Hello! Is anybody out there?
Don't worry. The bright spot of colored light around your nose right now, do you feel it tickling? We are beckoning you to listen to our newest adventures. Time to do a little sharing before the year ends!
Last time we took words out of our logbook, our small crew of four was sailing on the high seas aboard a small boat. Today, two years later, we are ten and we are landed on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf.
So, how did it happen?
Well, at a haute-bakery event hosted by our dear friend Gombby (surely, you remember him) in Green Island, some of his great friends told us about future projects related with people rather gifted in the field of sports, especially football. As we were tasting some new super-quality-croissants, we've been told that José Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo were two of them. Ouch! To our great surprise, over the course of the animated and colorful event, we were even welcomed through a meaningful involvement as partners. On top of this, we learned that the environment provided to flourish these projects would be someplace in another land, somewhere in a continent we've had never been before. A metropolis with people from all over the world. Ideas started to sprout really fast in our minds. Why not pursue our maritime epic and go farther away to accomplish new missions?
Thus, a few months later, we arrived at our new destination: Dubai, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Memories are coming back to us. We remember the first hours in this new land. It was a very sunny day - to say the truth, since our arrival, it only rained three ou four days and we still remember the July 9th 2013 when the thermometer indicated 46ºC (a kind of moment when you feel you're close to be half-boiled). Desert palms, big engined cars, very high humidity, menus in Arabic language, urban landscapes with hundreds of skyscrapers, different people, lower gas prices ... No doubt, we were far away from home and, of course, ready to accomplish.
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
We are what we do. Give us a space, tools and we create* (and we will not deny a little financial help to maintain ourselves happy and healthy). Our job is to get things well done and on time. That's the spirit. We learned that it's not innate and it's not always easy but we also know it's part of our growth. It's all about iteration. It's about getting better and faster every day because time does not wait. It's about experience.
"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."
As we wrote before, as much as we love to live on land, we aspire for more. We love our boat because it allows us to travel to faraway places, binding us to different people and cultures.
Each time we reach a new destination, we’re always cheerful as it’s the culmination of a dream, big or small, we dreamt of achieving.
Hoist the sails! We're getting ready for the next departure aboard our boat dhow.
See you soon! Someplace, somewhere!
*Here are some of the last projects our ship crew proudly got involved in: Gombby Channel ; Gombby Stickers ; Mourinho and the Special Ones TV Series (Soundtrack & SFX) ; Mourinho and the Special Ones game ( iOS & Android apps) ; The GAME by Ronaldo.
