Centenary of Japanese immigration

Today, it has been a hundred years since the first ship bringing Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil.

Tribute this fact! In honor to my origins! I accept tributes like: going to a Japanese restaurant, drinking sake, wearing your 'Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton' bag, making a origami, going to a karaoke, practicing karate, being a ninja, dressing like a geisha, dressing up in Harajuku style, driving a Honda, a Toyota or a Mitsubishi, using anything from Panasonic or Sony, wearing flip-flops (yes, their origin is Japanese), playing your Nintendo Wii or GameBoy, ..... ufff! my mind is empty now, but I am sure there are many things in your daily life that have Japanese influence.

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Gente, hoje é o Centenário da Imigração Japa! Meus avós não chegaram neste primeiro navio, mas chegaram em alguns depois...Faça um tributo ao meu povinho tão simpático!

Rá!....talvez você já fez o tributo porque você provavelmente já calçou suas Havaiannas hoje pela manhã ( esse tipo de calçado tem origem nipônica, sabia?), ou talvez você já dirigiu seu Honda, Toyota ou Mitsubishi, ou você já ligou seu eletrônico Panasonic ou Sony....É, meu caro! Tudo japa!

Se você não fez nada ainda, vai lutar sumô, ou treinar suas técnicas ninjas e de karatê, ou fazer um origami, ou jogar Nintendo Wii ou Gameboy, ou comer sushi, ou beber sakê, ......!

Se nenhuma opção que eu listei é possível para você, vai para a feira comer pastel!

Ohayou fashion in São Paulo

SPFW (São Paulo Fashion Week) starts today! Its theme is the Centenary of Japanese Imigration Centenary.

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É hoje que começa o SPFW, que tem como tema o centenário da imigração do meu povinho às terras tupiniquins.

Joss Stone is in São Paulo

Joss Stone sings today here at Via Funchal, here in São Paulo. If you thought 'Humm! I want to go to this concert!" (like me), the tickets are sold-out.

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A Joss Stone canta hoje aqui em São Paulo, no Via Funchal. Nem se anime em ir no show se você não garantiu seu ingresso, já está tudo esgotado.

Frozen Yogurt and Sorbet factory!

Boyfriend got me a Cuisinart® Classic™ Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker!!! I was so overwhelmed!

I didn't make any ice cream yet, but I will try to do it tonight!!

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O boyfriend me deu uma maquininha de fazer sorvete da Cuisinart!! Fiquei toda toda...mas ainda não usei!

Vou tentar fazer hoje a noite e depois conto foi!

Hello! My name is Aline Bear! Pleased to meet you!

Today, I changed my name. I mean my cyber name. I don't know if you noticed, but I was signing YouAdore and blog comments under Aline M (M to refer to my real life last name). Now, my name is Aline Bear.

I don't know if you notice but I don't work with fashion, art or music....I work as a business consultant. Therefore, I run one very-orthodox and corporate-related life, with terms like EBITDA, efficiency, share, profit, optimization, control, sales, interest, inflation, debt and other Wall Street vocab.

I also manage to run a second life, a paralell one. This life is defined to my sewing hobby and YouAdore posting. As an authentic gemini, I think the two-lifes keep me balanced because I don't think my life could ever be strictly corporate or fashion (ying and yang).

Once my formal job requires me to have a very serious and grown-up posture, I don't think it's appropriate to have my name dancing around the web under posts commenting the last fashion show or the perfect blush I found. The reason is because I deal with high-scale executives on my daily basis and what credibility will my work have to their eyes, if they find out I am also the YA owner? (No offense to fashion or beauty obsession, I love it, but my work environment is super orthodox)

So, get used to Aline Bear as my cyber name. It's really a joke because I eat too much and my sleeping is very close to hibernation (deep and long).

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Preguiça de urso de traduzir hoje. Bom....não sei se alguém notou que estava assinando o posts e tudo vida na vida de bloguette com o nome de Aline M (M, porque é a inicial do meu sobrenome - chatíssimo, neah?! Por isso que estou mudando!). Meu nome internético, a partir de agora, vai ser Aline Bear (muito prazer!).

É realmente um pseudônimo para minha vida paralela de YA. Não sei se vocês perceberam, mas meu trabalho é super corporativo e não para ter o meu nome real dançando no internet só debaixo de posts de roupa e make (nada contra da minha parte, é claro! mas tem os super chefes e clientes que podem achar meio estranho).

Bom, então tá aí a introdução do meu codinome que, realmente, tem referência a urso! Só porque como demais e não durmo, hiberno.

valentines

Today is Valentine's Day here in Brazil. I celebrated it yesterday to avoid overly-pink-romantic chaos! Le boyfriend took me to dine at a hip restaurant in town, Carlota, where I ate the most delicious seafood & vegetables dish I have ever tasted.

I won't be blabling about my Valentines...because it may be boring for you to read...I am here just to repass an advice to all single gals reading this: Get more 'Samantha Jones'!

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Hoje é o dia super rosa, quase nauseante de tão rosa, é Dia dos Namorados! Eu já comemorei o meu com um jantar incrível no Carlota, o boyfriend que me levou - ele não é o máximo? E ganhei um presente muito legalzão também (depois faço post sobre o presente).

Gente, para as amigas solteiras (- por opção, lógico!), por favor, incorporem mais espírito de 'Samantha Jones' neste dia rosa.

Get carried away

Despite all not-so-flattering reviews, I loved the Sex and the city movie. I really don't know what the critics were thinking about when they saw this master piece But, for me and for my girls, the movie surpassed all expectations!

I had seen many of the looks, but they were just as magical as their first glimpse just because the outfits were perfectly coordinated with the story-line. As Ale Farah, from FilmeFashion, noticed the movie starts with vibrant color and patterns, which goes along the cherry mood set by the wedding expectation. After the humiliating wedding failure, the color palette sobers up reflecting the characters vibe caused the Carrie's broken heart.

The beauty of the movie is the quartet friendship fidelity and how each of the characters find happiness in their own way (there ain't a only happiness recipe...of course!).

I cried and laughed many times during this 2-hours-and-a-half delight! Looking foward to enjoy it once more!

(Sharing a joke with the ladies that have already seen the movie - I loved Charlotte's line "I curse the day you were born!" - lol!)

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Apesar de algumas críticas não muito boazinhas com o filme ( vulgo crítica da Veja), eu simplesmente amei o filme do Sexn and the City. Realmente excedeu todas as minhas expectativas...

Eu já tinha visto a maioria dos figurinos durante os meus passeios internéticos, mas eles não perderam a sua magia quando os vi na telona. Os looks estão maestralmente coordenados com a narrativa como a Ale Farah observou há algumas semanas no Filme Fashion.

Assim como no seriado, toda a badalação da cidade, das roupas, dos sapatos e dos homens é apenas coadjuvante para a força da cumplicidade entre as quatro amigas! Além disso, acho que o filme expõe sutilmente que todas encontram a felicidade da sua própria maneira...

Enfim, assistir ao longa-metragem foi mistura de gargalhada, choro e também um pouco de saudosimo de quão bom era ter episódios frequinhos de SATC a cada temporada! Foi tão bom que já to desesperada para assistir mais uma vez!

Happy B-Day, ENZOOO!!

Enzo, my brother, is 20 years old today! Can't believe it, my little baby bro is already in his twenties...

Well...happy birthday, dear! I love very much!

On my rain boots

Green, turtle-pattern rain boots!!

My chooka boots arrived

My Amazon order got to my house yesterday!!! Everything came just the way it was supposed to.

Snapvine-ing!

Did you hear my 'alô?' in the post above? I did it with a very cool new web device called Snapvine! I call a number on my mobile, talk, talk, talk...and the audio is automatically converted and posted at Snapvine! And can be shared here at the blog!

Prepare yourselves for a bunch of podcats here!

Adios Bs As! Where am I going now?

Well, my cab is arriving in a few minutes to head to the airport. I am arriving in Sao Paulo at 8 p.m.

This little get-away was terrific! Looking foward to the next trip (this year? next year? where to go?).

For me, the twenties are meant to be enjoyed with loads of trip, fun and splurge! I NEED to enjoy myself the most until further responsabilities hit me (kids and retirement fund).

Trips are ultra precious life memories and you just can't get enough! If you visit a place in your twenties, it will be completely different in your forties or nineties...the place changes and so do you. So, travel the most you can at all periods of your life!

¡Saludos argentinos!

Chicas, here I am in Buenos Aires! There so many Brazilians here that all the store vendors have already learned Portuguese.

I did not buy many clothes, but aquired all the items I planned to buy on my beauty list.

Recoleta, Palero Soho, Palermo Hollywood and Galeria Pacifico are the it places for shopping for in Bs As!

I have to confess that I have NOt been able to refuse the delicacies sold here. This country is know for its exquisite dulce de leche and tender steaks! Everything is cheap and I might be splurging too much!

Hasta!

Dance like no one is watching

Just because we have fun by ourselves!