S.K.I.N. obsessed or Japanese Music III

So the first ever concert of the Japanese Rock band I mentioned in the previous post was yesterday (or better today at dawn). And I've just spend the all day looking for details... (crazy me :P)

It seems that they completely rocked!!! :D

Japanese Music!! Part II

I was supposed to be inserting my supervisor's corrections to my Introduction Chapter.. I'm completely distracted... I'm so wishing to be across the Atlantic Ocean (and almost all the USA) right now... I would love to go and see the premiere of S.K.I.N. (a new band that includes the two Japanese artists that I referred some posts ago)...

Well, I will see if can concentrate...

A good day!!

Today (well, yesterday) was a good day!! In 2 days a wrote a full section of the chapter I'm working on.

This was after almost 4 days of blockage... Even though I'm happy I was able to write it this fast, I still get a bit frustrated because if I wasn't blocking so much I would have my thesis almost written by now...

Well, one has to accept what is given to her...

P.S. - Wednesday I´m back to Porto to talk to my supervisor. (Wish me luck.)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!!

In less than 1 month I will have my Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows copy almost read!!!

I don't know if it will be almost read, but at least I think I will be deep into it!!! :D

Good News for Women entering Menopause (in Público)

As most people know a woman can suffer several side effects when entering menopause, such has osteoporosis, depression, night sweats, and others. Most of us, when young, laugh a little about it, but it can have very serious consequences. In order to diminish these side effects, women are typically treated with a combination of estrogen and progesterone (sexual hormones responsible for the women menstruation period).

However, a few years ago (2002-2004), a study revealed that these treatments increased the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Which led to panic among patients and physicians alike, and many stopped their treatments, suffering the full potential of these side effects.

Today, an article was published that shatters this findings and states that if the treatment is started at an early phase it will not only help avoid this side effects but will also help prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Here´s the link to the news:
(in Portuguese, sorry couldn't find the news in the BBC website)
http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1297286

Quick post....

I just noticed that most of my last post have been mainly news comments... well my life has been pretty the same thing... the usual stuff...

I'm still trying to write my Thesis... nothing new here...

The 10 commandments for safe driving

1) You shall not kill.

2) The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.

3) Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.

4) Be charitable and help your neighbour in need, especially victims of accidents.

5) Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.

6) Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.

7) Support the families of accident victims.

8) Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.

9) On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.

10) Feel responsible towards others.

in Gulfnews.com

P.S. - Have a safe drive. :)

Vatican issues the 10 commandments for driving safely (in BBC news)

First of all, I must say that any measure to ensure safe driving is a good measure. I totally agree that more care should be take when one is on the driving wheel or when just walking down the street. All of us are responsible, drivers and pedestrians...

So I think that it is a good measure to issue "commandments" for the drivers, but I found some of the passages funny.

Here´s the link to the news:
(sorry but the 10 commandments weren't listed, if I find them I'll post them here)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6768395.stm

Japanese Music!! (a new addiction)

About 3 weeks ago I discovered the fantastic world of Japanese Music, through chance I might say...
I have this habit of sometimes clicking on the link that says next blog and read a bit of what is written in the first blog I come across. On one of these "journeys" I bumped into a comment that said something like: "Finally Gackt has stopped being gay...". I found this statement quiet curious so I decided to go and see who Gackt was...

After surfing on the net for some hours, and a few pictures, translations and videos later I really got into Gackt's music (even do I don't understand a single word of Japanese). While discovering Gackt I came across other artists, and the next one to catch my attention was 雅-Miyavi.

Unfortunately getting Japanese music, or anything Japanese for that matter, is not very easy here. So in order to get to know better these artists I had to surf a lot on the Internet, and finally I decided to order two of their cds. Which arrived today!!!!!!

Completely addicted to Gackt and 雅-Miyavi!!!!

Here is the first music that really got my attention by Gackt - Lust for Blood:
(I would like to acknowledge pallidwraith for posting the video on YouTube)

And here's my favorite music by 雅-Miyavi - Ashita, Genki ni Naare:
(I would like to acknowledge xxitsxmitsukixx for the post in YouTube and the subtitles)

Damn Hares!! :)

It seems an Italian airport had to be closed down early morning today, so that officials could catch a "family" of hares that have been disturbing the natural functioning of the airport.

Nature is catching up with the Humans...

Here´s the link to the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6761485.stm

Once again I'm speechless: "Vatican urges end to Amnesty aid" (in BBC news)

I really don't know what to say...

This article concerns a statement that Amnesty International made. In which it said that women that have been raped or suffered from incest should have the right to choose whether or not to take the resulting pregnancies to term.

So, regarding this the Vatican has stated that all financial backup and aid to this Human Rights organization should be ended, by all catholics.

I know that the Catholic Church is against abortion, but to take such a strong measure or better to promote such a strong measure against an organization that has done so much for Human Rights... I really do not know what to say...

Here's the link to the BBC news article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6750887.stm

Only in the US: "US town set to ban saggy trousers" (in BBC News)

Read and laugh or cry (I'll leave it up to you)...

Here's the link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751777.stm

To Cry or to Laugh - That's The Question!!!

Really!! Sometimes people are just funny (?!)....

After the fantastic news that my supervisor gave me yesterday saying that I should redo all my Thesis, today she send me another "gentle and caring" e-mail. This e-mail states and I quote:

"Tamuril, since your work is delayed here's a little help. The text concerns the Introduction and Discussion for the first chapter of your Thesis."

SINCE MY WORK IS DELAYED!!!! Who the hell is she to say that to me!! Over the past 2 MONTHS she did not care to know how the writing was going.... I get so.... arrggghhhhhhh.....

I sincerely do not know if I should cry or laugh when comes to my Thesis or my Supervisor....

Anger!!!

Ohhh god!!! I'm so angry!!! And frustrated!! Why?!

Because of my thesis!!! But especially because of my supervisor!!!

After spending 2 months writing and finally getting something done, my supervisor decides to tell me that a Thesis is not written has I thought it was... After 2 months she remembered... Is she joking with me!!!!

I'm so glad I'm not there right now... I do not know what I would do if she was standing in front of me....

FINISHED!!!

Yupiiii!!! I've finished my Results' Chapter!!! Finally!!!

I just send it to my supervisor, so she can read it and correct it. But I think it's about it. I do not know what she's going to say, but I'm happy. It took me a whole month to write it!!

Next: I'll finish my Introduction chapter, it's about half written.

P.S. - I've been absent because of the work. Tuesday I had to go back to Porto to speak to my supervisor. Where I discovered I had to repeat a section that I had already concluded. But, well, it only took two additional days to do everything. :D

No phone call!!!

Well... that's life!! :(

Day's resume!!

I'm already at my Dad's house!! Finally, some rest!!

Still waiting for the phone to ring (or not?!)!!!

Busy day!!

Today’s itinerary:

- 6:45 p.m.
Wake up in Coimbra. Do the usual things, shower, breakfast…

- 8 a.m.
Leave the house to catch the train to Porto.

- 8:46 a.m.
Get on the train.
(I fell completely asleep in the train and woke up in the train station just before Porto, that is to say 5min before I had to leave the train).

- 9:36 a.m.
Arrived at Porto, charged my bus card with voyages so I can go around the town.
I waited for almost half –hour for the bus to take to the University of Porto “Reitoria”, for an interview. I got there almost an hour before the time my interview was scheduled for. Everything was going has scheduled, until they decided to discuss the applicants they had already interviewed, and everything got a 30 minutes delay.

- 11: 30/35 a.m.

My interview!!

I think it went pretty well!! It was very simple, and very pleasant. The last interview I went (for another PhD program) they were much harder on me; they made more questions, and wanted to know what I was planning to do. Here they just asked me simple things about my work, and the mood was completely different, I did not felt as nervous as last time. And, one thing I was not expecting, the interview was in Portuguese, not that I feel difficulties in speaking English, but it made me less nervous.

- 11:50 a.m.
On the bus stop again… another long wait for the bus, this time it were about 15 minutes, but again… (The buses in Porto are completely out of schedule, it is so irritating…)

- 12: 05 a.m.
IBMC, last time I was there was a month a go… not a very pleasant visit.
Went to try and see if my supervisor had time for me, I need her help to finish my Thesis Results’ Chapter, but she was going to the field in the afternoon so… no talk for anyone. As so, I went to see I could find some of my friends and see what had happen in the last month of my absence. I found two of them, we chatted for a while and I lunched with them.

- 2 p.m.
Time to go to the airport to say goodbye to my little sis, which is right now on her way back to Germany. I had the greatest of lucks, while I was leaving IBMC a bus passed that would leave me just in front of the metro station. :P
In the metro station, it was the usual confusion to charge the card for the trip to the airport. Besides that I had arrived just in time to catch the right metro, but since I got on the wrong platform… I missed by seconds.

- 2:39 p.m.
I got on the metro. (Yupiii!!!)

- 3 p.m.
I arrived at the airport. I had just got out of the platform and I saw my sis and my Mom, who had just arrived. Just in time!! :D
After that, me and my Mom accompanied my sis in every usual thing you have to do when you are travelling: check in, go and see if the plane was on time (it wasn’t, it was with a 45 minutes delay), wait for a while, then she went in to departures zone. This is always a “fun” episode, my sis uses army boots that have a metal plate on the front of the boot, so she has always to take off the boots so she can pass in the metal detector. She does not even wait for the detector to give a sign; she takes them off while waiting in line. Then we waved goodbye, and it was again time to get on the metro.

- 4:22 p.m.
On the metro again, this time on the way to the train station.

- 5 p.m.
I arrived on Porto’s train station. Went to buy my train ticket, and instead of asking a ticket to Lisboa, asked for a ticket to Coimbra… My mind today is little bit off. I noticed just before I paid, so no harm done.

- 5:45 p.m.
A 3h journey awaits me… (I’m writing this on the train it is 7:12 p.m., I have ahead of me more 1h and 20m of journey).

And this has been my day so far… It was a big day. And by the end of the day I will know if got in on the PhD Program… Let´s see!!!

Above all I wanna thank my little sister for having come to Portugal to mine (and my father’s) birthday. Thank you so much!!! I just loved your present!! :D