Movie suggestion - Idiocracy

Last night I watched a very interesting comedy movie named "Idiocracy".

The movie is basically about a guy who is frozen in an army experience and gets back to society only after 500 years. I know that we all have seen something similar before, but this one is better because it shows how human kind might become after some hundred of years: we might become a bunch of idiots.

Why or how would we become a bunch of idiots? The movie shows us the reality of our society. Since people with less education reproduce more than well-educated people, we might become a society made out of idiots if we don't start doing something right now.

Pay attention: the "something" we should do is not only about birth-control. The something we have to do to stop this idiocracy process is give good education to people, so they would be able to understand the responsabilities of having kids and wouldn't have babies like rabbits. But then, it would be their choice and not something imposed by others.

Of course there are some exaggeration in the movie since it's a comedy, but it's a well-thought silly comedy.

I personally don't like comedies that much, but this one really made me see the obvious: human's future is closer to an idiocracy than to a "futuristic-robotic-matrix era".

The trailer of the movie isin't that nice, so I suggest you to also watch the movie's intro so you can have an idea of what the movie is.

Take care and have a nice weekend!

Love you all :-)

The movie intro:

The trailer:

Still about the environment

This video was made on the international environmental congress that took place in Brazil in the year of 1992 (Eco - 92).

Seventeen years have passed and we are still doing the same things or maybe even worse.

Will we ever change?!

Take a good look at the video and think a little a bit about what we are doing to ourselves and the next generations.

Love you all!

Human nature - part 1

Most of you must have watched the video I posted that showed a little bit about the human nature and our similarity with our lovely friends monkeys :-)

I have talked to some friends of mine - online and offline ones - about what we really are, and they suggested me that I should write down some of our thoughts and conclusions about human nature.

Topic of the day? All humans are selfish.

Exactly! The truth is that all our acts are based in an unconscious need of satisfying ourselves.

Don't need to panic, I will make myself clear.

The questions we have to make to ourselves are: why the happiness of a friend also makes me happy? Why do we want the happiness of our beloved ones? What is behind human solidarity and what makes us help each other?

The answers are pretty simple: we do that because deep inside we just want to be happy too.

For example, you all have heard about Bartira (one of my best friends ever). Why her happiness is so important to me? Because I am happy when she is happy, and I would be sad if something were wrong with her. So, the truth is that if I do something that I know will make her happy, then I am not doing this something only to please her. As a matter of fact, I would do something nice to her because "I" would be happy and pleased.

Can you guys also see things from this point of view? When we do something to please each other, we are actually seeking for our own happiness.

Hey, don't worry guys! The fact we are all selfish and do those things because of our own interests doesn't make us bad people. This is who we are as human beings, and there is nothing wrong about being this kind of selfish.

You guys have to remember that we might all be selfish, but the idea is to try to use this in a good way ;-)

Do you wanna know what lead my friends and I to this talking? We're talking about the fact that only few of you read the blog spontaneaously and I recently found out that nobody had noticed about all the nice tools and settlings that I had put on the blog. So, we tried to understand "why does Lucy write her blog?".

I wanna make it clear that I am not angry because of that.

By the way, I have a question to all of you:

Can anyone guess why do I keep writing in this blog?

Come on guys, use your brains and try to give good answers ;-)

I didn't want to write a too long post otherwise no one would read it. I tried to summarize the main idea of my recent thoughts as much as possible, let's see if that was enough :-)

Have a nice week!

Love you all!

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Today I had almost put fire in my house! Actually, I only put fire in the trash can but it was a really messy-funny moment... He he he he...

I lighted on the stove and then I threw away the match into the trash can, but the problem is that the match was still ON! He he he he...

Don't woory, I am safe and didn't even had to call the firemen :-)

The only problem is that now I need a new trash can to my kitchen, so I had added a trash can on my wishlist. Do I have any volunteers to give me a new trash can?! Just kidding...

Take care and be careful while throwing away matches!

Love you all!

Ogre Lucy

The movie "Shrek, the Third" was released in USA theaters just a month ago and DreamWorks Studios has already announced that this might not be the last movie of the well-successful serie about the green ogre.

This is because the producers of Shrek claim they have found a real female ogre who could make an appearance in the possible 4th edition of Shrek (check picture below).

The producers haven't decided so far about the role the female ogre will play in the next movie, but she would be either a missing sister of princess Fiona or a missing sister of Shrek.

According to our sources, the producers are already talking about a possible affair between the new character and Gingy, the Gingerbread Man. The female ogre already said she won't act in any nude scene.

The negotiations about payment, fees and other contract terms are still taking place. Apparently, due to an undisclosed reason, the female ogre is concern about acting side to side with puss in boots...

In an exclusive interview to our blog, the female ogre declared that "acting in a Shrek movie is a dream come true" and that she is "really excited about working with the Donkey".

We will keep you guys updated of any news regarding the female ogre and the negotiations for Shrek, the Fourth!

Take care and have a nice weekend!

Cathedral song

Due to some unknown reason, today I couldn't stop thinking about the music "Cathedral Song" by Tanita Tikaram.

It's an old song that I love and that has a special meaning to me. When I was still in middle school, my teacher of creative writing class showed us some pictures and we should pick up one and then write a paper/article about it.

One of the pictures was a newspaper picture of a group of poor kids that lived in the streets. Sadly, this is a common scene in Brazil and in lots of places around the world.

There are thousands of reasons why those kids are in the streets and their histories are pretty much the same: they have no family, their families are poor, they were abandoned by their parents, they ran away from home because of parental abuse/violence.

Somehow those kids end up living in the streets and start to commit small crimes and, sometimes, they might even become real criminals.

I chose to write my paper about that picture and then I thought about the "Cathedral Song"...

I wrote an intro to my paper and transcribed the following part of the song:

"I saw you from the cathedral

You were leaving me

And I saw from the cathedral

You could not see to see

So take my time

And take my lies

'Cos all the others, they wanna take my life"

Then my paper was based in the fact that those kids - and the whole street population - are ignored by the rest of the society.

Street population is there, we know and we see it everyday, but the truth is that deep inside we try to avoid them as much as possible.

We pass by them everyday, but them we try to make ourselves blind. It is not nice to face the truth and to face someone poor and starving near us, so we pretend they are invisible.

Sometimes we are afraid of being robbed, so we just hold our purses tight against our bodies or just cross the street as if they wouldn't notice what we're doing! Come on, those kids aren't dumb!

Obviously I include myself among the people who hold the purse stronger and cross the street, ashame on me!

They might be little thieves and even mean sometimes, but the truth is that they are just kids... Kids who had lost innocence, kids with no dreams, but, afterall, they are still just kids...

The idea of my paper was: the street kid is there and he is "talking" to a lady who passes by him without even looking at his face... He has quited about his life and changing his future, but deep inside he wants to be saved by someone. He wants help and that is exactly what we are all not giving him.

I know this a very cliché topic, and again I dont wanna make boring speechs to you guys but how long will it last? We are responsible for those kids, and how long will we be negligent about them? What are we doing to our kids and to ourselves?

Unfortunatelly, I don't have the solution for that. Actually, the solution is obvious: we just need to care about those kids and give them some respect and opportunities.

Anyways, today I thought a lot about this song and the paper I wrote so I decided to write again about it. Since I have lots of free time, I also made the following video.

Hope you like it.

Take care!

Lack of virtual existence - part 2

My dear all,

I definitely don't have a virtual existence.

The guys at wikipedia are chasing me and they again found out about me on that encyclopedia. So, they again deleted the data I put on about myself.

You all know that I tried hard to fight against the system, but those guys at wikipedia really have nothing better to do in their lives!

Since I have better things to do with my time, I decided that I won't fight anymore. It would be silly, childish and it would lead me nowhere.

However, I promised myself that I will never let wikipedia publish anything about me in the future! When they come after me asking me to publish things about me, I will just say "No"!

Come on guys, it is not a real issue because I will never be famous anyways... He he he he he...

Anyways, here comes a real promise: I will keep using wikipedia in almost all of my posts as a demonstration that I have no hard feelings about wikipedia or any of its guys :-)

Have a nice weekend all of you!

Searching myself (or lack of virtual existence)

Have you guys ever tried to look for your own names on google or any of those search-websites?

A friend of mine once told me: if something cannot be found on google, so this something doesn't really exist! So everytime I need to find out about something, I do some research on google.

Nopes, I still didn't get any sponsorship from google or from any of the international companies I mention on my posts... I should stop making free spread of big companies and just say things like "that big blue G search website"...

Let's get back to the topic. I always do my research on "that big blue G search website" and one day I had a brilliant and original idea: what if I searched for my name?!

I know. The idea isin't brilliant or even original at all! Everybody has done it before... Who told you I would be brilliant or original?!

Anyways, I searched for myself on the net, but I didn't get too many things. There were only 2 pages about other girls with the same name. I found out there is a dentist, a state agent (realtor), a civil engineer, a librarian, and there is also me!

My appearence on the search isn't interesting or amazing (maybe because my life and myself aren't interesting or amazing). There are three links regarding me: a) one shows my classification to get into Law School; b) another link makes reference about my final paper at college; and c) another site says I failed one exam. Isin't this nice? We failed the exam and then it is published online... LOL...

I spent a couple of minutes looking at the search about myself and its results.

There is nothing about me besides those 3 minor references, and it means that I almost don't exist! At least virtually speaking.

I have this blog, I have a 'myspace account' (that I don't use), I have an album of pictures at yahoo, I have a wishlist and I have uploaded some videos at my youtube account, but even then I almost virtually don't exist... Come on, I thought "that big blue G search website" was going to unify searches regarding its three main domains (google, youtube, and orkut)! Humpf!

I needed to think about something to solve my lack of virtual existence! I might almost don't exist on internet, but that doesn't stop me to keep using my sick-crazy mind on real world! If internet is conspiring against my online existence, I need to stand against it and show the world that I exist!

Did I say I only use my sick-crazy mind for useless things? He he he...

Since the gentlemen of "that big blue G search website" don't want to help me, I decided to look for help somewhere else...

Which other site I use for searches? Wikipedia!!!!!! So I created an account at wikipedia (yes, one more internet account!) and decided to officially be born online! I made an article about myself at wikipedia and there I was: a new online life has born!

However, things are not that easy when the virtual world is really conspiring against me!

I got a message from wikipedia administrator telling me the article I created "seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time."

So, the article about myself was deleted because I am not significant for the world!!!! I hope I won't need analysis after that, because I would send the doctor's bills for the same person who deleted my article! Who this person think he/she is?! Btw, doesn't this person has something better to do than telling others that their lives are insignificant for the world?!

Anyways, my online life was interrupted. I was drastically killed on my own online birthday. Should I quit about being someone online or should I keep fighting against the system?

Do I need to tell you the answer? He he he he...

I came back at wikipedia and found another way to register my existence. Wanna play a game? Search on wikipedia about relevant facts that took place on September 8th and on the year of 1982, and then try to find this brazilian/portuguese girl there ;-)

Let's see if I can get past wikipedia's administration and remain virtually alive!

There is only one negative point about this whole thing: wikipedia articles don't appear when we make searches on "that big blue G search website"... :-(

It is not a problem, I am fine with that and the truth is that I can perfectly live without any online existence! Btw, now it is time to search for some friends on "that big blue G search website" ;-)

Have fun and keep rocking!

Love you all!!

Dance, monkeys, dance!