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Category: Introspection


  • Why I hate crowded places

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    Today was the Gay Pride Parade in São Paulo. The city’s most prominent avenue, the Paulista Avenue, was completely taken by about 3,5 million people (according to the people who organized the parade). My girlfriend…

  • Electrodynamics revisited

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    Yesterday I began reviewing Classical Electrodynamics. One of the things I regret about my undergrad life is that I never got to actually learn anything about electromagnetism. The teachers for both courses I took were……

  • Scary face

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    A friend has told me that I get scary when I’m angry. Scary. That took me by surprise, I must say. I know I make it obvious when I’m not happy about something (after all,…

  • Sometimes… I don’t like being me.

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    Probably I shouldn’t take it so seriously – to be honest, I think I’m being really harsh on myself since yesterday. I almost messed up my girlfriend’s life – she’s on another country and was…

  • The Mega-Rant, pt. 1

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    As I talk to more and more people I get the feeling that I’m not even near what I want to believe I am doing. I keep saying to myself that I’m doing my best…

  • Surprise!

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    I guess there’s a first time for everything. Today, for the first time, I got a surprise birthday party. Somehow in the past 25 years, when someone tried to arrange that I ended up being…

  • Long time, huh?

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    Yeah, I know. It’s always the same thing. I try to keep up with this blog, but end up posting only sporadically and people stop visiting. In fact I’m even used to it. The point…