Thursday, 12 November 2009

Ruhe in Frieden, Robert Enke (1977-2009)

I must say I was shocked... still am...
Of all the people one would imagine commiting suicide, I'd never say a successful goalkeeper - younger than me - one of the best ever being here in Portugal and currently the national german squad keeper, would do it.
How void can life be, when we just can't grasp its meaning... on and on, we walk, senseless, and nothing can wake us, not even the smiling happiness of those around us... they just don't understand it. Not even love can heal the wound...

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Just lavender...

Lavender eyes
Lavender hair
Lavender skies
Lavender fair

Lavender words
Bring lavender tears
Spend my lavender time
These past few years

Lavender words
Bring lavender tears
Spend my lavender time
These past few years

Lavender green
Lavender blue
My lavender dream
I dream of you

Jackie Lomax

Um ano de saudade

Faz hoje, dia 10 de Outubro, um ano... e não é que o cheiro a rosmaninho e o sorriso de uma flor - o dela - permanecem nos nossos corações? in loving memory. miss you...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Gone like the wind...

Thursday, 10 September 2009

No more tears... please

Sometimes I get to feelin'
I was back in the old days - long ago
When we were kids when we were young
Thing seemed so perfect - you know
The days were endless we were crazy we were young
The sun was always shinin' - we just lived for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
The rest of my life's been just a show

Those were the days of our lives
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing is true
When I look and I find I still love you

You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use in sitting and thinkin' on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
Better sit back and go with the flow

Cos these are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
These days are all gone now but some things remain
When I look and I find no change

Those were the days of our lives - yeah
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing's still true
When I look and I find
I still love you

I still love you

Commitment

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Tourism... the portuguese way

I know it's just a brand, that is trying to make a difference, but... what is the problem with having the "typical products" for sale in the Lisbon Tourism Center in Rossio labelled PORTUGAL? Wasn't Allgarve bad enough?

Sunday, 6 September 2009

Família

O BE pode ter razão em muita coisa. O que não pode é arrogar-se o direito de entender que o conceito básico de família vai para além de pai, mãe e filho(s). Existem excepções a isto, claro, porque os afectos pesam sempre, e não são estáticos.

Mas daí a equiparar o conceito básico de família à união entre duas pessoas do mesmo sexo, e incluir nisto a possibilidade de essas pessoas poderem vir a ter ou vir a adoptar crianças, vai uma grande distância.

Porque é tudo uma questão de opção. Quem quer ser diferente, se-lo-à para o bem e para o mal. Para direitos e para deveres. Para as possibilidades e para as impossibilidades. Fá-lo porque não é igual aos demais, e nem o quer ser.

Como tal, tem de estar preparado para viver com as consequências. Pois quando alguém opta por se unir a outra pessoa do mesmo sexo, é mais que óbvio essas pessoas não esperarem vir a ter filhos, pois tal é uma impossibilidade física. Se os quisessem ter, teriam permanecido na mais normal das heterossexualidades, mesmo reprimidos.

E há coisas na vida em que não temos de ultrapassar a natureza, através dos avanços da ciência, só porque podemos. Pois se a natureza sempre as fez brancas ou pretas, por que raio havemos nós de as tornar cinzentas, só por termos tal hipótese?

Como seria dantes, quando não havia fertilização in vitro e nem se falava em casamentos homossexuais? Eles e elas existiam, sempre existiram, embora envoltos numa maior obscuridade e secretismo, por motivos óbvios. E eram felizes nessa opção, concerteza que eram. E ninguém falava em ter filhos porque sabiam que tal era, pura e simplesmente, impossível.

O que era encarado com naturalidade então, deixou de o ser agora...

Porquê?

Hope

Maybe it's just me following some obscure theory. But I have an honest and distinct feeling that the cure for AIDS is close, very close. After all, there's a new pandemic virus to heal and make pharmaceutical companies earn a lot of money...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Aftermath

Just returned from a city I would consider a model to any aspiring town in Europe, it is sad to see nothing has changed here. We still remain sleeping, in a summer laziness, content to live in a third world country at the gates of Europe to which we will never belong truly, but whose money is handy for some selected few.

I was happy there. Truly. Here, I'm just content. Why leave love and happiness behind? Well, that's life. Sometimes, we can't do a thing about it, we just have to adjust to circumstances. Which is what I am doing right now. I wish all would go well, for both of us. But some of us just don't have that much luck.

Calling me...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

A sad day

I never thought this day would arrive. But let's be reasonable. Only half a dozen clubs in this country can actually make a profit. All the others require tight financial control and no salary adventures or buying sprees. Which is something that has not happened generally, with excessive amateurism and always the old song: "Let it be..."
Well, it happened today. Estrela da Amadora was forbidden to join the Professional Leagues. I reckon this is the end of the road. And it's sad, very sad, that it should happen this way. No point in appealing at all, things are what they are, facts are facts and you can't argue with facts, even if you try to outsmart facts and sustained decisions as a last useless resort.
What will come next? Amateur sports only? Joining with Académica da Amadora? Bankruptcy and extinction? I don't know, only time will tell.
And while time doesn't tell, I grab my old judo kimono with the club's patch on its chest and remember good times...
R.I.P. Clube de Futebol Estrela da Amadora (22-01-1932 / 30-06-2009 )

Monday, 8 June 2009

No politics!

The issue of the moment is politics. But I won't bother you with such petty things. I prefer to praise this beautiful woman who managed to make the packed Grand Hall of the CCB rise and dance. She's cuban, she's african, she's french, she's brazilian, she's portuguese... she's the world in a voice, and what a voice. This video shows it plainly. All music should be about simple happiness and a perfect smile. Like hers. That's why I'm "stalking" her to see and hear her again this Friday night :)

Sunday, 7 June 2009

The Big Brother is watching you...

The Portuguese Government is preparing to issue a Bill which will allow registering all e-mails and telephone calls via the internet. This measure is meant to store all the online traffic of portuguese citizens on a database, for the period of one year. Despite the fact that such data is confidential and access to such information can only be granted with a court order, this measure is still controversial.
So far, a specific date to launch such a law is unknown. It is already used in some EU countries, like France and United Kingdom. This measure limits to follow and transcribe to the Portuguese Law an EU commendation of 2006, justified with the need of more control over possible connections between terrorist cells.

Source: jornaldiario.com

Sorry, Bobby! I'm just too important!

Just do it!

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