caffeine addicted

ok... sighs...
It took me a long time to admit this, but... I AM ADDICTED TO CAFFEINE!!!

First was the soda... I couldn't live without coke... then I passed to the strongest tea that I found... and since tea has not enogh caffeine I needed to bags of tea at the same time and drinking it the whole day... so I came back for the coke...

Then I came back to Rio and changed the coke to guarana... that also has not enough caffeine so I needed to drink the whole day intercaling with tea.... (not to hot here... :-P )

Now finally I decided to cut the soda out! and... I've been drinking coffe almost everyday (except when I try out a soda again... :-S ), and cold chocolate and cold tea/mate...

Do caffeine fanatic have cure? :-P
Or should I ba happy that at least in Brazil I have good coffe ;-)

sighs... my grad life...

One day...
one day, MAYBE...

Bola Preta - Carnaval 2006

Lugar quente eh na cama ou entao no Bola Preta!!!

:-)

mom made me happy :-)
I love to receive flowers!!!

finally gym

ok!
This week I finally starts in a gym place... so far I only went twice, but this is pretty good for the busy I was and for the first week... and even more because I was in the morning!!! I woke up at 7am to go ;-)
So far I did aerobic class, that broke me all up (maybe down :-P ) and spinning, the bike class... very good classes.

The gym is next to my place... 10/15min walking... and I go to a uphill to do some warm up before the class.

And also to keep training when I don't go to the gym place I bough a jump rope for me... it is so nice... hihihi
Today I did my first rope excercise... but next time I should use shoes (ow my feet)

The other this is that I start yoga/meditation... but I did only once, and I think I need some strech before ;-)

Let's see how it will be my daily excercises after the carnival is past :-P

Corcovado

For more work coming... remember the nicest time that you had by your last vacation and think...: "I will have it again... soon and better!" (better because a new holliday vacation is usually better than the last one! ;-))

a happy man ;-)

This is a picture of a very happy man!!! :-D My father... hihihi

Finally his new computer arrived (oh, you people can't see it because is down the desk... but is new) and now he can, again, have desktop all for him (well, this means that my brother will be also a happier person :-P)

And look where the computer is located: right, RIGHT, next to his bed, and more important his side, he almost doesn't even need to get out of bed ;-)

yeah!!! my father is smiling again!!! (hihihi, better, is smiling more! :-D)

saudades do meu amor...

We took this pictures still in Chicago...
It is the carriage tour around the city!
It was friday night and we went with some friends to a brazilian exposition (Tropicalia, that btw I already posted it here saying how much I disliked... but anyway) after all people started walking and walking forever to look for a bar far far away!!! and I wasn't able to get through till the end of Chicago (:-P) with such high heels... so we stopped in a very nice coffee place, took some tea and got the tour ride! ;-)
It was a very nice night!

I miss my baby!!!

relaxing time... (together)

personal laptop

Now my laptop has my special touch outside also!
Isn't cute?

Still coke!

This doesn't even need words ah?
Coke is king!!!!

:-D

Hello Kitty

Cute and pink...

What else do I want? ;-)

"It's always nice to share a smile"

:-)

sometimes you got be vain! ;-)

So yesterday I decided to let not only main vain side come out (hihihi, as if I didn't really did this often, like doing nails, making pink desktops, doing my hair... ah, I like my girlie girl side ;-)) but also I decided to have the comfort of someone else doing them for me! (in the previous post I did it myself)

well, I kind of liked! I came from university, sat there and had all the work done, plus little stuffs that I don't do when I do it my self (hm... this written is... :-P I am talking about nails!!!)

How is it? ;-)

I am an artist!

... or what?
Look at my nails!!! I did them! ;-)

Pink

For those who though that my desktop were already too pink and mores couldn't be possible... IT IS!!!

This is my kde desktop!!!!

It is so cute!!!! It almost makes forget how much headache a computer can give ;-)

retro^...

Does anyone remember the glasses bottle of coke?
Now they look to be in fashion again!!! They are so cute!!! well, the small ones are even cuter, but anyway...

Coke is coke and always rule!!!!!

end of hollidays - miss my baby...

Ah... I've been far from my computer for so long and it has been so good... Since I came back to Rio I was only working working and working... since the same day that I arrived here, to be sure... but by the end of the year Pieter came to save me! :-D

He came and stayed for almost three weeks!!! it was so good! We did so many nice things (The New's Year Eve in Copacabana, Cristo Redentor, Loaf Sugar, Paraty, Arraial, boat trips!) well, what could we expect?! When we are together everything is nice and fun!!! ;-) even nothing at all is nice!

But today he left! :'(

And now, far from him and back to work! sighs... life can be good sometimes... but most of the time life is hard!!!!

Soon I will post all the pictures in my pictures page! with histories...

I miss my baby!!!! snif snif...

just life...

just life...

So... Do people remember when I've put this post here?
I was doing DAQ shifts at that time!

Now, I am back to Rio... has three weeks already and I didn't stop yet! I got a very bad cold but i didn't stopped!
talks to give, Reports do do!!!! and I go on and on as I was in Chicago time so everyday at 5am (Brazilia time) I go to sleep!!!!

... sighs... sweet grad life!

I'm getting old :-(

:'(
sighs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My room, my place, my world

My room, my place, my world
Here is where I spend most of the time! Of course I go out... :-P but I really DO enjoy be in my room...
It looks like me, has my signature...
I like to be here in all occasions... alone or with friends... watching TV (I like TV in a room **), listening music... enjoying or working!

It is like my private small world ;-) :-P

A retrospect of the last month till now ;-)

Finally everything nos is setup... My presentation was fine... my room is a personal mess :-P , I am starting to sleep more regulary (or at least working on that ;-) ), the hot water on the shower is fixed (yeah I didn't tell but we had a problem and I was for one week taking cold shower... but after a week, yep, on monday, the water was fixed and we have hot nice shower ;-)) and we are starting to put up the Christmas Tree :-)

Merry Christmas to everyone!!!

My room is a mess, but I don't have time to clean up because I have to do a presentation on thursday, this is tuesday ;-)

I am home ;-)

I am tired!!!

On the plane... (I think is 5th already :-/)

bye bye (better, see you soon ;-) ) honey! (Dec 3rd 2005)

Christmas decoration on the streets of West Chicago

My last snow memory (not the last day, because it was snowing till the day that I came back home)... and well, last for some time ;-) 'soon' I will see more

Fixed

This is the new face of my ubuntu 5.10...
After, as my father says "muito choro e ranger de dentes", I was able to find a fix for it...
So I enter in the ubuntu forum page and asked about this problem, and for my surprise a lot of people has the same problem, all of them with laptops and the greatest part Toshiba... some vaio's also... but the most was toshiba, all series...
Well, but in the end I found the fix that worked just fine for me :-)
And, what is better I was also able to install skype in my ubuntu... it isn't like I am windows, but it works fine ;-)
So now I have, again, both systems, running fine! and btw, I will have to make a picture of my windows... it is as cute as my ubuntu!
More news, soon... and beach pictures after this FU6969 rain stops!!!! ;-)

What the hell is this?

This is my new linux... the new version of ubuntu that in the trying to update my computer ATE my old version and all my programs, pictures and setups!!!!

Can someone explain why those things ALWAYS happen with me?

hihihi!!!!
stay tune for news! now coming from Brazil!

Packing - part III

... and it is not the end...
But yep, it is true, it is already the third time that I pack these bags...
In the first part, the blue one contained summer clothes and the red one was empty
Then in the second part, the red one had summer clothes, the blue one winter clothes and the box my stereo system...
Well, now, the box still has my system, the red one my winter clothes (because the blue one didn't close) and the blue one my summer clothes...
Blue one is on the limit!!!
Red one is full but not checked how heavy yet... the box is done
To go the hand bags and lot's of small things...
More for tomorrow before parties ;-)

Packing - part II

Now I have almost two suitcases packed... but one is light and doesn't close and the other is almost passing the limit!!!
ARGH!!!!
I still have to pack stuffs in my handbag and give "someone else" another handbag...
And, oh sure, I have a box!!!!
ARGH!!!! two years in two suitcases is KIND OF hard!!!!

sighs...

Packing... (or tying to... :-/ )

Just for the records.... I HATE MOVING!!!
I have to pack everything and think about what is necessary and what is not... the weight and SIGHS!!!!

It would be sooooo good if I could just move and buy everything new!!!! hihihi

...sighs...

Playing with Gimp

I've put linux (ubuntu: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/) in my computer (in fact, Pieter did... the partition and the installation...)... well, in the process I also lost my windows, but okay it's fixed already... (with the exception of the musics that I didn't save and are lost now :'( ).
Ubuntu is a very nice (well, it's a linux...), (nice when does it work... because, of course it takes a while to set some stuffs up, stuffs that i don't know (and I am not very much, to not say not at all, patience and I set all - not all and not that easy also, only with reflexion exception... anyway now I remember like a easy-fast setup in windows, hummmm ))
Anyway... ubuntu is a very nice system and I am spending my week (trying to work... I don't how I was able to do my presentationS for today... in office, not ppt... but still, a very nice one!) playing around in my new system... drawing... doing new backgrounds...
And here you can see a screenshot of my desktop... I've made my panel bars light pink and this nice background is also my creation with Gimp!!! a image editor...

...

yep... in the end I've put linux in my laptop and I have to say, I like it!!!!

Panera bread

Monday I went to Panera bread... is a sandwich kind of coffee place very nice...
The sandwiches are very good, the cold ones, like salads and specially the panini ones... heat... hum... so nice... and they also have a very good cuban black beans soup!!!!! And you have the option "you pick two" so you can have half sandwich and a bowl of soup for example... DELICIOUS!!!!

The side for sandwiches were chips (that I love!)... and for the soup bread... but sadly if you decided for the "you pick two" the side was always bread... it made me so sad, because I like so much that chips (in fact, chips is my second vicious after coke, that I am trying to cut... sighs...)...

BUT NOW!!!!!!

you have a choice of which side do you want... bread (and what kind of bread), chips or apple!!!!

hm... Definitely... Panera bread is a place that I will miss!!!

PhD life

I remember the first time that I saw this cartoon... it was last year... still in the beginning of the year and my life here... I was still in my first office (hihihi, I had a door and a window... now I don't have none of those... *sighs* ...) ... anyway...
I though it was pretty funny, even more because it is true!
So, during my daq shifters (NO, I don't miss them), more precisely during the owl shifts, when everyone is sleeping and you can't but also can't not fix in work, I spent time reading these comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/comics.php) and I got this one for me... it is in my office desktop! ;-)

...

Well, today, one of my friends asked me in which step was I and my first instinct was answer "before the first one"... but then I though and I realized that this is not quite true!!! I in fact already pass through those steps... in fact all of them, even the last one (:'( ).

Ok, ok... not with all the years and I still have one last year...

So I've realized that I am in some intermediary step!!!! And this gave me a great satisfaction... (another PhD student will understand... sighs...) that yes, I can get stuck sometimes, but it is going ahead and yes I will be able to finish it!!!

Oh happy day!!!

Step it up / Tropicalia

Last week I went to a step class... I though "oh, I did some step classes when I was in Rio and I liked so much... and I did other day, so nice, vibrating... so step it up..."

So, I step it up to the Lifetime fitness center, all cute and full of energy and... well, and, I will describe the class...

-Teacher: march, march... right foot... basic right... now left... basic left... all over the step...

And I am like "ok, that's nice, this is easy..."

-T:mambo, basic right, all over, mambo, basic left... turn all over, step on, out, jump, all over, turn...

Ah? What? Ops, is everyone to the other side?
Ah... ok, now I got it...

-T: Now, let's do the combo (combo?) left, right, turn... again, faster.. mambo... right, turn, all over (argh.... what now? flight? oh my God, is everyone on the other side again? :-( hm...)

-T: Now, let's all dance together... put the steps in a line... (oh no!!! Dance together? why aren't we going to flight? it is easier, I can bet... :'( )

And so, I did step it up out of the class...
And this "step it up" cost me a whole week with hurting legs... sighs...

...

Friday night we went to an exposition in Chicago (ah... sweet Chicago, it is so nice there... I will miss this city...) it was a Brazilian exposition, Tropicalia... I hated!!! Bad art, with some few exceptions, bad food (nothing Brazilian typical) and bad music...

After some hours standing in high heels some people decided to walk forever till some bar... I didn't last till the bar (this means that Pieter also didn't...), I needed to take out my shoes and we came back with me without shoes...

But it was very nice... in fact much better than continue walking till I don't know where... we stopped in a cafe had some tea and then did a tour by the lake with a carriage! Very nice!!!

Once more a very nice weekend! ;-)

Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver

Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver;
É ferida que dói e não se sente;
É um contentamento descontente;
É dor que desatina sem doer;
É um não querer mais que bem querer;
É solitário andar por entre a gente;
É nunca contentar-se de contente;
É cuidar que se ganha em se perder;
É querer estar preso por vontade;
É servir a quem vence, o vencedor;
É ter com quem nos mata lealdade.
Mas como causar pode seu favor
Nos corações humanos amizade,
Se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?

Luis Vaz de Camoes

The translation:

Love is a fire that burns without flame;

Wound that hurts and can't be felt;

non-contented contentment;

Pain that causes madness without hurt.

It's not wishing better than wishing good;

It's a lone walk amonst crowds;

It's an unsatisfaction in satisfaction;

It's even winning by losing.

It's being tied by wish;

It's serving, to who wins, the winner;

It's being loyal to the one who kills us, loyalty.

But how can its favor cause

Conformity in the mortal hearts,

Being love so contrary to itself?

...

I think that in Portuguese is much nicer!!! but ok... it is understandble also in English...

But anyway, I am writting it down here just to remeber myself that the first time when I heard this poem I loved (love at first sigh) but I though it was a sad description... and now, still in love, I see it as perfec description... It is not sad... can be not happy also... but it describes love!

Love, that even so contrary to itself brings in our hearts, not only conformity, but happiness!!!

...

I know, and I can not forget, that I will have a nice week after such very VERY nice weekend... in fact, PERFECT!

Vending Machine III - halloween horror...

I can't live like this!!!
Not was enought "they" had changed the vending machines from my office building, taking away from me the pleasure of the coke flavour (real coke, not pepsi...)...
... not enough... ok I decide that my "need" for coke is strong and than pepsi it is... then:

The vending machine doesn't accept coins!!!! :-O

This only can be a trick from Halloween!!!!

Oh well... so I had to spend the whole day been health, drinking orange juice!!!! sighs!!!


Happy Halloween!!!!

Vending Machine II

Yesterday I went to buy some coke in vending machine, on my office building and for my surprise (a bad surprise) they don't have coke anymore :-(

When I say no coke anymore, I refer to the only one, the original, the Coca Cola... ahhhhhhhh

Unfortunately they only have pepsi now... it has coke, but doesn't taste like coca-cola! And I am not saying this only because I am a huge fan of coca-cola... but because I am also fan of a good coke...

Pepsi is not that good... coke is much better... and I did lot's of "taste studies" and the only one that approaches to the real coca-cola taste is a Alaskan coke (the one with caffeine please... what that hell is this of coke without caffeine?!) but pepsi is still far away from the cake taste

But, as fan of good coke I am addicted to the coke taste, I had to have the pepsi... sghs... sad news for my afternnons/evening at work... but at least they have ice-cream... (if the heat is strong enough, so I can forget that the winter is coming ;-))

Yesterday and Today

It's incredible how the same old same can sometimes look so different!!!

There is a construction next to Pieter's house obstructing the normal way to go to work... so we had to do a different way... in fact a slightl different way, we only took the next street instead the usual one and then we were again in the old 59 route... but only THIS detour (I hate my aim... it is asking for a f#$^% new upload, I sent install n times and keeping asking me again!!! I will just unistall it now!!! hihihi) well, continuing... and only this one sigle detour was enough to make me see everything different... a new angle, a new look... a new point of view of that old street... and seem more nice... all the trees were more bright, the whole day, everyhere

I think this did my day a bit happyier... I worked better... and I even found out a site with my favorite addicting game (Shise-sho: http://home.halden.net/vkp/vkp/shisensho.html). In fact... a site with lot's of the same game... it made my day!!!

Well, today the detour is old already... so, nothing was new! And been very realistic... also everything nice and bight wasn't really that bright but it was my new sun glasses that make everything brighter and redish/tanning, hihihi...

Nice new angle of view!!! -> new glasses :-P

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