Monday, June 26, 2006

Home sweet Home Episode II


Canada was great. It was awesome to be able to se most of the friends and spend a little time with them. Sorry for all the new home owners (Paty, Ricardo, Pri, Tate, Fred and Fe) that I had no time to go visit anyone. I promiss next time I will ... and it should be very shortly.

Lately we have been spending a lot of time in the apartment trying to give it a bit of the home feeling.

This is what the apartment is looking like now...

Cheers,
Me




Wednesday, June 14, 2006

World Cup time ... and Going to Canada


Hi all ... Here we are again at world cup finals. A VERY EXCITING TIME !
Yesterday Brazil played an okay game to defeat Croatia on a 1x0 score. Let's hope Brazil shows up on the next game playing the soccer we all know they have.




I went with Mila yesterday and we bought a projector to watch all the games. It was really cool to watch the game in the BIG SCREEN even though it was 3am when it started.

This weekend I will be flying to Vancouver on Sunday for a quick visit. I will be getting in this Sunday, June 18th and will be going straight to Jericho Sailing Club upstairs at the bar for beers around 5pm. I do not have many emails and will not have a number while in Van so please come by if you read the blog. I will only be in town for 3 days and 2 nights and would LOVE to see everyone there. Please tell anyone that does not know already.

This coming friday we will be having a house warming party so the apartment should be ready before that. Expect pics very soon !

Cheers.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Mi and Me



Milena has arrived and we have been working in the apartment a LOT to try to convert it into our place. My boxes have arrived and I don't think I would ever be able to fit evrything I had in that apartment on Beach Ave back into an apartment of the same size. Not sure what happened but I think my stuff has grown on the move.

We have been unpacking for close to 2 weeks now and have not been able to go through it all.

It's been very cool to live this together. Sometimes we sit at the couch late at night and look at the achievements of the day, being a sculpture we put somewhere we really like or a wire we managed to hide and we just stare at it for a few moments and we realize we are actually enjoying this a lot. I never thought of me enjoying staying in on a sunny saturday to work on the house. I hope this feeling goes away soon and we can go play outside again. =)

Last weekend we took sunday off and we headed to Bintan, Indonesia for the day. It was a great adventure. We arrived there and rented a 16 feet catamaran and went sailing. The wind was pretty strong and after 10 minutes, the jib halliard gave way and the mast came down.



My only concern was Mila and the fact that she had no idea of what's going on or the dangers involved. For my luck the Jib held the mast for a few more moments and gave way a bit slowly which gave me time to make sure we were safe. Then the jib ripped and the rig came down. We got rescued and headed back out with another cat for a couple hours. It was an AWESOME first experience for us sailing a catamaran. It was blowing about 15 to 20 knots and we had only one hull at the water multiple times. . .



This week we had an unexpected visit from Ricardo (Vancouver / Bahia ) that showed up and we had an awesome time with him for the 3 days he was here. He was supposed to go to India but did not have the Visa so he ended up stuck here with us.

Well .. that's all for now ... hopefully now that I have computers and internet at home I will keep my blog updated more often.



No wind !! Let's Wakeboard


This has been my main sport since getting to Singapore. This was the day Mila first went with me. Yesterday we went again and she tried kneeboarding. Starting to get the need to go to a remote island again.

I posted some PICS on my last post of the Paris trip. Did not get any pics from the wedding yet.

On the 17th or 18th of June I will be traveling to Vancouver to do my citizenship tests. I will be staying there till tuesday night (20th) when I fly back here. I cannot wait to see everyone and I hope to see as many of you as possible. I will be staying at Fabio and Fefe's. I will try to see if I can organize something for sunday, the 18th.

I will keep you posted . . . Cheers