… mas discreta, que o temporal que se abateu e a quantidade de bêbados laranja nas redondezas não estava lá muito convidativa.

não foi um espectáculo bonito de se ver. pelo jogo em si - e bolas, que nervoso miudinho (ainda bem que a joy, a nossa pacifista tailandesa, lá estava para eu agarrar o braço de alguém), mas também pela nossa posição, uns 20cm abaixo da média à nossa volta… o ratio de nós/eles devia rondar os 1/20, no sally’s… mas lá ganhamos.
temos pena :P
e nada paga o sorrisito com que presenteei a malta no trabalho, na segunda de manhã… (não é que estão todos a torcer pela inglaterra? ai…)

(desculpem lá a má qualidade, quando estiver em casa redimensiono a imagem. entretanto cliquem para ver maior. pedro, bigado pela foto. :) )

(a capa d’ o jogo de hoje)

ora bem, em dia de portugal-holanda, lá estaremos bem no meio dos holandeses, para cantar o hino com quanta força tivermos nos pulmões e apoiar a nossa selecção! sempre estamos mais pertinho da alemanha, pode ser que nos ouçam…

(isto a ver se eu amanhã sorrio à pessoa que me perguntou, lá na companhia, se “portugal também estava no mundial?” aiiii…..)

facts:

* today was the last dutch holiday before xmas.
* i’m halfway through the internship, 3 months to go.
* the holiday season has started in the company. 4 weeks of vacation for everybody between now and september. which means, less people, more boringness.
* holidays for everyone except for me. i got 6 days to spend on a trip home, to make some school exams.
* add a month to study for these exams. add another 2 months to study for september exams.
* and a couple of deadlines.
* and friends leaving, without a return ticket.

mix everything and you get ana’s summer picture.

i’d be depressed, but there’s no time for that.

levi and lulu, dear friends, feet on the sky.
he knows nothing about his future except he wants to fly somewhere and explore some more. she’ll return to shanghai in about a month, to wear her ally-macbeal-professional-outfit once again.
she wore a bikini for the first time the day i took this picture: we managed to convince her to do so, despite her relutance - as it is not morally allowed in china (or most asian countries, i’ve heard).
her big happy smile, sunbathing in the grass: “this is nice.”
indeed.

i’ve been in the netherlands for the past 8 months, and now that my head is in countdown mode towards september, i can’t seem to actually believe it. not just yet. all my life is here (except for family and the bit of my heart that flew overseas), on this cozy room, walls filled with stories, details and memories.
living in the same corridor with all the people that got to be my closest friends. it’s just too good AND it’s true.

last week troia, my little yellow guppy (a guppy is a tiny little species of aquarium fish) passed away.
porca was not feeling so good anymore, all alone… so friends around here decided to get him some company.
four guppies and a second hand aquarium later, i have 5 happy little fish, joyfully swimming all day long. problem is, they don’t have names… so the survey is open on the comments. what names do you suggest for the four new fishes? give it your best shot!

plus, there will a little something for the winner(s) :P what are you waiting for?

ps - i dont know much about their personality yet. one is black with blue reflections on the scales, one is half black half white, one is orange with purple dots and one is yellow, with white dots. the yellow one is faithfully followed by porca the whole day. :| they’re all tiny and lovely.

featuring ana and her workplace, from the bevrijdingsdag (liberation day) festival, in the city park. warm days, blue skies, green grass and music in the air… feels like summer :D

if you have to pick a time of the year to come around, do it on the 30th april. spring is well settled in, lots of flowers to look at and then boom! queen’s day. it was celebrated last saturday (hence on the 29th, because sunday is not a very good day to party - everybody know that) and was great - lots of people in the streets dressed in orange, concerts in the city’s main square, and the best of all, the free market. imagine all kinds of people selling all kinds of stuff in the streets. from kids to grown-ups, from junk to amazing treasures, food, drinks or just playing music. amazing! why don’t we have such a thing in portugal?!

well, me, joy, heye, nurcan, lulu and levi found a free spot on the sidewalk to lay our wallets in the beggining of the afternoon and we were imediatly flooded by curious looks and interesting comments. the boys stayed in the middle of the street, chatting and subtly diverging people towards us. the girls (from portugal, thailand, china and turkey) smiled and showed the wallets. lulu spent the afternoon trying to say “portemonnaie!” and her cute chinese accent made people laugh and approach us.

we had all kinds of costumers, from little kids (who had probably just finished selling their old toys somewhere else) to grandma’s, couples in love, crafty chicks, even mothers who would come and let all of their 5 kids choose their favourite one. we even had people coming back for more to offer to loved onesn or telling us about which milk they drink everyday, how it was such a nice idea. we made a website (www.pantominas.com) about the project and some general instructions to make wallets and we slipped it into them.

it was perfect - three hours later, only a few wallets were left from the initial 160, and we came back home tired and happy to the bones.

nurcan even got a xmas themed present from the lady selling stuff next to us, just because “we attracted so many costumers”. :D

(this last picture was taken by a dutch guy :| a very tall specimen.)