Maira Martins

"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."

β€” Jesse Livermore

Bougainvillea

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Seen during our morning walk today. And my first time posting to the blog from my phone! πŸ“‘πŸ“²

"I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1) if you don’t bet, you can’t win; 2) if you lose all your chips, you can’t bet."

β€” Larry Hite

Luneta

Luneta

Luna woke me up extra early today. We went out before the first rays of sunshine showed up. We saw five or six wild rabbits, a squirrel, a cat, millions of colorful wildflowers everywhere we looked. Love spring!

Week 25: The flood

πŸ“š Finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley πŸ“š Finished reading Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie 🍿 Watched Anaconda (2025)! Preposterous, ridiculous, highly entertaining. :D 🍿 Watched Mike...

weeknotes, Astro

Finished reading: Brave New World πŸ“š

It took me forever, but I'm finally done reading my first fiction of the year! Last weekend I finished Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, and I needed some time to digest the turn th...

books

Week 24: The perfect crime

🎹 Played 5 days out of 7, for at least 30min a day! Currently working on an étude by Elena Gnyesina. The score suggests "moving" as a tempo and I can play it comfortably at 100bpm. But my teacher seem...

weeknotes, Luna, piano

Restarting my piano practice

The pandemic changed many things, for a lot of people. Personally, I bought a treadmill. And I decided I would learn the piano on my own, no teachers, just me, a book, and my musical geniality (ahem!)...

piano