.: * . ¨ :. Sorry, guys, but I moved to Facebook. I'm not updating this page any more... .: *¨. :.

This is hard because I don't like to talk about myself! I usually prefer people find themselves who am I. But I'll try! ;)
I'm a simple person, who appreciates the simple things of life (those money can't buy, like friendship). I admire honesty and despise the lie; I love science in general (especially Astronomy), music and the contact with nature; I like to ride by bike, to practice sports and to travel; I love to talk about everything with open minded persons.
For the moment, I'm doing research in Photonics at the LightHOUSE group, in NUIG.

Astronomy, Science, Music (mainly classical music and guitar), Arts (Painting, Theatre, Cinema, Architecture, Literature, Dance...), Sports (almost all kind of sports, but I love kayaking, to play soccer and to swim), Friends (the ones I have and making new ones), like to dance...

Current Favorite Artists / Bands: I like all styles (music that wakes good emotions on me). So: BACH! Mahler, Beethoven, R.Strauss, Mozart, Handel, Britten, Faure, Durufle, Brouwer, Rodrigo, Eric Whitacre, Bernstein, Schumann, Barber (Adagio for Strings).
Gardiner, Bream, John Williams, David Russel, Assad Duo, Anne Sophie Von Otter, Fischer-Dieskau, Ian Bostridge, Glenn Gould (when he plays Bach).
Piazzola, Jobim, Brel, Chet Baker, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Amalia, Zeca Afonso, Camane, Carlos Paredes.
Pink Floyd (with Roger Waters), Queen, Cure. Some Hip-Hop. ;)

The Godfather, The Others, Artificial Inteligence, Contact, Amadeus, American Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, The Pianist, Titus, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Thin Red Line, Dead Poets Society, Amelie, Star Wars, Alice...
Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, Tim Burton, Hayao Miyazaki, Woody Allen, Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Monty Python, Roberto Benigni, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino...

I don't have time to see too much TV (I usually watch my favourite shows on DVD, when I have time to do that). I prefer to do other things, but I like to watch the news and cultural programs (Hora Discovery, 2010, BBC Vida Selvagem, O Mundo Animal, Bombordo, just to name a few).
Also: Contra Informacao, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy...
C o n a n (The Boy in Future), Les Misterieuses Cites D'Or, Looney Tunes, The Smurfs [ ;) ]...
Cosmos (by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan), Sherlock Holmes (Granada), Britcom, Monty Python, Little Britain, The Office (English version), Seinfeld, Benny Hill, Tal Canal, Hermanias, Gato Fedorento...

Some authors: Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Arthur C. Clarke... Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Saramago, Luis Sepulveda, Pessoa, Eugenio de Andrade, Camoes, Tolkien...
Some books from other authors: O Principezinho, O Perfume, Os Maias, Veronica Decide Morrer, Harry Potter, O Codigo Da Vinci...

Perhaps this one: "Earth is the cradle of the mankind, but we cannot live forever in a cradle!" Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, Father of Russian Astronautics, 1896.

OR

"Se alguma coisa na vida tivesse logica, quem andava de lado nos cavalos eram os homens e nao as mulheres..." :D
(This is not my favourite quote, just one I think it's fun.)