Há algumas semanas atrás o meu cunhado respondeu a um anuncio de jornal que pedia mão de obra para uma empresa de construção.
No dia 25 de Abril recebeu um email da dita empresa contendo um contrato de trabalho para o meu cunhado assinar juntamente com informações que a Soger Satom considerava importante.
Primeiramente explicavam qual seria o salário por hora (€120), por dia (€840), por semana (€4200) e por hora extra de trabalho (€110), a este magnifico salário seria apenas deduzido 2% para impostos!
Logo aqui comecei a achar que a fartura era muita para uma simples posição de pedreiro...
E conforme lia a restante informação enviada pela empresa, mais desconfiada ficava de que se tratava de um esquema, vejamos:
Diziam que o 1º mês de alojamento (mês de experiencia) teria de ser pago pelo meu cunhado visto a empresa já ter tido problemas com antigos trabalhadores que aparentemente lhes teriam destruido alguns dos apartamentos que a empresa possuia para o efeito...
Quando fui investigar os apartamentos Dominion através do nº de telefone fornecido pela Soger Satom: 237 93231326 descobri 2 possoas que estavam a perguntar o que era aquilo uma vez que tinham recebido emails a dizerem-lhes que como a empresa não lhes pagava pelo alojamento dos trabalhadores os trabalhadores teriam de pagar o seu próprio alojamento. A isto seguia-se a explicação de como proceder ao pagamento.
Os dois acharam estranho receberem estes emails, eu achei estranhissimo.
Assim ao continuar a investigar a morada dos apartamentos que a empresa recomendava não encontrei nenhums cujo nome correspondesse ao indicado pela empresa, mas sim um com outro nome e nº de telefone...
Depois quando fui investigar a empresa em si descobri que a morada da sede que davam era francesa mas na designação do país constava as Filipinas e a area da empresa era na Asia!
Estão a vêr as incongruências?
terça-feira, 30 de abril de 2013
segunda-feira, 29 de abril de 2013
Too handsome!
I couldn't believe the article I've read on today's paper, apparently it is a crime to be handsome in Saudi Arabia!
Dear, it would be laughable if it wasn't sad really.
Three men were expeled from the country because there was a risk of "women falling at their feet forgeting their moral values"...
The article came with two photos of this "too handsome a man to be allowed in Saudi Arabia" and Believe me, he is handsome, but not a God for women to be throwing themselves at his feet...
Besides one would think that women who were taught to keep their thoughts to themselves would not behave so openly towards a man.
And here I was, happy with the small changes women have achieved in that part of the world on this past few years such as being allowed to ride bicycles and cars, being allowed to enter the Olympic games, or the "No more abuse" campain wich fights agaisnt domestic violence in this country.
Yet this just shows us how long the road to equality is in these countries if they think women cannot resist a pretty face.
Maybe this comes from the fact that Saudi Arabia men think that their women are being influenced by us, women from the west, but I got news for them, not all of us can't resist a handsome man.
This kind of thinking has to stop for we are not sexual maniacs who cannot see a man in front of us without having sex with him. Just as I am sure there are men in these counties who don't treat their women as if they weren't people. Certainly there will be traditional women in these countries who will be more stuck to old values than young men therefore be stricker with the women from their family and even resist teaching their sons that treating women as their equals is actually a sign of respect towards human race.
This is the mentality we have to change so that people can be treated as people without being blamed even for their genes.
Dear, it would be laughable if it wasn't sad really.
Three men were expeled from the country because there was a risk of "women falling at their feet forgeting their moral values"...
The article came with two photos of this "too handsome a man to be allowed in Saudi Arabia" and Believe me, he is handsome, but not a God for women to be throwing themselves at his feet...
Besides one would think that women who were taught to keep their thoughts to themselves would not behave so openly towards a man.
And here I was, happy with the small changes women have achieved in that part of the world on this past few years such as being allowed to ride bicycles and cars, being allowed to enter the Olympic games, or the "No more abuse" campain wich fights agaisnt domestic violence in this country.
Yet this just shows us how long the road to equality is in these countries if they think women cannot resist a pretty face.
Maybe this comes from the fact that Saudi Arabia men think that their women are being influenced by us, women from the west, but I got news for them, not all of us can't resist a handsome man.
This kind of thinking has to stop for we are not sexual maniacs who cannot see a man in front of us without having sex with him. Just as I am sure there are men in these counties who don't treat their women as if they weren't people. Certainly there will be traditional women in these countries who will be more stuck to old values than young men therefore be stricker with the women from their family and even resist teaching their sons that treating women as their equals is actually a sign of respect towards human race.
This is the mentality we have to change so that people can be treated as people without being blamed even for their genes.
sábado, 27 de abril de 2013
"Lágrima de Preta"
Esta semana escrevi em defesa da igualdade entre pessoas de diferentes raças, religiões e tendencias sexuais por isso pareceu-me apropriado findar a semana com um poema de António Gedeão que fala tambem de igualdade Camado "lágrima de preta"
Encontrei uma Preta
que estava a chorar,
pedilhe uma lágrima
para a analisar.
Recolhi a lágrima
com todo o cuidado
num tubo de ensaio
bem esterilizado.
Olhei-a um lado
do outro e de frente;
tinha um ar de gota
muito transparente.
Mandei vir os ácidos
as bases e os sais,
as drogas usadas
em casos que tais.
Ensaei a frio,
experimentei ao lume,
de todas as vezes
deu-me o costume;
Nem sinais de negro,
nem vestígios de ódio.
Água (quase tudo)
e cloreto de sódio.
sexta-feira, 26 de abril de 2013
President VS PS
Wow, the socialist party members got really upset with our President yesterday because Cavaco Silva is against new elections!
They accused him of not beeing impartial due to the fact that he belongs to the same political party as the government (the social democratic party).
As you know by my previous posts, I'm not stuck to a particular party, I even have my doubts about the relevance of the President figure on the government because the only main thing he can do is to block a certain law for 3 times, after that the law can be approved with our without his consent, so I hope I can say what I thnk without being accused of partiality.
And I feel exactly as the president.
There is no point on having another government at this time, we need stability and this eagerness to take the government out so that they can seat on that chair is unreasonable and qite franckly utopic for no one will be able to take us out of the hole we are in without pulling together for a commun gold.
Join together to make our economy grow, it's time we find people to invest on us.
They accused him of not beeing impartial due to the fact that he belongs to the same political party as the government (the social democratic party).
As you know by my previous posts, I'm not stuck to a particular party, I even have my doubts about the relevance of the President figure on the government because the only main thing he can do is to block a certain law for 3 times, after that the law can be approved with our without his consent, so I hope I can say what I thnk without being accused of partiality.
And I feel exactly as the president.
There is no point on having another government at this time, we need stability and this eagerness to take the government out so that they can seat on that chair is unreasonable and qite franckly utopic for no one will be able to take us out of the hole we are in without pulling together for a commun gold.
Join together to make our economy grow, it's time we find people to invest on us.
quinta-feira, 25 de abril de 2013
quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2013
Love is love
Have you ever heard someone saying "I have nothing against black people, some of them are actually nice, but races shouldn't mix..."
And some of them will include religion and sexuality in this way of thinking!
This really puts me off!
It is racism and prejudice though those who say it don't regognize it as such!
Do these people mean black people stop being nice when they marry white people?
The thing is there are good and bad people in any race so we shouldn't generalize.
Can't they see people's charecters should not be measured by the colour of their skin, religion or sexuality, but by their actions and inactions? By what they stand for and not from some "traditional values" which only prove how unable to evolve some people are, after all their minds are still stuck on centuries past!
Love does not take any of it into account and that's what makes this feeling so great!
All of those who oppose to inter-racial relations, who defend that people from different religions or that people from the same gender should not be allowed to marry do not know what love is.
My God does not tell me who to love, He only tells me to love!
And that is what I have the intention to do 'till the day I die, who cares if those I love are black, white, yellow or red? If they have an accent or if they worship God under a different name (or even do not pray to any God at all)?
And guess what homosexuality is not contagious, you won't bacome gay just because you hung out with gay people, (I should know for I have friends who are and it never changed me) and they are great human beings!
Despite the frustration these "traditionalists" make me feel, I can't help but feeling sorry for them, sorry for their little minds.
At least at the end of my life I can say I've loved unconditionaly.
How many can say the same?
And some of them will include religion and sexuality in this way of thinking!
This really puts me off!
It is racism and prejudice though those who say it don't regognize it as such!
Do these people mean black people stop being nice when they marry white people?
The thing is there are good and bad people in any race so we shouldn't generalize.
Can't they see people's charecters should not be measured by the colour of their skin, religion or sexuality, but by their actions and inactions? By what they stand for and not from some "traditional values" which only prove how unable to evolve some people are, after all their minds are still stuck on centuries past!
Love does not take any of it into account and that's what makes this feeling so great!
All of those who oppose to inter-racial relations, who defend that people from different religions or that people from the same gender should not be allowed to marry do not know what love is.
My God does not tell me who to love, He only tells me to love!
And that is what I have the intention to do 'till the day I die, who cares if those I love are black, white, yellow or red? If they have an accent or if they worship God under a different name (or even do not pray to any God at all)?
And guess what homosexuality is not contagious, you won't bacome gay just because you hung out with gay people, (I should know for I have friends who are and it never changed me) and they are great human beings!
Despite the frustration these "traditionalists" make me feel, I can't help but feeling sorry for them, sorry for their little minds.
At least at the end of my life I can say I've loved unconditionaly.
How many can say the same?
terça-feira, 23 de abril de 2013
Solidariedade em Lisboa
No dia 21 de Abril fui a Lisboa Para participar na corrida sempre mulher. Uma iniciativa de apoio a mulheres com cancro de mama. Aqui ficam as fotos.
segunda-feira, 22 de abril de 2013
Our dream world
I have already spoken about what I think of the unemproyment rate here in Portugal and what I think of the many people who preffer to be on an unemployent pay than work, after a while some even preffer not to work at all.for they have someone to provide for them (note that I am talking of some).
It's funny how people keep telling me there is no work available for all.
I say, maybe not, but we must be willing to try new things.
Last week there were farmers asking for workers to work their fields, they said there were not many portuguese asking for work so they contracted people from Croatia and Romenia...and then people conplain that there are too many foreigners in Portugal and that they come to take our jobs...
BS!
What happens is that they are afraid that these people take their place on the "not so heavy" jobs. What they do not think is that for a foreigner to get those positions they have to be better than anybody else while they expect to get it just because they are portuguese!
It's actually hilarious that my country fellows who don't have studies assume they should be able to get a job well above their capacities.
Moreover, I do not see portuguese who have a degree working on construction, or in the case above, on the fiels so I do not see how foreigners are taking their jobs, yet there are foreigner doctors in Portugal who are working well under their abilities without complaining publicly about it.
When I worked abroad, I too worked on any job I could lay my hands on.
Some will be better than others, but you'll endure it because you need to.
We shouldn't hate these people, but admire them instead for they work to survive whereas some of us will only do it if that job allow them to have the lifestyle they dreamed of.
If all of us were able to do only what we wanted for a living, we would live in our dream world.
It would be perfect for us though I don't know how would our society survive without people to provide for our basic needs...
Would we go back to pre-historical times when our uncestors collected roots and fruits to survive?
It's funny how people keep telling me there is no work available for all.
I say, maybe not, but we must be willing to try new things.
Last week there were farmers asking for workers to work their fields, they said there were not many portuguese asking for work so they contracted people from Croatia and Romenia...and then people conplain that there are too many foreigners in Portugal and that they come to take our jobs...
BS!
What happens is that they are afraid that these people take their place on the "not so heavy" jobs. What they do not think is that for a foreigner to get those positions they have to be better than anybody else while they expect to get it just because they are portuguese!
It's actually hilarious that my country fellows who don't have studies assume they should be able to get a job well above their capacities.
Moreover, I do not see portuguese who have a degree working on construction, or in the case above, on the fiels so I do not see how foreigners are taking their jobs, yet there are foreigner doctors in Portugal who are working well under their abilities without complaining publicly about it.
When I worked abroad, I too worked on any job I could lay my hands on.
Some will be better than others, but you'll endure it because you need to.
We shouldn't hate these people, but admire them instead for they work to survive whereas some of us will only do it if that job allow them to have the lifestyle they dreamed of.
If all of us were able to do only what we wanted for a living, we would live in our dream world.
It would be perfect for us though I don't know how would our society survive without people to provide for our basic needs...
Would we go back to pre-historical times when our uncestors collected roots and fruits to survive?
sábado, 20 de abril de 2013
"Pedra Filosofal"
Sábado chegou!
E que maravilhoso dia está!
Desejo-vos um ótimo fim-de semana.
Aqui fica um dos meus poemas favoritos, desfrutem!
sexta-feira, 19 de abril de 2013
Shameful indeed
Even as a foreigner I feel desappointed with the fact that in US, only 54 members of congress voted in favour of more restrictive laws to buy guns on their country (it would have passed if it had been 60).
It's amazing how much power some instituitions have on people who should be representing their people and don't do it, because they are terrified to loose their perfect job.
Obama said it had been a shameful day for Washington, and it was.
After all, what else can we say when 90% of the people wasn't heard (or worse, ignored)?
And then they come and say Obama shouldn't have used the victims' families...
Wow, so the people who have been directly afected by the permissive gun laws on their country have no say about it?
Do they really think like this in a democratic country?
Shameful indeed.
It's amazing how much power some instituitions have on people who should be representing their people and don't do it, because they are terrified to loose their perfect job.
Obama said it had been a shameful day for Washington, and it was.
After all, what else can we say when 90% of the people wasn't heard (or worse, ignored)?
And then they come and say Obama shouldn't have used the victims' families...
Wow, so the people who have been directly afected by the permissive gun laws on their country have no say about it?
Do they really think like this in a democratic country?
Shameful indeed.
quinta-feira, 18 de abril de 2013
Fanatismo!
Já devem ter percebido que não tenho qualquer filiação politica, o meu voto e ganho por quem conseguir convencer-me de que é capaz de alcançar uma parte dos objectivos que foram prometidos durante a campanha eleitoral.
Assim, como podem imaginar já votei na maior parte dos partidos em Portugal (para descgosto da minha mãe que é fiel a apenas um).
Penso que é por isto que o que se está a passar na Venuzuela é incompreensivel para mim.
Como é possivel que pessoas se matem umas ás outras num conflito resultante de resultados eleitorais?
Sete pessoas mortas por algo que deveria ser resolvido juridicamente.
Se as pessoas pensam que houve irregularidades no ato eleitoral remetam o caso para os tribunais. Deixem-nos resolver a questão.
Entretanto vivam e deixem viver!
Qualquer tipo de fanatismo é projudicial em qualquer sociedade.
Não temos já provas que cheguem disto?
Assim, como podem imaginar já votei na maior parte dos partidos em Portugal (para descgosto da minha mãe que é fiel a apenas um).
Penso que é por isto que o que se está a passar na Venuzuela é incompreensivel para mim.
Como é possivel que pessoas se matem umas ás outras num conflito resultante de resultados eleitorais?
Sete pessoas mortas por algo que deveria ser resolvido juridicamente.
Se as pessoas pensam que houve irregularidades no ato eleitoral remetam o caso para os tribunais. Deixem-nos resolver a questão.
Entretanto vivam e deixem viver!
Qualquer tipo de fanatismo é projudicial em qualquer sociedade.
Não temos já provas que cheguem disto?
quarta-feira, 17 de abril de 2013
terça-feira, 16 de abril de 2013
Sem palavras
Com a tragédia que aconteceu ontem em Boston não me apetece realmente falar sobre qualquer outra coisa porque tudo perde importancia diante de um acontecimento destes, até ficamos sem palavras perante a crueldade humana, por isso aqui ficam simplesmente as minhas sinceras simpatias para com as vitimas e familiares.
segunda-feira, 15 de abril de 2013
Because a "no" means "NO"
I'm sure you've heard about the canadian girl who was rapped by a group of boys and ended up commiting suicide, because she couldn't handle what the school's students were saying about her on social networks.
We had a case here in Portugal a few months back, where a teenage boy was forcing a twelve year old girl to have sex with him and his friends and then they recorded it on their mobile phones to show it around...
Fortunately she hasn't killed herself.
This crimes have been happening more and more recently.
It is more obvious to me that kids are loosing boundaries about what is wrong or right, and their parents should be the first to ask themselves what the hell are they doing wrong, 'cause if a boy thinks it's ok to rape a girl because he feels like it, or because he thinks she is a slut, SOMETHING IS WRONG!
A NO doesn't mean yes, or a maybe. It means "NO" and it should be taught as just that to our children.
Parents must give their children the necessary values to respect those around them,then they should teach them to think for themselves, otherwise they will be weak and easily influenced by others.
To all the girls who were actually ok with these boys' actions in their school, I've got news for you, there are no such thing as sluts, this is just a pejorative word to describe girls who are more outgoing then you. This difference should be celebrated and not judged for we are all entitled to live our lives as we want to live it.
To this I call freedom.
We had a case here in Portugal a few months back, where a teenage boy was forcing a twelve year old girl to have sex with him and his friends and then they recorded it on their mobile phones to show it around...
Fortunately she hasn't killed herself.
This crimes have been happening more and more recently.
It is more obvious to me that kids are loosing boundaries about what is wrong or right, and their parents should be the first to ask themselves what the hell are they doing wrong, 'cause if a boy thinks it's ok to rape a girl because he feels like it, or because he thinks she is a slut, SOMETHING IS WRONG!
A NO doesn't mean yes, or a maybe. It means "NO" and it should be taught as just that to our children.
Parents must give their children the necessary values to respect those around them,then they should teach them to think for themselves, otherwise they will be weak and easily influenced by others.
To all the girls who were actually ok with these boys' actions in their school, I've got news for you, there are no such thing as sluts, this is just a pejorative word to describe girls who are more outgoing then you. This difference should be celebrated and not judged for we are all entitled to live our lives as we want to live it.
To this I call freedom.
sábado, 13 de abril de 2013
"Capitães da areia"
No sabado passado não tive oportunidade de enviar-vos o poema habitual, mas vou retificar isso esta semana.
Aqui fica "Capitães da areia" de Pedro Abrunhosa pois embora não goste particularmente da voz deste cantor Português gosto bastante dos seus poemas.
Espero que gostem.
Bom fim-de-semana!
Aqui fica "Capitães da areia" de Pedro Abrunhosa pois embora não goste particularmente da voz deste cantor Português gosto bastante dos seus poemas.
Espero que gostem.
Bom fim-de-semana!
sexta-feira, 12 de abril de 2013
The new "Super men"
Throughout centuries women have been forced to suffer the humiliation of rape whenever their countries were at war.
Or even after that war had ended..(some time ago I've watched a documentary about UN soldiers raping vietnamese women after Vietnam's war. Their excuse was that they had remained on the territory for too long after the conflict ended).
Guess what, there is no excuse for such acts!
One would think men would evolve and finally realize the atrocity of it.
No such luck.
Apparently is exhilarating for some soldiers, to chase and dominate women.
After all like I heard a Congo's governmental soldier saying on TV yesterday, they are easy prey.
Cowards!
What was it that he said?
Oh, that he was following orders from his commanding officer!
I would grant him that and give a small discount, if he hadn't said this moustrosity immidiately after: "When I raped, I felt free."
I wonder if he would feel the same if he had been the one being raped...
This makes them both (commander and private) guilty of the same crime and both should be punished for it.
As long as such crimes are overlooked,some higher ranked soldiers will always feel free to abuse those who cannot defend themselves, just as some of those under their command will always feel this axhilaration obeying such orders for these men are weak therefore hunger to have the sense of power such violent act gives them.
PS I'm sure must of you will condemn these kind of acts coming from soldiers, but I have just read on the newspaper about an Afgan who raped two women in Austrália and his defence lawyer alleged that he wasn't familiar with the notion of "sexual consent"...
Australia's people is now debating if people who have no notion of the concept should even be allowed to enter their country.
Now imagine what's like to be a woman in such countries...
Or even after that war had ended..(some time ago I've watched a documentary about UN soldiers raping vietnamese women after Vietnam's war. Their excuse was that they had remained on the territory for too long after the conflict ended).
Guess what, there is no excuse for such acts!
One would think men would evolve and finally realize the atrocity of it.
No such luck.
Apparently is exhilarating for some soldiers, to chase and dominate women.
After all like I heard a Congo's governmental soldier saying on TV yesterday, they are easy prey.
Cowards!
What was it that he said?
Oh, that he was following orders from his commanding officer!
I would grant him that and give a small discount, if he hadn't said this moustrosity immidiately after: "When I raped, I felt free."
I wonder if he would feel the same if he had been the one being raped...
This makes them both (commander and private) guilty of the same crime and both should be punished for it.
As long as such crimes are overlooked,some higher ranked soldiers will always feel free to abuse those who cannot defend themselves, just as some of those under their command will always feel this axhilaration obeying such orders for these men are weak therefore hunger to have the sense of power such violent act gives them.
PS I'm sure must of you will condemn these kind of acts coming from soldiers, but I have just read on the newspaper about an Afgan who raped two women in Austrália and his defence lawyer alleged that he wasn't familiar with the notion of "sexual consent"...
Australia's people is now debating if people who have no notion of the concept should even be allowed to enter their country.
Now imagine what's like to be a woman in such countries...
quinta-feira, 11 de abril de 2013
Obrigada
Hoje quero fazer aqui uma homenagem a todos aqueles que abdicam do seu tempo (e vida) para ajudar outros que vivem em dificuldades.
O nome de Maria Coceição, uma hospedeira de bordo que em 2003 ficou tão impressionada com o que viu numa viagem ao Bangladesh que fundou uma escola naquele país para crianças com necessidades e luta agora para angariar fundos de modo a dar continuidade ao projecto, uma vez que o numero de alunos aumentou, é apenas um por entre os muitos nomes que nunca chegam a ser conhecidos.
De entre os nomes cohecidos saliento ainda Hunter Halder, um americano a viver em Portugal, que por iniciativa própria falou com restaurantes para que doassem os restos de comida que não chegaram a ser servidos, a pessoas com carencias economicas. Começõu por ser só ele a fazer a distribuição, mas visto o alastramento do movimento cada vez mais pessoas se juntam a ele para ajudar.
Escolhi apenas exemplos de particulares pouque estes provam que uma pessoa pode sim mudar o mundo, mas existem instituições que são por si só um exemplo a seguir, como é o caso do banco nacional contra a fome, cuja ajuda tem alimentado familias inteiras em tempos dificeis.
Para todos eles, muito obrigada!
O nome de Maria Coceição, uma hospedeira de bordo que em 2003 ficou tão impressionada com o que viu numa viagem ao Bangladesh que fundou uma escola naquele país para crianças com necessidades e luta agora para angariar fundos de modo a dar continuidade ao projecto, uma vez que o numero de alunos aumentou, é apenas um por entre os muitos nomes que nunca chegam a ser conhecidos.
De entre os nomes cohecidos saliento ainda Hunter Halder, um americano a viver em Portugal, que por iniciativa própria falou com restaurantes para que doassem os restos de comida que não chegaram a ser servidos, a pessoas com carencias economicas. Começõu por ser só ele a fazer a distribuição, mas visto o alastramento do movimento cada vez mais pessoas se juntam a ele para ajudar.
Escolhi apenas exemplos de particulares pouque estes provam que uma pessoa pode sim mudar o mundo, mas existem instituições que são por si só um exemplo a seguir, como é o caso do banco nacional contra a fome, cuja ajuda tem alimentado familias inteiras em tempos dificeis.
Para todos eles, muito obrigada!
quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013
Believing
I must confess I've been an Obama's fan ever since I've watched one of his speaches on TV, at Heatrow airoport back in 2007.
I think what made him different at the time was that I've trusted his words.
I have not changed my opinion since then. I still strikes me as a reliable leader,
I am aware I might be wrong since I am watching it from a distance, I hope not.
I am sure some amaricans will not agree with me, especially if their life has not changed or has changed for the worst during Obama's administration, but seen from here he gives me hope of finding someone as trustworthy to rule my country. Is this honest quality in him that makes me still have faith in democracy.
I was very glad to hear he is atempting to change US gun control laws. I hope he succeeds.
As an outsider is terrible to watch TV reports about kids killing their school colleagues.
Don't be mistaken, dispite having more restritive laws on this subject, we still have people killing family members or neighbours on a fit of rage, because hunting is one of men's favourite sports in my country which puts rifles in a lot of portuguese houses...
I believe reason will provail.
People think americans are too full of themselves to change, I am not amongst those people.
People can change, they just need to believe in that change.
I think what made him different at the time was that I've trusted his words.
I have not changed my opinion since then. I still strikes me as a reliable leader,
I am aware I might be wrong since I am watching it from a distance, I hope not.
I am sure some amaricans will not agree with me, especially if their life has not changed or has changed for the worst during Obama's administration, but seen from here he gives me hope of finding someone as trustworthy to rule my country. Is this honest quality in him that makes me still have faith in democracy.
I was very glad to hear he is atempting to change US gun control laws. I hope he succeeds.
As an outsider is terrible to watch TV reports about kids killing their school colleagues.
Don't be mistaken, dispite having more restritive laws on this subject, we still have people killing family members or neighbours on a fit of rage, because hunting is one of men's favourite sports in my country which puts rifles in a lot of portuguese houses...
I believe reason will provail.
People think americans are too full of themselves to change, I am not amongst those people.
People can change, they just need to believe in that change.
terça-feira, 9 de abril de 2013
"A doença e as mortes dos Reis e Rainhas na dinastia de Bragança"
Li este retalho de estórias dos Reis e Rainhas da dinastia de Bragança no final do ano passado e achei algumas delas bastante interessantes, particularmente no que levou alguns deles á morte. Aqui fica a sugestão.
segunda-feira, 8 de abril de 2013
New ideas needed
I can't stand hearing portuguese politicians on TV anymore!
Instead of the constant pleeding for the government to quit, or demanding new elections, I wished opposition and government could get together to find solutions which could take us all out of this deep dark hole we are in for a change!
After all it's very doubtful that our economy would change if this government fell and other went to its place. I don't see them helping with new ideas, only speaking harsh words between them, and that is what we've always seen here.
People trying to undermine others so that they can take their place in the wheels of power.
None of them seems interested on representing the people who put them in parlament, only on representing themselves.
The truth is I don't believe any of them has a solution to the situation they've put us in.
This lack of ideas was what had previous governments doing bad investiments and that's how we've got to the present situation.
That's what you get when you are represented by a buch of idiots who pretend to be clever.
It's just a shame that most people in Portugal is too naive to read the meaning behind their words.
Instead of the constant pleeding for the government to quit, or demanding new elections, I wished opposition and government could get together to find solutions which could take us all out of this deep dark hole we are in for a change!
After all it's very doubtful that our economy would change if this government fell and other went to its place. I don't see them helping with new ideas, only speaking harsh words between them, and that is what we've always seen here.
People trying to undermine others so that they can take their place in the wheels of power.
None of them seems interested on representing the people who put them in parlament, only on representing themselves.
The truth is I don't believe any of them has a solution to the situation they've put us in.
This lack of ideas was what had previous governments doing bad investiments and that's how we've got to the present situation.
That's what you get when you are represented by a buch of idiots who pretend to be clever.
It's just a shame that most people in Portugal is too naive to read the meaning behind their words.
sábado, 6 de abril de 2013
Aviso a logistas
Na quinta- feira tevemos um incidente na loja com um homem cujas intenções nos pareceram dúbias.
Estamos convencidos que a intenção dele era afastar-nos da caixa. para que podesse retirar o dinheiro.
O esquema é o seguinte:
1-O homem entra na loja e pede-nos um artigo que esteja o mais afastado possivel da caixa, depois pega no telemovel e finge estar a falar com a mulher pedindo-lhe a opinião ou perguntando-lhe se ela quer mais alguma caisa.
2- Como eu estava acompanhada, ele pediu outro artigo tentando que a outra pessoa o fosse atender para que a caixa ficasse livre. Felizmente a pessoa em questão não pode atender o pedido por questões de saúde, mas disse ao homem que ele podia ir buscar o artigo ele próprio, se quizesse. Como ele recusou, ela pediu-me para o fazer por ela permanecendo ao balcão. Foi nesta altura que começou a desconfiar do homem.
3-O homem força uma oportunidade para entrar atrás do balcão tentando ficar perto da caixa. No nosso caso veio buscar um artigo que estava à vista e que poderia muito bem ter sido pedido a uma de nós....
Como eu passei a maior parte do tempo no outro lado da loja só me apercebi que o homem estava a tramar algo nesta altura.
O homem, vendo que não tiravamos os olhos dele, acabou por dizer que ia buscar a mulher para pedir a opinião dela sobre os artigos que escolhera.
Obviamente não voltou à loja...
Soubemos pouco tempo depois que o mesmo homem tinha tentado o mesmo esquema em outras duas lojas na area da Azambuja...
Estamos convencidos que a intenção dele era afastar-nos da caixa. para que podesse retirar o dinheiro.
O esquema é o seguinte:
1-O homem entra na loja e pede-nos um artigo que esteja o mais afastado possivel da caixa, depois pega no telemovel e finge estar a falar com a mulher pedindo-lhe a opinião ou perguntando-lhe se ela quer mais alguma caisa.
2- Como eu estava acompanhada, ele pediu outro artigo tentando que a outra pessoa o fosse atender para que a caixa ficasse livre. Felizmente a pessoa em questão não pode atender o pedido por questões de saúde, mas disse ao homem que ele podia ir buscar o artigo ele próprio, se quizesse. Como ele recusou, ela pediu-me para o fazer por ela permanecendo ao balcão. Foi nesta altura que começou a desconfiar do homem.
3-O homem força uma oportunidade para entrar atrás do balcão tentando ficar perto da caixa. No nosso caso veio buscar um artigo que estava à vista e que poderia muito bem ter sido pedido a uma de nós....
Como eu passei a maior parte do tempo no outro lado da loja só me apercebi que o homem estava a tramar algo nesta altura.
O homem, vendo que não tiravamos os olhos dele, acabou por dizer que ia buscar a mulher para pedir a opinião dela sobre os artigos que escolhera.
Obviamente não voltou à loja...
Soubemos pouco tempo depois que o mesmo homem tinha tentado o mesmo esquema em outras duas lojas na area da Azambuja...
sexta-feira, 5 de abril de 2013
For the people and by the people
Do you know that a french minister has been acused of having a banck account abroad?
He has already admited it so probably he'll have to face some kind of punishment.
We have to give some credit to the man for at least being honest now.
Were it in my country, he would still be doing appeals to the supreme court and saying he was ennocent each time his conviction came, meantime skipping, any real punishment and continuing to work on his public office ...or he could be one of those who flee abroad returning only when the crime expiring date comes, managing then to fool enough people to get re-elected... or perhaps he could do better, and find a way to lie his way out of it, even though more and more evidences agaisnt him came to light, which proved the lies, (263 checks not yet used from an account our ex- politician said he didn't have, is at least strange, is it not? And I'm not even talking about the other checks belonging to his family which were found at the same place...)
Maybe if Cahuzac had had some lessons with our "Crook Masters" he would have now passed master on the "crook school"...
But then, maybe we should see it on the bright side... at least we don't have our rullers changing laws and going agaisnt our freedom of choice like it happened in Hungary recently.
None of them are making racist speaches, going agaist womans rights (and I was so happy to read that in Saldi Arabia women were finally allowed to ride a bicycle...),condemning your sexual orientation, nor saying homeless are illigal and making laws to force them to work or else they will pay a fine or go to jail, (yes I think working emproves your self-esteem, but that doesn't mean you should force it on them, after all where's the freedom of choice there? Let's not forget that a large percentage of the homeless are old people who have health problems).
Not that anyone's opinion will be of any use to change Hungary's point of view, but they should think this through and find a way to reach middle ground by explain to those who can work, how having something to do will improve their life and let them decide if they want to work or not.
Also those people should have a right to a wage (or it will be slavery) if they accept to work and that wage should not be different from the one of someone who has never been homeless so that there is no descrimination either.
A fair constitucion should defend equal rights to all without descriminating social classes, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
Such values should be defended by those we put in power, for a government should stand by its people and work for its people and not for its own, family members, or friends interests.
Some may look at it and say that fortunately there is always someone liveng in worse conditions...I say that fact is the worst of it all for no one should be forced to live without freedom.
The good thing is that hope is the last to die, so I dream of a day when this will actually happen.
What a world it (would) will be then...
He has already admited it so probably he'll have to face some kind of punishment.
We have to give some credit to the man for at least being honest now.
Were it in my country, he would still be doing appeals to the supreme court and saying he was ennocent each time his conviction came, meantime skipping, any real punishment and continuing to work on his public office ...or he could be one of those who flee abroad returning only when the crime expiring date comes, managing then to fool enough people to get re-elected... or perhaps he could do better, and find a way to lie his way out of it, even though more and more evidences agaisnt him came to light, which proved the lies, (263 checks not yet used from an account our ex- politician said he didn't have, is at least strange, is it not? And I'm not even talking about the other checks belonging to his family which were found at the same place...)
Maybe if Cahuzac had had some lessons with our "Crook Masters" he would have now passed master on the "crook school"...
But then, maybe we should see it on the bright side... at least we don't have our rullers changing laws and going agaisnt our freedom of choice like it happened in Hungary recently.
None of them are making racist speaches, going agaist womans rights (and I was so happy to read that in Saldi Arabia women were finally allowed to ride a bicycle...),condemning your sexual orientation, nor saying homeless are illigal and making laws to force them to work or else they will pay a fine or go to jail, (yes I think working emproves your self-esteem, but that doesn't mean you should force it on them, after all where's the freedom of choice there? Let's not forget that a large percentage of the homeless are old people who have health problems).
Not that anyone's opinion will be of any use to change Hungary's point of view, but they should think this through and find a way to reach middle ground by explain to those who can work, how having something to do will improve their life and let them decide if they want to work or not.
Also those people should have a right to a wage (or it will be slavery) if they accept to work and that wage should not be different from the one of someone who has never been homeless so that there is no descrimination either.
A fair constitucion should defend equal rights to all without descriminating social classes, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
Such values should be defended by those we put in power, for a government should stand by its people and work for its people and not for its own, family members, or friends interests.
Some may look at it and say that fortunately there is always someone liveng in worse conditions...I say that fact is the worst of it all for no one should be forced to live without freedom.
The good thing is that hope is the last to die, so I dream of a day when this will actually happen.
What a world it (would) will be then...
quinta-feira, 4 de abril de 2013
Quem me dera ser Suéca
Já vos falei aqui do que penso de José Socrates e do seu tempo de mandato.
Como ele, existem muitos mais que tentam por todos os meios arranjar "tacho" para si e para os seus.
Isaltino Morais-Presidente da Camara de Oeiras- é apenas um exemplo (quem diria que um simples taxista ganharia o suficiente para ter uma conta de milhares de euros na Suiça. Como é bom ser cunhado de um autarca português...)
A salientar que o Sr Morais jura inocência e defendeu que pediu um emprestimo à CGD (onde é que eu já ouvi isto?) para pagar a sua defesa (ao todo já fez 44 recursos). UAU, este banco é mesmo porreiro, será que a mim que sou cliente da CGD há anos, tambem me emprestam dinheiro sem garantia alguma...
Mas esta "capacidade" para aldrabar outrem parece ser uma caracteristica comum a muitos portugueses, senão vejamos.
Manuel Correia- Ex-provedor da Santa Casa da Misericórdia- começa hoje a ser julgado por peculato e falsificação de documentos. Aparentemente ordenou a esta instituição um pagamento mensal ás filhas (incluindo subsidio de férias e de Natal) sem que estas tenham prestado qualquer serviço á Santa Casa...
Um outro caso envolve profissionais de saúde, 57 médicos, 8 farmácias, armazenistas e até alguns utentes.
O esquema era simples, os médicos prescreviam receitas médicas de medicamentos com maior compartecipação do estado a serem levantadas por utentes (que sabiam ou não do que se passava) nessas 8 farmácias, que por sua vez, e dependendo dos casos entregavam ou não os ditos medicamentos aos utentes podendo depois vendê-los novamente Os armazenistas, estavam mais voltados para a exportação de medicamentos a preço mais alto (por exemplo para Angola).
São casos como este que me fazem crer que o país está, e sempre esteve, a saque. Devo dizer-vos que esta mentalidade de "venha a mim o meu reino" nunca nos levará a lado nenhum.
É por isso que embora adore o meu país, por vezes acho que devo ter uma costela de algum país nórdico, pois de vez em quando gostava de ser Suéca para não ouvir destas coisas...
Como ele, existem muitos mais que tentam por todos os meios arranjar "tacho" para si e para os seus.
Isaltino Morais-Presidente da Camara de Oeiras- é apenas um exemplo (quem diria que um simples taxista ganharia o suficiente para ter uma conta de milhares de euros na Suiça. Como é bom ser cunhado de um autarca português...)
A salientar que o Sr Morais jura inocência e defendeu que pediu um emprestimo à CGD (onde é que eu já ouvi isto?) para pagar a sua defesa (ao todo já fez 44 recursos). UAU, este banco é mesmo porreiro, será que a mim que sou cliente da CGD há anos, tambem me emprestam dinheiro sem garantia alguma...
Mas esta "capacidade" para aldrabar outrem parece ser uma caracteristica comum a muitos portugueses, senão vejamos.
Manuel Correia- Ex-provedor da Santa Casa da Misericórdia- começa hoje a ser julgado por peculato e falsificação de documentos. Aparentemente ordenou a esta instituição um pagamento mensal ás filhas (incluindo subsidio de férias e de Natal) sem que estas tenham prestado qualquer serviço á Santa Casa...
Um outro caso envolve profissionais de saúde, 57 médicos, 8 farmácias, armazenistas e até alguns utentes.
O esquema era simples, os médicos prescreviam receitas médicas de medicamentos com maior compartecipação do estado a serem levantadas por utentes (que sabiam ou não do que se passava) nessas 8 farmácias, que por sua vez, e dependendo dos casos entregavam ou não os ditos medicamentos aos utentes podendo depois vendê-los novamente Os armazenistas, estavam mais voltados para a exportação de medicamentos a preço mais alto (por exemplo para Angola).
São casos como este que me fazem crer que o país está, e sempre esteve, a saque. Devo dizer-vos que esta mentalidade de "venha a mim o meu reino" nunca nos levará a lado nenhum.
É por isso que embora adore o meu país, por vezes acho que devo ter uma costela de algum país nórdico, pois de vez em quando gostava de ser Suéca para não ouvir destas coisas...
quarta-feira, 3 de abril de 2013
Travelling
One of my passions is travelling.
I think I could do it for years without ever getting tired.
I don't know where I got it from since no one in my family is as restless as I.
I've tried to explain it to most of my frienda as well, with no apparent result.
They just don't get it when I speak about how fascinated I am for the diversity of people and cultures- which make our world so beautiful to live in- or even the urge to search for different smells, tastes or colours that remain with you long after we leave a certain place.
To all those who can't understand it with words, maybe they'll be able to do it through these photos.
I think I could do it for years without ever getting tired.
I don't know where I got it from since no one in my family is as restless as I.
I've tried to explain it to most of my frienda as well, with no apparent result.
They just don't get it when I speak about how fascinated I am for the diversity of people and cultures- which make our world so beautiful to live in- or even the urge to search for different smells, tastes or colours that remain with you long after we leave a certain place.
To all those who can't understand it with words, maybe they'll be able to do it through these photos.
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
India
India
India
Egypt
India
India
India
Turkey
Turkey
Turkey
Turkey
Turkey
Nepal
Nepal
Nepal
Nepal
Nepal
India
India
Egypt
terça-feira, 2 de abril de 2013
Anedota
Como o tempo está maravilhoso e eu estou com um humor ótimo, vou-vos contar uma anedota que me foi contada a semana passada e da qual gostei.
Numa aldeia nortenha, durante a semana da Pascoa, o Padre exausto diz para o Sacristão:
"Estou muito cansado meu filho, talvez vós podesseis dizer uma passagem da Biblia por mim hoje."
O Sacristão asustado replica:
"Mas Sr Padre, eu não sei que dizer!"
O Padre insiste:
"És um moço esperto, irás lembrar-te de algo. Olha, porque não contas a estória de Lazaro? Lembras-te dessa, não lembras?"
O Sacristão ainda indeciso responde:
"Sim..."
Chega a hora do sermão e o Sacristão começa enquanto o Padre se senta a seu lado:
"Quando Jesus chegou a Jerusalem as mulheres foram ter com ele e disseram-lhe chorosas:
Sr, Lazaro morreu.
Levai-me até ele. Jesus pediu-lhes
As mulheres levaram-no até a campa e quando esta foi aberta Jesus entrou lá dentro e disse:
Lebanta-te Lazaro.
Como Lazaro não se lebantou repetiu mais alto.
Lebanta-te Lazaro!
E Lazaro Lebantou-se e andeu.
Exasperado o Padre diz-lhe:
"Andou, estúpido!"
O Sacristão ouvindo as palavras do Padre emenda:
"Andou estúpido durante um tempo, mas depois passou-lhe..."
segunda-feira, 1 de abril de 2013
Let's think for a change
It's funny what we hear from people's mouth once in a while.
I don't know if you heard it, but José Socrates- our previous Prime Minister- is back to Portugal and has now a weekly job commenting the week's news on TV.
For those who don't know he had gone to Paris after loosing the elections (apparently to be on a course, which one we don't know, let's just hope he attended the classes on this one since he's skipped it in Portugal but managed to get hs diploma with a little help from his friends....)
Several anomalies came to light on the months before those elections.
Family members with large money accounts abroad is just an exemple.
And let's not forget that he has been living abroad all this time without actually working, what make (or should) make us question: "Where did he get the money to live (unemployed) on one of the most expensive cities in the world?"
He said on TV that it had been one of our banks-CGD- lending him the money to do so, but I have never seen a bank doing charaty work to single individuals...
I doubt they would consider it if he had nothing to cover the debt...
But what really puts me off is to see how some people believe in him despite of everything he's done.
Last week a man came to the shop and started talking about how wrongly the media had treated José Socrates and how no one had been able to prove his corruption.
Have people no brain at all? Do they like to be considered fools?
If he had nothing to hide, why not present irrefutable evidence of his innocence? Something that left no doubts about it? In a court of law words mean nothing, if you don't have physical evidences of what you are saying. The same should apply to him for we all know how good he is with words, yet actions are another matter...
I don't know if you heard it, but José Socrates- our previous Prime Minister- is back to Portugal and has now a weekly job commenting the week's news on TV.
For those who don't know he had gone to Paris after loosing the elections (apparently to be on a course, which one we don't know, let's just hope he attended the classes on this one since he's skipped it in Portugal but managed to get hs diploma with a little help from his friends....)
Several anomalies came to light on the months before those elections.
Family members with large money accounts abroad is just an exemple.
And let's not forget that he has been living abroad all this time without actually working, what make (or should) make us question: "Where did he get the money to live (unemployed) on one of the most expensive cities in the world?"
He said on TV that it had been one of our banks-CGD- lending him the money to do so, but I have never seen a bank doing charaty work to single individuals...
I doubt they would consider it if he had nothing to cover the debt...
But what really puts me off is to see how some people believe in him despite of everything he's done.
Last week a man came to the shop and started talking about how wrongly the media had treated José Socrates and how no one had been able to prove his corruption.
Have people no brain at all? Do they like to be considered fools?
If he had nothing to hide, why not present irrefutable evidence of his innocence? Something that left no doubts about it? In a court of law words mean nothing, if you don't have physical evidences of what you are saying. The same should apply to him for we all know how good he is with words, yet actions are another matter...
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