Week in the sea at Qatar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Qatar as it is....2nd year in the ROW

Almost 2 years had pass since we land here, after the turmoil of September 2007.... It is possible to stay longer, life run easy and only the saudade of the good friends and the torrid temperatures turn this place a boring desert.

 Thank you life.

 

Best Friend

My best friend call me.

What's better than that?

Keep it up Pedro.

Words for what....Ya suchaio

Just get back in touch with one of my best friends, despite all the stuff that happen between us back there in the cold lands of Sakhalin, our days where special and not one single day I manage to get bored in his company.

Ildar with his humor, and special personality, share with me not only the great moments of his life, like the crazy stories of is youth, but also share with me great moments of my life.

Help me with Uliana, help me in so many things that I don't know if one day I'll be able to pay him back.

I miss mate, our fights, our trips and all we had back there.

I hope fate cross our paths once again, I'm sure it will be a new trill full of excitement.

You remember the story of this picture? What a day ...

Keep it up brat.

Back to live.... after a very lazy half here, a christmas back home, a global crises, porcine flu..I'm finally back and hope for good.

Will try to up date max of this last months in our life.

Starting from last days of summer in the arabic peninsula of Qatar

Cheers to all, miss you friends.

R

Natasha

One of my best friends in Sakhalin just married some days ago.

Natik wish you all the best, with your husband, best wishes to the baby.

You look wonderful.... Congratulations!

Jet Sky - Doha Corniche

Everything is allowed to avoid boring afternoons, including this...

The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)

My Favorite paint, escaped the flames of Savonarola's bonfires, where a number of Botticelli's other alleged pagan influenced works perished. 

Alahmdolylah!

HAppy BiRthDay - UliAna CosTa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY my Zaika.

We arrive in Ramadam, so not even a drop of alcohol to celebrate.... carrot juice will make it.

May the future years bring us the same stability and fun that this last 2.

A big kiss in your cheek... Laska of my life, love ya!

Zoo de Lisboa

Manda a tradicao, de que eu e o meu filho sempre que possivel visitemos o Zoo de Lisboa e cada vez que la vamos e uma tarde bem passada, apesar do espetaculo dos golfinhos e dos leoes marinhos ser identico  ja pelo menos a 6 anos. 

Julgo estar  na altura de se inovar e tentar criar outra historia, a dos piratas ja enjoa, se nao fosse a frescura da piscina, e a magia e performance dos animais a minha reaccao teria sido igual a de este nosso amigo leao, que decerteza la do seu covil avistou algum provinciano com uma t-shirt do Benfica.... Grrrrauuu - 15 a xero.

Every time I go Portugal is a tradition for me and my soon visit the Lisbon Zoo to spend a terrific afternoon, despite the show is the same for the last 6 years. 

I think is time to change, and try to make a new choreography, the pirates is old, if it wasn't the freshness of the pool, the magic and performance of the animals I think my reaction would be similar to this lion friend, that certainty sighted some villager with a Benfica t-shirt.....Grrrrauuu - 15 , nillll

Cabrito assado no forno....

Sao pratos como estes que fazem da cozinha portuguesa uma das melhores do mundo.

Este aqui feito pelo meu tio Joao Angelo, de quem vos falarei mais tarde...um mestre nestas artes. Anos em Africa como guia safari fizeram apurar neste meu tio aquelas capacidades que so a gente sabe...vale mais um cabrito em casa da minha tia Fernanda, que qualquer restaurante em Saint Michelle (Paris).

Plates like this make the portuguese cousine one of the best in the world.

This one was made by my oncle John, that I'll talk later...a master in this arts. Several years in Africa as a Safari guide,  gave the expertise in this matter that only we know.... is better a lamb in the house of my auntie Fernanda, then any restaurant at Saint Michelle (Paris).

Tio Joao e tia Fernanda, obrigado pela vossa hospitalidade, a melhor no reino.

-Evora (Liberitas Julia)

 Well time really run, and after my amazing ferias in Portugal and Spain, I'm back to duty...  by luck is just in time for Ramadam. and the festive times, in Qatar.

This holidays start in Portugal, Evora where my older brother lives... difficult to find better place to be received there, direct into is family and the mediterranean life style.

Churrascadas, dinner outside, mini's and lots of fun.

 Templo de Diana.

The Temple of Diana is a ruined Roman temple in the city center of Evora. Dating from the 1st or 2nd century AD, the temple is a light, graceful structure with 14 granite Corinthian columns topped by marble capitals with decorative carvings.

The city of Evora was from 80 to 72BC the headquarters of the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius, and it long remained an important Roman militar center.Later it was called Liberitas Julia because of municipal privileges bestowed upon it, by Julius Caeser.

Although tradition holds that it was dedicated to the goddess Diana, there is no evidence for this and is actual dedication remains unknown. The temple withstood the 1775 earthquake.

If one day some of you have the opportunity to travel in Portugal, Evora is a place to visit, not only for the monuments with century's, but also for the easy going life rhythm, under a constant great sun, for taste the best wines made in Portugal (Vinho do Alentejo), and for the contact with the especial and extra kind local people ( Eborenses).

Mr. Manfredi Alvise

This gentleman, that we the lucky one's that live in Sakhalin for some time had the chance to met, was in my opinion, the most professional and cool italian on that island... and I suppose in Italy too.

A reference that I'll take till the rest of my days.

Now he's in Algeria, where terrorist bombs, blow almost every month.

May peace be upon him, and our return together in action come as soon as possible.

He always told me:

"Magna res est vocis et silentii temperamentum"- 

(The great thing is know when to speak and when to keep quiet)

I understood late, but I understood.

 Manfredi, caro amico mio....

HOLYDAYS

OHHH YES !
Today we go on holis....Portugal, Spain and inshaala Paris.
Sun is shinning and the weather is sweet.

See you in my return.

Profite to listen good music, I can give you the best....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1p_NHFd8jM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCkSMwaGGc

Enjoy The Killers.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Is not everyday that we've the opportunity of getting Goya, Matisse, Picasso, Vicent Van Gogh, Degas, Renoir, Delacroix, Monet, Gaugin in the same place, we take a very bizarre taxi from Domodedovo to spend a very rich and sunny cultural Autumn afternoon, in Volkhonka Street - 12, Moscow.

Москва- Moscow

For those who know my level of russian, and Uliana level of english at that time can imagine and understand how challange was stay those magic days in Mosckva, to resolve, translate and legalize our Sakhalin mariage. To help us, no Hotel was available for more then 2 nights, sometimes one night, that make us run all over Moscow, to find a place to stay and avoid a night at the Terminal. Everyday was fantastic... we got stoled 3000 rubles by police in Kremlin gates, left all our bellowings in a taxi, including passports..thanks to Slava by returning to us, saving me from a heart attack, got almost frozen waiting for a taxi in Prospeckt Mira...4 hours. But we still have time to explore that amazing place, walk in the city streets, went to some restaurants and Museum's, (funny in the Putshkin Museum, they have ticket prices for russians and for westerns, us is just the double), have the best beer in Moscow at the Milano Hotel, near Domodedovo Airport, also best place to stay in case you go Moscow one day, avoid 5* Presidential Arabat Hotel near Red Plaza.

All the special things that make it intense and memorable.

Maria Sharapova

Terrific service...she's great.

Submerse

Due my incapacity of deal with the last waves of propositions, and new life possibilites, I felt myself today like this 36" sweet gas pipeline...Submersed .
Now that the waves of change calm down, I'll stay in this stagnated waters of the Gulf....fuuuuu

Marmailles

Children give us the best time in this world, and I love them...who doesn't? Soon my cousine Marisa will give us a new Rodrigues member, we're all waiting, Natasha Gee in Sakhalin is also waiting for a "ribienka".

Here you can find my favorite one's starting with the best, my son Edgar, (that is more near to be a man), Leila (my lovelly fieulle), Clemont,(le brave) Amelie, (cafrine do fe) Dinis ( my best Russian friend), Leonor (so young still) Francisco (mirito)...Aurore, Alexandre, Remi and Max, are missing (no pics) :(

La Reunion, moin le la meme...

Some musics make us travel without move, and they can have such a big gravity, that we can listen over and over, this is one of few, unfortunably you dont understand Reunion Kreol...but good music dont have frontiers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3tsW-VXGL0

Moin le la meme ...

Kan ou lé dans le bezoincé la ké oua ton vré zami, di a moin parss ké zami moin lavé in gros paké, mé lété tro gro la karod la kassé.

Té i ri té coz ek moin té i fallé voir kommen zot den lété blan mé tou ça la.
Par deier moin té i manz mon derier pareil poul blan

Moin lé la mém, moin lé la mém mon nénenn, oui pé tèt moin la glissé mi di pas non mé mi s'ra touzour la mem, moin lé la mém moin lé la mém capitaine oui pé tèt moin la glisse mi di pa non, mé moin la pa arriv a ter.

Mi monte dans lé o, la miatten domoune i di moin la finni mor, mé la mor té pokor vien bien dessi moin, mé nana bonpé lété finn enterr moin. Oté moin la pa kompri ké toutt monbann soi dizan zami, zot lavé la maladi mal o ki, mé zot maladi moin vé i guinye pa guéri .

enjoy...

CURIA, Retour a la maison....Home

For several years this view was what I considered the achievement of another mission and the arriving home safe.
So much things have changed since, one of them was loose that warm and reconforting sensation....never again I felt in home.
The constant move, without a port.

The Big Brother

My brother is my source of wisdom, know-how, and advise.
Even thought he's a very bad fisher...the results of that day was 4 our 5 mini's....
In August we'll be together, and this time the fish will pray for mercy.

Matei....The Magician

The other face of the coin in this life style, is the friends you left behind.
One of the best ever, Matei Viorel...(brother).
I call him magician, because this is the guy that can get everything you need, (quite difficult job in the remote Molodoznoye, Sakhalin), with the smile on is face, like it was nothing!
Remember this day?
Police didn't let us cross some kind of district frontier because the road leads to the beach, Alexandrovsky, and without authorization or passport we couldn't get there...the beach, crazy haaa?
We can see police post just behind.

Mate forgot how to make your garlic sausse...

MOLODOZNYOYE

What a crazy and amazing days of my life, here Michel Roblet HSE Manager in Spread 1C give us a lesson about behaving and reduce alcohol consume, (apanhou-nos com a boca na botija), like we say in Portugal....
Matei Viorel, Nicholae Duchatel Natasha Kuznetsova, me and Manfredi Alvise....
We might say, I didn't learn very well the lesson at that day.
(ambushed in Leonidovo 03.09.2007)

Miss you mates, Molo was FUNtastick...Shaloom

Saudosismo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire#The_beginning_of_the_Empire_.281415-1494.29

Cansado...

Ao contrario deste amigo aqui, eu ando bastante cansado, e perguntam-me voces...como podes estar tu cansado?
Nao sou materialista, dai a minha fadiga....

WORK with PunjLloyd

Indian Water Pump :)

All started in Timovskoye....6 Июля 2007

9 months have pass.....We did it bubitshka, the world is our oyster.....

"May I Help you Mr. Adenauer ?"

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy to Conrad Adenauer in 1963)

My wife knowing my passion for the Montblanc offer me today to celebrate our 9 months of happy marriage, a amazing Solitaire Meisterstuck silver.
It's only tomorrow, but she knows how to make me happy everyday.
Zaika ya tbia lubliu ochin menoga !

Abu Nakla - Qatar is melting

What about this one... 54.Celcius and in the shadow.
If someone offer you a job in Qatar, think twice.

MADAGASCAR

1 hour after leave Antananarivo, the Oest coast pass under us... Arrival destination is just 2 hours away...on the plain rogail start to be served with small bottles of punch, and in the radio the Sega Maloya make us feel that home his near....St .Dennis de La Reunion.

4th of July

Congratulations USA.

19°43′00″S, 63°25′00″E . Rodrigues Island

If someone ask me, where is the best place I ever went, easily I'll say Rodrigues Island.

Arrive there is just an experience, and be there is a single sensation hard to explain, the Island is 560 k's from Mauritius with just 109 km2, dicovered by the Portuguese navigator Diogo Rodrigues in 1528.

The time stops, and we just dont want to leave ever....is a paradise, almost forgoted from the western world. I did several beaches without find a single soul, and the only expat was an Australian that visit the island since the 70's.

When I went there I rent a small blue Susuki motorbike to a local friend Jovanni, and with a funny green helmet and 125 Azul Trovante, in my Ipood, I start explore all corner of the Island, crossing ravines, rivers, green fields, stopping once in a wile for a fresh Phoenix and eat some samusas our bouchons.

Is common see in the streets our in shops, writed hand boards with:

I forgot my sunglasses here, please call....

I forgot my humbrella here, please give back to Madame ... it works!

Only tree persons live in the prision for minor crimes, and the view from there is a beautifull blue ocean.

I'll return to visit again some friends in Port Mathurin....buy some Zourite, visit Ile aux Cocos ...just feel free from our world....I think that is the best sensation there, you feel like back in time, when everything was pure, people, ocean and earth...

Harry please send some pics from Alasca.

A Tartaruga voadora

A minha cunhada e fa de tartarugas, e eu sou fa da minha cunhada.
Um beijo para ti Mane.

RASVETI .... ZAKATI

Rasveti, just few minutes before land in the Indian Ocean, La Reunion.

Zakati, from my house in the same day.....St.Leu

STS Vader VS SEIC Skywalker

The fight of Titans in Russian Far East, Sakhalin Area.

As always the good wins against the evil...Environmental was protected, pollution impact reduced, water body's keeped clean and the fishes live happy forev... till they got caught upstream, by caviar russian mafia.

Sakhalin II stand as the example that Construction Pipelines shall follow

Respect and protect Nature, is an obligation that should be taked as a positive challenge in projects worldwide.

Joseph thanks for all support and advise.

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Борьба Титанов на российском Дальнем Востоке, Сахалинской области. Как всегда хорошие победы против зла... Экологический был защищен, воздействие загрязнения уменьшало, водное тело содержало в чистоте и рыбы, живые счастливый навсег.... пока они не были пойманы вверх по течению, мафией русского икры.

Сахалин II стойте как пример, за которым должны следовать Строительные Трубопроводы.

Уважайте и защитите Природу, обязательство, которое должно быть taked как положительной проблемой в проектах, которые международный

Joseph благодарит за всю поддержку и советовать.

View from my house in Reunion

It was just prefect there, just perfect...
The right friends, the right weather, the right work.
Pity I've to move on...but the return is a must.
LA Reunion - Sof common nou le la!

Saidinha do forno -

This Leopard girl is Guzel Gufranova my Bashkir friend, a very interessing part of Russia, and with her I start understand better, the mentality of this people....the language and culture. She's also from Ufa, city of Zemphira, and I heard they where neighbours :P

It was nice the nights we went for some jogging with temparatures bellow 25 celcius, the storys about goshts in the dark...I know everybody tought we're crazy at that time.

We still keep on touch, often...my akno to Sakhalin.

Having dance classes in Leonidovo was motive of several clashes between us...at that time I call her, Dancing Queen....I think I didn't was giving enough attention to what girl needs.... :)ACTION !

I'm happy they still dance....

We spend a wonderfull last night in Continental, Yousno Sakhalin...near piss off, and we plan to met again in future, I'm sure it will be done.

Dovskori Vstrichi

Strange way of life...Странный образ жизни

AMALIA RODRIGUES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ha2sh0gnY&NR=1

Even God can't give you this one now...be Portuguese.

MARIZA MONTE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeOhPR_0x8E&feature=related

Madredeus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOhxGBRXAU&feature=related

The Sprit de la Reunion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH4rnywWmV0&feature=related

This is just how you feel, if one day God decide to give you that chance...visit the Paradise.

Zaika

2eme Place (:))

IL PADRINO

Ehhh Oui, LAS PLUS BELLE AU MONDE, AUSSI CONSTELLATIONS ET GALAXIES PLUS PROCHES, ma fieulle, LEILA....Mi aime aou fort.

Good friends

Words for what...conheci o Pedro Cabral, era um puto.....ofereceu-se a minha mae no meu primeiro dia de aulas no Ciclo de Oliveira do Bairro para nao me deixar sozinho, a primeira coisa que me disse sem me conhecer foi: "Queres ser meu amigo?" , passamos ferias, acampamos, bebemos, "anexamos" melancias na Fiacoba, crescemos, sem nunca ter existido uma disputa entre nos, digna desse nome.... foi para os US ja faz 16 anos, econtramo-nos 3 vezes desde entao, breves minutos, uma estava eu de saida para Paris, so tive-mos mesmo tempo de dar um abraco.....mas para os melhores amigos e mesmo assim, dura para toda vida.

The Best friend

Everybody have one, the kind of friend, that we love and miss, and just is presence is enough to make us happy, warm, in peace with live.
Davidoff is that one, and is really the Best, ask anyone....
Rest zen mon pote, bientot....un ti rhum gemgibre pou nou !

Ravine Fontaine - La Reunion

Ote, kan mi soviant mon pei si loin, ca fe plere....
Christale Lavarel, Les marmailles et ca famile, la manze, la plaze, les dodos ek les potes....
St. Leu, Les Avirons, Le Tevlave, St. Pierre, Maido, Fournaise, Mafate....
Mi la bien glise, mi li faut mi cas vas la bas....moi pei, le la meme!
Reunion mi aime aou...

David we did it, bro !

Hummer is not a bird...but it flys

H3

a bit more modest....

My human cube, Edgar Costa.

A unica razao que me faz ainda voltar a Portugal, esta aqui. Este meu filho que adoro, e que tenho o maximo orgulho. Esta um rapaz, com vontade propria e voz de homem. Saudades mil meu farfoca, e tenho a certeza que da proxima vez que jogar-mos o Tortuga, o teu velhote :) ainda vai ganhar,,,
Se nao ouver mais interferencias deve-mos passar uns dias em Paris, e outros no Sul com o big brother Miro, mas a nossa ida anual a Costa Nova, para uns "bichos" :) e umas geladinhas, com os pes na agua e imperdivel. Amo-te muito Edgar, desculpa estar sempre tao longe.

WPZ...Water Protection Zone

Despite all the Politik, that was the River Crossing in Sakhalin, me and my friend an Environemental engineer Mr. Oleg Mamaev, did take care of each river with passion, after the caterpillar pass, to lay the pipeline, we come to rebuilt the river bed and berms, protect each one, against natural and human erosion, sediments, monitor the reseeding to estabilize the banks and watch the grass that we plant together grow, green and healthy, we saw at first the small fishes in those gelid waters...after the large salmons....We did it for our personal commitment with Nature.
Oleg it was a pleasure see the results...and like I told you before, men's like you are the motor of the development of Russia.
My best men, Steve was there to supervise us, direct from Las Vegas, to Leonidovo :) to make is reports to the World Bank, and Environmental Authorites..he know beter then anyone how was difficult to do this job, and that we did it GOOD, with our own two hands.
Bolchoie Spassibo!

Jeldi jeldi, davai davai....

माय फ्रिएंड्स सी अ बिग प्लेअसुरे हवे थे चांस तो क्नोव य। इ क्नोव यौर सुर्प्रिसेद बुत वे कैन दो एवेर्य्थिंग ओं नेट, एवें स्पेअक हिन्द । माय गोद बे विथ यू अल्वाय्स Mabruk.....Together with PunjLloyd, the achievement of the Hot Tapping works, was done with technical perfection, ofcourse if we dont mention some minor spills, (the soil contaminated was segregated, thanks to Mr। Shukla)...some valves leaking...TDW did the वहत he could, and some time lost...how we Sanjay, he was the guy.
Mr.Safudin didn't rest a minute, and is amazing, how is team, even payed so bad, stand against above 49 degrees and +14 hours a day to give QP, the best work possible.
Thank you all, is a priviledge work with you guys, Tiga?
Jeldi, jeldi, davai, davai.....daily words in our group that means...bora pessoal, vamos la a andar com essa me....

Cartas para Sakhalin chega ao fim...foi uma alegria diaria, que o Eduardo me deu, enquanto por la andei, era o meu breakfast...obrigado primo.

Rassadko

in my office....3A,

Train to Yousno Sakhalinsky...the first step in our trip.

Goodbye Lenine - До свидания Ленин

Один последний взгляд позади....One last look behind....

One in a million...

Каждое миллионное, это, кто Вы. Мы отсутствуем, Вам нравятся сестра, часть нас. Ваша улыбка все еще сияет в нас.

Большой Поцелуй

ZAGS

We did have the Nuptial Marche, the Russian Flag, and the Qatar rings.Only Yana Banana was there....06.10.2007

A moment of true...change the Family name...was not so easy, you use 3 forms :)

The Zacks , where we official start...in the Prospect Mira, Timovskoye, Sakhalin Oblast.

Our friend Lenine, behind "Domus Cultura" where I met my Zaika. The same night we travel by the TransSakhalin to the south, Leonidovo, to celebrate in Camp...

Living our dreams

Sempre que revejo as minha fotos de Moscovo, penso.... Meu Deus, que loucura!

E no entanto adorava repeti-lo, vezes sem conta...foi como viver um sonho...quantas vezes na vida, vivemos os nossos sonhos?

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Everytime I review my pics from Moskva, I think....

Gospati, kak bezumie!

However, I could do it again, over and over...it was like living a dream... how many times in life, we live our dreams?

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Каждый раз я рассматриваю свои картины из Москвы, я думаю... Мой Бог, что безумие! Однако я мог сделать это снова, много раз... это жило мечта..., сколько времен в жизни мы живем наши мечты?

Leonidovo - Леонидово

That beautifull and amazing evening on the 7th of October 2007. Uliana (KZ), me, Steve (USA), Yana Banana (RS), Manfredi (I) and my lovely wife.

Last party in 3A - Leonidovo, Sakhalin Oblast...

RASVETI...um novo amanhecer

Inicia-se assim um blog para os amigos...sempre tao longe.
A inexperientia e a timidez para o exercicio da escrita, limitam-me a utilizar a imagem, como registo destas andancas, que me levam aos quatro cantos e que me permitem alargar este mundo, que cada vez parece maior.
Tantas faces que recordo, sorrisos, vozes, amigos deixados em lugares passados, gravitando agora num mundo virtual, cheios de promessas de reencontros que sei impossiveis.
....et plus seul que avant.