I don't want to be adored for what I merely represent to you

- Alanis

1001 rules for my unborn son

“No one makes you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it."
- Mark Twain

“On matters of style, swim with the current. On matters of principle, stand like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson.

“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath."
- Michal Caine

“It takes a long time to grow young."
- Pablo Picasso

via 1001 rules for my unborn son

inspired by a cup of jo

"you must strive to find your own voice. because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it. thoreau said, "most men live quiet lives of desperation," don't be resigned to that! break out! "
-dead poets society

via Una Bella Vita

the invisible children

very influential post here.
such a sad story. makes me feel so impotent, among so many other things.

link to the movement here.

"Love your other how they need to be loved, not how you need to be."

1- Não faça aos outros o que não quer que façam com você
2- Em todas as coisas, faça de tudo para não provocar o mal
3- Trate os outros seres humanos, as outras criaturas e o mundo em geral com amor, honestidade, fidelidade e respeito
4- Não ignore o mal nem evite administrar a justiça, mas sempre esteja disposto a perdoar erros que tenham sido reconhecidos por livre e espontânea vontade e lamentados com honestidade
5- Viva a vida com um sentimento de alegria e deslumbramento
6- Sempre tente aprender algo de novo
7- Ponha todas as coisas à prova; sempre compare suas idéias com os fatos, e esteja disposto a descartar mesmo a crença mais cara se ela não se adequar a eles
8- Jamais se autocensure ou fuja da dissidência; sempre respeite o direito dos outros discordar de você
9- Crie opiniões independentes com base em seu próprio raciocínio e em sua experiência; não se permita ser dirigido pelos outros
10- Questione tudo

[Os 10 mandamentos modernos, por Richard Dawkins]

Sometimes I love the innocence of being able to be exactly who I am, without censorship of any type...To simply say whatever comes to mind, in right or wrong grammar. To be able to paint in colors other than black and white. To be more precise, to paint life in screaming, vivid colors.

In the midst of all the analyzing and comparing, all the laughter and small talks, as I stood there and felt sorry for not living up to my own expectations of myself, I had a few moments to get things straight. Why do I have such a tendency to set limits and strict boundaries to my own being? I've decided to take a deep breath, inhale some of my own essence, and live up to the fact that I should like myself as I am at the moment, allowing change of course, but do so in order for other people to do that as well.

Ha, how cute!
I get so distracted by these videos...

BlogCamp

There's gonna be a BlogCamp at the Federal University of my state!

It sounds pretty fun and an awesome way to meet cool new people.

Artists, journalists, writers, and bloggers (duh) will be there, or so says the website.

I think I'll go... Not to mention they'll have some afterparties ^^

melhores propagandas

Coca- Cola

Target

Adidas

Futura

Camisinha

polyvore

Sans titre by (¯`v´¯)♥ toutchi♥(¯`v´¯) on Polyvore.com


My Neverland by EatsLoveForBreakfast*OFF* on Polyvore.com


"Polyvore is a free, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web. It is also a vibrant community of creative and stylish people.

Polyvore lets you create sets composed of individual images using an easy to use, drag and drop editor. After you have created a set, you can publish and share it with your friends and the Polyvore community. "
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Site muito legal para montagem usando imagens de qualquer lugar da internet.
Dá para aprender sobre as tendencias do fashion, seguir estilos de celebridades, aprender sobre design de interiores, aprender a combinar roupas, etc.

I wonder how long it takes for life to settle down...

routine kills me bit by bit, I have no money, the weather is getting my skin worse...

every second, every move, every word, every look, every thought is being mesured by someone else. things you don't even notice you've said... all used up against you.

I feel no excitement, I worry for my future, I worry I end up like 'all' the people I know: boring, sad...

"Gente infeliz detesta saber que felicidade existe.

Não gaste sua energia tentando provar o contrário."

I'm in love with the ideals of HaiKai.
... And Leminski is the best for going into depth in the studies of HaiKai.

"o haicai valoriza o fragmentário e o 'insignificante', o aparentemente banal e o casual, sempre tentando extrair o máximo do significado do mínimo de material, em ultra-segundos de hiper-informação. De imediato, podemos ver em tudo isso os paralelos profundos com a estética fotográfica. Esses traços característicos do haicai podem ser transpostos sem nenhuma dificuldade para a fotografia".

blank.

dream car

Took these last year on a street near my house. I think the owners were having some kind of convention...

I've been seeing lots of these Volkswagen Beetles for sale here in Belo Horizonte. I want one :]

Christmas/ Birthday gift, anyone?

moving.

Yesterday I bought my plane ticket to Vitoria - Espirito Santo.
I'm moving once again... Hopefully for good this time.
Don't know how much more packing/boxes/moving I can take...

I do look forward to living by my family, by the beach, and goingback to what I someday truly called "home".

The picture is of a house on the street I used to live in Newark. I used to say it was the cutest house on the street every time I walked by.