me, family & friends

• 27.08.09 Scram

  

  Scram / Atari

  Having a phisicist father, I used to play this game when I was a kid.

  It is a nuclear power plant simulation. The goal is to keep it stable, even during earthquakes. It may seem boring, but I assure it was exciting to control the water valves and the reactor core while the emergency alarm was beeeping.

• 20.01.07 Happy 32 & 31!

  

• 23.08.05 Full-time job!

  Wow… 3 months without any post!
  As I could confirm the motherhood is a full-time job!

• 31.05.05 Fiona

  May we introduce you Fiona, our little angel that arrived May 23rd, at 12:08AM, weight 3,210kg, length 46cm.

  

• 28.04.05 A baby is coming…

  Lorenzo and I are very happy to announce that we are expecting a baby girl…
  Fiona is due at the end of may…

  
  Fiona’s face, with 21 weeks.

• 20.01.05 Happy birthday…

  … to me (29) and my dear Lorbus (30)!

• 29.12.04 News from the last 4 months…

  Almost 4 months without writing at all… lot’s of news…
  First of all, we went on vacation to Miami, to visit Lorenzo’s father and to go shopping… total length: 10 days
  We moved to a slightly bigger house, always in Milano. Total length: 3 months (and still on… the never ending story)
  Now on the Christmas holidays my parents and brothers came to visit me and we went to the mountains, to Madesimo, to ski. Total length 4 days and 1m of snow during Christmas Eve.
  Now back to Milano I still have to work a couple of days to close 2004.
  Happy 2005!!!

• 01.09.04 City Bike

  After 2 years of “mountain biking” to work every day (in flat Milano…); after neck and wrist pain because of this kind of bike’s riding position; after racing between cars in the streets and people on the sidewalks to get to the office as if I were working out; I finally decided do buy a City Bike!
  As you can see below, the only elements that remain from my sporty-agressive mood are the sun glasses and the helmet. Now, I can almost see flowers in the front basket!

  

• 22.07.04 My new gadget!

  

• 04.03.04 back from Sao Paulo

  We’re back from our 2 weeks vacation…
  (rainy) beach, family, friends, lime caipirinha, family performance of Jobim music, feijoada, shopping at malls, futebol and churrasco on sunday, summer, green leaves, always traffic, my dog Bianca, going to the dentist, carnival, samba & pagode at Ibirapuera park, japanese restaurant twice, lebanese restaurant, burger restaurant… family, family and family…
  Already miss all of it! Saudades……

• 14.02.04 my world

  This is the world I know so far…
  Go see yours.

  

• 09.02.04 snowboarding weekend…

  Saturday at Foppolo, with Lorenzo, Juanco and Eduardo (Juanco’s brother).
  Sunday, Lorenzo and I just had to go again… we went this time to San Simone. Both make part of Brembana Ski, a ski resort near Bergamo.

• 20.01.04 birthday…

  well yes, I’m getting older… but not that much. Now I’m 28 and my dear husband Lorenzo, now is 29 - destiny made the two of us to born on the same day… *how lovely*… ;)

• 10.10.03 back from vacation!!!

  Hello everybody…
  I’m finally back from my vacation!!! (not back to broadband yet… but anyway…)
  Lorenzo and I spent 3 wonderful weeks with his family! Here are the highlights of our trip:
  One week in Miami: “resort lifestyle”, sun, 3 minutes rain, green all over, 32�C outside, 15�C inside, getting a cold…, sea, swimming pool, highways, always going by car, Hummers, Krispy Kream donuts, Isabel news on CNN, pampiro, Middla, driving an automatic car for the first time, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” TV show, Don Pan, Abercrombie and Fitch, GAP, malls, Romero Britto, IHOP, Modjito, hablando espa�ol por toda parte, taking more than an hour to complete check-in and pass through airport security after almost undressing myself…
  10 days in Caracas: sun, 3 minutes rain, green all over, 30�C outside, 22�C inside, suffering the cold I got in Miami, �2,00 to put gas in the car, wedding party part-1, parrilla, family reunions, dinners, carne mechada, arepa, unfortunately no chicha this time, Nobu - a nice japanese restaurant, Consolato Generale d’Italia a Caracas, fresh fruit juices, nice and smiling people, crazy traffic going up and down.
  3 day weekend in Isla Margarita: sun and green, no rain this time, 32�C outside, 32�C inside, one day sick inside hotel’s room, wonderful beach, white sand, eating fish food, 60 SPF cream, wedding party part-2, whole day in bikini and pareo, using sandals, Papa, Juan Griego Juan Griego, Tututanga logo (see Lorbus post), meeting Lorenzo’s old friends.
  Statistics: We left Milano with only 2 carry-on’s 9kg each, and came back with the same carry-on’s, plus one duffel bag of 13kg, and Lorenzo’s guitar. In total we passed through 7 take-off’s and landings. In 20 days we spent 25 hours flying and other 14 hours wanting in airports. 2 days we spent sick on bed, I spent 12 days with cough, for 3 days I got sore throat and couldn’t speak at all and 9 days I had a sexy low voice.

  As you can see… we had such a great time!!!

• 06.09.03 shopping!

  

• 31.07.03 Auf wiedersehen, Heike!

  Today there was a nice farewell aperitivo for a dear german friend of mine. Bye bye, Heike! See you in Berlin…… or back here in Milano! ;)

• 18.07.03 3 times champions!

  Well, well!!! I proudly announce that we - Lissoni Associati - are the new champions of 2003’s inter-studio female soccer championship!
  After beating Thun (2-0), The Stars (4-1) and Sottsass+Cibic (7-1), we won Citterio (2-0) and Design Continuum (11-0).

  The final mach was yesterday against Citterio: the game ended 2-2, but our victory came by the penaltys 3-1. Below a potpourri of images (more photos).

  

• 15.07.03 portuguese blog

  I’m starting a portuguese blog in my website! For my family, friends & for my spontaneity!

• 29.06.03 soccer - part II

  Just for the record: last thursday we won the soccer game against Cibic+Sottsass, 7-1!!!

• 20.06.03 soccer - part I

  Each year in june there is a soccer championship between architecture-design-graphic studios from Milano. For the last 2 years the female championship has also been taking place. We the Lissoni Associati’s team are the champions for both years! It is true that where only three teams - Lissoni’s, Antonio Citterio’s and Matteo Thun’s, but we won anyway! :)

  2003 championship it is going to be much more interesting, because there are 6 female teams: Lissoni; Citerio; Thun; Cibic&Partners+Sottsas Associati; Design Continuum; Stars.
  Yesterday we just won our first match against the Stars (4-1). To be precise our first match was supposed to be last week against Thun, but we won by forfait (2-0).
  Our next match: thursday Lissoni vs. Cibic+Sottsass. I’ll keep you update!

• 17.05.03 Wedding photos by Cynthia

  Oppening my mailbox today I got a nice surprise. Cynthia, a long time family friend, has just published in her website my wedding photos. She was a special guest that flew all the way from Washington to S�o Paulo just to take part in the event in sep 2002. Besides the wedding ceremony, family and friends, there are nice photos she took of my home. Lots of ’saudade’ (nostalgia) seeing them…
  Following my TOP 2: “table set for lunch” and “Bianca on bed”

  

• 10.05.03 Lunch Break…

  …my friend and colleague Lorenza and I, during our visit to the construction site of our ongoing project at Venezia…

  

• 03.05.03 O Pato

  When I was little my dad and I played bossanova together. He used to play the guitar so I could sing with my child like voice, which matches perfectly with the style.
  Last month he came to visit us and we spent 10 nice days together. We reminisced old times…
  Here is a version of the song “O Pato” (immortalized by João Gilberto in 1959) that he played, I sang and Lorenzo mixed and recorded in his computer.
  Pure homemade quality!!! Enjoy.

• 01.03.03 Foto calcetto

  Ecco qua le foto del nostro calcetto! Divertitevi!!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• 31.12.02 First-time snowboarder

  It didn’t snow in Milano. No problem at all… last week Lorenzo and I spent 4 days in the montains doing snowboard! It was really cool (pun intended)!
  The ski resort: Valchiavenna; and the city: Madesimo, about 130 km north of Milano, in the Alpes, very close to Swiss border.
  Snowboard… well, it was my very first time. Almost a week later and my body keeps reminding me that I was a freshman in the sport! Knees and butt painfull and purple.
  But I REALLY, REALLY ENJOYED.

  

• 08.12.02 Snowmaniac

  I’m going to re-start my blog writing about another thing that I go crazy for: SNOW! Being brazilian, I just got really excited when I saw the weather report for next week in Milano: possibility of snow tomorrow and thursday!
  For those who don’t know, Milano doesn’t get snow in the winter. But since I’ve been living here (jan 2000), it has snowed once in 2000/2001 and three times in 2001/2002!
  My husband Lorenzo, who has lived in Wisconsin and in Chicago when he was a kid, keeps laghing at me every time I get excited about the weather report.