Bad Mother/ Eita mãe ruim!

Conheci numa festa uma mulher que tem vários filhos e todos moram no exterior.

Simpática, linda e delicada, quando percebi já tinha deixado escapar:

- Nossa, você deve ser uma péssima mãe! Todos os seus filhos fogemd e você.

Não sei bem por que, mas tive a impressão que depois disso a mulher fugiu de mim o resto da festa!

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I recently met a woman who has several children and they all live abroad. Before I could help myself I said:

- Wow! You must be a terrible mother. All your kids left you!

I am not sure, but i had the impression she spent the rest of the party trying to avoid me.

Eu sou um gênio! I am a genius!

Essa noite eu dormi 12 horas seguidas. Feito uma pedra!
Aí acordei, tomei banho e fui pro trabalho. Assim que sai da garagem vi que a rua estava toda molhada.
Nossa, que legal! Lavaram a nossa rua. - pensei
Virei a esquina e a rua estava molhada. No proximo quarteirão idem. E assim foi até eu chegar na freeway.
Liguei pro Fabio:
- Amor, lavaram a cidade inteira hoje!! que legal...
- Choveu Inaie, choveu...

Isso é que dá morar no deserto. A gente perde a referência!

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I woke up, had a shower and head to work, after sleeping 12 hours straight.
Right when I left the house I noticed the street was wet. Wow! They washed my street.
I turned the corner and saw the same thing. And one block away the street was also wet.
This scene continued until I got to the freeway, so I called Fabio.
- Hey! They washed all the streets in Bahrain. How cool is that?
- It rained Inaie, it rained...

I can not be blamed for my ignorance. I live in the desert, and I MAY have lost reference...

cabecinha suja... bad thoughts

Fui levar um cliente visitar a cobertura de um hotal aqui em Bahrain.
Quando chegamos la, a recepcao disse que nao poderia mostrar a dita cuja por que uma companhia estava fazendo uma conferencia la.
Eu nao falei nada.
Mas pensei.
E meu cliente, nao aguentou e lascou:
- O que vc acha? Conferencia mesmo? Ou aqui eles dao outro nome pra coisa?
Eu e a minha mente poluida devolvemos:
- Conferencia sim... nem aqui nem na China. To ate imaginando as algemas e os balancos pendurados no teto...
Poucas horas depois recebemos uma ligacao:
- Os clientes sairam pro almoco, voces podem vir aqui e olhar a cobertura, desde que seja bem rapidinho.
Fomos la.
Chegamos no apartamento e vimos mesas, cadeiras, toalhas brancas, brochuras de negocios...
Era mesmo uma conferencia. E nos dois ficamos com a maior cara de tacho, achando que o outro era um tremendo safado que so pensa besteira!


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I took a client to visit a hotel penthouse where he might want to live.

When we got there, the receptionist said we could not see the place because there was a conference going on there.
I did not say anything.
But I thought a million things.
My client could not help it:
- What do you think? Is it really a conference? Or in Bahrain they "renamed" it? 
he started, i just followed:
- In my country they have orther names for it, but what do i know?? I am wondering if they use handcuffs and have swings hanging from the ceiling ...
A few hours later we got a call from the hotel:
- Our customers have left for lunch, you guys can come and have a quick look at the penthouse.
We went there straight away.
We arrived at the apartment and saw tables, chairs, white tablecloths, business brochures ...
They really had a conference going on. 
We did not say a word to each other, all we could think was how dirty minded the other one was!! 

Sex and the City II

In Bahrain most movies are censored. When I say MOST, I mean MOST. Just to give you a simple example. Shrek was censored. Yep, Shrek the Ogre. Not him, specifically, but the kiss scene was cut out.

DVD rentals are also not a very good idea because you may find one year old movies as releases, if you are lucky. Otherwise, you will end up watching ancient movies.

We are left with one option: to get pirate movies from the black market. Shame, shame, shame on us all...

And pirate a pirate movie I got, when I decided to watch Sex and the City II.

I am a serious fan of that clan. I watched the whole series, I have the DVDs ( original copies), I enjoyed the first movie. Then I watched the second one, full of expectations. and it seemed like a huge merchandise window.

Ok, all movies sell advertising, I get that. But They also have story lines. I am afraid all I can remember from the movie were the ads: Remax, a book, a coffee machine, Rolex... ( ok, ok, it worked) but I felt cheated. That's not what I signed in for.

For the first time, Sex and the City disappointed me. Big time.