ABOUT ME

I’m a calm person. Instead of enjoying intense night life, I prefer to be with some friends, making dinners, going to restaurants (São Paulo is a city plenty of very good options of all kind of food), cinema, parks or small parties in a house of someone I know.

What cannot miss in my life are some moments in silence, in home, reading books, being with my lovely cats and plants, and enjoying some instants completely apart of the craziness of this big city where I live.

I really love travelling: I’ve already spent 4 months in South America and 9 months in Asia, besides other shorter trips. During these nine months in Asia, I did a video documentary research about microfinance.

I also have an old profile, that I don´t use anymore, where you can see a lot of references: http://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=8IKGPJ0

PHILOSOPHY

1) deal with life in a spiritual way – in a broad sense...
2) there are no secrets that the behavior does not reveal

Interests

• cats
• books
• documentaries
• dining
• partying
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Books and writers: Fernando Pessoa, Paul Auster, Clarisse Lispector – especially “Uma aprendizagem ou O livro dos prazeres”; Saramago, especially “o conto da ilha desconhecida”; Gita Mehta “A river sutra”, “Karma-cola”; Gabriel Garcia Marques – especially “el amor en los tiempos del cólera”; Ricardo Piglia.

Music: Bobby McFerrin – I love his music; Popular Brazilian Music, such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Jobim, Lenine, Metá Metá. Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock.

Films:
Dreams – Akira Kurosawa; Samsara; Inception; Matrix;
Brazilian films: Estamira; O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias; Madame Satã; Cidade de Deus; O invasor
Argentine films: Kamchatka; El hijo de La novia, El secreto de sus ojos
“Whatever Works” and “midnight in Paris” – Woody Allen