Santo André...

Some random images of Sunday...
our home in France... our home in Brazil...
simply "chez Marilena"!

os meus amigos todos, sera que eles não entendem?

the nice thing about my "new" job is that I get to be everywhere... I don't stay locked inside an office all day long... I get to wonder around São Paulo...
well, it's just a shame I can't stop all the time to take some pictures but today when I saw the sunlight in this square, I just HAD TO! 

some music

pula fogueira iô iô...

do you know what a "festa junina" is?

where we dance "quadrilha"...

where it's normal to wear chess clothes, heavy make up and to face some missing teeth (without being ashamed of any ridiculousness)...

where we eat paçoca, canjica, pinhão, pé de moleque, pão de queijo, espiga de milho, bolo de fuba...

where we drink quentão and vinho quente...

oh how I missed it! :o)

let the sun shine in...

I don't mind waking up early (and early means 6 o'clock - normal time to speed up and go to work around here) on sunny days...
of course I would love to have the day to myself and be able to do whatever I want, but then again, if I had the day to myself I would probably sleep till noon, so...


Yesterday I had my nails done (such a brazilian thing, manicure... and for those who do not think so, is because you've never been to a brazilian manicure before...) anyway, I'll spend the week with pink nails!

la chute!

Those pictures were inside my Nikon when I decided to use it after a couple of years... I had NO IDEA what to expect, I even hesitated and thought that I shouldn't develop it... glad I did, though... It had 3 images, taken about 4 years ago... one ugly pic of the notre dame and those 2... I liked them for some reason... I remember those flowers on the right side behind of the Eiffel tower when you're facing the école militaire... ad my bedroom window...
gret moment to find those french memories...
Happy 14th of July everyone! :o)

Brazilian Paris or Parisian Brazil?

I don't wanna be lonely tonight...


I had a busy weekend...
Friday I went out with about everyone without actually making plans with everyone... (went out with my cousin and bumped into my brother and his friends, Nina and Flavia...) it's almost like São Paulo didn't have 19 million of people...
Saturday went to have pizza @ Fefê's new place... girls night in! :o)
Sunday Ferrari WON and I went to have dinner with Paris... it's both great and weird to be meeting (almost) all of them here, in São Paulo... got me thinking about those years... the family we were... the Sunday's afternoons... the Christmas... the people coming and going... the talks... the sunny and the chilly days... Marilena and Bruno made Paris a home, with all our traditions, not only to me, but to a lot of people... and people who didn't even had our traditions... 
Brazil was in Paris... now, somehow, Paris is in Brazil...
I hope you all had great weekends...

winter 

my desk

on my way to work

"the future doesn't exist yet...

fate is for losers..."

"The future calls me insanely - and that's where I'm going. 


Disaster? I don't know. When I think that some day I'm going to die 


I laugh so hard. Life is a joke. But my right path everyone knows. I 


haven't learned but I know. While I write the minutes pass by. It's 


time passing by. I think out loud. Who's listening?"

(Clarisse Lispector)

you can't always get what you want...

...but if you try, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need!

lollipop proposed the "award" and I accepted the challenge... voilà mes 7 petites confidences: (and the invitation for Tina, Denise, Nina, sen.si' jes, Rosa Maria and Luca/Margherita to follow sharing their confidences and pass it on, if they feel like it...)


1. I miss Paris more than I missed São Paulo...
2. I think about S. everyday and I miss him very very much, and deep inside I'm afraid for i don't know how long it'll be before I see him again, and most of all, that he may, somehow, "forget" about me...
3. I took a job offer for something I never thought I would do. I'm glad to be working. But now, I keep thinking about how people are going to see me. (I know we shouldn't, but...)
4. I watch and I LOVE soap operas!
5. I am someone's best friend, but I'm not sure if this someone is, actually, my best friend.
6. I AM afraid to end up alone... (maybe we all are)
7. I would go back to Paris in no time if possible

let it be!

wish I had taken more shots of the wedding, but it's hard to focus when you're jumping up and down for you haven't partied with your best friends in ages!


today I've had my share of brazilian bureaucracy and now I'm heading of to have pizza with a friend...
yummy ;o) 

put it one more time in the juke box babe!

I started on a new job...
Gigi got married...
and Sunday I could barely move!
but it was a nice weekend... the party was great and I was really, really happy of being here to participate...
and let's get real... how many times you can see a bride walk up the stage and rock the party on??? ;o)


The week started grey, cold, and busy... wish you all a good one!


some music from the wedding... rock'n roll bride and groom!