever...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:51:33 +0100

Have you ever made your coffee in the morning, forgot to boil the water but only noticed when you take the first sip?

It tastes horrible!

Have a great Thursday!

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Apart

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:14:20 +0100

We may be miles apart,
But every night when I look
up at the sky
I remember that we are
standing on the same earth,
Looking at the same moon
and stars,
And somehow you don't seem
So far away after all.

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Me, myself and I

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:23:50 +0100

I am slighty freaked out with all the thoughts and dreams I have been having lately.
I know I am going through a tough period of my life and I have to make very important and very difficult decisions and that I care for the world.

But I always considered myself as a very down to earth girl, realistic and most of all very, very patient and controlled. I am also an optimistic person, always seeing the bright side of any dark event.
It takes a great deal to make me lose my temper and as my blog says "Life is a joke. That's why I'm always smiling."
We are not taking anything with us when we leave this world, so carpe diem is my motto.

I know from knowing myself that I am a very intuitive person. Usually when I meet someone for the first time I can immediatly say if that person is trustworthy.
I don't know how I do it but life has proved me right.

I also have a special gift when I can tell a woman is pregnant even if she doesn't know it yet. ( I know that is totally random but I got it right so many times that sometimes friends just ask me: is she pregnant?)

But apart from that as I said I am a realistic person, who usually only believes in what my eyes can see, if you know what I mean.

Latelly I have been having these freaking dreams and last one has shaken me and left me very confused.

Because I dreamt of a place I have never been, I don't know much about and on my dream I saw a clear map of the place, Alberta, in Canada.

Next day when I googled images Alberta, the first image that shows is exactly and I mean exactly the same map of Alberta that was in my dream.

How on earth would I know how the Alberta map was???

There was also a red circle/ball as a logo stamped on some paper in my dream.

Almost reticent I googled that symbol.

And it freaked me out even more! There are quite a few on the net and they all lead to...Canada!

Oh shit. There is more but I'm not going into more details.

I think I need a holiday... a hammock, a book and sun.

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Being British

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:48:29 +0100

Being British is about driving a german car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then on the way home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab, to sit on a Swedish sofa and watch USA shows on a Japanese TV.
And most of all being suspicious of anything Foreign.
Oh and.. Only in Britain .. Can you get a pizza to your home faster than an ambulance.
Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain pens to the counter.
Supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop for prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.

I love Britain.

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I am shaken!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:40 +0200

You know how, some of us have a worst nightmare?
Something that can happen and you are terrified that may happen to you?

Some people are afraid of the dark, of death,of worms, of cancer, of closed spaces, etc...

My worst nightmare is this unexplained fear of knocking a child over. Or an animal...or any person, really...

And just now, as I was driving home, this van was turning right,and it's a double street, so I drove sideways to the van to turn left.
Obviously I can't see if there is anyone crossing the road.
And then just like in a matter of millesimes of a second, this baby boy, about 3 years old crosses in front of me!!!

And his dad, and his sister.

I bit my lip and I couldn't move! The boy touched the car,it was that close!

Thank God I was driving slowly and had the reflexes to break!

Dad looked at me, emited some shock sounds, like if it was my fault he is a fucking idiot who lets his children cross the street, carelessly!!

Anyway, it doesn't matter, nothing happened, but I am shaking really bad and I feel like crying.

Just the thought of what almost happened, it's enough to traumatize me.

And some people don't believe in angels....

( just a quick note to say in more than 20 years as a driver, I never had an accident, touch wood, I never made a claim with any insurance company, touch my forehead, but somehow, lately I've been having this bad feelings and dreams with cars??? )

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Dreams

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:25:18 +0200

I have been dreamless for a while but now had two very agited nights.
Last night I was with the family and someone else on a paradisiac beach, but behind me there was a farm. Suddenly a huge fire started in some buildings?? and we had to run to safe our lifes. The flame were gigantic and very quick, of course I woke up!

This night I was driving my car and someone was parked wrong then I turned right but I hit all the cars that were parked!!. About 3 or 4.
I stopped , looked at my car, thought I will never have money to pay those cars, and drove away. But before that I noticed this man, walking very slowly and Sherlock Homes type, and I know he wrote my car plate and told all the car owners who did.
I came home, told my husband, he was very upset because he loved this car, that was now totally smashed.
And then I couldn't go to work, because I had no car...and wait for it, this is the best part...I went to work sliding my ass on some sort of "slider", and asking people to get out of my way.

Probably lots of errors on this post, but I'm late to work, no time to review.

Ta ra

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Problem, Big problem...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:02:01 +0200

Are you good at mathematics?

Me, you and he...we went to the restaurant and the final bill was £30.00.

Each of us gave £10.00...
Me: £10.00
You: £10.00
He: £10.00

The waiter took the money to the till and the restaurant owner said:
These three are old customers, return them £5.00! And he gave the waiter five coins of £1.00.

The waiter, very clever, decided to take £2.00 for himself and gave us £1.00 to each of us.

In the end it was like this:
Me: £10.00 (-£1.00 that was returned)= I spent £9.00
You: £10.00 (-£1.00 that was returned)= You spent £9.00
He: £10.00 (-£1.00 that was returned)= He spent £9.00

Therefore, if each of us spent £9.00, what we spent together was £27.00. And if the waiter took £2.00 for him, we now have:

Us: £27.00
Waiter: £2.00
Total: £29.00

The question is:

Where the hell is the other pound???

PS.: If anyone knows where the other pound is, please let me know!!

Sent by The Department of Economics of PUC (Sao Paulo University)

Translated by Miza Tavares

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I had to steal...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:57:00 +0200

...this post from La-Spice. Sorry, but it is hilarious!
Sad but true.

"The Ferrari F1 team fired their entire pit crew yesterday."

This announcement followed Ferrari's decision to take advantage of the British government's 'Work for your Dole' scheme and employ some Liverpudlian youngsters. The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Toxteth were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Ferrari's existing crew could only do it in 8 seconds with millions of pounds worth of high tech equipment.

It was thought to be an excellent, bold move by the Ferrari management team as most races are won and lost in the pits, giving Ferrari an advantage over every other team. However, Ferrari got more than they bargained for! At the crew's first practice session, not only was the Scouse pit crew able to change all four wheels in under 6 seconds but, within 12 seconds, they had re-sprayed, re-badged and sold the car to the Mclaren team for 8 cases of Stella, a bag of weed and some photos of Lewis Hamilton's bird in the shower.

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We still love you Rubinho

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:53:52 +0200

I was very, very hopeful that he would win. It's 17 years fighting for victory and getting very close!

http://in.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idINIndia-43250820091019

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Life through the glass

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:20:15 +0200

As a sign of age my eyes are betraying me.
Every single day, I need to step back a little bit more to be able to read.
It started at less than a year. First it was the medicine instructions, then texting on the mobile phone and then reading a letter and then teaching...

And today, I couldn't read the computer monitor.
I kept scratching my eyes, thinking I had something in them but then I realized why the letters were blurred. So I put my polka dot glasses and problem solved.

SomehowI just can't get used to the idea I need to spend £200 in a pair of glasses.

So I bought 3 pairs already BUT from Home Bargains and Primark. £2.00.

Right now I have something like this:

They are cute, but I just can't get used to them. Because they are reading glasses, when I'm typing it's perfect but then I look at the screen and it's out of the glasses vision...and I have to raise my head up to see.

I know this is not a big deal, most people wear glasses but I'm still fighting the idea.
I may have to buy bifocals as the optician advised but I know for a fact, because I know me, that I will always be looking for the glasses everywhere.
I mean, I have 3 cheap pairs now and I can never find one!

It sucks man!

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Seven deadly sins quiz

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:57:18 +0200

So, you don't believe in angels?

Greed: Medium Gluttony: Medium Wrath: Low Sloth: High Envy: Very Low Lust: High Pride: Low

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

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Old paintings

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:22:35 +0200

I'm just bored, so decided to scan a few more of my paintings.
Did I tell ya I am the most disorganised person ever?
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It is sad that I don't have photos of many of my paintings.
I don't know how many I painted. (guessing more than 200)
I don't know how many I sold. (guessing 200)

I know it was a lot!

And i just noticed apparently in 1998 and 99 I was very inspired.

Anyway, I'm afraid these aren't for sale because they are all sold, sorry about that.

And my favourite ( not really, no...but I like it)

As you can see, these are all different styles and also different from the ones I posted before.

If anyone can tell me what my style is and which one you like the best, I may find myself someday.

Ta ra

NOTE: You can click the photos to see them...ahem...

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Romantic??

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:34:48 +0200

I was queueing at Asda and couldn't stop noticing this lovely man in front of me.
He was buying 4 bunches of roses, all different colours; strawberries, melon, apples, oranges, pineapple and a few more fruits; and 3 cards for his wife ( happy anniversary cards).

So I thought: awwwwwwwwwww, I feel like asking him if he will marry me...

But then I saw the last item... a cucumber.

Yeah....right...maybe not.

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The crazy dog, the argentian steak and the stupid turtle.

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:32:09 +0200

Sunday I went to the chinese supermarket to buy fish for Pebbles, the turtle, and they had lovely rib eye steak from Argentina, that I know it's the best.

So I bought a big shunk of it.

We had steak for dinner yesterday, but it wasn't to my taste, so I decided to make it again today.
Cut lovely slices, seasoned, put in the grill.
Alex made the salad and cut slices of palm hearts for us.

We were looking at Pebbles and the tank needed cleaning.

So I said to Alex, put more water in, so I can take it out (The stupid "water sucker" we have only works if the tank has plenty of water).

So, there she came with a bucket full of water and drops into into the light and all over the floor!!! and starts screaming: MOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!

I'm turning the steaks, wait!!!!

The stupid turtle is now in the bath and I thought I would feed her. BAD very bad idea!

I have a bath full of bits of fish! She was supposed to eat it all, damn.

Anyway, in the meantime, the barbeque is ready and it smells gorgeous.

So I pick a kitchen towel to get it from the grill and guess who's crazy about kitchen towels??

Oliver, the dog!

He jumps, gets the towel from my hands and my steaks are ready and on the floor!!!!

Now it's my turn to scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAleeeeeeeeeeeeeeexxxx, HELP!!!!!

It's not funny, but it's the two of us, we laugh at everything

I looked at her, she looked at me, I said, Shall I wash them, she said, okay.

Done, well washed and very healthy steaks for dinner.

I asked her if she wanted to go out for dinner but she said, na, that's fine.

Believe it or not, the meal was fabulous.

Now I just need to get the stupid turtle out the bath.

I love my babes, she's funnier than me.>" class="middle" border="0">

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Euro News!

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:56:07 +0200

European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivill servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typwriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Government will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivon vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

Ta ra

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Congratulations!!

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:34:45 +0200

Congratulations Cidade Maravilhosa!

Que saudade!

I Love you!

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Oh shit!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:41:17 +0200

Poo is following me today.

Not in a bad way, but there was poo everywhere on the street and then I came home and opened my Blog and Malakeas was talking about poo (in other words>" class="middle" border="0">).

Then I opened my email and I had a poo message, it's a video in portuguese and it's something like this:

A guy (some sort of priest, some sort of religion), is giving a talk in front of a large audience and asks:

- If you are outside, barefoot and you step in poo, what do you do?

- Everybody said: - I wash it.

- And if you accidentaly have poo on your elbow, what do you do?

- Again: - I wash it.

You wash it!!
You don't wipe it, right?

So why on earth don't you wash your ass! It's full of creases, you can't just clean it, you have to wash it!

Anyway, in my superstitious old country, old people say if you walk into poo, it's a sign of good luck!!

Good luck, my ass!

Right, I must confess I feel slighty sick, just writing this very interesting post and I just realised I changed my concept of what's the best invention ever.

I always said, to me it is the telephone.

But I changed my mind... the best invention ever is baby wipes...definitely.

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Things

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:39:11 +0200

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

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Bom dia

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:24:48 +0200

Tenham um bom dia amigos.

Ate logo

Beijos

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Portugal,

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:32 +0200

Lisbon.

Every country has a traditional song, dance, etc...

We have the Fado.

I personally was never a big fan, as I prefer Pink Floid or Deep Purple, BUT, it's tradition, AND when you are far away from your country, listening to the song from that place can even make you cry.

Well, Fado can make anyone cry, actually, because it's a song with soul and usually drama.

Sometimes it explores "Saudade", which is a word with no translation but that means missing something/someone.

Here's a site with a few places ( translation may not be very good as this is a portuguese website):

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://sabores.sapo.pt/tendencias/detalhe/roteiro-para-as-casas-de-fado-em-li/&ei=YN7ASqCeKt6fjAfYuckg&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=16&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcasa%2Bde%2Bfado%2Bem%2Blisboa%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

And one Fado, There's a bit of an introduction in english. This is a modern version :

And if and when you want to, there's an old one, more traditional and sang my our diva Amalia Rodrigues >" class="middle" border="0"> :

PS: I changed the last video, this one is shorter.

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Teachers rapped?

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:34:32 +0200

Am I reading this well?
Is there some sort of english language explanation?
Did they mean sacked?

Or is that what they wish and should happen to any teacher who dares to think about it?

Still, I'm a strong believer that the law should be "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-documentid=149922836

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Derren Brown

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:43:57 +0200

Okay, it's quite sad, so my daughter says, that I actually sat on the sofa and followed the program. And so did probably thousands of people.
BUT, I was impressed tonight.

I don't know exactly what this guy is, something between a hypnotherapist and magician, both perhaps.

Tonight he had a woman to draw a picture in secrecy, wrap it in newspapers and put it in gallery.

Then he asked people to draw what they thought it was there.

Visitors to the gallery and tonight all the viewers at home.

The picture was wraped, we couldn't see it, we just had to guess/feel and draw and make notes of what we could "not see".

Anyway, I did.

I drew two spirals, a few rectangles up, more or less in line, and I wrote sky, rocks, distance.

Guess what the womans drawing was, and I was quite confused and I'm still thinking about it ?

A huge spiral.

With two spots.

It was her interpretation of Stonehedge, seen from above.

I'm psychic!

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Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:07:12 +0200

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho

Chorus
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
It's work from home we go
(Whistle)

and more Whistle

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Insomnia

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:50:06 +0200

I woke up last night at 3 o'clock and couldn't go back to sleep.
I was sweating and feeling sooo worried, almost panicking.

And this morning I realised why!

I am probably afraid of commitment!

Which sounds ironic, I know, but maybe I'm traumatized?

I accepted the exciting invitation of our friend malakeas, to go to the next blogmeet in Portugal and be a guide.

And I want to do it, BUT, my mind started wondering during my sleep with something like:

what if I can't make?
what if I have to go there before or after that date?
what am I gonna tell the family? they wouldn't never understand the true.
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if I tell them, I have to visit so many people, I won't have time left to go blogmeeting!
who should I take with me, because now everybody wants to go!
where should we stay?

and went on and on and I just couldn't sleep!

I never planned what I'm going to do next year, in my entire life!

I plan tomorrow, next month...not next year.

But don't you worry mala, I will chill out and I will be there...if nothing happens til then.>" class="middle" border="0">

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Miza from day 1

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:52:53 +0200

44 years, 4 months, 6 days and 7 hours ago I was born in the little beautiful town of Santiago do Cacem, in Alentejo, Portugal:

I lived there until the age of 3 and I have many baby pics of me and sis playing in the castle:

This is me:

And this is all the info about my hometown:

http://www.portugalvirtual.pt/_tourism/plains/santiago.do.cacem/index.html

Okay, enough of procrastination, back to work, ta ra.>" class="middle" border="0">

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:57:27 +0200

Rather appropriately, this is the fear of long words. The condition, sometimes shortened to sesquippedaliophobia, can leave sufferers with shortness of breath, rapid breathing, an irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread.

You learn something new everyday

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