Wanna move to SF?!

In this recent study SF ranked #4... could be worse... :)

"The 20 most expensive cities for renters.
With a weaker jobs picture and cheap mortgages inspiring home purchases, the rental market's been in a slump. In some places, though, you'd never know it. $17,000 a month for a two-bedroom?"
(Check it out here!).

Canstruction

This is my most recent adventure! I was kindda pushed to do it... but now there's no way back...

For the first time ever U.C. Berkeley is participating in a competition named Canstruction (www.canstruction.org). This is a "national community service project of the design and construction industry where architects and engineers, in cities across the country, compete to design and build fantastic giant-sized structures made entirely out of canned foods."

Guess who got assigned as the project manager of the team?... The challenge just started... I'll keep you guys posted.

Still about Sporting

I am so pissed off that I am about to change the freakin color of the blog's background! (Yeh that's right for those that didn't notice this blog is only in green and black... I wonder if that was on purpose?!)

Fu&^%$*& soccer team!!!

God damn it! I can't wait until tonight to post this. My blood is boiling right now... Sporting lost again today and was eliminated from the UEFA Cup (after being a finalist last year).

How can it be that we lost again a game that we should have clearly won?! People complain about the coach and some about the players... but you know what?... You don't need to take a class in Organizational Management at Haas to see that the problem is in the organization! Get that president out there and let him take the coach with him!

(I realized again how difficult it is to cope with this time gap between CA and POR... and it isn't because it is difficult to find family and friends awaken to call them... It's because the games take place at pacific lunch time and then I have to put up the rest of the day with this thing in the back of my mind... thinking about, and thinking and thinking... Jesus!!!!)

Dark night in the Park

Red Sox lose game (92-65) and "first place" in the American League after Yankees' (93-65) victory over the Orioles. Giants (74-84) get their ass kicked by the Padres (79-79).

Yosemite!

The View!

The Berketugas and the mithycal Half-Dome

A couple of weekends ago we went hikking to Yosemite during the weekend. After experiencing the park in May (right after the floods), it was very interesting being able to hike up some trails and check out the views from the top!

During this weekend we had a lot of fun with another (Berke)tuga couple (Joana and Bruno), a SF tuga (Isabel) and a brazilian couple (Mari and Felipe).

The Luso-Brazilian Gang
(Female Berketuga, Isabel, Joana, Mari, Bruno and Felipe)

Oh aí áis mulher!
(the women)

Eventhough the bear chase was unproductive, the female Berketuga managed to shoot some pictures of other animals (that not the male Berketuga himself).

Is it a brazilian "veado"?!

How Berkeley can you be?

That's right. This is a crazy city! Every year there's a parade named "How Berkeley Can You Be?" (http://www.howberkeleycanyoube.com). This is a day of the year in which everybody tries to show how they lived in the 60's and 70's. This of course begs the question: "but how can anyone that lived in the 60's/70's remember what they did then?!"

(Please be acknowledge that this is not a good sample of what goes on in Berkeley during the rest of the year!)

Need a ride?!

Community Van?!

Got a car?!

What the hell are Berketugas?!

In the long gone year of 2003, a new species was created around a far far away bay: the Berketugas. This species seems to be an evolution of the world-known "Tuga" species. According to (evolutionary) biologists, the spirit of the Tuga never dies. It may mutate, but underneath that tan thick skin (partially fatty because of a food named Courato that helps to protect from harsh weather), there will always be the willingness to strive and discover the world!

It is believed that after reaching the mythical City of Berkeley the Tuga species had to adapt to the local environment. This city was known for living under the influence of a special magnetic field that stopped the time in some of its streets. For this reason, some of the Americanus specimens (local species) still live in the 60's and 70's.

After setting up campground in the North Side of the university campus, the Berketugas started what historians came to label as the long battle of the 2 years (by analogy to another important battle fought between Brits and French: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_dos_cem_anos). During this battle, the Berketugas had to fight and defeat a 2-headed weed-smoking monster named Laziness.

This was a bloody battle that fortunately the Berketugas won. The female Berketuga is moving on with her life and is know re-building a bridge to go across the bay (and allow her to reach the better shops faster). The male Berketuga resigned to a life of reflection and research. He is now a PhD candidate in the university.

Finally, they joined their efforts and set up a revolutionary way to communicate with their friends: the Berketugas Blog. This is an attempt to reconnect to some of the Tuga specimens that still live in their home country: Tugal.

WELCOME to our blog! Bem vindos ao nosso blog!
Berketugas