And the First coolest word The English Language Needs...

... is in Portuguese: DESENRASCANÇO. To understand this word is as good as understanding the Portuguese way of thinking.. or at least one of our special features. Remember Macgyver? He could be Portuguese. He showed many times the ability of solving problems using his wit and capability of doing things without planning ahead. That's something we tend to do mostly everyday. Sometimes the result can be a catastrophy but most of the time we do it alright. We're still alive! And so this word came at the top of the list ''The coolest words the English language needs'' from the website Cracked.com.
Here's what it is said about the word:

''Desenrascanço Means:

To pull a MacGyver.

This is the art of slapping together a solution to a problem at the last minute, with no advanced planning, and no resources. It's the coat hanger you use to fish your car keys out of the toilet, the emergency mustache you hastily construct out of pubic hair.
Where most of us were taught the Boy Scout slogan "be prepared," and are constantly hassled if we don't plan every little thing ahead, the Portuguese value just the opposite.

Coming up with frantic, last-minute improvisations that somehow work is considered one of the most valued skills there; they even teach it in universities, and in the armed forces. They believe this ability to slap together haphazard solutions has been key to their survival over the centuries.

Don't laugh. At one time they managed to build an empire stretching from Brazil to the Philippines this way.

Fuck preparation. They have desenrascanço.''

You can find the entire article here: http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html

Ahah we feel proud to be the perfect Macgyvers, so you can imagine that our lives are like that:

Descoberta simpática...

... descer as escadas na gare do oriente a caminho do metro e encontrar uma pequena feira da música com cds, discos vinil e dvds a preços muito, mas muito catitas. :)

Flight of The Conchords

Graças à Tilda conheci estes senhores das terras distantes da Nova Zelândia. Colocou-me logo bem disposta. :) e esta é uma das minhas canções/stand up comedy favoritas.

Eh pá....

Já há muito tempo que não ''posto'' nada deste blogue. Muitas coisas a acontecer que quando chega a altura de poder escrever a cama chama por mim...também nada de anormal está a decorrer na minha vida para que possa escrever alguma coisa neste cantinho de partilha. Ando muito egoísta para isso. Isto daqui a bocadinho já me passa...

O estado do tempo/ weather report

Quando estava quase, quase o tempo quentinho tinha de vir o Vento Frio! Apre!!
And when we were almost having sunny warm days, the wind had to come to ruin everything! damn!

Vozes de Anjo/Angel Voices

São aquelas vozes de simples mortais que não estão mais entre nós mas serão sempre eternas:
Voices from simple mortals that are no longer among us, which will always remain eternal:

Eva Cassidy




Jeff Buckley

Spring has arrived hurray!/A Primavera chegou, viva!

E a Primavera chegou! Um bocadinho mais cedo, mas como hoje é dia de anos dela, não há nada como lhe dar o viva, por que com ela vem o sol e as paisagens floridas.

And Spring has come! A little too early here, but as today is her birthday, there is nothing like celebrating, since she comes with flowers and sunshine. :)