¿y la indignación es el combustible?

tira de Liniers

nothing is for nothing

I really believe that things happen in our lives with a major propose. Well, so, it is up to us to make a good use of each opportunity when they come, the best we can... They may pass, and most part of them probably won't be regive to us later - are 'one-time' occurrences for the cause of the good. Natural gifts.

Don't waste those graces!

back to the start

unvarnished

Too bad: I am not among the most beautiful women in the world... Nonetheless, even with my tummy, my allergies, scars and old tattoos, at the same time proud of my natural tan, Brazilian butt, small breasts and slender guitar-waist I go swim(mingly).  

It's summertime, pah!

Let's enjoy it, before it leave...

With no complexes ♥

on the top

Ok, sometimes they DO are not confortable, but wearing a beautiful pair of high-heeled shoes, makes all the difference!

Actually, a nifty bag too. They give life to the look... anyone, glamourizing women, growing self esteem!

Sacrifices which worth all efforts... ;)

a chip on his shoulder

Nostalgic about the past? Go for it, then!

Coming back to old recollections when it is the moment you must go forward is stupidity - mainly when your memories are not something you should be proud of...

Me, on the contrary, I am sorted-out about my life. I am firmly resolved to keep going... future-oriented!

Living as a museum? It's not my cup of tea - not at all!

Choices...

finally

It's not long until I can be myself, thoroughly,

again and for ever.

resolved

I DO NOT want this environment for my kids.

No, i'ts not funny, it's woeful!

Choices... I opt for life.

ignorance is a shoot in the foot

Sorry, but wealth doesn't mean smartness! It's not because your house is sooo fancy that your guests should pay tickets to visit you! For God sake, mind you: f*ck your vanity!

If you actually don't master your professional domain (even believing you do...), please, re-examine your affairs' concepts before losing time and money. Moreover, be cleaver: pay someone to work for you, if you are not able to... giving him enough autonomy to think big. It's that easy!

Remember: lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place... likewise good opportunities! (mainly the best ones!) Quality has its price; Otherwise, distrust.

Learning is everything! - chiefly in order to inovate. Nobody goes forth without freshening... Being opened to new ideas is an excellent investment in a world which is in constant change.

By the way, fund DOES NOT remain for ever...

pour toujours

Oui, j'y crois!

the heart of the matter

Basic problem:

How ask to someone something that this person simply doesn't know?!

the monster

I feel myself as a bizarre 'being' attempting something impossible as long as I dare the improbable, besides dealing with alien's incoherence.

A matter of culture? I wouldn't say that... It's more some kind of internal motivation (or its absence, indeed).

By hook or by crook, nobody deserves this!

Respect is something fundamental. We are not supposed to ask for it. 

que uruca!

foto de João Mattos/JC

Deixo registradas aqui minhas sinceras lástimas pelo ocorrido hoje à noite no Mercado Público de Porto Alegre. E, tentando evitar teorias conspiratórias mais complexas  agora, exponho somente meu profundo repúdio à qualquer proposta de contrução diferente da ideia original de um prédio popular.

Que este cartão-postal da cidade seja logo reformado e entregue novamente ao seu povo, que hoje dormirá triste.

que todo mundo se ligue!

dreamer

I believe in love.

tan poco!

E finalmente você percebe que dava muito valor ao que não vale nada!

(ok, este último eu sabia...!!)

Alívio...

who loves, cares

Whithout further ado.

la beauté n'est pas tout

...mais comme dirait Vinicius de Moraes, qui a écrit 'Garota de Ipanema' (une de plus belles déclarations d'amour déjà faites), entre autres compliments aux dames...

"Les femmes laides, pardonnez-moi, mais la beauté est si fondamentale"

S'il y a quelqu'un que doute qu'au Brésil il y a de belles femmes, voici quelques indices:

- Maria Ieda Vargas (Rio Grande do Sul) et Martha Vasconcellos (Bahia) on rapporté le titre de Miss Univers, en 63 et 69 respectivement;

- La top modèle la plus somptueuse (et riche) au monde est Gisele Bündchen (Rio Grande do Sul);

- Adriana Lima (Bahia), Alessandra Ambrosio (Rio Grande do Sul), Isabeli Fontana (Paraná), Ana Beatriz Barros (Minas Gerais), Fernanda Tavares (Rio Grande do Norte), Caroline Trentini (Rio Grande do Sul), Fernanda Motta (Rio de Janeiro) et Brenda Costa (Rio de Janeiro) figurent parmi les modèles les plus hot de tous les temps;

 
Bon, si les québécoises sont les plus belles femmes au monde (comme y croient quelques-uns), répondez-moi pour quoi:

1. les deux canadiennes (Karen Diane Baldwin, en 82, et Natalie Glebova, en 2005) qui ont été élues Miss Univers vient de Ontario? (étant que cette dernière est née en Russie, ni même au Canada...);

2. il n'y a que quatre mannequins d'ici connue internationalement? (Alexandra Aubin, qui a débuté à la fin des années 80, la mignonne Charlotte Le Bon, la rousse Judith Bedard, et Anaïs Pouliot, qui est en lumière maintenant);

3. elles ne figurent pas actuellement sur aucun classement des plus belles (ou sexy) femmes?

Finalement, j'aimerais connaître ou même seulement avoir vu au moins une en personne! Parce que, dans la rue, elles ne sont pas... Il manque quelque chose, peut-être grâce. Par contre, au Brésil, juste dans une visite à la plage de Rio, ou n'importe où à Porto Alegre, c'est assez pour reconnaître toute la beauté brésilienne, sans modestie. On déborde féminité.

that easy

tan rápido...

justice will be done

My words come back to haunt me, 
showing that help can come from I least expect...

I must only thank! 

le bon choix

- Pour ici ou pour amener?

- Pour toujours ♥

decisive moment

By now, at the limbo part, 

between the worst which already passed and the best that will still come, 

I just keep going on.

Surmounting, step by step, arriving where I want.

 

juggler life

Time flies! Sometimes, I just can't remember when exactly some things happened... Selective memory working, probably. No problem.

Life goes on... So much the better! After all, I sincerely don't know how it would be being a stewardess, marrying a clown (or being his eternal girlfriend! 'Wait' - that's not what I was born for! Not at all!). Or, even, maybe living in Italy... Who knows?!

By the way, I always thought I would have a dog... a big one (not a little kitty! - Life is very ironic! It can really surprise us - quite right too!) Well, we can't have everything... And I love what I've obtained, including all things I lost.

Choices and circumstances: c'est la vie! La mienne.

I can't complain about it... I live on borrowed time.

 

C.V.

Writing a summary of my experiences... 

What a mess: many things to list!

Good ones, indeed (so much the better!).

Despite the restart, I'm pro.

light

Lovely ♥

 

In the way it has to be!

Cotton wedding... OUR first anniversary. 

A perfect celebration in family, between us - nobody else.

one, two, three...

Two is company, three is a crowd! - In some cases, it is really excessive... cause there is always a gatecrasher to disturb, a nosy!

At the same time, having three children is not a problem. On the contrary, I believe that is the solution, the ideal: nobody it will be aside so.

We have good examples in our families. I hope that it will perpetuate. As for me... yes!

*Of course we are starting by one pregnancy - at the right moment, for sure. This is not to say that it will come just one! Who knows...?!

¡atención, mamás!

DO NOT leave your children without guide to Facebook, among all others social networks. 

Besides harassments and pedophilia, itself, there are unacceptable and offensive behaviors which must be avoid - from kids, I mean. Parents must be both watchful and attentive about what their descendants post.

Guns, drugs, violence, promiscuous language, lies... There are many bad influences (from anywhere!); unfortunately, some, they simply don't catch. After all, there are still innocents - even if measuring more than us! However, I strongly believe that if they want to use it, they must distinguish good from bad by themselves - at least, a little (try to... Be wise!).

Love, dialogue, explanations, books, reading, newspapers, (good) movies, less videogame and internet - that's what they need to understand in a better way this world and for a responsible usage of medias and technology. Further: this inducement provided by their progenitors, then, with school's orientation - mainly nowadays, with all this bullying stuff.

amor, naquelas...

Fato: quando a gente está amando (do diabo), a gente some... Então, romance nelas!

Dizem também que o amor atrai... mas, num mês de tantas comemorações a dois, quanto mais distante a uruca, melhor!

Xô, inveja!

Todos felizes assim ♥

behavioral inconsistency

(not to say 'hypocrisy')

That is what everyone who intend to judge someone else must evaluate (in his life, in 'himself') before applying it and acting as a prude! Or better yet: a moralist holding his underpants saying "it is NOT what you are thinking". Thereabouts... not practicing what you preach, briefly.
 
His mother married his uncle (her brother-in-law);
Father of four, he left his all children with their mothers (or whoever) to live freely;
He passed his whole life playing games of chance, drinking and smoking. Lost much money; finally , when he won, overspent everything. Guess how...?!;
During about 20 years, he used to have two relations at the same time;
On all his relationships, he always cheated, sleeping with cousins, friends and all relatives besides other strangers who charm him. Not being very selective... or even 'enough', sometimes;
In his seventies, he blame women not to be capable to make him horny (hard... you know!), disregarding his age or health conditions;
There are some complaints about conjugal violence against him;
As a lawyer, he should recpect the rules of society, and government - specialy the traffic ones. Anyhow, he is not supposed to accuse anybody whitout having duly proofs.

Thus, tell me (PLEASE!!!) if this guy deserves our attention while beefing about other's behavior - mainly women's (due to jealousy of his girlfriends/affairs). By the way, accordind to his referecences, WHO IS HIM to bemoan about 'morality'? A model NOT TO BE FOLLOWED, of course... A bad example - only this. 

It seems: the worst the behavior, the largest the anger. Sorry, but 'disgusting' is being nosey like that... Sick! Unjust, unfair, WRONG.

Well, let he who is without sin cast the first stone...

cartas na mesa

O mundo seria tao melhor se as pessoas jogassem limpo umas com as outras...

Críticas construtivas, e a verdade - sempre! Sem trapaças.

no lies

Doesn't matter whether we are on Fools' Day, or not... 

dreaming does not costs anything

That's why I throw myself into, living it acutely.

Nonetheless, in real life, our safe harbor has a price.

649 - that's all I want (and we need) by now. Actually, only half of it!

jejune

Celebrated one day before, with bunnies and carrots only as jokes, not so much chocolate, some meat, as a brunch... everything is always awesome when in family, but could be any other ordinary day!

 Maybe when our children will come, it will be different... returning to be as always did: magic.

(Honestly: the same for Christmas!)

things has changed

You say "Today is the 50th anniversary of Hitchcock's Birds" and (unfortunately) teens maybe (in fact: PROBABLY) won't know what are you talking about. For them, "The Birds" are the angry ones, from videogames.

I hope my children discern both. After all, if even I have heard about 'their', why my kids won't be able to be acquainted with 'ours'?! Knowlegde is exchange: from generation to generation - in any case.

selective reasoning

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

hey...

Today, is the 241st anniversary of Porto Alegre, my birthplace.

I miss it a lot - because of my family and friends, and also by virtue of its singular charm. I'm very proud to be originally from there, to can say I'm 'Gaúcha' even before considering me a Brazilian (deep roots we never lose, despite the fact of moving far away).

What is more, I would like to show all you guys from where nice people like me come... that's why I chose this encyclopedic pic besides writing a long introduction in English, which is more universal.

Well, here it is: my homage! Poa, I love you ♥

 

pelamor

...te catar!

...te cagar!

...tomar no c*! 

E, por outro lado, um semancol... (!!!)

(paciência tem limite!)

Não, melhor:

...de retro satana!

(a esperança é a última que morre!)

saucy

"RESPECT the vinyls, ok?!"

Ok, leave it to me...

By the way: Just watch me, bitch! ;)

attraversiamo

"Let's cross over".

Quote of the movie Eat Pray Love duly applied.

ou dá ou desce

the more I know about people, the better I like my cat

So as to clarify what I mean, let's take as an example the hot topic worldwide: the last pope's selection.

Positive and negative points for their choice:

- Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a Jesuit. That is to say we expect from him social justice promotion and ecumenical dialogue;

- He chose the papal name 'Francis' in honor to St. Francis of Assisi, who preached detachment of the material goods;

- As an Argentine, he is the first Pope from Americas. I would say "finally". After all, most part of Catholic people is from there - to be precise: South Americans. 

On the other hand...

- When Cardinal in Buenos Aires, he had ties to the country's oppressive military dictatorship in the 1970s;

- He is severely opposed to same-sex unions (mentioning it as a 'devil' thing), while Argentine president Cristina Kirchner approved it. They were the first country in the region to decriminalise gay marriage;

- Both abortion and euthanasia, he calls those pro-choice movements as a "culture of death". He is also against contraceptive use (birth control methods).

All these (heavy - in my opinion) objections were presented and, even so, he was elected.

Well, let's see what is coming on. Actually, I haven't believed that Church still have such power as in the past, that it can change lots of things (for better)... but, we never know. At least, if doesn't mess and worsen it, it's already worthy. 

fiftieth girls

Last year, it was announced that Mafalda would be turning 50 years old. An error. It will happen next year. Meanwhile, Mônica just turned 50 on 3rd March.

With no rivality (in this case), both represent their countries, Argentine and Brazil. However, Mafalda was braver, politic. Mônica was only one, when a dictatorial censorship settled down there... Maybe it could have assuaged her stories content, besides assuring her long life in newsstands, while Mafalda's publications ended in 1973 -  when she was age of nine, seven of them passed under the military dictatorship.

Five years ago, without any interruptions, the little toothy Brazilian grew up... Thus, nowadays there is also a teen version of her and and her gang. I don't know, though, if it was a good maturation changing its style for Manga...

I'm old school. I believe that we should not mess with a winning formula. Yet at the same time I recognize that youth has molted. Well, let's see... At least, they can help against bullying due to so much peculiarity in its characters.

masterwork

Liniers

Couples mate and mesh for supporting each other.

Love, the strongest pillar... Immensurable lift.

Life is like this! Happy for building it together ♥

travel is good for heart

I know. I'm very heatlhy and happy then! 

I love it and hope be in a trip soon...

Here, some of our destinations of dreams:

Africa

Angola
Giza, Egypt
Johannesburg, South Africa
Morocco
Sahara


Asia

China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Nepal
Philippines
Thailand
Tibet

 

Havana, Cuba

Central America

Caribbean
Curaçao
Cuba 
Jamaica 


Europe

Athens, Greece
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Dublin, Ireland
Edinburgh, Scotland
Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Florence, Italy
Frankfurt, Germany
Glasgow, Scotland
Hamburg, Germany
Lisbon, Portugal
Liverpool, England
London, England
Milan, Spain
Moscow, Russia

Mykonos, Greece

Mykonos, Greece
Munich, Germany
Pisa, Italy
Porto, Portugal
Prague,  Czech Republic
Rome, Italy
Rotterdam , Netherlands
Venice, Italy
Versailles, France



North America
 
Alaska, USA
California, USA
Campeche, Mexico
Cancun, Mexico
La Paz, Mexico
Las Vegas, USA
Merida, Mexico
New Orleans, USA
New York, USA
Niagara Falls, CA
Progreso, Mexico
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Quintana Roo, Mexico
Toronto, CAVancouver, CA

Yucatan, Mexico

Yucatan, Mexico


Oceania

Australia 
Hawaii 
New Zealand


South America

Andes, Chile
Antartida
Amazon, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentine
Chuí, Brazil
Córdoba, Argentine
La Pedrera, Uruguay
Machu Picchu, Peru
Montevideo, Uruguay
Mount Roraima, Venezuela
Patagonia, Argentine
Punta del Este, Uruguay
Tierra del Fuego, Argentine


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by Kurt Baumgartner, in Manitoba

Finally, these are some places in Canada we'll find Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights):

Athabasca Country, Alberta
Baie-James, Quebec
Canadian Rockies, British Columbia
Churchill, Manitoba
Dempster Highway, Yukon
Fermont, Quebec
Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador
Northern Saskatchewan
Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories
Whitehorse, Yukon
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

love songs

Kurt Halsey

Today, World Dj Day!

So much love in music to celebrate ♥♥♥

Ever!