FIDEL CASTRO: 1926/2016

FIDEL CASTRO: foto de Elliott Erwitt, Cuba, 1964

«Condenadme, no importa, 

la Historia me absolverá.» 

[no sé si la Historia lo absolverá, pero lo eternizará...]

MY Black Friday...!!!

Há a BLACK FRIDAY e... Há a minha BLACK FRIDAY!

Hoje, no fim do dia de trabalho, fui à Baixa lanchar com um amigo da família. Depois aproveitei e passei na nova loja da KIKO na Rua Augusta. O objectivo era 'apenas e somente' conhecer a loja... MAS... tive a sorte de ser atendida pelo ALLAN, o make-up artist, e ter passado uns bons momentos. 

O ALLAN é um excelente profissional, que faz o que gosta e gosta do que faz, e é super simpático. Eu fui bem aconselhada e teria sido, certamente, bem maquilhada se eu não estivesse maquilhada. Mas, mesmo assim, o ALLAN deu uns retoques - e eu fiquei ainda mais gira! (cof! cof! cof!) Ah, mas um dia destes eu agendo uma sessão de maquilhagem com ele!

No fim, fiz questão de elogiar o ALLAN - porque as pessoas gostam muitooo de criticar mas poucooo (ou nada) de elogiar! - e de conversar com a responsável da loja, a VANESSA, que também é uma excelente profissional e super simpática.

Eu era cliente da KIKO do Chiado mas, a partir de hoje, sou cliente da KIKO da Baixa, e a 'culpa' é do ALLAN e da VANESSA. Os funcionários fazem uma loja e, no meu caso, eles fizeram toda a diferença! Obrigada!

PS: eu não digo quanto gastei mas digo que foi dinheiro - e tempo - bem gasto!

Black Friday...

BLACK FRIDAY is the day following THANKSGIVING in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November). Since 1932, it has been regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the U.S., and most major retailers open very early (and more recently during overnight hours) and offer promotional sales. THANKSGIVING is a public holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. It originated as a harvest festival and has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863 when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

 

 

 

Barack Obama awards Presidential Medals of Freedom 2016

BILL and MELINDA GATES 

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 

DIANA ROSS 

ELLEN DE GENERES 

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR 

MICHAEL JORDAN 

 ROBERT DE NIRO

ROBERT REDFORD 

TOM HANKS

Resumo dos meus sonhos no fim-de-semana...

Na noite de sexta para sábado sonhei que conversava, animadamente, com o JARED LETO sobre literatura num restaurante em Nova Iorque.

Na noite de sábado para domingo sonhei discutia, fervorosamente, com o DONALD TRUMP num elevador. [aparentemente ele era o administrador do meu prédio!]

Na noite de domingo para segunda sonhei que dançava, 'pegados', ao som de "Saint Tropez", com o RICKY MARTIN num hotel em Mimai.

Eu juro que não bebo nem me drogo... mas, em minha defesa (sobretudo mental), alego que ando a trabalhar (mesmo) muito e a descansar pouco...

White House photographer Pete Souza has taken nearly two million photos of Barack Obama…

...these are HIS 55 favourites [here] and these are MY 7 favourites from his 55!

 President Barack Obama reads briefing material before the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office, August 29, 2014

 July 14, 2012. 'The President delivers remarks in the pouring rain at a campaign event in Glen Allen, Va. He was supposed to do a series of press interviews inside before his speech, but since people had been waiting for hours in the rain he did his remarks as soon as he arrived at the site so people could go home to dry off'

 June 4, 2015. 'At the President's insistence, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes brought his daughter Ella by for a visit. As she was crawling around the Oval Office, the President got down on his hands and knees to look her in the eye'

 Oct. 30, 2015. 'This is the first time the same child has made two appearances in the Year in Photos. But it was difficult to not again include Ella Rhodes, daughter of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, after the President lifted her in her elephant costume that she was wearing for a Halloween event at the White House'

 January 20, 2009. 'We were on a freight elevator headed to one of the Inaugural Balls. It was quite chilly, so the President removed his tuxedo jacket and put it over the shoulders of his wife. Then they had a semi-private moment as staff member and Secret Service agents tried not to look'

 April 13, 2009.Obama runs down a corridor with the family's new dog, Bo, a six-month old portuguese water dog, in the White House in Washington, DC. Bo is a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy and his wife Victoria to the President's daughters, Sasha and Malia

June 9, 2014. 'The President sits for a 3D portrait being produced by the Smithsonian Institution. There were so many cameras and strobe lights flashing but the end result was kind of cool'

Michelle Obama photographed by Annie Leibovitz in the White House

in VOGUE december 2016 

[full interview HERE]

About the 2016 US presidential election [take five]

About the 2016 US presidential election [take four]

About the 2016 US presidential election [take three]

«It's the end of the world 
as we know it»
(REM - "it's the end of the world as we know it")

About the 2016 US presidential election [take two]

«“Two Views” by Joe Heller captures the stark contrast between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s message for America and that coming from GOP nominee Donald Trump. Read the words up and down a few times.»
 

in The Huffington Post

About the 2016 US presidential election...

«There's too many men, too many people 
Making too many problems 
And there's not much love to go around 
Can't you see this is the land of confusion?»
(GENESIS - "Land of Confusion")

España: 10 meses después...

Mariano Rajoy 

vuelve a ser Presidente del Gobierno 

después de 10 meses de bloqueo

Mariano Rajoy saluda en su llegada a la Moncloa.

El rey Felipe VI a su llegada a la ceremonia celebrada en el Palacio de la Zarzuela.

El rey Felipe VI saluda al jefe del Ejecutivo, Mariano Rajoy, en presencia de la presidenta del Congreso, Ana Pastor, y el presidente del Senado, Pío García Escudero, a su llegada al Palacio de la Zarzuela.

El rey Felipe VI posa con el jefe del Ejecutivo, Mariano Rajoy, y los 13 ministros de su nuevo Gobierno, que han jurado o prometido sus cargos ante él en una ceremonia celebrada en el Palacio de la Zarzuela.

El Gobierno de Mariano Rajoy posan para la foto de familia a las puertas de La Moncloa.

Fuente: EL PAÍS

«No es más grande aquel que más espacio ocupa, sino aquel que más vacío deja en su ausencia…»