Day at the hospital

Long was this day, for everyone. And not light, at all. My brother had a surgery on the past Wednesday and like every surgery, either simple or indeed complicated, people get a little anxious and we all hope for our beloved to leave the operation room. His, in particular, last 15 minutes, wish is nothing but still, either my mum and dad felt a little tense about all this.

Anyhow, he came out and there waited, for hours and hours to come, in the room, waiting for doctors and nurses to come to check is status, make sure everything was checked and no issue was to come post-surgery. From little walks around the room, pain in abdomen area and boredom, we all stood and did the best to make things run a little quicker. Oh, I forgot... he got in the hospital at 8 o'clock, only to leave with the all of us at 7.00 p.m.. No reason to say that spending a whole day in the hospital is something we care to avoid, if possible!

But still, we endured. From a movie screen, a few games and conversations in between, we there did all at our hand (perhaps not at everyone's eyes) to make the place the comfiest possible. Yet, this is an hospital, hence having a feeling of cold and uncertainty in it, no matter what might be the situation...

At the end of day, already night had covered the city with his big vast mantle, we left. And from this point on, a few weeks of no-runnin'-around await my brother. Everything to prevent his wound to open up again.

But for now, we wait for him to get, step by step, better!

Cheers!

Family's new member

As little as a cat can be.

Sweet, gentle, grumpy,

Mewls when she sees me.

Ever demanding fondling

Or food, or play time,

Her name is Tika.

Old she shall grow, and

Happy, for days to come.

Dark Shadows - Film out of place

The third evening of August was dedicated to the cinema. It wasn't a regular night though. O'Porto's council in partnership with Inatel organised a series of movies a series of cinema screenings from the 3rd of August until the 1st of September. Me and a few more friends had the chance to see the first night and enjoy a atypical open air session, in the middle of Crystal Palace's gardens.

For this night, they brought to us Dark Shadows, the newest motion picture by Tim Burton, that tells the story about a vampire, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Deep) who returns to his ancestral home and tries to re-establish the honour and magnificence of it's family's name and fishing empire, in a village called Colonial-era Maine. The movie is set in 1972, one hundred years after Barnabas was buried alive to spend all eternity confined to the four walls of his coffin. What he doesn't know is that since he last set foot on earth, the world has change and many things are a wonder for his eyes. Also, the woman who buried him, Angelique (Eva Green) controls the only fishing business that now controls Colonial's fishing market.

A story about love and reunion, is the cinematographic adaptation of the daytime soap that aired on ABC from 1966 until 1971.