Writing
Everything I wrote in English: 83 items. Atom JSON Feed
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Week 03, 2024
I have been experimenting with NearlyFreeSpeech Web Hosting for a couple of months. Behind these experiments is a wish I have to pay less for online services — especially web hosting. This is the same wish that not so lo…
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Week 02, 2024
After a very long time — specially from my older son’s point of view —, we again received news regarding his Japanese MEXT scholarship. And, it turns out, they were very good news ! After a hiatus of months without heari…
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If It Bleeds
Com sangue, the Brazilian Portuguese version of “If it bleeds” is the latest book I’ve finished this year — the second in my goal of 20. This is a book composed of four novellas, all of them new material from Stephen Kin…
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Week 01, 2024
I’ve spent New Year’s Eve with my parents, along with my wife and kids. We did nothing fancy, just had a small dinner while we all waited until midnight came and 2023 gave place to 2024. This year fireworks were more vis…
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How many things do you pay twice for?
Only recently I was able to come across a very interesting article, discussing that everything you buy actually needs to be paid for twice , otherwise that'll be wasted money — and that this should be a finance lesson ta…
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Week 40, 2023
✱ This week my son received his JLPT N1 Proficiency certificate! It came by mail, a couple of months since he took the test in São Paulo. The delay lies in the fact that each and every test taken is manually reviewed and…
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Week 39, 2023
✱ Last Sunday my soccer team, São Paulo FC , conquered the 2023 Copa do Brasil championship title… for the first time! Among Brazil’s soccer championships’ titles, this happened to be the only one São Paulo had been unab…
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Week 38, 2023
✱ As I finished my previous weeknotes talking about Luke, I guess there's nothing better than starting this week by talking about him again . I've just bought a dog door in order to make both his and my lifes easier: dur…
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Week 37, 2023
✱ I had an appointment with my cardiologist this week. First things first, I went through an echo doppler exam to see how things were going after more than two years without undergoing this same exam. It made me very hap…
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Week 36, 2023
✱ I can finally say, 61 episodes later , that I've finished One Piece: East Blue Arc , the equivalent to the anime's first season. When watching so many episodes in a row it is impossible not to deal with filler episodes…
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Week 35, 2023
✱ I've decided to digitally acquire Brotato on the Nintendo eShop this week. That's a game I already own on Steam , and that I very much enjoy playing ( whenever I have time to ). In case you don't know Brotato, its conc…
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Week 34, 2023
✱ Some weeks ago I was in São Paulo with my son, as he was going to take the JLPT test. Now, 7 weeks later, his results came in by e mail: he's been successfully approved in JLPT N1 level! This has been a very nice way t…
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Week 33, 2023
✱ Last Sunday it was Father's Day here in Brazil. I'm lucky enough to live at a walk's distance from my parents' house, so I visit them often, almost on a weekly basis, and have plenty of opportunities to talk to them an…
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Week 32, 2023
✱ I've never mentioned it here, but, during the pandemics I started a YouTube channel aiming to teach English to Brazilians. This was during the initial months of it all, and my employer at that time advised us all to re…
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Week 31, 2023
✱ My two week vacations finished this week, so last Monday was time to return to work. I feel blessed every single day for having the opportunity to work from home — only occasionally going to the office, so I cannot say…
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Week 30, 2023
✱ My son received good news, again, this week. He's now passed the national stage in his quest to obtain a Japanese college scholarship. The analysis process finished last July, 24th, and this means he's now one of the B…
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Week 29, 2023
✱ I'm on vacations! That'll be 15 consecutive days to rest... from my formal work. With all that's going on with preparations for my oldest son to eventually get his Japanese college scholarship, I'll be traveling a lot,…
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Week 28, 2023
✱ Last Wednesday I took my son to the Japanese Consulate in São Paulo, where he had an interview following up his MEXT exam approval last week. Due to the interview requirements he needed to come all suited up with forma…
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Week 27, 2023
✱ My week started in São Paulo again. This time my son took the JLPT test, for which he'd been preparing for sometime now. Before he took interest in Japanese, though, it would never occur to me that there was an exam to…
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Week 26, 2023
✱ It's very difficult for me to find good cardiologists . Being the kind of person who likes everything explained to me in details, some doctors I've had appointments with in the past proved very dry and unwilling to tal…