Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Honeymoon in Tehran: Two years of love and danger in Iran

I got this book as a Christmas present from my sister. Most of you will nowadays know why Iran is such a topic of great interest for me for the last one and a half year and that was probably the reason why she gave me the book.
The Portuguese edition has a very dubious cover which made think even more, having also in consideration the title,  my sister had given me a boring novel of low quality about a lousy love story (nothing against love stories, they can make very good books). 
I couldn't be more separated from the true. I devoured it in the last 4 days from the first till the last page. It is an amazing report of contemporaneous Persian society. It shows their problem, fears, expectations and ways to adapt and survive the totalitarian and ambiguous regime they lived in.
It is a good book for someone that wants to know further more than what is shown by the videos and images from the bearded men burning flags of the USA or the people in the streets wearing green.
Thanks Maninha, adivinhas sempre!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Athos 04 FC

 On foot: Petike, Duarte, Peti, Laci, Peti H
Bottom: Szili, Attila, Dani. Pityu
Missing on the pic : Zoli, Barna, Ofi, Norbi
photo by Anita
The team consolidated its top performances by assuring the 3rd place in the indoor Championship. Important to mention that Attila and Dani were top goalscorers of the league in ex aequo with 29 goals! 
Having suffered my biggest injury of my career during offseason I just played in few games at end of the season. 
My performances where not the best mostly related with the shape  I had been acquiring during the 3 months of total inactivity.  

A last memory from the EuroFutsal here in Hungary!



The moment of the Portuguese National Anthem at the semi final against Azerbaijan!

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

For all GFP lovers!

A San Diego beach scene drawn with an eight color palette of bacterial colonies expressing fluorescent proteins derived from GFP and the red-fluorescent coral protein dsRed. The colors include BFP, mTFP1, Emerald, Citrine, mOrange, mApple, mCherry and mGrape. Artwork by Nathan Shaner, photography by Paul Steinbach, created in the lab of Roger Tsien in 2006.

 I run in to this in the Web! Made me happy to see my work topic turned into art! 

Monday, March 01, 2010

My little cousin has also a blog!

http://whatportugalwhat.blogspot.com/

I swear to god that there are also some normal people in this family!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Vienna again, with the Veccio!

The building where everything happens!!

As you can see, only healthy food!


A short weekend excursion to Vienna with the Veccio!
Only this week we understood we had accomplished to miss the most memorable exhibition in the "Secession".
I also had the pleasure to meet with Leo for a long and interesting, let us call it like that, night! The club in
Karlsplatz rocks!