Bruno & Gabi in Auckland

So far so good! First I came alone, it was the most difficult time here. Because I was far away from Gabi, living in a kind of hostel and working in a place that I did not like. But as far as Gabi arrived here things stated to change, and everything seems to be better now. We found a job that we like, at least we hope that we will like cause we are going to start on Monday... heheheh. I live in a very nice (small) apartment, in a good location and we are really enjoying being here. So that's the beginning here, and I thing I'll have a lot of stories to wright in this blog.

Purple Cow

Connecting the dots

Today I read the Seth's blog and there was a very interesting post called "Do I deserve it?". Which is very connect with the Steve Job's speech, it says: "The question shouldn't be, “do you deserve it.” I think it should be, “what are you going to do with it now that you've got it?".
People that only complain about their lives, jobs, their boy or girlfriend, and about everything, are too boring. And if you life is like that you are the only guilty, we make our lives what we want it to be. Please don't be the boring one!

Also in the Steve Job's speech he talks about connecting the dots, that we can only connect them looking back and never forward. I decided to come to New Zealand with my heart, I thought that a new adventure would be good for me, but will this adventure be a connected dot in the future? Maybe.

Happy Valentine's Day

"Tão bom morrer de amor e continuar vivendo." ( Mario Quintana)

Some weird things happen in the Brazilian football, and this week another of those has happened. Every championship has it's regulation, and only for following it the Sao Paulo team has received a lot of critics from the rival Corinthans.

This Sunday Sao Paulo (actual Brazilian champion) will play against Corinthans (which has the second biggest firm in Brazil), and the SPFC's board of directories has announced that the will provide 10% of the tickets to be sold to the Corinthans firm, which is according to the regulation. But the Corinthans's board of directors has complained the whole week about this, saying that it is not fair and even sent an official letter to the press saying that the SPFC is "elitist and arrogant".

This kind of posture will only incite the fans to solve this problem the only way they can solve something fighting. And in the end nothing will be resolved.

New Zealand life style

Datas:
Capital: Wellington
Largest city: Auckland
Official languages: English (98%)3
Māori (4.2%)3
Ethnic groups: 78% European/Other
14.6% Maori
9.2% Asian
6.9% Pacific peoples
Demonym: New Zealander, Kiwi (colloquial)
Area Total: 268,680 km2 (75th)
Population
- September 2008 estimate 4,280,0005 (122nd (2008))
GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate
- Total $112.703 billion
- Per capita $26,610
GDP (nominal) 2007 estimate
- Total $128.711 billion
- Per capita $30,390

(Datas from wikipedia)

Well as you can see New Zealand is a very small country, with a very calm life style, some times too calm... I've been in New Zealand for almost 8 months, and I've spent a 100% in Auckland, the biggest city in the country and the economic center, even though after 5:00pm you can't find a single shop opened (actually you can find, Mc donald's, Burger king and Starbucks, only those hehehe). Imagine in the country side, where people say that Auckland is a very stressful city to live...

People here are very friendly, a lot of overseas people, so it is easy to fell at home. In Auckland central (where I live) I thing at least 60% of people that walk trough the streets here are foreign, 40% asians.

A good thing is that nobody ever has tried to rob me, and I've not seen some one being robed (weird for brazilians, isn't it? hehehe). It is a very safe country, so you can walk trough the Auckland downtown streets at 3:00am, withdraw money at the atm, and noting happens to you.... heheheheh.

The life cost is quite expensive, but the minimum wage is NZD$12.00 per hour. You will pay in average, in a very small appartment NZD$1,200.00 per month ( very small, one bedroom, one bathroom and a kitchen together with the living room), food is quite expensive as well. The public transportation is very expensive too and dosen't work very well.

In the end is a very good country to live, but I still have to go to other cities to know better the New Zealand ( and certainly will go), and the real Kiwi way of life... hehehe.