Continuando a "desfiar" os registos acumulados da estadia em Boston, aqui vai 1 foto tirada no festival grego que tínhamos à porta de casa. A comida (pelo menos a que provei) não tinha assim nada digno de nota, se bem que me mantive nas carnes grelhadas com arrozinho ;):) Quanto aos doces... eram mesmo muito doces! Estes que têm na foto são uma espécie de filhós, com calda, bem bons ;):) O nome foi-nos elucidado por um grego e é o que está no guardanapo de papel.
Estou no meu penúltimo dia de estadia em Boston e estou francamente exausta; foram 2 semanas de muito trabalho, com o jet-leg a agravar na primeira. Nem tive tempo de escrever nenhum post de jeito, mas prometo que qdo chegar a Lx coloco algumas fotos que tirei aqui, incluindo de um festival grego que tínhamos à porta de casa ;):) Até breve
A partir de Domingo e durante duas semanas, estarei de volta aos "Estates". No entretanto, vão ver o Ocean's 13 que está bem giro e foi 1 surpresa agradável ;):)
Na 6ª feira tive a oportunidade de os ver ao vivo; apenas digo isto: FAN-TÁS-TI-COS! :D
Acabei de ler este livro no fim-de-semana passado. Adorei e li-o de um trago (bem, alguns tragos correspondentes a uns 3 fim-de-semana, altura em que tenho mais tempo para leituras) como já há algum tempo não fazia com nenhum livro. Talvez como costumo fazer com os Harry Potters (não, não torçam o nariz, e sim, gosto muito dos Harry Potters! ;)) e com os quais se calhar tem algumas coisas em comum, a começar pela classificação para leitores mais jovens, mas que acabam por ser mais adultos que os lêem...:);) Aliás, acho essas classificações um bocado estranhas, mas enfim... O que me levou a pegar no livro e comprar, foi ler que o narrador era outro que não a Morte, o que achei no mínimo original e que leva a que o livro comece da seguinte forma: “Here is a small fact: You are going to die”.
A história passa-se na Alemanha nazi, sob a perspectiva de uma rapariga de 9 anos (que vai crescendo ao longo desses anos da II Grande Guerra) e ao que me constou basear-se-á na vida da avó do autor, o que a torna ainda mais interessante... Assim, não se assustem com o número de págs. (584), porque efectivamente se lê muito bem, e muito menos com o narrador, que às vezes põe mesmo as coisas na perspectiva certa... e mais não digo ;)☺
Após bastantes reparos de alguns (muito poucos) leitores do meu blogue :)), de que o mesmo deveria ser em Português e que eu renegava a língua de Camões :), dou início a uma nova etapa da vida do Quichas, desta feita em Português! ;):)
Last week was really busy; between getting the car fixed, and giving a seminar... Both things turned out fine, though I always get a bit nervous with these "public speeches", specially because I was the first one of the group to be giving this kind of seminars... Anyway, no hole in the car door and a nice new radio (it really makes a difference the "company" of the radio in the drives home) really cheered me up ;)
By the way, I went to the preview of "The Fountain" and personally I don't advise it... Too "zen" for me ;):)
Yeah, as you might have guessed by now, yesterday when I left the lab, I had that nice surprise expecting me... My car had a small hole on the right door and no radio... And this was in the Institutes's private parking... What a great way to end the day in a police station reporting the robbery... :(:(
Guess where I took this (I assume, not very good picture, but it was with my cell phone)....
I finally have my beautiful new black Macbook! Everything is great, except when I tried to configure my home Internet, not only it didn't work, but when I called my Adsl provider (Sapo, by the way), they informed me that this USB modem is incompatible with these new Intel Mac's.... And that I have to buy a new modem.... We'll see about that...
I've been having less and less time (and I assume, I've been more and more lazy :)) to post with some frequency in my blog, but between lots of work, courses, a bit of time with family and friends and simply rest (I've been falling asleep in the couch which is not a good sign, believe me...;)) there's not much left to "blog"... So, I'll just say that I'm waiting for my new computer to arrive (hurray, I'm going to own a black MacBook :)) and that I don't recommend any of my possible readers to go and watch Apocalypto... Let's just say that I think that Mel Gibson is drinking more that he should ;):)
Work hasn't been allowing me much time to dedicate to the blog or basically, to anything else :), but this weekend I managed to watch these 2 movies thanks to my friends, who don't give up in try to provide me some kind of social life :)))
So, "Manuale d'Amore" is a really sweat and funny movie good for these winter days/nights to cheer up; "Borat".... What to say about Borat? I really enjoyed it, although there are a couple of dispensable scenes (the nude wrestling is one of them, if you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about :);)); definitely it's the US that comes out with not a very positive image... The worse thing is that most of the things are really like that.... So, go and see for yourself ;):)
Yesterday, a bit unexpectedly, I went to this concert to fill in for a friend that couldn’t go. Bad luck for her, but a great concert for me! :)) Though I don't know that well Chico Buarque's music, the concert was really fantastic, and if you ever have the opportunity, don't miss it! There's an extra concert this Wednesday by the way! ;):)
I saw this movie yesterday, but to be completely honest, I still can't tell for sure if I like it. So, I'll tell you the basics: good performances by the actors, though the plot sometimes gets a little bit confusing. It's a dark, violent, kind of B series movie, but it's a Brian de Palma movie, right? So, bottom line, if you're somewhat a fan of this type of movies, I strongly recommend. And for the male audience, if you're a Scarlett Johansson fan, of course ;)
