Category Archives: Fun

Rio de Janeiro

Carnaval in Brazil – Comprehensive video about the biggest party on Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mYDwRTALo Share and Enjoy:

Pac-Man celebration by Google

Pac-Man Celebration by Google

I was using Google today and I didn’t know that you could play Pac-Man on it!!! http://www.google.com Share and Enjoy:

Little Sheep Website

Little Sheep – Chinese Hot Pot

I was really impressed to find a Chinese Hot Pot restaurant in Montreal. Not even Toronto has one! The Little Sheep is specialized in hot pot and the restaurant is great. It is a all-you-can-eat system. They give you a hot pot soup in your … Read More

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Au Pied de Couchon – My Fanciest Poutine Ever

One of the reason why I quit Google and moved to Canada is because of Poutine. It is serious! In 2006, I lived in Montreal to study French at University of Montreal and I discovered one of my favorite food: Poutine. It is a very … Read More

Warren's Punch

Warren Buffett’s Punch

This picture was taken on March in Omaha. I was in this event where we had a Q&A with him. Most of the questions were related to the U.S. and China economies. Also, there were some other interesting topics about his story as a successful … Read More

New paper money from Brazil 2010

Brazil is launching new banknotes soon!

The Central Bank in Brazil is launching a new set of banknotes after 15 years with the launch of Real. They are good looking. I can’t wait to have all of them. You can read more about the launch here. Share and Enjoy:

Year of Tiger - 2010

Google Homepage in Canada (Olympics), Brazil (Carnaval) and China (New Year)

Today is a special day for Google’s Doodle team. It had to create and publish three different doodles. Except in Brazil and China, Google is showing the Winter Olympics doodle. In Brazil, Google is showing a Carnaval doodle and in China, it is showing the … Read More

Habbo offers 7eleven payments too

Startup: Kwedit – a promising way of payment, how about Habbo?

Kwedit is a strange name for a payment company. This is a startup that offers a new form of payment to social and interactive games that allows people to buy virtual goods. The strange thing is that it allows people to “promise” to pay for … Read More

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Bookhu – Top books for women and men

Bookhu is a book review website that shows if a book is read more by men or women. It is a food for thought website. It shows if I have more male or female preference. In my searches, most of my books related to entrepreneurship, … Read More

http://tinychat.com/

Tinychat.com – Live video chatroom

Tinychat provides free video and audio chatroom for the mass. People can use this tool as a DJ room, virtual meeting presentation room or live interactive TV. I like this website because it’s free and for startups, this tool can connect our team member even … Read More

Crazy Custom Caps Home page 2009

Make Your Own Shirt, Mug and Many Other Things Companies

It is hard to make money on the Internet. Currently, there are two famous ways to monetize on the Internet: advertising and e-commerce. In the advertising side, we have Google AdWords, Yahoo Marketing or Microsoft Advertising. These companies make money by having big audience that … Read More

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Hunch – What’s the best profession for me?

I was using Hunch this weekend to see how it works. It is a quiz guessing website. You make questions and it gives you its hunch about what the best thing is for you. I chose the What’s the best profession for me quiz. It … Read More

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Intermezzo, my life in Canada and Ivey – December 2009

I’m currently taking the MBA course at Ivey business school here in Canada. I started on August and it is impressive how many things we learned until now. I am very sure that I do not see business, organizations, finance, accounting and career management in … Read More

Ivey Amazing Race in London, Team #1

I am having fun and great time with my MBA classmates here at London. Today, we are having an amazing race, so we can know each other and the city better. My team is the number one team. Mike, Peter, Kyle, Elika and I are … Read More

Thanks Googlers!

My three incredible years

Last Friday (July 17th) was my last at Google as a AdWords Product Specialist in Brazil. It was a fun, growing, interesting, deep, challenging and awesome experience. As a Google fan, I was lucky enough to work in the product development, engineering, marketing, project management, … Read More

36 Hours in Toronto

A Quick Trip in Toronto

    36 Hours in Toronto -  View 36 Hours in Toronto in a larger map Toronto is a very international and diverse city. It is one of the biggest city in Canada with 2.5 million of people (Greater Toronto has 5.6 million).  I went there three … Read More

Swine Flu - HSBC Pig Saving Ad

HSBC’s Pig Saving Ads Linked to Swine Flu’s News

  Look what I found. HSBC’s ad with a pig linked to the Swine Flu News. Share and Enjoy:

Google News Timeline - Venture Capital results from 2001

Fantastic Tool: Google News Timeline – Analysis of VC Industry Crisis

Another great tool from Google: Google News Timeline. It shows all the news that you search in a timeline! You can see the news in a more coherent way. It is much easier to build stories and check for historical patterns. Before moving to my … Read More

Similar Images results for Sao Paulo

Fantastic tool: Similar Images at Google Labs

This is an impressive beta tool from Google: Similar Images. As you can see, I’m searching for Sao Paulo’s images in the tool.     Then, I select one of the picture to get similar images and the tool gives back a list of images … Read More

Chim's Chocolate Cookies

Chocolate Cookies for All!

Yesterday, I baked some cookies. I followed this recipe:1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature 1/2 cup (110 grams) light brown sugar 1/4 cup (50 grams) white granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1 cup (140 grams) all purpose flour … Read More

Happy Easter!

There’s an interesting photo stream from a user called doc18 from Flickr.com. Happy easter! (It’s Easter today in Brazil) Know more about Easter! Share and Enjoy: