Bad day...

Trying to smile...
Originally uploaded by Carol^-^.

I had a terrible day today... I'm so glad I'm not working and that I could stay most of the time at home, sleeping... or at least, trying to.

I woke up with my tooth bothering me... Well, it's a tooth that I've had a fracture some years ago, and for some reason the protesis came out the other day, but not it decided to hurt. (I'm not sure whether that is the tooth or the gums that are hurting. Anyway, I had to go to the dentist as an emergency... and guess... I'll have to extract the whole thing... meaning that I need a surgery to fix that tooth. I'm not sure how fractured that tooth, but I guess it was eating a very good sausage that had a small bone inside... Careful with those!

Besides the tooth that is bothering me... I woke up, when to the kitchen and I hurt my toe. I opened the door to the small storage room that we have there, it's an aluminium door... the corner of the door scratched the top of my toe... and it really hurt! When I came back to my room to change, I realized it was bleeding... （どおりで痛かった！）...

After a very pleasant morning and an aching tooth, I decided that I should stay home, quiet before anything worse happened... :p

At least I got a phone call from a friend from Manaus that is here in Sao Paulo for a visit. I think we'll meet tomorrow. (if my tooth stops aching).

Good night everyone! Sorry for the not so pleasant talk...

Shakespeare...

Cake decoration
Originally uploaded by Carol^-^.

Last week, I was looking at my shelf and I found this Shakespeare's Complete Works book. I haven't touched that for a while. I like to read it little by little, specialy read his plays that became movies.

Last month I finished reading Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice for the 2nd time. I just thought I should read it once more, after I've seen the movie, just to be sure of how faith to the book the script was. :p

Anyway, that lead me to this Shakespeare's Sonnet that was mentioned in the other movie version of one of Jane Austen's novels, Sense & Sensibility. I don't think that the sonnet is mentioned in the novel, but I remember it being mentioned on the screen. I really like it!

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Whithin his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
by William Shakespeare

Anyway, this picture was taken in a friend's wedding on Jun 24th.

Today and 20 years ago...

This morning, I got this very sad phone call. It was my mom's cousin saying that his father (my mom's uncle) had passed away during the night. He was 90 years old and was in the hospital due to pneumonia.

20 years ago, July 10th 1986, my greatgrandfather had passed away. Son and father passed away at the same date. For me, it's a weird coincidence...

The story of my greatgrandfather and his eldest son is really interesting and quite dramatic to me. When my greatgrandfather decided to come to Brasil, back in 1918, he had to leave his son in Okinawa to take care of his parents. I was told that they kept my uncle there so that my greatgrandfather and his wife would come back to Japan in some years. Fortunately, or unfortunately, that didn't happen. They had other kids here and because of the 2 WWs and the breach in the relations between Japan and Brasil, they were stuck here. (I don't believe they had saved all the money that they were supposed to either) .

After the war was over and the relations between Brasil and Japan were restablished, my grandfather and his dad were able to bring this uncle and his family from Japan. My mom was about 10 years old already and she always tells me that she had never seen two grown up men cry and hug as they did when they arrived in the Port of Santos.

I didn't know this uncle much, because he used to live in the countryside, about 600km from here. But I've visited him and his wife, and my mom was very found of him. とてもやさしいおじさんでした。May he rest in peace.

Agua Bar

The Dancing Floor
Originally uploaded by Carol^-^.

After all the fuss about my car, I finally got to go to this bar. My friend Y picked me up and we went there. It's only 10 mins from my place.

The place wasn't very big (as you can see at the picture), but I liked the athmosphere very much. Unfortunately the DJ wasn't rocking as much as I expected.

The main reason that I went there, was to celebrate some friends' birthdays. Actually there were 5 birthday people and I knew 3 of them. We even had 5 birthday cakes! :p

Last year, I was invited to this place, for a birthday celebration (one of the girls') but I didn't go. I fell asleep in the afternoon and woke up at 2am... I was so upset then. I'm glad that I was there this year. :D

Another good thing, one of my friends that I've met in Japan and that I haven't seen in more than 2 years, was there too. He lives in Manaus (that is quite far from here) and in here on vacations.

Well, I'm off to bed... It's sooo late and I'm really sleepy. おやすみなさい。