Category Archives: Personal

Thomas is 3.

Last month, on 26 of April it was Thomas birthday. Thomas picked his best mates to celebrate his birthday at the park. Tati prepared a very nice birthday with a great selection of food, nice and health fruits for the kids. The kids has lots of balloons to play with and a gift bag to [...]

Australian Citizenship and Passport

On 4th of March I have became an Australian citizen. The ceremony was at the Mosman Art Gallery and there were approximately another 50 people there with me to become a citizen. It was a simple but nice and emotional ceremony, we all did our pledge to the Australia’s values. I also have applied for [...]

acca dacca

Last 18th February, Gabi and I went to see the AC/DC show. It was really good. We love it. It is amazing to see the amount of energy that the band still have after all this years on the road. The photo below I still from my friend Ale who was with us just a [...]

2010

The first month of the year is about to finish and before it does let me share with you a picture from our New Year’s evening. This NYE we decided to spend on the harbour so we could see the fireworks. We had to wake up very early to get a premium spot. But it [...]

Xmas in the rain

Last post of the year. This Xmas we decide to go camping, with Tati, Matthias and the kids. We drove to Jervis Bay, 3 hours south of Sydney. All planned and packed just fine what we didn’t count on was the rain. Started raining on Christmas day and after raining for 24 hours straigth, we [...]

In the world of search

One of the things that I most like on having a website is to look at the statistics and find out how people gets to your page. Just recently I was looking the stats for this domain and I found out that there were people getting to my blog by typing on Google Antonio Rodrigues. [...]

Books that I have been reading

I have been reading some interesting books recently. One of them was Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson from Wired magazine. The book is about all these business models that are created around free, especially on the internet and in digital form. Free is possible because the costs of digital goods [...]

Anna’s first birthday

Last weekend we had a small family celebration for Anna’s birthday. Thomas was just recovering from a chickenpox so the main celebration had to be cancelled. Gabi, grandma Elizabeth, grandpa Tarcísio and I gave the kids some toys. Here is a photo of Anna on daddy’s lap with her first doll.

Test Result: Pass

I have mentioned that I was studying for the Citizenship test. So this past week I finally took the test. Apparently there is a lot of people that want to do the test so the next available day when I went to book it was 3 months away. The test is really easy. I have [...]

32 years old

Last 15th of June I turned 32. Unfortunately I haven’t got any picture of my birthday celebration at home to show you. But Tati and Matthias came with Thomas and Anna and we had a delicious chocolate cake that Gabi made for us. (As Thomas says: “Thank you tia Gabi!”) They sang Happy Birthday To [...]