Home waiting post

This is a very quick post just because I cant accept that the last published post was not written by me but by someone who felt confortable writing here (with half my permission..) but anyway does not deserve to have the post here on top for such a long time just because I have been on holiday and away from my computer and stuff..

And even more, look I have thousands of things to write, loads of adventures to tell, heaps of everything like photos and videos (I just return from greece!) to publish!

And Why dont I just start now? Thats a very good question but I am just waiting a nudge to go out for dinner and I dont want to start any philosophical idea that I have then to interrupt or leave everyone waiting it..

Actually I am going now.!! HAve fun, I DO!

The beauty of a foreign post...

So for all of the readers today this blog is written by a male pressing the keys, it is left to your imagination define who his behind such a... let's say different post.
I'm foreign to this blog, but I am one of its readers mainly for personal interest in the usual author ;P but also for its content ;), I guess i had to say that ;P.
So the author likes playing around with me while I am writing this, you have no idea of the things this girl can do while one writes... don't go perverted on me, at least not yet, she is simply putting stuff on me, and not the good stuff one might hope for ;P. Great apparently there are pictures of me like this now ;P.
Anyway I need to rush this to say she is awesome, that is my word for her. Now I am going to give her a nice spanking ;P.
Be good.

Bluetongue disease

This disease was known as a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently of cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries and antelopes.

Bluetongue is caused by the pathogenic virus, Bluetongue virus (BTV), of the genus Orbivirus, is a member of the Reoviridae family. There are 24 serotypes. It is transmitted by a midge, Culicids imicola and other culicids.

Bluetongue virus (BTV)

For several years it was thought that the Bluetongue disease would not be contagious. However, very recently it was found a human variant of the disease. This variant is currently under investigation and concern of several scientists all over the world. According to a few groups it seems that the virus suffered several mutations within its DNA genome encoding on the surface of its envelope (viral membrane) human protein receptors able to penetrate in the human cells mainly affecting the central nervous system (CNS) and the digestive tract where the infection becomes visible a few minutes after the virus penetrates the new host. This virus is now considered a human pathogen whose consequences are still largely unknown.

People affected by the mutated virus

Human pathogenic Bluetongue virus (BTV)

People infected have the following symptoms:
They look quite happy, might laugh a little bit more than usual, look friendly and feel like partying or dancing. Usually these people are found in the coolest and nicest places everywhere and the disease seems to specially affect people on holiday or in social occasions. The most affected ages are between 18 and 30 years old.
There is no reported cure or treatment and not even a vaccine has been yet discovered therefore whether you fit with the description above do not see your doctor (GP) because there is no hope for you and you just got to live like that!

A person becoming infected

And it seems I found the translation for Doenca da lingua azul.. it was just so obvious.. (See the last post)

Brainstorming

It has been a little while since I published the last post [Pub in Beeston (private) lol] and guess why? I have been without internet access.. Yes.. I didn’t become lazy yet it was just a lack of resources.. I may say it was really painful not to have internet but whether not to long it turns to be really relaxing.. (I still had a PSP =P and a Nokia N95, just the blog and the email were off, the toys were there! – don’t Panic, I am still the same).

Or instead I may say I have been to a little paradise that I will approach further on this blog (Hopefully almost no one reads this bloody thing therefore MY paradise will always be MY paradise, don’t want it full of tourists, ok?? No addresses published as well).

During this past week a lot of ideas came to my mind despite the obvious description of the great days but because it is 1.37 am and I have to wake up tomorrow at 6am - yes, 4 hours sleep - I am just going for a brief summary of what comes next - or a way for me to organize my genial ideas [I am such a genius - (private)].

Therefore it is quite likely that sooner or later you can read about:

- Doença da lingua azul (waits translation to English although I am pretty sure the name in Portuguese explains it much better..)
- Geeks against Geeks and other people and other stories.. (Don’t miss!)
- Trivial pursuit genius edition vs. Party and Co (Not very sure how to describe yet.. just the idea)

And so on.. ( I had more ideas but I forgot them all now, will be back later for more)

After all, see you soon!

PS: Its 2.06 am.. I am so slow..

@Great Portugal with emigra feeling

What the hell does it mean??

Well, I may say that although I have been travelling quite a lot since the past three years I have never felt the Emigra feeling, therefore I couldn’t even think or characterize it but now I KNOW!

When today it suddenly came to me.. at first I couldn’t know how to deal with it, secondly it became a lot weird considering my strongly and deeply implemented life style (some will perfectly understand.. nevertheless it is not important to understand it to get through the concept) and at last I understood that the Emigra Feeling is not a disease, its not absolutely that bad, it is not compulsorily negative but simply a sort of enjoying our country above the others despite everything those others may give us which is still above what we can find in our own country and nevertheless keeping the will for returning (either on holiday or eventually forever in the future).. Is that clear?

Step by step could be:

1. Everything pretty much starts with a huge disappointment by the own country followed by the feeling that anywhere else would be better and the only thing to do is to leave.
2. After the emigrant leaves the one will face the problems of the new host country which sometimes are quite more annoying than the ones in he's own country specially considering that in the beginning everything seems pretty complicated and difficult to understand/sort out.
3. After this while of adaptation and settling down it happens those all good points which motivated the MOVE start to appear and everything seems perfect then: It is the highlighting of the real advantages of being abroad versus the drawbacks of being home.. and this is the top of it and when it becomes worthwhile.
4. Sooner or later after feeling point number three it becomes the point where the emigrant wishes that all that perfect would just possibly happen in he’s country and then going back to the advantages of the own country now versus the disadvantages of the new one (The problem is now inverted)..

That’s the bridge for the Emigra feeling!

Emigra feeling belongs to the one who admits his country’s the best although not for himself and still the best! Therefore the Emigra goes back to his own country as many times as he can, sometimes even under complicated/exhausting/impossible situations.

Emigra feeling by a Portuguese (myself):

I love Portugal but there is no future for me there at the moment for the reasons I might be able to talk about next time (I reckon it will take a couple of post to discuss this subject though.. Points of views diverge a lot on this matter; I have assisted and participated in a few discussions.. )

So that’s a concept for today and right now, and as an emigrant I became, I am enjoying the hot (bloody hot weather by the way) whereas music plays and the sun (pink, hot sun) sets, promising a lovely tomorrow when on holiday I can just happily enjoy the GOOD of my Portugal!

The second post

The second post is not philosophic but just to show off my pain of still being in the lab, there is, at work when in roughly 12h I am back in Portugal, in Lisbon, at home, surrounded by my dearest!



I am so looking forward but still punishing me a little bit for going on holiday cant go home and leave the bloody lab! I have to sort this out.. I shouldn’t be ashamed of going on holiday! No one really cares, no one is here to witness this enormously responsible attitude of leaving everything done before going on holiday (Holiday, what the hell is that??).. I have got a few problems with having holidays in the past three years.. I think tomorrow is the first time in three years that I officially leave on holiday.. I am afraid I have got Holiday word phobia 'cause of course I quite enjoy being on holiday but on the other hand it just seems that I can go for it.. work, work, work.. there's people calling me workaholic (one more word like blogosphere and so on.. those that were born in the XXI century and sound so genial as those from the ancient Greece - oh yeah I am going to Greece soon as well.. but will talk about that later) .. ok, Maybe be I am (Workaholic) indeed.. The worst: whether I am proud or not I haven’t found out yet .. will go back on this subject later too.



Now it just seems I have got so much to tell and time is over (and thats it for today, in the lab at least.. still have the packing.. the bus, the airport, the plain and there I goooo)


And just in the last minute I leave you with what might be my excuses about holidays... @http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=887 there is so much of myself.. check it out!

First Post

Too much to say nothing to tell..

That’s exactly what firstly comes to my mind at the moment since I just decided to join the blogsphere (Just read this word today in "someone"'s blog and although it is not totally unknown to me just by the first time felt the needed for it)..

But back on the first subject: the reason why I am writing this. I might not know yet but I know it takes me back to the old times when writing was to me a habit, a hobby and mostly of the times, a need! Meanwhile I lost this need, hobby, habit becoming more and more busy, busy at work, busy at people.. Didn’t loose the pleasure for writing but pretty much lost the reason for. Today I have got another reason or reasons but mostly it has to do with my personal discipline that needs to be revised.Before I used to write in an A5 spiral notebook, no matter what would come to my mind everyday, also wrote a couple of stories self centred, several pages of poetry and collected A5 notebooks full of what today seems a cute, childish blog (hard copy version).

I give myself a trial this time in a different, public environment and this could be the begging of a new era!“Hypervision” because I am not generally focused. That might become a problem for me and my “offspring” but I quite struggle to stick to things. I usually tend to do as much as I can at the same time, think about as much as I find possible at the same time in the same time and so on. From time to time people realise that and try to calm me down..Maybe I need to organize myself and I will consider this current need to reason to start this blog and the way to answer the first question..
Did I tell you something?