…and how to fight it!
Just totally cool slideshow about how YOU CAN make your PowerPoint presentations better. Believe me, YOU CAN! hahaha
http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint
A lovely weekend to all!!
Get a personalysed sport shoe! November 28, 2007
I’m soooo excited!!!!
I am wanting a nice sport shoe for a longe time now. My old one is terrible and I need a good one since I have some troubles with my knees (like half of the population) but I can never find a nice and feminine one! I looked in plenty of shops but they’re always rude, black, blue (like my old one) and I was not able to find nice Nike Shox ones here in Germany…but now,
this problem is OVER!!
I found out today that you can personalyse your Nike shoes here and make it the way you always wanted!! You can even write your name on it (which I don’t think that I will do, but it’s nice to have the choice, isn’t it?).
The only thing that I have to do now is decide which one!! Nobody said it would be easy, hohohohoho
Book review: The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova November 27, 2007
One of the last and BEST books I read (I almost always read 2 or 3 books at once) was The Historian.
I was for a while already looking for a book that made me crazy about reading again, these books that catch you in a way that you can’t leave it aside! And I found it, casually when spending my usual 2 hours wondering in some bookstore in Brazil. I just love to look for and find new books and even more to buy them, I can’t help it!
Well, I was always fascinated with the legend of Vampires and Dracula and this book is based in the story of Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler in which the legend of Dracula is based. In a very different perspective, with historical facts, the story goes from medieval into present times with rich details and through an amazing narrative. She uses also a lot of letters to tell the story, which makes it even more interesting since it is seeing the story in another perspective inside the same book!
It tells the story of a 16 year old girl who lives in Amsterdam with her father and discovers in the library of her father a very old book and a lot of very old letters. The book is blank, except for the middle pages, where a very detailed figure of a dragon was drawn.
As she asks her father about the book and the letters, he starts telling her the stories of his youth in the University and how his teacher Bartholomew Rossi found out that Vlad Tepes a.k.a Dracula was still alive and how Rossi disappeared short after telling him about it.
After that, a search begins and the story travels to many different countries: From USA to Romania, from the Netherlands to Bulgaria, Hungary…it really makes you want to travel and meet the amazing buildings and ancient libraries the author describes.
It’s great great great! 
Internationale Tanz Woche – 25 Jahre November 27, 2007
So, last week I got two tickets from Amazing Düsseldorf for the opening from the International Dance Weeks in Neuss.
The presentation was a great program performed by Alsonzo King’s Lines Ballet, from San Francisco, USA. The first part with this barroque music soundtrack (Vivaldi) was a little too much, but the second part with this Indian Drums and oriental music was awsome.
The only “delta” thing I can say is that the Stadthalle in Neuss is not a really good place for presentations since the first 10 or 12 lines of people are in the same level, so you have to keep moving your head to see some spots of the stage ground. Besides that, great!
It had been a while since I’ve seen modern dance and I loved it, made me really regret not be doing anything related to art anymore…
Anyway, the Dance Weeks continues next month, on Dec 12th the Companía María Pagés from Madrid will be performing at 20h in the Stadthalle Neuss.
I highly recommend!
Too good to be true… November 21, 2007
Well, seems that I just lost my project during the first kickoff meeting!
As I’m not an EU citizen, I cannot work in Switzerland without a proper VISA, and this VISA takes 4 weeks to approve, so…no deal.
We brazilians have a sentence that fits perfectly to the ocation: “The happiness of the poor lasts shorter.” (Brazilian visitors, please help me with the translation!)
Well, if we consider that it is cold and rainy it might get a little depressing today…but I don’t know, I think I’m ok. Maybe the reality will kick in later but for now, it’s a pitty but I might be with my thoughts already in Brazil, in the sun, with my friends and family so I am not sooooooo sad. 
Let’s see what the future holds!
Just saw in Torsten’s blog… November 21, 2007
…that I totally forgot to comment about Milchbar last Thursday!!
It’s a party that happens every Thursday in Club 3001, which is located in my favourite place in Düsseldorf: Hafen!
I didn’t believe that they would indeed sell milk there but they did!! Milk for free and flavoured milk (strawberry and vanilla) for € 2. And people were drinking it, like beer (for these things that I like to live in Germany, I would never see these things in Brazil!!). And speaking of beer, also another good thing about this bar, really cheap beer (for a party): € 1,50!
Music was ok too, some flashback when we got in but afterwards some good house to shake the bones! I deffinitelly recommend!
It was not my first party with the company folks but indeed with Torsten, Angela and Narcise. It was great fun, although we didn’t stay so long, next day I had to come early into the office (8:30, practically sleeptime!). We deffinitelly have to do this again, right guys?
Cheers!
Finally!! November 21, 2007
I finally found the song I was looking for since the loveparade!! A dj in the afternoon (now I know it was Moguai) played this Freak song and I was crazy about it. No way you can stand still with that playing on the pick ups…I looked for it that time in Google but only this weird Sugababes song was showing up!
Well, I present you: Moguai and Tocadisco – Freaks.
Prepare to dance!
This week! November 16, 2007
Well, another week has passed…the little known facts are:
- Winter is definitelly here to stay
- My appartment looks more like a house know, about time!
- Having a washmachine is key to be happy in life…
- Things are improving again!!
- Quiet birthday is not fun at all
- Sunday coffee ended up drinking Altbier (the typical beer from Düsseldorf)
- People from all ages in costumes on the streets (Carnaval has started, officially!)
- Fancy perfect romantic dinner in Indian restaurant
- Receipt book about the basics of cooking (loved it!)
- Boring days at the office (high points of the day are playing table football, I’m getting better, oh yeah!)
- Call from Brazil ended in the middle – no battery, as usual (I have to make a post about that, some say it’s a women problem to not charge the cellphones…)
- Have to do some networking next week (can I find a reall rocky project??)
- In exactly one month I will be on the beach!!!
- Started yesterday my “back to summer brown” program, skin stinks but I’m getting browner…
- I hate diets!!! Hate diets!!! Started one this week, though…
- I discovered that I can’t be really so proactive in the end…and that I hate this really proactive people! rsrsrs
- Many people coming to visit, actually just wanted to stay in bed and watch movies, it’s sooooo cold!!!
- Milchbar yesterday!
- Some colleagues starting to become friends…
- Nachtresidenz meets Pacha last Saturday, great great great!!
- Coooooollllldddddd!!
Hello world! November 16, 2007
Hey guys…this is my first post and that’s why I am letting the title as it is: Hello World.
I don’t really know why I am opening this blog and to whom I am writing (probably myself and some curious people who might take a look here sometime) so, don’t expect much consistendy regarding subjects or conclusions. This space here is to put some ideas, some thoughts and who knows what else!
I am just needing to share some of my feelings, to let things out a little…I sometimes have the feeeling that if I write things down it helps me to organize my thoghts better, so let’s see if I am capable of this here.
Anyway, let’s see what will come!
Cheers!
