Adding more variables to my life equation

I started the university again last monday..., and I have to admit that I felt a little bit strange on it.... After one year without doing any studies I got used to everything except studying.., spend hours in front of blackboards and teachers talking talking and talking looks pretty boring for me now.., but I know that is something that I've to finish.. Got a new car 2 days ago, 1.8 Volkswagen Gol GLI, I'm very happy with it. All the roads there in Medellin have changed a lot.., so getting used to them sometimes is a little bit complicated when I'm planning the route to go from one place to another one.
I don't know.., I'm kind of speechless today.., also nostalgic. I'd better get a shower.

Time to move on..

Sometimes life is extranger than fiction.., it's time for me to move on and forget about you.

Pieces of Esteban

It's 6:00 AM in the morning and I can't sleep anymore..., since the begining of this week I keep weaking up at this time and I definetively don't like it.
I arrove on the 14th of jan, and today is 19 of the same month. I'm posting today because somehow I feel that I've landed a little bit more.... I thought that arriving here was going to be easy, it wasn't. Confussion is the common denominator on my life right now. I would like it to be different, but I knew since the beggining that things weren't going to be easy.
Let's put some order here:
My main concern before flying was my luggage. I was carrying a big case, a big trolly cart, back pack, my laptop, and a messenger. Every single piece of this was very heavy, just imagine all the kind of things that you can carry after living 1 year in another country. Ok, so when I arrove to the counter, I checked in the big case, no big problem, it weighted 20 Kilos (I was allowed only with 20), she gave me my passboard and when I was leaving it, she saw my trolly car, then she told me that it was too big, so it wont fit on the plane, also that I shouldn't weight more than 8 Kilos, the fact is that she weighted it and it was 20 Kilos ! She told me then that I should take out some of it weight, to make the story shorter I reduce the weight to 10 Kilos and the rest I putted it on my backpack and on a lufthansa box that the woman gave me. Problem solved ! I took the flight Basel-Frankfurt without any other complication. At Frankfurt, when I was doing the check-in, the woman at the counter again told me that I wasn't allowed to carry all of my hand lugagge, that I should put some on the cargo area of the plane.., I'm sorry miss but I'm carrying a lot of computer equipment (also fragile) that if I put on the cargo area and get broken the airline won't pay for it, so then she told me: OK, just put all the luggage of the messenger on the backpack or something..., so I added more weight to my backpack and another problem solved. I took the 12 hours flight to Caracas.
After arriving in Caracas and waiting for 5 hours, I took the flight Caracas-Bogota thanks god without any complication...
At the airport, I took a cab and went to my cousin's place where I spent the night.
The next day I flew to Medellin....

When I arrove to Medellin, my mother didn't know that I was coming, so you can imagine her sourprise and hapiness when she saw me..., same for my grandparents, my father and one of my sisters.., that day was the best, everything was the way I expected and planned it.

On sunday we came to the city and I got to know my new house..., I liked it, however I felt like a complete foreigner on it... Now I'm getting more used to it.

Well, and my expectatives.., that's the twisted part..., it's like if I saw the light for 2 days and suddenly everything went dark... Too complicated to write about it already.

BUT finally I'm in my home town ! I like it !

Just one more day...

I just can't beleive that tomorrow morning I won't be here in Basel anymore. It's time to close this chapter in my life and open a new one. BUT it doesn't mean that leaving it behind would be piece of cake.
I'm already having some trouble with my lugaage which I hope I can get them solved today.

Excess Baggage

I thought that I had everything in order, but today I realize that I have a TON of things to carry back home. I unpacked, packed again, unpacked, packed again.., trying to put the weight in order, and also to keep the balance, because I'll have to carry a big part of it a lot of time. I hope to not get in any trouble at the airport when checking in my baggage on thursday because of overweight or something like that.
Time is going pretty fast, just 2 days more in Basel and then I'm gone. I think about it and I cannot beleive that I'm leaving. It's a strange feeling.
I'll let you know how was the trip, hopefully I'm going to make it (Of course I will, just that I have a load of things) !

Bye Bye Basel !!

On saturday it was my Good-bye party, most of my friends came here, and I got a little bit drunk.
I also did burn my shirt with a candle.., the thing is that there were not free chairs, so I sat on the dinning table.., what I didnt see is that behind me was a candle that I did put hours ago.. to make the story shorter, I felt something warm on my back but didnt pay attention to it, later on I was getting burned, so I took a look back and my shirt was in fire.., I manage to control the fire but my shirt was lost...., later on that night I just threw it to the trash. Felipe, a friend from Medellin stayed that night in my house, he was also in prtty bad conditions. Some pics underneath:

Paul Van Dyk in Medellin !!!

Well, I went to party with Van Dyk in Zürick on October, what a great party, what a great DJ. I liked it that much that I was looking again for one of his partys in Europe to go !. I didn't find anything, and if I did it was toooo far away from Switzerland.
Julian told me a few months ago that Van Dyk was going to play on Medellin, but I didn't beleive him, so I went to his website but found nothing.
This week I went again to his website and definetively his going to play in my city, a few weeks after my arrival ! Awesome !

The official info (I got it from his website)
04.02.2005
Open Air / Medellin / Hipodromo de los Comuneros
http://www.medellinstyle.com/

Let's Party !!

And another one !!!

I received another later from my private stalker Veronique yesterday, and now I'm here to make it available online, it says:

"Tienes tutora? Prospero ano nuevo. Amado Dizzy. Se muy bien que me quieres !! Yo te voy a querer siempre hasta Forever. Estan todas celosos no pueden ver que yo te ame !! Me odian las mujeres porque tengo Sex Appeal. Abrazo de Veronique.
180 HP.
Tocar 3 X timbre"

There's a pic below of the envelope, pretty original by the way with some bird wing part on it, some written...
Well, life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

My private stalker talks to me again !

I received this letter 1 week ago, but didn't have the opportunity to make it available online, here it goes:

In the envelope is says: "Para mi querido Boyfriend el Colombiano"

The content of the letter is as follows:
"Querido Dizzy, Boyfriend, El Colombiano, Todos los dias nos vimos, de lejos me persigues miras donde estoy con quien hablo, etc. Eres un envidioso lo sabias !! Tienes a la otra amiga la que trabaja en Manor. Dime querido sera que no te das cuenta que vas a perderme, no solamente a mi, tambien a otras personas que no van a mostrar interes por ti. Quienes juegan en la vida con las personas por favor !! Tu te vas a quedar un dia solo !! Si continuas asi si te quiero y tu a mi?. Si te quieres venir al Brasil? Abrazo de Veronique.
La vida no es para jugar.

I have to Admit it !!

Ok!! Ok JuanE!!!!!, your'e completely right, I have to admit it, I was completely drunk singing "villancicos" on the streets on the 23th of december, also singing to the people, specially to that old guy !! ...., I also admit that I almost kick a Junkie because he was asking me for money.., but I can't stand that the government here gives to this people per month the same amount of money that I earn, maybe more, and for what ? For them to enjoy it injecting themselves, to smoke their lifes, and to continue on the non-stop party !! I'm not justifying myself, but it's something that really bothers me, because that's not equity, that's not fair, that's not ethic... why ? Because there's lot of people dying of hunger in other places, very poor people, and I know that this country is one of the richest in the world, and that's why it should use that money to help others instead of keeping and maintaining somebody's else "bad habits" and "ethernal party" !! So f**k you all junkies and do something for your life !!

You can hide your laptop while you roam.

I found this very "original". It's a pizza box to store your laptop while you move from one location to another one. It's objective is to disguise possible thieves from your laptop. Who's gonna think that the guy who's carrying a pizza is'nt a pizza?? Instead a laptop ?
Very original I have to say.
In case that you're interested this is the webpage: http://www.humanbeans.net/

What happened to the animals after the Indian Tsunami?

This is one of the the questions that I was asking myself all the time when I was watching CNN and BBC reports about the Tsunami.
I had a feeling that there were no animals casualities, because I do beleive in their sixth sense. I found this article today on wired magazine (www.wired.com) and wanted to share it:

Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a sixth sense for disasters, experts said Thursday.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found. "No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," said H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."
The waves washed floodwaters up to two miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
"There has been a lot of anecdotal evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior specialist at Johannesburg Zoo. "There have been no specific studies because you can't really test it in a lab or field setting."
Other authorities concurred with this assessment. "Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain phenomenon, especially birds ... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters," said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife.
Animals certainly rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators. The notion of an animal sixth sense -- or some other mythical power -- is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka's battered coast is likely to add to.
The Romans saw owls as omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewed elephants as sacred animals endowed with special powers or attributes.
The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean Sunday, killing tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa.