tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53761042011-06-25T18:40:24.903-07:00vivinoreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376104.post-72661880263975692322008-08-30T01:03:00.000-07:002008-08-30T01:08:13.172-07:00

Hmmm after ONE full day of feeling ok apparently my body felt like it needed to upgrade its sickness state to something a tad more interactive.... something along the lines of expelling grossness from MORE PLACES!!!! Yuck!!!

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I've been mildly sick for 4 days now. It all culminated with sharp pains and sweats as I was taking a morning walk before work and making my way back home felt like running a marathon....a 10 minute marathon... :(I think my toilet is still crying....

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Ollie nosso que se da no arSantificado seja nossa sessionVenha a nós várias medalhasSeja feita nossa vontade, assimNo street como no verticalAs manobras nossas de cada diaNos dai hoje, livrai osnossosTombos, assim como acertamosAs manobras difíceis. Não nosDeixaicair no DownHil, masLivrais nos dos shapesQuebrados, amém

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"Morar no exterior é bom mas é uma merda. Viver no Brasil é uma merda mas é bom."Tom JobimGENIUS!!!

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"I read this article in national geographic about the minds eye and the emotions that are around who and what we see. The article said that if you are having problems an exercise that helps is to just look into the persons eyes for at least ten minutes and think about what you like about them and think about how they smell how they are looking at you and remember the moment that you first looked

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One of my favorite scenes ever is this one...and what comes immediately after it... :)

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If you haven't seen a good movie in a while and are down with being slapped in the face with realness that may not be super familiar to you but that undoubtedly shakes you to your human core, go see Persepolis.Serious, fun, sentimental, real and cute. And it's a cartoon.It's been a looooong time since I've watched an animation that was so excellent at delivering a message through it's lines. And

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I used to really not like fashion shows and the like and used to be forced by my sister and mom to watch them on TV.Until the day that I screamed "This is shit, garbage, crap, craziness...who would wear this?!"And my mom looked at me with that typical mom look and calmly said.... "Would you wear a Picasso?"...And before I could inhale a bit of air and spit out a mid-adolescence-nonsense come back

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back to mon routes... this past weekend I was in Oregon with Eriquinha and Matze-Katze visiting Rita and Wayne. Such good times.I have so many incredible memories of that place and the way the weekend unfolded was like a magically orchestrated symphony through the best of my memories.On Friday we did a walking trip around campus that included a quick stop at the new business school, a brick hunt

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The other day I ran out of Scotch...ok ok, of GOOD Scotch! :)So an emergency trip to the booze store was in need.I got in my car with not much in mid other than to go browse, read the little labels and buy something. The only commitment I had at that time was to get something new.After about 20 minutes of browsing, I had my eyes on a very humble-looking white and green box and thought "heck, a

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Not too long ago I bumped into a blog from one of the columnists at Folha de Sao Paulo.His name is Marcelo Katsuki and he's an architect turned DJ, turned silk-screen t-shirt maker, turned foodie, turned food and drink columnist for one of the larges newspapers in Latin America.Anyway, his blog is just awesome. Filled with reviews of the latest and greatests Sao Paulo restaurants and food and

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When I was a kid I used to stretch my neck out on my bed towards my bedroom window till where I could see the sky.I used to look at the stars and be CONVINCED that I was either from another planet or going to another planet.Little did I know that was just an undying want to travel abroad.These days, some 20 years later and 6616 miles away, when I look out my bedroom window all I can think of is

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This makes me happy...http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=41558

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This makes me sad...Topic: Really feeling sick to my stomach about 140 Posted by she81 (51) 13 May 2008I absolutely believe it is an "entrapment". A fun-loving and chirpy soul I used to be but lately these immigration woes have started consuming me. I feel I am becoming a compulsive negative thinker and I can see its effect on other areas of my life too - as you said - it's hard to think straight

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A la mesa y a la cama solo una vez se llamaLoved this saying! Just saw it on someone's blog.P.S. It's in SpanishP.S.2 The photo is from a Mexican restaurant in Sao Paulo

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KokkariYes it sounds Japanese but it's not. Well at least it's not the name of a Japanese restaurant but that of a great Greek place in SF. Kokkari Estiatorio.Went there today with some folks from work (the picture if actually of the exact table we sat at).We started with some dolmas and a grilled beet salad that were just amazing. Then on to a "nuclearly" hot bowl of Moussaka that was just out

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Nabeyaki is the best!I love nabeyaki soup and today after telling my buddy Yoshi that I love it so much he gave me some tips on how to make it:go to the land of slapping machinehahai'd use the konbu seaweed to make the broththen soy sauce (use the "usukuchi" (lighter color) type, not koikuchi (darker color)study jp and read this: http://cookpad.com/mykitchen/recipe/486216/Thanks Yoshi!!

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Tapas....so se for na cara!Business trip to DC last week...lot's of good food, drinks and excellent company.Then we decide to reminisce about our trips to Europe and before we know we're at a tapas restaurant!We promptly put our bags away and order the special "sample" platter. Wow...they really should have named it the "see how many different times we can f... up an amuse bouche!"But again, I

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Back to my roots. Favela style!So there's this "restaurant" in Berkeley that's basically a barraco (shack!) and forever it has quietly taken my looks of despair and disgust as it claims to be a Brazilian food place.Well my friends, today, with the help of Kandra, I have come down from my personal pedestal and am about to give them a full bow for they deserve it.Please read on as I sit here in

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I'm in missing mode these days...It's so weird to just all of a sudden realize that you miss a ton of stuff. I think this is the first time that I've actually felt this way. Usually I will miss my family, a friend, food (fuck, yes, you guessed it, I am not eating any crap these days)...hell, maybe I'm low on some weird vitamin or something that's messing with my brain... I wonder if chocolate,

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Beevi

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God!! It's been over two fucking years since I posted last.I'm speechless...

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Sooooo, hot day today. But felt good.Went to pick up Erica at SFO and we obviously had a blast just talking about her trip and everything else.It was fun. :)She treated me to lunch at Fresh Choice, which was great due to the crazy heat going on.Went back home to hang out with Victoria. We went to San Jo for some time, did our thing and came back to C city to go to Bucca di Beppo. She had never

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Happy Birthday Amita!!! ("namaste")

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Ok, quick post. It's past 2am and I have to wake up early tomorrow to go pick up erica from SFO (coming back from that little known exotic place I mentioned on my last post.)Then off to exciting downtown SAN JOSE to hang with Victoria.Today...clean, clean, clean...move boxes, break boxes (break my back!), cut boxes and more trips to the dumpster in 2 hours than in the last 4 months I've been

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Ok, now it's been another 3 months without any posts.So, I've been reading a lot of other people's postings for a number of reasons and honestly found out that the ones that REALLY make me laugh are the ones from people from Brazil living here in the U.S.I don't know if it's because of the fact that even though I am totally fluent in English I still don't have a good "library" of fancy words in

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WOW! It's been 4 months and I'm a year older now....27 crazy years. HAHAHAHAH, I wish! Well, now that I think of it...yeah, they've been pretty much crazy and wild. Sometimes wildly boring and uneventful but definitely crazy! Birthday was good. After 10 days of non-stop work for an average of 16 hours a day, it was a treat to be done on Wednesday and get half a day off plus Thursday and Friday.

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So I guess I have given up on this template thing for now.Last night I got home all ready to spend some time in front of the computer working on this and, obviously -after an hour sitting in my car- the last thing I wanted was to sit again. Plus I told Sonu I was going to the gym with her.Before I had the chance to open my mail and put by butt on the couch the phone rang. I thought "Geez, Sonu

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I have just spent a TON of time trying to find a nice template for this and guess what??? Once I finally found what I wanted, I could not (-for the life of me!!!-) get it to be uploaded without it looking like crap! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Then I finally moved on to something else and again, I could not get it to work. I think it's gonna take me some serious researching before I can get this to look

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Let's see if I can write something meaningful and then... Oh heck, I just want to write something long so I can insert links here and try to figure out how they work.... So here it goes: LongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLong LongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLong

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Is this going to work at some point?

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I wish this looked better...

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