Writing
Everything I wrote in English: 87 items. Atom JSON Feed
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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…
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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…
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Week 25, 2023
✱ Our fridge , with the family for almost 15 years now, started this week decided not to work. On Monday morning we all woke up to noticing it had completely de-iced everything. And worse, as we were about to schedule…
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Week 24, 2023
✱ After two weeks in a row, I've finished reading Dragon Wing , the first of the seven books that form the Death Gate Cycle , an adult fantasy fiction series created by authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman still in…
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Week 23, 2023
✱ One never knows when Murphy’s Law is going to strike. We have this Epson printer home, seldomly used nowadays as mostly everything became electronic, either emailed to us or easily obtainable via PDF files. We…
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Week 22, 2023
✱ If someone asked me, I’d say the most amazing play I’ve ever watched happen in NBA was featured by Derrick White) last Saturday, a couple of hours after my weekly notes: at the last second — actually, the last 0.1…
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Week 21, 2023
✱ I’ve always been a big fan of Michael J. Fox , specially because of the Back to The Future trilogy he starred. So it was only natural for me to want to watch Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie this week, a documentary…
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Week 20, 2023
✱ According to my pedometer app, I’ve walked 29.5km this week. It’s probably not much for people who are used to walking and running as a means of exercising, but it is a lot to me . Actually, I’ve gone above the 10,000…
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Week 19, 2023
✱ As the result of a badly curated cold, I’ve caught some laryngitis , probably to ensure my week started well. Lots of sneezes and a chronic cough came along as a result. That’s why the doctor said I’ll need to stick to…
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Week 18, 2023
✱ There’s this restaurant in our city where my family and me have eaten for I can’t even remember how long now (although I’m sure it’s been for more than 18 years in a row now). We don’t eat there every day, of course…
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Week 17, 2023
✱ My son had a tomography of his inferior wisdom teeth this week. All because his teeth are in a difficult position to come through, and will need to be extracted while internal. This exam will allow the dentist to…
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Week 16, 2023
✱ So after a long wait, I was finally able to watch the Tetris movie. It took me 15 days longer than I wanted and some connection problems with the Apple TV+ service happening exactly at the same time when I decided to…
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Week 15, 2023
✱ Our Easter Sunday started different: my younger son broke our frontdoor key in half when trying to open it in the morning and one of the halves remained stuck inside the lock. So, besides a visit from the Easter bunny…
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Week 14, 2023
✱ Tetris has been gravitating around me all week now. With the Tetris movie released on Apple TV on March 29, all I’ve been wanting to do is to watch it. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to grant myself this desire so…
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Week 13, 2023
✱ This week work got me very busy. I had almost no time to do anything else; thus, my reading of “The Poppy Wars” has almost stopped — I guess I must have progressed a bare 5% or 6%, and my series episode watching…
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Week 12, 2023
✱ As my reading of A guerra da Papoula, the Brazilian Portuguese translation of The Poppy Wars , by author R. F. Kuang progresses to ⅓ of the book, this week started greeting me with very nice news from the team at…
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Week 11, 2023
✱ Anxious as I was to watch the ninth (and last) episode of HBO's The Last of Us, I couldn't manage to do it on Sunday. It was hard to keep waiting until last night, when I finally could see where the story led Ellie and…
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Week 10, 2023
✱ I've been reading a lot — and creating a long reading queue — about AI these days. Part of it is because of professional reasons, and part of it is out of my sole, genuine interest. I've been trying to take notes to…