Writing
Everything I wrote in English: 87 items. Atom JSON Feed
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Week 06, 2024
I went to work at the office this week, and wrote about it versus working from home. I don’t want to convince you about what is right or not, too polemic a subject… it was just something I felt like writing about. Also…
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Week 05, 2024
While I was on vacations I accident broke one of my teeth. And this week I could finally go to the dentist in order to have it properly treated, a root canal treatment — taking me so many weeks to have it treated because…
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Week 04, 2024
I have come back to work this week, after well spent vacations where I could relax and gather renewed energy for 2024’s challenges. The first day at work welcomed me with a trip to Sorocaba, a city approximately two and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The rule of the three
We live in a world currently dominated by new media releases, everyday, all the time. Wherever I look there's always a new TV show, a new movie, a new book — and for me, most recently —, a new anime or a new manga. All…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…