GPS The New Generation

GPS: an atempt to get rid of the traffic. With technology being part of our lives, a new gadjet is launched on montly basis. The GPS, known as Global Positioning System has hit ourselfs not too long ago, providing directions facilities. GPS are becoming more common nowadays because it’s easier, more precise and faster.

     GPS are more practical to use because it’s only necessary to type the destination wanted. It takes only about five minutes to get the root drawn, while the Tomas Guide takes a lot longer just to find the page with the adress. Besides that, it’s smaller and fits inside purses, which makes it useful also when going on foot or visiting other countries. That’s why using the GPS is considered easier.

(jessica) The GPS device is faster because it makes your life dynamic. When someone use it, doesn’t have the oportunity to get lost and consequently don’t have the oportunity to get late. Not getting late makes your life better and organized.

CONCLUSION: Global Positioning System are being more used than before due to it’s facility, precision and speed. People are now shunning from Tomas Guide and running to GPS because it’s starting to be handier in our society. Therefore, GPS is an alternative to avoid the traffic.

MADONNA´S CONCERT: THE FEVER

Madonna´s concert?Unbelievable. Madonna´s concert will be the show of the year here in Brazil on december. Brazilians are going crazy to buy tickets to Madonna´s show, since the anouncement of the concert, people aren´t sleeping at all just to enter the line of this new process of getting the ticket. And when this crazyness is going to end? until people have the tickets in their own hands.This confusion has three issues: the lack of assistence, organization and pre-planing of the sale of tickets, and it must be changed immediatly.

Since Madonna anounced her tour dates here in Brazil, people went mad about the concert.In less than 48 hours from the anoucement of the ticket´s sales, 75 million tickets were sold out in Rio.However,the real problem began after the press relation of the Time For Fun enterprise, which is responsible for the ticket´s sale, anounced that the purchased of the ticket would have to pass for a process in which, the person that  wanted to buy the ticket ,thru the internet, had to registered in a website, after that registration and e-mail would be sent to the person and then the buyer could purchase the ticket. This whole process would save time and make it easier the purchase of the tickets, however it didn´t work at all. A lot of people tried to buy the tickets thru this process,but the Time For Fun website were busy and slowly the whole night.

The pre-organization of T4fun website was going well, until the buyers start to complain about it. The sale was impossible for those who wanted to get the tickets through the internet, therefore people started to look for another way to get the tickets, which was going at the Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo and Maracana stadium in Rio De Janeiro, a easier way to have the tickets. A friend tried to get the pre-ticket from the website of T4fun at the time that Madonna confirmed that she was touring in Brazil, but he didn’t get to finished the purchase, because of the problem and disorganization of the website.

Another way to buy the tickets that seemed to be fast and good, was going to the Ibirapuera gymnasio, which had the same problems of organization and speed. A lot of people slept on the line to get the ticket, these people was very angry and impatient because the elders have the privilege to pierce the queue, so does pregnants. The police was there to help the tension, but they couldn’t control the anger of those people. 

Madonna’s tour anouncement here in Brazil, caused a lot of tension and anger for the brazilians this month. The organization was unnaceptable with long hours hanging on the phone,T4fun website busy and a long waiting on the row.

An accident that changed my way to live

I didn’t know how much I cared and loved my brother until an accident happend.

My mother and I went on vacation together on January of 2006 to USA, and my older brother stayed here in Brasil, in Guaruja with his friends on vacation too. It was just about hours that we got home(my mom and I) and we were both asleep, I heard the phone rang, and as I was asleep I wouldn’t answer the phone, but in this particular day I did. It was my brother’s best friend on the phone, Marcos, telling me that my brother had crashed the car, but that it was okay, nothing to worry,so I went back to sleep, as normal.

After 20 minutes, the phone rang again, and I picked up, it was Marcos saying in a calm voice, because he didn´t want to scary me, that  the accident was serious and he asked me to call my mother,I ran to my mother’s bedroom and called her.She was so terrify that she cannot belived what I was saying, she jumped from the bed, put some clothes and called Marcos. He explained what had happened and she went  immediatly to Guaruja with my driver. I stayed here in Sao Paulo just waiting for to call , I was still in shock, I didn’t know what to do. Suddenly she called me and told me to call my grandmother and ask if she could come here to Sao Paulo to help my mother take care of my brother. I called my grandmother and explained everything and so she came here to Sao Paulo as soon as she could.

My mother came here with an ambulance with my brother,he was seriously enjuried. She got him in Einstein Hospital, he stayed in UTI for 7 days, during his staying in UTI  he undergone a lot of surgeries to fix what was broken, my mother stayed every minute with my brother and my grandmother too, I visited my brother almost everyday, because I don’t really like hospitals and I felt bad when I was there.

I was at home all by myself doing nothing, just praying that he woudl get better, My maid was on vacation so It didn’t have anything to eat so I lost a lot of weight, not only for that reason but I lost my appetite. 

After 7 days, my brother came back home, he was much better, but he doesn’t remember anything for the accident until today.

That summer was the worst summer for my family, my mother almost lost her son and I almost lost my brother, then I start to care more for him and love him more.

I think when you almost loose someone very important, you start to care more for your life.