down down up up down???

That's my blog name and it means a lot to me... actually I've spent my entire life living like that! Downs and ups coming in and going out all the time, bringing good surprises and unexpected hard times. You see... that's life and I believe you already know about that, you know rather well that life shows its face during our period on Earth!

Currently I'm having an "up" time here in Ireland although it doesn't mean I had a "down" time before it also that I'll have another "up" time after now, it only shows I'm alive! However it's up to you to chose what's next, remember?

Well... that's was the hidden meaning of this name, what first inspired me was the ukulele lessons I was giving to my flatmate Carlos. The first music I taught him was "Marylou" by Ultrage a Rigor and the sequence of the guitar beat was down down up up down. He spent plenty of time training this beat until became automatic. He's improving!

By the way, below there's a youtube link which shows me playing my ukulele.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUPbUog-88

That's it pals!

See you around!

Doors of Dublin

Hi lads,

Another thing about Dublin I'd like to share is the story about the doors of Dublin. Take a quickly walk around the city and you'll see many colorful doors in residential building. Red, blue, yellow, green... a plenty of brighter colors, including I sent to my fiancé a post card with many of these doors stamped.

The tradition of painting the doors took place after Queen Victoria's death. She was the queen of England and Ireland in 19th century, in fact Ireland was under England's rules.

When she died England ordered all citizens of Ireland to paint their doors black in respectful to queen's death, but several people painted the doors different colors, just in protest order. After that it became an Irish tradition.

There's another version. Some people tell women used to painted their doors to help their husbands to find home when they got back drunk, because sometimes they entered into wrong houses and had sex with wrong wifes. That's weird!!!

Oscar Wilde

Hi there!

I told you I'm living in Dublin in my second post, so I'd like to share with you a piece of something about here, and it's Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was one of the most important Irish writer.

Born in Dublin in 1854, he was famous for wrote many comedies, tales and just one single novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (a movie about it called Dorian Gray was launched last year).

He was married and had two children, but he was known by his fancy attitudes, sometimes involving homosexual events, and in 1985 he was put in prison for two years because of that.

After prison he moved to Paris and changed his life style becoming a simple person, and died there in 1900 from meningitis.

Below, there are some Oscar Wilde's quotations, maybe you recognize some.

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"

Absolutely, but just reminding that the wise learn with other's mistakes.

"I can resist everything, except temptation"

Maybe this is the cause of his fancy attitudes.

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much"

Clever strategic drive.

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong"

Always chock! I believe it was his rule!

"I'm not young enough to know everything"

100% Right! When I was teenager I was sure I knew everything I should know and now I know I should be learned everything I thought I knew.

"Marriage ins't a word, it is a sentence"

I agree this subject is quite discussed.

Well, this is it!

PS: The picture of Oscar Wilde's statue was taken at Merrion Square, in Dublin.

Make up your mind

Again the choice... choices...

Why making a choice is so hard sometimes? Why does this responsibility hurt so heavily on certain moments of our lives?

We can choose to try something different in our career or just still keep doing what we are used to do! We can choose between buying a house in a crowded city or buying a boat and live in an inhabited area! We can choose to have babies or a better car! To have a dog or a spider! To hurt someone's feeling instead of making them happy! It's up to us!!

What is harder? To make a choice or to sustain it for a long time?

I believe both to be equally hard!!! I say it because I think what make them too hard are the events which we are sure that will happen after the choice. The reality that we'll have to face if we decide between X or Y.

We know if we choose to lose weight, we'll suffer at the gym, or if we choose to go to the church on Sunday, we'll have to stay there for 1 hour at least. The reality for X option is "X reality"and for Y is "Y reality". But how can we guess which one will happen? Have we already lived them to know or we were told that they just work like that?

I don't believe everything must be as it always is, like Newton's logic, by intuition we've had. I believe we have possibilities! Possibilities to do in a different way everything we are used to do. Scientists call it quantum mechanics, in which the reality that we know can be completely different. The logic we know is useful for big things where Newton's laws or Einstein's theories make sense, but quantum mechanics is associated with atoms which our science knows superficially, but that I believe can open new doors to us.

In practice, I create the reality I want to a choice that I have to make, and Voilà... I create possibilities! The reality I was 100% sure that would happen if had a specific choice can be different, can lead to several others results never imagined before!

Hard to understand? Not really. Hard to accept? Absolutely! I can't... but I believe!

I believe we have more capacity to do and create things than we were told we have, than the common sense teaches we to do!

I leave this choice to you. To believe or not!

Make up your mind!

Introducing myself

After the first post I believe I must introduce myself to let you know who I am, what I like, what I do, what I'd like to do, what I believe or not... and... whatever!

I'm Aderson (just like Anderson, but without the first "n"). Don't be confusing, I'm not Ader's son, in fact I'm Aderson's son, then I'm called Aderson Junior. Now I think you might not forget it.

From my point of view, the name is the second most important thing about you which makes someone remind you. The first one I believe is your appearance. Commonly people look at you first before they know your name, actually some people only will want to know about you "if" you have a good look. It's the "world's appearances". It's your business card, your first shot... and... well... I'm working on the first one yet, so just for now, keep my name only.

I'm Brazilian but nowadays I'm living in Ireland to improve my English. I've arrived in Dublin about 3 months ago and I intend to go back to Brazil in February. I've been studying hard since my arrival and now I'm looking for job (same purpose, English). To be honest, the main purpose of this blog is practicing my written English. It's amount to anything if you can speak and hear English but your written is turned down.

I'm a 27 yrs old guy and now I see how relevant is to live in another country and learn another language. If I knew it before I'd have done it when I was younger, but better now than never. It's nonsense to think the opposite.

Well... you know my name, my age, where I am and why and where I came from.

I suppose it's ok for the beginning. I'm introduced to you now! After that I'll go deeper in details... feelings... emotions... because now I have to do my homework!

My first post

For ages I used to complain and mock about orkut, facebook, twitter, blogs or similar and about people who used to enjoy them as well. I don't know if I was afraid about something that I just didn't know how worked or if I was just scared about changes. In fact I must agree that I'm quite fascinated about the past. Things that I did, songs that I used to listen when I was doing something, small things that I keep which remind me those old times, etc. I'm a nostalgic person. Maybe, up to now, I haven't wanted to live in the present. I think that I was just trying to live again the things that I've lived once. Maybe because it was good, and having this security I hadn't wanted to try new things. The past was good but I wasn't sure about the future.

Just as I used to sing in one of my songs: "while everything passes, everything passes, the things goes passing, and everything changes and the world changes everything every second, and the world changes and everything that has passed also changes, and I'm still stuck".

I was living until now just like that. Stuck! Thinking that everything and everyone changes, except me. Thinking that I was always the last one in the line, the last one to be chosen on a football play with friends. But not now! Not today! Not anymore!

You can ask me: "what happened?"

In fact, I don't have the right answer for that! I just feel it. Maybe the part of my song that says "and the world changes and everything that has passed also changes" was right. Maybe I just have passed, just like everything. Maybe before wasn't my time to change and I had to watch everything changing before my time takes place or maybe I've just accepted the truth. The truth that I must move on, that the world moves on and we must follow it. To where? I have no idea, but I think that there is a reason for it works like that and I've chosen to follow it.

I mean, I'm talking about choice here, we always have a choice. The options are everywhere and I've just chosen to see the options.

PS: Now I have facebook, twitter, orkut and blog. I'm moving on!