Roaming, free the speech

Self-Trapped -part 2

The Wanderer — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:00:45 +0000

… or “Don’t cry for me. This is not a goodbye”.(1)

Today I went through a terrific experience in my professional life: my former bosses were so spectacular providing me such a VIP treatment(2) that the result was a couple of people dropping some tears for me. Guys, when someone cries for me, sincerely and altruistically, there can be only two things I can think about:

that [...]

Loneliness instead of Solitude

The Wanderer — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:47 +0000

Somewhere near the 51st constellation, year 2010 – I have to declare I have today been crushed by loneliness. Fortunately I had a conversation about deep considerations over life and the good reasons to be alive and be still working out good ways to see happiness through a lens of weaknesses and hopes!

I wrote something about “solitude vs. loneliness” in June 19th, 2009. I wrote [...]

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

The Wanderer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:00:17 +0000

… or, some mistakes a leader should never make! In some corporations, there is a bunch of leaders(1) with very poor concepts of delegation, communication, team work, assertiveness and so on. Roughly speaking, a good leader is somebody succeeding to drive his team towards previously defined goals by using the less possible resources(2). For instance, a good football (soccer) coach is usually much more concerned [...]

2010 FIFA World Cup

The Wanderer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:00:44 +0000

I have been thinking about three trivial questions involving 2010 FIFA World Cup:

Why was South Africa, a country leading Apartheid practices where the sport king is rugby and cricket, was chosen to be the stage for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a football (soccer) tournament? Why is FIFA against the intervention by governments, like Nigeria and France, in FIFA tournaments, when those governments are unhappy with [...]

Fix you…

The Wanderer — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:22:07 +0000

There are people suffering. There are people screaming. There are people struggling. There are people praying. There are people singing. There are people talking. There are people surviving. There are people dying. There are people going down. There are people getting desperate. There are people disguising. There are people starving. There are drunken husbands hitting wives. There are lost souls waiting to be saved. There [...]

Friendship? Cheers!

The Wanderer — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:00:08 +0000

I have found out (lately) that it is still possible to go through truly friendship between two human beings up to the borders where people usually barily get into the conclusion if what they are feeling is friendship or love. I myself, an incurable “free speech” performer, very often get very much lost when I try to define concepts like love, friendship, passion, etc…

When I [...]

The Wanderer

The Wanderer — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:24:32 +0000

I am celebrating the 5th anniversary of “The Wanderer” birth, a nickname chosen by a lousy blog writer who has had no guts to present himself before the gods with his own name, given by baptism in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Amen!

This blog was born in May/June 2005 (read here the very first post), right before I took [...]

Seven

The Wanderer — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:48:00 +0000

It was not my intention to post here anything about 2010 FIFA World Cup and, in particular, about the national team of my country, Portugal. However, a score like this (Portugal 7 – 0 North Korea) it is not usual in football(1), no matter what Cup we are talking about. I am feeling, then, like leaving here a singular notice about this day when, despite [...]

Mazgani

The Wanderer — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:30:27 +0000

… my new found!

Being a fan of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley (among others of the same kind), I got immediately attracted to Mazgani’s first notes I heard, a while ago on TV. Finally, after some “contemplation”, I had to go to FNAC (one of my favorite shops, very close to my house) and make a contribution to Shahryar [...]

Peter Steps Rabbit

The Wanderer — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:15:34 +0000

Hugh… what a title, isn’t it? I am pretty much convinced I wouldn’t understand it (the title, of course) if it weren’t written by myself!

Pedro Passos Coelho(1) is the name of the new leader of the old (enough) Portuguese Social Democracy party. Let us say that, finally, we have got rid of the latent fear of having the return of the “Old Lady”(2). He was [...]