I am now officially moving!

yup... I am now moving to wordpress... :)

Really... I've been playing with it lately and the stuff is quite cool... and the best bit is...
I won't lose any of the stuff I already have in this blog!!! yayyyyyyy!!! :)

I have finished importing my Blogger posts and for now onwards my blog adress is:

http://www.urbanvox.net/wordpress

I know it needs new design etc etc... but that shouldn't be a problem... :)

See you there!!!! :)

Told Ya!

See... just as I said...

Feeling a lot better today!

No... no shag for me last night... damn you headache! grrrrrrrrrr!!!!

This week promises a lot! Let's hope it lives up to the expectation!

zya!

Social Life

I have been revising my life today... You know... Monday... Slo-mo, Garfield(ish) day and all... So I had to do something... Anyways...

I've been revising my life today... in special, my social life... And I have definitely, and officially noted that I don't have one! Really... apart from our Cell Meetings, and programs that involve family, or SURGE members, I have no social life what-so-ever... Not even the sort of Social Life that SURGE should provide.

And hey... we're talking about the guy that used to be in all the"baladas" , the guy that used to be one of the first people in Gospel Rock Cafe, Noite Gospel (FreakJ Style) and Arena Jovem, hell even Cafe Cancun, and Sossega Madalena... I would dance all night and be the last to one to leave...

Dude... what happened to me?

The other thing that makes me feel even worse is that my wife has more of a social life than I do... no... even worse... She has an exclusive social life WITHOUT me, Portuguese classes (with drinks after that some times) on Mondays and Wednesdays... OA meetings on tuesdays and whatever seems to happen on Thursdays and Fridays (thank god is not often or I would have gone crazy or something like that already) , which most of the times do not include me... (Baby... I know you are going to read that, and sorry if I am not being completely fair here, but put yourself in my position... remember when I used to work out and you stayed in the house all day? Well... that is sort of how I feel... The difference is that I used to co me straight back home. Too bad docs don't take me seriously enough to prescribe me something... I think I could really do with some happy pills... and u know how much I hate them!!!)

My life has become simply taking care of the boy (which I love to do... but hey... I need a break once in a while...), whilst trying to run CWI from home, without a fixed salary, which all in all and fair enough I knew it was going to happen for a while so no complains here... my career choice... I just wish I hadn't paused with the web design and photography... that is taking ages to get back in track...

And I won't even comment on my sexual life... Can't remember when was last time... about a month ago? Well...

I know I probably should not comment on many things I comment in this blog... but really... who am I gonna talk to about it? I am second in command and first in command is my mother... and let's put it like that... Some things I am not at liberty to talk to her about... well... many things...

I look like a grumpy old men don't I? Well... never mind...

I better stop... I am holding up not to burst into tears again... Or not... I don;t know... so many conflicts in my head right now that I don't really know know...

Maybe I just need to vent it some how...
Maybe I need stress relieve...
Maybe I need happy pills....

Maybe all I need is a hot shower...
or a shag...

Right ranted and raved far enough today... tomorrow things will be different (always the optimist... but hey... that's me...) all I need is to compose myself, and most of the time a couple hours of sleep would solve the problem... or a shag... lol

Gotta go... starting to sound stupid! :)

zya!

Pics Reloaded!!

Ok ok... I know I haven't commented much on stuff we've been doing on my posts, so I have decided to do it in pictures...

So for those of you that don't have Facebook, here are the pics... (or the link to their albums, just click on the subject to see the pics) :)

TB's B'day

Tommy's birthday party for his school friends at the wacky warehouse... :)
he was ill but when he saw them he bightenned as quickly as sunshine. :)
bless him!

Location: Wacky Warehouse South

TB the Gymnast

Beth has decided to introduce Tommy to Gymnastics... lol... it was great fun!!! :)

Location: Liphook

Portsmouth

We're waking Pompey up!!! ;)
Base Group Portsmouth coming soon!

Location: Portsmouth

HMS Belfast

A nice day out part of this weekend's activities which was VERY eventful! :)

Location: London Bridge

Wimbledon Park

A nice day out part of this weekend's activities which was VERY eventful! :)

Location: Wimbledon Park

Snow Fest:

what we did last sunday at the hedgerow!! :)

Location: Longfield

Well... That's it for now methinks!! There might be more in Vic's albums but hey... :)

zya!

Why do i hate summer?????

Because I love it!! :/

OK... let me explain myself here...

Everyone knows I absolutely admire the human body as one of the greatest and most well designed and beautiful things ever made ever ever and ever...

God REALLY was inspired on the sixth day. :)

And that is the reason why I hate summer, even though I love it (who ever said that love is not complicated... :) )... Because summer, specially in Europe, is the season where you will find LOADS of things like that:

And that:

All over the place...

Well you got the drill...

Which fair enough, when you don't get something very often, in this case warm weather, sun rays, etc, the moment you get it you are prone to enjoy it at it's utmost. It is not a problem at all... it is summer, it is hot and all... The only problem is when you are a married fellow like me. And let's put it like that... if you are a guy, married or not, you will be lying through your teeth if you're telling me you don't notice it. The only difference is that some are more vocal about it, and others are not. Is that true or am I a freak?

Hey... maybe that is why most of my friends used to think I would never get married!! lol!!! And even so... here I am, married for 4 years now... almost 5, and with a wonderful kiddo that in 4 days will be 4 years old. On your face!! :P

And I am VERY lucky my wife knows who I am, the way I am and that she loves me anyways. :) It helps that I know that if I eat out of the house I'll be punished! You can see but you can't touch!!! I'm such a good doggie! :)

huahuahuahuahuahuahua...

Anyways... U gotta loooooooooove summer! :)

zya!!!

This is WAR!!!

Imagine an annoying neighbor!!

OK... now imagine this annoying neighbor loudly playing and singing karaoke at 3am!

Now imagine when you get downstairs to complain , the drunk BITCH neighbor (ok... a hot, wearing not a lot bitch, but a bitch all the same) complains about heavy steps all day on their sealing which, according to some twisted logic gives them the right to karaoke all night long if they want to...

Sensibly her partner (or so I thought he was her partner) came to the door and said they would lower the volume down a notch. This took affect for about 10 minutes when music started again at full blast. The music wasn't bad... but their voices singing along with microphones... they were literally to excruciating.

This was confirmed when one of our neighbors came along shouting up their windows telling them to shut the f**k up which they responded with "do you want any particular song you want us to sing?".

Do you want to know the worst bit of them all? When we called the police on them the response we got was simply "we stop sending people to disturbance dispatches at 4am".

Grrrrrrrr!!!!!

This is war!!!

You know the heavy steps they were complaining about? Well... they are now going to get worse... and my response will simply be:"I am 18 stone fat mate... there ain't no soch thing as stepping lightly" and there will also not be any "tommy stop running around" and "no bouncing so you don't disturb the neighbors". Instead there will be: "come on tommy! let's play Tigger!!!" ins in tigger from Winnie the Pooh... the one that loves to bounce.

At the moment... I am not a happy Bunnie!

Zya!

PS: Am I a grumpy old man??? :)

Domestics...

...I absolutely hate them!!!
But if u gotta have one then do it...

I feel like I am carrying the world on my shoulders... Every day... every waking time.
Why do I have to care so much?

God... help me... please!

response to last night...

nope... it's not!

Hate Something...

Following the events that happened last Friday, I have now developed an official dislike to all and any of Vic's colleagues (or ex-colleagues, thanks God!!) at H&L!

It is only because I love her and in consideration of that that I will go to her leaving due as requested. OK... maybe the fact that I need to make more of an effort to get out there has something to do with that as well... but Hey... that doesn't make me dislike them any less...

To tell the truth it would all probably have been OK if that £"£$%$£^$%^ of whoever answered Vic's phone didn't hung up on my face... and of course it would have helped A LOT if Vic hadn't arrived after 2AM as she did, both worrying me sick and letting all this hate brew in my head and deep within...

In fact I know I was out of bounds telling her to come home as I did and simply hanging up... but it was VERY childish of her to retaliate ins this manner. I don't know... I guess I had had an awful day and that was just the last droplet to spill the cup...

I've been feeling like a pressed down string lately... Have too much in my head... The fact that my way of doing things, or thinking for all that matters, does not agree in great part with my leader, which also happens to be my mother, and the fact that I feel that my wife has been distanced and not interested in what I am trying to achieve doesn't help much. Add to the equation the fact that I am at the moment with more responsibilities that I could probably cope with, making next to zero money and having to cope all day, night and weekends (ok... shared but hey) with my 3 year old son that I LOVE TO BITS, but that can be a bit (a lot) demanding and hyperactive for the whole if his awaken time and what you will get is someone that is a heart attack waiting to happen.

That's how I feel half the time anyways... I think that's why I feel that it doesn't really matter how much I do I can't achieve anything...

That is why half the time I am holding on to the last of my strength and sanity not to burst into tears and completely fall apart. And oh... am I good at that!!! about 20 years of experience! It almost killed a couple of times, but here I am... solid... no... not really... not so solid... I am falling apart a bit at the time...

They say you need 3 points of support to maintain psychologically sane... I am struggling to find them or to recognize them... my strong points sometimes feel like weak spots...

I love my god, I love my wife, I love my son, I love my family... I love myself... I think...

What's wrong with me?!?!?!?!

Do I make any sense at all????????????

Please tell me if I do... tell me if I don't...
Is it all in vain????

Please...

Boys and boats

Tommy's back from mum's today!!! :) I missed the little boy sooo much!

The moment he saw me at the door he simply ran and jumped on me and hugged me and didn;t want to let go. :) I didn't really want to let go either... but having to work i had to. When we got home he was asleep already... :( Vic didn't even get to see him... and probably won't see him till tomorrow evening.

We went to see a church to rent here in Wimbledon and a couple of boats to do the mascaraed party,which By the Way seems now to be a whole different idea now. ;) More on it later.

The idea of the boat came from the notion would be tres-chick to do it in a cruise environment, and what better than The Queen Marry to do it in. Ideas jumping in my head!!!! LOADS of them!! So stay tuned to the blog and you will see how it goes... Date should be the 8th of June at the Queen Mary (anchored by the Waterloo Bridge).

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!

I am sooo excited!!! :)

Wait and see!!! :)

zya!

From the BBC News Website: When Muslims become Christians

Disclaimer: I know I know it is a long post... but read it!! It is worth it... :) and before you take any conclusions, I know I as a Christian and as a pastor they might call me "evil missionary" and I know I occasionally have a very strong opinion against extremists, being Muslims or not... OK mainly about Muslim extremists because they are the ones that explode you... but anyways... Believe me, I have some Muslim friends and they are very nice people, actually I admire some parts of their way of life, not the religion, but the way of life, and I know most Muslims (about 2/3 in the UK) are not crazy people that believe they will have 70 gorgeous virgins(poor virgins! What sin did they do to deserve that!?!) waiting for them in the afterlife if they kill themselves while killing as many "infidels" as possible... So don't explode me!!!

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There's a widespread belief that the penalty for leaving Islam is death - hence, perhaps, the killing of a British teacher last week. But Shiraz Maher believes attitudes may be softening.

Ziya Meral's parents disowned him when he converted from Islam to Christianity.

"They said 'go away, you're not our son.' They told people I died in an accident rather than having the shame of their son leaving Islam."

FIND OUT MORE... Shiraz Maher (right) presents Could I Stop Being a Muslim? on Radio 4 on 22 April at 2000 BST, repeated 27 April at 1700 BST. Or listen to it on the BBC iPlayer

Born and raised in Turkey, he decided to convert to Christianity after moving to university. He knew telling his parents would be a difficult moment even though they're not particularly observant Muslims, and he planned to break the news to them gently.

In the end, events overtook him. Before heading back to Turkey for the holidays, Ziya briefly visited a Christian summer camp where he was filmed eating a bowl of spaghetti.

The first his parents heard of his conversion was when they saw Ziya on the national news being described as "an evil missionary" intent on "brainwashing" Turkish children.

His parents decided they would rather tell people that he was dead than acknowledge he was a Christian. And Ziya, who now lives in the UK, is not alone in this experience.

Sophia, which is not her real name, faced similar pressures when she decided to become a Christian.

Coming from a Pakistani background but living in east London, 28-year-old Sophia spoke about the extreme cultural pressures her family put her under.

SENTENCED TO DEATH Hashem Aghajari, a history professor in Tehran (pictured), was sentenced to death for apostasy in Nov 2002 He had said Muslims should not follow clerics "like monkeys" The sentence sparked off a month of student protests and was quashed by Iran's Supreme Court Abdul Rahman began a new life in Italy after his trial for apostasy in Kabul collapsed

"They kept saying: 'The punishment is death, do you know the punishment is death?'"

In the end, Sophia ran away from home. Her mother tracked her down and turned up at her baptism.

"I got up to get baptised, that's when my mother got up, ran to the front and tried to pull me out of the water.

"My brother was really angry. He reacted and phoned me on my mobile and just said: 'I'm coming down to burn that church.'"

For Sophia and Ziya, a lot of the prejudice they faced seemed to be borne out of cultural ideas, which are particularly ingrained in the South Asian community relating to notions of family honour.

Aghajari's death sentence sparked protests and a review

But it's too easy to say this is just a cultural problem. Dig a little deeper and you find that there is a theological argument which advocates the death penalty for apostates, which has serious implications for British society.

Last week, British teacher Daud Hassan Ali, 64, was shot dead in Somalia. His widow, Margaret Ali, said her husband was targeted by Islamists who "believe it is ok to kill any man who was born into Islam and left the faith".

Those renouncing their faith for atheism or agnosticism are viewed in a similar way to those who adopt another faith.

A poll conducted by the Policy Exchange last year suggested that over a third of young British Muslims believe that the death penalty should apply for apostasy.

Until recently, I would have shared that view, but since personally rejecting extremism myself, I've been re-examining the issues which I once regarded as conclusive.

Discretion

I was staggered to learn that the Quran does not say anything about punishing apostates and that its proponents use two hadiths instead to support their view. Hadiths are the recorded traditions and sayings of the Prophet which, in addition to the Quran, provide an additional source of Islamic law.

The hadiths which relate to apostasy are linguistically ambiguous and open to interpretation. Distinguished scholars told me that the hadiths actually speak about a death penalty for treason, not apostasy. And even then, they stressed the punishment is discretionary.

I believe the classical law of apostasy in Islam is wrong and based on a misunderstanding Usama Hassan Scientist and imam

Dr Hisham Hellyer is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at University of Oxford, and has researched classical Islamic law.

He believes the death penalty punishment is no longer applicable and should be suspended under certain circumstances.

Usama Hassan, a Cambridge-educated scientist and an imam, goes further and says the classical scholars were wrong in how they interpreted the Quran. He is unequivocal in denouncing those who advocate the death penalty.

"I believe the classical law of apostasy in Islam is wrong and based on a misunderstanding of the original sources, because the Quran and Hadith don't actually talk about a death penalty for apostasy."

Last year Egypt's Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, unequivocally told the Washington Post that the death penalty for apostasy simply no longer applies. It provoked a flurry of debate in Egypt and the wider Middle East.

Traitor

The idea of killing apostates has become a resurgent theme in recent years, a fact closely-related to the increasing politicisation of Islam since 9/11.

It epitomises the "us and them" mentality felt by many Muslims between themselves and the West. And there's an uncomfortable conclusion to all this.

Muslim attitudes towards apostasy are a metaphor for the wider struggle taking place within Islam Shiraz Maher

If there is a death penalty for treason, then who defines what treason is?

Earlier this year a group of men from Birmingham pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to kidnap and behead a British Muslim solider because they regarded him as a traitor. Joining the British army was to them treason against Islam.

So while the debate surrounding one aspect of apostasy continues, it is simultaneously throwing up an entirely new series of challenges around other issues including what should be considered treason against Islam.

When Ziya talked about what happened to him, he was just finishing a report on the experiences of apostates, called No Place to Call Home. He had interviewed 28 apostates in six different countries as part of a year-long research project.

His report found that although the death penalty is rarely applied through the courts, apostates still face gross and wide-ranging human rights abuses at the hands of the state, radical groups and local communities."

It seems that Muslim attitudes towards apostasy are a metaphor for the wider struggle taking place within Islam, between those who argue for a progressive form of Islam and those who argue for more dogmatic interpretations.

Attitudes to apostasy may be a useful barometer for judging where it's headed.

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Some comments from others and me commenting on them... :)

"A true Muslim would never ever change his/her religion. A Muslim who understands the true values of Islam would never disgrace it by converting. Islam is a religion of peace and harmony. It forbids its followers to even hurt an animal so the excessive propaganda against Islam needs to end now. The Holy Prophet S.A.W said; "Be kind to those who are on earth and He in the heavens will be kind to you"

My point is anyone abandoning Islam is destroying his life hereafter [life after death] and is his/her own enemy.
Lubna, Pakistan"

"The Holy Prophet S.A.W said; "Be kind to those who are on earth and He in the heavens will be kind to you"" Dude... Isn't that something that Jesus said?

Why is it that when anyone from any other religion says "I'm gonna kill your ass" faces risk of being imprisoned and when 1/3 of Muslims openly threaten anyone who has a different mindset they are free to walk around as if he/she had said nothing?

Isn't that abusing of the Religious Freedom Act? agreeing with James Rigby (a guy that commented on the article via BBC News Website) here who says:

"The "over one-third" of British Muslims who believe converts should be put to death are potentially guilty of inciting religious hatred. Will the police investigate? When are they going to be arrested?
James Rigby, Wickford, Essex"

Ok... I know the answer for that... The police doesn't have enough manpower to investigate or enough prison slots to arrest the ones who would be found guilty... and then if they did, Jihad would kill the UK's arse because all the troopers are out there... somewhere...

Are Muslims REALLY taking over the UK???? Seriously... look around..
think about it...

zya!

No pain, no gain!!!

And I am in a lot of pain!!!! So I wanna see a lot more gain!!! :)
I feel pain in muscles I didn't know I had!!!

Ok, let me explain the situation...
This week is my kick-start for my healthier life... (again)
So I woke up (or should I say was woken up and urged out of bed???) really early in the morning and went for a bike ride... Bike had a flat tire, so I decided to go for a jog instead... all great there... I jogged/walked for about 40 minutes nonstop... which was GREAT if you take in consideration the fact the I am at the moment one of the most sedentary persons I know. I didn't even work out a sweat properly... well... at least not until i was 4 blocks away from home anyways. But the most fantastic thing is that I didn't even use my asthma medicine!!!

It is awesome how a jog first thing in the morning wakes all your senses and alerts you so much! Ideas were flowing soooo easily!!!

Then I went to the bank with Cinthia and to get smooth paper for their wall chart thing... and it occurred to me that I REALLY needed a new desk... mine was dying! So I called mum asking if she didn't wanna present me with one. Well she did... so I had to carry the huge thing all the way back home in the wind... twice cuz I had to do 2 trips...

Then I had to put everything together...

As a result, and without being afraid of repeating myself, I now feel pain in muscles I didn't know I had. That made a bit worse by a cold I picked up from Giovanna makes life soooo happy.... :)

At least I now have LOADS of space to work... and me likes it! (And I have drawers!!! Simple things please simple minds.. do bad mine is so complicated! lol)

We're having trouble deciding the new times for our cell group meetings... I should just put my foot down at 5PM and that's it... Well let's see how it goes.

Got more to blog about... but am also hungry and since I am the one who has to cook for myself lately... well lets just say that I will be back later! :)

zya!

New Toy

The ministry has a new toy!!!!
I've been playing with our new MAGICARD TEMPO ID card printer!

And it is soooooo cool! :)
I still need to ready and print about 200 cards but hey... still soooo cool! :)

New toy high... I know!!!! lol

Only problem is that it works on the laptop as it is not compatible with Vista... but hey...

Well... tomorrow is my 1st day bikeriding early in the morning (6:30am) and it is already 1am so I better get to bed... :)

welll

zya!

On a brighter note...

I finally convinced Giovanna to build a blog...

Somehow I think it would be good for her in many levels...

:)

What they say is true!

I was watching CSI a couple of minutes ago... an episode about a dead kid found in a box.
Cruelty... (well it seemed like that in the beginning anyways)...

But the first thing that came into my head was: Someone hurt my kiddo or anything like that i would not wait for the system to do justice...

I think I would most probably do justice myself... and boy... the culprit would suffer... SOOO MUCH!

zya!

One of those days...

Yup... Today Tommy woke up in one of those moods...
The terribly hyperactive ones I mean...
Starting normally with the "TV don" demand early in the morning.
He is also In an attention seek drive that would impress anyone...
And even almost got Giovanna arrested on the way to the park because he wanted to go up a set of ladders "because they were on his treasure map". Tantrum tantrum tantrum...
poor thing... can't blame him... Holidays are no fun when mummy and daddy are not in holidays too...
I wish the terrible 3s(the continuation of the terrible 2s) were over soon!!!!
aiai...

zya!

Forbidden substances

Jeez... I dunno... really dunno what to do about it...
It is great to have people round... but it can be soooo complicated...
Rules... rules... Why can't I follow rules????
Complicated indeed... I should have eaten the rest of that chicken...

Damn!

Funny things... :)

Last night Cinthia Babysat tommy so me and Vic could go out in a date.

We first went out to a place called the Gourmet Burger.

It is strange how we always end up going out to Central London when we have perfectly great places round here... I certainly LOVED the burgers there... :)

I suppose Texas embassy is Texas Embassy but hey... That was delicious!!!!

Next stop: Surprise, surprise!! The movies. :)

And that is the point i decide to think... We both spend most of our days in front of a computer monitor... Then, when we get home, to unwind we usually watch a movie or TV series in our huge TV/home cinema surround entertainment system while we eat... We don't go out much... and whe we finally do, we go to the movies!!! lol... OK... we don't go to the cinema so often and all... unless there is something that REALLY calls of to go.

The worst bit is... the best movies out this week, we had already watched... At home. Can;t complain tho... Pathology was GREAT!

But I have to say that the best bit (and yes... that includes the burger... ;)) was after we came back home... booya babes!!!!

I am not gonna get into details but i gotta say... I LOVE BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM!!! ;)

zya!!!!

From the Holliwood Pastor (http://hollywoodpastor.com)

" Why Not?
Backhand Constantine
What I would do to hop in Doc's Delorean, go back in time and smack
Constantine and the rest of the Church leaders upside the head. What
were they thinking? Now of course I'm not wearing their sandals and I am
totally playing Monday quarterback, but people COME ON! How long will we
continue to use the same broken formula that has been past down for
hundreds of years. Jesus said, "The harvest is plentiful....," you know
the rest... The time is now for us to get out, and as the Church live
like Jesus. He went to the broken. He didn't invite them to meet him at
a specific building on a specific date at a specific time. HE WENT OUT
TO THE BROKEN!!! Then what did the broken do? THEY FOLLOWED HIM!!! You
know where the broken are. Lets go take care of business. Praying that
we will be bold today for the Lord.

Signs of Jesus

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:58 PM
by devin"


I couldn't have put it better myself...

Stay Blessed!

In a not so bright note...

It is now definitive!!!

I WILL NEVER EVER EVER GOING TO UNDERSTAND WOMEN!

Having spent the whole day in the jungle (oxford street) looking for a suit and shoes for Vic (yep... she's bored with her job) I right now struggle to find out how they can find so much fun with such a futile act of self torture??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

And the worst bit is: She did not respect the promise of never ever ever taking me shopping again!!!Well it was a threat but who am I to complain!!!!! ( ;) )

Anyways, on a much brighter note:

I've got an X-Box 360 for my birthday!! (YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!! you can wait more news on it! I've been playing with Windows media centre and there are some codec restrictions there that are quite hilarious!!! hehehehehe)

And Thanks to Chris I now have a DIY solution to fix my digital SLR... It involves a wooden tooth-pick and taking my camera into pieces... :) But I supose it has to be better than the alternative of paying £129.20 to Jessops and waiting for 4 to 6 yeeks to have the camera I use almost daily back!! :) Lest's see how it goes... lol!!!

Zya!

Thanks Jamie!

Mr Turtle is a real JERK!!!! :)
lol!!!

(internal joke)

From the BBC Website

"Over-55s 'causing holiday havoc'

Beach in Benalmadena on the Spanish Costa Del Sol
The Foreign Office is warning of drowning tragedies
Older British holidaymakers are causing the sort of trouble normally associated with the younger generation, the Foreign Office has said.

Over-55s are endangering their health by drinking too much alcohol and trying out dangerous sports such as bungee jumping on overseas trips, it warns.

Excessive drinking has led to abusive behaviour from some fifty-somethings, according to the Foreign Office.

Over-eating and over-drinking has also resulted in drownings, it added.

The Foreign Office said recent surveys showed 20% of 55-plus holidaymakers try activities they would not contemplate at home.

In addition, nearly two in three admitted not taking out travel insurance on their last trip overseas, and more than half of older holidaymakers drink more alcohol abroad than they would in the UK."


My view on it?????
Awww... let them be happy!!!!! :)

I am Spartaaaaaaaa!!!!!

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It's a hard knock life...

Yup... Today has been one of those days...

Tommy's new "Tutor" (nanny), that is Giovanna, started today. and life was heaven for most of the day. Ok, I have to admit that at first I was a bit annoyed by the whole TV on MTV thing... but then I turned round to say something and Tommy was the one siting and watching... lol

Then we had a couple hundred of Tantrums because "Vanna" was doing things that daddy was "posed" to do, like preparing lunch, and taking him to the park, and carrying him back home and feeding him tea, and giving baths getting him dressed etc etc etc... But he was as good as gold when were back.. sleeping on her chest as they watched some kid's show.

We most definitely must prepare an activity calendar so she know what to do with him when and what she is allowed to do when, etc etc etc, but apart from that it was great!

Maybe now I can start sleeping at nights instead of staying up to try and work because I can't do it during the day.Hope this works out...

Mum's been at it again.. about the fact of us not having a temple...

aiai... gotta taker a nap before dinner... worst thing is... I have a video conference at 2 am

colol..

ziya!

Think Splinter cell...

... hummmm I'm on into something!

:)

Random Thoughts...

How do you start an army without making it look like an army and without acting like one????

I wish I could know... I am still too revolutionary deep in my mind??? i wish i could raise Crossedwaves and each of the Surge Groups just like the Movimiento was raised.. where all were part integrand of the Revolution.. all would live and lay their lives for the cause.

We might have churches joining us but I still don't see us as churches... And I get SO agitated... annoyed... well angry when i can't just tell everyone "sod with that"! We're not supposed to be just an other denomination... WE ARE NOT! So lets stop acting like one!

I need people that thinks like me... People that would live and die for the mission we've got: to unite the body of christ.. so that we can raise as one army of Go... instead of a divided kingdom! Show people that if we all push in the same direction we go further than if we each push somewhere different...

It is the truth... but I wish I could say it openly so that all can see:

I have a dream!

I know I know...

... I've been quite absent lately...

My excuse this time is that I am Ill... very ill!!!

I've got the mother of all coughs! No joking!!! And not just that... my throat is killing me... All my limbs ache and I generally just feel like staying in bed all day... unfortunately that is not an option.

I have a manual and some forms for surge to finish and they won't complete themselves will they?

We're also having our first SURGE meeting of the year!! yayyy!! :)

It will be at the Hays Gallery in London Bridge, 3 pm... so if abyone actually reads this blog and would like to come along.... feel free to do it... we will be the small group of crazy people on the far side, closest to the Belfast pier. :)

I promise I'll be reporting more often... I need to finish the re-doing of my website as well... the problem is that I have so much to do with the taking care of TB + CWI + ill + myself + Vic + mum + Family problems (will detail that in an other time... haven't got the energy for it... but it has something to do with the girl punch up I've posted before...) + Life... but hey... Thank God I'll have some help from next week onwards. Giovanna is coming to London and she'll be tommy's... nany??? :) that means I'll have more space in my head to get things done... I'll nee dsome energy injection... but that's just the basic of basics. :)

Pictures... as promised... here are the first 103 holiday pics... the rest will be posted when is posted... heheheeh... click on Vic's bum to open the album and enjoy!

Holiday Pix: Salvador - before wedding

Gotta run...

zya!

Pics coming soon...

... I took only 900 of them... so patience please... heheheh... they'll be up soon!

Hasta la vista!

We're Back!!!

Heeeeyyyy!!!
Long time no see!!! About a month methinks!!!

Yeap long one month"vacations" in Brazil... Now I need some vacations from my vacations! lol
Soooo much have happened that I have no energy to tell it all! but lets try a super duper short story... hehehe :)

Flight to Brazil was great... Had to sits only for me... then when I switched with Vic t stay with the TB a lil while he grabbed my arm and fell asleep... so pretty much non eventful trip. Didn;t think he was going to be so easy! Was actually expecting some screams and tantrums and all... He is a good boy really... :) Realized that when on the way back had to stay away for a whole week... missed him so much... but speak about that more to the end.

Now comes the bad poart of the trip... so lets try and say what happened with only short sentences:

Take passport to renew/going earlier than expected to Salvador/hating the heat when got there/ taken positin that oxford street use to take for me/picked up at airport taken to house/house huge an quite nice/bored of staying in the house/2 episodes/3rd episode and then girl fight/Punch up involving V, Y & M/Things get worse/climate goes downhill/late to gest suit for wedding/late to wedding (that's becoming tadition)/taken by surprise to give blessings over wedding/tommy danced all night long... well at least till we made him go to bed... but he was the soul of the party/we moved to islan/I had a nervous breakdown at the island/reaction between 2 drugs for pain and a calmant they gave me/doped.. counted tiles was soooo cool/I was put in a forced leave so didn't so didn't go to Paraiba/Ordination was great but good job I didn;t go because roads were awful and they arrived after we left back to Brasilia and we would have lost the tickets/back to Brasilia Yay!!/emergency passport denied because Policia Federal guy in charge is a lazy arse/run to get things fixed just to discover they had the document they said they didn't all along/Carnaval so they didn't work for a week/went there to find out they lost my documents/stayed there all dey long and idiots don't tell me I gotta pay before seen PF arse/meanwhile Vic could not do operation so gets depressed/everything is Y2's fault/~By then I am sick and tired/passport not ready in time for trip back home/have to remark ticket and pay way too much for that/Vic and Tommy come back home without me and I stay behind other 4 days/Thanks to Isa and Gaby's grandma I get my passpor nect day and reset tkt to monday/ Tommy feeling ill and refusing to eat/tommy feeling worse and we think he misses daddy and mummy and home as he goes to vovoh's house/I set my tkt for monday/airplane delays 1.5 hours in Brasilia/Flight arrives in the morning in Portugal, I get on the plane but we get stuck inside because Brussels decided to do military exercices/flight gets home late and mum is worried sick/by then she had called so many times grandma was worried in Brasilia and Vic here (mum starts thinking about funerals and stuff lol)/took tube back home/got home and life is upside down/started to get things right but lost GSOE's contract (they were bought by other company that has an Internet division)... amen... well..../ life gets sort of back to normality/

Of course some good things happened as well.... like seeing old friends that we missed so much, and loving being back in Brasilia, and getting the Free Hug recorded, and doing something I haven't done in well... about 10 years which was getting together with my cousins... the ones I grew up with as best friends, and Tommy starting to speak portuguese... Seeing dad and having tommy have contact with him...

Might have hated Salvador and will never set my feet there again, but was great to take Tommy to the beach(real beach not like we have here in the UK) and play in the waves etc... :)

Got new perspectives... METANOIA! Something old God always nails in my head... and it always becomes something new!

We've now got 4 Surge Groups in Brazil!! :)

All in all it was GREAT! Even with all the inconvenient and problems we might have had there it was well worth the trip... Just hope not to have to wait other 4 years to do it again.

I am tired and might need some vacations from my vacations...

But all in all I am happy!! VERY HAPPY!!!!

And now to truly start the new year!! and start conquering... and advancing!!!


:)


LET'S DO IT!!!!

zya!

Leeeeaving on a jet plane...

...I don't know when I'll be back again!

Seriously... I have sooo many documents to renew while we're there!!! Including there my passport!!!

I HATE bureaucracy!!!!

But anyways... 4 weeks in Brazil... half vacations half work... but in the same way LOVING it! And work is talk about Crossedwaves' vision and what else God tells me to!

And of course, pastorizing our 2 new pastors! yayyyyyyy!!!

I'll try to update from there, don't know how often yet as I half don't know where I'll be... I'll go where He sends me... The thrill of the adventure... true missions and all!!!

yayyyyyy!!! (I think I am a bit hyper... lol... less coffe for you Mr.)

stay blessed!

DIY King (Of Fools)

One would think that doing something as simple as fixing a lock to a windows would be something soooooo easy!!! Yeap... easy to any person in the world but me!!!

It just took me the best part of 2 hours and a half to finish fixing the lock to the window! That of course after having to re-do it about 4 times because I've fixed one of the pieces to far out or too far in or too high or to low... and one of the times even because I forgot to check if the lock's key was locked (which it was, making impossible for me to close the thing).

One would have thought that following the instructions would be simple enough and that by doing so (once in my life) I would get the job done in a jiff and would have time to do whatever else needed to be done before embarking to Sunny Brazil... But nooooo... Life would not be that easy... not for me anyways!!!


Finally tommy took pity on me and came to help me finish the window once and for all... his help? well... play by my fit on top of the sink and encourage me by saying Daddy.!!! come on!! finish this up! I am hungry!!! I want food!!! can I do that that you are doing??? etc etc etc..." that for about 30 minutes when he got bored... but managed to shout "Yayyyyyy" when I finally got it done.


sooo... it is finally done... I found a spot of rotten wood in the window... but that is going to be my next DIY adventure!!!

AFTER WE COME BACK FROM BRAZIL!!!!!

All in all an other successful day!! yayyyy

zya!!!!

Is Europe becoming a platform for terrorists?

I really don't know which one is the worst... If it is the US paranoia (well within reason but nevertheless excessive) with terrorist attacks or if the public opinion about it.

According to US Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff (the guy in the photo) the security checks for travelers going from Europe to the USA should augment exponentially. Check the story from BBC News.

I believe this is well within reason! Lets put it like that: Not only the Muslim community in Europe is MUCH bigger than anywhere else (and growing geometrically), augmenting the risk because of bloody Islamic extremists, but also there is almost no way to track a person once he/she is within the EU frontiers. OF course governments will say they have everything under control and all but I know a number of people that is within the EU borders illegally (some for years) and the respective governments of the countries they are in have no idea. Worse... they seem to travel a hell of a lot more around Europe without a visa than I do being legal... :) cool uh?

Lets face it. Europe is at risk of becoming a huge platform for terrorism.

The worse bit is how alienated the people here seems to be. Read those comments from BBC's Have Your Say and you will know what I mean. Most people seems to have no idea of what they are talking about. And for others the Anti-American feeling speaks higher than reason.

The only worrying thing is that the last place accused of becoming a platform for terrorist was Iraq... should we prepare for an invasion from Almighty US&A in order to "liberate" us from evil???

It's the end of times peeps!

I might have response!! I think it is time "church" gets out of 4 walls and becomes more active within the community it is... Time for churches to stop fighting and mouthing each other and to get together with ONE purpose... the one they were put together in the first place:

To go and tell the world about The Way, The Truth and The Life!!!

Time to men action stations!

Zya!

Eldest

I have just finished reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini.

If you don't know what book I am talking about... think Eragon (which By The Way is sooooo much better than the film or the game!!! :) )

And if I told you you won't believe who is Eragon's Brother... and who's his sibling!!!!!
(That's for you Vicky Boo! Should I say??? :) )

Dude... I can't wait for Book Three of Inheritance (Book 3 of the saga that should be released on September 23 2008 (still un-named))... And by the way... there will be a book 4!!!! So... Eragon Fans unite and say with me: YAYYYYYYYYY!!!! :) (For more Info check this out)

well off to bed then... but before that... a quick anouncement:

6 more days for us to embark to Brazil for our 4 week long stayyyy!!! yayyyyy!!! :)

astra esterni ono thelduin,
mor'ranr lifa unin hjaerta onr
un du evarinya ono varda...

;)

zya!

Happy New Year!!!!

Yeap!
A Very Happy new year to all full of dreams, plans and objectives come true!
A whole year of Open Doors in all aspects of life!
a Whole year to begin and to do things right... That all the things that we were not able to do in 2007 WILL HAPPEN in 2008!!!

A year of Celebration!!!!


So... where did you spend your Reveillon??? We spent it right under the London Eye, with a good view to the Big Ben! ;) (see all the pics here)

That was a first and even with all the difficulties to go back home (queues of 3 hours to get into Waterloo station, only to have to walk all the way to Vauxhall to be able to get into the train... :)

Yuska and Marcus had a hell of a lot more luck than we did... but hey!!

All in all the plans are to como back next year with the whole church! And to make some nice holy noise!! :) It will be FUN!!!

Anyways!

Secconf birthday of this blog!!! wow!!!!!
An awesome year to all!!!!

zya!