Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu

SHnY has a focus in its story that I've never seen before. It goes with Haruhi, a girl who is interested on aliens, espers and time travelers, but at Kyon's point of view. It's the best anime I've watched this year. (As you could notice, Suzumiya has faced on my Christmas post.)

Goal Nine
-- Be rational --
This will require a previous goal, be lazyless. I often avail things with a limited time I self impose. So, I often delegate my decisions to my unconscious. I have to be conscious and take the responsibilities of my choices.

NHK ni Youkoso!

This is the story of Satou Tatsuhiro (Remarks someone? Lol.), a college dropout who identified himself as a hikikomori. Along with conspiracy ideas, inherited from his high school senpai, he get some troubles with truths and lies, that surrounds him and the ones he creates.

Goal Eight
-- Pay attention --
I am a very distracted person. I consider, to pay attention on the words people say and what happens around me, one of the hardest goals I've chosen. It will require a lot of me and my energy in concentrating on the right thing, manage my thoughts and memory and so on. May kami-sama bless me.

Counter Strike

I've been playing Counter Strike a lot lately, since I've installed it on my pc. It's very addicting even by playing only with bots! The dudes are not showing their faces to play, so I have no option left.

Goal Seven
-- Train my memory --
Everyone knows how memoryless I am. I intend to train so I can have a better memory.

X-Mas travel

December 26th. Time to go home. That was my thought since the begining. Put my clothes into my bag, stay on my uncle's beach house until Christmas and then, after taking some nap, travel back home. Well.. That's not exatly what happened.
I got all my stuffs and traveled along with my parents, Luana, her boyfriend Raphael, my uncle's girlfriend Luiza and me. The car is big enought to be able to comfortly place everyone and some other stuffs. It was 3:00 am and we left home. I hadn't slept until then. I planned go there while I sleep, but Luiza started to talk with me. We kept talking all along the way to Boissucanga and my sleep flew away. We arrived and I could finally take.. a nap! While I was resting, everyone went to beach and arrived before lunch and that was also the time I woke up. That's when I could notice who was there. The first one to go down to lounge was Antonio Henrique, "Someone's son who we also still don't know", Norio, my uncle, said. This person was Imaculada, Érica's hostess on the house she stayed from the time when she was living and studying veterinary at Lavras. Érica and Sabrina are my uncle's sons and, thereof, my cousins. Their mom, Estela, and Sabrina's daughter, Iasmin, was there too. We all went to the beach in the afternoon.
It was cloudy and sun didn't light either the sand, either the sea. It was still possible to make use of the sea, but it wasn't very hot. I've just got into the salty water after I walked all along the beach to make my legs back to training. It was harder, tho, to run there due to the pressure, sand and all other conditions on the environment that I'm not used to have on my usual training place. Back to house again, my another cousin, Edson, was up, as Tiomi aunt and her daughter, Danielle. After prepare dinner and eat it, we went to Maresias, to take some ice cream to some and Açaí to others. We came back to Boissucanga and finished the day.
I discovered it was still unable to get a connection with my cel phone.
On Sunday, Sabrina and Ias had to go back to São Paulo, so they went to the beach on the morning and near lunch, we went to beach and on the way, they got on bus station. At beach, my sister, Heloisa, called and joined us because she had to stay at São Paulo and had to go by bus. After that, we went to house, after buying stuffs to prepare Christmas Eve meal. I played some Shogi with the dudes and soon, we celebrated Christmas.
On December 25th, we all went to the waterfall near there and traveled to Ilha Bela island. It is a very nice place, but it was already on the end of the afternoon and we couldn't enjoy too much of it. At night, we had dinner at a downtown restaurant.
A day after that, my mom woke me up to go back, but my uncle invited me to stay one more day, so my parent's car wouldn't go back so full. I thought for some time and decided to agree. Then, they come back and again, I went to beach in the morning and played shogi all afternoon.
Finally, I came back, today. Érica lead Antonio Henrique and Imaculada to get their road back to Lavras. Edson, Tiomi and Dani headed straight to my home, my uncle left Luiza at her house and headed to mine. So, as Dani had to buy some clothes, she, her mom and mine did some shoppings, while my uncle went to his home and Edson stayed and played some games here.

Goal Six
-- Be socializable --
I've been not very socializable for some time, althought I've met a lot of people. I've been very closed lately and what I intend to do is to be more friendly to people I don't know and avoid scare people.

X-Mas

Merry Christmas!!

Janiliz

Janiliz is my best friend over-country. I met her by playing at iRO, more than 2 years ago with her sister, Lucy. I didn't talk to her so much at first, but our friendship grew as the time passed. It can eventually not be reciprocal and it can not seem to be sometimes, but I love her. ^^

Goal Five
-- Avoid lazyness --
It's a curse! To be lazy makes me loose a lot of good stuffs from life that I could deeply enjoy if I weren't too lazy. And besides that, I can also study more, read more manga, watch more series and hang more out with friend.

Massae

Happy birthday to Massae! I knew her at my old and beloved high school throught some friends. She is very nice and friendly! ^^

Goal Four
-- Better dressing --
Well, I've been avoiding to choose good clothes to go anywhere, even if it's an special event. I'll buy new clothes when possible because I kinda am lack of them.

Travel

I've been preparing stuffs for my short travel to my uncle's beach house. after that, I played some counter together with my sis' bf.

Goal Three
-- Take notes --
I use to forget about my stuffs, so I'll take notes about everything I think is important for further analysis.

Gaia Mule account

I've been talking to Emy about sharing Gaia itens today. We discussed about it because we have a lot of itens we don't use. Well, she has a very large variety of itens while I have a lot of the same OMFG item. I changed that variety to bet on a item inflaction some time ago, actually. At first we're only going to share our itens to wide our variety, but I can't help so much by now. If we eventually change and bet on get some profit, I think I can help a bit more. n.n;

Goal Two
-- Time to sleep and time to wake up --
This can be something very natural to everyone who sleep and wake up, but for me, it's kinda unruled. Most of people always sleep at the same time and wake up at the same time. So did I. But since 2001, it's been very awkward to keep a regular sleep time due to my addictness on internet. It's another goal, but I'll write about it later. Well, my goal is to sleep always when possible at 8~10pm and wake up at 4~6am. It's very audacious from a person who currently doesn't have a fixed time to sleep and wake up. Sometime I don't feel well because of this and, from an experience I did by having a fixed sleep time, I could feel better than in the first scene. I'm going to put my effort on it and always try to remember about it over all the next year.

Goals

I've been thinking on several goals for the next year. Most of them depends only upon myself and my will to do that. But basing on critical times I had in past, some of these goals can be not considered, depending on the circunstances. Although the but's, I'll keep them in mind as a way for me to be a better person, in my current point of view, but not limited to it.
I've been thinking on a number of goals and I've figured out that there's 10 days left for the new year. So, guess how many goals am I going to list? ;) I'll post each on in each day, starting now, and try to explain the goal, the points I want to get with them and how to do that. They won't have any specific order or criteria for listing. Well, here goes the first one.

Goal One
-- Be a better person --
This is a subjective goal. How can I manage to be a better person? By keeping this in mind, my actions can change and I can feel myself a better person whenever I make a choice that I wouldn't just make it random. It would also make sense to all the other goals, as all of them has this goal within.

Mochi

By watching a scene where some stuffs for kagami mochi preparation has showed, at NHK ni Yokoso, a glimpse from past has come to my mind. Almost one year ago, I went to my uncle's beach house and we prepared some mochi for everyone. It's a japanese tradition where a rice cake is fried and then, a mix of shoyu with sugar is put over it. It's awesome!! I wish I could eat it right now! =)

To be on the horns of a dilemma

I've been thinking about my next year goals and I, again, also thinking over the time I spend just by staring, daydreaming and wainting something could happen while I keep logged at Gaim (client I use to log on MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo and ICQ account). I could do a lot of stuffs if I could gather all that time and apply for something produtive, like studying, programming or watching a film. "Damn, I have to stop with it and, by doing so, I also could test my will power.", I thought. But wouldn't it be too selfish, since I have this as the main contact way, due to the very large distance? Maybe I'm being too severe with them and myself. So, a better way would be to limit as much as I can do and avoid sparing too much on my involuntary IM thoughts digress, and I could still talk to my friends. =)
Concerning the title, I was looking for something related to dilemma word. So I found this phrasal verb, that means both choices of a dilemma are not as good as if I could choice both or none. As I want to keep it into my mind, I made it this post title, so It can be easier for me to remember. Maybe this can happen more often than it can appear. So, don't mind if a title doesn't seems to fit on a post content. =P

Densha Otoko

Everton brought, after three months of hard work on arubaito, this j-drama that has just finished to go on tv when he had to come back to Brazil.
It's about an otaku who saved a girl from a molester and, with some help, his wish to be with her. What makes Densha Otoko interesting is that the main character represents a stereotype which has become more present in Japan over the last years, specially over the last decade.

Writing

I've just felt on a urge for writing! Haha. I think I'm going to write in a natural way, as things comes into my mind.
This happened as I visited my friend's (now called as Aerith) blog. I think she started a blog almost at the same time as mine! I've just noticed about it. But she always wrote there and the time between her posts wasn't so big. She made me want to post too!!
There were some stuffs I wanted to post, actually. But I was very lazy of busy to do it, so yeah. u.u That's because I always want to write a long text to look cool, but it's not a good thing to do. At least to me because my memory doesn't allow me store stuffs for a long time. Maybe it's lack of training.
I need to post a list of stuffs I plan for next year and stuffs I've watched lately.
It's all for now.

Almost vacations!

YATTAAAAAAA!!!! All my tests are now over!!! Well, actually, if all means of my marks are equal or above 5, I'm almost in vacations, with only 2 little projects to do!! It's sooo goood to feel free again! Lol. It's a happiness that only who studies at IME can feel! Lol. I am going to be back at MSN again from now on!
(But if any one of my marks is going to be under 5, I'll have to study back again. I'll eventually study some more to raise my mark.. but eventually. Lol If so, vacations will delay some more.)

Speculations for next year

It's been almost 1 week now since I completely stopped to use msn. I'm going to use it again soon and I miss the people I talk to using it. I have plans of stop using it so often next year and I need to keep it in mind, among some other changes I've thought about. I'm thinking on listing it here, later, but I'm unsure. Should I make it public and let my efforts all on them, or should I keep it within me, letting me control inside and be open for changes?
I'm tending to go to one of them in 60%. I won't say which one, thoght. I want to decide it whenever I have enought time to think about it.

Nightmare

On my way to Sala Cinemateca for watching Antes, um dia e depois, the bus I was at stopped near a Metro station construction. Sirens warned. Explosions. Earthquake. It was exciting because it was the first time I've felt something like that, despite it was so slightly.
Although, It made me remember about a dream.. or a nightmare. In it, I felt somewhat like Constantine and Devil`s Advocate. All the place around me was quaking, buildings was falling, fire everywhere, but I was the only one there. The weird thing is that I was thinking in my dream. I was wondering if all that was an apocalipse or if I died and was at hell. Or was on my way to.

Antes, um dia e depois

O documentário focaliza o gargalo de oito pessoas, permitindo-nos conhecê-las a partir do momento em que suas vidas venham tomar um rumo diferente. Algumas dessas pessoas são, de um certo modo, especiais. Porém, elas ainda são humanos, como qualquer um. Suas mudanças nos faz refletir, transmitindo uma sensação de liberdade, realização e esperança, mas, ao mesmo tempo, restam incertezas, possibilidades e receios.
Diria que fiquei surpreso porque minha expectativa era outra. Pensava que as mudanças teriam a força de vontade como chave, ou então o aproveitamento das oportunidades que surgirem. O que se viu, foi além disso. A vida toma seu caminho e há ocasiões em que podemos tomar nossas próprias decisões e lutar por elas, e há aquelas em que precisamos apenas aceitar..

- 30ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema São Paulo -

ps: No English for this post. Sorry..

Seiza

Seiza is a japanese sitting style. More info can be found at Wikipedia, on Seiza entry.

Massa

He is the first brasilian to get the first place at Interlagos, after Ayrton Senna. Is he his sucessor? I bet he has potential, sceptically thinking.

14 Bis

Today is the centenary for the first flight in human history made by the brasilian Santos Dumont with his 14 Bis. Here is my tribute for him and his innovatory idea.

Propelling pencil

I've just got a new propelling pencil at Kalunga. It's similar to Pentel, but very cheaper, as I'm not interested on a specific one by now. I got a dark one. It comes from China throught Desart, but I hope it works for a looong time.

Labrador

(Late news. It happened 3 ddays ago, actually, on Oct/20.)
My mom got a new puppy. She was born some weeks ago, dunno exatly when, and her bite really hurts!
Don't get wrong with the photo. She's really tricky!

Time

How come an abstract idea flow in such a way that it holds all existence?
Eternity is so tempting..
To be able to experience all kind of things at any time, whenever you wish, with no worry to be too late or too early. To try everything and all the times, without being so anxious for the time when you finally get your limitless goals.
Although, It would let people be lazy. Ideas would also come slowly. It would be troublesome on overall. Where would people be if they don't stop growing population? As time wouldn't matter, Earth would become smaller.
Okay, it would still be interesting, by wondering how it would be and how would society work.
Will, one day, human being be able to live for 500 years? The answer, at this rate of environment destruction, is no. But it has almost doubled from humanity begining. Science is being developed at a unimaginable rate, from 5 decades ago.
What would be one year? I would still be 365 days.. but it's essence would be different. It might not be an intense year nor things wouldn't be the same.
One year ago, I couldn't imagine anything.

Bad day

Today was not a good day for training. It is at 12:00 but I wa late! Lol I woke at 11:00. I got ready as soon as I could and got there. On the way, there was a terrible accident on the middle of Raposo Tavares highway. Then, I got late to CEPE and with just some few exercises, I didn't feel okay. Everything was getting dark. Then Myagi told me do some stuffs and then I lied for some time until I get better. That was enought.. I think this is not my day.. *sigh and wondering what if it would happen on this Friday* =P

Portuguese references

I've found, now, two references where is possible to take portuguese grammar points to english speakers.
Thee simpler and first one I found is Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese, with short descriptions and explanations and simple examples. On the other hand, Brazilian Portuguese Grammar for English speakers has more details and goes deep on grammar.
Now, I need a conversation guide for usual speakings.. so that I don't waste a lot of time thinking on a good example when lessons advance.

French

Bonjour.
I was just looking for a brazilian portuguese reference and then I found BBC Languages. It has several languages, like spanish, italian, portuguese.. and french among them.
As I got curious on it, I started on the first steps and discovered how fun it is! I learned some basic words like monseur, s'il vous plaît, la sortie and so on.
But how would I fit it on my schedule? First of all, I need to build a routine with less internet sessions. Well, maybe I try to learn french in future.
Au revoir!

English

As you could notice, I'm no more posting BBC Learning English Weekender. I've stopped, leaving it behind, with no further explanations. Well, I couldn't keep it mainly due to last semester game project. I stood still for awhile, but here I go once again!
I'll still let BBC-LE be my source because they are really focused on it, every week with new contents, and a very wide list of ways to learn english.. and growing!
This week I found 2 sections: Blog and Flatmates. At Blog section, it's possible to read learners and teachers posting and know a bit more about cultures, news and curiosities from other countries. In other hand, Flatmates is made to train listening with the easy british speech. Both doesn't take more than 15min to read and listen. It's a good way to heat up before further study.

Portuguese

I need a brazilian portuguese grammar reference for english learners.. although I wonder if I have any reader, if eventually you, who is reading my blog, knows a good site or book, leave a comment, please.. Thank you in advance. =)

Athletism

When I was a child, I used to run quite well. I was obsessed with speed and stuff. But then, lack of train and time made me stop it.
Along all this year, I was thinking on practice something, so I would not stand so still.
This week, e-mailing IME athletism DM, I told him I would like to train something and then he sent me a weekly train schedule at CEPE-USP. It was this Wednesday afternoon and the next train was Friday, once wednesday had already done.
Then, it was already Friday, yesterday. After class, I met Nobu, who was going to train too, and Oki. Nobu was going to drive his car and Oki, was going there alone.. so I got a lift. He was going there to get along with his friends, but he came along until the train begins. On the way, I met Cristiano. He was also going to start the training. Nelson and Hélio was there too.
We, the newbies ones, had a test to know how we were doing and stuff. We had to run ten times around the path. I tried my best, but tiredness lead me give in some laps. It's been a long time I didn't practice anything, in the end.
Well.. improvement is a matter of practicing.

Changes

"Everything flows and nothing stands still."
Heraclitus of Ephesus

As you can notice, I've got a new template. It's my second one, although it's a ready made one.
I liked the first and only one untill now because it was simple, with no strong elements and somewhat discreet. This was a choice of about eight months ago.
Today, It wasn't possible to keep it anymore. Like humankind, that changed its milions of ideas, I couldn't avoid it either. My life got a shape that only one could do. Although, unlikely Heraclitus thought, I belive there are things unchangable, lasting to infinite, forever.
This new template shows that thought with straight lines and round corners. The green is smooth and simple here. Although they seem to be independent, sections complement each other.
Like present is an intermediate for past and future, what is changeable or not deppends on each one of us.

Layout #1

Moving on

Yesterday was the first time I followed all the stuff. Well.. There's nothing I can do and life goes on.
Today I was giving a better look at BBC English Learning page and I found several good sections! Now I know where I can find good texts to read and things to learn! =)

Empty

I'm in mourning..
The following are sad words I lived about an hour ago.. Don't read it if you don't want details about it.


I already had several pets. Most of them when I was a child. I don't remember very well about the one I had in the begining of my life. My uncle had a farm with lots of dogs and I liked all them. But pets life are shorter. The pets I runned, played, lived with are not here anymore. Each time my mom told me a dog, be it ours or be it my uncle's, I accepted it and continued with my stuffs. I couldn't see their corpses.
Today was different. I was doing my stuffs and then my mom calls me from kitchen, asking me to help with Noah's corpse. I was afraid. It couldn't be possible. All the way I walked up to where it was, I didn't thought on absolutely anything. It was a empty mind, only guided by a known path. And there I was. Looking at Noah, laid.. spread blood on floor from her mouth..
My mom, then, covered her face with old newspaper. Windy, one and another flied to a corner. I took them, helped to cover and hold the paper which were taking the last moments with my pet. I still could feel some warm..
We was placing her into a trash bag.. I couldn't do anything. Mom took her hind legs and placed into it. I was slowly pushing her back into the bag. We lifted the bag and her face came out.. "Omg, could she still see us?". Then mom covered her face again and tied it. She is there now. We'll wait for dad to dosomething..
I felt an empty inside me.. She lived with me all this time, was there when we were building this house and now.. nomore. Now I know why my parents don't want pets. It's very sad. But how is a life without a pet? This is a question I'm not able to answer..

RIP Noah (??/??/199?, 4/october/2006)

Voting

It's one week for this year voting in Brazil. We're going to vote for president, gorvernor, senator and deputy.

Narutard

Sometimes we need to not be serious and have some fun with friends. ^^
I found this image on a random site, which I can't remember now..

OGame

I'm currently playing OGame now. It's a browser based strategy game where you have to manage your resources and stuffs.I'm having fun with it by now. =D

Linux source

Okay, I've thought on a new good name for Tech Notes. It's named now as Linux Source.

Tech notes

Okay, I've sent all my post concerning technology to another blog called Tech notes. I don't know if it's definitely, but it's already there.I'll work more on in future.

Comments

Due to annoying spam, which I already deleted, I've placed a word verificarion at comments, as it's possible bot. If they keep coming, comments will be moderated. Sorry for inconvenience, but it's necessary.

Disband

I've barely thought about this before, but I'm going to make it public now. I plan to make another blog so that subjects about computing would be kept there. This is done having my friends in mind, as they are not as interested on it as I am. It's going to take some time until I separate things, but I hope this became a good change for the public.

One week left

Ahh.. How I am anxious for the starting of this vacation! I always am since I came to IME, specially when it's the ending of semester! It's hard cause I want the time to go slower due to the need of studying something os complete some work, but I get very tired and wish to rest sooner. How to handle with it? It's a good question.. I usually try to keep going like it were in the middle of the semester, sometimes spending even more energy although the harder it can be. It's only one week left anyway.. ;)

Atom Feed

I've just placed a link to feed the blog. Now, you're able to read at any Atom feed reader through the RSS link on the sidebar, above the Blogger logo.

Good news!!

Kzu has passed on Fuvest 5th list!! XD

English

- BBC -

Children in need

vocabulary / expression

a charity _{an organization which is stabilished to provide money or help for those in need}

an appeal _{a request dor people to give money}

to raise money _{to get money for charity}

to fundraise _{to do something to get money for a particular charity}

a telethon _{a long television programme to raise money for charity}

to sponsor someone (to do smething) _{to agree to pay a certain amount of money if they complete a prticular challenge}

a donation _{a gift of money from a person or company to a charity}

Calling time on calling time [mp3] _script

vocabulary / expression

to call time on something _{to cancel something and bring an end to it - The government has called time on the no-tax experiment}

a pub _{a short form of 'A Public House' - a place where people can go to buy and drink alcoholic drinks}

to get drunk _{to drink too much alchohol so you are not able to control your speech or behavior as normal}

a licence _{legal permission to do something - A pub cannot sell alcohol without a licence.}

binge drinking _{when people drink a lot of alcohol very quickly, often just before a pub closes}

English

- BBC -

Remembrance

vocabulary / expression

to commemorate _{to do something to show that you respect and remember something that happened}

Remembrance Day _{a day when people in Britain remember those killed in wars}

a poppy _{a red flower that some people wear on their clothes to commemorate the dead}

to pay your respects _{to do something to show that you respect something or someone}

to be poignant _{to make you feel sad and emotional}

to reflect on something _{to think deeply about it and what it means}

19th Bienal do Livro

Bienal do Livro is a book event that takes place at every 2 years to promote authors, titles and publishing companies. On 19th edition, this Bienal is at Anhembi, a huge place near Tiete bus terminal.
I've bought some books I've wanted for some time: The Lord of the Rings, The Kite Runner, Angels & demons and Harry Potter: The Philsopher's Stone.

English

- BBC -

Bloopers

vocabulary
a blooper / to slip up / a technical problem / to get the giggles / she can't contain herself / dead air / to ad lib, to improvise / the conversation dried up / awkward silences

expression
getting him to pay is like getting blood from a stone _{it's very difficult to get him to pay}

Guy Fawkes

expression
to be discriminated against _{to be treated unfairly because of your religion, race, sexuality or a disability, for example}
a plot _{a secret plan by a group of people to do something that is harmful and illegal, usually to a government}
a bonfire _{a large outdoor fire that's built for pleasure or to burn unwanted things}
an effigy _{a model or dummy that's made to look like someone or to represent someone}
fireworks _{small containers filled with explosives that produce bright colourful patterns and loud noises when they are lit}
bangers _{a type of firework that produces a particularly loud noise}
sparklers _{a small type of firework which produces lots of small sparks and can be held by children in their hands}
toffee apples _{slightly sour tasting apples which are dipped in hot toffee and left to get hard before being eaten}
jacket potatoes _{potatoes that are roasted in their washed skin, often on an open fire}

Fullmetal Alchemist

It's a cool adventure anime that has power to keep watching and watching. Using alchemy, two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, try to ressurrect their mother, passed away by a fatal dicease. As their power was not enough, they go after military looking for the Philosopher's Stone.

Freecell structured

I'd say it's done, but I belive teacher doesn't that simple. Well, at least, it's functional and playable with some help on commands. It's still needing a more user friendly interface.

English

- BBC -

Diamonds _script

vocabulary
diamonds / VIP lounge / flawless / carat / carab seed / monk / to put a curse on somebody or something

Deception

vocabulary
a fib, an untruth _{a lie}
a porky _{(informal) a lie}
to embellish the truth about yourself _{to make yourself sound better than you really are}
to be deceived, to be duped _{to be tricked into believing something that's not true}
a telltale sign he is lying _{a revealing sign which shows he is lying}
a whiz _{someone who is very good at something, e.g. a computer whiz.}
sophisticated _{advanced or complicated}
they have a more subtle approach _{they look more at important detail which other people might miss}

Freecell

This is the first Data Structure EP. It has to be done in C language and, although it seem to be easy to code, I've gone slowly on coding along the day.

Last drive classes

It has finally ended. They're silly classes that if someone that has good sense would know about them. Altought, they teaches stuffs that requires more research, like law, first aid, mechanics and so on, besides some tips. Now, I need to wait for the next week to schedule the teorical test.

AuraRO

I've installed kRO and Sakrai, then a patch to my friend's server, AuraRO (Aura is one of my best friends). It's a very nice private server and guess what.. Aura made me a GM!! I have super-powers now!! XD Aura rocks! I've not learned or re-learned all things cause it's too much for a almost-newbie-again RO player. I'll try to get tips along the time.

Classes, a new start

Classes start today. On Mondays and Wednesdays, all I has is one Calculus class. Teacher has introduced the steps he's going to do with content and tests. We're going to learn mainly integral with 2 and more variables.

Anderson's B-Day!

Today is Anderson's birthday!! Congratulations!! =D

English

- BBC -

British Food

vocabulary
his reputation / British cuisine / a stereotype / soggy / stodgy food / to be poud of yourself / Britain's national dish / a frenzy

Politeness

vocabulary
to be polite / courtesy / etiquette / basic human decency / to subscribe to the idea / to be pratical / to be civilised / to mind your Ps and Qs / to be tolerant / to subjugate someone / to torment someone

Entertainment

The day where dedicated to run away from everything and just relax. I've got a litle headache in the middle of session, but it was nothing and soon, it went away, after talking a bit with Aura.

• Naruto 172
  
• Bleach 68/69
  
• Fullmetal Alchemist 6~8
  
• Veronica Mars (season 1) 1~4
  

First-day driving class

It was not a hard class. After a ~45min interval, class started then it stops again on 10am. Another ~45min goes and the test come. Then, we wait another ~15min after test until the fingerprint device would be enabled.

Welcoming novices

I've changed my next week driving classes time. They're now on 20~22 in the afternoon and 24 in the evening. Then, I've gone to IME! Almost all the gang was there, Breno, Fernando, Jonas, Lucas, Pedro, Renato and so on. The party was going with lots of hairless novices (the ones who just arrives, we cut it =), people playing and talking everywhere and also there were some earning money selling circular ticket (circular is the free bus which runs along all USP campus). By the way, Marreco was there!! He's on Mathematics. That was fun! Lol. At FEA, the joke was nastier than IME, with eggs, people rolling on floor and some with their underwear destroyed. Madruga was there and when we arrived, Shura was the novice of the moment! He was just getting hit with an egg over his head. At Poli, Anderson has more details.

English

- BBC -

Surf 'n' Turf

Vocabulary
calories / surf 'n' turf / a treat / he should pace himself / the restaurant's atmosphere / to enjoy the company / to control your diet / to prepare mentally / a snack / to make or break someone / starving / completely stuffed

Who runs your world? _script

Expression
to do somebody a power of good _{to be a benefit to someone - I was really stressed at work, then I went for a long holiday, it did me a power of good and now I feel much more relaxed.}
the powers that be _{important people who have power in a particular situation - I wanted to build a new house on my land, but the powers that be said I couldn't.}
to power something up _{to start a machine or electrical device, to turn it on}
the power behind the throne _{someone who is secretly in charge but does not have have an official position}
a power breakfast / lunch / dinner _{a business meeting held during a meal}
a power nap _{a short sleep for busy business people during the day}
a power tool _{a tool, for example a drill or saw, which operates with an electric motor}
power dressing _{wearing particularly formal clothes to make youself seem more powerful and important.}

Driving school

I did medical and psycho-technical exams and delivered to the driving school today. I've chosen to do it in the morning, but I think I'm going to have trouble about it because theoric classes are going to start on the next 16 and will long until 24. Although, my classes are going to start on 20 so, there will be 4 classes in conflict (days 21~24). I'm going to ask for alternative classes on Monday.

First list released

Fuvest, a college admission test foundation, released it's first list for Universidade de São Paulo, Barro Branco Military Police Academy and Medical Science College from Santa Casa. Hugo, a friend of mine since we were children, is still, but almost there!

• First list

.. and on the seventh day, ..

.. God said: no energy for 1 hour. Therefore, my life stopped for a whole hour. Well. Today I'm going to be out for balance. Thank you for reading! ^^

Time zone

Pacific Standard Time Zone (PST) has eight hours lesser than Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic realization of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). As São Paulo is located on a UTC-3 (three hours lesser than UTC), the Blogger scheduled outage will take place in two hours and half.

English

- BBC -
Lottery millions
Housework

note: Real Player is required.

Dark Shoyu? Wth?!

I've created this as a needing to have a name for this blog. First came Shoyu. Why? When I created a new character at Fly For Fun, I've decided to name it other than Tsuiya or Valgaav from my bRO account. It had to start with 'Sho'.. Maybe just Sho, but this name has already taken. Some few minutes has passed and then the light! "Shoyu!!! This is cool!!", I thought. -Lol-. Then, Sato-kun and Shoyu was okay for me. =) Concerning the Dark, no.. I'm no in the dark or I haven't pay energy bills. I've started to like this Dark thing since some years ago, when I knew Dark Misao Chan. At a history class, I've remembered abour this when the subject was Joan D'Ark! XD But it also have a personal link to it. As I don't use to express myself that easily, my mind sometimes seems to be a black box. My mind is very confusing, actually, somewhat like walking a dark room. Linking all this, Dark Shoyu has born. And I really liked it =)

(cultural note: Shoyu is a japanese for Soy Sauce. It's a black and salty liquid used on lots of japanese cousines. There are several kinds of shoyu you can find, depending on ingredients or methods used. They differ my moving from a region t another in Japan. Koikuchi from Kanto is the most produced kind of shoyu in Japan. Other samples are Usukuchi (from Kansai, saltier and lightier in color), Tamari (from Chubu, darkier and richer in flavor. Considered "original" japanese soy sauce) and so on.)

Language

It's been a long time I've stopped english course and haven't resumed it due to some reasons, mainly lack of time. Aurianna have already detected tons of mistakes on our talking and have already helped me alot with some grammar and vocabulary. But I want and need to learn more, but I don't know if a usual course would suit on me anymore.. I have my own rithm of learning. Besides that, my memory usually use to betray me a lot of times.. so, I have to practice. And this is, finally, the point of the answer. I don't know how good is writing for training english, but as it requires a lot of components from english grammar, I think I should give it a try.. And as sometimes I'm going to need a word I don't know when I need to express something, this would increase and be reference for more vocabulary. I'm thinking on posting texts in english every Saturday to keep some discipline on training. Concerning languages, I'd like to learn japanese, but it's hell hard to learn by myself!! I've tried several times before, but it have never kept going on.. I'm thinking on use this blog to learn it too, using the same way as english, but nothing concrete (needing more sources to support it..).

To post using e-mail is quite simple! Go to Settings>Email and there you will find a "Mail-to-Blogger Address" section. Name the second part of a e-mail address, select "Publish" (This make Blogger automatically publish posts sent this way ;) and then "Save Settings". This e-mail address you've just configured is the one you have to send to to posting. It's recommended to not share it, since every e-mail sent to that address will be considered a post even if the sender is not you. That's it! You can find an official documentation about this here.
ps: this mail-posting has a limitation of converting special character into a html special coding.. this mean that if you type <p>, it will show as you're reading here and will not take the html coding effect. Conseqüently, sometimes you won't have enough resources you'd like to have.

E-mail posting

This is a really cool feature! You can send it by a webmail or a normal third-party e-mail client.. maybe my search has finished! =)

re: Gnome-blog

The app has disappointed me.. it's panel plugin doesn't work and title doesn't go to the right place =/

Mr. Anderson

My friend has a new blog too! I've talked with him this afternoon and told him i liked blogger due to some features.. he's in now! =D

My first entry from a 3rd-party app

Confusões no supermercado
I was talking with Mutsumi and then we, I don't know how, started to talk about fanfiction.. well, as I have to wake up early tomorrow, I asked her to send me the url for reading tomorrow, once it's already late..

Gnome-blog

This morning I officially accepted Dark Shoyu as a virtual identity. So that I've create an e-mail account and changed my display and blog's title name.
Fooling around at Blogger home, I've noticed a third-party apps link at developers section. There are three linux apps there, all based on GNOME/GTK (that has stole my attention since last year), I' ve chosen Gnome-Blog due to its simplicity. It haven't worked although.. =/
Meeting took place and two programmers from Disoft, Leonardo and another yet unknown one, will do their work on EF from next Monday on. Concerning me and Alexandre (the other scholarship holder), we both will supervise with JUnit. JUnit is a framework for automated class testings on Java language. It doesn't seem to be very complex and learning it will be my goal for this weekend.

Here is a newcomer to the Dark side

I have recently discovered a Gaim plugin to publish post on Blogger as simple as talking with someone. This made me wish to blog stuffs, but I couldn't install it because installer didn't find a header file.. Maybe I am looking for a similar feature in the future, it would be a big help.
Tomorrow there will have a meeting with Escola do Futuro and Disoft.
Update: The header file is called cairo.h. I haven't looked for futher information about the file due to the old version available. The last one is dated from 2004..!