“In the beginning it was the Word, and the Word was with (by) God, and God was the Word. This, the Word, was, in the beginning, with God. In the beginning all things were created through Him, and without Him not even one thing that was made would have been made. Life was with Him, and the life was the light of the human race. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake or understand it.”
John 1:1-5, Cadu’s Translation

“No princípio era o Verbo (palavra falada), e o Verbo estava com Deus, e Deus era o Verbo. Isto, o Verbo, estava, no princípio, com Deus. No princípio tudo foi criado através dEle, e sem Ele nada (nem mesmo uma só coisa) que foi feito se fez. Vida estava com Ele, e a Vida era a luz da humanidade. E a luz brilha na escuridão (trevas), e a escuridão não venceu ou entendeu ela.”
John 1:1-5, Tradução do Cadu

After watching the video present on this link, I am not sure if I am more ashamed for being Brazilian or for being almost Australian. The video was at some fancy meeting of the G-20, and shows the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama II, praising the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” (literally translated to Squid in English, and for the sake of fun it is how I will call him from now on) da Silva. Watch the video and keep reading.

President Squid shows us his amazing communication skills by acting like a potato after President Obama tells him that he is his favourite, and that he is the most popular president on Earth because of his good looks. Even though Mr. Squid (SpongeBob’s friend… muahahaha!) had someone translating to portuguese everything Mr. Obama said, he was unable to say thanks or reply in any other way.

The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Kevin Rudd, on the other hand, proved once more that a fool looks (and only looks) wiser when his mouth is shut.

And about what President Obama said… well… that obviously was his April Fools’ Day joke! Did you get it? Very funny!

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O Burro, o Tolo e o Engraçado.

Depois de assistir ao vídeo presente nesse link, não tenho certeza se me sinto mais envergonhado por ser Brasileiro ou por ser quase Australiano. O vídeo foi numa reunião do G20, e mostra o Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América, Barack Hussein Obama II, elogiando o Presidente do Brasil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. Veja o vídeo e continue lendo.

O Presidente Lula nos mostra suas incríveis habilidades com comunicação ao agir como uma batata depois do Presidente Obama falar pra ele que ele é seu favorito, e que ele é o presidente mais popular da Terra por causa de sua boa aparência. Mesmo o Sr. Lula tendo alguém traduzindo pra ele tudo o que o Sr. Obama falou, ele foi incapaz de agradecer ou responder de alguma maneira.

O Primeiro Ministro da Austrália, Sr. Kevin Rudd, por outro lado, provou mais uma vez que um tolo parece (e apenas parece) mais sábio quando sua boca está fechada.

E sobre o que o Presidente Obama falou… bom… aquilo foi obviamente a sua piada de Primeiro de Abril! Entendeu?? Muito engraçado!

This post is a translation from the one in my photo blog almost 5 years ago… I was reading and I think it deserves a translation… The original post is here: http://fotolog.nerdfeliz.com/posts/58/

“Good night!

Some might wonder about the title of this post, thinking that this word is not part of my vocabulary. They are wrong, though. Friend is not only a word that is part of my vocabulary, but also part of my life.

I confess that I am not an extremelly sociable person, and for this reason I have only a few friends. But the friends that I have (and I can be very proud while I say this) are really my friends.

A friend to me is someone that knows exactly what I am thinking. The one that loves talking to me, even when I don’t say anything, or repeat the same thing over and over again. The one that realises that … are not only Ellipsis, but doubts, certainty, laughter and tears. The one that not only can deal with me when I am angry (or really really mad), but also knows exactly why I’m feeling like that and tries the possible (and sometimes the impossible) to help me to be different. A friend is the one who insists to talk to me on Skype, even when my microphone sucks or when I get angry because I can’t hear him/her properly. It is the one that knows exactly what it means “Cadu - Busy until jan/05″ or “Cadu - Happy new year!”. It is the one that has the patience to discuss with me about a comma during the night, even when I am sleep-walking and completely wrong…

In this photo it’s me and Lu after my High School graduation. She is one of these people that were really my friends during this past year. A friendship like this has an extreme value to me and it’s something I will never forget!

Lu… I love you heaps! Really! …

Cadu“

Avião sem asa
Fogueira sem brasa
Sou eu, assim, sem você

Futebol sem bola
Piu-piu sem Frajola
Sou eu, assim, sem você…

Porque é que tem que ser assim?
Se o meu desejo não tem fim

Eu te quero a todo instante
Nem mil alto-falantes
Vão poder falar por mim…

Amor sem beijinho
Buchecha sem Claudinho
Sou eu, assim, sem você

Circo sem palhaço
Namoro sem abraço
Sou eu, assim, sem você…

Tô louca pra te ver chegar
Tô louca pra te ter nas mãos

Deitar no teu abraço
Retomar o pedaço
Que falta no meu coração…

Eu não existo longe de você
E a solidão, é o meu pior castigo
Eu conto as horas pra poder te ver
Mas o relógio tá de mal comigo…

Por quê? Por quê?

Neném sem chupeta
Romeu sem Julieta
Sou eu, assim, sem você

Carro sem estrada
Queijo sem goiabada
Sou eu, assim, sem você…

Porque é que tem que ser assim?
Se o meu desejo não tem fim

Eu te quero a todo instante
Nem mil alto-falantes
Vão poder falar por mim…

Eu não existo longe de você
E a solidão, é o meu pior castigo
Eu conto as horas pra poder te ver
Mas o relógio tá de mal comigo…

This post is directed to children of all ages…

Jesus said something like this: how many of you have parents that give you pretty much everything you need? If you ask for food, they give you food, and not a rock, or dirt. If you need clothes, they buy you clothes; they don’t want you to be cold or to wear clothes that don’t look good. If you want to have some fun on a sunny Sunday, they might take you to a park or something like that. If you like football, perhaps your dad can take you to a nice football game.

I can think of examples from my parents, and I’m sure you can think of examples from yours, and the list will go on and on. Now, if our parents, that are not perfect AT ALL, do these nice stuff to us, and usually give us what we need when we ask, how much more will God give us all his good gifts and everything we need?

Maybe what you want is something big like a new house… or maybe it’s only a new game that you want to have. Maybe things are not working very well at school, your friends are not being nice and picking on you because you are a Christian and love Jesus. Perhaps you are sick and need some healing, or you need help with your homework or exam that is too hard. Maybe the things at home are not going very well, mum and dad are fighting and you are sad because you are not sure about what is going on. Maybe you don’t even have a mum or dad, or maybe they don’t live together anymore. Perhaps you couldn’t sleep last night because you were scared that a big snake would attack you and kill you during the night (and I felt many times like that when I was 10 y.o.).

I doesn’t matter what exactly you need or what kind of stuff you want God to give to you. It can be big or small, easy or very hard; as Jesus said, if your parents know how to give you good things, how much more will our Daddy give us good gifts, if we ASK Him.

Even though God knows everything, the key here is to ASK! Have you asked Daddy today for what you need? Have you told Him about your day and your difficuties? Don’t miss the opportunity… Ask Daddy…

This is only to say that I just upgraded my Wordpress to a new version, and also to say that about a month ago this blog moved from a shared server on Dreamhost (they are good) to a dedicated virtualized server on Linode (they are better).
That’s all about servers for now!

http://www.jellytelly.com/

I just read this on Dave’s blog, and I had to post it here… it is a great idea, and I will be a part of it, for sure!

I can’t wait to see this new generation free from the crappy things of the world…

I’m sorry, this embedded video didn’t include the subtitles. PLEASE, watch here with subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2czuswxHo

As my leader, Dave, said… what do I have in my hands? Am I using what I have in my hands?

What a responsibility is to have children in my hands……

(as you can see… I have no comments, no words…)

Everyone probably heard the word homophobia, but I’m writing to talk about the other side: the heterophobia.

Today I was reading the very-bad quality free newspaper called “South Sydney Herald”, that I receive as SPAM every month (I guess). I always have a quick look just to see what else they are saying about christians. They hate christians, specially the ones that go to Hillsong Church, like me.

Well, the first page was talking about some gay and lesbian people that went to the front of a Gloria Jean’s cafe to complain about their support to the Mercy Ministries. What were they complaining about? Well, they said that the Mercy Ministries separate woman’s couples.

I’m not writing here to defend the Mercy Ministries (even though I would gladly do it), but I’m writing to tell you how impressed I am with the heterophobia of these gay movements.

Look, if you are homossexual, please know that I LOVE you, as Jesus does. I hate the homossexual lifestyle, but I DO love homossexuals. And if I had a software company, I would hire you if you were good enough, independently if you are gay or not. I really don’t care if you want to have sex with another person of the same sex as you, it doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t mind if you want to get married with someone of the same sex. I don’t even care if you want to get married with 10 different people! It is your life, your decisions, your consequences, not mine.

Now, I DO care if you start to act as a heterophobic, complaining about people that decided to not be homossexual anymore. It’s the same situation: it’s their life, their problem, not yours.

And I also DO care very much if you send to my address free SPAM gay newspapers (as I received once), with not only text, but very offensive pictures. The editors of that newspaper are lucky that I don’t have children, otherwise I would sue them for sending to my house such material as that.

Really! You can live your life as you want, I don’t mind and I promess that I will not disrespect the right of decision that God gave you. But please, don’t think that being heterophobic will help, because it won’t.

Update:
If you don’t like Mercy ministries, ok, forget what I said about gladly defending them, because I don’t closely know what they do. But I also don’t believe in anything the Australian media says. They are much worse than the Brazilian media when it comes to making up stories (and the Brazilian media is REALLY bad).

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”