Striptease in Copacabana

So, there I was in Copacabana after work, wandering down the streets when I passed by this house with a huge sign, which read something like this: ‘Free entrance. Streaptease, beer R$ 2.00″

I was very intrigued by this. I’ve never seen a live streaptease and I almost enterd this place! I didn’t have the courage! Really don’t know what to expect once inside that place. You just go there and watch women take off her clothes for free? Seems too nice! You know that saying: curiosity killed the cat ? Well, I don’t want to be that cat!

BruceFans.com

Fansite of the English singer Bruce Dickinson, who is the lead singer in Iron Maiden, an English Heavy Metal band, and also an avid fencer, a radio DJ at BBC6, a screen writer, novelist, and last but not least, a commercial airline pilot.

IvanGuilhon.com

Official site of the Brazilian musician Ivan Guilhon, who plays for the Brazilian band Tribuzy, among other things.

A Bittersweet Life

This is the first desing for A Bittersweet Life | FernandoSouza.org when this sites was only a blog site, with no interest in advertising my work as a web designer.

Beijing 2008 Censored?

We are less than a week from the Olympics and we still talk about lots of issues not regarding sports! Can you believe that? There’s the air polution, the Tibet thing, and censorship! Read the following excerpt from a news agency: (more…)

New Design

Hi guys,
The new site design is almost done, but there are still some bits to be done.
Anyway, hope you’ve liked it!

Hancock

Saw Hancock yesterday. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a good movie. Had some laughs with it and I recommend in case you, by any chance, have a boring afternoon like I had. Not going to talk about the film, but will say one thing: Charlize Theron is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen! You can see she has started to show some aging traces on her face, but somehow it makes her even more beautiful! (more…)

Bloody Sundays

Sundays and diets don’t seem to be made for each other. My Sundays are often usually boring. Mornings are ok if there’s F1 on tv, otherwise they’re mortal, to say the least. The same I can say about the rest of the day, specially when there’s no football on TV, or if your team loses a (suposedly) easy game, which was today’s case. It’s 9:30 p.m. now and so far I’ve been eating all day, the usual meals plus junk! A Pringles can has just been eaten and a big chocolate bar is being eaten as I type. Some questions don’t leave my mind:

• Why am I not practicing some bass guitar?
• why am I not working on some web designs?
• Why didn’t I leave the house to go to the cinema earlier?
• Why am I eating like a pig if I’m supposedly on a cholesterol diet?
• Why haven’t I been in bed all day long under my comfortable duvet?

Well, these questions don’t have an answer. Not an easy and simple one, though.

Usually people complain about Mondays, I don’t. Mondays are great! It’s the day I feel useful again. At this time tomorrow I’ll be arriving home from work, which will mean that I worked hard, won’t have eaten lots of junk and consequently will have lost some calories.

Now, if you excuse me, I must go back to my choccy bar. I’ve already grumbled enough!

Surprises (continued)

It all started with my mobile again. It rang earlier today at lunch time. The caller id identified it as my cousin’s number, than I spoke to myself: “Wtf?”

She and I used to be pretty close. We often used to frequent each other houses, we used to go to the beach almost every weekend (mainly forced by our parents, who were very keen on going to the beach), and as we got to our teen years we started to go out together at night, to travel and stuff like that. Then as we got old, we kind of parted ways. Each one followed their own path and we’ve become very distant. Things got even worse when my uncle divorced from her mother, and as the years passed, some attitudes of hers were very, to say the least, wrong. To sum up, I can say that we don’t have any bonds anymore, even though her father (my uncle) is still very close to me.

So, going back to line 2 of this post, you can now understand my reaction when I looked at my caller id. Anyway, I answered it and the conversation didn’t last 3 minutes. We talked like we were still intimates. She went straight to point and said: “I’m going to get married, and I was wondering if you’d like to be my best man.” And after a 3 seconds deadly silence on the phone I accepted it without hesitation.

I still don’t know what this invitation really means. Haven’t had the time to think about it more carefully. Don’t know if she really wants me to be her best man, don’t know if she was kind of forced to choose me because of family reasons, don’t know if I was chosen because one, two or maybe three other guys refused the invitation before me. Really! I honestly don’t know. I’m very suspicious of the things that happen around me. I wish I wasn’t like this, but I am. My ‘Yes’ hasn’t made me feel happier or sadder (at least not yet), and I have no idea if made her happier. It has made me worried, though. Worried about how much I’ll have to spend on a nice suit!

Surprises

You must be ready for surprises. No matter how boring your life may be there’s always a surprise to shake things up a little bit, even if it’s for a day or an evening.

On Sunday my phone rang. It was my brother, and guess what? He was in Rio! Actually he had been here for a few days but was busy doing stuff of his and couldn’t have called earlier. Anyway, we arranged to meet yesterday. Despite all my efforts (apparently in vain) to save money, I couldn’t have said no. My family is a mess, we’re spread through 3 different cities and even the ones in the same city are somehow still distant from each other, not exactly in distance, if you know what I mean… So, whenever you have a chance to enjoy some time, you can’t say no! And that’s what I did. We had a nice dinner last night in a nice bistro, then we went to the cinema where we saw a nice french film with the lovely Audrey Tautou. Money well spent, I must say.

Today I’m back to my boring routine, and you?