In Fitness to Help and Inspire others!

What a great day it was today. Today when I woke up besides my good morning messages from my love that I love so much, I had one message on my Facebook page Real Deal Fitness Motivation from a lady in California saying: " I want help to get in shape." I was so amazed with those words, I had a great feeling coming out, because I will help her achieve her goals. 

Help someone feel better with himself, smile every day a bit more because they are getting where they want, help getting stronger mental and physical that's priceless.

We talked, I will be her BeachBody Coach and she will participate in my FOCUS T25 Challenge Group, starting at 10th of February. Can't wait to start it out. If you live in US and you want to be part of my Challenge Group inbox me here: Real Deal Fitness Motivation my Facebook page.

Today I couldn't workout in the morning. 

My morning workout today was shoveling the snow on my drive way, was 1h shoveling, not a bad workout.

But couldn't finish the day without pressing play, so after work I hit the gym with my buddy and we did Yoga X3 day 3 of 90 from P90x3. I felt great after the 30 minutes, I also notice that I have to keep on doing it because my flexibility really needs some improvements, but I know working hard and be consistent I will achieve my fitness objectives. 

There is no excuses bigger than your will. 

When you want something you will find or create time to do it. 

It's not only in Fitness but in your daily life. 

So if you really want something, fight for it, get off of your comfort zone and go get it. 

Goods things in life comes after hard work and perseverance. 

Always Trust and Believe in YOU!!

#realTalk #realWords #realDeal

Fitness my Sweet Addiction

After 3 weeks of resting due to an injure on my back, I'm back on track. I missed it so much, not being able to workout is like if my day is not complete. Yes I am addicted, addicted to fitness. My workouts nowadays it's like washing my mouth in the morning, can't start my day without having it. If I can't do it in the morning definitely has to be done in the evening, it's a nice addiction. 

I've started a new workout P90X3 it's from the same creator as P90X, TONY HORNTON, what a crazy old dude. This workout is just about 30 minutes a day. You read it right 30 minutes is enough for you to have a great workout. 30 minutes of intense, hard work it's what you need to have a great workout. If you just want to maintain, to start loosing weight, to get shredded this workout will work for you. If you want to compete for Body Builder, OK than I won't recommend it to you.

Before I stopped working out, I was in such great shape, I was able to do 2 INSANITY classes and still have strength to do something else, yeah I know I'm crazy. After 3 weeks resting I thought I would have something left in my tank. 

Pure mistake, Total Synergetics kicked my butt so bad. Around 15 minutes mark I've started feeling dizzy, my heart rate sky rocked, but was a great feeling, being pushed to my limits in so shortage of time. Total Synergetics it's a total body workout, from you arms, abs, chest, legs, calves and shoulder, you will feel it all working. You don't need heavy weights, light weight will do the work, or the resistant bands. Will be good to see my progression for the next 90 days. I know my improving will be crazy, I will be faster, stronger and leaner. But for now will be day by day and give all I can and can't.

Fitness can't be seen like a trend, not something you will do because everybody else is doing it, and than stop and start from where you left. When you stop you will have to start all over again from the basics. Fitness should be seen as a lifestyle, something that you enjoy and you do because you like to do it and you enjoy what it gives to you. Fitness beside the good looking it gives you, will provide you with something even more important than the physical aspect, it provides you mental strength. When you try to overcome what you can't do, you will work until you can, you will came out stronger from that simple exercise you were doing. So when life throws to you some obstacles you won't see it as difficulty but a challenge, and you are ready for challenges because you are stronger mental. 

Never let the words: I CAN'T, IMPOSSIBLE, beats you, you control your mind not the other way  around. Because you always "CAN" and "I'M POSSIBLE"!!! Not only in fitness but in life: "There's nothing you can't achieve when you put you mindset to". 

Always Trust and Believe in you.

Because today is Martin Luther King birthday, one of the greatest this world saw.

See you guys soon.

Any thoughts or comment please feel free to use the comment box.

Thanks for reading me!!

#RealTalk #RealDeal

Fitness a lifestyle!!

Here I am again...

My last post was back in November 2012, more than a year since my last post. So much happen, so much changed, but my laziness to write didn't. Once again I won't promise  daily posts, but now I have another motivation to write (I will talk about it later).

I'm still in Jersey in an assignment from my company back home Portugal. I'll be starting my fifth year here in USA. It seems like yesterday (31st January 2010) that I've arrived.

On my last post I've wrote I was going for a trip in Negril, Jamaica for a 5 days vacations. An amazing place to go, amazing people, amazing beach and amazing music. For those who like to dance and enjoy yourselves and relax, I definitely recommend you to visit Bob Marley's country. Negril has been rated as one of the 10 top beaches in the world by several travel magazines. As you can see that's enough of a reason to give it a look and spend some quality time.

The thing that I liked the most was the peoples hospitality, so friendly and so peaceful of mind. They are relaxed but in a good way, they don't let the life's problems let them down, they try to be happy and enjoy with the little they have. That was a lesson I learned, I don't need much to be happy and be a better person. 

Life is only one and we should try to get the best it has to offer us.

Since than I didn't do any other traveling rather than going home several times. And why was that? Me not traveling around and going to know other places and enjoy myself. The reason is simple: Love found me. Since I got found by love I couldn't run away from it and most of all I didn't want to.

I found the one that completes me, the one that understands me (sometimes, I'm tough to understand even to me), the one that is my friend, the one I enjoy talking hours and hours, the one I miss every time I'm away from her, the one that loves to be my favorite clown, the one that makes me happy, the one I LOVE. Because of her every time I do have a chance I go back home to meet her and embrace her and her love.

Distance relationship are not easy, they demand even more than a door to door relationship. But that doesn't mean its impossible or is doomed to failure. When two persons want it so bad, and show they are willing to do whatever it takes to make things work, everything is possible.

Thank you my Angel for the patience and most of all the love you have given and still give me every day.

This  was definitely my biggest achievement in 2013.

2013 was definitely a great year for me. I have found my one and only but also found what I would love to do as a work in full time: Fitness!!!!

Since 2010 when I came to USA I was introduced to INSANITY, one of the most challenging and tough fitness DVD program. Before INSANITY I was going to the gym, hit the treadmill hit some weights and go home. But I didn't really know what I was doing, was kind of working at least I thought it was. INSANITY was a game changer in all aspects: physical and mental. In 60 days I saw crazy results with it, so I've did another 2 rounds. I was in the best shape of my life but I wanted more. That more came when INSANITY the Asylum vol.1 came out. The evolution of INSANITY, a sports performance program even more demanding than INSANITY, I can't remember how much I did curse SHAUN-T the creator of those crazy programs. After Asylum I wanted to mix the things up with some weights, so I start doing an Hybrid Calendar: INSANITY & P90X. P90X was created by TONY HORNTON another crazy dude. After 60 days of the Hybrid I wasn't only shredded as hell but I gained even more lean mass. In that moment I've realized how amazing those Home DVD programs where, how much I've learned with them. Did INSANITY Asylum Vol.2, P90X2, BodyBeast and T25. My know-how of exercises exploded with so much info, I was getting loaded with the tools without knowing for what.

The gym I use to go and do my workouts, I've start to have a small group of people doing the workouts with me, first my work colleagues and after some people I've met at the gym. Several times the Personal Trainers Manager of the gym told me to get certified and start teaching at the gym in part-time. One of those days I said to me: Why not?! Even if wasn't to teach I could learn something more to myself. At the same time the INSANITY certification came out, sweet. Because, what I really wanted to do was teach and give to others what INSANITY gave to me. But I could kill two in one shot. One week I did the AFAA Personal Trainer workshop and the other did the INSANITY certification. So I was more than ready to start helping people changing theirs lives.

I realized than I had all the tools (beachbody programs got me ready) was only missing the certification.

Being an INSANITY Instructor I've realized a dream that I never dreamed of, shooting a INSANITY infomercial with SHAUN-T and his crew. It all started with the casting in NYC, met amazing people and met the amazing TANIA BARON (The Machine). The shooting day I was surrounded by outstanding Individuals, other instructors like me with same love for fitness and INSANITY. A day to remember and never forget.

That day I've met so many amazing people but met an entrepreneur ROBERTO ESPOSITO.

Like me he always was very reluctant to become a Team BeachBody Coach, but after talking with MONICA WARD he changed is view in what was a BeachBody Coach. So he did the same with me.

He showed me that I was already a Team BeachBody Coach the only thing was I wasn't getting the benefits of being a real one.

What is a Team BeachBody Coach? Is someone that Invite people to get healthy and get in great shape, help people achieve their objective. Those objective can be: loose weight, eat better, get in an insane shape, gain some lean mass, all objectives related to fitness. And how people can get all of those? Simple, with one of the BeachBody programs and SHAKEOLOGY. BeachBody programs can be one of: HIP-HOP ABS, INSANITY, P90X, BRAZIL-BUT-LIFT, TURBO-FIRE and so many more. SHAKEOLOGY is a shake that can replace one of your meals a day, it contains the right dose of nutrition you should have every day, it helps you loos weight, helps you staying away of crap food, gives you extra energy, it helps your digestion system, it has so many benefits.

So I'm committed to help as many people as I can achieving their objectives. (If you want some help or want to know more about it hit me, only US, my email).

So because of that I want and will write almost daily posts, about my workouts or about motivation and of course about stuff that happens in my life.

Thanks so much for reading me. 

If you came thus far, was because you liked it a bit, if so, invite and share my blog with others. I want to reach as many people as I can, I want to help and more people motivating them and enjoy life.

See you guys soon, I promise won't be another here of waiting.

#RealDeal (need some more inspiration my facebook page)

Me, myself and I...

Hello readers,

I'm back after another long absence. What can I say, not much.. I would love to write more often, but I learnt from me that I'll only write when all of me wants it, can't be only a part.

I've changed my blog layout because I pretend to write more and different subjects. Lets see if this time I'll be able to at least have a post per month about any subject.

I'm still in New Jersey-USA working for Alcatel-Lucent in 4G LTE. I can't complain about the life here and the work environment, they both great and very pleasant. But I do miss my old life, not so old if I take in account that I'm leaving here since 2010. But I miss my travels around the world, meeting new people, new countries, new cultures, the crazy parties I use to have in everywhere I go with my friends. 

I really miss the time in Malaysia, there I really had quality of life, in all aspects. Ok not all of them, because the work wasn't that great, but all the rest was simply amazing and awesome. Those times was definitely the best 6 months in my life.

In here what is missing? I think is missing more social life. What defines how good and happy is the place you are is the social life. And here my social is close to none, I only deal with my housemates and my family once a month when I go to Boston. You guys should be thinking why is that if you live close to the best city in the world, New York,

Here where I live Summit, NJ my house is located in a residential and family area, super quite and nice to rest. But not so good to socialize and make new friends. At work the average age of the company should be around 45 years, I've started hanging out with some soccer friends from work.

The nightlife in NYC is kind of awkward, because is so nice and glamorous but at the same time annoying. Annoying because to get in in the best clubs or you go with several girls or you have to spend at least 300$ in bottle  and once you got in is kind of hard to socialize with other groups. At least in my case is hard as hell, because I'm very shy. But definitely I will have to do something about it, most probably next year I'll still be around here.

Being here I've gain the love for fitness and working out my body, but that I'll talk more in another post.

Somebody has told me that: Never forget the lonely never win.

I couldn't agree more, we were made to be somebody other half.

I had so much already in my few years of life that I learnt from my own histories. A lot of good friends says that I'm afraid of living a new love, and because of that I've became a colder person because of all my not happy endings.

I prefer to think the other way around. In my opinion the way I see life is the way most of the people should see it. Is true that we would see less romantic histories but is also true we would see less people getting hurt. The way I see it is in the realistic way, live today because we don't know if will have tomorrow.

Live one day after the other.

I know is wrong thinking that I can manage to fall in love or not, think I can control my feelings. But right now that's the way my brain and heart are plugged to work. For me fall in love is more than the act of just being lead for the feelings, lead by the love and the theory of having love all the rest will come after.

Will love come when you don't have a strong friend relationship with your loved one? Will love be enough when you start having argues day after day and not having the capacity of seat and talking? Will love be enough to hold a beginning distance relationship? Will love be enough when you start being suspicious about you loved one? Will love be enough to feed all the house expenses? Will love be enough to surpass the absence?

With all this questions I don't want you to think that I'm against love, not at all. But for me to fall in love these days won't be so simple as it use to be. And trust me I'm a lover. I do love to love and love to be loved.

Live now life is short time is luck...

I've just came last week from 10 days vacations in Portugal. Once again as always I've had a great time with my family and friends, I'd rest a lot and recharge batteries till the end of the year.

But when I was there a feeling came around again, a feeling that for long time I did not feel. I felt shifted.

I pass so much time out that when I'm around is normal for my friends they don't notice I'm around. For a couple of days I've stayed at night by myself at my house, just me myself and I. I really don't blame them who chose this life was me, and they just keep on living theirs.

There were some days I wanted to do something or go somewhere I've could call to one of my good friends I do have a couple, but thinking they would be doing something on their own routine I kept quite on my place.

Those days even knowing that I have a lot of friends who would do anything for me I've felt lonely and wanting to come back to Jersey. I know you will want to kill me, but you guys know I don't work very well. :)

Counting down for my 5 days vacations in Negril, Jamaica can't wait. Once I get back I'll let you guys know how was it.

And for now is all folks, see you guys soon...

Flight

Another outstanding performance from Denzel Washington in a Robert Zemeckis movie directing.
This movie will grab you since the first sequence until the end of it.

The best way I can describe this masterpiece is short telling the story itself.
What to do to a person who saves 95 lives out of 101, from a plane crashing, but that person was under prohibited substances as cocaine and alcohol.
It should be considered as a hero for saving 95 life's, or he should be punished for being drugged in service?

The maneuver he did to save all those peoples was outstanding and very crazy. Being under such kind of substances our brain is uninhibited, we think we are capable of doing anything.
Ten other pilots tried to land the plane in a simulator and all of them crashed the plane. What suggest that if he was completely sober he could not have been able to land the plane.
So, being under drugs helped him saving all those people. My questions is: Should he still be punished for being drugged in service?

Bellow I let you some sentences from some critics about the movie, Denzel performance and Zemeckis.

“A gripping, deeply engaging and emotionally powerful drama that features Denzel Washington at the top of his game.”
Scott Mantz - ACCESS HOLLYWOOD

“Mr. Zemeckis, directing his best movie since ‘Cast Away’”
“Mr. Washington’s ferocious performance”
Manohla Dargis - THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Washington hits you in the gut with every beat, making ‘Flight’ near-transcendent.”
Kurt Osenlund - SLANT MAGAZINE

“Denzel Washington is beyond superb! It’s an Oscar worthy performance that's masterfully and skillfully delivered with ferocity and feeling. It’s the best of his career, which is saying an awful lot. And certainly one of the all-time best performances ever by an actor. He is way on top of his game in ‘Flight.’”
Shawn Edwards - FOX-TV

“Nothing short of a masterpiece.”
Jake Hamilton - KRIV-TV (FOX)

“John Goodman turns out another superb supporting performance.”
Billy Donnelly - AINT IT COOL NEWS

Friends, Party & Triplex

Once again I couldn't keep up with my wishes of posting more often than before. But what I've figured it out is that I can't say I will post every week or even every month, because I have to feel like it, otherwise I won't be writing from deep inside and just because it as to be.

One of the bad things of not posting so often is that so many things I went through, thoughts that I've had, things that happened in the meanwhile, lots of them I don't recall it. But I'll try to resume what I've been doing since my last post regarding my adventures.

Since I returned to New Jersey in January I've posted a couple of posts ( not that much as I wanted), but in none of them I've talked about my vacations in December, and after those I've went to Portugal another 2 times. So I have 3 vacations to talk about, I will resume in just one.

Why resume in only one when they were 3, and so different times: December (Christmas time - New Years Eve); March (my birthday); June?!?! I can resume them as simple as: Friends, Party & Triplex...
In all of them I could spend loads of times with my old friends, somehow I can say regain the time lost. Even knowing they were always there for me no matter what, I know I let them down being so absent. So I knew I had to reward them with my presence as much as I can and annoying them as I use to do. I think I was succeed at least I've seen most of my old and good friends and spent some good quality time with them. Here are a couple names of the persons I was talking about, don't be upset if I didn't say your name ( Still love you): Silvia, Ira, Mada, Edina, Eloisa, Jorge, Lourenço, Pedro, Rodirlei, Joana, Iolanda and so many others.
And in addition of old friends I made a couple of new friends, new crazy people came in to my life. They really have to be crazy to come in to my life, and let me stay on their lives. All of them so different but so genuine and so friendly. João Paredes, Carlos Paz, Daniela Djaló, Sonia Rodrigues and Vera Riddel. Thanks to all of you for making part of my life.

Party, oh my god. We had party so hard you guys can't even imagine how hard it was. I can try to describe but won't be even closer to what it really was. I've got introduced to Bairro Alto, I use to know that place but I never wanted to go there, because I use to think there is no point of going there and would be a waste of time, I was so deadly wrong. With a good crew of friends, all nights were a blast, with most of the friends I've mentioned above I had such crazy nights. And of course I don't have to mention the alcohol.
Triplex one of the most dangerous SHOT's in the Duplex Bar, is just a mix of 3 kinds of Absinthe. Imagine a flame ball going down on your throat, burning all the way down to your stomach. Like 1 wasn't enough normally we use to took 3 to 6. And of course we got ourselves completely wasted. What a nights I had we my fellas these last 3 trips back home, was simply the best. Besides the several nights I had in Bairro Alto, or better saying memorable nights, I had some others like: W disco, with my love Silvia, what a blast of night we had, she had to put up with me singing all night and doing so many stupid figures (some of them I didn't recall she helped me remember them hahahah); Art Club, with Ira, Madalena, Carlos, Joao, Andreia the club was pretty much empty but we did our party was so damn crazy and fun; Docks Club thanks God it doesn't talks, otherwise it would tell so many stories (LMAO); great night with my brothers back in my home disco Ondeando, great nights we had remembering those days back in the time. And so many others...

I want to say a big thanks to all that went to my birthday dinner and made it so special and so good. Long time since I had my birthday party back home in Portugal, since 2009 was out. In 2009 was in Dominican Republic, 2010 USA and 2011 again in USA. Was really good to celebrate with all of you near me.

As you remember I got a place that I can call home now, and more than never that place it really feels like home, my place, my pier, my fortress. It has gained shape, color, life, is really ready to have me in most of the time when I'm in Portugal. The worst part of moving from my mom's place was seeing her crying and saying: " is not easy, was 27 years, but one my dreams realize". I've got really emotion when she said those words. I love that woman so much, there are not enough words to describe how much I love her, I much she means to me, how much she did and still does for me. Everything that I am and I have is thanks to one person, my mother MARIA MANUELA SILVA MORENO, my everything, my sun. Thanks God for giving me the best mother.

And for today it's all folks, hope you enjoyed the ride, see you guys soon (just don't know how soon, lol)...

Friends...

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

What would be life without this word, or better saying what would a human being without them?!

We were born to create new friendships, meet new people, create new connections with all kind of people all over the world. I'm a blessed person because I can truly say I've the best friends in the world all over the world.

Although I'm not always nearby or even close, but a friendship is not only about how close we are but if we can be near through any means when a friend needs us. Thanks to one of the best mankind invention we can always be close even being far away: INTERNET. 

Friends will always be there when the entire world turns their back to you.

Friends will be there when you need a shoulder to cry.

Friends will make us laugh when we only want to cry.

Friends will hurt us with the truth because they want our best.

Friends will be there for you just to listen you without saying a word, because sometimes we don't need to listen a thing, just to vent.

Friends will always tell us the truth no matter what,

Friends will forgive us even when move away from them for silly reasons.

Grabbing on this last sentence, I want to apologize to all my friends that I move away from. Even though they know why and they did forgive me. I will never do that again, I will never put nothing in front of friendship.

Everything comes and goes for some reason, but a real friendship is forever no matter what.

I'm so thankful for all the friends I have and even being thousands of kilometers away they make sure I still make part of their lives, even when somehow I feel out it. 

Thank you all of you that somehow make smile every day. 

Love you all.

Like Crazy

My blog won't be only about my stories and adventures, that I'll have during my journey around the world. I want more than that, I want to use my capacity and boldness to criticize. What I want to criticize?! I want to talk about movies that I've seen, sports (all kind not only soccer lol), present, world and whatever I want.

My first movie is Like Crazy:

The movie is about a British college student falls for an American student, being separate due to visa issue, she's banned from USA for overstaying her visa.

"Beautifully illustrates how your first real love is a thrilling and blissful as it is fragile. Crazy inventive & totally irresistible." By: Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (Magazine).

The simplicity and the naivety of this movie talks by itself and do all the work.

As a traveler and a person who his last romance was lived a long distance relationship, this movie touched me deeply.

When two persons want all is possible and impossible is nothing, on the other hand when is not meant to be is not, no matter what you both do.

I want you

I need you

I love you

I miss you

Like Crazy

A very good drama and romance in my scale I'll rate it with 7.8.

See you guys soon in my next post.

Back On Track Once Again..

This time I've been far for longer time than before.

My last post was in 10th of December of 2010, yes definitely too much time. More than a year and since than so many happened.

How the things can change so badly in one year, I guess that's the way life is: Keep On changing Every Single Moment.

The time passed by but there are some things it kept on the same: I'm still far away from home.

I'm still on my journey through the world, and not seeing it ending soon (I explain later what I mean).

Since I started my blog I didn't have to many followers, but how they use to say few but good, and for those I'll do a briefly of what happen in so long time. And for the new followers some adventures and places I've been in 2011.

As some of you remember I found love, yes I did find it, but how they say too: Everything as a beginning and an end. The end can be for so many reasons, but the end of everything is for sure no matter what.

After finding love I found out that love is just a piece as any the others I'd already stated when I think about love. And only love as much as we want is not enough to a relationship succeed. There are so much more things to make it work.

Mine came to an end because I failed in so many things. One thing that I learn in so many others, you can't and shouldn't change someone or change who you are.

When you start interesting for someone you get involved for who that person is and nor for who you wanted to be. So why change after when you are with that person?! If you change you won't be you, if the person changes won't be the person that you fall in love with. Stay true to yourself and let the other person stay true to itself. Saying this, in my point of view I think we should adapt to the other, adapt is different of change. Two individual should sum who they are, qualities, defects, positive things, negatives and so on. And not subtracting till we get what we would like to have. We are humans, and being human means make mistakes and live a live perfectly imperfect. But like everything here as well there is a catch, should we forget our principles, directives, objectives, wishes, etc just because two persons are different?! Of course not, if you after trying, after living you see there is no sense in continue, why continue?! You should see what YOU want, you should look to YOU, you should be selfish and put You in first place and after all of that You will only make the other person happy if You are happy.

Life goes on: Live now life is luck and time is short!

Where I've been in 2011??!!

Still in New Jersey working for Alcatel-Lucent in 4G LTE. I and my colleagues we already are part of history, we were the 1st in the world in so many things regarding the VoLTE - Voice over LTE. We were the 1st placing a VoIP call between two smart-phones, placing video calls and so many other things. Sometimes the job is so damn interesting like making part of the history of LTE but in other hand is so damn boring an annoying sometimes, but I think all the jobs are like this. All have their high moments and low ones. But in general I can say I'm satisfied with what I've been doing and what I've learned so far.

If I miss my 1st year of working on Alcatel-Lucent hell yeahhhh, why? Because my 1st year I was travelling all over the world and changing projects.

But around here I'm still travelling not as much as I wanted too but I'm still doing my travelling thing :P

Last year I went to Miami, FL. I was so damn amazed. The best way to describe Miami is saying: what you see on tv is what you get once you're there.

Amazing views, awesome cars, nice beaches, party all night long and loads of fun. And going to Miami somehow you have to be extravagant, my extravagance and my partner in crime Ravic Costa was renting a Ford Mustang GT cabriolet, what an animal. The most powerful car I've ever drove. We did a 8 hour driving to the most south point in USA continent, Key West. Till we get there we crossed through amazing sights, I can't describe what my eyes saw, just amazing. But when we get to Key West was very disappointing, we were with our expectations so high after such amazing sights. All the beaches there were artificial and dirty, the best thing was the center of the city, was like a village or with a touch of New Orleans.

During this travel something funny happen to me, I got sunburn LMAO. What a f**** I'm black and I'm not suppose to get sunburn, my skin should protect me. hahahahhahah This was the second time, the 1st was in Dominican Republic, and yes in both of them my skin fell off.

I definitely recommend Miami if you have the chance to go there. Miami is a mix of Vegas and NYC. The nightlife there is just awesome: Ocean Drive rocksssssssss. Can't wait till I go there again.

My thanksgiving this year was very different than my last one in 2010, this year I went to The Bahamas. I was really needing it, was very good to relax, rest and get drunk. We stayed in a 5 star hotel with all inclusive service, yes all inclusive. All inclusive means you can eat whatever you want whenever you want, and the best part drink whatever you want whenever you want. When we got to our room we saw 4 bottles of alcohol: Rum, Whiskey, Vodka and a Licoeur. And every day they refill the empty bottles.

The food was really good too they use to have every night in the buffet room different kinds of food. We had food in other two different restaurants in the hotel: Japanese and a Gourmet. Both were really good.

I did sailing and snorkeling for the 1st time, I've did before diving, and since than I thought snorkeling wouldn't be fun, I was so damn wrong, I've loved it. Swimming with the fishes in a clear water with a great weather, amazing :)

My new house....

I always had an objective of having my own spot, a place I could say my house. I can say that now, my objective came true. I got my own crib, end of 2011 I've signed the papers.

After browsing a lot on the web searching and searching, I found my babe. And that house was the only one I've visited physical. I made the reservation through the internet, my friend Ravic when he went to Portugal he gave to the constructor a sign to safe the house till I see it. When I saw I just said: Yes I found it. I love my crib :), and the best of all is mine :)

And for today that's all folks.

I won't promise I will write every day, but I'll try to write about something in the meantime. Better than promises are actions, so I want to act instead of promising.

See you guys soon my friends.

Driver's License

Today I'm going to write about how to do a driver's license in USA.

Certain day after I got home from work, two colleagues (females) of mine took the car to go get the cloths at the cleaner. I stayed at home with another colleague (male) doing the dinner, the time was passing and the girls didn't show up, and the cleaner is 5 minutes away from where I was staying. Suddenly one of them appears at home with a breathless air, saying "Do you have an extra car keys, because the cars key are inside of the car, and we can't open the doors because the car locked the doors". I went with her to go check the car, on the way I was thinking how that was possible, in 2 months with the car it never locked by itself, always I had to lock manually. When I arrived there I saw the car keys over the seat and the door locked. What to do? Call the cops to open the door. The cop arrived and asked for documents driver's license, I gave my Portuguese license. Quickly the cop said "where is the international driver's license?" I said I didn't had it, then he told you can't drive in USA without it.

International driver's license is just a "stupid" book similar to a ballot, you have to go to ACP with your driver's license a photo and 25€, and they do the "stupid" small book with your photo, some pages in English and others in Chinese and that's it. And it has an expiring date of 1 year. Mine expired that's why I didn't have it no more with me.

Because of what happen above I decided to take the USA driver's license. As I have the green card (US permanent resident card) and I always heard it's very simple and easy and cheap, not like in mother country Portugal.

My residency in the green card is from Massachusetts state, so I had to go Brockton-Boston where my father lives to do it. One of the weekends I went to Boston and stayed there till Monday to take the learner's permit (called theoretical exam).

Monday I woke up very earlier and went to the RMV- Register Motor Vehicle to do the test, I didn't study almost anything just read some stuffs nothing more. When I arrived there they asked me a proof of my address and I just took a letter from the migration as proof, the who attended me told that wasn't enough. I needed some letter from the bank or phone company so I went to the phone company balcony and got the proof of address. Went back to RMV another lady attended me and didn't accept the proof I got from the phone company because it wasn't a letter sent to home, I showed her the letter from the migration and she said that was OK. I was ready to perform the exam, 25 questions and I could fail 7. Took the exam in Portuguese and did it and pass it easily. For that exam I paid 20$ (yes that expensive similar to Portugal right?)

First part successfully accomplished, now I just had to the road test exam. In my head that would be the easiest part, I drive since I was 18 when I did my driver's license in Portugal. I just had to schedule a day to take the road test exam the next time I come to Boston to do it.

Thanksgiving vacations I went to Boston and I decided to schedule the exam on that time. Here to perform the exam we need to have a sponsor: the person which will go with you; and a legal car. But the legal car must have an emergency hand brake, I learned it in the worst way. Day of the road test I went there with my brother on his car. When was time to perform the test the examiner was examining the car to see if it was in conditions. He starts complaining about the car sticker was putted on the wrong side and then the front plate wasn't there. But those small things he would let it go, than he looked to the emergency hand brake and wasn't there. Quickly he said "you can't perform the test with this car". I start begin him I would go to Portugal soon, and I have a driver's license from Portugal for 7 years, he kept saying no with this car I can't let you perform the exam. Nothing more to do, I was completely pissed, schedule another date.

Went back to New Jersey, 4 hours distance to or from Brockton. Searched on the net the nearest date and booked the exam again.

Tuesday, 7 of December 2010 I woke up dropped my friend at work and went to Boston to do the exam, 4 hours driving. I arrived there around 1 pm, the exam would be at 3 pm, just waited for the exam and for my brother's friend who would land me his car to perform the exam.

3 pm the exam started, the examiner this time would be a old woman. She started asking me the hand signs, left, right and brake. The last one I made the sign correctly but I couldn't remember the name of it, she quickly told me you only have 3 attempts. I thought for me what the hell, and then I said correctly. I drove 20 minutes, U turns, parallel park, parallel back all the bullshits supposedly you have to do when you do the road exam and you don't know how to drive. I drive more time here than when I did my road exam 7 years ago in Portugal. End of the exam I really thought I did everything right and would pass easily. She asked my name and said "you must come back again, you failed the exam". I couldn't believe in what I was hearing. She start enumerating what I did wrong:

1. Backing 50ft : Look over right shoulder;
2. Hill operation: avoids rolling, properly position wheels, didn't put on park;
3. Turning: properly yields;
4. Lane change: checks blind spots.

What I did during the exam:

1. When I was backing I was looking to the mirrors - She said I can't;
2. I putted the gear on reverse and turn off the car - She said had to turn the wheels and put the car on park;
3. I learned on the yield sign if there are cars coming I should let them pass till there are no cars, so I let the cars pass - You let too many cars pass, you didn't enter that's why they didn't stopped to let go in;
4. I did a lane change after I looked to the mirror and I saw only one car coming, I let that car pass and I merge to the left - You didn't look to your shoulder to check your blind spot.

After all the bullshits she gave what could I do, just said OK thank you.

I'm not saying she was wrong, somethings yes, but in the overall I proof her I knew how to drive and I knew the rules. But I guess that was my mistake showed her I knew how to drive.

Get in the car I drove to Boston and went back to Jersey again, another 4 hours driving. Completely pissed and knowing I don't know how to drive.

Next day on the job was talking with my colleagues about what happened and one them told "you should had talked with, I would told you every stupid things you should have done".

In resume he said the trick is pretend you don't know how to drive, be very silly and dumb.

Guess I learn what not to do next time.

What is love?

So many times we hear: I'm in love, I love you, I adore you....

But did you ever stopped and asked yourself this simple question: What is love?

Before I leave this question and wait for some answers I'll answer myself what is love for me.

Love for me is much more than like someone because is pretty, is beautiful, is hot, has money, has a nice job and others nonsenses.

Love wasn't made to be painful, to make us cry most of the time, to make us argue all the time, to be distrust. Wasn't made to have just a few hours during the day because we already have other plans and we can't cancel them. Wasn't made to be lived only from one side and the other just stays because is good to have someone who loves us. Love is much more than just give, is about give and receive back; of course one side will always love more than the other, even our body is not completely symmetrical, how could be two persons completely different love in the same amount?

Love for me is starting liking the defects of each other, we must respect the other person the way it is, or otherwise we would never fell in love for that person. Is easy to love the qualities but is really hard to love the defects. Why should we wanna change someone to our image and require the other person to lose its essence, the same essence mixed with the qualities and defects make us fell in love for?

Love is wanting to be with someone, not spending only some hours in a week, sometimes is hard to find that time but when we really want, we can try to figure it out. When that time is really short and we can't do much more about it, should we spend that time arguing, fighting, saying nonsenses or should we enjoy every single millisecond we do have? If that time is short we really should enjoy it, but if the is long "what should we do?" The same thing we did when we had short time, enjoy as much as possible every single millisecond as well.

Like I use to say:"live now, life is luck and the time is short".

It seem likes I do live in a wonderful and beauty word and where everything is perfect, I don't and I know even in most perfect couples living the real love there will be misunderstandings, dislikes, fights and others stuffs. What should we do in those situations? I think the the answer is very easy, we have a great gift, the gift of talk and understanding. Yes, you read well, is just about talk, left one side express itself and the other does the same. I'm not saying we should accept everything the other wants, but we should always respect each other thoughts and opinion and try to find what will be reasonable for both. Is not about who will win or who loses, we have to know not only to be stubborn but to know when to retreat. (I really know what I'm talking about, I'm stubborn as hell)

A lot of people says a girlfriend and a boyfriend can't be really friends. I completely disagree with that, in my point of view they should try to be the best friends, not forgetting the best friend each other already has. How can someone say a relationship can't be built in friendship? Do you wanna have someone for the rest of your life which you can't talk all the time, make you laugh all the time, be able to just listen you, to tell a secret and so many others things. Thats what a friend does right? So wouldn't you like to have someone by your side which you could do all those things with?

Respect simple word, but so many times doesn't make part of our vocabulary. Can we really hope to have a long relationship without respect for each other? What is respect? Is not only respect each other when is in font of us, is respect each as well on the back. Respect is know the boundaries of each other, know the limits of those boundaries and respect the space of each other.

Trust, small word with only5 letters, but when is applied I bet with you so many relationships would be saved and so many problems would be avoided. Is not easy to have it, we should every single day try to earn a bit more of trust in a relationship. I'm not saying we should blind trust, thats why I said should be earn. Both in a relationship should do that hard work, but I can bet again with you in the end both will be winners.

In a few words thats what is love for me.

What is love for you?

If you read this please let me know what is love for you, you don't need to reply in English if you don't want to.

Thanks in advance.

Thanksgiving

Today I passed my first Thanksgiving.

I used to watch this celebration on american movies, but this year I celebrate it, I ate the turkey. Is the favorite american celebration, why? Because on this date they only eat, watch TV and Friday they have "Black Friday". On Black Friday lots of stores will be open at 5 am and close at 9 am. Yes you read well 5h in the morning. Is very common to find queues from 23h and 00h untill the doors open, people waiting for crazy prices in all kind of stores: books, clothes, electronics etc.

Some of you don't know why they celebrate the Thanksgiving, I didn't as well. I just learn this last days.

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincolnproclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony survive their first brutal winter in New England. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl(ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beetroot and possibly, wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize or corn, and squash. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "Thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

Long time, lot a things happened...

Since May, the last time I post something so many things happened. I'll do a very short resume of what happened in the last months.

The year is almost in the end and I'm still in New Jersey, USA. What I did in all the time I already spent here? I can say, thats a very good question.

Say New Jersey or say New York it will be more or less the same. But now you'll be thinking this guy is completely nuts. Hold on, what I wanted to say is in terms of location and proximity. In New Jersey you don't have almost nothing to do, you have only one thing to do: GO TO NYC. There is not much to say about New York, just all the things we watch in the movies are all true, it's an amazing city. Definitely the top 1 city in the world for me, I would live in NYC Manhattan without any problem.

When you hear NYC one of your thought will be USA, but now I can tell you Manhattan is completely different than the rest of USA. Here in USA you have: NYC, Miami, Las Vegas, Boston, LA and Hollywood. All the rest is so deadly boring, but when i say boring is really boring with boring people. But those same people in the other nice cities they will become nice and not boring.

Besides NYC I visited already Washington DC, the capital. Is nice because of the monuments you have there to see. I got very disappointed with the white house, I was expecting something big and splendid, I found something small and not so shine as I was expecting. On the other hand the Capitol was really amazing and impressive I liked it a lot.

Philadelphia, the city where the north american constitution was written, cozy city and with the best beef cheese-steak sandwich in USA. Thats right beef with cheese all together inside of a sandwich.

Niagara Falls, I don't have a vast English vocabulary to describe by words how amazed I was when I was staring at the falls. Just incredible and so damn beautiful. The nature really does amazing things and the Niagara Falls is one of those amazing things the nature is capable of.

After being in Niagara I went to Toronto, Canada. I was expecting to find a city/country very similar to USA, in terms of living, life itself but for my surprise I found something completely different. I thought somehow I went back to Europe, instead of miles kilometers, everywhere you could find some French words. The city Toronto as one of the most tallest building in the world, the communications tower, it is really tall. The night life in Toronto is something, is really something... I really recommend it..

Vegas... What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas :)

But now will come the best part of my mission here in USA. 18th of July, was the day I started talking with an amazing and beautiful girl. We met through Facebook, we had some friends in common but we never talked. From that day onwards we use to talk almost every day. What we talked? We use to talk about life, perspectives of seeing life, perspectives of living, basically we use to talk about everything. 15th of August, I went to Portugal for another two weeks of vacations. One of the best two weeks in Portugal I've ever had. Why? Because the amazing and beautiful girl I met on Facebook made me spent an amazing and delicious time with her.

We were heading to a dead end, the dead end would be us being dating. We knew beforehand would be very tuff and not easy at all a distance relationship. But something inside of me was telling me give it a shot. Live now, life is luck and time is short. And was what I did, I gave it a shot, and nowadays we are still together and more in love than ever.

I can't wait to have her in my arms, feel her breath near to my ear, feel those lips near to mine, feel her touch on my skin, feel her body touching mine.

One special word to my comrades who put it up with me in all those trips around USA. Thank you Ravic, Hugo and Bruno.

Was good to put all this down, I can say is good to be back on track....

See you guys soon..

Back Again...

As been a while since the last time I wrote something here. And I guess you have made this question: Why only one post? The answer is very easy, is not because I don't have stories to tell, adventure I haven't had or I stopped dreaming. Laziness.

I would love to post like my goddaughter use to do, every single day even if is just to post: "I don't want to write anything today". But I've been with so much laziness in my body to keep up with my blog. I'll try now to keep it up, and more than that use it to express myself, with more than my stories and adventures, I'll post about football (soccer), about life, about what's is around me and what I would like to have around.

I want to give some words to some persons, those who wanted me to start back again with my posts. Thanks to all of you guys I'm back on track, I hope for longer time now.. :)

First Post

I should been done this long time ago, since when I started my life of traveler in 20th October 2008, but better latter than never.

I will post here some of my adventures, thoughts and dreams.

I'm an engineer in telecommunications, at this moment I'm working in LTE (Long Term Evolution) or 4G, and thanks to my job I was able to already knew almost all continents at this moment.

My 1st mission out from Portugal was in Timissoara, Romenia in WiMAX, after that I never stoped any more, Dominican Republic, France, Germany and Malaysia. All those countries I mention before I've been there in job, but life is not only job :), so during the weekend me and my colleagues we traveled every time we got chance.

June 2009 I went to Malaysia for 6 months, I just can say was the best 6 months in my life I ever had till now. Why? Because I met so many people, new cultures and I could traveled as I never thought before. Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong-Kong, Macau and Australia. Places I never thought even in my dreams to visit one day.... I just can say I really miss those times...

At this moment I'm in New Jersey getting ready to go back to Portugal for two weeks vacations and then get back to Jersey again...

Soon I'll be back with some stories and what happen in the meantime..