Christmas with my family again !!

After 2 years without expending the christmas with my family I was able to do it again ! It was pretty cool ! I enjoyed it so much........
We spent the 24 at my farm, just imagine this: The whole of your family in the same place, a cold night, a chimney and the house full of christmas decoration everywhere... In the photo the christmas tree is not being displayed, however it was pretty nice.
The food was awesome, but as I said before, being together again was the best.
There´s one dog in the picture, did you find it already ? jajaja, because I was just writing this and saw him !


Merry Christmas for everybody !!

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein.

Today I was "Stumbling" some pages, and found this one full of Albert Einstein Quotes, here are some of the ones that I liked most:

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

; )

Energy Level: Pretty low..

After going to carambolas, I always end up feeling completely drained of energy.
Carambolas is a very very poor neighborhood where we are working with a program called "La Caja del Amor", basically what we do is that we collect boxes full of groceries, toys, clothes, and food and give them to the people who live there... Yesterday was the big day, after a couple of months gathering boxes we gave them away. It was so nice to see that people very very happy receiving their box, and giving as many "thank´s" as they could to everybody!

Playing with the kids there was also awesome..., spent some money buying ice creams for them..., they were very happy because of that !!

As I was saying at the begining, I just feel like if I gave all of my energy away to those people and those kids, that´s why I feel completely depleted of it.....

I just feel so lucky to be who I´m, to have a family, to have a house, a car, an education, food for every day that I open my eyes, but at the same time I feel bad for them. I think and I think and I can´t find not even one logic reason of why I have what I have and those kind´s and those people don´t have anything ! It´s something that´s not fair ! So my question is WHY ! just why ! and again, can´t find not even one reason....

To finish this post..., it´s great the feeling after helping them, even though if there´s no energy to enjoy it.

No Distorsion was a complete KAOS !!

Jajajaja, this was very coool !!!
Played paintball on wednesday with my folks against the No Distorsion and KAOS miniteca, it was just a mess, I mean, no distorsion ended like a complete KAOS !! we just painted them so much that at the end they looked like painters !!!
I was out of the paintball wars since 1 month and a half, so I tought that I was going to be eliminated pretty easy..., well, I was wrong on that, I didn´t receive not even one shot...., awesome!
I just got a cold on wednesday also after playing, I have no idea why..., at the office some people has it, and we´re with AC the hole day, so all the we´re breathing the same air !! that definetively sucks, because if somebody has something, it´s almost granted that another somebody is going to get it... TOO BAD!!

Today is the christmas party here at DDB, I´m not sure if I´m going or not to stay..., honestly just want to rest...

Yesterday saw "War of 2 worlds" directed by Steven Spilberg (not so sure about how to write his lastname), I liked that movie very much..., specially the end...., what killed the aliens...., the bacteria that causes the common cold to humans.... The message was pretty clear.
What I liked most, is that in the movie they don´t talk about the ideology of the aliens, only the consequences of it which in this case is translated into the extermination of the human kind.

A crow left to murder...

It´s sad..., but that´s what I´m seeing......, you´ll fall eventually.

Perfection..

For me that´s something that doesn´t exist and won´t never exist, anyway sometimes I think it does..., extrange though...., howeverI wish it could exist !!!!!
Finally that gray cloud that was over my head is going far far away, hope to not have to see it again soon.., however I learned some tecniques to make it go away faster....
This weekend I´m going to the end of the world, or at least that´s how I call that place..., I´ll post some pic´s next week !

Cya..

Broken...

It´s funny, but it happens that I bought a swiss swatch watch (it has rythm) last year, 6 months later the belt that holds it got broken, by that time I was already in Colombia..., so I went to an authorized swatch dealer, they told me that what happened to my belt was a factory issue, however they won´t replace the belt, instead they could give me a 105 disscount, yeah sure..., I´ll buy it and then come back again in 6 months and do the same over and over !! no thanks I said !
I asked then for a stainless steel belt, they didn´t have it by that moment, so they told me that they would arrive in a week, one week later nothing, one month later nothing, two months later and nothing..., six months later and nothing !! one year and finally it´s here..., funny though that I bought a watch, used it for 6 months, then wasn´t able to use it for a year and now I have to pay 30% of the watch price for the belt ! That´s not aceptable I said, plus that I´ll send a letter to the company...., it´s not the big deal..., but companies should have a little bit of respect for their customers !!! My watch was being drepeciated and I wasn´t even using it !! jajajaja, I just wanted to use the word "depreciated"..., anyway that´s funny, happens all the time everywhere......

Stuff...

Today I received an email from the NYU (New York University), sweet..., the deadline to apply is the 8th of Jan, I´m not so sure already about what am I going to do, I´ll have to think about it..., I´ll have to think about a lot of stuff before making that decision, but I have one fact, and is that I need to do it.
Today I started the Gym, it was not bad for the first day, I ran 1,4KM in 30 mins.., did a lot of other things and somehow my mind got some fresh air. Met with a friend from archery there, long time without seeing her..
Also received my new Matriz and Home Theather today, I´m just so happy to be able to sleep in a hugeeeeeeeeee bed..., and also watch movies with full sound effect !! Groovy !!!
At work, I can´t complain, now I´m a software arquitect, which means muchhhhhhh more responsability, but I like it !!!

Confidence..

I just checked my university extranet, and as expected I won all the asignatures.., maybe sometimes I´m a little bit confident, but for me confidence is everything....... Today I feel kind of extrange, no stress at work, no stress at university..., so somehow is like a boring day for me, anyway I´ve been reading some documents for my last asignature called Geopolitics, which is a speech, so I don´t think I´ll have any kind of problems with it....
Can´t wait to get my new HT.

An Inconsistency of my coherent inconsistences.

What´s the definition for happiness ??? Some people say that happiness is when you have everything, then when you have everything you realize that it doesn´t make you happy, others say that you find happiness in love, and then when you are in love you also realize that you´re not happy, others say that when you have your family you´re happy, and it´s like a endless chain of things that should make you happy but that in the end that´s not and that won´t never make you happy because happiness is something that doesn´t exist, is an utophy, something like perfection which in case you didn´t know also doens´t exist...... Life is so complicated..., sometimes I just imagine what life used to be centuries ago....., living just like another animal.., and advanced one though but keeping things simple....... Technology is a bless in a lot of fields yes..., I´m very deep in it also..., but somehow it makes life soooo much more complicated.., so much more globalized.., sooooo much faster......, it´s like a wave that somehow it´s going to end in something that nobody expects... I saw this movie animatrix.., and I think that that´s exactly the way how the world is going to end..., or maybe not end..., but how it´s going to be in the future..

There are days like today for me where I question myself about everything..., and honestly I like that in a way but not in another one...., it´s weird...., that´s what I call an "inconsitency of my coherent inconsistences"..

I´ll better go to sleep.....

Drinking some Grog !

Grog was a beverage that dates from a lot of centuries ago..., and was often drank by the pirates...., it was of a green color, I´m not that sure if it was glowing or not, however those who know tell that it used to taste as hell.....



Well, yesterday I was drinking grog.., jajjaja, well, actually it wasn´t grog, it was only beer but I wanted to call it today "grog"...... I was there with juanma and sebastian ochoa, a friend that´s doing a traineesheep in the US (miami to be more precise), it was such a good time with them...., we drank 2 "yardas" ??? I don´t know the correct name for that, but just imagine a huge glass, very thin, but very tall, like 1,5 mts........, anyway, we drank 2 of those together and at the end we were somehow a little bit drank thanks to that.. We spoke about everything..., and when I say everything is everything........
Good times to remember......

I was going 2005...but...

Well, yesterday I was installing Vs.net 2005, I was just so excited, BUT happens that the beta version that I did install was expired already, so my boss told me today that he´s going to bring me the Beta 2, which should be ok until jan 16 when I will get a full copy of vs.net 2005 with our MSDN subscription..., groovy !!

Today came to my mind the idea of get into the gym again.., I´m just feeling soooo rusty..., and I can´t let that happen..., so probably I´ll start next week, not so sure of it already but it´s something that my body is asking me for..

New OS is like a new life...., well, those who are involved deeply with computers know what I mean........., it´s like starting again from zero ! no errors, no problems at all, but they should be arriving soon...., you know.., the usual trash...

My thesis is doing OK, I need to focus on it during this long weekend....., so this won´t be a FWS weekend (Those letters stand´s for Free-Work-Styudy).

01:29AM on Saturday Night..

Well it´s 01:29AM and I´m here at the office, just finished ALCOA, gave it to Bruce and now packing to go home..., it´s soooo late!!!!! yoohoooo !!!! Sooo much work, so much effort, but at the end it feels great...

I´m definetively going to rest..........



-bye bye

Almost in the other side..

Today I received my last grade for Economics Enginnering which I thought was going to be very very bad...., well, I guess I was wrong, I got a 4,6 which puts me somehow on the other side.
I feel much more relaxed now to face the final exams.....

On saturday went to a party near by Girardota in a farm.., the place was very cool, the funny thing is that 2 years ago I was spending a weekend in that farm with my parents ( we did rent it) and I said: It will be so cool to have a party here. The DJ was in the middle of the pool, the sound and lights were awesome, my friend Richie played there and was amazing..., the bad things were the Dj´s that followed him, because the music lost a lot of rythm and from my point of view did throw the party to the floor.. taking live again with another DJ at 5AM (I was sleeping in my car by that time) so overall I can say that the place was very cool but the party wasn´t.

Sitting on my desk..

Well, today I was supoused to upload Alcoa to the NYC servers by 5:00PM, the thing is that the international channel I guess was very crawded so the upload was taking years to get done..., and I had 5:00 PM class at the university (Metodos 2)..., so I decided to let my local server doing the job for me.., slow but doing it....., I went to class......

It´s now 10:00PM and I just checked the Alcoa server and only a part of it was there...., who knows what happened..., anyway it´s not the big deal.., it´s a 156MB file..., and using a T1 connection that´s not a problem.., so well, now I´m sitting on my desk at home doing the upload which is going quite fast.., then I need to uncompress the file and install it.., sounds easy, huh ?

Vpn´s are just and simple a great invention....., right now I can say that I have a hugeeeee bridge of lan´s connected between them while I work throughout VPN´s........., that´s amazing.., work locally from the distance.

Well, what else can I say...... Oh, now I remembered that I was going to post some NYC pictures.., so I´m just going to download them from my digi and post´em here.



This is a "casual" picture.., it´s just so funny. Esteban appears looking like in a casual picture, the thing is that is not casual at all, he´s simulating it to look like it is casual.., so funny.., with the liberty statue in the distance...., and holding a delicious capuchino.....

Groovy, now the file is up, so I better start deploying it !

After All....

Well, after a lot of hard work, long nights, some partying and some turism I came back from NYC to Colombia..... I´m just amazed of this city..., the world converges and diverges to and from there, that´s where the real business are, where stuff happens........, where decisions are made, where things definetively happens..

Working there was amazing, very intelligent and hard working people where each of them has it´s very own style, all of them were very friendly and helpfull, and the best things it that the work atmosphere was gorgeous, this because each part of the team had a lot of knowledge on the area where he or she was.
I won´t never forget this equation that I read on wired magazine:

Best Technology + Best Conditions + Best People = Best Results.


And that´s what I found there......., that´s why I want to be there, and I will be there.

It was just so cool to play some xbox if you just got tired of coding or something else, get relaxed and then start again.....

I want to put some pictures here, I didn´t take so much thuogh, sadly I haven´t downloaded them from my Digi, and the thing is that I always put here that I will post them later and I never do, will I do it this time ??? Wont I ??? Hell no !!! I have to !!!!

That was for work...
For party, went with Pica, Brendan and Andrea to Crobar, Ferry Corsten was there, and it was amazing...., one of the things that I always enjoy and try to do is when I go to another country do some partying in local disco´s, and NY was not the exception..... Stayed there until morning, so wasted next day but it was worth it..., people there was very friendly...., overall the partying experience was exceptional.

For Tourism,
Went to Ground Zero and I was so fucking impressed with that "HOLE", each time that I was seeing arround I couldn´t avoid to imagine what people could felt being there, how many people died there, how many people lost their loved ones...., It´s a huge hole in the middle of buildings..., I felt a freezing silence there.., it´s a scary view.

Well, that´s all for now..., have to get back to work and I hope to post pic´s this time...

Sitting in the airport..

Well, right now I´m just sitting here in the JoseMa Airport at Rionegro waiting to catch my flight to NYC at 6:00PM.
The hotel is already booked, it´ll be "Jazz on the Park", which is very close to central park. Llet´s see ow it looks like..
Estimated arrival time is 12:00AM. Lot´s of people here waiting in this room..., and while I see them I ask myself what´s the purpose of their travel, what are they going to do, who are they going to see, will they be happy to leave the country ? Will they be sad ? Will they be running away ? Are they going to see they beloved ones ? Business ??
The plane is being filled up with lot´s of baggage, it´s just so incredible that these machines can fly with all of this weight..., I think that this is one thing that always will be amazing me forever....
We just bought a present for the guy that we´re going to meet (Bruce), it´s not the big deal, but we bought him a nice mug plus some "Chocolatinas JET".

That´s all for now...., anyway I´ll be posting later..

NYC..

Well, everything worked out the way I wanted and tomorrow I´ll be traveling to NYC for business, staying there for 8 days..., awesome !! Pica is going with me, I´m sure we´ll have a very good time there, get to know important people and so on..., I´m very excited with this trip and have a lot of expectatives !
I´m just to sleepy to post anything else right now, so I´ll better go to sleep.

To my beloved audience...

I do care about my audience.., so if you use the transitive law of mathematics you will realize that I do care about you my dear reader....., so I want to say tanks to you and all of you who are constantly reading my blog, somehow that´s the reason of it´s existence.

Sometimes I can´t post that often.., which doesn´t mean that I don´t want to, it´s because sometimes I´m that bussy that I don´t have enough time.., I always have tried to at least post daily, but the reality is different., I was posting once a week..., but now my goal is to continue posting daily and in the worst case escenario twice a week.

And to finish this post, here are the statistics of visitors from all around the world and their respective collaboration to the trafic of this blog:

	Country	#´r of visits	Percentage
1.	Colombia	896	44.5 %
2.	Estados Unidos	372	18.5 %
3.	Alemania	214	10.6 %
4.	Perú	90	4.5 %
5.	Ecuador	88	4.4 %
6.	Chile	85	4.2 %
7.	Argentina	48	2.4 %
8.	Uruguay	48	2.4 %
9.	Reino Unido	25	1.2 %
10.	Francia	14	0.7 %

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if it didn´t work, try again and again and again... until..

Well, finally after spending 3 hourse here on a saturday night, I managed to put to work the "E-payments" module that I´m going to use for my thesis.... I was given this tutorial on how to configure this thing, but they specified everything but one very important thing.., the impersonation in asp.net. Now it´s working flawlessly with the test account that I was given.. I can´t wait to get my merchant id and start selling on the web.., that´s gonna be awesome !!!

Chop - Chop !!

Finally the weekend comes...

Well, finally the weekend..
YEsterday party at work beacause of the "Amor y Amistad" day..., did had a good time..., and something very funny did hapen to me.., I'll post the pic´s later on....., it was just sooooo funny, because usually I go to work and I bring my own lunch in a Bob Sponja "Lonchera" (Don´t know the word in english for it, but in case that you don´t know what a lonchera is, it is the case where the kids bring lunch everyday to school)..., so yesterday I went to buy some energetic´s drinks at 3:30 with pica because we were sooo tired.., when I arrove I didn´t see my Lonchera, and somebody told me that nacho took it.., so I went to his office and took his mobile as a hostage (He didn´t realize that I took it until very late)..., a couple of minutes later an email was sent to all the company saying that my lonchera was kidnaped, of course, the idea of this email was to shown to everybody on the company that I was carrying a kid´s lonchera everyday..., that was funny tough.. Later on, at 11:30 on the middle of the party my lonchera appeared, so a lot of people was laughing at me..., however it was funny.

That´s all for know.., right now I'm going to watch a movie and eat pop-corns with my mom.

1:11AM

Just arrived from work...
This last two weeks have been full of work and long nights, somehow this project where I´m working on, became like a challenge for me, in fact it is a challenge and I´m going to beat it at 101%.
Not much has happened these days...., at university I´m doing alright.., haven´t lost any exam already, hope not to anyway....

Well, I just wanted to post something here..., I´ve been hyper mega bussy so please dear blog, understand me...., you know I love you..

Ok, time to go to bed...

-Esteban

Time has passed..

Well, a lot of time has passed since my last post.
I received my passport 2 days ago, now with a brand new multiple B1/B2 entrey visa for USA., cool.

University it´s ok, studying quite a bit, la caja del amor is also ok, I bought the domain on tuesday (www.lacajadelamor.com), also got response from Todo 1 to put their virtual pay button, so everything these days is on track.., some problems at home I hope we can fix that as soon as possible.

Yesterday I received 10,000 paintballs, I started selling them today and I´ve sold 3,500 already, in case your´re interested the price is $70 each.
I also was looking for machinery to produce this things, but it looks sooo expensive (US 100,000 aproximately).., anyway i´ll continue searching..

Yesterday met with a girl from Minessota called Angela, she´s a friend of a friend that´s living in Bogota who´s moving soon to Medellin. We went for a beer and after that directly home, I was sooo tired.

My trip to NYC hasn´t been scheduled already...., first we need to finish this project, but I think that it will be between the 20th of sept and the 30 of it.
I think I´ll write an email to my friend Brendan to see if he´s going to be there or not.. Hey Buddy, if you´re reading this.., did you manage to get the position in London?.

Well Well, have to get back to my stuff, I´ll be posting often..

-Esteban

Good News from the Capital (Bogota)...

Well, finally I got my USA visa...., now the trip that was a little bit cloudly to NY is getting clearer and clearer, which is very good because first of all I have always wanted to get to know NYC, second that it opens for me a lot of new oportunities.., which is very very good.

Today I was very scared at that embassy....
To begin the story, I left home at 4:30 AM and headed to the airport, got there at 5:20 AM, my fligh was with Aerorepublica at 6:20AM, it was just on time.., so I arrove here at bogota at 7:00 AM, took a taxi and arrove to the embassy at 7:30..., since then I was there, doing just and simply nothing except thinking: Am I going to get the visa ? Am I not ? Finally at 4:00 PM I had the interview which in a beginning was schduled to 11:00 AM.
It´s sad to see a lot of people crying, making their dreams go away because of a simple visa..., because they didn´t get it. I think that I would have felt very very sad right now if I didn´t that visa...., however the destiny was good with me this time, not like 4 years ago when they said "I´m sorry sir, but I cannot give you a visa today..."
In the other hand, I was very positive that I was going to get it, my passport was full of visas and stamps from the last year of my trip to Europe.., I think that helped me a lot.

Well, right now I´m on the "Diners Club VIP Waiting Room" at the "El Dorado" airport writing this while I wait for my flight at 5:50 PM which initially was scheduled for 8:20 PM, but I did manage to change it.

I need to get home ASAP because I need to continue studying for Economics Enginnering first parcial exam tomorrow.., I´m not that bad at it.., but I need to study !!

Well, that´s all for now.....

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Future is uncertain these days..

Well, since last week I haven´t stop for a rest, too much study, too much work.., too much of everything, but I hope to take a breath this weekend.
There´s a trip that maybe.., but that maybe seems to be very small now...., there´s a kind of cloud over it that each day that passes becomes more foggy making the trip less possible each time.

Yesterday was funny, here at the office, there´s a publicity agency doing an advertisement work for a newspaper called "El Colombiano", so one of the guys called me and asked me to take one picture kissing a girl, well not exactly kissing.., the idea was to make it look like if we were going to kiss but we didn´t.., it was funny though.

Esteban !! You were in danger and you didn´t know !!

Well, today as I wrote before, I had a task, and it was to get my car to the garage to get a breaks inspection because it had a very particular sound....
I woke up at 10:30 stayed in bed until 12:00 doing a lot of sort of things in my computer, and finally when I was ready I call to the garage and it was closed..., so I came home, and called to "Metrofrenos" that is a very good place, it was open, so I went there, and they told me that I had th replace the discs, and other very important pieces that were just toooo wasted..., the guy told me that it wasn´t that safe to have that pieces in that way... Finally they replace all the pieces and my breaking system was like new again...., I can feel the diference...

It was weird.., and the bill was huge.. arrghhhhhh

Virtual Past??

Maybe the term is a little bit crazy..., but I found that very intersting... Today I´m let´s say incorporating all my old information (PST´s, email´s, files, history´s, etc..) since the year 2000 into my new computer..., somehow I feel identified by all of that..., I mean.., I did all of that.., I wrote all of that., for example I found emails that I exchanged with people that I don´t even remeber, other that I don´t want to remember, other´s that make my life happy, and other´s that I´ve been in touch with for hundreds of years... It´s just so crazy to see all of that...., "My Virtual Past"...
I think that in the last years I´ve done so much, but when I start to see all of this past informatoin I remember much more and realize even more all the things that I´ve donde since 2000, the most incredible thing is that almost all of that is inside my head, maybe not in an active way, but yes in a pasive one...., the mysterious thing here is that I can remeber every single line that I wrote..., and when I do, I remember much more things like sounds, smells, images associated to that situation.....
I´m just amazed with this computer, right now it´s sitting on my legs, and when I move it has a move detector, so it inactivates the hard disk to protect it from scratch or something like that..., the same thing happens if my computer falls from my hands..., it inactivates the hard drive to protect it from data loss..

Well, breakfast time.., so I´ll be back later.., so much things to do....

Tasks for this weekend..

Well, at the beginning of the week I thought that this weekend was going to be just of rest, but I was wrong, I have quite a bit of things to do, among them:
1. Write my thesis project.
2. Study for Economics Engineering Quizz.
3. Study for Cuantitative Methods 2 first parcial exam.
4. Tune up B-software webpage.
5. Configure my new laptop IBM Thinkpad T43.
6. Take my car for a revision in the front left brake.
7. Read a book for Geopolitics.
8. Clean up my Dell Inspiron 6000.

Well, I think that´s all for now......, be posting more in case that I have more to do´s.

Drained out..

It´s thursday and I would like it to be friday ! I´m just so tired this week, so much things to do, so much things to be prepared, so much stress, so much of everything except rest....

For this weekend I have some things to study, have one parcial exam and one quizz, the parcial is for Metodos Cuantitativos 2, and the quizz is for Economics Engineering..., let´s see what happens.

In the other hand I´m kind of white mind today.., so I won´t write too much, however, I guess that I´ll post something more interesting later..

Google, google google, now in IM.

I downloaded this morning Google Talk, I´m very impressed because now Google is present in a huge range of products, ranging from the search engine, google earth, email, IM, plus that is developing an Operative System and a Browser..., I think that Microsoft needs to re-think their business model, because Google now is taking the world and everything for free !!! That´s just incredible !! I won´t mind if in one year my computer runs on 100% freee software (sponsored by google) and each time that I do something see some kind of small advertisement., thats the price for that but I think that it will be a win win situation, plus that it will help you on your daily work specially if you work a lot with search engines.

This morning I had 6:00AM class, so I woke up at 5:00AM, the thing is that I was that sleepy that I just stayed for a couple of minutes more, and when I woke up it was 5:36AM, obviously I was late for class.., not the big deal however..

Today I have an appointmen with the head of my career in the university, and I´m going to expose him a project that I want to develop as my thesis, I have a good feeling about it, however, I´ll put more details if this think works.

Well, that´s it for now...........

BTW, I´m in the paintball fields again...

Sleeping is definetively a waste of time...

Ok, 6 hours is enough......., no more no less...
Today I decided to come earlier than normal to my office (6AM to be more precise), the reason is because at this time in the morning everything is quiet..., I can be more productive.., but well, to be honest those are only excuses, the main reason is that my day becomes longer..., longer in terms of what I can do in one unit of time, in other words what I can do in one day.
There´s only one difficult thing, and is when at 5:00AM in the morning my mobile wakes me up to say: "Hey Esteban, time to wake up !!", in those minutes the only thing that I want to do is stay in my "nice and warm" bed...., but after I beat that feeling..., then everything is Ok.

Changing of topic, my mother gave me a very cool ultra small umbrella, I didn´t use it until yesterday!! God it was raining !!!!!! It was very helpfull, and at the same time very handy ! Thanks mom !!!
The Enginnering day was yesterday, so here at the office the "Zape Pelele" drew a comic of each one of us, it was soo funny, actually I look very similar in real life..., if I have the chance I´ll scan it and after that post it here.

What else can I say...., I guess that´s all for now....

Started working on a new Project..

Well, yesterday I started working on an application for a charity foundation called "La caja del amor", what this foundation does is basically help people in very poor zones of the city, they achieve this selling boxes called "la caja del amor" for a small amount of money, each box comes empty, and then after you buy it the idea is that you will put on it as much things as you want, for example grocery things, coats, toys, etc, the idea is to give this boxes to the poor people on christmas with the objective of giving them a happy christmas eve !!, I have so much things to do there regarding to the IT part..., and I´m 100% sure that with my help this foundation is going to boost so much..., they are planning to sell 3,000 boxes this year, but my objective is to make that number double, I mean 6,000 boxes.., how ? Well, what I´m planning to do is to create a virtual box with the name "La caja virtual del amor" or something like that.., the idea is that you can go to the foundation website, configure the box in the way you want or you can, and after that pay for it in this case via Bancolombia or Conavi..., it would save so much time, and at the same time it can be forwarded to more and more people very very easily.., like the way you forward nice and funny emails.
I´m sure that the divine power will be with me on this one....., it´s for a very very good cause, and I hope that you, the reader will buy at least one after the system is running, I´ll post some pictures here about what I´m talking about..., when I saw those pictures I was soo sad...., because you can see that these people doesn´t have anything at all, and we have everything...., those people get happy with a bag of rice, do we get happy with that ???

Might God be with you..

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I got sick last friday.., actually I got a cold.., almost everybody in the office has one.., so I guess it was very difficult for me to not get one.., friday was not that bad, but on saturday I was very ill, being sick is the worst thing..., but at the same time makes you realize that when you're healthy you don't apreciate it.., so then you have to be sick to be able to.
Have a lot of things to do on this week, being bussy is good, because I can use almost all of my time in a very profitable way..
Well, I guess that's all for now.., my energy is kind of low plus that I'm tired right now, so I won't write that much.., anyway I dont have to much things to write these days..., actually I'm in the middle of a lot of things that may happen soon, but I rather not to post nothing until the alignment is ok.
I have been thinking quite a bit about my future, my plans.., and I now that I'm in the correct path, but at the same time I also know that I need to do some tuning and change some things that need to be fixed.

Tomorrow I'll be able to sleep a little bit more than usual because I have "pico y placa", which means that I can't take out my car before 8:30 AM, so I'll start working at 9:00AM.

Time for me to go to sleep.

I don´t have a title for this post..

Well, as I said before, I don´t have a title for this post, usually I do, but today is definetively the exception.
This week has been full of work and study, today is finally friday, but the thing is that I have a class from 5PM until 9PM, and tomorrow I´ve a class from 8AM until 1PM, that´s great, isn´t it ? It means that today I can´t do much if I want to be able to go to class tomorrow, the good thing is that this asignature will end in 2 weeks !! I know that this schedule is very thight and difficult, but it was for only 1 month.., so it´s not the big deal at all. I´ll be with only 3 asignatures in 2 weeks then..., which is good, because this semester I don´t have that much time to study.
Yesterday I went to a charity dinner in "Caná de Galilea" which is a very fancy place in my city, the funny thing is that I went for dinner and I didn´t get one, in fact all the people who were siting at my table didn´t have dinner at all, why ? Because so many people went there that they ran out of meals very fast..., so what we got as dinner was the introductory dish twice and the dessert, no main dish at all, however it was ok, it was for a good cause.

With my drug prescription everything has been ok for the last 2 weeks that I´ve been taking it, I can get concentrated pretty easily, work without getting that tired at all, sleepy sensation is gone, getting as a conclusion that I wish I had gone to the NeuroDoc before... My performance has increased soooooooooo much...., soooo much that sometimes I can´t beleive it.

For this weekend I´ve no plans at all, maybe tomorrow I´ll go to my farm, cuz there´s going to be a "paella" there.., so that´s a posibility, I also have to study for a economics enginneering test next week, read some books for another asignatures, so I don´t think that I´ll do too much. I´m gonna try to play some paintball on sunday, haven´t played in 2 weeks..., I´ve a shape to take care off...jajajaja, anyway..., yesterday I took a haircut..., it´s just so incredible the price of a haircut here, I remember that the last year in CH going for one was an Impossible because of the price (60 CHF, which is in Colombian pesos $120.000), and here is just $7.000 Colombian pesos........ It´s just s incredible.

Well, I think that´s all for now....., I´ll be posting if anything new comes up..

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Update...Update..Update...

Well, last friday we went to the airport to pick up "Poveda", jajajja, well, the thing is that when we got there I saw that a lot of people were waiting for other people holding small pieces of paper with the name that they were waiting for writen on it..., so I did the same.., and because the paper wasn´t big enough I wrote "Andy Poveda"...., when he saw it that was funny...
After picking him up we headed down again to Medellin, and meanwhile we were drinking Aguardiente in the car, not a very good safety driving practice.., however I wasn´t driving..
Poveda wanted to give the sourprise of his arrival to his family and his girlfriend se we helped him on that.., so the first thing that we did was to pick up my car because we were 4, then headed to Poveda´s girlfriend.., she was very excited when she saw her....., I really like that kind of sourprises.., you know.., I like them that much that I did the same with my parents when I got back from Europe. After picking her up we went to Juana´s house (another friend) and stayed there for 1/2 hour maybe..., and then to Poveda´s house.., some friends came by..., and after 1 hour his parent´s arrove.., they were very sourprised...., that was nice.
I left his house at 12:00 because I had to wake up early the next day (saturday) for "Mercadeo" class..., so that´s the end of that story.
Next day (saturday) after class I went to the "Cabalgata", for those who don´t recognize the word is somethign very typical from here from Medellin, is a day where a main road is closed and lot´s of people riding horses goes throughout it..., so there´s people everywhere..., drunk people, young people.., you can find everything !! I stayed there maybe until 5:00PM, after that I was very tired..., so I gave a lift to Poveda and his girlfriend to Andy´s place..., and after that I went to naty´s house....., the rest is history until the next day.., I was soooooooo tired.
On sunday did some studying, went also to the supermarket..., not big deal..., talk also to an old friend, Brendan from NYC and well..., that was all.
Today I had 6 AM class, it wasn´t that difficult to wake up..., and in the lunch brake the company gave us our new Id´s with a yummy lunch..., I think that I drink too much wine.., because I was like in the Nebulosa here in the rest of the afternoon, even though I managed to get concentrated after a couple of coffee´s...
My boss is leaving the company, she gave us the sad notice today..., I only had the chance to work with her for 2 months and it was a very good experience...., I´m gonna miss her so much..
Well, now it´s almost 5:30 PM, so I´ll be heading home...

An interesting definition that I found for Ritalin on the web...

".....ADD patients compare Ritalin to putting a new antenna on a radio: It eliminates the constant static, distraction, and interference commonly picked up by an ADD brain......"

Well, I have to wake up very early tomorrow for 6 AM class...., so I shall go to sleep, but before i'll wirte a few lines...
Today I took 30 MG of the drug..., didn't have any sleep desire in all the day.., I was focused on everything I did, I found a little bit of difficult to drive my car at night...., maybe it was because I was very tired..., and the best of all is that I was very calm...., took my time to do everything...., no hurries at all..

zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Small Symptoms Update...

Feeling a little bit Dizzy...., but in a good way..... It´s kind of funny.., I think this thing is working.., because normally when I go to the bathroom and both are occupied I can´t stand to wait for it, so I get back to my workstation and then after a couple of minutes I try again.., today both bathrooms where both occupied, and I just stayed and waited for one to bee free....., small things but important ones...

Symptoms ??

Right now reporting ritalin effects:
Well, I can´t say tooooo much..., actually I´ve felt that my concentration has increased when I´m doing something, when I´m talking to somebody I really get inside the conversation..., not like before that I did´t get inside at all...., I retain more words from something that I read couple of seconds ago..., I´m less acelerated.., I thing that I went from 8,000 RPM to 4,000 RPM..., well, it´s just an example......, however this things take time, but so far no complications, no headache, no stomach pain..., sometimes I feel like a empty sensation on my stomach..., no sleep sensation at all......
I´m taking my time to do everything...., however one day is not enough to write more words here...., anyway I´ll be posting if something comes out..

My horoscope today is sooooo true !

"Today you could feel unusually close to your family, Esteban Ochoa. The energies of the day will inspire you to have fun and intimacy with your loved ones. Sometimes you are a bit shy and closed off to people. But today you'll feel much more relaxed. It's nice to just be yourself and to know that your loved ones value you for who you are. You don't need to perform or pretend. Just allow the real you to come out!"

My zodiac sign is Cancer..., and this was extracted from msn daily horoscope...

My horoscope today is sooooo true !

"Today you could feel unusually close to your family, Esteban Ochoa. The energies of the day will inspire you to have fun and intimacy with your loved ones. Sometimes you are a bit shy and closed off to people. But today you'll feel much more relaxed. It's nice to just be yourself and to know that your loved ones value you for who you are. You don't need to perform or pretend. Just allow the real you to come out!"

My zodiac sign is Cancer..., and this was extracted from msn daily horoscope...

Fixing the small things...

Well, I haven´t posted that much lately..., been kind of bussy with the university, the work, everything..., don´t have too much time to spend doing nothing like I used to, well, I won´t call it "doing nothing" because actually I used to use that time to read, to study, so I think it´s better to call it "free time". So, as a conclusion I don´t have too much free time these days.., but I like it.., I feel that I´m taking advantage of my time and doing a huge of productive things....

Yesterday I went to the Doc, well, not exactly a common doctor, but one that is speciallized in the brain..., the reason why I went is because I´m just so tired of doing everything fast, of being like a motor when is over revolutions I mean over acelerated to do everything, to study, to read, to play, to go out, EVERYTHING!!!!!!!...., that´s how my life is..., and I definetively don´t like it at all...., and I need to change that.... Well, so I went there, we talk for one hour, did some tests..., and finally the doc said that my problem was a mix of hyperactivity with a bit of attention disorder..., nothing to get worried about.., but it can be solved..., so he prescribed me a 20mg - 30mg daily dose or ritalin...

I took my first one today at 7:45 AM, they say that it takes from 30 minutes to 45 to feel the effects.., well now is 9:13 AM and I´m just so relaxed...., like if the time were not passing at all...., will this be the fix to my speed problem ?? I hope it will........ I´ll be posting during the days any other symptoms that I may feel......

Right now I´ll finish reading email (I have 8) and after that continue with work...

Somebody did fart !!

We almost got killed here at the office.., somebody farted soooo strong that we all left the office, I guess that my eyes got red !! That reminds me of poveda in schweiz !!!! jajajajajajajjajaja

Tooooooooooooo Tired today...

Yesterday after work I went for a little bit of jogging, and after that I headed to the paintball field with a friend just to look somebody to play with.., we started to play with a group of 10 guys..., and kicked them ass, I got shooted only one in my arm, even though the ball didn´t explode.., and I almost forgot, I got another shoot in my neck.., thanks god I was wearing my neck protector...
After we finished playing with these guys we played with another guys..., I didn´t like them a lot, but we did... Can you beleive that I got another shot in the right side of my neck form a distance of 2 meters from a team mate ???
Well...., that was it..

Now, I´m just sitting in my computer, waiting for a meeting to start.., and soooooo tired of yesterday, adding that today I had a 6:00AM class.., a killer one.

My schedule this semester is not that bad...

Mondays and Wednesdays: 6-8 AM Ingenieria Economica.
Mondays and Wednesdays: 12-2 PM Geopolitica.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 5-7 PM Metodos Cuantitativos 2.
Friday: 5 - 9 PM Mercadeo.
Saturday: 8 - 12 Mercadeo.

Working un sunday.....

Well, there´s nothing free on this life.., so right now I´m paying what I took 1 week ago...., that week that I used to go to the coast... (more pictures will come soon..).
The office is almost empty..., I´m developing a Virtual Catalog for the "X" company (You´ve got to understand that this informatin is confidential.....jajaja, I always wanted to say that...), and at the same time I´m performing an evaluation to a guy called "Sergio" that want to get inside the company, so let´s call this his "Admision Test".., well, we´ve have had a couple of problems with that because the computer where his working right now has rebooted itself several times.., which is pretty bad because the guy lost some of his work.
I'm a little bit stucked right now in my work because the specification that I have to perform some task are not clear enough.., that sucks.., and I don´t want to guess the way it should be. So I´ll do some other tasks that I´ve.
Finally I replaced my pair of oakleys.., I took them as my birthday present, I´m so happy with them.
I didn´t know that Jennifer Love Hewitt used to sing, well, right now I´m listening a couple of her songs.., right now playing: "Avenue of the stars"..jajajaj, from the "Barenaked" album, and I´ve to admit that it´s not bad at all.., actually she has a nice voice..
Well, have to get back to work..

Nice Sunset..

This is a picture from a sunset that I took in Balsillas (Caribean Coast) last week.



The only thing that comes to my mind whenever I see this picture is tranquility...

Un escrito que encontré del autor de "Pedro Responde.."

Bueno, hay veces que me cansó de escribir en ingles, asi que mis amigos extranjeros, esta vez se quedarán con las ganas de saber que dice aquí a no ser que aprendan español o encuentren a alguien que les traduzca....

Para los que no sabe, "Pedro Responde" es un programita que supuestamente cuando se ejecuta se conecta con el alma de "Pedro" o sea un espiritu. Uno le empieza entonces a preguntar cuanta guevonada se le ocurre y el le responde todo tal cual es, fué demasiado charro porque el dia que lo vi por primera vez yo pensaba para mi: "Que es esta maricada tan rara..., como funciona?". Yo le dije al pelao que lo estaba manejando que le preguntara por favor que de que color eran mis zapatos, y efectivamente respondió "cafes", le dije que le preguntara que de que color era mi camisa y me dijo "De cuadros de tal y tal color..", yo no lo podia creer...., y a parte de eso luego me dijo que tenia un retenedor en la boca..jajajjaja, eso si fue la tapa..., de cualquier manera yo no creia en eso...... Luego de estar ahi un rato el pelao que lo estaba manejando me explico como funcionaba.., bastante simple por cierto..., y era basicamente de la siguiente manera:
Supongamos que yo le pregunto a pedro: "Que dia es hoy?"
La persona que esta manejando el programa el dia o sea "martes", pero sucede que lo que escribe no se muestra en la pantalla, pero para dar el despiste el programa escribe unas letras que dicen algo como: "Pedro por favor responder:" En este instante entonces la persona escribe la pregunta "Que dia es hoy" y a continuación presiona la tecla "Enter" y por arte de magia pedro responde "Martes" Y woww, alguien queda descrestado, es muy fino.

Si quieren experimentar con el programa y asustar a uno que otro amigo lo pueden bajar de aquí: www.pedroresponde.com.ar

El escrito que encontre del autor fue el siguiente, y lo extraje de la pagina: www.lacoctelera.com, aquí va:

".........Soy el autor del programa Pedro Responde y cada cierto tiempo utilizo varios buscadores para encontrar por dónde anda.

De esta forma he llegado a tu Blog, y quería dejar mi comentario:

El objetivo de mi programa consiste en demostrar que, a veces, ante misterios que no nos podemos explicar (en este caso que Pedro responda) llegamos a creer en cosas que no son.

Muchas veces, trucos similares son utilizados por tarotistas, adivinos, etc. que se aprovechan de quienes, en su buena fe, creen en ellos y les dejan grandes ganancias. Este inofensivo programa sólo es para demostrar que siempre hay una explicación para todo.

Para crear Pedro Responde me basé en un programa similar llamado Wizard , que utilizaba como alma el nombre de Liza . Este programa era para DOS y no funcionaba en Windows, y por eso muchas personas no lo usaban.

Mi trabajo fue crear un programa más fácil de usar, con un entorno un poco mejor, y además incorporarle un módulo de respuestas automáticas ; por eso Pedro puede responder algunas de las preguntas más frecuentes cuando quien lo usa no conoce el truco, o por lo menos intenta evadirlas de la mejor manera posible. Así nace Pedro Responde , publicado en Internet inicialmente en la versión 1.3 y luego en la 2.0.

Realmente no me sorprenden las historias que contás, ya que a diario me llegan consultas e historias increibles desde varios países (en especial Colombia).

Sin embargo creo que es más fácil caer en la trampa del truco de lo que uno se imagina.

Lo que no puedo entender es cómo hay periodistas que opinan públicamente sobre mi sistema sin haber investigado lo suficiente (creyendo aún que es un alma).

Es muy fácil llegar a la verdad, mi sitio Web está posicionado primero al buscar "Pedro Responde" en varios buscadores, y mi dirección electrónica figura en el programa (respondo la totalidad de los mensajes explicando la verdad y la existencia del truco).

Me sorprende también que, en sitios donde aparece la explicación del truco, le hagan preguntas a "Pedro" si hay un espacio para enviar mensajes (ni siquiera leen el contenido de la página).

Finalmente pido que UTILICEN MI SISTEMA CON RESPONSABILIDAD; EL OBJETIVO NO ES ASUSTAR A NADIE, sino el explicado al principio de mi comentario.

Saludos,

Federico G. Vigo

Casilda, Argentina........"

Update from last week..

Ok, it started on saturday at 4:30 AM when I woke up after going to bed at 1:30 AM (not too much time to sleep) .., however I drove to the coast with Naty and some relatives and friends, a 8.5 hours drive, everything went ok, the road was ok, no problems at all. Arrived at 2:30 PM and then you can feel the amount of humidity that the air has...., personally I don`t like that too much..., in fact I like the warm weather but just for a couple of days, no more than that.., I consider myself a person that it`s prefered habitat is the cold weather, remember that.., cold weather is the key..
Ok Ok.., let`s continue with the story that I was writing before...
Started to read "Angeles & Demons" from the same author of the "Davinci Code".., what`s he`s name..., I can`t remember... ( I just googled it and it`s Dan Brown), and I really like the way he writes..., you can`t stop reading it, but I did, because I lend it to somebody else.., so I didn`t advance that much.., but I`ll continue this week.
Days passed quite normal, then on the 5th of july it was my birthday, my 24th year of life..., INCREDIBLE !! Celebrated with a brown cake with a yummy chocolate sauce and some marshmallows on it.. yummy again... Thanks to all of that who remembered it and in one way or another.
Did Scuba Diving..., awesome thing to do, but very scary at the begining..., I have to admit it.., I felt like a 100% beginer.., in fact I was a 100% beginer because the closest thing that I ever done closer to scuba diving is snorkeling. So as I was writing, the first time was very scary.., getting used to breath with the tank is easy but you don`t get used to it after a couple of minutes.., then learning how to go up and down wasn`t that easy..., and sometimes I got desperated.., but I said to myself "Just relax and enjoy..." and I did it.. That was not all of it.., I spent so much air, that happens when you`re scared, also it was a bit difficult to compensate at the begining but after a few times it was piece of cake... After 14 minutes of the inmersion I got a headache, not the best thing too feel down there because that added a little bit of terror to my scuba experience. The water was very cold, we went down to 80 feet`s.., that`s about 26,6 meters, and everything was very dark......, didn`t see too much animals though, but I did see a lot of corals and plants... I was diving with naty and other guy called Mauricio, at some point naty got out of air so she had to use my tank..., what a mess.., that was a little bit difficult at the begining because I wasn`t that used to the equipment and doing tricks and things under the water is not easy because everything has to be done through hand signals..., so you can`t be that descriptive..., I guess that an advanced scuba diver can, but that wasn`t my case. However.., naty started to breath from my tank, and while doing the maneuver she cut herself in the leg with a coral.., poor girl.., that did hurt !!! Ok, so the air run out very fast so finally and thanks to god with went to the surface..., and when we started to go up the water started to warm slowly, very slowly.., and I start to calm a little bit more myself.
What a headache !!! I was feeling a little bit weird but not that much.., anyway I was ok.
The next day we headed again to the see to do another inmersion, and I was scared..., I didn`t know if I should do it or not.., but I did it and that was the best one..., I was much more relaxed.., more confident...., enjoying it more..., no headache at all..., everything went just fine....
Didn`t see too much animals at all, but again the experience was veryyyyyyyyy cool.
Yesterday we drove back to Medellin..., we arrove here at 1:30 and I just falled asleep for the rest of the afternoon.

Home Sweet Home..

A small update cuz I'm so tired to post.......

Just arrived from the coast today.., finally no more mosquitos !! So I'll be able to sleep well again...jajajjajaja, but overall this small vacations were just great !

I'll be posting some photos and stories tomorrow..

Falling Asleep..

It´s Friday afternoon and I´m sitting at my desk....., almost sleep..., falling asleep, what´s the difference......, don´t want to do anything at all.... I just drank a cup of coffee, it was very dark and didn´t taste well at all, maybe it was overburn........., waiting for the caffeinne to do it´s magical effect. I´ll drink a sip of O2 to take out the bad taste of it.... GLU GLU GLU GLU !!!
I just put my headphones and listen to some eletronic music to make the energy go up ! It´s not working at all !! jajaja, I´ll just switch the song.... "Forward"... Well, it seemd that now is working.., jajajja, or is it maybe the caffeinne ??? I´d rather say that´s a mix ! Eletronic + Coffee = Will awake u !
I was looking at google images one image to paste here to try to ilustrate my concept but I didn´t find it at all...

Fridays afternoons are kind of depressing somehow..., I´m not depressed or something.., it´s just that you can feel how low the energy is arround you..., everybody is tired from the week that it´s just ending...., everybody is just looking forward to get out of it, to get a rest.., to don´t have to wake up early the next couple of days..., to do some sports.., there are plenty of reasons...., it´s also kinf of funny because I read once an article when it said: "Never buy a vehicle that was built on a friday or monday" guess whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ? It´s just funny to see everybody doing everything but work...., well.., don´t get me wrong.., I´m not saying that nobody is doing anything at all.., it´s just that people is more relaxed.., you can even tell that by the way people come dressed on fridays..., very sporty I would say..., and the funniest thing is that it´s a "Rule" in almost all the companies....

I´m definetively heading for the coast tomorrow until the 10th of july.., so I won´t spend my Birthday here in the city with my family.., that´s sad..., I can´t remember when was the last time that I spent one of my birthdays with my family.., I guess it was 2 years ago..... Well.., I´ve to go to the bus station to get a reimbursment for the ticket cuz I won´t be using it at all....
Got a New AC for the office, but it didn´t avoid me to fall asleep....

Arrgghhh

Yesterday I went to "El parque Lleras" to be more precise to "Open Sky" to celebrate some friends birthday... I did park my car in a sidewalk where YOU CAN park...., the thing is taht I did it behind a car that was beside some stairs, so it couldn´t go down..... The thing is that I spent 2 hours there, and where I was coming back I saw that my car was going to be picked up by a big truck !!!!! Luckly for me I arrived just in time, so I had the chance to move the car but didn´t save myself from a nice ticket that will cost me $190.000 ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
In the other hand, the mother of one of my colegues died yesterday....., that´s sad...., very sad..., because my mother for me is the base of my hole life..., I guess she was for him something like that or even more..., the fact is that I put myself on his position and honestly I won´t know what to feel..... There are not much words that you can use or tell to somebody that´ve lost a loved one..., nothing that you can say can relief that person from that endless pain....
Just be there, with your presence..., nothing more, nothing else.., makes that person feel that he/she´s not alone....
Can´t get concentrated today........................

Small Update of my Life..

Well..., work is doing ok, here at DMG the atmosphere is very cool...., people is very fiendly which makes everything even better....
My vacations ?? Well, the meaning of vacations for me has changed from "Do Nothing" to "Do everything but University"....
In my italian classes I´m improving..., it's getting a little complicated right now..., I'll have to study harder...., however I'm quite happy with them.........
This weekend is going to be prettyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong because I'll be working the three days, yes, the three days....., because I want to get wednesday, thursday and friday off, so I can go with Naty to Balsillas from tuesday night (5 of July, My birthday traveling on a bus, woaaa) until sunday.. So, working all the weekend has only one meaning for me.. NO PAINTBALL at all......., maybe is something good because I've to finish healing the old wounds !! jajajaja, that sounds like if iI had something very terrible.., but not.., the most terrifying thing that I've is a big purple thing on my leg...
Well..., what else can I say....., definetively NOT looking forward to start the university again...., however I've to..
I guess that´s it for now..

Como ?, Que me dijiste ?, No te entendi !

Those are the constant phrases that I´m hearing every day with everybody that I talk with at least twice !!! I'm speaking that fast that people is not understanding me !! That´s very bad !!!!! I´m doing my best but it seems that obviously is not working so well !!! I´m trying to S P E A K slowlyyyyyyyyy, very slowlyyyyyyyyy but definetively that´s not working.
I´m going to do a stronger effort to get over this !!!

K.I.A

I consider myself K.I.A (Killed in Action), yesterday I went to play paintball as usual on saturdays.., this time we played in the field of a couple of friends that we shot so many times a few weeks ago...., well.., our turn came and we got wasted yesterday.., 10 shots.., 2 of them on the top of my head, 1 in my back, another one in my shoulder, 2 more in my left arm, 3 in my stomach, and 1 lethal in my leg....
Today I can barely move.., I'm so damn tired..., ran tooooo much yesterday, however I enjoyed the game very much.
After playing in those "friend's" field, we headed to another one from a friend that call's himself "Aladino", he's building a new field behind the Esso Pump Station in las palmas road..., it's quite cool !! and HUGE!!
Changing topic, I'm very happy with my Italian lessons..., I'm not to good already..., but I hope to be able to make a full post on Italian soon.
Work is doing pretty good..., working very much....., with a lot of enthusiasm on it.

I saw this and found it interesting..

I only bought the NES though................................

Io sono Esteban..

Well..., long time since my last post.... I´ve been lately kind of bussy..., but I like it. The fact that I know that I´m doing something productive with my time makes me feel good..., makes things more interesting.
Started Italian classes 2 weeks ago ! I´m enjoying that so much..., tuesdays and thursdays at 5:00 PM.
Work is doing very well..., I´m now more adapted to it, enjoying the time at the Nabocondusor.., .., being more productive at the same time.
I´ve also improved a lot in paintball..., soon I´ll be the "Paintball Authority..." jajajja, I´m just kidding.., but I can´t forget that sticker on that car. Actually, I´m selling my paintball in case that you´re interested..., being offered on MercadoLibre.com right now.., why ? I need more range..
Well, my vacations have been everything but vacations...., maybe I´ll be planning a trip to "El Peñol", if you´re interested just let me know.
Right now listening to: "Give it to me" - Paris Lounge 4.

In the stratosphere...

Today I was supoused to get my work induction at 7:30 AM, well, I forgot it.., also I had "Pico y Placa" which means that I can´t drive from 7:00 until 8:30 AM, I also forgot about it..., luckly I didn´t get a ticket for that.
I´ll be posting later..

Eureka !

Ok, creo que di con la solucion a mis problemas.
Supongamos que mi vida en este momento es un buque que lleva mucho mucho peso, por lo tanto no puede navegar tan rapido. Empezé a tirar cajas al agua....., de manera que al disminuir peso este puede empezarse a mover mucho mas rapido. Voy a terminar de tirar todo ese peso que tengo al agua y cambiar ese buque grande por una lancha rapida, donde pueda transportar pocas cosas pero de una manera mas rapida, es decir, dedicarmele solo a algo, enfocarme en ese algo y terminarlo bien, disfrutarlo mientras lo transporto, es decir, mientras lo hago, y una vez hecho esto enfocarme en la siguiente tarea.
: )

Carrusel...

A veces definitivamente las cosas no salen como queremos o como las hemos planeado, simplemente pasan, siendo en algunos casos bajos razones especificas, mientras que otras sin ninguna razon.
Llega entonces un punto donde dejan de funcionar tantas cosas, donde todo se va al suelo, donde nada sale como deberia, o al menos como se espera, que lo unico que encuentro como solucion es solo esperar a que pase la tormenta, y luego empezar nuevamente a reparar todo lo que esta daño, paso a paso, cosa por cosa, situacion por situacion.
La verdad, o al menos por el momento no estoy contento en el trabajo, por otro lado un proyecto que tenia se vino al suelo y hubo varios puntos que no me gustaron....., siento q mi vida de cierta manera entro en un camino donde no se puede mirar atras, solo adelante..., y este camino no se bifurca hasta dentro de un buen rato donde al mismo tiempo no hay posibilidad de virar hacia atrás, entonces aparece aqui un comun denominador llamado monotonia, lo cual todo lo hace mas aburridor y mas pesado de lo que deberia ser.
Empiezo a darme cuenta tambien de las cosas que quiero para mi vida..., pero al mismo tiempo me doy cuenta de que hay muchas cosas que todavia no he definido...., lo que de cierta manera me pone a pensar demasiado...

Finally, vacations !!!

Well, today was my last final..., I didn´t perform that well, didn´t study too much.., however I don´t need any grade, actually I need a negative one..., did some of the exercises, so it won´t be that bad.
In the other hand I´m here at DMG, waiting for Rengifo to arrive so I can start working on something.., WTH...., cloudly day.
Ok, today I got to know that because I´m new here I´ve to invite everybody in the office to Empanadas and gasimba !!!! I said to them that they should invite me..., I´m the new guy.., but Nooooo, I´ve to..., well.., I guess I´ll do, unfair situation anyway.

Got a new Job..

This week I got a new Job at DMG as a developer Eng. Going to start working on a project to develop a virtual catalog for a company called ALCOA.. All of the guys who work here are from my university.., some of them are already studying with me.
No access to gmail until now.., that´s a pain in the ass..., I´ll have to do some research to see what´s wrong with it.
Feel low on energy today.., don´t like too much when I feel like that.., however there´s nothing I can do about it.
The other thing is that here in the office there´s AC, and I hate it...., it´s not healthy..., and if it´s not healthy I don´t like it.
Tomorrow I have my last final exam at 6AM.., which means that tomorrow I´ll be in vacations at least from the university. Need to finish studying for that asignature today.
Well, I guess that´s everything for now............... I´ll be posting later.

WTF, I WON OPERATIVE SYSTEMS !!!!

I won operative systems !!!!!!!! I did it !! I did it !!!! I'm so damn happy about it !!! I wasn't expecting that much (3.7) but it works for me.., anyway I was only needing a 2.0.

Fondue and magic mushroms..(Cheese Night)

Don't get me wrong first of all.., I call the mushroms as magical because they're that tasty that you won't want to stop eating them..., the recipe ??? Mushroms of course, mix some garlic with some albahaca, some onion and the roots of the mushrom.... After that put that magical mix inside it and its almost ready. Then put some parmesano cheese on top of them, send'em to the oven and wait until the cheese is melted.., then it's time to eat them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Fondue was amzing..., swiss cheese..., I shall call this night "The Cheese Night"....

Right now is raining...., I was supposed to go today to watch on the movies "The house of wax" but I was that tired that decided to stay......., and watch some WB, Sony, AXN..., Cinemax...... or whatsoever... The other problem is that I'm wearing sandals (With this weather ???? Yes), and on the movies the AC is kind of strong.., so I'll get killed..., that's the other reason..., however I'm very lazy today...., sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I'll just stay here..., on the bed..., researching and watching tv..., and I'm, getting a little bit hungry, so I guess I'll have to cook something, otherwise nobody else is going to do it for me.

Paintball Day..

Today I did kicked some asses...., jejejejejejeje, I had plenty of fun..., the bad thing is that the weather was very rainy, so my mask was with fog almost all the time..., making it harder to aim. However it was a very cool game.
Right now doing a lot of research about a new project that I want to start (I'll be posting about this later on).

Waxed !!

I took off my t-shirt and my sister told me..., you look like a Bear.., let me fix that.., and I said: "OK"...., so we went to the kitcken, she did put in a pot (Put in a pot sounds like a kind of poem, doesn't it ??? it has a rithm.) some wax and after 10 minutes I was beign waxed !! That thing definetively hurts....., poor womens when they have to do it underneath their stomachs that is painfull !!!!!
Got replaced the exhaust of my car too.

Deception..

I was expecting to feel this..., a big deception and at the same time disappointment, but as I said this is something that I was waiting for.., it was only a matter of time. Today we exposed the Sistemas Operativos Final Project and it didn't work at all..., I knew it had a flaw., but I didn't have the time to fix it, also it wasn't my responsability. I need a 2.0, hopefully I'll get it.

Drop Dead.

The Gmail Crew.

The image talk by itself.......

Finally I've gmail again..

Am I gmail addict ??? Or do I need it so much ??? No answers...., the conclusion anyway is that I've gmail again since a couple of hours....., and that makes me usefull on the net again.

I dont know if it was a Human or a Bot..

Scary question, isn't it ?? Well, it happens that I wrote to google, and I received their answer within minutes, then this question came up, that answer was so similar to the answer of a human, but at the same time was the way a bot responds...., the thing is that if it was a bot, how did it know that I had a problem.., and more particularly in one particular field????..... It freaks me out just to think that in a soon future lets say for example that one of your friends gets a facial surgery, then you ask for the doctor as a reference, and suddenly she says: I don't know if the one who did it on me was a Human or a Bot......
This kind of situation if you think it deeply can lead us to the point where we will be living like the humans in animatrix !!!! I'm a tech lover.., but I think that everything has an edge.., and somehow we are aproaching to the human one....

Lockdown in sector 4!

Gmail is great, it's capacity, it's search engine.., everything is awesome, but I'm very tired of geting this message of "lockdown in sector 4" at least twice a week, and what it does is block my account from 2 to 12 hours, and the reason is that I'm not using it properly.., obviosuly that's not true.., because I'm not sending spam, not even using it as an storage drive and so on..., and that's unpluging me from the email network.

GOOGLEEE !! I hope you can fix this bug or whatever that can be.

Google's quote of the day

This is my google quote of the day:

"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."
-Kin Hubbard

Fair or unfair, that's the question...

And suddenly the question comes.., is this fair or unfair ??

Beans...Beans...Beans...I definetively love beans !

On saturday I ate beans for lunch...., then on sunday I also ate beans for lunch..., and on monday (today) I ate beans for breakfast !!! Am I addicted or what !!!!
After playing paintball on sunday I went to my farm..., went to bed very early..., I was shot !!! Jajjajaa, plus that I was very tired of running and all of that in the field..
Today came back to the city and went with naty to see a movie called "Solo contra si mismo", a swedish one.., and it was very good !!! I liked it very much. The preview is as follows:

"Suecia, años cincuenta. Un joven de 16 años cuya vida ha estado plagada de violencia por el maltrato de su padrasto, responde instintivamente de la única forma que conoce... sin importar quien se atraviese en su camino. Cuando es expulsado de la escuela, su madre lo envía con grandes sacrificios a Stjärnsberg, una prestigiosa institución privada. Para su sorpresa, ahí la tranquilidad es inexistente, pues el plantel está tomado por los estudiantes más adinerados y antiguos con la complicidad de los profesores. El objetivo de Erik es permanecer libre de problemas, pero ahí se encontrará con las “armas” para combatir su presente, pasado y futuro."

It has also a lot of movie awards.., in case that you don't beleiveme that it's a good one:

"PREMIOS

Festival de Cine Europeo de Viareggio 2003, Italia "Premio FIPRESCI al Director y Premio a Mejor Actor".

Festival Internacional de Cine de Miami 2004, Estados Unidos "Premio del Público a Mejor Película".

Festival Internacional de Cine de Shangai 2004, China "Premios Copa Dorada a Mejor Actor y Fotografía".

Nominación a Mejor Dirección. "Premios Guldbagge del Instituto de Cine Sueco 2004"

Premio a Mejor Película, Fotografía y Diseño de Producción
Nominación a Mejor Dirección, Guión, Actor y Actor de Reparto.

NOMINADA

Oscar de la academia 2004 "Mejor Película en idioma extranjero""

Well well, time for me to go to sleep.

Paintball: We were the target this time.

This game was diferent..., we were the target this time.., it was supoused to be an easy game.., being us the flawless shooters.., however before starting 2 extrangers asked if they could play with us.. No pro.., so they joined us and started playing.., the 2 guys for the other team...., and they did pin down to all of us all the time...., they were pros ! Anyway the game was pretty cool and is always a good thing to play with somebody better than you. I also hooked up with them to get cheap ammunition, plus to get to know they folks and play with them.
In total, I got shooted 9 times...., 2 of them are already hurting me.

Too Much Cocktails...

Well, yesterday I went to the Melody lounge and got kind of drunk there.., drank something like 5 cocktails called "Putin" in about one hour...., and shortly after that went to the B-Lounge.., richi was playing there again..., I stayed there until 12:30 AM, I was VERY tired..., so I went home.
Arrgghhhhh, and I got my car crashed..., not big deal..., the exhaust got a little bit hurt but nothing to worry about.., however I have to get it fixed tomorrow because one of the rubbers that support it underneath the car got broken..., so it has a weird noise.
Tomorrow I have a final exam at 6 AM, I can't beleive it !! Honestly, I hate to wake up early in the morning.., I'd rather to stay awake until late.
Probably this weekend, to be more precise on sunday we'll go to the fields and play paintball again.
The operative systems final project got moved to the next wednesday.., so I guess that I'll try to fix some small details on it.., after all I've been working pretty hard on it and it's fair to get a sip of tranquility this weekend.

Can't Sleep...

It's 1:00 AM and I can't sleep. I arrove 1 hour ago from velez's house..., we were working on the last project for Sistemas Operativos, it's almost done, but it needs a lot of details that I won't have the time to work on having in mind that I'm the only one who's working on it from a team of 3 guys...., now 2 cuz Velez decided today to cancel the asignature.
Decisions..., small issues at home.., family problems..., I think that's one of the reasons why I can't sleep right now..., besides..., I enjoy writing on my blog at this time in the night when nobody is bothering or calling me.
I got a proposal today from DMG to start working with them..., not so sure already..., looks like a good oportunitie..., it fits on my plans...., at least for vacations..., after all I don't have so much things to do...., and maybe, just maybe I'll continue working as a full time employee..., who knows, because one of my priorities right now is to finish my career.
This computer is so quiet..., I'm just amazed.., because the other one was very noisy.., plus that it used to produce a lot of heat.., thus not allowing me to put it on my legs while I'm in my bed.
Not too much night owls connected to msn right now..., nobody interesting to talk to anyway...
Today a new pal got introduced to our selected group of "critics" at gmail..., welcome Ochoa if you're reading this.
It's incredible how quiet is at night......., I wish I wouldn't need to sleep..., just imagine how many things you could at night..., plus how much more effective you would be.... It's interesting just to thing that almost 1/3 of our lives we spend it sleeping.... I wish I could be sleepless...

Well, I think that's time to try to go to bed..., my mind is going blind.., or white as I normally call it when I'm tired..., so I guess I'm going to hit "Publish Post" and go to my bed.

Cya.

Paintball Day..

So yes, today we went to play paintaball in "La Cola del Zorro" at 11 AM, sunny day...., between us: Tafur, Julian, Luisga, Jorge, and me..
The game was awesome.., we played capture the flag, deathmatch, and team deathmatch. Lot's of adrenaline and laughs at the end.
My best shot was to tafur (See picture underneath) I flanked him and the shot.
I received three shots.., 2 on my right hand fingers (not big deal) and one in my shoulder.., it wasn't that hard though......., but it left a small red point there.



Right now watching "Jade" and there's a funny x-men it's a kind of frog I think....., rainny night.., very very cold..., and a little bit foggy.
Classes are over now....., today I wrote the final paper for "Axiologia" which is an asignature that I really hate...., it's not more useless because it's impossible......., that's what I call a waste of time. Ok, that's it for that asignature.., the remaining ones are Metodos cuantitativos I, and Economia general which are written test's.., and Sistemas Operativos that's a huge project !! That asignature is killing me, I'm telling you.., long long time ago I wasn't that devoted to just one asignature. 2 weeks non-stop of C++ coding. The good think is that yesterday I saw my grades and I need a 2.0 to pass this asignature...., and with the progress of the project I'm to get more than that.

Well, yesterday I also received my Dell Inspiron 6000 with carbon fiber cover...., I'm very happy with it. If I have to give a number between 0 and 5 for the design of this gadget I will give it a 4.5.., nice work Dell.
Time to go to bed. Hope to keep posting more often.

B-Lounging.....

Yesterday, before going home I went to B-Lounge, my Friend "Richi" just started Dj'ing there..., his first session there was pretty awesome...., the bad thing is that he had to end it a little bit fast, because this other DJ Cris was the main one..., I have to say that she suck's..., or at least she's not my style.......
B-Lounge was very changed since the last time that I went there.., having in mind that it was maybe a year ago.., so yes..., I like it more the way it's now...., I think it has a kind of influence from the cubism..., which makes it unique among the other lounges...
This Sunday is paintball day.., I'm going with some friends from the university..., I hope to don't have the chance to put any picture here of myself "impacted" by one of those paintballs. Instead, I hope to publish here pictures of my friends impacted by let's say ME !!!!!!
Hopefully I'll get my new Dell laptop Inspiron 6000 today..., and if not, it'll be tomorrow...., however I cannot wait to get it..., I really need mobility, don't you ???

Shooting some cars with paintball !!!

My paintball finally arrove today....., and with it came a lot of fun. Today at night, standing from a 9th floor we started shooting cars..., not to mention that I achieve the highest score thanks to my aiming skills !!! jajajjajajajajaja, however, I did shot the next cars:
-Chevrolet Corsa.
-Cadillac.
-Mitshubishi Van.
-Bus.
-Mitsubishi Van.
I don't remember any more. BTW, the proper verb to use when you shoot something or somebody with this kind of equipment is "TO MARK".

This sunday we're heading to the field to play there..., so if you like this kind of emotions and adventures don't hesitate to call us or send email.....

Organizers:
esteban8a@gmail.com
jmvallejo@gmail.com

A nice picture that I took...

I wanted to put this pic that I took from the window of my room a few days ago..., I like it so much..., means a lot of things for me. Does it means something to you ?

Making a parenthesis...., talking about "El Hueco".

Well dear reader, right now my brain is kind of roasted or fried What should I say ??? what´s the diference anyway ????..., the point is that concentration is a variable and I´m loosing it or should I say my brainis loosing it with each second that goes away..... The consequence is that I cannot focus anymore and it makes my coding performance in C++ goes down....
That´s why I decided to write here that today I finished a book that I wanted to read a long time ago, called "El Hueco" written by German Castro Caicedo. "El Hueco" tells how the Colombians run away from their loved country which by that time had a strong lack of oportunities focusing themselves on the United States of NorthAmerica going throughout Mexico, Hawai and Haiti. The author also relates the bad tratment that the Mexican authorities gave to the Colombians that were caught trying to cross the "border" between that countries. Lot´s of stories from lot´s of people......... that there was a point that I couldn´t beleive, but sadly they´re true.
I´ve eyestrain now...., I should go to bed now after 8 hours non-stop C++ coding.

Sniff..., Sniff..., my Lava lamp is no longer working.., I've no idea why ! It boosts my creativity when I´m coding, studying or whatsoever...., I´m afraid that I´ll have to buy another one... BTW, if somebody reads this and wants to give me a nice and valuable present.., just give me a lava lamp. I´ll apreciate it more than what you can imagine.

****

End of Transmission.

C++ can you be my friend this time ?

Ok, this time I´ll code it by myself.., can´t rely on third party to acomplish this project.
Right now watching at my lava lamp over my desk making strange figures...., while thinking and coding.....

El Metrocable !!!

Ok, finally I took some time to go and see the "MetroCable"..., for those who don´t know what it is, or what it can be, is a kind of mobile chairs.., similars to the ones that people use when they go skiing..., but this time they´re not for fun, they´ve been built to help to improve poor people life´s.., and boy !! they did a great job doing that !!! It was amazing to go up in the mountain in just a few minutes.



This was the forgotten part of the city, and I´m very glad that the government took them in mind and did a great labor there...., giving something to the people who need most.... Being there make me realize that I´ve everything that I need.., that my life´s perfect compared to them..., that I don´t need anything else..., that I have so much to give...., so much to help..., and that´s what I´ll be doing the second part of these year.., giving my grain of sand to help the one´s that weren´t so lucky, the one´s that don´t have anything..., and need a lot of things.
If you want to help to this cause I´ll be posting here more information throughout the second half of this year.

Finally.., I'm plugged again to the Internet.

Today I got Plugged again to the network of networks.., mostly known as Internet... Jojojojo..., THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Well, right now I've to take a shower cuz I need to go to the hairdresser, so I'll be posting in a couple of hours !!

Mother´s day...

Another Great Day !!!
The whole family gathered in the farm to celebrate the mother´s day...., we had a great lunch with a yummy turkey.



Paco, the dog was all the time looking for something to eat from this bird..., that´s why he tried to grab something from the trashcan and this was the result.... You can also see Toby, the lovely french poodle that´s all the time with us at home and also in the farm.., we love them both !



The next day, Paco was very dirty, so my sister decided to give him a shower.... (that´s it paco, good boy !! good boy !!! giveme that hand !!)



And that was it, a very nice weekend with the hole family and the dogs.., wait a minute, they´re obviously part of the family tooooo!!!!

My Mom´s Birthday...

Ok Mami, happy birthday for you again !!! I did a yummy dinner for you and the rest of the family with the help of cami, it was just and simple delicious !!!! I made my speciality..., which is mushroms with some secret herbs, plus onion, some garlic and parmesan cheesee.., and of course, a little bit of salt.
This was a great day........., first of all because we were together this time.., secondly because the whole family, or at least the more important were with us today.

I love you mom !!!

Unplugged....

This is Bad, I had a billing problem with my ISP (Their fault this time) so I don`t have broadband for these days at home.., what a mess !!!!!!!! I hope to to fix that soon !!

House music, sweet for the ears...

On saturday we went to a party with Antoine Clamaran, Alanis and other pretty awesome dj´s.., tha main genre was House music..., which was just and simple great.
It was on a disco called Ibiza, from there you can see all the city...., incredible view.... plus the music equals great experience. The people there was also great, very friendly, got to know a lot of people..., and it was a non-forgetable farewell to my cousin maurop who was going to fly back to Paris on the next day.
No energy is the common denominator for these days..., I guess I´ll have to eat plenty of salads, fruits, meats and other stuff to bring the energy back to my body.

Shooting the stress out !!!

Today I went to play Paintball with a couple of friends..., one of them was Juanma who did fall into a big ant-nest., I´m not sure if he got bitten or not..., but that was funny...., we definetively had an amazing time in La cola del Zorro paintball field. We were 9, 5 in one team, and the remaining 4 in the other one. We kicked their ass....., and I was amazingly un-shoot, until the last minute where I decided to expose myself completely..., that´s how I got shot twice in my leg with blue paintballs (You can check that out in my camo and of course the blood in my right leg.)

However, the main objective was achieved..., to take the strees out of my body. Honestly speaking I can´t wait to get my new paintball gun, because the ones that we got today in the field were not good at all.

Changing a little bit of topic, we couldn't finish the Operative Systems project which is scheduled for tomorrow...., thats sad..., a lot of effort and energy to just see that we were't able to finish it. What the hell...., nobody did anyway.

I better go to sleep.., tomorrow is going to be a veryyyyyyy long day.

Some Action...

I ordered today a Kingman Spyder Rodeo Paintball.., looks like somebody is going to have plenty of fun..., it will be here by the 23th of this month......., and right now I'm just sitting in the front of my computer with a small cold coding in C++ and trying to finish this huge project before friday.., to be honest I'm not so sure if we´re going to be able to make it, and is not that I lost my faith on it, just that sometimes you've to be realistic and see the situation in the way it is..., almost everybody that I've talk with in the last couple of days is in the same situation with this project....what the hell........
The weather here in Medellin is changing like the mood of the girls....., not pretty much, heh ?

A little Breath.

Today I went with a friend to give some DELL support in "La Ceja" in some cultivos de flores..., that was huge.., I was kind of amazed..., all of the flowers where only to export, I guess to the Netherlands..., thats how I spend today´s afternoon.., nothing of study or computers...

Finally I got some pipes fixed !!

Stress..., common denominator these days with my university folks... The Operative Systems Project is kind of hard and complex at the same time...., coding is exceptionally long..., also working long hours is not the exception.... Haven´t gone out in the last few weeks.., I feel like a geek... However, today I achieved a big success, and it was to connect two separate process using 2 different connections called "pipes"..., I made a basic example like the conventional PING-PONG...., it worked.., but it took me 5 long hours to do it...
My brain is fried right now.., need some clubing..

Simon says...

Velez, just install Adobe to anothe directory !!!

Busy....Busy....Busy...

Thats my way of life these days.., tons of study, lots of work, meetings......., but I like that....., I enjoy doing productive things in my life.
Each Day WebLogic is groing more and more............., new customers..., new projects...., a reason to wake up every morning...
Right now.., coding again in C++ for Operative Systems.., I hate that asignature !!!!
I'll post later with any advance.

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I was hungry...

After working a couple of hours I realized that I was hungry, so I went to "Taco Loco" in the Lleras park and ate a yummy "Burrito al pastor con vegetales" it was really good.
Also relized the full moon that was above my head which I enjoyed so much. Below it's a similar picture....



Now I'm back to work, who knows until what time in the night..., or should I say "Morning"??

C++, once more I HATE YOU !!

#include
int FileSize(const char* sFileName)
{
std::ifstream f;
f.open(sFileName, std::ios_base::binary | std::ios_base::in);
if (!f.good() || f.eof() || !f.is_open()) { return 0; }
f.seekg(0, std::ios_base::beg);
std::ifstream::pos_type begin_pos = f.tellg();
f.seekg(0, std::ios_base::end);
return static_cast(f.tellg() - begin_pos);
}

Back again to study...

I was having a good time in my farm, but today we decided that we will continue coding our operative systems project, so here I'm, back in Medellin, in velez house getting prepared to start coding.
Julian, the 3rd team member has been away for the hole week while we were working on it, he was supoused to be here on wednesday, but he just arrove today.., and is very tired of the trip from the coast, so I guess that we wont work with him until the next week.
I'll post any advance that we may have..., BTW the objective for today is to be able to make the function that reads that COMPLEX file and put all the content of it on the structure that we have already.

Hasta la vista Baby.

Confussion...., common denominator some times.

I feel that there's a huge empty space right now into my soul......, I think that I know what it is, the point is that is something that I can't have or I should not have, or if I do the pain would be much bigger than the satisfaction or the temporary happiness..., so here is where I ask to my inner soul..., what's better.., a few moments even days of happiness and then weeks of sadness and pain?? Or if it's better some weeks or even months of tranquility paying the price of being away from that thing???

In the other hand I'm here in my farm right now.., it's very cold and there's "cucarrones" everywhere.., to be more precise "cucarrones marceños", they're a kind of flying animals that appear in huge amounts only in this month of the year.., that's why their name.

Maybe a couple of friends will come by later to have some drinks and the usual stuff.

I was trying to play neverwinter nights a few minutes ago, but definetively that game is too complicated right now for me....., I prefer world of warcraft.., lot's of RPG but not too much reading inside it opposite to Neverwinter.....

Sistemas operativos project is on hold for these days.., getting some rest is a good idea.., but I have to start coding another project that I'm developing for myself...., not to emotive today.

Backup ! Backup ! Backup !!

I told you several times "Please make a backup of the data", "Please make a backup of the data", but you didnt listen to me, so now we just loose the last 3 hours or maybe 5 hours of work because of that.., which means a delay in the project. It's 12:05 in the night and I'm getting a little bit tired after working all the day long on this thing.
I'll be posting later on.

Conclusion !!

After working with C++ I conclude that I HATE IT !!!!!! And I've to work with it for the rest of this semester.
The advance today is not very huge, but it's relevant..., I would say we're at a 8.5% right now.
Stay tuned to get more info about the development of this project.

Another day of work...

Ok, we were suppoused to end Development Phase 2 yesterday, but it didn't happen, we were quite tired..., instead we played Icy Tower (I highly recomend this game..., its adictive !!!). We did some modeling of the structure and did a great advance, but it's not enough.., we have a month already.., and only the 6% done......., but I'm pretty sure that today we'll increase that percentage to at least 15% or 20%.... you can bet on that. I'll post during the afternoon in case of any relevant evolution.
BTW, I heard this song in Dawson's creek being performed by Joey, and I liked it a lot...

Cheap Trick - Didn't I See You Crying ( I Want You To Want Me) Lyrics

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me

I'll shine up the old brown shoes
Put on a brand-new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying
Feeling all alone without a friend
You know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me

I'll shine up the old brown shoes
Put on a brand-new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying
Feeling all alone without a friend
You know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying

Feeling all alone without a friend
You know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I
Didn't I see you crying

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me

I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me