multi-tasking

my mom has just made a *formal* complaint – that the blog doesn’t have ANY recipes in portuguese. so, to make it easier for the mothership and all of the brazilian friends who aren’t that keen in reading everything in english, i’m gonna make the effort of trying to post my recipes in THREE languages. phew. like i said, i’ll TRY. sometimes i’ll just post in one and the title in three. if you like the title but it isn’t in the language you understand the most, i’ll try my best to help you out. just give me a shout at the comments box and i’ll answer you the best way i can.

 

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minha mãe reclamou formalmente que eu não escrevo receitas em português. para agradar a gregos e troianos, vou colocar os títulos de receitas nas três línguas – português, inglês e espanhol – e tentarei escrever a receita nas três também. caso eu esteja sem saco/tempo, o título será nas três línguas; se o conteúdo não estiver na língua que você quer, me mande uma mensagem nos comentários, que eu respondo com a tradução, ok? não se acanhe, porque é mais fácil pra mim assim. quem sabe você me ajuda e depois eu adiciono a parte que traduzi pra você? ;)

esse negócio de blog em três línguas é BEM difícil… :)

 

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mi madre tiene reclamación: que no he puesto en el blog recetas en portugués. por eso, intentaré poner las recetas en las trés lenguas. por favor, paciencia! sabeis  que el castellano es la última adición en la cabeza, entonces es lo que sale con más dificultad. si acaso el título lleva el castellano pero la receta está en otra lengua, deje un mensaje en la parte de los comentarios y intentaré traducirla para ti. así me ayudas: si tengo que traducirla para ti, puedo ya copiarla y ponerla en el post original! y muchas gracias por la ayuda! ;)

best taste buddie :)

my friend jessica is a very good and soon-to-be world renowed chef (trust me, you’ll hear a lot from ms. graham…). and i feel (very) embarassed of posting food stuff here when i have a CHEF friend who also has a blog. hers, of course, is solely based on food, and she made a post just for me! :)

i feel really flattered – i’m very sweet toothed and my husband is at least three times worse. and desserts are REALLY hard to make; well, apart from brigadeiro and some other type of ”just throw everything into the pan and cook” food. she says it’s because you probably have to major in chemistry before trying to make any dish… since i flunked in chemistry in high school (actually i was caught cheating when i wasn’t actually cheating, i was covering for a friend who, yes, was cheating – and really bad at it, i might add – and i sucked at chemistry and would probably have flunked anyway, but that’s an entire different story, because i couldn’t end my exam cause “i was caught cheating”).

ANYWAY… chemistry isn’t one of my best, so desserts are difficult for me, okay? if you’re good at it, GOOD FOR YOU. you’ll probably die of diabetes and i’m better off at the end of the day… ha. yes, i’m jealous. and i’m bad when jealous. so what. a have a chef friend who dedicated a post on dessert just for me.

and she made the best dessert: tiramisù! i love coffee, i loooove when there’s liquor in desserts and i specially love when there’s chocolate involved! tiramisù ticks all the right boxes for me. it’s light and fluffy, it’s boozed up (so it makes everything and everyone more cheerful) and it goes well with your end-of-meal espresso because, well, it has coffee on it. and best of all, she says it’s the easiest dessert in the universe to make. well, i don’t count brigadeiro (and neither does she) cause, although being amazingly good, brigadeiro doesn’t impress anyone, people.

i can’t take the credit for this wonderful recipe and just post it here because:

1. well, she’s my friend and i have some morals;
2. she’s a wonderful cook and writer, so you should read her stuff and enjoy her dishes;
3. she made the post for meeeeee! so you should go and read it anyway. :D

so, stop being a lazy ass and click here: http://thymetocrave.blogspot.com/2009/10/thyme-for-dessert.html. and no need to tell me that she’s awesome – i know. she’s my friend for a reason. :)

i’m planning on doing this recipe week – anyone in barcelona care to taste it?

a los de barcelona – intentaré hacer la receta de tiramisù que mi amiga jessica me ha dado esta semana. alguien interesado en probarla? :)

as promised

here are the pics of the asian spiced pork with pak choi i made for Emma – i cooked it again, it wasn’t as great… unfortunately. i hope rafael (my invitee for that day) didn’t get pissed off as i kept saying “this wasn’t as great as the one i cooked for emma”, but the pics turned out ok, and here they are!

cooking it!

hubby gave me a hand on this one and took some of the pics while he was chatting away with rafael.

forks at the ready!

recipe is a bit below – or if you wanna jump right into it, it’s here: http://caughtmyeyes.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/sunday-roast. hope you enjoy it!

my diet or light “fake” risotto

everyone loves risotto – and i guess most of those people aren’t that fond on the calories that come as a side to the risotto. so, one day i was at home and had some carrots, mushrooms and leeks that were about to go “to the other side”. somehow i decided to try and make a risotto with them. bad thing that i didn’t have arborio rice (the type of rice needed to make the original risotto) – and good thing i had some regular brown rice!

smokin'!

i didn’t want to use butter and i didn’t have enough parmesan cheese to put into the risotto but i still wanted to add some stickyness and flavour to the rice. don’t ask me how those things come to my head, cause i don’t know, but i then decided to use a sachet of miso soup to add the “oomph” i wanted for my risotto. also, i joined some sliced turkey breast – those that you get finely sliced on delis as an alternative to ham or whatever (i LOVE them, they’re not an alternative for me!). the turkey gives the dish a very smokey flavour that is absolutely gorgeous!

crazy as this may sound, TRUST ME, the ingredients for this “fake” risotto will make you a very nice dish for two somewhat hungry people.

Ingredients:

200 g of brown (or regular, if you don’t have brown) rice

1 large finely chopped onion

1 teaspoon of vegetable (or chicken) stock

2 tablespoons of olive oil

1 sachet of miso soup

300 g of chopped carrots

150 g of chopped leeks

200 g of fresh mushrooms

150 g of turkey breast

 

Preparation:

Put the olive oil into a large pan, put the onions to soften, then add the carrots. After two minutes add the leeks, and a minute after add the rice. Add the vegetable stock and some water. Stir often and check if the vegetables are cooking – and also the rice. Add the turkey breast sliced into some chunks and also add the miso soup. When the rice is half cooked, add the mushrooms. Keep stirring often and add water if needed for the rice to cook. After the water has evaporated and the rice is cooked, the risotto is ready! Serve with a bit of parmesan cheese on top.

eat up!

Tip: you can add the vegetables you want, but always keep the stock, the miso soup and the turkey. I couldn’t find any substitute for the flavours those ingredients gave to the recipe!

Hope you enjoy it! Also, if you have your own tips, please let me know! ;)

crazy thinking

my hubby sent me an email with a very interesting article from the telegraph about the most ”pointless” research: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6223831/Pointless-research-top-10-Ig-Nobel-award-winners-for-silly-science.html

kind of made me wonder: which “pointless” research some 200 years ago is now part of our lifestyle? i mean, i’m pretty sure when ben franklin was going around with a kite under a thunderstorm A LOT of people thought ”ok, crazy man… you win. now go and enter your home and stop running around screaming when it’s raining!’.

the invention – or discovery – of some many things had probably the most stupid types of curiosity behind them. for instance, i know that the few brazilian servicemen who went to fight during the second world war used newspaper between their socks and boots to keep humidity and cold far from their feet. crazy as it may sound, it was one of the first types of insulation - and servicemen from other countries began to follow the brazilians on their crazy quest for old newspaper. or the fact that penicilin was just “found” because alexander fleming left his samples out of the fridge…

i get the point that the UK need some specific type of research and the government is willing to pay for researchers to investigate those specific things. but i think the main force that drives discoveries that revolutionize the way we live are the ones that begin with a very dubious idea – or, at least, some sort of crazy action!

do we look sane to you?

triste…

esse resultado das olimpíadas é triste, muito triste. pra mim, é a validação de tudo que eu abomino no brasil: a baderna, a desorganização, o “fazer nas coxas”, esse clima eterno de festa. porém, o que mais me incomoda é essa visão de que copa do mundo e olimpíadas vão trazer algo de bom pro brasil.

na história das olimpíadas modernas, só houve UMA cidade que conseguiu um resultado positivo no papel – los angeles, em 1984. explico: LA foi a única cidade-sede de olimpíadas onde o valor gasto com o evento foi recuperado pelo governo, seja com o influxo de turistas, as vendas de serviços, produtos (que geram impostos) e venda de prédios/estádios depois do evento. ou seja, desde 1900, uma cidade aproveitou as olimpíadas. as outras 30 sofreram perdas. não conto beijing, porque ainda não foram confirmados os rumores que perdeu MUITO dinheiro – e provavelmente nunca serão, afinal o governo chinês não assume perdas NUNCA! :)

e, minha gente, DE ONDE vem o dinheiro pra financiar isso? do meu, do seu, do nosso dinheiro público. do pagamento de impostos que nós diariamente fazemos, seja comprando pão, renovando IPVA, fazendo vistoria, pagando IPTU, ICMS, e mais outros ZILHÕES de impostos que não vale nem a pena lembrar – se eu listar tudo aqui, vou fazer todo mundo ficar deprimido por umas duas semanas.

palhaço, eu?

“o governo federal se compromete a pagar” – disse nosso “estimado” presidente. hoje em dia eu não consigo ver uma foto dele que me dá vontade de chorar de tanta raiva. eu peço a Deus todos os dias que ele, um dia, veja o quanto de mal fez em simplesmente não fazer nada. porque, sim, ele podia fazer MUITO. ele, com toda a sua “popularidade”, podia passar leis que ajudariam o brasil no longo prazo. ele poderia ter forçado mudanças históricas para o nosso país. ele poderia ter sido tanta coisa……. mas não o foi. foi isso aí. esse arroz de festa que só viaja e só quer saber de ter o ego afagado.

nosso “estimado”, quando perguntado se a vinda de obama para defender a candidatura de chicago causava algum temor por parte da candidatura do rio, respondeu à Associated Press dizendo que “obama podia ser popular, mas ele que tinha 80% de aprovação em seu país”. claro. porque realmente isso tem a ver com a candidatura do rio.

quando eu peço a Deus, não peço nada de mal a ele, por incrível que possa parecer. peço que ele veja isso e que, depois de ficar uns dias deprê (porque, sinceramente, ver que teve oito anos pra fazer muito e não fez nada deve ser pesado – pra dizer educadamente), levante, sacuda a poeira e REALMENTE faça algo pelo país. porque se tem uma pessoa que poderia fazer muito (lobby é tudo nessa vida , infelizmente) - seria ele (mas não vai ser, né….).

 

e a farra continua, companheiros

 

anyway, olimpíadas. e nós pagando a conta. por algo que, provavelmente, vai trazer mais coisa ruim que coisa boa (a parte da óbvia perda de dinheiro). má publicidade de uma cidade violenta, desorganizada, sem transporte público decente (vejam que nem exijo de “qualidade”), com uma população que, apesar de muito receptiva, não fala nada de inglês e não recebe nada de turistas. colocando em perspectiva: o brasil inteiro recebe menos turistas que buenos aires sozinha.

nós tivemos problemas de tráfego aéreo SÉRIOS, e que não foram devidamente resolvidos. nós fomos a cidade candidata com menos estrutura já construída. nós temos um aeroporto internacional que não consegue receber mais de 40 aviões por dia. nós não temos infra-estrutura nem pra nós, como podemos querer oferecer pros outros?

o que me deixa mais triste é que esse dinheiro poderia ir para educação, saúde, trasnporte público e, principalmente e primariamente, segurança pública. milhões e milhões de reais gastos para mais uma “festa”. e com uma população que endossa isso. afinal, o dinheiro público não é nosso – é “do governo”.

o que resume a candidatura do rio, pra mim, é ver os logos das quatro cidades candidatas enviadas para aparecer no dia das eleições. todas evocando as cores olímpicas – com tokio e chicago colocando abaixo de seus logos o logo do COI (os cinco aros com as cores diferentes). só o rio que colocou as cores do brasil. a olimpíada não é SOBRE nós, muito menos PARA nós, brasileiros, cariocas. olimpíada é uma festa mundial, celebração de como podemos ser pessoas melhores, deixando de lado desavenças e se divertindo juntos. mas, como sempre, somos tão “cabeça pequena”, que achamos que isso é algum prêmio nosso. o rio venceu, o brasil venceu, o lula venceu. os latin0-americanos desprezados venceram os imperialistas. os oprimidos venceram os opressores.

 

which is the odd one out?

 

no final das contas, que bom que o brasil ganhou olimpíadas e copa do mundo. talvez isso seja o que a população precise rever suas prioridades. bolsa-família só agrada aos pobres? vamos descolar uma candidatura pra copa/olimpíada/pan/qualquer coisa – isso sim, agrada à ricos e pobres. e vamos continuando com o samba, porque a farra não pode parar……..

chega de festa grátis “com tudo liberado”. THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH. tomara que um dia meu país veja isso. :(

 

let the games begin!

worldwide shopping

my friend erica recently had a baby in brazil - the lovely dante! she lived in london for a couple of years and, unfortunately, she misses the imense supply of baby products that was constantly on offer there. not that brazilian babies walk around naked and sleep in cardboard boxes (no, we do not live in trees! :D), but there is an absurd lack of diversity in products -and not just for babies.

i think this is due to a combination of extremely high import taxes with even more extreme margins from sellers and a biased view from the public that they should pay a premium for “imported” products (ok, when they come from china or india, there’s actually a devaluation of the product!).

words cannot describe my feelings towards the lack of supply for so many things in brazil. i think that we, as 190 million people, deserve a bit more. but i won’t bother you with my feelings of rage towards the government and some brazilian companies. i came here to share my knowledge about…….. (cue trumpets!) WORLDWIDE DELIVERY SHOPPING SITES!

unfortunately there aren’t many clothing sites that deliver internationally. most of them refrain from doing that mainly because of logistics purposes and problems with returns. since most of the european countries and the U.S. have laws that protect customers (yet some more complaining about brazil), people can buy through the internet and return their goods within 14 to 28 days of arrival to get their money back. that way, if they deliver worldwide and retain their policy, they might have their products “retained” in the hands of a customer for over two months – considering delivery and sending back time – and it is likely they won’t be able to sell it again.

even so, there are some very good websites that deliver around europe and worldwide too! i’ll list them below together with their main business:

Beauty sites:

• HQ hair – http://www.hqhair.com: beauty website that sells make-up, hair products, perfume, accessories such as hair dryers, hair straighteners, jewelry, brushes and many other things! worldwide delivery
• LoveLula- http://www.lovelula.com: although i would NEVER EVER recommend ANYONE to love our president, love lula is an organic beauty website that delivers worldwide. they sell make-up, bath & body, fragrances, hair products, porducts just for men, pregnant women and babies.
• FeelUnique – http://www.feelunique.com: another beauty website that sells pretty much anything related to beauty - they even sell underwear! their brand catalogue is quite big.
• GlowGirl – http://www.glowgirl.co.uk: also offers international delivery but you have to spend a minimum of 49.95 pounds to qualify. if you’re a big spender, this one has the biggest supply of Bare Minerals i’ve seen! :)

 

Clothing sites:

• ASOS – http://www.asos.com: once this was a shop which only sold “as seen on screen” (ie. clothes seen in celebrities) clothing and hence the name for the website. now it is a gigantic portal for several big brands (including alexander mcqueen, cacharel, calvin klein, D&G, DKNY, diesel, emporio armani and oh so many others). they also have big high street names such as GAP, oasis, french connection, mango, among others. they sell womenswear, menswear, childrenswear and also sell loads of beauty products. beware of asos – once you enter the website it’s IMPOSSIBLE to leave empty handed! oh, and they often send to former buyers some nice discount codes!
• FashionStoreHQ – http://www.fashionstorehq.com: they don’t have a lot, but they are very clever. they ship your parcels as “gift”, so your chances of paying custom charges are minimal. worth navigating just because of  this. :)
• AlexAndAlexa – http://www.alexandalexa.com: for the stylish babies, toddlers and kids. this is *the* website for luxury label clothing for children – there are some very affordable items, but expect to gasp at some price tags.
• TravelSmith - http://www.travelsmith.com: they say it’s a “travel apparel” website – and indeed they sell travel apparel – but they also sell clothes for men and women who like to dress casually and confortably but yet stylishly.
• Amoralia – http://www.amoralia.com: amoralia sells ONLY maternity underwear. perfect for brazilians who don’t know where to find this, since there isn’t any around there…
• BambinoMio – http://www.bambinomio.com: they sell products for babies such as cotton nappies and nappy covers, hypo allergenic and non biological washing powder, laundry bags, among many other stuff.
• Net-a-Porter – http://www.netaporter.com: fashion heaven!!! they sell pretty much all luxury labels – think of Harvey Nichols/Bergdordf’s on your doorstep. love them oh so much! shame i don’t have the money to get ALL of their stuff!! just for the ladies – sorry, boys.

 

Another interesting sites:

• AdventureShop – http://www.adventureshop.co.uk: they sell pretty much everything for sports – any sport! apparel, gear, clothing, gadgets, you name it, it’s there.
• 118Golf - http://www.118golf.co.uk: this one is probably only for my doctor, Dr. Maracajá. golf supplies and clothing from the best brands. i want a discount for procedures now! :D
• TheBookDepository – http://www.bookdepository.co.uk: i’ve bought tons of books from this website and they never failed me. and, most of all, i’ve received them super-fast (spanish post SUCKS! sorry spaniards).

 

PHEW! guys, i’m VERY tired after pulling out all of those sites. if you need some info on any particular item(s) you want, just comment on this and i’ll try my best to answer your queries! and i hope you all enjoy those i’ve placed here – i’m sure you already have a good selection “to play” for days! :)

sunday roast

food is always a good subject – especially on a sunday. yesterday my friend emma came along so we could watch some x factor (if you’ve never heard/seen it, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/thexfactoruk?blend=1&ob=4 and enjoy!) and i made some “carol’s version of asian food”. i didn’t follow any recipe, i just remembered watching this old jamie oliver programme in which he did something thai-based with pak choi and mushrooms. so, with that in mind – and some weird craving for chillies and garlic – i decided to cook spiced pork with pak choi, mushrooms and leeks. oh, side order of delicious sticky jasmin rice.

i didn’t take any pics because i didn’t know it was gonna be SOOOOOOOOOO good! i loved it! it was one of those very successful kitchen moments that won’t repeat itself anytime soon. shame. but i’ll share the recipe with you and later on i’ll post the pics (when i make it again) and will reference it back to this one.

pak choi - i'll try to find some brazilian translation

Ingredients:

diced (around 1cm³) filet of pork

pak choi (asian leaves, pic below)

fresh mushrooms (any you like – i used cup, shiitake and shimeji)

leeks

jasmin sticky rice

chilli paste

garlic

coriander

chives (spring onions work best though)

chinese five spice

lime juice

salt

sesame seed oil

 

Preparation:

Make a marinade for the pork with the chinese five spice, lime juice, salt, garlic and chilli paste. Leave the pork in the marinade for at least 30 minutes.

While waiting, prepare the jasmin sticky rice. Unlike long grain, jasmin sticky rice doesn’t need to be previously washed. Just put it in a pan with a bit of salt and boiling water and let it cook.

Throw some sesame seed oil in a hot wok and let it heat up. Toss the pork with the marinade in it, let it cook for some 3 minutes, then throw the mushrooms and the leek. Let it cook for another 3 to 5 minutes (or until the mushrooms look cooked).

At this moment, check the seasoning – if it needs more salt, chilli paste, lime juice, some vegetable stock (didn’t put it on the recipe because i didn’t use it, but you can to enhance flavours if you want). Add more of what you want and then add the pak choi.

I normally don’t chop the pak choi – i like their shape and a bit of crunchiness, so for me it’s good this way. If you can, you can chop it into smaller pieces.

Also add the coriander and the spring onions/chives and let them soften a bit. After that, it’s ready to serve!

Hope you enjoy it! :)

 

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Para los de Barcelona/España: hay algunos supermercados chinos en España que venden productos asiáticos (y alguna cosa de productos internacionales). Me quedé muy sorprendida con uno cerca de la Plaza Cataluña – allí lo habia de todo, desde productos frescos, como pak choi, tofu, jengibre y muchos otros, hasta salsas prontas. Casi todo para comida china, japonesa, thai, indiana, creo que todo que es de asia, se lo encuentra allí! :)

Dong Fang: Carrer Balmes, 6 – tel: 933 012 587

sugar high

i’m obsessed with cupackes lately. everytime i have a craving, i don’t even have to think about what that craving might be. i want a yummy piece of cakey heaven on my lips. preferentially with a nice, creamy topping. this happened because my friend emma sent me a message about a cupcake/tea house near my house. i went there and, to my surprise, that place is all i ever wanted to exist here (oh well… yes, there is the matter of M&S simply food. but let’s forget about that at this moment. give me a hand here – i’m happy).

delish!

 it’s a wi-fi enabled haven, with lots of dark colours in the walls and mood lighting, serving mainly tea and cupcakes. they have a shop in the front, so you can try to make your own little cakes at home.  as long as i live here, this place will never run out of business.

mood lighting, wi-fi, tea and cake - now, winter and rain, please.

for those who live, are stopping by or are in the search for a perfect cupcake and tea, look out for The Fabulous Cupcake Co. - Carrer del Bisbe Sivilla, 48 – Barcelona – c.p. 08023. They have a website (currently in construction) with some more info about the place. Hope you enjoy it! And if you see me around, drop me a hello! :)

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Para los de España: si conoces a los cupcakes tán tradicionales en los EEUU y Reino Unido, vás a te enamorar con los de Fabulous Cupcake Co. Hay que ir por lo menos una vez si te encuentras en Barcelona.

a triste realidade de ser brasileiro

fico triste com certos aspectos da nossa cultura que nos fazem uma eterna terra da ironia. terra da ironia, explico: em nossa bandeira, centralizado, envolvendo o nosso “mundo”, a faixa do “ORDEM E PROGRESSO”. quer terra com menos ordem e progresso que a nossa? claro, países africanos. cara, esses não deveriam nem entrar mais na conta, sinceramente. a gente tem que aprender a se comparar com países de igual calibre. sei lá, china, índia, rússia, argentina, chile, colômbia, méxico… esses sim. nego tem bagunça nesses países? claro. de gênero, número e grau do nosso? discutível.

no brasil TUDO consegue virar bandalha. e pior, a maioria DEFENDE a bandalha. vide o caso do festival de cinema do rio: http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/festivaldorio2009/mat/2009/09/25/o-carioca-nao-usa-black-tie-na-abertura-do-festival-do-rio-767773999.asp. começou ontem. debaixo de chuva, com um “frio” de 16 graus. ok, ok. é frio pra quem vive no rio. mas minha gente, NAONDE que chuva impede que pessoas se vistam bem? aliás, que intempérie faz com que pessoas se vistam mal? até onde eu saiba, só debaixo d’água e no ártico – e, mesmo assim, existe maquiagem waterproof e roupas de esqui da chanel… então, dizer que chuva e 16 graus celsius impedem alguém de se vestir bem, sinto muito, é o mesmo que dizer “meu filho não sabe ir no banheiro sozinho e tem 16 anos porque a lua é feita de queijo”. NÃO FAZ SENTIDO.

se tony ramos e esposa conseguem, você consegue também...

e pior: o convite pedia black-tie. querido, não é esforço alugar um smoking na só a rigor e vestir no dia da festa. aliás, é MAIS fácil. você, bom amigo da rede globo, não precisa PENSAR no que vai vestir. ele tá lá. do jeito que tem que ser. facinho, facinho, só te esperando. verdade, vai ter que pagar pelo aluguel. mas, convenhamos, essa galera que é convidada pra essas coisas comprou roupa nova pra ir – especialmente “celebridades” brasileiras, que ADOURAM aparecer.

cantor de churrascaria chic é melhor que black tie?

e para mulheres, quer motivo melhor pra se arrumar? no brasil nego acha que longo é só pra casamento – quando na verdade, longo é só para o que, minha gente? EVENTOS BLACK TIE. e mais: tá com frio? ótimo, porque vestido longo cobre as pernas! casaquinho, bolerinho, echarpe, tudo isso mantém a etiqueta e, ainda por cima, AQUECE! olha só, que facilidade!

torloni aderindo ao movimento "joga uma echarpe e vai"

ah, e não me venham com comentários do tipo: mas o rio é informal, o rio é quente, o rio é úmido, o rio é uma bagunça mesmo, eu não vou porque os outros não vão, e coisas afins. o rio foi a cidade mais de vanguarda da américa do sul até 1960, o rio foi pólo de moda da américa do sul até os anos 60, o rio ainda é pólo de moda do brasil (se considerar moda praia e as novelas da globo), o rio é úmido e várias outras cidades do mundo também são, chuva não é monopólio de São Sebastião – muito menos calor, e bagunça se resolve com ORDEM E PROGRESSO. ordem social e progresso mental da maioria dessa gente de cabeça minúscula que vive no rio de janeiro.

ah, e pro “porque os outros não vão, eu também não vou”: já dizia meu pai, se todos se jogarem do alto da ponte, você também se joga, meu amor? seja você mesmo, criativo dentro do âmbito da lei e ordem e SE JOGUE no smoking. porque bonito mesmo é quem consegue inovar dentro do que foi pedido. calça jeans e camiseta, um certo sr. levi strauss inventou em 1800 e coquinho…

" tamo inovando, hein?"

como disse um dos poucos sãos na parte dos comentários do globo online: semana passada tava 30 e tantos graus em los angeles e todas as pessoas que foram à entrega dos emmys estavam se derretendo porém cumprindo o pedido de black-tie. difícil de se vestir e/ou arranjar roupa certa não é… difícil mesmo é ser cidadão correto e cumpridor da lei. reflexo nas grandes coisas e reflexo também nas pequenas. ao ver coisas como esta da abertura do festival de cinema, se vê como o brasileiro tem um problema em ser law abiding citizen.

antonio pitanga: law abiding citizen with a twist

é né… é muito difícil ser brasileiro. é muito difícil pensar que nem o resto do mundo, saber certas leis de convivência, cortesia social e REGRAS SOCIAIS EM GERAL. é difícil demais!

cansei. isso me irrita DEMAIS pra continuar. :)