Week (and Sintra - part 2)
Un-motivating week. Knowledge Engineering homework not done, mostly related with lack of brains for doing it under time pressure. Started doing research on Analysis and Design of Information Systems, vague information found. No book available on our department library, no instant chances on getting it through not-so-clear ways, and way too high price for considering buy it.
I start feeling like a child, eagerly waiting for Christmas day. Each day closer to it, each day more anxious.
11-M acts also banged my head during this week. Destruction of human lives, and all those side effects on people lives such an event can inflict, is determinately wrong, and drives my guts insane.
I'm not impressed with excessively media coverage, though some extrapolations made me anger at TVI journalists (if we can call them that). Such terrorist acts, even happening in Madrid, had it's own implications in people minds all over the world. Journalists shouldn't explore this fear in the viewers. Such sensationalisms will have no more impact than the terrorist act itself on any power, will not put any pressure on them to take any (more) measures to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Though, it will drive the portuguese to even more insecurity, depression and anxiety feelings. We don't need more of that right now.
Returning to Sintra, here is a picture:
Amadeu, Mafalda, Jorge and me. Photo shot by Luis.
I start feeling like a child, eagerly waiting for Christmas day. Each day closer to it, each day more anxious.
11-M acts also banged my head during this week. Destruction of human lives, and all those side effects on people lives such an event can inflict, is determinately wrong, and drives my guts insane.
I'm not impressed with excessively media coverage, though some extrapolations made me anger at TVI journalists (if we can call them that). Such terrorist acts, even happening in Madrid, had it's own implications in people minds all over the world. Journalists shouldn't explore this fear in the viewers. Such sensationalisms will have no more impact than the terrorist act itself on any power, will not put any pressure on them to take any (more) measures to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Though, it will drive the portuguese to even more insecurity, depression and anxiety feelings. We don't need more of that right now.
Returning to Sintra, here is a picture:
Amadeu, Mafalda, Jorge and me. Photo shot by Luis.