Pedro Marques Life Enterprises®

I decided to have a little fun and try to run my life like a big company would run their business. I took a sheet of paper, divided it into four parts and named each part Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. In each quarter I wrote a series of goals and it turns out that indeed, this is an excellent way to manage your life! I was just telling my friend Lisa that if you leave your goals in the back of your head, before you know it, it's December and you haven't completed half of them.

So I have a bunch of achievable goals to have acomplished in each quarter (3 months) and at the end of the year, I'll look back and see if it's worked out.

No business would be complete without a budget. With my goals in hand, I went about estimating their approximate cost and I came up with how much income I need to make this year. Turns out, if I want to put in invisible braces, go to San Francisco and do a road trip to L.A. and Hollywood, travel to Portugal to see my family and friends in August and have finished my Desktop Publishing course at George Brown College and started a new one before the year is out ... well, I need to find an extra job.

I think I'm liking the power to foresee what my year is going to look like. No need to rush, no need to worry that I might not be fullfilling my goals for this year.

Of course, there are goals that won't cost me anything. Simple things like catching up with all the books I've been meaning to read. I have at least 11 books to read this year, and one to finish writing... Other things include, finally ice skating this winter (I only know how to rollerblade, I've never ice skated), doing some urban photography, writing more often to my blog and to my new website: UrbanGTA... and so on...

You can follow my "Pedro's Life® Business Plan" on my blog.. I'll let you know how I'm doing with my goals.

Bye bye long hair! Boo.. hoo.. hoo

Last night I decided to finally cut my hair... yep. The long hair which I grew to be an extra in Ron Howard's "The Cinderella Man" lasted me nearly a year and I thought it was time to go back to the GQ look, otherwise known as "short hair"

Here's a picture I took last night:

Singing with Sign Language

This is funny! Singing Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" with sign language...

Singing with Sign Language

Incredible Sand Painting!

Check out this video of a man spontaneously painting with .... sand!

Sand Painting

1984 Turned Out Not To Be Like 1984.

1984 turned out not to be like 1984.

This was the year Apple changed the world of computers forever.

We have seen the world famous commercial announcing the coming of the first Graphical User Interface personal computer. What we haven't seen is the actual unveiling of the first Apple Macintosh.

The only known copy was recorded from TV on a "Betamax III long play" by Scott Kaster who saved it for the past 21 years and has now had it digitized and released to the world.

Here it is, on Apple's 21st anniversary, Steve Job's very first keynote:

1984 Mac Intro

Not another chain letter!

Hello everybody!

I've been receiving alot of chain letters recently from friends. Things ranging from "My child has cancer, AOL will pay for her operation" to "I lost my parents in the tsunami and Yahoo! will send me money if you forward this" all the way to "If you do not forward this, you will have bad luck (or bad sex) for 10 years"... cooooooommon guys, how naïve can you be?

Chain letters like this only serve to clog people's inboxes and slow down the entire internet with useless stuff. I know you mean well when you send this kind of stuff out, but if you read into these random letters, most of the time you can figure out they're a scam. AOL or Yahoo! cannot track your emails in order to pay out those terminally ill children and there is no such thing as a leprochon that will give you bad luck if you don't forward a message to all your friends.

Now, check out this funny cartoon which will help you to avoid being scammed in the future. Right-click below and select play: