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Edit: Texture by azuremonkey

Meme I found a couple of times on my f-list!

- Choose a singer/band/group.
- Answer the following questions using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.

( The Academy Is... )

( Paramore )

Guys, please win a medal for me, will you? Thank you so much.

Yay, alright, so the Olympic Games have started! Great! At least gives me something to watch on TV, and information to catch up with. Too bad I don't have to memorize all the medals Portugal won... which were obviously a lot. I mean, I'm used to it, we never win anything but seriously, at least one? Vanessa? Nélson?

Eh, alright, so I'm still waiting for athletics to start this Friday, where hopefully our best athletes are. They are there, but still I wonder if we're getting anything. *fingers crossed* I mean, how disappoiting will it be if they don't win one single medal?

Also, I am so disappointed Alexandre Despatie and Arturo Miranda ended 5th on diving (syncronized; 3m). Yeah, I do support canadian atheletes. Mostly Despatie. And Meaghan Benfeito, also on diving. Hey, he's cute and she's genetically portuguese. Plus I like where they're from, pretty places. Sadly, they didn't win anything. I don't think Canada has won anything yet either, have they? Wow, funny coincidences.

Oh guess what?! The USA just won another medal? Yes, and another world record for Mr. Phelps. He should get tired of winning. Oh, I had a good idea. I'm just going to start strongly supporting him, because I know that at least he will win a couple more medals :P

First try at headers ever! Yay! I managed to put a little something together.

Image heavy!
Comments are ♥ Please tell me what you think.

( I feel so alone )

Resources/Credits:
Tutorial by sepiastars
Textures by ownthesunshine, delriumblaze, dirtyfootprints and kiho_chan
Hayley pictures from pmoreonline.com/paramore.es

... you'll see that something is wrong.

I heard this on the news yesterday, and I honestly didn't know if I should laugh or cry.

53-yeard-old man sentenced to 5 years and a half in prison after shooting two of his neighbours who were trying to rescue his own cat.

Now you ask yourselves why he would do that?

The man believed that his homossexual neighbour could be having some sort of sexual contact with the cat as he was trying to rescue the animal, and that would turn the cat gay.

This is not just homophobic behaviour. This is pure madness. Maybe instead of going to jail he should go to an hospital and get treated.

Thankfully none of the people shot died, though.

Is everybody going crazy?
Is anybody gonna save me?
Can anybody tell me what's going on?
Tell me what's going on.

...you used to be my hero?

So I have been planing on doing this meme for the longest time, but only yesterday morning decided to actually take 5 minutes for it. I was tagged by dutchie_1991.

Handwrite the following:
1. Your username/name.
2. Left-handed or right-handed?
3. Favourite letters to write?
4. Least favourite letters to write?
5. Write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
6. Tag 5 people.

! Image heavy !
( We lost it all, nothing lasts forever )

Wow, my handwriting is already looking weird. Whenever I'm on holidays, I don't write much, so when I do try and write something, it normally looks less neat than usual. That's the case on this, like up and down the line and more stiff. It gives me a bit of trouble in the beginning of every school year, but I easily fasten up when it's needed.
But all in all, I don't dislike my handwriting. It's not the best I've seen, obviously, but I have seen much worse than this too. So as long as it is understandable for everyone, I guess it's ok.

PS: Take a look at my mood theme for thirsty *giggles* Joey is so adorkable.

my heart is yours.

Guess what are those? Two lines of Paramore songs. True. And you know what else? The title and subtitle of my renewed LJ!
mildani mildani mildani mildani mildani mildani mildani

Yeah, as much as I loved my old awesome one, I needed change. And I also needed to learn how all of the coding works. It wasn't that easy of a task, not that hard either. Just tried a couple of layouts before I found one I was happy with. I am with this one.

It's pretty much filled with Paramore ♥ Both titles, header, siderbar text, info table on my profile. It wasn't really on purpose, but I just had related artwork I really liked, and their lyrics always pop up in my head. So yeah. But, it has a Friends mood theme because I had no patience to upload a Paramore one. And I like Friends so much.

Speaking of Friends, the airing here is coming to an end. I think tomorrow it's the last episode. I love season 10 so much. Just as much as I hate it for being the last one. But that could be to another different post.

So tell me what you think of my new layout and everything :D

...they try to take us down.

Yeah, because I'm bored and decided to take this one... Although dancing is the one thing I can't do at all. Ok, I can't sing either, or do a million other things. But I definitely cannot dance to save my life. Any style of dancing :/ But I got ballet, which if definitely a very impressive, elegant and beautiful style.

And I happen to think the description is pretty accurate; or at least that's kind of how my perspective of myself is many times...

You Are Ballet

You are quite introverted. You enjoy keeping to yourself and cultivating your talents. You are dedicated and focused. If practice makes perfect, you're willing to keep practicing. While some people may dismiss you as boring, you can be quite edgy and interesting. You can fit in almost anywhere... and your style ranges from conservative to funky.

Have a good Hump Day tomorrow ;) Wow, I hadn't said this in soo long. Haha. Whoever missed this one, don't worry :P

...for they will hear us

I'm gonna save myself the trouble of writing everything down because most of my flist has seen this meme. Basically, just make a printscreen of your computer desktop and put it up. Give some explanation of it, or whatever you feel needs to be said. I tag whoever wants to do it also. I was tagged by fancy_disaster and dutchie_1991

( Explain to me this conspiracy against me )

I hope you all have a great weekend :D And for those that are in summer holidays, make sure to enjoy them!

...or her to second guess.

Meme snagged from the lovely dl_shipper34. Because I'm bored.
( Without you I'll be miserable at best )

...and if it was time well spent.

And boredom leads to...meme!
( If your life were a soundtrack, what would the music be? )

And I also want to wish a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a very special girl! :) Happily blow all your 17 candles dutchie_1991! ;)

You're gonna win it for yourself and us today
It is the gold, the green, the yellow and the grey
The red and sweat and tears, the love you go. Hey!

So, Euro 2008 kicked off yesterday. Switzerland played against Czech Republic while Portugal played against Turkey.

( Como uma força, como uma força )






( Como uma força que ninguém pode parar )

Closer to the sky, closer, way up high, closer to the sky
Mais perto do céu, mais perto do céu

 and act like you don't...

Meme snagged from <lj user="messermonroe">. Although Stuffy also did it :)

My username is _____ because ____.

mildani, because that was the name we used in our first email account as a family!, back in the time where Internet was so damn slow and we didn't know of the existence of hotmail or msn :/ It's the combination of both my sister's and my name. And I think it's pretty cool.


My name is _____ because ______.

Daniela, which some people shorten for Dani...My grandmother is the cutest person for calling me that. It's so sweet ♥ Why? Well, because my mom only had an idea for a boys name, and although my dad wanted Diana, my mom didn't like it that much. So there it comes my other grandma, from Portugal, where a tv soap opera was airing with a character named Daniela. So yeah, guess what? I'm named afyer a tv character! Haha.

My journal is titled ____ because ____.

Colourful Tears*, because that's the translation of the title of one of my favourite books, Lágrimas Coloridas.


My subtitle is ____ because ____.

I don't have one because I can't think of anything that pleases me. Everything sounds either lame or not original or something. It's like that little thing I have on the side of my LJ, which should have information about me, but on which I kept the information about how to change the text on it, that <lj user="dutchie-1991"> posted there!

My friends page is called ____ because ____.

It's simply called friends, because er... I don't know, because I didn't bother to think of anything else, and that's what you are anyway.

My default userpic is ____ because ____.

The one I'm using in this post. Because it's simple. Because it's a picture of my favourite actress. Because she's awesome like that. Because it's someone none of you would know. Because I wouldn't be able to choose only one of my other fandoms to go there. Because I love her :)

...I'm a little out of tune.

First of all, I have a random question, but this has been bugging me for a while. I have noticed that when people want to refer to numbers (here on LJ or even Talk, etc.) use the # (eg: I love your #2 icon). At the same time, I rarely, if ever, see anyone using no., but that's what I'm thaught at school (eg: lesson no. 3) What's the difference/use between/of the two different symbols?


On another note, yesterday I realised something weird. I mean, I knew it happened to me, but it was a strange feeling nonetheless. I was watching Criminal Minds, episode 3x08 ("Lucky"), and once again I had enjoyed the episode. Although I have to be honest and say that when it is about canibals, I have some 'yuck problems' with it. I can watch stuff about gunshots and sexual assaults but when people eat people... Anyway, I loved Morgan in it, and the whole fighting thing between Garcia and him was different, and it was cool. Rossi, I haven't made up my mind about him yet, he is mysterious. JJ has the best ponytail (how random, I know, but I can never make my ponytail look good and hers always does!) But anyway, on to the my point, I was finding it so cute that they were showing Garcia's date and all that, and I'm coming closer to the end and thinking nothing else will happen and...BAM! The guy shots her. And that scene made my heart beat so fast, it was crazy. I got nervous, like it had been an adrenalin rush. I ran to the computer because I could not wait until next Monday to find out what happened. And because I am spoiler free for CM (for the most part), I hadn't heard anything about this. Ok, so now I know she doesn't die, I'm fine. Although Katie messed with me last night, didn't you miss? I open msn as fast as I could and asked the question imediately. And she answers me that she dies :( And I'm like 'No way, WTF, they can't do that to her' and I'm so centered in the scene that I don't even think that she could be joking...which she was...But I truly didn't even think she was kidding me, because I am always for the negative scenario, so I was already seeing Morgan feeling terrible because the last time they talked she was mad at him, etc. The plots run fast in my mind when it comes to bad stuff :P But anyway, I'm glad, for once, that we have delay in the screening of the episodes, because I wouldn't want to wait one week to know is she survived. Damn, they really know how to get my attention, I cannot wait for next week's episode *excited*

Oh, and btw, I just joined last.fm. If any of you in my flist is also there, please feel free to friend me or something. I have the same username as here.

...didn't understand that anything can happen when you take a chance.

Because I said I'd do it, and because I want to do it, because I know it's going to be cool to come here a few months from now and get the sense of what my feeling were.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WAS AWESOME!!

Seriously it must have been my best evening in so long. It was magical. It was everything I wanted it to be, but at the same time, certainly much better than I ever thought it would be. Everything fascinated me. I was obviously very excited to go, but it outdid my expectations. While I thought it was going to be great, I never realised how much I had imagined of it, and how much it surprised me still.

I went with 3 friends of mine, who are just as crazy about HSM as I am. That added so much to it. I think we were all so anxious about it, that we didn't even realise it. Now that I think of it, I remember how we didn't have a normal conversation when we met. We just kept rambling talking on and on about the huge insect on the ceiling, how the dubbings of Hannah Montana were weird and how my friend had hit her head in the bunker during the night. I know right? Nonsense. And we were laughing way too much. It's that nervousity feeling coming.

Because we went to Lisbon, we took an hour and a half to get there (and I can tell you we were speeding...) The trip was the perfect opening. We had the HSM CD so loud we couldn't hear each other talking at all, but we sang along like we would never sing again in our lives. My friend's father, who drove us, even headbanged along. hahaha. This is the most ridiculous things but in the little breaks between the tracks we were just sharing our opinions on the cast and whatnot, like if we couldn't just turn the sound down a bit to talk normally. We were pretty much 4 crazy, excited and full of happiness girls! *squeeeeeee*

On to the play itself. As you can imagine if you have seen the movie, it was a musical play. It had more music than the movie itself actually, which was a pleasant surprise. The cast was very well chosen in the whole. Zeke wasn't that fitting, especially because we were expecting another actor. But all things considered, they were awesome. The dancers were great, and they all had amazing voices. They created a huge magnificent sound effect, just merging so many pretty voices together, it was SO POWERFUL! And also, the dance moves were energetic, it made you feel like dancing along. 

The main cast was perfect. Catarina Pereira, who was playing Gabriella, was recently discovered in a reality tv singing contest here, which we followed. She was definitely one of our favourites. And after the play, I am even more sure of how beautiful of a voice she has. She was very well in her part, we could totally relate to the original Gabriella without being totally copycat. And although we had some doubts about Troy before the play (because he had been in a band which we didn't fancy much), I totally changed my opinion about him. Paulo Vintém has a nice voice and was an awesome Troy. I can tell you that when the two of them started singing together, in those acoustic melodies, it took my breath away. Completely. Magical! Indescribable really! They matched as a couple, they were sweet and cute and pleasant to see interacting. It made you feel as if they were meant for each other, and that's the idea of it.

Our Sharpay, Maria Sampaio was amazing! She didn't have a voice alike Ashley Tisdale's, but I could even call it a better sounding voice (not too much of an Ashley fan). But she wrote with her right hand. WRONG! Everyone knows Sharpay is a leftie *obsessed* Ryan (Bruno Veloso) was super cute...and, hot if I might say so! Those jeans, shirt and sweatervest were sexy on him! Débora, playing Taylor has a gorgeous voice and surprised me with the acting skills. Our Chad was some brazilian guy, and it was funny to see him trying to hide the brazilian accent. And Kelsi, although she isn't main cast, I have to say she was great! She was a different Kelsi from the movie, but just as special. And man, did she have a big voice or what?! They had energetic parts, calmer parts, happiness, joy, excitement, melancholy, sadness and obviously comic bits. A great combination!

Also, in the Breaking Free part, the whole cast but Troy and Gabriella came to the audience, as if they were in the school's theatre (anyone who has seen the movie will understand), so they were standing right next to us. There. It was cool. My friend was freaking out. Her hands were shaking like crazy. And also, Le Kiss ♥ Let's go *aww* together. They don't kiss in the movie so we didn't know it was going to happen. But it did and it was so sweet!

Oh, and very important, the mistakes. I love theatre. Not just this play, but anything that's theatre related. I love the energy exchange between audience and actors. I love the whole atmosphere. I love the naturallity and the improvising. I love the real time acting. And so, mistakes are part of the experience, and make it special and remarkable. Sometimes I think that's one of the stupidities in Tv series (have you noticed how they rarely say something that doesn't make sense or hesitate?!). There weren't those many, but the ones that occured was funny. The singers messed up the lyrics majorly in some part, some dialogue mistakes. The best part was when everyone on stage was about to start laughing, so they were making weird faces to control it. And they obviously lost their concentration. So Gabriella was supposed to call Taylor, but instead went like "Grabri...er, Taylor..." And then couldn't move on, and bursted out laughing. We just clapped and she left, because it was the end of the scene. You could tell she was so embarassed, but it was funny to everyone.

We were seeing the time passing (it started at 9.30 and ended at midnight), and I just didn't want it to end. It was one of those moments when you just wish you could stop time and make a situation last forever, I wished I could make that feeling everlasting. It was weird, and cool at the same time, when in the end people were applausing and applausing but were still in their places. But when Sharpay+Ryan and Troy+Gabriella came, we decided not to care about everyone else and stood up. I mean, it just didn't feel right. It felt awesome to applause standing up, as a standing ovation. They deserved it. They deserved it for the awesome show they had given there. We were almost alone stading there. But we just didn't give a damn. Because it had been special! Eventually, the actors asked for people to stand up, and clap and sing along, so it was supposed to happen anyway :P

Everytime we talk about it now, we can't help squeeing a little bit. Or a bigger bit. Maybe sometimes it's a huge squeeing. But I guess that's a good sign. I say the money we spent on the tickets was worth every single cent. I tell you that if it wasn't far from where I live, I'd love to go again. For real. I don't know what other adjective to use. Maybe I N D E S C R I B A B L E is really the best one. Because I can't choose any other. I can still see them dancind and singind in my head. Awwww. They were all so sweet and awesome and ahhh! Perfect!

[/biggest post ever! Just to come along with the happiest post ever also! ]

And I higly doubt anyone read this until the end...and if you did you must be thinking I'm too obsessed or too ecstatic...Ah well, you just have no idea of how important and special it was. Ok, maybe now you start having a little idea...And no cut because I'm feeling like spamming your flist with squeeing feelings. It's happiness people! I dunno if you can actually feel the excitement, but thinking about it, I took longer to post this because I kept messing the typing. It's like I still have butterflies in my stomach as in said evening. 

And I'm so sorry I messed up the font size and colours again. Ooops.

...sem te procurar te veja passar

Warning: I'm totally stealing borrowing <lj user="messermonroe">'s idea of making  C O L O U R F U L posts! Just because. I hope you don't mind.

# I don't like my cold. Not at all. Although I'm much better than yesterday already :) Note to self: Stop complaining!

# I have 5 tests this week. And I'm so tired from school. I just want holidays already... But meanwhile I should just go study

# *excited* I'm going to see High School Musical: The theatre show next Saturday! Yaya! Ok, now you didn't know I liked it, I bet, but yes I do. And I love theatre anyway! And I love the girls that are going with me!

# I'm going to McDonald's tonight! I know that's extremely random, but I felt like sharing. And I have nothing better to tell you. At least not that I remember.

# Yesterday I was watching this portuguese singer on Tv, Ana Moura, who I must say I was pretty impressed with. She's a fado singer, which is not really my style. However, I do like some of it, and well, it's the portuguese song, and I recognize it's somewhat unique. But my point is to ask all of you, LJ international friends, out of curiousity, do you know what I'm talking about? Do you have any idea of how it sounds? I wonder wheter it's known aroudn the world or not. I guess not. But let me be sure, okie?

# Ok, I don't really work well with the colour thing. Too much for me. [ And I messed up the text sizes, and I can't make them work, so it's just gonna stay messed up ]

Oh, and meme time...*Spread the Love* Comment on this entry and I will tell you three things I like about you :D As simple as that