Rafael – My Idol

One of my favourite sports is Baseball. I root for Atlanta Braves but my idol is nota player from this team. Actually he plays for New York Yankees. He had already played for Hanshin Tigers. He is a left-handed pitcher who can throw a ball with a speed up to 93 mph. In 2002 he was the Strikeouts champion of the year. In 2003 he received the Sawamura Award, the Best Nine Award, he won the Era chanpion of the Central League and he received the award for Central League MVP. In 2004 he won the award  of Strikeouts Champion of the year. In 2006 he received the Strikeouts Champion of the Central League and he also played in the Nippon prfessional Baseball All-Star Game in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He is kei Ikegawa.

This are some reasons for make me consider him my idol. But the first and most important reason of he being my idol is his perceverience of never give up of his dream which was play in New York Yankees and he made it true.  He started as a rookie and in 1998 he started playing in Hanshin Tigers which is a good team. 2002 and 2003 were the best years of his career, he got a lot of awards and he was considered an International Top player. Then in 2006 he was hired by New York Yankees and he made his dream true.

Bruno – Tupac Shakur

I think can consider Tupac an idol. There are many things that impresses me about him. One thing is that he died with only 25 years old, after a career of about 14 albums and 7 movies (besides the movies that were done after he was dead). All of this work, were done only in 7 years (he started he career with 17 years old). And, all of his musics are very famous, he is very famous. Most of people who listen to rap music consider him as the best one, actually, I think he is the most important and the most influent among all the rappers. How a person who died with 25 years old, could have become so famous? This impresses me a lot.

He was born very poor. Having to face violence, racism and the poor condition of his family. Living in the ghetto was not easy. Besides he has been a  genious, I think that’s why his lyrics are so strong and make us think about some serious things, like problems in the society. Nowadays most of the rappers sing only about money, women and sex. So, tupac is different of all of them.

Tupac died in 1997, but there is a controversy. There are people who think that he is still alive. Actually, there are some weird things that makes me think if he died or not. Like: in a videoclip of him there is a watch behind the scene that shows a certain time, and this time is the same as the time he died. He also used to like the idea of returning after everyone believing that the person is dead. When he was in jail, he read a book from Niccolò Machiavelli, which the protagonist is a man who makes everyone believes that he is dead, but after some time, he appears when everyone had already forgotten him. After this, Tupac gave himself another pseudonymously: Makaveli. These are just one of exemples that makes people wonder if Tupac is really dead.

These kind of things, quite impressive, makes me admire him a lot. That’s why I chose him as an idol.

Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector is, for me,  just like the most wonderfull and interesting woman. Since I was very young I have read her histories, my first book was from her, it was called ” A mulher que matou os peixes”.  

I just love Clarice and the way she writes, I have read a lot from her, and my favorites books are ” A hora da estrela”, “Água viva” and “Laços de Familia”, they are books that I never get tired of reading. At the moment I´m reading ” A descoberta do mundo” and I´m sure that it will became one of my favourite books too.  

Every time I read Clarice I just feel that I know her, and that she knows me too. There are some histories in “A descoberta do mundo” that when I´m reading I just feel like she knows exactly what  I´m feeling, and she is writing it, just like If she knew me very deep inside.

Reading Clarice Lispector become a essencial part of my rotine, and I really think I couldn´t get used to not reading her. She is one of my best companies.  

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Much know as Escher, this dutch artist was nominated the best drawing artist of the 20th century. I admired all of his draws because he has the hability to pass to the paper everything he sees ,and beyond, with a perfection that its hard to describe, only looking at one draw of him to understand. He used to use diferents points of views in one draw. I admire him because I wonder how a person like him used to see the world?what are his interpretentions about everything, because everything that our eyes can see he defenetly understand, but he creates a diferent perspective of things and objects. Thats why he’s my idol, he could see the world in 1900 that we see now. He was a guy that was beyond his era. He defenetly revolutionate the drawing art for ever. Every draws that he made was with a pencil, only with a pencil and one color he created a whole interactive world of dimensions and reality. I like things that are not from the standard padron, and Escher knew how to mix different reallitys and dimensions.

my idol

Actually I don’t have a idol, I have never admire anyone untill last friday.This day changed my way of thinking, acting and living because a person that I liked a lot passed away.

 Felipe was a loyal friend who was always happy and making jokes with us. He had a perfect life, a perfect girl and a perfect family.. He was so funny that is impossible to forget him.

Unfortunately last friday he was coming back from a disco and had a car accident. He died instanteneously…I’m still sad about his death but it showed to me the importance of life, friends and family.

Gisele Bündchen

Well, nowadays Gisele is considered the best top model in the world.  But this is not the reason why I look up to her. For her  to become a celebrity, she had  to work very hard. By the way,  she is a hard-worker woman; when she began, she received  many ´´nos“  in her  career but she was persistent. She looked  for new  oportunities, and never  gave up.

All  the people  that have worked with her  tell  that she is  very professional. Most of them say that she is always  on time and always in a good mood, regardless of the day or how tired she may be. On the make  off, she makes jokes, sings, and so forth.

One more thing is that the fact that she became an international top model, known all over the world, haven´t changed her atitude with other  people. She is friendly and talks with everyone who stops her to take a picture or to take an  autograph. She represents Brazil very well abroad.

here i´ve put a photo when Gisele went to the Oscar with her ex boyfriend, DiCaprio

The song

I decided to put this song because it remembers me a lot about my grandmother. She used to sing to my when I was younger, and nowadays that she had passed away whenever I´m down I listen to this song and I feel better.

My grandmother used to play a lot with me, and this song talks about fantasies, imagination, and these kind of things.  She used to be a very funny and sweet person, and for me this song just has her face, everytime I listen to it I remeber her and the way she used to sing with me. 

Chico Buarque – João e Maria Sivuca – Chico Buarque

Agora eu era o herói E o meu cavalo só falava inglês A noiva do cowboy Era você Além das outras três Eu enfrentava os batalhões Os alemães e seus canhões Guardava o meu bodoque E ensaiava um rock Para as matinês   Agora eu era o rei Era o bedel e era também juiz E pela minha lei A gente era obrigada a ser feliz E você era a princesa Que eu fiz coroar E era tão linda de se admirar Que andava nua pelo meu país   Não, não fuja não Finja que agora eu era o seu brinquedo Eu era o seu pião O seu bicho preferido Sim, me dê a mão A gente agora já não tinha medo No tempo da maldade Acho que a gente nem tinha nascido   Agora era fatal Que o faz-de-conta terminasse assim Pra lá deste quintal Era uma noite que não tem mais fim Pois você sumiu no mundo Sem me avisar E agora eu era um louco a perguntar O que é que a vida vai fazer de mim