Be careful what you wish for

A German driver, dressed in red and stepping on the top place of the podium. Now that was typical a decade ago, but today there was a replay of that scenario. Who would have thought that 2 weeks ago?

Not many people for sure, and I admit me neither. But I am happy, more than happy. Mainly because as usual after one race, sometimes after the Winter tests, people come and complain about all sorts of things. The new rules and engines are crap. There is no competition. Mercedes are too far ahead and will win everything. Rules have to be changed to make the sport more competitive. And then it takes 1 race, 1 race only and we get already a different winner. And a driver and team that were win less the year before.
It was brilliant, absolutely brilliant, that Vettel and Ferrari answered so many questions in just a couple of hours.

The Chronicles of Paris - The Shower, the Internet and the Train

This text was originally published here (in Portuguese) on the 07-Mar-2011

No, I am no thinking in writing a fantasy saga with amazing stories set on incredible worlds. Although I do have some incredible stories that might be considered fantasy.
Basically I went to Paris this weekend, more precisely to Val-de-Marne, to spend it with my parents. But let's take one step at the time since, because this told in smaller parts might be funnier:

The Piss Problematic

This text was originally published here (in Portuguese) on the 06-Mar-2008

It became a routine. Every now and then we got the e-mail, sent by the administrative assistants, to complain about the mess that we, the male colleagues, made at the toilets. That because at my previous job the toilets were common, shared between the men and the (few) women.
But why were the WC dirty? Basically they were full of ... piss in the floor around the toilet.
Does this mean that all men are pigs and can't even piss properly? No doubt that some are, and we all are careless in the act at times, but the truth is that pissing is really a complicated procedure and that most of the times it leaves traces outside the proper places, meaning the toilet and urinal.
Because I know that women will find this difficult to understand, I will use an analogy, that I am certain will make everybody understand my point.

A match made in heaven?

When the new partnership between McLaren and Honda for the 2015 season was announced, many people thought it would be a repeat of the previous partnership that dominated F1 in the late 80s and early 90s.
On top of that the last year that Honda had a turbo F1 engine paired with a McLaren car, they dominated entirely the season winning all bar one race.
Me on the other hand, as well as some others of course, was actually thinking on the previous venture in F1 by Honda that failed big time. Toyota also had big ambitious and came up short so I did not trusted much in the Japanese engineering, as before.

Starting the new season with the first Grand Prix at Melbourne, many people were still believing McLaren would pull a Red Bull 2014 (where they performed miserably in testing only to be the second fastest team at the season start).
In reality they were a mirror of the 1988 season. Back then they locked up the first row in Qualifying and now they locked up the last row, like a mirror (where left is right and right is left)...

Google knows me well

This text was originally published here (in Portuguese) on the 23-Dec-2014

Searching for an image using text "Winter is coming" to talk about the Winter Solstice, Google presented me in the results of the search the following image, that seemed to me a bit out of place:

One might think that Google decided to show me this because it knows me well, knows my taste (or fetish) in HUGE BREASTS and in its supreme clairvoyance thought "here you go, you will like it". And it is true, I did liked it! A lot!

Reversed roles

The blog has just started and I immediately start breaking the rules by writing a unpublished text instead of just translating a previous one. And it will be a serious subject moreover.

So, I guess you guys can identify the images on the left. It's those idiots from ISIS destroying historical artefacts at the Iraqi city of Nimrud. These so-called Muslims are in reality some fucked up morons who are using their very twisted interpretation of the old books to spread destruction and chaos.

Before them we had the Taliban, another messed-up horde of dimwits, destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan and God knows what else in Afghanistan.
But it is curious that is the complete reversal of roles of what happened before, almost 1000 years ago.

Ready, Set, Go!

10 years ago I made a trip that started it all: the writing of texts to be shared with others. The 8th of March was the day I sent my first a chronicle about that trip so it is fitting that I chose the same day, 10 years later day to start this new blog.

For those who don't know me, I am Portuguese guy born in France more than 35 years ago but raised in Portugal. I started working and the fairly young age of 17 and that allowed me to do some working stints in the UK, Japan and France and 4 years ago I moved from Portugal to The Netherlands, also due to professional reasons.
I am married and I am a father, and I am only telling you that because I will write about both subjects, or mention them from time to time.