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Rafaello Bonaparte

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Born in Brasil, yet also a North American citizen......so I have the best of both worlds =) Anything else you'd like to learn, well, you'll have to get to know me. I used to be an open book, but in the past year or so, I'm finding myself to have closed the pages in favour of allowing only those I choose to get close to me to read the story (but slowly)......I guess you could say that, in essence, I'm absconding into the mysterious and translucently obscure part of life! Well, for any of you interested, here's a little bit about me......
--Fused BrasilAmerican dude
--I have the most beautiful, most amazing, most intelligent, funniest, wittiest, best little girl in the world! She's my baby, my best friend, the eternallove of my life! She's 4 years old, and her name is awesome: Arianna Bella Love
--Passion drives me
--Intensity leads me
--Romance guides me
--Quality over quantity
--Analytically artistic
--Artistically analytic
--Artist-to-be
--Favourite fruit in the world is the açaí......blended in with either cupuaçu or acerola, vanilla ice cream, guaraná, and some other secret ingredients, you get a really kick-ass drink!
--Love love love seafood paella
--My favourite integer is 6, closely followed by 8
--My favourite irrational is the square root of three, an inherent ratio found in the Vesica Pisces
--Philosophy that drives me and allows me to comprehend the world: mean-reverting deterministic chaos
--I'm quite the nerd!
--MatLab is quite a useful modeling program!
--Wish I had time to read all the books I've been wanting to read
--But I still read as much as possible
--I bite my nails quite much =*( !
--I love to sleep, even though I don't get enough of it
--Dreamer
--More times than not, I love and prefer to just sit and bask in the sun. It gives me inspiration, ideas, and it rejuvinates me.
--A lot of times I love to just do nothing!
--As a testimony to being Brasilian, I don't tend to think of time as numbers on a watch dial. Rather, I think of time as a sequence of events. Check outthis Wikipedia article on the culture of Brazil (scroll down to "Curiosities")...it's so true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Brazil
--Out-of-the-box thinker
--Occasional cigar aficionado (special events)
--Favourite cigar: Davidoff Zino Platinum
--Picture crazy (yeah, those who know me would agree, the camera is like a third arm, a necessity)
--Abstract thinker
--Love the sciences
--Crooked door-mats are a pet-peve
--Playing basketball is quite fun :)
--So is playing soccer, ping-pong and sand volleyball
--Kick-ass exotic smoothie maker (maybe why I own 2 blenders, ha)
--Sacred geometry excites me
--My favourite flower is the Golden Callas
--What's yours?
--Fashionably fashionable
--European cut (fitted) is so much nicer than the baggy styles found in the U.S.
--A woman who dresses artistically and classy is so much sexier than a woman who dresses provocatively
--Enjoy shopping
--Love the best things in life
--Hate cheapness
--Love to decorate
--Love architecture (sometimes I wish that I had majored in it instead)
--Love love love seafood
--Love love love sushi
--I can somewhat cook (thanks to my best friend, Peter)
--Sanguiniously made up of chocolate...love the stuff so much, I've become what I eat......you can call me man-chcolate lol
--Love to stay at home and watch a movie
--Everything in life is relative, remember that! "You know I always thought unicorns were fabulous creatures too, although I never saw one alive before." "Well, now that we have met," said the unicorn, "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
--To be great is to be misunderstood (- Ralph Waldo Emerson)......thank god i am quite understood ;)
--Interested in what you have to say and offer
--Liberal-minded, for the mind is like a parachute...it works best when opened
--Loooove a cabernet sauvignon
--I can be quiet at times
--I can also be quite the talkative person!
--I think quantum mechanics is cooooool =)~
--I also think that stochastic modeling of stocks (or any other financial instrument) is a pathetic methodology for econometric forecasting
--People-watcher
--To me, a British accent is quite sexy, and many times the occasion I wish I had one
--Lover of life!!!
--Loyal, trustworthy, I won't cheat on you, whether you are a friend or a lover
--I expect the same
--Mythology is quite awesome
--I have quite many goals to yet accomplish
--Although money is important, love, family and friends always come first!
--I like organized and clean spaces
--Love Roman culture and the Latin language
--Catullus's Poem "Carmen 5" is my all-time favourite!
--Too much of a good thing is exactly that......a good thing!
--Love takes time to blossom, and if you plant it in the right garden, don't let it die......wait for it to bloom!
--I used to have dreams in Latin when I used to study it back in high school
--Try as best as I can to be Renaissance-driven well-rounded man (not physically, cuz that would make me obesse)
--Things I want to accomplish in the near future: dance Latin, paint with acrylic (put down on canvas the dreams and ideas that evade the mind), get back to playing the piano (shouldn't have quit when I was 12)
--I am human, and therefore, I make mistakes and am not perfect
--Please accept that
--Open to change my point-of-view, i.e., hard-headedness is not an ingredient in a Rafael
--Can't stand uptight people
--If you've made it this far, damn, I should buy you a drink!
CARMEN 5

Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.


"Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness."
- Pablo Nerudo


Real love is feeling like being a part of that person's
life almost isn't enough. It's more like a feeling that
you would live in the same skin with them if you could
and share every thought, heart beat, and emotion as one.
- Rod Cannon

To love and be loved in return. This is the greatest thing you will know.
- Someone


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Who Should Paint You: Alfred Gockel
All American yet funky, you inspire an artist's imagination
And while not everyone will understand your portrait, you will! What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

This is one of my favourite images, it depicts everything I want out of life....rain-melting eternal passion.....

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A strategically synthesized network of potential collaborative entrepreneural entities would be welcomed!!!



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Music:


Oh sooooo many, here's a categorical layout of the genres I do like:

..Rock
..Electronic
..Underground Gothic
..Industrial
..Flamenco and Spanish
..Trip-Hop
..Instrumental
..New Age
..International (e.g., Moroccan, Italian)

Here's a list of some of my favourite groups:

..A Perfect Circle
..Armin Van Buuren
..Coldplay
..Deep Dish
..Dido
..DMB
..Elton John
..Enrique Iglesias
..Enya
..Evanescence
..Ferry Corsten
..Frou Frou (Imogen Heap)
..Gipsy Kings
..Goo Goo Dolls
..Guido Luciani
..Iio
..Incubus
...s of Clay
..Jewel
..John Mayer
..Luciano Pavarotti
..Markus Schulz
..Matchbox Twenty
..Norah Jones
..Ottmar Liebert
..Paul Oakenfold
..Pink Floyd
..Rammstein
..Red Hot Chilli Peppers
..Sarah Brightman
..Sarah McLachlan
..Schiller
..Sting
..Sugar Ray
..System of a Down
..The Fray
..Third Eye Blind
..Tiesto
..Tool
..Tori Amos
..U2
..Wolfsheim
..Yo Yo Ma

Movies:

Hard to say, but here's a shot (it's late, so I am sure I will miss most of them)...

..The Notebook
..Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
..Elizabethtown
..V for Vendetta
..Garden State
..Junebug
..Rent
..Matchpoint
..League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
..50 First Dates
..Serendipity
..Million Dollar Hotel
..Barbie in the Princess and the Pauper
..Memento
..The Cell
..Big Fish
..Sin City
..Artificial Intelligence
..Closer
..Lost in Translation
..Superman Returns
..The Departed
..Borat


I have not watched many movies, and compounded with my forgetful mind, convoluted further by how late it is, I am sure that I have forgotten a lot of other movies I have come to love.....

Television:

I never have time for this, and when I do watch it, it's usually something from noggin, like Dora, Maisy, Franklin, etc.....hooray for cartoons!!!

Books:

I read a lot......used to read more, however.

Heroes:

Christian, Peter, Levavie, Superman, He-Man, Pink Panther, Bozo the Clown, ants, cockroaches, penguins, microbes, etc..

My Blog

2012

The universe is an expanding, vibrating band of energy whose lifetime is determined by its contraction cycle; which, upon achieving singularity the most highly evolved consciousness continues to exist...
Posted by Rafael on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:54:00 PST

i'm a moron

dudes and dudettes,don't ever do what i just did tonight.  in the jist of the moment, while running on the treadmill (basketball gym was too crowded, and it was too cold to run outside), i decide...
Posted by Rafael on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:38:00 PST

proof......

......that girls are evil......ha, take this lightly :)  this shit just cracked me up haha!!!
Posted by Rafael on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:25:00 PST

my beautiful nana :)

damn do i love my baby :)  thanks, sherri, for these wonderful pictures of nana and livi! ...
Posted by Rafael on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:29:00 PST

gmail theatre

ha, this shit is great :) go gmail!!! ...
Posted by Rafael on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:42:00 PST

can anyone figure out the bird?

can anyone decipher what the hell it is this little bird is saying? it sounds kinda cute, but damn, is it figureouttable by any means? ...
Posted by Rafael on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:30:00 PST

The Patient

A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful. Is this a test? It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on. Draining patience. drain vitality. this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old. Bu...
Posted by Rafael on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:42:00 PST

tattoo location

so, i think i have decided to get a tattoo sometime soon......i will write, in gothic-like characters, the following latin phrase:"Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur."now the question is......where wo...
Posted by Rafael on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:17:00 PST

Not so teenie burqini brings beach shift

REUTERS ARTICLESYDNEY, Jan 15 (Reuters Life!) - In a lycra revolution, a cover-all swimming costume is bringing Muslim women on to Australian beaches as lifeguards, unzipping racial tensions which div...
Posted by Rafael on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:23:00 PST

Farm worker attacked by herd of pigs

LONDON (Reuters) - A British farm worker needed hospital treatment after being attacked by a herd of pigs, Norfolk police said Sunday.The 51-year-old man was knocked over by a sow at a Norfolk farm in...
Posted by Rafael on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:04:00 PST