Strong Waves and Merry Christmas

Yesterday the sea was strong and i took some pictures. Let's see if you like them :) .

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And last ,of course, i wanted to wish all my dear readers, lovers, friends, haters, strangers, whatever. I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

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you can listen to 'Winter Wonderland' above,

James

Love what irritates you

This post is based on the 49th chapter of the book 'The Greatness Guide' by Robin Sharma.

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In fact, the things that really bother and seriously irritates you are great oportunities.

The people who drives you crazy are your biggest masters.

Be grateful for them.

Love them!

Do you know why?

Carl Jung said: "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

What a powerful point of view! I mean, for the ones who have the ability to take the positive aspects of any less good situation, the mistakes of the others are great tools for your self-improvement.

They're gifts that make you grow.

Use this challenges to increase your self-conscience.

The mistakes of the others can work like a light in the dark. As you start shedding the light above your personal weaknesses and assuming the responsibilities for them you start to see the process of their destruction. After exposed to the light, the shadows will begin to disappear.

You'll become a better person.

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am grateful to those teachers." - Kahlil Gibran

I totally agree with this magnificent thinker.

I've also learned to be mature with the immatures, to be pleasant with the unpleasant, to sing better with the ones who sing badly, to play better guitar with the ones who play badly, to play better basketball with the ones who play badly, to stop gossip with the ones who gossip, to quit lying with the ones who lie, to be more outgoing with the shy ones and to be funny with the ones who tell stupid and boring jokes.

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now i leave you with one last photo taken one year ago.

Take my advices,

James

'dewdrops, boat and cat' - pics

what have those 3 things in common?

well, nothing, except they're all in the same post ...

hope you like it.

PS: this photos, like all the rest of the photos in my blog as well, were taken by me, unless i write below or above: 'i do not own this photo'. Except those ones, I own all the other images.

- dewdrops

- boat in the river with seagulls

- cat looking to the horizon

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James

Google Wave

It's a new web application/protocol created by Google.

I won't talk a lot about it, because the best way for you to know this new service is by watching this video below.

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if you wanna join Google Wave please tell me and i'll send you an invite

James

the groovy Derek Trucks Band

A musician friend of mine told me that i had to see this band.

A band with an electric Gibson SG guitar played with a slide, keyboards, flute, percussion, drums and sometimes vocals.

It's a kind of a jam band, playing blues, southern rock, jazz, afro beats and a fusion of world music.

Here you have a great song from them, called 'Joyful Noise'.

Hope you like it.

Jamie Cullum - nice pop jazz

This guy is going to be the future of the jazz, trust me.

Jamie Cullum just released his 5th studio album called 'The Pursuit'.

After the success of the singles 'Everlasting Love', 'What a Difference a Day Made' and 'These are the Days', Jamie has got 2 new singles:

'I'm All Over It'

'Don't Stop the Music' (covering Rihanna)

Jamie's going to give a show in Lisbon in May (Coliseu de Lisboa). The tickets are 20€

have to go study History now,

James.

Quote no. 3

"When the pressure dominates you, it turns into stress,

when you dominate the pressure, it turns into adrenalin."

- Me

(in)joy - the power of the children

As we grow, we're losing the ability of being happy, of living in joy,

and no old sage or buddhist guru can teach us to live in hapiness, as children teach us.

We a lot to learn with the children:

They teach us to relax,

They teach us to not worry,

They teach us to have fun,

They teach us to enjoy the moment,

They teach us to smile,

They teach us to live every single moment like it was the last one, with their pure and innocent joy.

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this is my little brother.

in-joy,

James

Funny The Way It Is ...

It's a song from the last Dave Matthews Band album , Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King .

I want you to take a look at the lyrics, and think about it :

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Lying in the park on a beautiful day

Sunshine in the grass, and the children play
Siren’s passing, fire engine red
Someone’s house is burning down on a day like this

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Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born

(...)

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James

'Healthy Foods' (no. 1)

Avocado

(I DO NOT own this photos)

It's a fruit and 50% of the US families eat atleast one per week.

Brazilians eat it with ice cream and Filipinos with milk and sugar.

It doesn't matter. What does matter is what is written below:

The Power: Oleic acid, an unsaturated fat that helps lower overall cholestrol and raise levels of HDL, plus a good dose of fiber. One slice has 81 calories, 8 grams of fat and 3 grams of fiber.

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Now, here you have the most yummy avocado recipes i've found:

Recipe 1 (from Jason Mraz's blog)

Recipe 2

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"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."
- Benjamin Franklin

Stay healthy,

James

2012 (movie & more)

It's the best disaster film i've seen so far. In my opinion it goes beyond movies like 'The Independence Day', 'The Day After Tomorrow', 'Knowing', 'The Mist', 'I Am Legend or even 'War of the Worlds'.

160 minutes of pure adrenalin with breathtaking scenes, provided by the budget of 160000000 dolars.

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Sometimes i wonder if the doomsday should really happen.
The Man is an egocentric and selfish creature and maybe he should bear the consequences of his deeds.

Ending or not the world, i believe some change is about to happend or start happening in December 2012. There's no smoke without fire, so after all the forecasts from well-known prophets, scientists, and all the mess the Mankind has been doing to the Mother Nature, something is about to happend, for sure.

Respect the Mother Nature before it's too late.

" I do not believe 2012 will be the end of the road,

I believe it'll be the bend of it. " ,

James

more pics

hey. here you have some new pics.

(fond of this music)

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Marty__

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beach.. __

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Best regards,

James

advice by own experience

i know it can be really hard, but try to not let teenage love affairs bring you down.

in the teenage, they will appear many times and you should know to handle them to avoid depressions or something like that.

you must realize that there's so much more in your life besides that.

i did, and i'm living much better now :)

take a look at that song in the right (Newton Faulkner's 'To The Light') ---->

James

fooling myself

(...)

Stay or leave

I want you not to go but you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go but you did

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So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon, hey
Well isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I could?

That I should'a done

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this?
Besides the day you left me?
What day is this
Besides the day you went? '

-> 'Stay Or Leave' - Dave Matthews

' I'm Grateful For ...' (no. 2)

I'm grateful for have born with the ability to fend for myself in the tests without studying much :) .

school theatre

photos's from my performance in a school theater for children from a charity institutions .

"Strange Animals" no. 2

This month's strange animal is the Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).

- it's a salamander that lives in Mexico City lakes.

- it's a critically endangered specie.

- "Axolotl" is a aztec name that means "water monster".

- in some countries this amphibian is kept as a pet. i saw it for sale in a pet's store in Lisbon.

- it is always smiling.

(I DO NOT own this photos)

stressful society

Belive it or not, we live in a stressful society - a society full of stress.

When you try live your live righteously, when you try to take it easy, the society screams in your face: ' YOU'RE WRONG. YOU HAVE TO BE STRESSED ' .

Yeah, it is quite wrong, but it happens everyday. They're wrong and they require you to be wrong like them.

I've been passing so many times through this situation in the last several months.

... but it's the world i live in, so i can't do nothing but carrying on living and hoping that someday the world will change.

James

' I'm Grateful For ...' (no. 1)

English:

Heey guys. This is another new monthly section called ' I'm Grateful For ... ' .

One of the principles of Buddhism is expressing gratitude ( ' Kansha Shite ' ) , so as you know, i'm nothing but a follower of those principles.

Gratitude is good for the others and even better for us ! (Gratitude is Good for your Health)

Be grateful and feel fine :)

Português:

Oii malta. Esta é outra rubrica mensal chamada ' Sou Grato Por ... '

Um dos grandes principios do Budismo é expressar gratidão ( 'Kansha Shite' ), e como alguns sabem, eu vou tentando seguir esses mesmos princípios.

A Gratidão é muito boa para os outros, mas ainda melhor para nós ! (A Gratidão faz bem á saúde)

Sê grato e sente-te bem :)

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English:

Today i'm going to talk about : Grandparents

It's incredible how much experience they have.

It's incredicle how many stories they have to tell us.

It's incredible how much they love us and how affectionately they take care of us.

We have so much to thank them, or atleast, i really have.

Are you being greatful for your grandparents? Will they realize how much you love them before they die? Be sure they do.

Português:

Hoje vou falar de : Avós

É incrível a experiência que eles têm.

É incrível quantas histórias de vida eles têm para nos contar.

É incrível o quanto eles nos amam e como tão bem tomam conta de nós.

Temos tanto que lhes agradecer, ou pelo menos, eu tenho mesmo.

Estão a ser grato pelos vossos avós? Será que eles vão perceber o quanto gostam deles, antes de morrerem? Certifiquem-se que sim.

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' What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance.

They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ' - Rudolph Giuliani ,

James

new photos from Caxias beach

today i was feeling a little stressed, so i decided to have a break. i went to the beach and and took some pictures.

now i'm posting 5 of the 80 pics that i took.

i hope you like them :)

here they are:

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taking a bow to Mother Nature,

James

Quote no. 2

" Work is 1% inspiration plus 99% transpiration "

- Albert Einstein

'Strange Animals' no. 1

English:

Hey. this is a brand new monthly section that i'm going to do about strange animals. This month i'm presenting you the Star-nosed mole .

Enjoy:

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Português:

Hey. Esta é uma nova rubrica mensal que vou fazer sobre "animais muito esquisitos" . Este mês apresento-vos a Toupeira-nariz-de-estrela .

Desfrutem:

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English:

The Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is, like the name says, just another mole, or maybe not...

It lives all around the undergrounds of north-eastern United States, and this fact is unknown by the majority of the population.

They eat lots of worms, molluscs and many other insects, with their 44 teeth !

And finally, as you can see, this mole's most distinctive feature is a circle of 22 mobile, pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of the snout that are used to identify food by touch.

Check the photos below .

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Português:

A Toupeira-nariz-de-estrela (Condylura cristata) é, tal como o nome diz, apenas espécie de toupeira, ou talvez até não...

Vive debaixo do solo de todos os estados do nordeste dos Estados Unidos, sendo este facto desconhecido por a maioria dos habitantes.

Esta espécie come minhocas, moluscos e muitos outros insectos, com os seus 44 dentes !

E finalmente, como conseguem perceber, a caracteri

stica mais distintiva desta toupeira é um circulo de 22 nojentos, cor-de-rosa e carnudos tentáculos no final do seu focinho, que sao usados para identificar comida pelo tacto.

Vejam as imagens abaixo.

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(I DO NOT own this photos)

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Hope you liked my new section.

' Love is more than a feeling, its a state of mind. '

- Lisa Grude ,

James