The Flames of Summer Wither and Die Away

http://vimeo.com/13667092
Goodbye summer!
And I totally love that dialogue!

Burning Bacon...

Its 4.00 am and I just caught the craziest chat conversation in LetMeWatchThis, my favorite movies' site.
Apparently "idroppedmyspoon" (that's his/hers web name) started this yesterday and its still going!

It's impossible to put all the names of the people chatting or even to include all post but these are the best!

Start frying!!!

Rebel Without a Bacon
There's something about Bacon
Girls Gone Bacon
Jennifer's Bacon
No Bacon Attached
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Bacon
Mr and Mrs Bacon
The Lost Bacon
Bacon and Stitch
Flight of the Bacon
Bacon Dearest
Mom and Dad Save the Bacon
Journey To The Centre Of The Bacon
I Know What Bacon Did Last Summer
Before The Devil Knows You're Bacon
Die Hard: With a Sausage
BACON WARS
Inubacon
NaruBacon
How To Make Friends And Influence Bacon
Bad Bacon
FaceBacon
Winnie The Bacon
Girls Just Wanna Have Bacon
Bacon Trek
Titanic Bacon
Black Snake Sausage
The Rise of the Bacon
The Truth About Bacon
Bacon The Documentary
Interview With A Bacon
You want the bacon? ...You can't handle the bacon!
Bacon Grease AND Bacon Grease 2
The Bacon Diaries AND The Diaries of Bacon Jones
...It's my way or the baconway...
Stop or the Bacon Shoots!
Pulp Bacon
Billy the Bacon
The Bacon in the Middle
Must....resist...bacon
Guns and Bacon
Monsters vs Bacon
League of Extraordinary Bacon
...go bacon yourself you bacon bacon...
BaconStone
Trading Bacon
The Bacon of the Dead Bacons
"Its Bacon, Captain, but not as we know it."
Dirty Bacon
there's a movie with john candy called "canadian bacon" for real...
Beastly Bacon
Green Day : St. bBacon
No Country for Old Bacon
Don't Tell Mom the Bacon's Dead
Baconquest
Bacon this....
The Princess Bacon
The Bacon Gates
... I spit on your bacon!
Fried Green Bacon
Honey I Shrunk The Bacon
Bacon Impossible
Is Harry on the Bacon?
Downtown Bacon
Who Framed The Bacon?
Bacon Everlasting
Letmebaconthis :)
Meet Joe Bacon
Night of the Living Bacon
Bacon The 13th
the phantom bacon
The Bacon of the Opera
Eggs
With Bacon
Balls of Bacon
Final Destinbacon
the bacon family values
Dude, where's my bacon?
Beavis and Bacon-Head Do America
Searching For Bobby Bacon
Jason vs Bacon
The Fast and the Bacon
The Importance of Being Bacon
Supper Bacon!
Harry potter and the Bacon Hallows
The Mask of Bacon
...because bacon's what' cookin'...
Over the bacon
Save the Last Bacon For Me
Say Something Bacon
Spy Bacon
Don't be a bacon to South Bacon while drinking your Bacon in the Bacon Pretty in Bacon
Coffee and Baconettes
Never Been Baconed
Raiders of the Lost Bacon
Who's Afraid of the Bacon?
I'm hungry
The Meaning of Bacon
Finding Bacon
Ingloriuos bacon
The Bacon Mile
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Bacon
Live Free or Die bacon
Bacon Soldiers
Chainbacon massacre
Beyond the Valley of Bacon
The Woman in Bacon
The Bacontrix
Wake up if ya smmmmmmeeeeeeeellllllllllllll the bacon!
Oh No! Another Bacon Movie
Captain Bacon
Saving Private Bacon
Beauty and the Bacon
Bacon Falls
Mr Bacon
rise of the planet of the bacon
forrest bacon
Bacon Act
Bacon-nights
Clash of the Bacon
Conan the Bacon
A bacon flew over the cuckoos nest
Immortal Bacon
Forbidden Bacon
the hills have bacon
read the bacon, it tells you everything
Eyes Wide Bacon
7 days in Bacon
The Baconism
...you had me at bacon...
Number twenty bacon
silence of the bacons
Bacon of the Lambs
Borat: Cultural Learnings of Bacon for make benefit glorious Bacon of Kazakhstan
ice ice bacon
the BAcon Saga
cowboys and bacon
Fear and Bacon in Las Vegas
A Bacon Runs Through It
brokeback bacon
I now pronounce you Chuck and Bacon
IF YOU BACON THIS, YOU CAN BACON THAT
Bacon Returns
Bacon, James Bacon...
bacon me if you can
it's kind of a funny bacon
clockwork bacon
Bacon Attacks!
the rocky horror bacon show
playboy bacon
gossip bacon
a time to bacon
the bacon who could fly
The Saddest Bacon in the World
Big Bacon
A NIGHTMARE ON BACON ST.
the bacon video horror that made me puke on my aunt gertrude
Natural Born Bacon
anyone know of a good BACON?
the bacon kid
Bacon and Prejudice
The Bacon who shagged me
a Bacon too far
bridgette jones bacon
The Bacons Of Madison County
the bacon musketeers AND The Three Bacons
Dr. StrangeBacon: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bacon
UltraBacon
Mr. Poppers Bacons
edward bacon hands
Million dollar bacon
teenage mutant hero bacons
X-bacon
Queen of the Bacon
3000 Miles to Baconland
Finding Bacon
A Fish Called Bacon
The Lord Of the Bacon: The Fellowship of the Bacon
True Bacon
American Bacon
The Bacon of Monte Cristo
The Bacon Network
Bacon, The Bacon Slayer
Mars Needs Bacon
the twin bacons

And much more bacon...

Ah! Another Beautiful Day of Reading HP fanfiction and Daydreaming... don't you just love my life?

§ You Know You’re Obsessed When… §

- You snort out loud whenever 'Chamber of Secrets', 'Harry's sword' and 'Basilisk/Tom's Monster Snake' are mentioned.

- You refuse to believe that Tom is irredeemably dark and Harry is completely light. Normally you like it when Harry goes dark.

- You look at the words 'time travel' and grin, immediately assuming that this is a perfect lead into a Tom/Harry fic.

- You come across a H/V fic and you cackle with glee.

- You can't wait until Harry finally crosses to the Dark side.

- You listen to the radio and notice down any songs/lyrics that remind you of your ship, and then you imagine for hours on end, a little theater scene in your mind, starring H and T, just dancing or singing said songs.

- You were giddy during the entire graveyard scene in GoF.

-You've memorised the page numbers of the Gravyard Scene

-...and the Chamber Scene

-...and all the pensieve scenes with Tom in HBP!

-...and where Snape deems them a couple.

-You've decided that the even numbered books are the best, because those are where Tom's mentioned, which leads to T/H subtext, which is fantastic.

-You realise that JK. R. didn't intend for it to happen, but you know how it is...

love happens.

Playing With Fire and With Cats

"We are all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."

When I read this quote I just thought it represented exactly my feelings right now.

I don't know how but it just clicked right in my head.

Everything in my life right now is a complete mess, in terms of my professional and academic future, in my love life, even just in my relationships with family and friends.

Oddly enough this single quote contains, in a way, the answer, or at least my answer to all my questions abou the above issues.

Academic and professionaly, my problem is not even how I am getting to my gol, but simply getting any goals at all. I'm terribly stuck, and I say terribly because it is terrible the pressure that is. Everyone, not just family and friends but the entire society we're living in is just pressuring me into making a decision, into wanting things. Wanting to be things, to do things, to have things. Things, things, things. Like a repetitive macarena song, constantly playing in my head.

In terms of relationships, with friends and family, I always felt and probably always will feel dislocated, like I just don't know what to do. I love my friends, sure and my family of course, but is it so very strange to not know how to act around them, to always think, "Am I doing this right?" , "Perhaps it would be best to do this or say that instead?" . Its always like the simplest of things, like how many times I should see them or even talk to them, are unfamiliar concepts for me. And it seems so very simple to everyone else, like they all speak some secret language and I'm the only one left out, the foreigh student trying to learn a strange new language while all around me, everyone was born knowing it.

Ahhhh!?!!!!

And romantic relationships! Damn! it's ridicolous. I'm totaly clueless both as to how to act and in what I want. Now. I have this urges, this things I want, sure, but they are all just mixed up with this thoughts and ideas, even ideals and damn. Its all a freaking mess.

Does he like me? Do I like him?

When I like tem and they like me, I stop wanting them and when I don't like them or they don't like me is like I totally want them!

If they want long term I want a short affair, if they want a short affair, I want to have teir babies and grow old together, for All Gods' sake!

It's because I'm on my 20's isnt it?

And yet as I read that quote I feel like, for now, and for a very long time ahead. For me. This is as it should be, I hould be more like a cat, I should feel my urges, my ideas, my wants and act upon them, without guilt or second thoughts or doubts.

Just go, do what I want and damn enjoy it!

I must gather the courage to bake my cake, have it and eat it too.

Flames of Flowers Meanings

Harebell (campainha)is for submission,
gladiolus (gladiolo)
and Snapdragons (erva-bezerra)
for strength,
Grass
for aceptance,
the dog rose
is for pleasure & pain
and coral rose

for desire.
Chamomile
is patience, as well as energy in adversity;
tulips
are a declaration of love,
and yarrow (milefolio)
is the cure for heartache.
Love-lies-bleeding
is pretty self-explanatory;
pansies (amores-perfeitos)
are for thoughts and love,
lotus
is for estranged love and forgetfulness,
zinnia
are for thoughts of an absent friend.

Ok, now I bet you're super curious to why I bothered to research this particular flowers and their meanings... well, it's quite easy!
I wanted to insert flowers into a conversation, like what I did with the ice-cream, remember?
Innuendo games but with flowers this time!
Lets play!
Patricia, if you ever read this, please don't be offended, it's your fault for all that talk about threesomes!

"So, do you want to go out with him?" Pats asked me.

"Well, he's wonderful, that's for sure" I said, cheeks growing pink as I remembered last night, and then tried to think of a good way to show her how last evening had made me feel, without being too obvious or crude.

"Last evening has made me want a... a bouquet, with harebell, gladiolus and snapdragons, to lay on a bed of grass and rose petals," I said, rapidly chosing a few flowers, to represent myself-- the harebell meaning submission, then the gladiolus and snapdragons for him, the roses of desire and the grass of acceptance for pats -- though of course I knew they both really did deserve different, specific symbols, I was quite tired and gave up at finding a more appropriate one.

"I'd offer to arrange that," said Pats, "but it would only get us all in trouble." she continued shaking her head regretfully.

"Ah, perhaps once there's a proper opportunity," I said, looking curiously at her face for any reaction, "we could reconsider the matter?"

She broke out laughing, as I expected, but then she nodded once and made a mockingly serious face . "I shall trust that after many cups of chamomile tea," she said, and my memory supplied a whisper of patience among the meanings, "you will bring us tulips and not yarrow, and I'll have no cause to refuse such a proposal."

I blinked and nodded, filing the statement away to look up later, though I was pretty sure I knew what she meant. "I'll sip chamomile as well," I said, unconsciously copying her more formal speech, "and hope that he won't trade my tulips for love-lies-bleeding."

She laid her hand over mine and smiled softly. "We'll send you pansies all year long," she said trying not to laugh out loud. "And hope not to get lotus blossoms back."

"Never lotus," I said, the strange code coming to me easier, the more we spoke it, like a foreign language I'd read about but never actually tried to speak until just now.

"Pansies and zinnia, for you, always."

I finished smiling softly.

AFTER...

There was a party going on in the flat...
There was always a party...
Someone told her,
"You are woman enough to know he wants you, right?"
She answered,
"I am?"

She was? Am I?

There's a knock on the door of her room...
There's always a knonck on the door...

She got up, it was past 12 pm, but the party had lasted until the early hours of morning, and she never got up early either way.
She opened the door.
He is standing there.
There was a moment in which she thought she was still sleeping and dreaming.

She was not.
He took a step forward, and kissed her.

He pulled back, looked at the floor and spoke,
"I am sorry."

She answered,
"You are? About what?"

He looks up and goes to say something, she stops him,
"Look, if you're really sorry, then you're forgiven, I was not offended or anything.
If you're not sorry... I'm going to close this door, and when I open it again, you'll do this right."

She goes to close the door, he stops her,
"Right? Wait, what do you want me to say?"

She smiles,
"That is for you to know and for me to find out."

The door closes.

She breaths deeply.
He breaths deeply.
She tries to smooth her hair down and checks her breath.
He knocks.

The door opens.

He kisses her again.
And stays silent, looking at her.
She speaks,
"Hum... no sorry this time?"
He answers,
"I wasn't really all that sorry."

They laugh.
Somethings need no words.

Coffee Burn

Have you ever thought about coffee? It's 4 am and I find myself thinking about coffee. I suppose it is odd to be thinking about coffee in a flat where everyone drinks tea, all the time. In the middle of an entire country of tea drinkers. Yet I despise tea. Nothing special about it if you ask me. Tastes like water and grass. There's also a lemony sort of taste sometimes. Altough for me, it is more like a lemony sort of feeling. You see, food and drinks more often than not, evoke memories for me. Feelings ans sensations, mend and combine with the singular experience of the simplest meal. And tea, brings to me, one of the most despicable memories of my childhood. Remarkably enough, it's also one of the earliest ones, it is true that we sheldom recall the good things in our past, and yet the sad, painful moments stay with us, like an irritating burn, that no longer quite hurts, but it's still there as a constant reminder not to get to close to the stove. I cannot recall how old I am, but certainly younger than six, for I am still in kinderganden. It's around 5pm, and it's tea-time in a country where there is no such time, or at least few places around here are in the habit of having tea at this particular time. Unfortunatly I'm currently in one of such places. And there's a small yellow plate beneath a round white bread with butter in it, next to a orange mug, right in front of me. Inside the mug, lies my greatest fear... or not. Sometimes it is orange juice. And sometimes it isn't. They never tell us. And they never bother to ask. After all who would bother to inform the children of the contents of their cups? much less question them on their preferences. The strange thing, is that I cannot, for all that I've tried, and believe me I have tried, remember what the tea tastes like. I know it is bad, for certain, and that I detest it, but certanly I should have seen feet to recall the exact nature of the taste of such a detested brew, right? Apparently no. In fact, the really important thing about this memory is not the tea or my ultimate dislike of it, but intead that precise moment, right before I pick up the mugg, in which the contents of said mugg are still a mistery to me. They are indeed misterious the working of the human mind, for altough I cannot for the life of me remember the taste of the tea, or of the orange juice for that matter, I can recall with amaizing detail, my precise feelings in those few moments before picking up the mugg. Indecision... denial... fear, nay, pure terror... comtempt, hum, hate, for my caretakers for making me drink it... inevitability (is that a feeling? It certanly feels like one, it feels like being trapped, like having no choice, like knowing of the things that hurt you and having no control over them and no power to stop them. And those are the feelings I associate with tea. On the reverse, I love coffee, such a deep, smooth drink. Milk and sugar for sweetness. II always have my coffee with lots of milk and suggar. I suppose the coffe prudes out there would say I don't like coffee at all, if I don't drink it pure, but I do. I love the sour, bitter feeling it leaves on the back of one's mouth, after a mouthfull of sweetness. When I have coffee, I don't recall a specific memory, but intead a set of memories. Memories of breakfast in strange places. I first had coffee with my mom, I have no recolection of that first time, altough I guess I should, but I don't, I know it was with my mom, because I only stay in hotels with my mom. And it was in hotels the only times I had coffee as a child. Amidst baskets of croissants, juggs of all the juices imaginable, cakes, little packets of butter and jams, honey, different bread and so many fruit,yogurts, milk with chocolate dust in it, with cereals, or just a tall glass of perfect ice cold milk. My mom always made sure we had a good earthy breakfast in the hotels, at home, there was of course not such concern, even if we skipped breakfast, we could always eat something troughout the day, but during vacations, we would often go entire mornings with nothing but our breakfast, sometimes we wouldn't even have luch. Then again, my mom was always good at saving and travelling alone with four kids, the biggest expense is always food, so she would always tell us to eat a lot at breakfast so we would be full for the rest of the day. Oh, there would be cookies in the car, but we never really ate them, we're all quite used to filling up at breakfast during vacations, I dare say, it wouldn't be vacation without that feeling of almost bursting throughout the entire morning. Even when camping, breakfast was always the biggest affair, nothing like at home, where everyone would fend for itself, during vacation, mother always made certain we had a piece of everything we liked, and were all fill up until at least the end of the afternoon, when we would eat a couple of cookies, just to tied us up until dinner, because when we skipped lunch, during vacations it was always to save up for a big dinner out. Not a bad way to spend your summer. Not a bad way at all. Besides I think mother liked that we were all a bit drowsy because of all the food, made us quieter and slower. Yeah, she liked that, you would too, if you had to travel hours and hours locked in a car with two rowdy toddlers, one moddy almost-adult-teenager, and my annoying brooding self... I guess most people would dislike those times, or at least it would be expected for most people to hold no long lost love for the food they consumed when trying to eat for a battalion. But I'm hardly most people, I adored it, all the variety, the enormous quantities... in a household, where you eat whatever is available regardless of personal taste, and in whatever quantity you can get your hands in, (which is never much, you would be surprised at how fast food vanishes) it is hardly surprising that I would appreciate thing like variety and quantity, in the most challenging topic of food. I guess what I liked best, was the feeeling of getting to choose. And coffee truly symbolises that choice for me, I always went to a lot of trouble for my coffee, well my mom went to a lot of trouble for my cooffe, she would often have coffee at home, and I seriously doubt she has a the connection with coffee that I do, still when in the hotels she would let me have some coffee the same way she did, with milk and sugar. Much less milk and suggar than me I might add, but she would do my coffee at the same time she she did hers, and then give it to me, and I would spend a good ten minutes, waiting for it to cool down and adding more milk and more suggar untill it was perfect to my taste. A large difference from my fast, mostly non existent breakfast during the rest of the year. A bowl of cereal on the weekends, in the middle of the morning, I always sleep late on the weekends, my mom encouraged it, gave some moments of piece and quiet to watch Bewitch reruns on TV. Some bread with butter, cheese or ham, only on the day after a supermarket trip, on the days where I'd classes late or overslept. Some cake of the way to school, in the few mornings of the weeks when I hadn't spend all my money in books. Yes more often then not I skipped it entirely. Then again I always had that attitude towards food, and I dare say mom encouraged it, not to starve, obviously, there was never lack of food exactly, although if you didn't volunteer to go to the supermarket, she more often than not, wouldn't go. But it was more the feeling of relaxation towards food, and food schedules, for example, every fifyteen days at my father's place we would eat on schedule, really on scheedule, not large amouts, but I suppose I always felt they were compared to the food back home, specially breakfast again, always toast, my father loves toasted bread, all kinds of toasted bread, and bragging about his toaster, throgh out my life he has had many toasters but he brags about then always in the same exact way, and, at least for me, the bread has always tasted the same. Maybe I should feel more grateful towards it... He was trying, so very hard, to give us schedules, a routine, a sence of order, that I am quite sure, he was well aware mother never gave us. But I am afraid, he failed he simply did not understood. There was a method to her madness, at least I think there was, we turned out okay, so I believe I'm right. She gave as order, well a sence of it, but it was a a different sence of order, one father could never understand, which was in the end one of the causes for their divorce, contrasting personalities, you know? Yes, I should be grateful towards it, but I'm not, nothing I can do about it, I've long ago accepted the fact that I cannot change my feelings in relation to people or places or facts, they are as they are and trying to make myself grief for a death, or feel shame for an action, or love for a person, ("saudade" such a portuguese word, and such a strange feeling, strange for I feel it more for my cat than for my family and friends. Odd. Then again I was always odd, which explains why I miss my cat, he never asks if I miss him. I always assumed he know how much I do). Trying to change one's feelings is a useless endeavour. I feel what I feel, feelings are as unchanging as the sea. And since I'm not of a religious disposition, and cannot part the water or walk over them, I'm afraid I'll just have to let them be, as they are, free of guilt, or shame, or regrets. That's me. Now that I think about it I guess I put so much acceptance into this, into accepting my own emotions, my own actions, indeed my own self, that I leave none such acceptance for the topic of food. If it cannot be enjoyable then I see no point to it. I cook very rarely, yet I enjoy it tremendously, that is because I only cook when for enjoyment. In fact when finished cooking I often forget to eat the food, the pleasure was so often in the making of it. If someone were to ask me my secret for the perfect diet, I would give them my case, I never vary more than five kilos, that's five more or five less than my original weight. Which is very appropriate for my size and body shape. My father says I'm too thin, then again, fathers always say that. No one who has seen me naked ever complained and I dare say they were in a good position to judge. Perfect diet tip number one, eat only when you want. I like to call this one the Mom's rule, this was after all how my mom's policy to food. You are not hungry? then why eat? go do something else more valuable with your time. Money is food. If your eating all the time you won't give food the proper value, there are kids starving in Africa you know? Want to eat? go cook! do I look like the maid? It's your food, you want to eat it, you go and get it from the supermarket and you cook it yourself, otherwise you just eat whatever I make (which more often than not, includes such delicacies as peas and eggs and any king of pasta ever invented to mankind with turkey sausages from the can) or whatever is around ( not much, if you didn't go to the supermarket I'm afraid). Hell I always tought she would make us kill our own meat and plant our own potatoes, if she could! *This goal is now closer than ever to completation, with my mom's recent purchase of a farm, yep a farm, can you see me in a farm? heck, you probably can too, sitting beneath a tree, reading a book and hording some sheep.* Either way, back to coffee, it was only in hotels, during vacation, that I ever had coffee. Not anymore, of course, now I can have coffee anytime, and temarkably enough, it still feels the same, every single time I take a sip of my steaming hot mugg, more often at the end of a hard day, than at the beguining of one, it still tastes like confort, not a home confort, but a confort away from home, in strange lands, aventure full places. Coffee tastes like luxury for me, reward of sorts in a sense, but not an addiction, like some people refer to it, not at all! Instead it is someting that you would not have everyday, and altough I love the flavour, and have tried before, I cannot have it everyday, not even once a week, the mere sense of predicabilaty and my coffee is ruined for me. For me Coffee is a feeling. It's the feeling of freedom, of independance, of memories long gone of happy, sweet breakfasts and sour, absent ones. Of choosing one's own fate... of making one's own path in life, as one makes one's own coffee.

The Flame Of The Revolution!

A propósito desta "Revolução Geração á Rasca", em Lisboa, dia 12/03/2011. Vão a este site que tem um post muito bom! http://ahumanidadedosporques.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-branco-pode-comecar-tudo-de-novo.html Eu deixei o seguite comentário lá: "Bom, eu sou a juventude e concordo! Foi a minha mãe que me mandou ao teu blog, Ines, quando estavamos a falar desta "revolução". E, no espirito deste post tão "prá-frente" ela disse-me tambem esta frase: "...o socrates vai falar ao pais e nao se sabe o que vai dizer mas deve ser que é um coitadinho" Ao que eu respondo, "Outro? Ora ele que venha ler este post e que mude o discurso, que coitadinhos somos todos!" Muito bem, e embore goste bastante da nova musica dos Deolinda, que eu sou humana e não estou acima de gostar de me queixar e rebolar em auto-comiseração, tudo com peso e medida! Afinal eu estou no meu ultimo ano da universidade e pró ano é trabalhar que é prá aquecer! Temos de pensar positivo, e não digo que não nos queixemos, mas porque não queixarmo-nos e celebrarmos ao mesmo tempo? Celebre-mos o facto de que vivemos num país onde nos podemos queixar! Livremente e na rua! ...em que somos encorajados a fazê-lo, em que há canções na rádio a dizer o que pensamos e sentimos... em que há blogs como o teu Inês! Onde estamos a queixarmo-nos de coisas como dinheiro! Na China estão neste momento a queixar-se de coisas bem diferentes! Celebremos e dê-mos graças ao facto de que, como país plantado, e esquecidinho, aqui á beira mar, até os nossos tiranos e vilões são fraquinhos e até facilmente identificados. É verdade, não somos mais, somos menos... Mas tambem somos menos tanta coisa má! Que não me importo de ser "menos", e o que é mais, espero que continuemos a ser "menos" durante muito, muito tempo: Não "menos" como pessoas, aí que sejamos mais, muito mais! Mais espertos, mais talentosos, mais atléticos, mais afortunados, mais espirituais, mais caridosos, mais simpaticos, mais alegres, enfim, mais felizes. Mas pra isso não precisamos de mudar o país, precisamos de nos mudar a nós mesmos! Se estamos tão mal aqui, tambem sabemos apanhar um avião, e ir lá pra fora desse Portugal, ver esse mundo como ele é. Nem que seja pra finalmente apreendermos que ser "mais", tem pouco a ver com o que está lá fora e muito com o que está cá dentro. Quanto ao país deixem-no continuar como é, que eu gosto muito dele... e do passo calmo e vagaroso com que sempre andámos pra frente... "Depressa e bem não há quem", não é? ...Sim, continuemos "menos" como país, que continuemos, pequeninos e esquecidinhos aqui á beira mar, qual oásis perdido no deserto que é o desta enorme globalização... Portugal não é palco pra dramas, não temos diametro pra isso, e ainda bem :) " E agora, vamos ver images do dia 12, que uma imagem vale mais de 1ooo palavras! “O País Está à Rasca” “O País Precário Saiu do Armário” “Precários Não São Otários” “17 de Fevereiro de 1761 Fomos Os Primeiros a Abolir a Escravatura, Não Parece” “Ninguém Daqui Votou Na Merkel” “Flexitanga” “Sou Precário Deixa Passar” “Vende-se recibos verdes” “Revolução dos (es)cravos” “O Povo Unido Não Precisa de Partido” “Sorria Está a Ser Roubado” “Governos Rascas, Geração à Rasca, Pais e Filhos na Desgraça” “PEC 4 – Povo 0″ “Quero Trabalhar” “Por Este Andar Só Serei Pai Aos 40″ “Não Quero Pagar Para Trabalhar” “Assim Não Há Geração Que Aguente” “Precário Efectivo” “A Rua É Nossa” “Protesto Apartidário Laico e Pacífico” “Não nos mandem emigrar… Este país também é nosso” “Jovens Hipotecados por Governo Endividado” “Mais Emprego, Mais Salários, Igualdade de Direitos” “Taxem as Transacções Financeiras” “Por Todas as Gerações” “Os Ricos Que Paguem A Crise” “De Luto Pelo Meu Futuro”

“Esta Geração é parte da Solução”

Added 30 March 2011...

A couple of days agos Socrastes resigned.

But it's okay 'cause he'll be running for Prime Minister, again in the following Elections...

Somethings never change.

An Ice-Cream Burn!

"So... What is the symbolism behind liking vanilla ice-cream?" I ask in mock seriousness, trying to use my most curious face.

At first he looks at me as if I just came from another planet, but at some point it eventually occurs to him that I am trying to set off some sort of pseudo-scientific conversation. Slowly his rather tense lips break into a knowing grin, and he takes up his menu, examining it with intense concentration written on his face. He mutters a few things under his breath, and feigns mental calculations.

"Well, according to my evidence, choosing vanilla as one's favorite flavour has many implications of varying importance. First of all, vanilla shows simplicity. Perhaps a bold, honest character; a man that does not use manipulation and deceit as his weapons of choice. Vanilla is white, like innocence. Like virginity. It could also signify the desire to recapture one's lost childhood and purity, the need to rid themselves of the burdens of adulthood. Vanilla is fairly asexual. It has a mild, soft flavour; it holds no secrets, no dangers, no desires. It is also mostly feminine in it's nature: soft, sugary, domesticated. It represents the values of devotion, simplicity and incorruptibility. It is a virtuous flavour." He analyses, and I am shocked at how smoothly and naturally he utters the most amazing non-sense.

I also note that he still is very much a child at times, for he is actually eager to play with me. Only the games he likes are of an entirely different kind. This kind.

"I fully agree with you. And I would also like to state that vanilla is the nemesis of chocolate. Chocolate is the face of temptation, or sin. Its deep, bittersweet flavour is meant to evoke excess and the loss of innocence. Chocolate is easy to love, because it provides easy, ready pleasure; it is thus very popular with the plebeian masses. It is also a symbol of the complexity of human relationships, for it initially woos you with its intoxicating aroma, offering you endless sweetness, only to leave a strange, bitter taste in the back of your mouth. I might also go as far as saying that chocolate represents the devil, coming to us in the form of temptation, of guilty pleasure, ready to addict us to his charms" I reply, and I am fairly proud of myself.

I did not know that I had it in me, improvising so skilfully. He is trying hard to hold back his laughter.

"Then there is straciatella, isn't there? Straciatella is a strange hybrid, a ying and yang state of being. Straciatella is innocence soiled by sin. It is love polluted with hatred. It is feminity and masculinity together. The straciatella individual is the multi-faceted, the owner of the many masks. He is the owner of a wide spectrum of characteristics, ranging from virtues to vices. He is neither divine nor demonic. He is human nature itself, he is inner conflict and contradiction. Straciatella is mankind. Straciatella is us." he observes, his tone considerably grave, and now it's my turn to grit my teeth in an effort to avoid roaring out in laughter.

What a charismatic, fiendish man; he makes the most unbelievable garbage sound like mystical facts and spiritual truths. It's kind of scary, actually, I note to myself; this man could lead armies.

"Much can be said about lemon ice-cream. Lemon is stingy, it's sharp. Its colour is yellow, a colour related to the sun, to summertime and warmth. And indeed it displays both the fresh, carefree aspect of summer, and its other, more destructive facet. For lemon is not simply a friendly, warm flavour; it holds a hidden edge, the inherently sour nature of the citrus. Just like the summer holds a silent threat, it burns the vegetation and wears out the human body. The lemon person is warm, friendly, but deep inside his core a small destructive urge resides.

Beware of the citrus man." I throw back, and in all honesty, I can barely believe I am making all this up on the spot.

He is actually chuckling by now, perhaps at the low, warning tone of my lasts sentences.

"Coffee ice-cream has a very precise, narrow audience. Coffe ice-cream is the flavour of maturity. It holds the bitter, disillusioned nature of the coffee bean, and is a symbol of crushed dreams, of routine, of the difficulties of life. But coffee has a different side, too. With coffee comes the refined aroma of wisdom, experience and knowledge. It represents a coming of age, a rite of passage. The coffee individual is the disenchanted one; he is no longer a child, he has left behind his vanilla days. Coffee is he who has accepted the nature of our lives, who can find joy in bitter repetition, who no longer holds on to naive dreams. Coffee is the hardened man." He concludes dramatically, and that's the last I can possibly take while keeping a straight face. I throw my head back in a fit of roaring laughter.

"You lose." He states, grinning widely and holding back his own obvious urge to laugh.
I shake my head, and pick up my menu once more.

"I never said the objective was to avoid laughing out loud." I observe and offer him a smug smile, and I can feel him biting his tongue to hold back some nasty comment.

Even though our table is fairly isolated, there are quite a few people watching us, and they are fidgeting rather uncomfortably at our display of enjoyment.

The British are rather stuck up, I guess.

I look through the flavours once more.

"After careful consideration, I will have two balls of pure, corruptive chocolate." I whisper.

As I look up, he is trying to immitate the expression of a virtuous woman who's morals have just been gravely insulted and then he makes his choice.

"I'll have a ball of vanilla and a ball of coffee." He concludes after a short moment of thought, and he closes his menu, and gives our requests to a passing waiter.

"You can't do that." I state. "Vanilla and coffee are incompatible. They represent entirely different stages of one's personal evolution." I explain then in mock exasperation.

He smiles widely and leans in towards me, as if to confess some sort of horrible secret.

"Well that suits me. I am fairy incompatible with myself. If you leave the two of us alone, it always ends up in tears." He confides, pursing his lips and shaking his head in regret.

I stare at him incredulously...

Then the waiter comes and we eat some ice-cream.

I'm so burned if anyone actually reads this blog...

Ya know, I've been thinking about some stuff, and I've decided that, I believe that if the first passionate kiss you share with someone you like doesn’t make your toes curl or give you butterflies, then you’re wasting your time.

Seriously... the all "we've got so much in common, and we like each other, really I can totally see us, like marrying and having kids and being together forever" shit, is all very nice, and maybe even works for some people, just not for me.

Love is all very nice and pretty, but when you're 20 and your blood is red, that don't count for much.

People say, love has no reason... well, I don't think it's exactly like that, I mean, love has a lot of very good reasons: physical preferences, childhood prince-charming dreams, common goals and objectives, similar tastes, complementary life styles, whatever...

In the end, it's lust that has no reason.
Realistically you can even be attracted to people you don't even like!

*A friend of mine made a comment about sex a long time ago and it always stuck with
me, she said, “Fucking feels good, and if it doesn’t, then you’ve got the wrong partner.”

The fireworks are either there or they are not.
That’s just my humble opinion.
Just wanted to leave that perfectly clear.

You're Burning With Happiness We Get It, Now Prove It!

Prove it?
Hum...
Around here we apparently have an entire week off, with no classes, called reading week, which happen to be precisely before we have to deliver our essays.
Coincidence? I don't think so. lol
So I'm off classes, writing my essays and having fun.
A flatmate gave me flowers.
For Valentine's day.
A huge, huge bouquet with red roses, white and pink carnations and lots of green leaves.
I bought a vase and put them there, everytime I look at them, I feel like it's a party.
I told him, no one had ever given me flowers like that before and he was really surprised.
So I told him, "it's because I'm practical", and he said "and flowers die".
I said "exactly".
And then he told me, "But you're greek too"
And I said, "so I am."
Apparently...
Everything around here, is like me, full of contracts.
They work and study like maniacs, but then, right through the middle of the semester, they've a week off, and 4 weeks spring vacation
(which I spoke with my mom and I'm gonna go spend in London) with some friends of her who live there and her.
They dress real proper, and are super polite during day time, then they drink like there will be a draught tomorrow and turn to holigans at night.
They're really concerned about health and enviroment, but eat everything fried and leave the white card boxes where the fried food comes, lying everywhere.
They are what we would call antisocial, they separate themselves from one anothers, it's like they live in their own little world, but they care enought to know things about you which you, yourself don't even know.
They have the oldest, most beautiful University building, but also the newest tallest cinema building of Europe.
(Went there this week, 18 floors. Beautiful, you can see the entire city in a sea of night lights all around you)
They are truly intriguing and fascinating.
Joy,
Sªrª

eu tou bem
so nao tenho é tido mt tempo aki po skype
tem estado a chover, e imenso vento e como mudei o windows do meu pc pra um em ingles e o homemzinho se esqueceu de por word, (e tenho preguiça de ir a loja outra vz) tenho tado mais tempo nos pcs da uni library
tenho andado a escrever o meu essay
so ligo o skype, mesmo kuando chego pra falar com a minha mae
mas chiça ainda so passou um mes! menos q isso, ja ficaste mais tempo k isso sem me ver durante as ferias! lol
drama queen

im not
you are

everyone around me tells me to move on , i wanna hold on to your memory and i dont know what to do
this is drama
seriously?
drama queen

move on
i told you so before i left
didn't i?

since when do i do what you tell me to?
serio
desde quando?

then do what you want
but do it
and don't fret about it
i dont

do you mind/care what ever i do ?
i care, i dont mind though
you're free as a bird
if birds are as free as i am right now then we are locked up in cages

sejamos serios
nao passou nem um mes
e ja tas nisto
sejamos honestos
nao aguentas 6 meses
queres realidade
bm ai a tns

nao

a tua decisao ja foi tomada
por mim!
eu bazei
e tu nao estas a respeitar os meus desejos
metendo m numa posiçao na qual eu nao kero estar
acabou
ponto
acabou no dia em k eu tive que escolher entre o k tinha e o k keria
é tao simples como isso
acabou quando eu vi que queria ir de erasmus e me senti mal por que tu ias passarte

eu nao tou passado porque foste de erasmus
nao é por teres ido
e pelo menos pensa nisto
como se fosses eu
e conhecendo-me como conheces

ja pensei

nao foi o teres ido
foi o teremos acabado
por teres ido
eu sei que nao podias tar sempre aqui
eu sei que ias ver coisas novas
eu sei que ia ser dificil
YA EU SEI
mas eu disse-te antes de ires
eu esperava
mas isso foi algo que tu te recusaste

exactmente

eu nunca te diria para nao ires de erasmus
eu sei que isso era um dos teus sonhos

tu nao percebes pois n?
nao é ir de erasmus
nc foi ir de erasmus
eu nao vim "de" erasmus
eu queria sair dai
estou incrivelmente feliz aki
é exactamente tudo o k eu sonhei
e tem coisas más
mas até dessas eu gosto poque sao DIFERENTES
sinto k vivi toda a minha vida num quarto de vidro
e k nunca sai de la porque estava BEM la
mas estar bm nao me chega
na verdade nc chegou
e eu sabia quando decidi ir "de" erasmus k
nunca mais ia chegar
lamento
a serio que sim
mas eu n kero voltar praí
vou voltar obviamente
mas a verdade é k nao kero
tu
es mt importante pra mim
mas basicamente fazes part das coisas boas k eu sabia k ia deixar pra tras
e msm assim fiz a minha escolha
nao é k eu nao saiba "a pessoa k vou ser quando voltar"
o problema é k sei
porque ja era essa pessoa quando parti

eu habituei-me a ti
exacto
eu nao kero habito
e nao kero alguem k esta comigo por habito
foi sempre por algo muito mais que habito, menina
quando sabe perfeitamente k eu nao sou a pessoa certa pra si, menino
e depois ?
eu sabia isso
mas tava feliz
certo ou errado nao entra ai
estavas bem
e eu tb
mas bm pode ser o suficiente pra ti
n é pra mim
logo, nao sou a pessoa certa pra ti, nem posso ser

eu podia-me defender m do teu ponto de vista e sabes isso, nao e´ por isso que alguma vez voltei atras, eu tava feliz e tava bem e estava completo, neste momento nao estou e ta-me a ser dificil, mas obrigado por esta conversa
tava a precisar
pq a unica pessoa que me podia dar esta conversa eras tu
eu vou ser diferente
depois ves :)
vou aprender alemao apartir deste mes
para começar :)

lol
vou entregar curriculos amanha
part time ?
sim
tas short em cash ?
tenho 3 dias livres todas as semanas
ah
ocupar tempo e earn something
nc trabalhei por precisar de dinheiro
exacto

kero outras coisas
e incrivelmente
fiz a escolha certa
estou feliz
mt

im proud of you
so am i
pensei que ias escrever " me too "
not yet

see you when you get back ?
obviously!
please... one promess
be better than what you are :)
always
because you are a real pain sometimes
i know
being better is a life long ocupation
in a way

see you!
see you

3 February 2011