I use to say that my inspiration comes to me either when I'm in love or disappointed about love. I am neither of those tonight, I just felt like writing. I write tonight because I want to exercise my capacity of getting inspired, I want to get inspired by something else other than the situations I've mentioned earlier. The life I've been living makes me feel I've lost the capacity to feel, that is, the capacity of being inspired. It sounds like rubbish, but I would like pretty much to live my days to the most, not only get up in the morning - wishing I could stay for a little longer on bed - and spend the whole day wishing it would be night so I can go home and have some rest until the next day, when it starts all over again. My dreams, by the way, seem to be the only thing that changes. It's what makes me want to sleep. Dreams are like movies, the most realistic ones - we don't choose them, or ever know hey they are going to end.
Domingo, 14 de Junho de 2009
This might sound a bit senseless and disconnected. Reader discretion is advised.
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Quinta-feira, 31 de Julho de 2008
You have the keys to my house
Another girl in the bus. A different one this time. No more coincidences, no more lost chances, no more it-will-happen-again. After the show, I take the bus home and two girls sit behind me. One of them goes out. Junior takes some time to gather some courage... It's enough. Three seconds later:
"Does this bus goes through the university?"
"Yes, it goes."
"Did you like the show?"
"Yes, it was nice!"
"Is it their first show that you go?"
"Oh... yes, the first one."
"Where do you study?"
"Right there... for now..." She points out the place where she studies.
"I assume you're in the last year then..."
"Yes."
We ended up in a conversation about studies and about how she cheated to use someone else's work in a subject she wasn't very fond of. I had to interrupt her, it's time to leave.
"I'm sorry, I have to go, may I know your phone number?"
"Oh, no... I have orkut though."
"That'll be too hard to find..."
"No no, there's only me with my name... not that hard!"
"What's your name?"
"Lieg..." *noise, noise, noise*
"What?"
"L-i-e-g..." *more noise*
"g or d?"
"G!"
She kept on saying her name, "Liegilys". I stepped on the street quite confident I had gotten it right. For my disappointment, I didn't find it. That's what happens when I take the chances as they come.
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Domingo, 27 de Julho de 2008
The blues are still blue.
It's been a while that I've been here, however things are still the same. I keep on staying up late and sleeping during the lessons, I still study for the exams the day before - actually, the night before - my name is still Antônio, and just like it's unlikely it won't change, so won't my bad habits. I stopped writing in the blog for some time, but not due to my laziness. It's lack of inspiration (not that I'm that inspired now) and, believe me, I suck at writing when I'm not inspired.
Anyway, the reason why I'm writing is because today I found a notebook with some writings I made in 2006. I was reading that and saw that I didn't change a lot. I'm still lovesick, I'm still bitter, I'm still a harsh critic of my own person. Oh, and the least but not the last: I'm still a fool. Don't ask me why.
The funniest thing in those writings is that I foresaw something in which I just didn't want to believe. I've always been right about it. It's in the story I'm writing. Have I told you I'm writing a story? Yes, and the university won't let me finish even half of it before the vacations. It's in Portuguese though; I started it in English and wrote about 17 pages in English, but I saw it wasn't as perfect as I wanted it to be, so I'm translating my own work to Portuguese to continue it.
Oh, and I'm back with my idea of posting a picture for each post.
Enjoy the view from the window.
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Segunda-feira, 23 de Junho de 2008
*COF COF*
It's St. John's day here. People lighting bonfires, kids firing small bombs and that unbearable smell of smoke in the air. My eyes hurt, so does my nose and my throat. It should be forbidden by the ministry of environment to light bonfires. Don't they see it's a harm for the Mother Earth?
This is funny though, when I was a child, this was one of the best days of the year. I would set fire in anything I found in my reach. I exploded frogs, insects, bottles, boxes, trees. My family's bonfire was never the biggest, and was worn in few time, then I had to go enjoy other's bonfires.
I was hated by the neighbors because I exploded bombs in their sidewalks. Today I curse to death those children, or rather devils, who fire bombs.
Yeah... tables, they turn sometimes.
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Terça-feira, 17 de Junho de 2008
Attraction
Today I got deep into the thought about why men are attracted by women more than by anything else. A friend of mine invited me to this sort of party and I wasn't excited at all to show up, until he mentioned the word "girls". I thought about what draws attention of women as well and I got myself wondering why, in those car fairs or exhibitions, they always choose gorgeous women in alluring clothes to stay there and present the cars to the customers. They want to sell cars to both women and men - cars and women attract men. But what fascinates women? The cars, of course.
Ok, that was a little chauvinistic. It was supposed to be funny though.
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Segunda-feira, 9 de Junho de 2008
Hoje eu passeava aqui por alguns blogs, atividade a qual tenho me dedicado bastante ultimamente, e encontrei uma palavra bastante estranha. Eu já ouvi falar nela, mas nunca ia lembrar do significado sem a ajuda de um dicionário: outrossim.
- Você n-ã-o lembrava, Junior? *Risadas*
Claro que não, vai dizer que você fala assim todo dia: "Convidei as duas para virem assistir filme em minha casa, uma ficou doente e não veio, e a outra, outrossim, só não veio por que só viria se a outra viesse."
Língua estranha essa nossa... mas se for levar por esse ponto, todas são - pelo menos um pouquinho. Eu odeio as piadinhas de um colega de sala meu na aula de alemão. Aquela típica:
- ...Sehenswürdigkeit...
- Arre, isso tudo só pra dizer "Ponto turístico"?
E quanto a otorrinolaringologista? E pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiose? Inconstitucionalissimamente?
Faça-me o favor...
Foi meio sem lógica isso aqui, né? Só agora eu vi... eu estou um pouco fatigado e outrossim sem criatividade.
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Domingo, 8 de Junho de 2008
Home is where the heart is
É domingo e eu sinto minha solidão se rebatendo entre essas quatro paredes, duas das quais manchadas pela chuva, que às vezes escorre pela parede, e pela água infiltrada que sai dos encanamento mal encanado. Eu olho pra minha bagunça - a escrivaninha empoeirada, os fios espalhados pelo chão, a gaveta, que deveria ter as roupas dobradinhas dentro dela, suporta agora um emaranhado de calças, bermudas; blusas amarelas, azuis, vermelhas, pretas - só não marrom. Nunca gostei de marrom, até tive planos de me livrar da minha única blusa vermelho-tijolo, porque parece marrom, mas ela serve de emergência quando todas as minhas outras blusas estão sujas e eu não tenho mais nada para vestir para ir para a universidade. Enfim, eu olho para a minha bagunça e penso com os meus botões que ano re-retrasado tudo isso seria diferente. Eu me vejo sentado à frente do computador, dois anos atrás, enquanto minha mãe me diz pela milésima vez que não vai mais arrumar minha bagunça - tudo mentira, no outro dia meu quarto tá lá, arrumadinho - meu pai só a ajudava do outro lado, dando apoio moral. É nessa hora que meus olhos enchem d'água. Eu penso em perguntar onde está aquela folha com anotações bem importantes que estava em cima de minha cama, mas cadê a coragem? Eu pergunto e ela vem me falar da bagunça... não, não pergunto mesmo!
Quando eu saí de Barbalha, eu sabia de cara que logo logo iria sentir falta daquelas ruas feias, onde algumas pessoas se sentam pela manhã, tarde e noite para falar da vida alheia - algumas só à noite, porém - antes e depois da novela das oito. Agora eu fico alegre quando chego lá, aquele mormaço não me incomoda mais, nem as fofoqueiras sentadas à calçada 24-7 e muito menos minha mãe reclamando da minha bagunça. Ela não reclama mais. Não sei se porque eu agora sou mais organizado ou porque ela sente tanta falta de mim que a última coisa que pensa quando eu estou em casa é em reclamar comigo. Eu acredito mais no último motivo do que no primeiro.
Mas sabia que receber aquelas reclamações de novo a cada dois meses que vou lá não seriam lá coisa ruim? Muita gente diria que sou doido, mas eu digo apenas que sou diferente do comum. Agora eu sinto falta de pôr a roupa de domingo pra ir pra missa das 8:30 ou das 18:30, apesar de que às vezes eu inventava um motivo qualquer pra não ir - como ter dor de cabeça às 18:25 ou dormir até às 08:35. Eu, se fosse minha mãe ou meu pai naqueles dias, me dava uma surra, bem dada.
Agora eu vou ficando por aqui, não consigo mais ler, nem escrever, meus olhos estão suados. Vocês me entenderão, um dia, quando estiverem longe de casa.
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