I’m not the default romantic girl, but I find myself attracted by some romantic gibberish, like celebrating my anniversary and I really enjoy Valentines Day. So, it came to my attention that this year I’m not celebrating Valentines for cultural reasons. In North America, it’s celebrated in February, and I arrived here in early March [...]
Next stop, Nassau Street, Kensington Market!
May 19 10
It’s been very hard for me to buy clothes in Canada. I usually like black/gray or red/purple tones, and I just happened to find out I’M TOO SMALL FOR CANADIAN STANDARDS. Women’s sizes are like 0,2,4.. and there’s this extra, extra small size, the 00. You guessesed, I wear the 00. Obviously, not all stores [...]
The Netbook Experience
April 20 10
About one year ago I bought an Asus eeePC 900, and was totally impressed with the size, weight, everything. But, you know, experience changes everything. From the beginning: eeePC 900, the old model, features two SSD disks – 16GB and 4 GB. It uses a Celeron M ULV 353 900MHz Processor and I upgraded the [...]
Cultural Shocks
April 19 10
When you move to another country, it’s expected to have cultural shocks. The food, the clothes, everything must be very different. I’ve moved from South to North America and things are, how can I say, north-americans, here. Lots of things, like houses, clothes, food, are different. But I don’t consider these to be a real [...]
Another day in Canada
April 17 10
Waxing in Canada is not that bad Pizza in Canada is not that bad (curious, eh? after a healthy-praising post, I’m talking “aboot” pizza?) Yesterday I tried two things brazilian tend to hate in Canada: waxing and pizza. After a month without entering a beauty salon I was turning into The Ape Woman, and decided [...]
The Renata Diet
April 15 10
Once in my life I reached a weight my body could not afford, and then I finally decided to get rid of the extra pounds. It’s been a while since been called “thin” is a common thing in my life, but I cannot get simply used to this or I’ll get fat again. I decided [...]