The air-conditioned city: Singapore
Growing in full swing
Merlion, symbol of the city
Singapore is a island-city-state at the southernmost tip of continental Asia, almost on the Equator, positioned strategically between China and India,a busy trade route. The small country has a high human development index, being just behind England and Germany and ahead of countries like Portugal and Greece, besides impressive wealth with the 4th highest income per capita in the world according to the IMF. It is a modern and multi-cultural country with 4 official languages: English, Mandarin, Tamil and Malay.
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Tribute to my twenties
Alto Paraíso, Brasil, 07.2005.
Today is the last day of my “twenties” and yesterday I watched a movie called “7 things to do before I’m 30″. The character made a list of these 7 things while she was still a teenager and 1 month before her 30th birthday she finds the list and realizes she hasn’t done anything of that, so she starts running after those things.
It’s a crap movie, don’t waste your time watching it, but it was inevitable for me to wonder what I’d have put on my own list, if I had done one, and if I’d have been able to do everything I wanted to do until.. uhm.. today.
I tried but could not remember of anything that I would have done but I did not. Instead, when I think how my twenties were, I see a decade much richer in events than I would imagine back then.
It was a decade full of experiments, I would say. Experiments of all sorts, with the body, with the mind, with the heart, with life.
See you soon Bali
When we left Bali we were happy, lighter and more tan than when we arrived, with the peace of the certainty that we are coming back to this magical place someday.
Felipe with his collection of injuries: the bike accident that yielded an infection, the board that cut his head and a “Bali kiss” – common burning on the bike’s exhaust pipe. People say he probably had a “karma” with the island, I think that after all the debt must be paid! Another theory is that he’s already used his whole “quota of bad luck” of the trip during this single month, so from now on it will be all about joy! I like this second one… and I hope that my “quota of bad luck” doesn’t exist. hehe
I leave with my new passion, which later, in Brazil, my friend Carlos explained that there is nothing new about it, this love story is old, and that makes me even more delighted.
Back to the little capital city
Oriental Bay – Wellington
Before going on with the stories of our round the world trip I’m going to quickly update where we are now and what we have been doing.
We’ve been back in Wellington (NZ) for two and a half months but we are so settled that it feels like we’ve been here for longer!
During the first week, still on holidays, we could enjoy a little bit of what had remained from Summer and went to the beach. But just after that Winter rushed and passed over Fall. That Fall, which generally is great in Wellington, dry, sunny and not so windy simply did not exist this year… the Winter came with everything, strong freezing winds and rain, a lot of rain. I confess that this has been a bit depressing lately.
Bukit Peninsula, the surfer’s mecca
In the surfing world the search for the perfect wave is like a pilgrimage that every year makes surfers from all around the world travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from their place. Bukit (the region where are the main Bali breaks) is probably the most famous surfing destination in Asia and of course the region’s economy revolves around it, you see surf shops, photographers, surf camps, workshops, boat trips, restaurants, music and of course surfers from all corners of the world, North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, all searching the dream of the perfect wave.
Wellington – New Zealand 
