Writing
Everything I wrote in English: 87 items. Atom JSON Feed
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Week 25, 2024
And this week will enter my personal history as “ the week when I became completely aphonic ”. Due to a mix of bacterial sinusitis and cold, I felt my voice progressively losing its strength, to the point where, last…
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Week 24, 2024
The aftermath of exchanging my iPhone XS Max for a newer, iPhone 15, was very good for my youngest son , who got to keep my wife's iPhone. Me and her had the same iPhone model, so he got her XS Max while she also took an…
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Week 23, 2024
This week I kept experimenting with LangoTalk and its AI chatbots, as it has shown to be a nice addition to my learning resources. I have consistently used LangoTalk, now for over a week straight, chatting with its…
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Week 22, 2024
My son thankfully recovered from his last week's influenza, which was causing him so much trouble. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said — yet — about me. My week started with a lot of coughing, a very strong…
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Week 21, 2024
I love languages and how both my sons seem to have inherited part of this taste of mine for them. This week I saw my youngest son call his brother right after knowing that a friend of his, in Japan, played the same games…
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Week 20, 2024
So I lost my personal weeknotes streak by not writing a post like this last week. 😱 Since I started recording weeknotes, this was the first time it happened, and on the one hand, it made me feel strange because it broke…
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Week 18, 2024
After an achy week past, I finally went again to the dentist to have my gum stitches removed. It was so much of a relief to do it! My gum surgery was a needed step in the treatment I'm taking, but sometimes I wish steps…
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Week 17, 2024
This week I had the grateful opportunity of watching an exclusive webinar about Data Literacy, presented exclusively to the employees of the company I work for, by the amazing Priscila Papazissis, head of Data Analytics…
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Using kaizen to learn Japanese
改善 (かいぜん, Kaizen) is the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement. In business, it is widely spread in many different markets, industries and companies. I have professionally practiced kaizen for many years now, but…
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Week 16, 2024
A couple of grateful surprises happened at work this week, and I'd like to register them both here. First, I was asked to help with building a Sharepoint intranet site for the department one of my former managers is…
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Forbidden English
A couple of weeks ago, while at my parents' house, I came across a book I had not seen in a long time. Its name, “ Inglês Proibido ”, translates to “Forbidden English”, a dictionary collecting sexual and vulgar English…
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Week 15, 2024
I got so happy and at the same time so relieved to see my son's nice adaptation process to living in Japan that it certainly calmed my father's heart down. By the way, he's been doing really nice in Tokyo — by having…
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Week 14, 2024
My son has finally traveled to Japan last Monday. His flight took off from the Terminal 3 in Guarulhos International Airport at around 2 PM, and the previous hours before the take off were filled with emotion. He was…
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Week 13, 2024
I have finished my seventh book of the year — the first volume of The Southern Reach Trilogy, “Annihilation”, which I've read it in Brazilian Portuguese, where it's called “Aniquilação”, a simple, direct translation. I…
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Week 12, 2024
I finished reading the second Dune Trilogy book, Dune Messiah, in Portuguese. Compared to book one, this was way harder to read and, sometimes, even hard to follow along, at least for me. The story wasn’t so captivating…
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Week 11, 2024
I started this week coughing — a very dry , insisting and strong cough. Allied with two feverish sensations last Sunday and Monday, this was enough to take me to the doctor, so I could see what was happening. I have a…
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Week 10, 2024
There’s a belief related to movies that states sequels are never — ok, more like seldom — better than the first movie. As I keep reading the second book in the first Dune trilogy, I started asking myself whether this is…
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Week 09, 2024
Last Monday I had the opportunity to do something I really enjoy, which is mentoring people. There’s a couple of new interns working with us since January, and Monday I was in a remote meeting with them, after they asked…
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Week 08, 2024
I came across a link to Infinite Craft a couple of weeks ago, if I’m not mistaken. By then I saw that it was some kind of building game where you keep combining tiles of text illustrated with emoji, and see such tiles…
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Week 07, 2024
NOTICE: This is a late weeknote from Week 07, 2024. It was written on Week 08, 2024, due to reasons clarified below. — This week came in bringing a long holiday with it. Carnival is probably the most popular festival…