What ever happened to Lucy?

C'était un rendez-vous

2007-08-21T08:11:00.001-03:00

Have you guys see a french video at youtube called "C'était un rendez-vous" or maybe the music video of the song "Open your eyes", by Snow Patrol?

I have seen both and I suggest you guys to do the same... I don't know if the videos will have the same impact as they did to me, but I am sure you will like at least for the song...

The video C'était un rendez-vous is an eight minute video of a guys driving through Paris at 5:30 AM in his Mercedes-Benz. His driving isint responsible or carefull, but the video is great and the sound of the car engineering is awsome. Some people didn't like the video due to the danger of the driving, and I must agree with them at some point. However, I can't deny that I would like to do the same... He he he....

The Snow Patrol is a British band that used the french video as the musical video of the song Open Your Eyes. When you watch the musical video, then it's impossible to not like it and I surely forgot about any issue regarding the safety or dangerous of the video.

Let's do something. I believe we're all unique different people with our own particular way to see and interpretate things, so a music or any life event will always have a different effect in our lives according to who we are. Each one of us will see this video with a different point of view, specially because each one of us is living a different moment in our lives and we have different life history, backgrounds, and culture. This is the beautiful of mankind...

I am posting both videos and I would like to know your opinion about it and the possible impressions and effects caused by the video. You might comment on the blog or by e-mail, which most of you usually do....

What is my opinion about the video? You all know that I am addicted to music and that music is like air to me: I can't live without music and my life has a huge neverending soundtrack! The song Open your eyes and the video of the guy driving crazy through Paris gave me this weird feeling of freedom and at the same time it represents my current situation...

I hope you guys enjoy the video and the experience :-)

Love you all!

The C'était un rendez-vous video

The Open your eyes video

A "must-watch" movie: Joyeux Noël (Merry Xmas)

2007-07-31T16:42:00.000-03:00

Dear all,

Have you guys ever heard about a french movie named Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)?

I watched it last night and it's a wonderful movie that all of you must also watch. The movie is about an interesting and beautiful fact that took place during World War I: French, Scottish and German soldiers got together to celebrate 1914' Christmas holiday in the middle of a front.

It is a touching real history and it shows us that war is always a stupid thing to do. We are all human beings, and the people killed and physically/mentally injuried in wars are normal people just like any of us.

Make love, don't make war ;-)

Take care and watch the movie (including the directors interview after the movie itself)!

Love you all :-)

Getting old...

2007-07-29T21:35:00.000-03:00

Some of you already know that my grandfather is in the hospital and last week I spent some of my afternoons with him.

His about to turn 93 years old and the only real problem he has is his lungs. His legs don't work that nice anymore, but his mind and his heart are perfect. He is getting better and the good news is that he might get back home Monday afternoon :-)

I noticed that lots of seniors and elder people showed up in the hospital needing some medical care: an old lady brought her husband who had an ear problem and alzheimer, a girl drove her grandmom to the hospital due to some unknown reason, a retired dentist had a stroke and hit his head, and the list goes on.

While I was there I thought about me getting old.

I think there is nothing more cute than old people: they look so sweet with that elder wrinkly skin and white hair... We can exchange so much knowledge with them, and I just love to talk to old people and listen to their old stories and about history facts they had lived and seen with their own eyes.

However, looking at them in such a fragile physical and not healthy situation made me wonder if I am going to be able to handle myself getting older. Am I going to be brave enough to face physical disabilities and all the problems associated to old age?

I was thinking about my possible old age future and things didn't look that nice: my legs won't be working that good anymore, my heart will be weak, I have history of heart problems in the family and the chances of having a stroke are big, besides that I don't really take care of myself right now (I am overweight and don't do exercises regularly).

I don't know if I am strong enough to accept myself in need of medical and family care. Have you ever asked yourselves about that? Have you ever thought about death and when or how you are going to die (young, old, and in which conditions)?

Janis Joplin once said something like "live as much as possible, die young and be an attractive corpse". I am far away of being an attractive corpse, but I used to say that "die young" meant "die with your soul still young, never let your age turn your spirit old".

I always thought that we can get old in age, but we should always keep our spirits young. But how can we handle an young soul in an old body?

My afternoons in the hospital made me think a lot about that... What do you guys think about that?

Take care and have a nice week you all :-)

Pan, Pan, Pan, Pan!

2007-07-23T18:24:00.000-03:00

Dear all,

In case you guys haven't noticed, I am not writting that much lately due to personal reasons. Don't worry, everything is fine. I am just busy with some other things :-)

Anyways, the 15th edition of the Pan American Games is taking place in Rio de Janeiro and I had to watch at least one of the so many games and matches. I am not a huge fan of sports, but I like watching some games once in a while.

Last Saturday I watched two female basketball matches: Cuba vs. Colombia and Brazil vs. Mexico. Brazil beated Mexico and the final score was 88 to Brazil and 44 to Mexico, I am proud of the brazilian girls :-)

Besides that, I must tell you that the city is looking so nice during the games... I love when Rio is full of tourists, it seems the city looks even more beautiful with everybody hanging out in the beaches and enjoying the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro :-)

Here are some pictures I took after the brazilian match. The second one was with the brazilian player called Karen.

Take care! Love you all!!

Love, soul sister, true happiness, and finding ourselves...

2007-07-02T23:02:00.000-03:00

I was listening to this new nice song I found at youtube, and I thought about love and soul sister...

You might think I am crazy or that I don't believe in real love anymore, but who said we all have a soul sister? Why exactly we need to have a so-called pair, a person who would understand us completely and with whom we should spend the rest of our lives with? Why do we have to find this soul sister in order to be truly happy?!

In the last few weeks I thought a lot about myself and my life, and I realized that I don't think I have a soul sister... I don't see myself spending the rest of my life with anyone in particular. Then you might say that this is because I still haven't found my soul sister, but I guess this isin't the reason.

I think some people are just like that: they were not born in order to have a soul sister. Besides that, I don't really believe we need to be with someone to be truly happy.

We all need our family and friends and, of course, we also need romantic love and we fall in love. We date and we even get marry, but the truth is that our true happiness isin't related to being with someone (or any particular someone). This romantic love isin't enough for pure happiness or we can say our happiness is not depending of any romantic love.

I found out that my happiness is about finding myself, and not finding a soul sister... I guess we have to find ourselves before searching for any soul sister we might have (if we have any).

As a matter of fact, we won't be able to find any soul sister if we don't first find ourselves: who we really are, what we want from life and from ourselves, what we like and why we are here.

We are all humans, but we are still individuals and we need to find out deep inside who we are. True happiness and peace of soul is about understanding our nature. It is about discovering ourselves and what makes us unique and different from the others.

Do I have a soul sister? I don't think so, and I truly don't care about it. At least not right now. Now it is time to finding myself and to understand who I am :-)

There is something my mom once taught that I will never forget, so I thought about sharing this with you guys. When I was a child, I said to my mom that she was the person I loved more in my life. The she came to me and said the following words: you are the most important person in your life and there is nothing more important than self-love.

I still love her more than anything else in this life, but I will never forget what she said.

Here is the nice song I was talking about.

Take care and enjoy it :-)

Movie suggestion - Idiocracy

2007-06-30T08:38:00.000-03:00

Last night I watched a very interesting comedy movie named "Idiocracy".

The movie is basically about a guy who is frozen in an army experience and gets back to society only after 500 years. I know that we all have seen something similar before, but this one is better because it shows how human kind might become after some hundred of years: we might become a bunch of idiots.

Why or how would we become a bunch of idiots? The movie shows us the reality of our society. Since people with less education reproduce more than well-educated people, we might become a society made out of idiots if we don't start doing something right now.

Pay attention: the "something" we should do is not only about birth-control. The something we have to do to stop this idiocracy process is give good education to people, so they would be able to understand the responsabilities of having kids and wouldn't have babies like rabbits. But then, it would be their choice and not something imposed by others.

Of course there are some exaggeration in the movie since it's a comedy, but it's a well-thought silly comedy.

I personally don't like comedies that much, but this one really made me see the obvious: human's future is closer to an idiocracy than to a "futuristic-robotic-matrix era".

The trailer of the movie isin't that nice, so I suggest you to also watch the movie's intro so you can have an idea of what the movie is.

Take care and have a nice weekend!

Love you all :-)

The movie intro:

The trailer:

Still about the environment

2007-06-27T20:39:00.000-03:00

This video was made on the international environmental congress that took place in Brazil in the year of 1992 (Eco - 92).

Seventeen years have passed and we are still doing the same things or maybe even worse.

Will we ever change?!

Take a good look at the video and think a little a bit about what we are doing to ourselves and the next generations.

Love you all!

Human nature - part 1

2007-06-25T23:40:00.000-03:00

Most of you must have watched the video I posted that showed a little bit about the human nature and our similarity with our lovely friends monkeys :-)

I have talked to some friends of mine - online and offline ones - about what we really are, and they suggested me that I should write down some of our thoughts and conclusions about human nature.

Topic of the day? All humans are selfish.

Exactly! The truth is that all our acts are based in an unconscious need of satisfying ourselves.

Don't need to panic, I will make myself clear.

The questions we have to make to ourselves are: why the happiness of a friend also makes me happy? Why do we want the happiness of our beloved ones? What is behind human solidarity and what makes us help each other?

The answers are pretty simple: we do that because deep inside we just want to be happy too.

For example, you all have heard about Bartira (one of my best friends ever). Why her happiness is so important to me? Because I am happy when she is happy, and I would be sad if something were wrong with her. So, the truth is that if I do something that I know will make her happy, then I am not doing this something only to please her. As a matter of fact, I would do something nice to her because "I" would be happy and pleased.

Can you guys also see things from this point of view? When we do something to please each other, we are actually seeking for our own happiness.

Hey, don't worry guys! The fact we are all selfish and do those things because of our own interests doesn't make us bad people. This is who we are as human beings, and there is nothing wrong about being this kind of selfish.

You guys have to remember that we might all be selfish, but the idea is to try to use this in a good way ;-)

Do you wanna know what lead my friends and I to this talking? We're talking about the fact that only few of you read the blog spontaneaously and I recently found out that nobody had noticed about all the nice tools and settlings that I had put on the blog. So, we tried to understand "why does Lucy write her blog?".

I wanna make it clear that I am not angry because of that.

By the way, I have a question to all of you:

Can anyone guess why do I keep writing in this blog?

Come on guys, use your brains and try to give good answers ;-)

I didn't want to write a too long post otherwise no one would read it. I tried to summarize the main idea of my recent thoughts as much as possible, let's see if that was enough :-)

Have a nice week!

Love you all!

Fire! Fire! Fire!

2007-06-20T15:42:00.000-03:00

Today I had almost put fire in my house! Actually, I only put fire in the trash can but it was a really messy-funny moment... He he he he...

I lighted on the stove and then I threw away the match into the trash can, but the problem is that the match was still ON! He he he he...

Don't woory, I am safe and didn't even had to call the firemen :-)

The only problem is that now I need a new trash can to my kitchen, so I had added a trash can on my wishlist. Do I have any volunteers to give me a new trash can?! Just kidding...

Take care and be careful while throwing away matches!

Love you all!

Ogre Lucy

2007-06-16T10:25:00.000-03:00

The movie "Shrek, the Third" was released in USA theaters just a month ago and DreamWorks Studios has already announced that this might not be the last movie of the well-successful serie about the green ogre.

This is because the producers of Shrek claim they have found a real female ogre who could make an appearance in the possible 4th edition of Shrek (check picture below).

The producers haven't decided so far about the role the female ogre will play in the next movie, but she would be either a missing sister of princess Fiona or a missing sister of Shrek.

According to our sources, the producers are already talking about a possible affair between the new character and Gingy, the Gingerbread Man. The female ogre already said she won't act in any nude scene.

The negotiations about payment, fees and other contract terms are still taking place. Apparently, due to an undisclosed reason, the female ogre is concern about acting side to side with puss in boots...

In an exclusive interview to our blog, the female ogre declared that "acting in a Shrek movie is a dream come true" and that she is "really excited about working with the Donkey".

We will keep you guys updated of any news regarding the female ogre and the negotiations for Shrek, the Fourth!

Take care and have a nice weekend!

Cathedral song

2007-06-13T22:40:00.000-03:00

Due to some unknown reason, today I couldn't stop thinking about the music "Cathedral Song" by Tanita Tikaram.

It's an old song that I love and that has a special meaning to me. When I was still in middle school, my teacher of creative writing class showed us some pictures and we should pick up one and then write a paper/article about it.

One of the pictures was a newspaper picture of a group of poor kids that lived in the streets. Sadly, this is a common scene in Brazil and in lots of places around the world.

There are thousands of reasons why those kids are in the streets and their histories are pretty much the same: they have no family, their families are poor, they were abandoned by their parents, they ran away from home because of parental abuse/violence.

Somehow those kids end up living in the streets and start to commit small crimes and, sometimes, they might even become real criminals.

I chose to write my paper about that picture and then I thought about the "Cathedral Song"...

I wrote an intro to my paper and transcribed the following part of the song:

"I saw you from the cathedral

You were leaving me

And I saw from the cathedral

You could not see to see

So take my time

And take my lies

'Cos all the others, they wanna take my life"

Then my paper was based in the fact that those kids - and the whole street population - are ignored by the rest of the society.

Street population is there, we know and we see it everyday, but the truth is that deep inside we try to avoid them as much as possible.

We pass by them everyday, but them we try to make ourselves blind. It is not nice to face the truth and to face someone poor and starving near us, so we pretend they are invisible.

Sometimes we are afraid of being robbed, so we just hold our purses tight against our bodies or just cross the street as if they wouldn't notice what we're doing! Come on, those kids aren't dumb!

Obviously I include myself among the people who hold the purse stronger and cross the street, ashame on me!

They might be little thieves and even mean sometimes, but the truth is that they are just kids... Kids who had lost innocence, kids with no dreams, but, afterall, they are still just kids...

The idea of my paper was: the street kid is there and he is "talking" to a lady who passes by him without even looking at his face... He has quited about his life and changing his future, but deep inside he wants to be saved by someone. He wants help and that is exactly what we are all not giving him.

I know this a very cliché topic, and again I dont wanna make boring speechs to you guys but how long will it last? We are responsible for those kids, and how long will we be negligent about them? What are we doing to our kids and to ourselves?

Unfortunatelly, I don't have the solution for that. Actually, the solution is obvious: we just need to care about those kids and give them some respect and opportunities.

Anyways, today I thought a lot about this song and the paper I wrote so I decided to write again about it. Since I have lots of free time, I also made the following video.

Hope you like it.

Take care!

Lack of virtual existence - part 2

2007-06-08T19:49:00.000-03:00

My dear all,

I definitely don't have a virtual existence.

The guys at wikipedia are chasing me and they again found out about me on that encyclopedia. So, they again deleted the data I put on about myself.

You all know that I tried hard to fight against the system, but those guys at wikipedia really have nothing better to do in their lives!

Since I have better things to do with my time, I decided that I won't fight anymore. It would be silly, childish and it would lead me nowhere.

However, I promised myself that I will never let wikipedia publish anything about me in the future! When they come after me asking me to publish things about me, I will just say "No"!

Come on guys, it is not a real issue because I will never be famous anyways... He he he he he...

Anyways, here comes a real promise: I will keep using wikipedia in almost all of my posts as a demonstration that I have no hard feelings about wikipedia or any of its guys :-)

Have a nice weekend all of you!

Searching myself (or lack of virtual existence)

2007-06-06T08:23:00.000-03:00

Have you guys ever tried to look for your own names on google or any of those search-websites?

A friend of mine once told me: if something cannot be found on google, so this something doesn't really exist! So everytime I need to find out about something, I do some research on google.

Nopes, I still didn't get any sponsorship from google or from any of the international companies I mention on my posts... I should stop making free spread of big companies and just say things like "that big blue G search website"...

Let's get back to the topic. I always do my research on "that big blue G search website" and one day I had a brilliant and original idea: what if I searched for my name?!

I know. The idea isin't brilliant or even original at all! Everybody has done it before... Who told you I would be brilliant or original?!

Anyways, I searched for myself on the net, but I didn't get too many things. There were only 2 pages about other girls with the same name. I found out there is a dentist, a state agent (realtor), a civil engineer, a librarian, and there is also me!

My appearence on the search isn't interesting or amazing (maybe because my life and myself aren't interesting or amazing). There are three links regarding me: a) one shows my classification to get into Law School; b) another link makes reference about my final paper at college; and c) another site says I failed one exam. Isin't this nice? We failed the exam and then it is published online... LOL...

I spent a couple of minutes looking at the search about myself and its results.

There is nothing about me besides those 3 minor references, and it means that I almost don't exist! At least virtually speaking.

I have this blog, I have a 'myspace account' (that I don't use), I have an album of pictures at yahoo, I have a wishlist and I have uploaded some videos at my youtube account, but even then I almost virtually don't exist... Come on, I thought "that big blue G search website" was going to unify searches regarding its three main domains (google, youtube, and orkut)! Humpf!

I needed to think about something to solve my lack of virtual existence! I might almost don't exist on internet, but that doesn't stop me to keep using my sick-crazy mind on real world! If internet is conspiring against my online existence, I need to stand against it and show the world that I exist!

Did I say I only use my sick-crazy mind for useless things? He he he...

Since the gentlemen of "that big blue G search website" don't want to help me, I decided to look for help somewhere else...

Which other site I use for searches? Wikipedia!!!!!! So I created an account at wikipedia (yes, one more internet account!) and decided to officially be born online! I made an article about myself at wikipedia and there I was: a new online life has born!

However, things are not that easy when the virtual world is really conspiring against me!

I got a message from wikipedia administrator telling me the article I created "seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time."

So, the article about myself was deleted because I am not significant for the world!!!! I hope I won't need analysis after that, because I would send the doctor's bills for the same person who deleted my article! Who this person think he/she is?! Btw, doesn't this person has something better to do than telling others that their lives are insignificant for the world?!

Anyways, my online life was interrupted. I was drastically killed on my own online birthday. Should I quit about being someone online or should I keep fighting against the system?

Do I need to tell you the answer? He he he he...

I came back at wikipedia and found another way to register my existence. Wanna play a game? Search on wikipedia about relevant facts that took place on September 8th and on the year of 1982, and then try to find this brazilian/portuguese girl there ;-)

Let's see if I can get past wikipedia's administration and remain virtually alive!

There is only one negative point about this whole thing: wikipedia articles don't appear when we make searches on "that big blue G search website"... :-(

It is not a problem, I am fine with that and the truth is that I can perfectly live without any online existence! Btw, now it is time to search for some friends on "that big blue G search website" ;-)

Have fun and keep rocking!

Love you all!!

Dance, monkeys, dance!

2007-06-05T08:27:00.000-03:00

Lucy weekend update

2007-05-27T00:56:00.000-03:00

I have been away for a while and I am sorry for that...

Lots of things happened during the last days: I visited some friends (wich was really nice cause we had lots of fun cooking and laughing), went to Petrópolis (more fun with friends: wine, chicken soup and good company to warm up our souls in winter nights), came back to Rio (had some extra work and also guests over my place)...

I am still with the guests over my place, which means more fun and good company... :-)

Lets see if I can get back to regular and more consistent posts next week. Meanwhile, you guys keep smiling and enjoying the brake from Lucy ;-)

By the way, here are some pics taken by my bro while we were talking online... I wanted to take pictures of myself doing the 3 monkeys (blind, death and silent monkeys), but this will be possible only in a next time... He he he he...

Love you all!!!!!

Lucy faces the enemy - correction

2007-05-27T00:50:00.000-03:00

My dear friends,

I was telling my mom about the first time I held a cat and she told me I had held a cat before in my life!!!!

I was around 5 years old and I almost killed the little cat... We were over a friend's house and my mom's friend had to save the cat because I was pressing its neck so much....

My mom was laughing so much while she was telling me this, she said it was really funny :-)

I guess cats should be more afraid of me than I am afraid of them!

Take care!

Dreams - the copy machine!

2007-05-21T16:51:00.000-03:00

I was talking to a friend about some of the weird dreams that I have sometimes, then he told me I should post my dreams at the blog. So, here I am!

The first dream I will tell you guys about is the one I named "the copy machine dream".

I had this dream in a Thursday night and I was 14 years-old. It's really unforgetable... At least it's to me! The dream is long, so I will try to summarize it as much as possible. The dream is crazy, but the end not that much exciting and not funny at all.

I was in a very old house with some friends. Somehow I found out that there was a "machine" in the front door and this machine wanted to control my mind. How can a machine control someone's mind?! By sending some kind of waves through the air just like in physics classes! Scary, right?

I tried to hide myself in the house, but the machine got in. Then I faced the machine for the first time: it was a copy machine!

I was inside the house running away from the machine. I don't know how, but I found out the machine wouldn't be able to control my mind if I talked non-stop. The talking would work as a kind of shield...

However, my friends inside the house didn't know about it and didn't even know about the machine!!! Yeah, I still ask myself "how come someone doesn't notice a huge copy machine "walking" around the house?!"... It is possible in my dreams, dude.

Anyways, the copy machine was sending really strong-powerfull waves to try to brake the talking shield, then my quiet friends ended up controlled by the machine! Exactly! The copy machine was accidentally controlling the mind of my innocent friends. I realized they have their mind under control when they turned to me and asked me who they were...

They wouldn't do anything bad against me or against themselves, but they were looking kind of dumb and didn't even know who they were!

It seemed to me the machine was getting even more strong and suddenlly it started changing its shape. What?!? Yeah, the machine was changing its shape! It was no longer a simple copy machine, it turned into T-1000!!!! Turned into what?!? Come on, haven't you seen Terminator 2: Judgement day?!? Basically, T-1000 was the android assassin made out of mercury! Just check the link and you will understand in how much dangerous I was...

I got desperated and didn't know what to do anymore. So, I decided to run away from that house and started climbing and jumping the walls to the neighbours' houses. Yes, I would climb and jump walls from one house to another. Have I told you that I was singing a brazilian song while I was running away from the mercury guy?!

The mercury was still in my back, just a few steps behind me.

Two interesting facts: 1. I got into the backyard of the neighbours, but there were no houses; 2. All backyards were the same and they all have swimming pools.

For some unknown reason, I realized that diving into the water would also work as a shield. So I kept jumping from backyard into another singing the same song and also diving into the swimming pools...

Then comes the boring part I told you: the end! I woke up in the middle of my scape and I understood that the mercury guy was waiting for me to lose my voice, so there wouldn't be any shield if I were hoarse (and I couldn't be under the water all the time!).

The ridiculous part of the dream happenned when I was already awake. I didn't go to school that Friday morning because I didn't wake up on time. So, I was at home in the morning and turned on the radio into one of the most popular radio station back then.

There was a special guest in the morning radio show: a lady would pick up some calls and would "solve" the dreams of the audience. Can you guess who called the radio station to tell about the last night dream to the lady?!

Come on! I had to call, it was a sign! I had the dream in the previous night, didn't go to the school and in that particular morning there was a lady revealing dreams! So, I called the radio and incrediblely someone picked up my call.

I introduced myself and then I said: "I dreamt that a copy machine wanted to control my mind". There was a 2-seconds silence, and then the next thing you could hear was only the laughs in the radio station. Yes, I called a radio and said in national network that I was running away from a copy machine that wanted to control my mind.

The lady explained me the facts behind the dream and what it really meant. I also got a nice book written by her.

Are you curious about what she told me? It's a secret. A secret that belongs to me and to the people who were listening to the radio that morning, but it's still a secret ;-) He he he he...

By the way, the dream wasn't sponsered by Xerox - the document company®, but I wouldn't mind if Xerox paid me a few bucks to mention the company's name in my posts or to put a link to its website...

Here are the pictures of the copy machine and the mercury guy that haunted my dream in that night :-)

Love you all! Have a nice week!!!!

I wanna a puppy!

2007-05-17T23:13:00.000-03:00

I was so amazed by the problem with the pics that I forgot to say a funny thing!

After holding a cat for the first time in my life, I dreamt for the whole night that the cat was attacking me! He he he he... I must have some problems!

Anyways, so far nobody was able to solve the mystery regarding the pics. Meanwhile I wanna a puppy more than ever!

It might be an english bulldog or a basset hound :-)

I have quited about the beagle because it is a too vigorous animal and I won't be able to give that much attention to it...

Can any of you give me a puppy?! The person who gives me a puppy will have the right to pick up its name!

Hummm.... Why am I so sure I won't get any puppy from any of my readers?! He he he he...

Love you all! Take care :-)

Lucy faces the enemy!

2007-05-16T13:45:00.000-03:00

Have I told you that I don't like cats?

It is a matter of family and how my mom raised me: she doesn't like cats, so her kids also wouldn't like cats.

We don't like cats because we don't think they are trustfull... We believe a cat doesn't really like its owner, it likes the benefits of living at some place and with certain person. Cats aren't animals that like to live in society... They tolerate the presence of other cats or people, but they prefer to be alone.

I also don't like cat's nails: I am scared to death of it! Nopes, this is not a problem that my whole family faces. This's one of those typical Lucy weirdo problems...

Btw, I love dogs and I want to get a puppy to myself :-) I searched for a beagle to add at my wishlist, but i couldn't find any puppy for sale...

Anyways, I have never held a cat in my life because of all those reasons. I haven't so far, but now I have faced the enemy and held cat!

Come on guys, congratulations to the brave Lucy!!!!!

I was over Bartira's place and they made me held their cat. The name of the cat? Mephisto... I held the devil itself, but he had such a lovely face!

For some unknown reason, I can't upload the pics at my yahoo album and they look funny at the blog... Can anyone explain me the reason the pictures look like that?!

The person who solves the problem with the pictures will get a prize!!!!!!

Love you all!!!!!

Jamie Cullum!

2007-05-14T07:52:00.000-03:00

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to introduce you to Mr. Jamie Cullum!

Hope you all like him!!!!!

Have a nice week and keep smiling :-)

The 48 hours suffering project

2007-05-12T00:03:00.000-03:00

Here is something helpful to all of us!

I had started a new project in my life: the 48 hours suffering project! No, it doesn't mean that I wanna suffer for 48 hours...

The idea is pretty simple, but I must agree it is not easy to make it work. It takes lots of commitment and will-power to make it a reality, but it is worth trying hard.

Everybody hurts and everybody gets hurt. There is nothing we can do about it: we will hurt or get hurt by someone at least once in our lives. It doesn't mean that people want to hurt others, but sometimes it happens... Friends, family and lovers can hurt each other. I believe that sometimes we can hurt even ourselves...

Anyways, my idea is that I won't allow myself to suffer for more than 48 hours. Exactly! If I get hurt, I will refuse to suffer for more than 48 hours!!!

Let me explain it better. Do you know when you buy something and there's an expiry label warning that people shouldn't use the product after certain date? This is exactly what I will be doing from now on! Next time I get hurt, I will take that hurt and put an expiry-date warning on it: expires in 48 hours!

If you are interested in this project and also want to do the same, then you should copy or print the instructions below so you won't forget what you have to do...

"In case of getting hurt, proceed according to the following steps: 1. enjoy your sorrow and suffer for the next 48 hours; 2. take the best you can get out of this suffering; 3. learn something with this situation; 4. take a deep breath and then put a big smile upon your face. You may cry during the 48 hours suffering period. The suffering-hours limit allowed is 48 hours, do not exceed this limit in any circunstance."

There is one more thing you can't forget about! Some of you already heard me saying this before, but I will repeat it again: "if something is not able to kill me, then this something will only make me stronger".

By the way, before any of you ask me if I am fine and if I got hurt... YES, I am fine and I couldn't be better. NO, nothing has happened in the last few weeks and I didn't get hurt recently :-)

Love you all!!! Keep smiling!!!!!

Cuba libre: good company, good movie and good drinks

2007-05-10T23:35:00.000-03:00

Tonight was movie night!

I went to the movies with a very nice friend of mine who graduated in cinema, and we watched a movie that is not one of those hollywood "most watched" top list movies.

I like those typical "blockbuster-hollywood" movies, but sometimes I like to watch interesting movies that make me think about life and the human condition.

This time I watched "En tres y dos", a 1985 cuban movie about a baseball player who is in conflict with himself because he is about to retire.

The guy is in his late thirties, he is in good shape and he feels he can still play, but he is no longer in his best feature... He is already "old" and it is time to retire from baseball... However, what is he going to do now? He has no plans for the future, he hasnt thought about retirement and now he doesn't know how to restart his life without playing baseball.

Some former cuban athletes testified their personal experiences regarding retirement and how hard it's to face the fact you are no longer able to play or to be a professional athlete.

I know the movie does sound like any other hollywood drama, but it is not that like. You must watch to understand what I am talking about ;-)

After the movie, my friend and I got together with some students and cinema professionals for a nice talk and some cuba libre drinks (rum and coke).

This is what I call having fun and enjoying life: good company, good talk and good drinks :-)

By the way, have I mentioned it was all for free?! He he he he... ;-)

Love you all! Have fun and enjoy life!!!

Lazy Lucy (or perfect day to stay at home)

2007-05-09T08:07:00.000-03:00

I woke up this morning, but it's almost impossible to get out of bed: it's kind of cold and I could see from my windown that sky's gray.

It would rain for certain and it's the perfect day to stay at home doing nothing!

I finally got out of bed and took this picture so you could see what I am talking about.

It started raining just after I took the picture and it only made me even more lazy! I am thinking if I really should go to class... Come on, it is raining and I could get a cold! He he he he...

Take care!

Music news: walk away!

2007-05-08T19:15:00.000-03:00

I just got a new song that will make me dance until the dawn with my dear friends :-)

This is what I call "songs-for-girls-who-know-what-they-want"!

Fragile sex?! No way, dude!

Similar songs to this one? Check here!

Take care and enjoy the songs ;-)

Lucy goes to the kitchen :-)

2007-05-07T08:43:00.000-03:00

This is a good one!

Some of you already know that I don't have culinary skills. I can cook somethings, but I do have some limitations at cooking and regular home care.

However, I spent last Saturday night learning how to cook a new kind of food (May 5th). It is something I have never tried before.... Can any of you guess what I cooked?!

I wonder how many of you thought "she cooked INDIAN FOOD!!!!".... The answer is right but you won't get any prize for that! He he he he...

I cooked "Makhani Chicken" (I guess it is also called indian butter chicken). It was so good!!!! It's really tasty and it's the first time I had some real indian food.

However, I can't get all the credits for my wonderfull experience cooking this chicken because I wasn't "alone" in the kitchen! The idea of cooking it and the recipe were from a very good friend of mine. He spent his Sunday morning teaching me how to cook the makhani chicken and got amazed by the fact I really don't have any cooking skills!!!

I won't say his name because I didn't ask permission for that, but let's see if he reads the post and allows me to mention his name :-)

There is only one thing that I didn't like: I forgot to take pictures of me cooking on Saturday night... Anyways, here is the picture that I took today of my makhani chicken :-)

Love you all!

Take care and namaste :-)

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