No resolutions for this new year, just goals to achieve. I start the new year with a brand new job and I am so excited about it I can't tell you how much. I am not naive and I am sure I will be bombarded with tons of information in the next 3 days (the current assistant leaves on Wednesday) and I will to pick up the most I can before she walks out that door.
It's a company in the television/entertainment business with lots of new things for me to learn and I am sure it will be a challenge...but hey! I LOVE to be challenged!
Gonna work hard this year to make my first trip to Europe happen and who knows I will be able to drag my sister with me for the adventure? She said she will go, lets see if that happens...I hope so.
Music makes everything better and keeps me going. I have been listening to a lot of Arcade Fire, Sigur Rós and now Adele's new single which is beautiful. Movies, I have been watching a lot lately on DVD and on TV, but want to go check Tron at the theater next weekend...I am sure is great, at least looks great.
Hope you all have a great first week and that we can share great things this year.
xoxo
Ale
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Friday, December 10, 2010
And I watched...
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) most known in English as The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.
This movie is the true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
I am not claustrophobic but this movie made me uncomfortable at times because you just want to speak for him since he is narrating the story. It's touching, troubling and because it's true is even more amazing. What a story! What he accomplished while trapped inside his own body is out of this world. If you haven't seen it...worth watching!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Re-adaptation
I don't know if I still have anybody reading my blog...you guys probably got tired of checking it out for new posts. It's 1am and I am wide awake...like most days, I can't seem to be able to go sleep before 2am...sometimes even 3am. Is is my body getting used to the time difference? I don't think so...it's been a little over a month since I got back from the USA and I can't use that excuse anymore.
So, if you ask me how is it going the re-adaptation, I might answer that it has more downs than ups, but that as always I need a little more patience. I am not used to not working and even though I needed a break, I am bored out of my mind and I feel useless.
For a while now, I have felt like I have no more dreams, which is pretty sad if you think about it. I asked myself that the other day...what my dreams were and I couldn't answer it right away and I confess it scared me.
Of course I know things I want to do in my life, but there is nothing I am really looking forward to, nothing driving me, nothing exciting me. Maybe it has to do with the deception of trusting people and putting your life in someone else's hand and having the rug pulled from under your feet. I do believe that was a mistake, but hey...like I said a while ago...if you never try, you will never know. God knows I wanted to try, but thanks to him, things happened differently and avoided a major headache and heartache for myself in another foreign country.
It's hard to look for a job this time of the year because of the holidays, and for those who don't know, Brazil has a problem, from now on things run slowly, only gets back to its normal speed after Carnaval which next year starts on March, 5th. Hopefully I will have a job before then, otherwise you will hear about me on the news ;-)
I've said this many times before, I live my life with no regrets, the past stays in the past and there is nothing I can do about it...but lately, I know that if I had graduated from the University (I quit on my 3rd year of Business Administration), I would probably be employed by now. Even though my knowledge of the English language is way better than it was 5 years ago, the fact that I was away for 5 years, doesn't help much in getting back in the job market.
If I could, I would just move away to another country...but to do what? Where to? Those are the questions!
Have my fingers crossed that I will have a job soon and then my plan is to go back to my studies and get to the career that has more to do with me and more opportunities that is in the Information Technology area...such a nerd I am.;-P
Let's see what happens...in the meanwhile I have to survive in this heat and humidity that is making my hair look like shit.
Thanks for all the support and I promise I will post more often.
xoxo
Ale
So, if you ask me how is it going the re-adaptation, I might answer that it has more downs than ups, but that as always I need a little more patience. I am not used to not working and even though I needed a break, I am bored out of my mind and I feel useless.
For a while now, I have felt like I have no more dreams, which is pretty sad if you think about it. I asked myself that the other day...what my dreams were and I couldn't answer it right away and I confess it scared me.
Of course I know things I want to do in my life, but there is nothing I am really looking forward to, nothing driving me, nothing exciting me. Maybe it has to do with the deception of trusting people and putting your life in someone else's hand and having the rug pulled from under your feet. I do believe that was a mistake, but hey...like I said a while ago...if you never try, you will never know. God knows I wanted to try, but thanks to him, things happened differently and avoided a major headache and heartache for myself in another foreign country.
It's hard to look for a job this time of the year because of the holidays, and for those who don't know, Brazil has a problem, from now on things run slowly, only gets back to its normal speed after Carnaval which next year starts on March, 5th. Hopefully I will have a job before then, otherwise you will hear about me on the news ;-)
I've said this many times before, I live my life with no regrets, the past stays in the past and there is nothing I can do about it...but lately, I know that if I had graduated from the University (I quit on my 3rd year of Business Administration), I would probably be employed by now. Even though my knowledge of the English language is way better than it was 5 years ago, the fact that I was away for 5 years, doesn't help much in getting back in the job market.
If I could, I would just move away to another country...but to do what? Where to? Those are the questions!
Have my fingers crossed that I will have a job soon and then my plan is to go back to my studies and get to the career that has more to do with me and more opportunities that is in the Information Technology area...such a nerd I am.;-P
Let's see what happens...in the meanwhile I have to survive in this heat and humidity that is making my hair look like shit.
Thanks for all the support and I promise I will post more often.
xoxo
Ale
Monday, November 1, 2010
Everything happens for a reason?
I believe so.
This whole thing that happened with the move to the UK, with coming to Brazil first to see my family, leaving the USA behind and getting out of that "safe" life I was living there, everything is connected and I needed something to push me out of there so I could come back here and do what I am doing now...enjoying my family, my friends and acting on a new chapter of my life.
I live this life with no regrets and I am aware I am a good person, I have no hate inside of me, no anger and I just want what's best for me and the ones around me. So I know in my heart I did everything I possibly could, but in the end when he pulled the rug under my feet, I didn't fall...I stood up, with my chin up, and to tell the truth, I haven't even thought about it in the last few days, until now when I am writing this post. It doesn't matter, past stays in the past and I wouldn't change it in any way.
I am blessed with the best friends and family anyone could have and I feel the love around me and from far away too and I take it all in and hope you can feel it too, because you, my friends, hold a very special place in my heart and I love you all back.
xoxoxo
This whole thing that happened with the move to the UK, with coming to Brazil first to see my family, leaving the USA behind and getting out of that "safe" life I was living there, everything is connected and I needed something to push me out of there so I could come back here and do what I am doing now...enjoying my family, my friends and acting on a new chapter of my life.
I live this life with no regrets and I am aware I am a good person, I have no hate inside of me, no anger and I just want what's best for me and the ones around me. So I know in my heart I did everything I possibly could, but in the end when he pulled the rug under my feet, I didn't fall...I stood up, with my chin up, and to tell the truth, I haven't even thought about it in the last few days, until now when I am writing this post. It doesn't matter, past stays in the past and I wouldn't change it in any way.
I am blessed with the best friends and family anyone could have and I feel the love around me and from far away too and I take it all in and hope you can feel it too, because you, my friends, hold a very special place in my heart and I love you all back.
xoxoxo
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Countdown to Brazil...
...in less than a week I will be landing in my hometown Sao Paulo. Oh yeah bitches...I am back!
Can't wait to party with all the girls (including my dear beloved sister)...it should all be a blast, lots of food, drinks, conversations, laughs, tears of joy and I hope they don't lock me up somewhere so I can't move to England. Oh the horror! LOL
XOXO
Can't wait to party with all the girls (including my dear beloved sister)...it should all be a blast, lots of food, drinks, conversations, laughs, tears of joy and I hope they don't lock me up somewhere so I can't move to England. Oh the horror! LOL
XOXO
Thursday, October 14, 2010
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