My Birthday Party

Mom and Dad came all the way down from Salvador to Sao Paulo to my birthday. It was great! Although they are not great friends of mine, the are still my parents and my mom had the idea of cooking for my party and, since she loves doing that, there would be no harm in that.

The party was great and lots of people showed up. Last year was a fiasco. I invited 112 people and only 12 came. That 12 came over again and I never invited the others who didn´t show up last year without a great excuse.

I celebrate my birthday with a very close friend of mine called Karina. She was born 2 years later than me and she tells everybody I am soooo older than she is.... This year she went 29 and I was kidding telling her she is now almost 30! She went nuts, but she knows it´s a joke and she doesn´t care much about it...

The party was pretty fine. All the people I care about came over. Some had to work and I do
understand them. Some was supposed to call me and never did till today. And for that, there´s no excuse. But time will pass and I´ll probably forget about it. Anyway, we ate a lot some of my home town food and, for the "happy birthday" toast, Karina brought from Paris an original Champagne (how fancy is that, huh?).

Special thanks to Leticia. She also came from Salvador and she´s like a sister I never had. She understands me, but nothing stops her to tell me when something is wrong. That´s what friends are all about.

Dad went back to Salvador 3 days later and Mom is still in Sao Paulo. They decided to stay with my aunt Romana. Probably because they are suspicious about my relationship with Vitor (I never told them I´m gay) or just because they wanted to be free to come and go whenever they wanted to, despite of me being free all the time around Nov 2nd.

Well... I gotta go now. Lot´s of thing to do here and I haven´t had dinner yet!

Back to Blogging

It's been AGE since I got here and wrote something. My life has been crazy lately, but I'll try to keep my blog now. This is a special post for a blogger who visited me here and inspired me to keep blogging: Ken. o.. here we go again....

I am in my home town now, at the boarding lounge, waiting for my flight to get back to Sao Paulo to work. I've been here for the last 3 days with my b/f who had never been to Salvador before and, believe me, he LOVED it.

My friends picked him up at the airport the day before I arrived and he was charmed by the natural beauties of the city. The day I arrived, I picked him up and he slept over home, in the bedroom that ued to be mine 6 years ago (when I moved to Sao Paulo, the room became empty, but my folks just keep it in order for the times I show up here).

Vitor (b/f) loved to be here and I'll get back later with more details on our trip.

See ya'around!

My thursday

I had to wake up really early in the morning. I still don't have a car and it takes me up to an hour to get to the airport by bus. My BF and I woke up basically at the same time, and an hour later we left home. He works at the airport I had to sign in this time for a 3 day journey (I'll be home on Saturday night).

I had to fly this shuttle to Belo Horizonte, which is 45 minutes away and we have a full inflight service for that (yeah! We do!). Not only that, but we had this "new" flight attendant and he was THAT fast so I had to help him.

Well... I am not complaning.. I have been there and 5 years later, here I am, fast as hell to make it through the flight. Anyway, he's a good straight married 26-year-old guy and he's eager to learn everything in the job. So we went fine.
I am in Porto Alegre now. Extreme south in Brazil and it seems to get colder by the minute. It's not as cold as it was in Madrid, when I went there in 2001 (6 minus Celcius), but, still.. who was raised in a tropical temperature (around 26 to 32 Celcius), 10 is cold (eh eh eh eh). This hotel is pretty fine. The rooms are not BIG, but they are confortable. They have free cable iternet in the rooms and I can connect using a cable they provide thenselves. I hope Fortaleza (extreme northeast in Brazil) have the same service.

Anyway, I got here in the end of the afternoon, chatted a little with some friends, wrote in my portuguese blogger and, now, I am updating this one...

I would REALLY thank you guys for dropping by, visit and comment. I had a blast yesterday with my first visitors. Come, read and comment you are ALL welcome.

Terror in Sao Paulo

I have to say I have never lived in fear like I was this weekend here in Sao Paulo. I was news all over the world and the whole town was really like it was a huge prision: for the citizens.
I have no idea how it started. I was flying - working, and when I got home, everybody was worried and my parents were calling me, all my friends from my hometown.
The streets were awkwardly empty at 23h (11PM) and all the situation made a bunch of people think about the feeling of safety and security of ourselves and our beloved.

I had monday off, but I stayed indoors. Watching the news, while my b/f and my roommantes were at work. I was scared. All over town, policemen, thieves and robbers were shooting at each other. This crime gang was burning city buses, robbing banks and killing cops and firemen. Terror! Unsafety! Unsecurity!

I had to go to the supermarket and everythink was closed. All the shops and stores. Even the market´s door was half way down. I felt like I could have been shot at any time...
Suddenly it was over. I went to bed and, the next day (tuesday), everything was all alright. People were back on the streets, heading back to their jobs, taking their children to scholls that were closed the day before.

Four bad guys were shot when I was sleeping. Apperently, some of them were some kind of leaders of that gang. The cell companies had cut all services and they were without any kind of communications. It helped a lot, but at what cost?

Everything is fine now... or it SEEMS to be fine. Now, I am afraid of that happening again! God forbid!

Getting In + Mr. Hunt + Hostel(?)

Well. after 4 days away I am finally home... I was received with a great HELLO kiss from my babe Vitor and called some friends to play the brazilian version of Pictionary. Instead of using drawings, we are playing doing mimes... it's funny. We have already gathered some friends in the beggining of the week (monday, the 1st, was a holiday here, too - Labor Day) and we had so much fun we decided to gather the gang again to do some laughing.

After that we (Vitor and I) are probably heading to the movies. MI3 is already on the theaters here and I am dying to see... not only because I like Tom Cruise and his work, but also because of J.J. Abrahams, director os MI3 and director of two of my favorites TV Shows (Lost and Alias). Well... lets check the movie and I will tell you guys about it...

Speaking of movies, let me tell you I was so f#$#^%#$ regret I went to see HOSTEL. It's FAR the worst movie I have ever seen in my whole life... and I am including XUXA movies. Xuxa is one of those tv hosters who "loves" making tv shows for children and has the idea she is an actress just because she''s entertaining om TV. I have tried to see some of her movies and thay are terrible (she's brazilian, so... do not try to find one of theis movies outside Brazil. Despite of being terrible, her acting is shameful).

But HOSTEL is FAR worse than any of her movies... believe me... You do not want to spend money and time to go to see it... People might say it's a Quentin Tarantino production bla bla bla bla, but even a well named producer/director as Tarantino is bound to make some mistakes from time to time.... (actually, this was one HUGE mistake....).

If you are inclined to see it that anyway, just let me know what you thought about that THING (call it a "movie" is, itself, a compliment).

Chapada dos Guimaraes

It´s pretty fast this post here.. I got a flight to the country side and, yesterday, I spent one of the most incredibles days of 2006. I went to Chapada dos Guiamaraes with the whole Cabin Crew and we wrer totally conected to nature: waterfalls, mountains, grass, water, blue sky, birds, wood. Totally cool!

We unfortunately was short of memory cards and we took only 67 pictures over there. Ok... if it was the time we had the regular cameras it would be A LOT of pictures, but we were in 4, and everybody wanted their pictures taken. So I had to reduce the quality of the pictures so that we could take pictures of all of us.

We left Cuiabá (capital of Mato Grosso state) real eraly in the morning. By 09AM we were ready for our little adventure in the local bus station. No one of us had already gone there so it was brand new for everybody.

The bus left the station at 10h and half an hour later we arrived on Salgadeira. I have NO IDEA how to translate that name to something that would make any sense in English, so that´s the name. The weather was pretty fine. HOT and we had no idea what the place would look like.

When we finally arrived there I thought we were in a dead end. The place seemed to have NOTHING good to do. A few people over here... another group over there, but nothing to see at all.

Since we were already there and spend the whole day, we decide to explroe the place. And it was good. We got totally astonished when we fisrt saw the main waterfall that we run up to the 1st bathroom to put our swimsuits.

After taking some pictures we decided to explore a little bit more and we found this place where we stood the most part of the time. The water was clear and cold. The falls were really strong and we felt like beeing in a hidromassage tube. The place belonged to us. We were just us and nature all around.

After a while, of course, we got hungry and walked up all the way back to the tourist center. We had this HUGE chicken cooked stuff they made there and headback to the hotel.

TERRIFIC DAY and you can check the pictures CLICKING HERE and browsing the whole set.

About Injuries

As I left a comment at Terry´s blogger about sports related injuries and I promised I would tell about it here, here we go. I was a swimmer since I was 4 and I stopped swiming at the age of 22. Actually I never quit swiming, but I would not take it into championships and sutff. I just wanted to have some fun at the pools and, therefore, I quit trainning.

I was probably 7 when I had my first injurie, a muscula distention on my left leg. I kindda felt it when it happened. Trainning was over and I was playing at the pools with my friends. One of them just pulled me onto the water and, due to the effort of taking him down with me, my leg was distended (if there´s is no such expression, please correct me, guys).

Anyway.. right after I dove into the water I felt nothing, but the next morning I was in pain and it was so fucking painful I had to stay home. I couldn´t go to school, English, piano or swimming classes and I was so bored.

Back them I didn´t have a VCR and the TV Shows sucked. So, try to imagine a 7-year-old child, home alone (actually, with the nanny - I miss her! heheheh) and with NOTHING to do except lousy TV Shows.... I could DIE bored! Ah ah ah ah (JK!!!)

I also had Otitis Media in both ears several times during my time as a swimmer. As a result, I cannot dive till today. People ask me how I can fly if I cannot dive (because of the pressure on both environments) and I really cannot explain that. Flying I fell nothing, but when I start diving, when I go down to 3 feet, my ears and my head seem to implode. So I decided staying at the surface, since I love water! Flying is my passion and probably that´s why I feel nothing inside the airplane!

About Me (just a little)

Since I have been wandering around new bloggers and reading a lot these couple of days, I decided to write something about myself. It´s not common, since I try to stand for some individuality. But in the communities I have been, generally people do it and, since no one can actually do some harm, it´s gonan be ok.

I was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brasil in 1975 and lived my whole life there until 2000 when I took my flight attendant course and, in order to get a job, I had to move to Sao Paulo. It was pretty fast for me to get a job in a commecial aviation company. I know out there people wait upo to 5 years before starting to fly.

Anyway, I got the chance to fly for this company in Brazil, wich was my original goal when I decided to becoma a F/A. It´s, actualy, the biggest company for domestic flights in Brazil and, despite of all issues I have had in these 5 years, it´s a nice one to work for.

Regarding my personal life, I can say I am blessed to have found the perfect man for me (yes, i am gay!). Since August 2005 we have been together (officially, on October) and I have never been so quiet and peaceful in a relationship. His name is Vitor, he´s from Rio and we have been living together since the day before my birthday last year (my birth is November, 2nd).

I also have 3 more roomates. Fernanda, also from Rio, but has lived is Salvador for 13 years. We met there in 1994 and we have been friends ever since. In 2002 she decided to move do Sao Paulo to take a MBA course in Advertisement and Marketing. She works, now, for a bank as a teller and she is one of my closest friends EVER.

My other roomate is the one who shares the apartment with me for the longest time: Andre. he is from Natal (also in northeast n Brazil) and he moved in in January 2001. He´s into movies, cinema and stuff and has been studing it in the biggest cinema universities in Brazil (USP).

The last one to move in (last year) is Liandro, another friend and also a co-worker. He´s actually married and lives in a town 6 hours away from Sao Paulo (by bus). But he needs a place to satay here, sonce we are all based in Sao Paulo and the flights, because of that, all leave from here. Anyway he´s a good friend.

That´s all for now...

In English

My friend Newton is corageous enough to start blogging in English and I took the chance and did the same: I am going to try to blog in English too, but tht´s NOT a promise... It´s not my mother language and, sometimes, it´s hard to put my thoughts together in order to post something interesting of funny... but I will try....

I said TRY!

Pra início de conversa (de novo!)

"Aqui mora um coração
Que urge por um amor
Nao importa quem seja
Importa apenas que seja
Um Sorriso
Um Carinho
Um Beijo
Um Bebe
Que me faça Arrepiar
Que ma faça Rir
Que me faça me Apaixonar
E ver
Que tudo gira ao meu redor
Mesmo que não gire"

Publicado originalmente em
10 de setembro de 2003 em
"O Menino que Voa" e
não poderia ser mais atual.