Happy New Year

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2009 begins and we are all full of new hopes, new joys and new beginnings.

I wish all a happy and a prosperous New Year!

Aproveito este 1º de Janeiro de 2009 para compartilhar com você esta canção que traz uma linda mensagem de vida, cantada em inglês com legendas em português.

WEAR SUNSCREEN – BAZ LUHRMANN

Essa canção me foi apresentada em 1999. De cara, amei. A mensagem é linda. Espero que você, leitor, goste e que também toque seu coração. É uma bela motivação para a gente escrever, ou, no mínimo, pensar sobre as resoluções para este 2009.

Algumas informações sobre a mensagem. Se preferir, refira ao link da fonte.

“Wear Sunscreen or Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay actually called “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.

The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single released in 1999, credited to Baz Luhrmann.”

(Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen)

Um lindo e maravilhoso 2009 para todos nós!

Lilli Zen.

Friday the 13th

Well, it really doesn’t mean much to me and even though I always catch myself thinking: “Well, it is another Friday the 13^th”, it doesn’t influence on anything I do or won’t do just because of the date.

I dislike horror movies, I don’t know almost anything about Freedy Kruger and Jason. I just know they have been famous characters for decades and who are worshipped by thousands of fans around the world… I guess it is around the world, and that about one year ago, they launched a movie with the two deadly creatures in one movie. It must have been funny. Sorry if I sound ignorant and uninterested, but it is just my taste.

Anyways, what I think is cool about Friday the 13th is the so-called “Halloween parties” that often take place here in Brazil on these dates, where some nightclubs decorate the house properly and people (should) wear costumes. Only in the past few years, Brazilians have started connecting Halloween with October 31^st, but most still don’t know that Halloween and Friday the 13^th are originally two separate things.

If you like the fear culture of Friday the 13^th and horror movies, here are two suggestions of movie scripts and movie trailers in English:

Scripts to Friday the 13^th, written by Victor Miller: http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/bts/script1.html

The Official site to Freddy x Jason: http://www.freddyvsjason.com/

Well, I wish you all have a great Friday and survive to Saturday….hehehe

Hope to see you here tomorrow… preferred, alive! hehe

 

(P.S.: Damn, I spent more time looking for a ‘beautiful’ image to post with the topic than writing it. It was so very hard to find nice one… this is sad, or as my friend says, this is gay. lol.)

The Events of Holy Week

Holy Week is the last week of Lent, when we follow Jesus from Palm Sunday, the Sunday of the Passion, to his death on Good Friday in preparation for his rising from the dead on Easter Sunday.

Palm Sunday: Accompanied by his disciples, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a colt, while crowds of people covered the streets ahead of him with their cloaks and with palm branches.

Monday: Jesus chased the money-changers out of the Temple.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Jesus preached and taught in Jerusalem.

Thursday: After washing the feet of the disciples, Jesus celebrated Passover, instituting the Sacrament of Holy Communion. He went to Gethsemane to pray, where he was arrested by the Temple guard and taken to an illegal night session of the Jewish court, the Sanhedrin.

Good Friday: Jesus was taken into Roman courts, before Pontius Pilate and Herod Antipas, who sent him back to the Jewish court. Roman soldiers took him to Golgotha, the place of the skull, where he was crucified.

Saturday: Jesus rested in the tomb while his disciples observed the Sabbath.

Easter Sunday: An angel met Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” (perhaps Mary, the mother of James and John) at the tomb to tell them that Jesus was risen from the dead.

Text taken from: The Events of Holy Week.