Benjamin Tirone Nunes

I will be M.I.A.. No, not the singer who does some great music. From monday for 10 days I will be M.I.A. click read more to see why.

A month or two ago four friends of mine invited me to join them in a Legendary trip. We’re going to be leaving Lisbon today, actually as this is being published, we should be on our way to the station. But all in all it’s this: We’re going on a train trip to a few towns in Portugal to find what we think is the most Portuguese ‘tasca’ there is. During these 10 days we will be in company of one of the most annoying, yet fun, people I know, and we’ll be updating stuff online. Yet, we’ll still basically be on radio silence. We’re planning a film, so that’ll be up as well, but most of all this post is my little ‘Ode’ to my Mac, which I will be leaving at home.

I’ve had this MacBook for around four months now, but I’ve been ‘addicted’ to the internet for some time now. The internet is a real tool that when one learns how to use, it’s just perfect. To search for news, facts, definitions, videos, songs or locations it gives you it all. If you want to watch your favorite vloggers ranting/saying news/doing awesome stuff, it’s the place to go. To share things in a fast way with many people at once or one at a time, it’s the right tool. To update my blog, work on a blog project or just randomly comunicate, right place. And all accessible from my Mac. And soon I might start a vlog, so one more thing I can access from my Mac to the internet. But if it were ‘only’ that. Editing, writing, listening to music, working, organising are a few of the things my computer has been useful to me for over the last months, and being away from it for 10 days will be really weird.

I’ll miss my random writing, the updates by sxephil or freddiew, the daily check of abola and record . pt, the constant updates on facebook, backchecking of random information on wikipedia and then spending 10 min following that up with a deeper view into the same random information, the random chatting with people I hardly know and those I know too well are all things I will miss from my computer.

More than that the family and friends I seem to be leaving again and again for holidays/studying/etc…it’s is always amazing, but they will be missed the most.

So here it goes, au revoir for 10 days…why am I so dramatic? It’s not as if I’m going to be completely gone, and I am going to have a lot of helling fun.
By the way, if you speak Portuguese, thus read it as well, you can check up on what we’re doing here.
Enjoy.