Words were floating on the breeze...

I read this article at Folha.com.br and wanted to talk about this crisis that is getting the whole world.

Since this freaky crisis started, our dear President Lula have been saying that this crisis will not affect Brazil and its people. He always says this.

But... all we know, we, people like me and you, regular people, is that we are all involved in some way. And I explain that!

In my city, we have a huge region full of factories. Most of them are multinationals, like Honda, Yamaha, Pionner, Whirlpool and many, many others. In our Zona Franca (how is called) there are many brazilian factories also, but who have worked sometime in their lives in some company may know that a factory, a company, needs materials (raw material) and equipments (machines) to work. This is very basic to understand what I wanna mean.
Many of those materials and equipments are imported from US, England, Germany and other countries. So, if the crisis is getting the whole world and the purchases and sales are made in dollars and euros, how these factories can continue fine if they have investiments from their head offcies too and need to sale very much to have money and buy them again to keep working?

For this reason, many factories I know started to fire people.

In this month, happened an increasing of 132% in laying employees off in relation with the same period in the last year. In the company Francis works, they started to fire people last week. A friend of us that is chief there too, last Saturday was making a 'list' of the people who will gonna loose their jobs this week. A friend of mine who works in another company told me that more than 150 people were fired last month. Another friend lost her job last month, in a new factory of motorcycles that opened its doors this year, and with her, more than 450 people lost their jobs too.

So... dear President, do you still think the crisis won't affect Brazilians? Isn't it immoral to keep deceiving people while the 'real life' is much more horrable and worrying?

So... dear President, give me a break!!

Give us a break!!

Hello my friends!!

I was out for a while, it's truth. But you do know also that I was always here and there (as a spy, like David said), reading your pms and answering them, taking a look at your posts (some of them) and commenting (some of them).

In my last post I said that I was needing some time for myself, to make my projects 'out of paper' and so I did. And I don't feel sorry for that. On the contrary, I just got good things and more time for me and my family.

I don't have so much news to tell, (I didn't get that job I was looking for, yet! I didn't get the answer yet and I'm afraid it'll last more than it is because of the global crisis) but I just wanted to say

See you around!

able to talk about it.

If there is something that really piss me off is when people have pets and don't take care of them well. Or worse, when people have pets and in a time, they simply don't want them anymore and abandon them in the streets.

My father has a huge yard and he likes very much to make things in there. He has a garage where he keeps stuff for carpentry and many more (garbage) he wants to keep. So, some time ago, my parents noticed that rats were appearing every night and they were invading the house. My father put rat poison and some traps but it didn't work. Rats are very smart!

So, my mother started to ask me to get her a cat. She wanted a cat even don't liking pets. My mother is a strange person. She doesn't like any kind of animal. She doesn't care. And when she asked me for a cat I told her "will you do at the same last times when you abandoned the cats when you didn't want them anymore?" and she said "no, this time is different, I really want a cat!! I'm tired of those rats and we need a cat! we really need a cat!"...

And I... really doubting of her intentions, asked once more: "are you sure? Because I don't wanna hear you comaplaining about the smell of s*** and pee!!" and she just answer "I'm really sure! I want a cat no matter what it needs!"

Ok, so a friend of mine gave me a cat and you still know him. I got an album with photos from Nescau! Remember him? He was always theme for my posts! And he got our home and was so cute! One year passed and Nescau grew up. He was not cute anymore and he started to make bad things (in my mother's opinion)... and she started to complain about him.

I said "Are you already complaining?" and she tried to explain that she had to wash the kitchen everyday and she had to clean the whole house everyday cos he was make pee in the whole house. And I said that maybe he was stressed and maybe another cat from the neighbourhood would come and fighting with him. He would be afraid and would be just at home cos he didn't want to get out to the yard at night. And for some days we watched him and realized that this was the reason. There was another cat (much bigger than Nescau) and this cat was making Nescau afraid, and so he just wanted to stay inside the house.

But my mother was tired of and asked to leave Nescau away. And I said "what? Are you asking me AGAIN to abandon one more cat? You wanted a cat to solve your problem and now you don't want hi anymore. That's simple huh?"

I got really pissed with this! I don't agree with this. If you have a pet you have to take care of it. Otherwise, don't have one!!!! Pets are like kids, they need attention and caring (of course not so much as a child, but they need) and if you're not able to deal with it, don't do!!

I really thought about take Nescau to my apartment, but the problem was 'where he could be?'. My apartment is really small and we couldn't have space to put his bed, his food and water... So, we couldn't stay with him. I was really worried about it and my daughter was suffering with this problem.

My mom asked Francis to take Nescau away and Francis as a great son-in-law as he can be, he did it! My daughter cried a lot. My mother said "I don't know why she's crying" and I said "Because she's a child, she liked him and she has a heart!!!"... my mother shuted her mouth.

Francis took Nescau in the car and let him in his old address, where Francis used to live, because there someone could take care of him and could feed him, at least. Here we don't have those adoption houses where you can adopt dogs and cats or leave some. So, if you want to abandon your pet, you have to leave it in the streets. At least, Francis took Nescau to a place that someone can take care and he was not in the streets, but in a private condominium.

I didn't agree with that, but it could be worse. Passed few days and seeing that me and Juju were sad about what happened, Francis felt guilty and tried to find Nescau there, to take him back home and take care of him at our apartment. I was really excited with the idea. We could work on it, and try to get some place to Nescau (under my bed?) but when he went to the condo, he didn't find Nescau anymore.

I really hope he's fine and really hope someone took him home. I was sad with that. And told my mom that I'll never, never, take some pet to her again! Never!

Ontem foi dia de eleição aqui no Brasil e todos nós fomos obrigados a votar. Se você é um cidadão como eu, você também deve odiar votar!

Sim, eu odeio! Primeiro por que mostra que realmente não vivemos numa democracia. Segundo por que somos obrigados a votar num bando de palhaços que nunca irão fazer nada para melhorar, de verdade!

Infelizmente, o Brasil tem uma política de 'cuide-se quem puder' e 'primeiro eu'! Sim, isso por que todos os que entram para a política (ou seja, serviço público) visam 'se dar bem' e ter estabilidade. Não trabalhar, levar a vida na moleza. Não que o serviço público não tenha trabalho a fazer, mas lá todos nós sabemos que podemos chegar mais tarde, sair mais cedo, prazos nunca são levados à sério e você por mais que tenha um chefe id**ta você não precisa se preocupar em ser demitido. Claro, isso para quem é concursado, por que os comissionados a cada 4 anos ficam rezando para os seus padrinhos de reelegerem e assim tem seus empregos garantidos.

Tenho alguns amigos que trabalham no setor público. Vários deles inclusive, e é tudo a mesma coisa. A mesma mamata. E aí, eu como uma boa brasileira, tô doida pra arranjar uma boquinha dessa, claro. Fazer o quê? Ficar ralando até o fim da vida?!

É isso que mata a gente. O fato de já ter caído a ficha e ver que você nunca chegará a ser um CEO na sua empresa, te faz ver que o melhor mesmo é ir trabalhar no governo. Dia desses uma amiga minha recebeu uma oferta para ser 'digitadora' de um vereador e seu salário seria nada mais, nada menos que R$ 1.500,00 para trabalhar 6 horas por dia, de segunda a sexta. Que tal? Tá mole assim né?

Quê que eu fiz? Perguntei se não tem vaga pra mim oras! Lógico!

Mas voltando ao lance da eleição, dia desses eu tava ouvindo no carro o NerdCast sobre as eleições (coisa que meu marido agora vive fazendo é ouvir o JovemNerd no carro, e eu vou junto) e lá eles falam sobre essa coisa do voto ser obrigatório. Que só é obrigatório por que o brasileiro que é um povinho de m***a (a maioria sim, desculpem compatriotas mas é verdade) que não tem consciência da seriedade que é eleger alguém que vai comandar a sua vida por 4 anos. Sim, comandar mesmo. Por que se tem alguém que consegue f***r com a sua vida em questão de segundos é o presidente, o prefeito, o governador, os vereadores... por que se eles decretam qualquer lei ou emenda que atrapalhe a sua vida e acabe com o seu bolso, já era! Lembrei que há 3 anos atrás, o IPTU aqui da minha cidade foi elevado a mais de 100% (sim, isso é verdade!) e nosso representante só voltou atrás por que a mídia caiu de pau em cima (e a oposição também, o que foi um prato cheio) e com isso acabou voltando atrás e a nossa felicidade de ter votado na oposição se foi.

É por essas e outras que eu não voto mais. Nosso último grande exemplo está no poder vai fazer 8 anos e quer mudar a lei só para se eleger mais uma vez. Eu votei nele, votei sim. Mas como qualquer um que também votou nele pelo simples fato de mudar e por que era oposição. E deu no que deu. E isso só mostra que estamos todos ferrados!!!

É por isso que eu não voto mais. Situação, oposição! Não vale a pena se estressar achando que o fulano de tal vai resolver por que não vai! Viu mamãe???? Não vai!! (Isso é pra minha mãe, que com 66 anos ainda acredita em mudança)

Esse ano, o índice de abstenção no Brasil inteiro foi de 14%. Para um Brasil com milhões de eleitores, 14% é muita coisa. Fora os milhões que votaram nulo (eu!) e isso mostra que o brasileiro está cansado disso tudo. Cansado, frustrado, desiludido. Infelizmente ainda tem uma boa parte que vota por que alguém deu uns tijolinhos, umas telhas... uma madeirinha aqui... umas cartelas de anticoncepcional ali...

Tô até pensando em me candidatar daqui a 4 anos. É só começar desde agora a dar coisas para o povo e até lá eu já tenho um bom eleitorado. Tava vendo a lista dos vereadores que se elegeram, tem gente que conseguiu se eleger com menos de 4.000 votos. É só escolher o partido certo! (E tem?) Aí eu dou umas aulinhas de 'grátis' de Inglês lá na 'Zona Lerrrrrte' e tô feita!!

É isso aí! Daqui a 4 anos, vote em mim!