Saturday 9 January 2010

Camera Obscura - "My maudlin career" (lyrics)

Brilliant, melancholic, bucolic songs I've been looking for for ages and I found at last!
The latest album from this Scottish band is simply sublime...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5ngUPK-T4

Lyrics
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You kissed me on the forehead
Now this kiss is giving me a concussion
We were love at first sight
Now it's crush
It's crushing
Now choose two stops through the city though
I'm lost easily
I took to the desert but my heart just whines
and deceive me
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Now we're in love again
And you're wherevers
I'm not a child I know
We're not going steady
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You're pain's gigantic but it's not as big as your ego
Promise not to abandon you, please let me go
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Now I've been hurting your feelings
Yeah they were worth protecting
They say I'm too kind and sentimental
Like you could catch affection
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Oh in your eyes there's a sadness
Enough to kill the both of us
Are those eyes overrated?
They make me want to give up on love
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I'll brace myself for the holiness
Say hello to feelings that I detest
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This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
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This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
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Bill Callahan - "Too many birds" (lyrics)

American singer. For years I've been waiting for listening to a song like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_weCYvN5KU

Lyrics

Too many birds in one tree
Too many birds in one tree
And the sky is full of black and screaming leaves
The sky is full of black and screaming
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And one more bird
Then one more bird
And one last bird
And another
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One last black bird without a place to land
One last black bird without a place to be
Turns around in hopes to find the place it last knew rest
Oh black bird, over black rain burn
This is not where you last knew rest
You fly all night to sleep on stone
The heartless rest that in the morn, we'll be gone
You fly all night to sleep on stone, to return to the tree with too many birds
Too many birds
Too many birds
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If...
If you...
If you could...
If you could only...
If you could only stop...
If you could only stop your...
If you could only stop your heart...
If you could only stop your heart beat...
If you could only stop your heart beat for...
If you could only stop your heart beat for one heart...
If you could only stop your heart beat for one heart beat.
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2009 FRM Full Exam: passed!!!


I'm just happy with my approval in the 2009 FRM Full Exam!!!
Now I take part of an internationally recognized risk professional group...
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Sunday 1 November 2009

Matt Costa - "Cold December" (lyrics)

Nice video and song from this American singer-songwriter.
Cold weather is all I want...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnQAXlSokYw

Lyrics
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I've been waiting, pacing along the halls ever since you left here
I've been cleaning, scrubbing the plates and weeding out the garden dear
I can't fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore
I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me
Swallowing glass just to stay pure
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All the birds are heading down south but you're staying up north you say
I've got jackets blankets and sheets, it's going to be a cold December
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It could be warm you see, a statue next to me
Swimming away from the ice and snow
Could I have failed to see the signs in front of me
Warning and flashing symbols, subtle and simple I couldn't see
I couldn't see
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If only time could slow down, maybe I could come up
It's such a cold December
It's such a cold December
It's so cold
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I cant fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore
I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me
Swallowing glass just to stay pure
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Summers come and summer has gone
Your Christmas cards can't comfort me
You've found new friends and tied all the ends
It's freezing in the loneliest winter
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It could be warm you see, a statue next to me
Swimming away from the ice and snow
Could I have failed to see the signs in front of me
Warning and flashing symbols, subtle and simple I couldn't see
I couldn't see
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If only time could slow down, then maybe I could come up
It's such a cold December
It's such a cold December
It's so cold
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Monday 31 August 2009

My immigration process to Canada - It's over!

I'm here to declare that I've finally got my immigration passport to Québec, Canada!!!
Four years have passed since the beginning, many things have changed in my life and today I'm still in the process of deciding whether I should stay or I should go...
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Brain teaser 23 (solution)

Simultaneously light both ends of one rope and one end of the other; when the first rope burns out (after half a minute), light the other end of the second. When it finishes, 45 seconds have passed.
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Saturday 29 August 2009

All Saints - Black Coffee (lyrics)

I'm just recollecting those golden years in Netherlands circa 2000/2002 and would suggest this lovely British pop band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCc4eLOZCw4

Lyrics
Night Swimming
Beach walking
Always silent
Never talking
Then you call my name
And I know inside I love you
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Sail away
I miss you more
Until you see the shore
There I will be waiting
Anticipating
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Each moment is new
And breeds a moment
Each moment is cool
And breeds a moment
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I wouldn't wanna be
Anywhere else but... here
I wouldn't wanna change
Anything at all
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I wouldn't wanna take
Everything out on... you
Though I know I do
Everytime I fall
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Day dreaming
Chain smoking
Always laughin
Always jokin
I remain the same
Did I tell you that I love you
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Brush your teeth
And pour a cup of black coffee out
I love to watch you do that every day
The little things that you do
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Each moment is new
And breeds a moment
Each moment is cool
And breeds a moment
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I wouldn't wanna be
Anywhere else but... here
I wouldn't wanna change
Anything at all
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I wouldn't wanna take
Everything out on... you
Though I know I do
Everytime I fall
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Each moment is cool
And breeds a moment
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I wouldn't wanna be
Anywhere else but... here
I wouldn't wanna change
Anything at all
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I wouldn't wanna take
Everything out on... you
Though I know I do
Everytime I fall
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I wouldn't wanna be
Anywhere else but... here
I wouldn't wanna change
Anything at all
.
I wouldn't wanna take
Everything out on... you
Though I know I do
Everytime I fall
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Nice women
Beach walking
Always silent
Never talking
Then you call my name
And I know inside I love you
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Sail away
I miss you more
Until you see the shore
There I will be waiting
Anticipating
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Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar


If you feel like party, this sound/video is the one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODd6OGDNWSU
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Saturday 22 August 2009

Pizzicato Five - Magic Carpet Ride (lyrics)


The best song from this fantastique Japanese pop band.
Listen to the English version first then go to the Japanese live version.
Simply merveilleux!!!
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English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qaAGz2INEI
Japanese version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4jaIh9GtE


Lyrics
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Kimi to boku wa
Fushigi dakedo
Mukashi kara
Tomodachi
Da yo ne
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Ni sen konen wo
Ai shiatteru
Sonna fu ni
Kanjitari
Shinai?
.
Soshite futari
Itsu no ma ni ka
Toshi wo totte
Shimau kedo
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Itsu made mo
Futari
Asonde
Kuraseru nara ne
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Magic carpet ride
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Mahou mitai
Me ga sameru to
Kimi ga iru
Hana no yo na
Kaori
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Ni sen konen wo
Persia jutan de
Mo ichido
Hitottobi shimasho
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Soshite futari
Itsu no ma ni ka
Toshi wo totte
Shimau kedo
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Itsu made mo
Futari
Asonde
Kuraseru nara ne
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Magic carpet ride
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Soshite itsuka
Bokutachi ni mo
Kodomo ga
Umareru daro
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Demo
Itsumade mo futari
Asonde kuraseru nara
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Onaji bed de
Dakiatte
Shineru nara ne
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Magic carpet ride
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Stereogram 2

What is the image you can see above?
Please refer to Stereogram 1 to recall what a stereogram is.
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Saturday 15 August 2009

Tim Maia - Eu amo você (lyrics)


For those who are in love, this is one of the best Brazilian love songs from the old seventies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScAVG139z8w&feature=related

Lyrics
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Toda vez que eu olho...
Toda vez que eu chamo...
Toda vez que eu penso...
Em lhe dar o meu amor...
Meu coração... (pensa que não vai ser possível)
De lhe encontrar... (pensa que não vai ser possível)
De lhe amar... (pensa que não vai ser possível)
De conquistá-la...
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Eu amo você, menina...
Eu amo você...
Eu amo você, menina...
Eu amo você...
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Toda vez que eu olho...
Toda vez que eu chamo...
Toda vez que eu penso...
Em lhe dar o meu amor...
Meu coração... (pensa que não vai ser possível)
De lhe encontrar... (pensa que não vai ser possível)
De lhe amar... (pensa que não vai ser possível)
De conquistá-la...
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Eu amo você, menina..
Eu amo você... (juro)
Eu amo você, menina...(uuuhuuuu)
Eu amo você...
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(juro que amo, eu te amo baby, eu te amo)
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Brain teaser 22 (solution)

Go to the attic, turn on Switches 1 and 2, wait a few minutes, then turn off Switch 2 before ascending to the attic.
If the bulb is on, you conclude that Switch 1 is the winner.
If the bulb is off, but warm, you conclude that Switch 2 is the winner.
If the bulb is off, but not warm, you conclude that Switch 3 is the winner.
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Friday 7 August 2009

Brain teaser 23

You are presented with two ropes, each of which will burn for exactly 1 minute, but not uniformly along its length. How can you use them to measure 45 seconds?
Explain your strategy.
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Saturday 25 July 2009

Marisa Monte - Lenda das sereias (lyrics)

My favourite song from one of my favourite Brazilian singers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rJTzwH65E&feature=related

Lyrics
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Oguntê, Marabô
Caiala e Sobá
Oloxum, Ynaê
Janaína e Yemanjá
São rainhas do mar
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Mar, misterioso mar
Que vem do horizonte
É o berço das sereias
Lendário e fascinante
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Olha o canto da sereia
Ialaó, oquê, ialoá
Em noite de lua cheia
Ouço a sereia cantar
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E o luar sorrindo
Então se encanta
Com as doces melodias
Os madrigais vão despertar
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Ela mora no mar
Ela brinca na areia
No balanço das ondas
A paz, ela semeia
Ela mora no mar
Ela brinca na areia
No balanço das ondas
A paz, ela semeia
A paz, ela semeia
A paz, ela semeia
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Oguntê, Marabô
Caiala e Sobá
Oloxum, Ynaê
Janaína e Yemanjá
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São rainhas do mar
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Brain teaser 22

A downstairs panel contains 3 on-off switches, one of which controls the lamp in the attic - but which one? Your mission is to do something with the switches, then determine after only one trip to the attic which switch is connected to the attic lamp.
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Friday 17 July 2009

Strange death in Montréal, Canada

Falling concrete kills woman at Peel St. sushi bar

Victim was celebrating birthday with her husband

MONTRÉAL, July 17, 2009 - One minute Thursday night, a couple was quietly celebrating a birthday inside the Mikasa Sushi Bar on Peel St.; the next minute, a concrete slab crashed through the glass skylight above them, killing the 33-year-old woman instantly.
Her husband of two years, also 33, lay next to her lifeless body screaming, “Ma femme! Ma femme! Stay with me!”
He pleaded for help, but other diners and staff were paralyzed with shock. Minutes later, sobbing and screaming, the man was loaded into an ambulance, his right hand wrapped in a blood-soaked napkin, two single tracks of blood running down his cheek.
An emergency-room nurse at the Montreal General Hospital said the man was brought into the hospital covered in his wife’s blood. “It was everywhere.”
She said the man, who sustained serious injuries to his right hand, was in a secluded room in the ER surrounded by family.
“Her birthday was Monday, that’s what they were celebrating,” said the nurse, who spoke on condition that her name not be published. The concrete panel from the 18th floor of the Marriott Residence Inn crashed through the sloping glass ceiling of the restaurant, which lies directly below at street level, and hit the woman “directly” – while she was seated at her table, said Montreal police Constable Olivier Lapointe.
Urgences Santé ambulance technicians determined that the woman could not be saved, Lapointe said.
Her body was left at the table where she died until a little after 9 p.m., when the coroner arrived. Lapointe wouldn’t disclose the couple’s name, nor would the nurse who spoke to The Gazette. Stunned bystanders milled beyond the police tape that blocked off the sidewalk and street in front of the building. Glass and other debris, including what appeared to the the base of a dining table, were on the sidewalk. Police had converged on the scene in patrol cars and on bicycles and Segways.
“At first view,” police are considering the death accidental, Lapointe said after investigators emerged from the hotel.
From the gap left on the building’s facade, the slab appeared to have been about one metre wide and two metres long.
Firefighters were examining the building’s facade to determine whether it was safe, Lapointe said. Municipal inspectors will take a closer look at the building, he said.
The restaurant’s manager, Truc Luong, said his employees were shaken by what they witnessed and weren’t in “good shape” Thursday night.
He said one waiter was at the couple’s table when the concrete slab crashed through the glass ceiling. Luong, who arrived at the restaurant about half an hour after the accident, spent the evening making sure his employees all got a lift home.
Lindsay Leblanc lives in the hotel above the sushi restaurant. She and three friends were smoking on the hotel’s roof when the concrete broke loose. “We heard the bang. We thought it was thunder,” Leblanc said. “Or a car accident.”
When she and her friends arrived at street level, they could hear people crying.
Justine Lafond climbed out of a cab in front of Mikasa moments after the concrete struck. “I saw this woman lying on her side,” she said. “There was blood all around. I saw a piece of bone coming through her body.
“There was someone touching her to see if she was alive."
Lafond said she spoke to the waiter who had served the couple. “He said they were very much in love,” and that the woman was kind and friendly, Lafond said. “I saw lots of people running out of the restaurant, screaming and crying,” said Lafond’s companion, Marie Fidèle.
Clearly shaken, she said she arrived by taxi “almost right after it happened.”
“I couldn’t bring myself to go look. We were all asking each other what happened.”
Dana Citron was on Sherbrooke St. when the slab fell. After her mother heard a “crashing sound,” the two rounded the corner onto Peel to see what happened. Citron said she saw a man lying down, yelling and gesturing desperately near a woman who was not moving.
“They pulled the husband onto his side,” she said. “He was bleeding.”
Another man, who works at a building next door, arrived at the same time. He heard yelling and saw people standing around in shock. “In a state of panic like that, I think no one knows what to do,” he said.
The area in front of the building will remain closed to passersby until it is deemed safe, Lapointe said.
Bev Harding of Guelph, Ont., shepherding a group of more than a dozen teenage swimmers back to the hotel from a competition, was barred from the front entrance. “I guess we’ll try to go around back,” she said. The hotel did not need to be evacuated, Lapointe said.
(By Max Harrold, Jan Ravensbergen, Drew Halfnight and Philip Authier, The Gazette)
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Thursday 2 July 2009

My immigration process to Canada

One step ahead: I've just received the medical exam requirement!
I hope my health is not a danger to public health in Canada...
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Monday 29 June 2009

Helena Elis - "Lugares Proibidos" (lyrics)

Brazilian singer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiJ7dnFokdo&feature=related
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Lyrics
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Eu gosto do claro quando é claro que você me ama
Eu gosto do escuro no escuro com você na cama
Eu gosto do não se você diz não viver sem mim
Eu gosto de tudo, tudo o que traz você aqui
Eu gosto do nada, nada que te leve para longe
Eu amo a demora sempre que o nosso beijo é longo
Adoro a pressa quando sinto
Sua pressa em vir me amar
Venero a saudade quando ela está pra terminar
Baby, com você já, já
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Mande um buquê de rosas, rosa ou salmão
Versos e beijos e o seu nome no cartão
Me leve café na cama amanhã
Eu finjo que eu não esperava
Gosto de fazer amor fora de hora
Lugares proibidos com você na estrada
Adoro surpresas sem datas
Chega mais cedo amor
Eu finjo que eu não esperava
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Eu gosto da falta quando falta mais juízo em nós
E de telefone, se do outro lado é a sua voz
Adoro a pressa quando sinto
Sua pressa em vir me amar
Venero a saudade quando ela está pra terminar
Baby com você chegando já
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Monday 22 June 2009

Stereogram 1


A stereogram is an optical illusion of depth created from flat, two-dimensional image or images.
In order to see it, follow the tip:
Get very close to the stereogram above, and very, very slowly pull it away (or move away from it). At first you won't even be able to focus on the image... However, keep moving the image in and out, relaxing, and it will appear! Which image can you see?
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Sunday 14 June 2009

Copacabana Club - "Just do it" (lyrics)

When I first saw the video I truly believed it was a British band but it wasn't!
It's just a Brazilian band that it happened to sound like an indie group... Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94aqtlvRWM
Try the studio version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLUO32YvH6o

Lyrics:
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just do it
just do it
just do it
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just do it do it do it cause you want it
just do it do it do it cause you like it
do it do it do it cause you feel it
not because you saw it
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you can do a song
cook your food
clean your house
you can use a thong
be so rude
kiss my mouth
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you can pierce your nose
sew your clothes
dance alone
you can make some friends
form a band
or sing along
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just do it cause you want it
not because you saw it
just do it cause you want it
not because you saw it, not because you saw it, yeah!
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just change it change it change it cause you want it
just change it change it change it cause you like it
change it change it change it cause you feel it
not because you saw it
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you can change your hair
change your house
change your life
you can change your sex
change your friends
change your wife
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you can change your shoes
change your pants
change your style
you can change your face
change your boobs
change your smile
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just change it cause you want it
not because you saw it
just change it cause you want it
not because you saw it, not because you saw it, yeah!
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Thursday 11 June 2009

China - "Canção que não morre no ar" (lyrics)

I just like the song and the video:

Lyrics:
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Sintonize o seu rádio,
procure em alguma estação,
se eu entrar nos seus ouvidos,
acelera o seu coração... coração, ah coração

Mas não esqueça de mim,
agora corro com o vento
você não pode me ver,
me guarde no pensamento...

Minha voz vai se espalhar no ar,
cada verso que eu cantar
os falantes te lembrarão
minha voz é canção que não morre no ar
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Nunca mais vou te deixar
pois agora sou uma canção...
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Brain teaser 21 (solution)

Downtown trains run past Kevin's stop at, for example, 3:00, 3:10, 3:20, ..., etc., and uptown trains at 3:01, 3:11, 3:21, ...
To go uptown Kevin must arrive in the 1-minute interval between a downtown and an uptown train.
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Monday 8 June 2009

Beth Gibbons - "Mysteries" (lyrics)

This song shows a bit of myself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJrRVl7goLE&feature=PlayList&p=2BFFC81FE78BCF5F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10 Try also this lovely live version at the TV program "Later":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh6KiuCMmzE&feature=PlayList&p=2BFFC81FE78BCF5F&index=11

Lyrics
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God knows how I adore life
When the wind turns on the shores lies another day
I cannot ask for more
When the time bell blows my heart
And I have scored a better day
Well nobody made this war of mine
And the moments that I enjoy
A place of love and mystery
I'll be there anytime
Oh mysteries of love
Where war is no more
I'll be there anytime
When the time bell blows my heart
And I have scored a better day
Well nobody made this war of mine
And the moments that I enjoy
A place of love and mystery
I'll be there anytime
Mysteries of love
Where war is no more
I'll be there anytime
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Friday 1 May 2009

Brazilian Girls - "Good time" (lyrics)

This is not a Brazilian band but it's sexy anyway:

Lyrics

All the time
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Some people just want lie on the beaches in the Caribbean
Some people want to do crazy things to green amphibians
Some people want some people to do as they please
We just want to have a good time
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All the time
All the time
All the time
All the time
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Some people go ooh quoi quoi they go qui
Some people have nothing and want nothing and are free
Some people want to burn the world with their greed
We just want to have a good time
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Just want good time We just want good time
Just want good time We just want good time
I just want good time We just want good time
I just want good time
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All the time
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We just want to have a good time tonight
We just want to have a good time all the time
We just want to have a good time tonight
We just want to have a good time all the time
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Some people want pussy pussy pussy all the while
Some people want nothing only staying home with mama
Some people want nothing and need nothing and are free
We just want to have a good time
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I just want good time We just want good time
Just want good time We just want good time
Just want good time Just want good time
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All the time
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Tuesday 17 March 2009

Australia reduces immigration


País culpa crise e limita entrada de estrangeiros; Espanha cria incentivo à repatriação
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Pesquisa do "Financial Times" revela que maioria dos europeus apoia medidas para mandar de volta imigrantes desempregados
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O governo da Austrália anunciou ontem que reduzirá em 14% a quantidade de imigrantes que receberão autorização para trabalhar no país a partir de junho.
O país estabelece, a cada ano, cotas de profissionais qualificados que podem imigrar. Nos últimos dez anos, o número total de autorizações vinha crescendo, sob impulso do crescimento econômico.
Agora, com a crise econômica mundial e um índice de desemprego que aumentou de 4,8%, em janeiro, para 5,2%, em fevereiro, o governo de centro-esquerda decidiu cortar a cota de trabalhadores imigrantes de 133.500, válida até junho deste ano, para 115.000 no período até meados de 2010. Segundo estimativas do Itamaraty, há cerca de 12 mil brasileiros vivendo na Austrália atualmente.
"A conjuntura econômica na Austrália mudou", disse o ministro da Imigração, Chris Evans, para justificar o corte. Ele no entanto declarou que a redução da cota será temporária e que voltará a crescer quando "as condições melhorarem".
A medida também impedirá a entrada no país de alguns profissionais menos qualificados, como pedreiros, encanadores, carpinteiros e eletricistas. A demanda principal por trabalho "estrangeiro" estará em áreas de maior especialização, como médicos, engenheiros e profissionais de informática.
"A Austrália precisa manter um programa de imigração, mas um que seja mais direcionado", afirmou o ministro da Imigração.
Um especialista em imigração e mercado de trabalho no país, Robert Kinnaird, disse à agência de notícias Reuters que o crescente desemprego tem aumentado o ressentimento de algumas categorias de trabalhadores locais em relação aos estrangeiros.
Também na Europa há sinais de rejeição crescente aos imigrantes. Uma pesquisa divulgada pelo jornal "Financial Times" revela que 79% dos italianos, 78% dos britânicos, 71% dos espanhóis, 67% dos alemães e 51% dos franceses apoiariam medidas de seus governos para mandar de volta para casa imigrantes desempregados. O diário econômico afirma que a pesquisa "demonstra o risco de tensões sociais em relação à imigração e ao uso de trabalho estrangeiro" na Europa.
Na Espanha já existe, desde o ano passado, um programa que oferece benefícios sociais em dinheiro a imigrantes desempregados em troca da garantia de que sairão do país e não regressarão à Espanha durante, no mínimo, três anos.
O programa oferece 40% do benefício total do seguro-desemprego antes da partida, e 60% a serem recebidos quando o trabalhador já estiver em seu país de origem.
(Folha de São Paulo - 17/03/2009)
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