Monthly usage limit reached

Aahhhh, it´s sad when this message appears on my yahoo launchcast not even at the middle of the month ! I guess I will have to start paying so I can use it for as long as I want because it´s a pretty sweet service.
Free everything, then pay for everything ! That´s the behavior of the web these days.. First they create the need inside you and afterwards, when you can´t live without it they start charging for it !

Táctica y estrategia - Mario Benedetti

Táctica y estrategia

Mi táctica es
mirarte
aprender como sos
quererte como sos

Mi táctica es
hablarte
y escucharte
construir con palabras
un puente indestructible

Mi táctica es
quedarme en tu recuerdo
no sé cómo ni sé
con qué pretexto
pero quedarme en vos

Mi táctica es
ser franco
y saber que sos franca
y que no nos vendamos
simulacros
para que entre los dos
no haya telón
ni abismos

Mi estrategia es
en cambio
más profunda y más
simple

Mi estrategia es
que un día cualquiera
no sé cómo ni sé
con qué pretexto
por fin me necesites.

-Mario Benedetti

Some "Proverbs" that I liked..

-Si quieres felicidad por una hora: toma una siesta.
-Si quieres felicidad por un día: ve de pesca.
-Si quieres felicidad por un año: hereda una fortuna.
-Si quieres felicidad por el resto de tu vida: ayuda a otras personas. Tu fortaleza y tu fortuna crecen solo en la medida en que las compartes.
-La felicidad consiste en ser gratos para otros: ese sentimiento libera sus dones y hace que te conviertan en el centro de sus afectos.
-Toda persona que es amada por sus obras vence la soledad.
-Allí donde otros encuentran incertidumbre, ella encuentra gratitud; allí donde otros encuentran indiferencia, ella es atendida con espontáneo afecto.
-Quien vence la avaricia abre las puertas de la opulencia.
-La fortuna tiene genero de mujer y solo se prodiga a quienes saben valorarla y no intentan encerrarla.

PermGen Space Error

I hate when I get this error at work !!!

Memoirs of a Geisha

This is the new book that I started reading a few days ago and I´m liking it just so much that I can´t sto reading it at nights.
I´m in the middle of it and I´m just amazed how fast I´ve read all of that pages.
The story is just amazing.., the only bad thing is that the chapters are quite big, and I don´t like when I´ve to stop in the middle of one. I liked very much the way the Dan Brown used to write.., keeping 2 or 3 parallel stories at the same time, being one chapter dedicated to one storie and so on.., and the best thing is that each chapter ranges from 1 to 5 pages at most, so it´s quite confortable to read because you don´t have to do it for long periods of time, of course that when you start reading you can´t stop, or at least that´s what happens when I´m reading a book.., I just enjoy them so much.

Nightmares again..

This week has been full of nightmares and I don´t like that because I wake up like if I didn´t sleep at all, just so tired.
I try to recall if there´s anything that I´m doing or eating or something that is producing this kind of dreams, but so far I´ve had no success at all !
Yesterday night I dreamt with a kind of evil guy who was wearing a kind of dentist clothes and every road I took he would appear in front of me and laugh...., and laugh and laugh.., somehow I knew that I was dreaming, so maybe I can say that it was a lucid dream.., but even though I was scared in this dream.

Cooking again ! : )

The maid decided to leave the house and my parents and I don´t want to get another one.., we´re just tired of having to deal with one after another and besides, we are 5 persons in the house, and if we can´t do the daily stuff by our own means then nobody can.
I like this, because for example at lunch I have time to cook with my mother, something that I like very much to do, my speciality are the salads.., sara my little sister is even eating them (She never used to eat' em). This reminds me when I used to live alone and cook everything for myself and once in a while for somebody else..., and I like the idea of cook what I´m going to eat because I can do it the way I like it..., and I can learn and/or find new recipes.

Jajajaja, Yasuri Yasuri Yamileth !!

Just in case you haven't been paying attention to the morning news, a big old bunch of Sony-made batteries in 4.1 million Dell and 1.8 million Apple laptops have been recalled due to safety concerns (i.e., they explode).Since we love and care about each and every one of you so very much, and would hate to see your laps melt off, we want to make sure you take the appropriate action and return those bad batteries if you've got 'em. From Apple, we're talking iBooks and PowerBooks, and from Dell - well, I'm not sure; you've got to enter you PPID to find out. Now get checking!

A million thank you !!

This was just sooooo funny, until what number can you wait ?? I did until 2,500.
Just press play !

End

Everything comes to an end, and yesterday I finished a book called "La rueda de la vida" written by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the book is a kind of biography and at the same time talks about the "dead" and the lots of experiences that the author has with it. Sometimes it just goes so "far" which from my point of view is not that good at all, maybe because I haven´t had that kind of experiences, however it´s a good and very interesting book to read.

Banana, Papaya and Apple!

I just erased a previous post that I did a few minutes ago, it was pointless !! The tea is already hot and the day is cold. Waking up for me on this kind of day is pretty pretty difficult, the fact of seeing my room kind of dark makes me want to stay in bed forever. BUT, then I have to wake up, so much things to do, and my back is killing me today.., if there´s something that I like and hate at the same time (bittersweet taste!!) is the change of routine exercise.... My knee in the other hand is again in pain, I even stopped jogging.., but nothing ! Therapy haven´t helped that much...

Killing intense black eyes !

I didn´t know that was one of the reasons !!!!

Comandante Dinko !

Hey Comandante, what´s up ? I know that you´re reading this because I have my "connections", but what about you ??? You can write me a line once in a while.., I promess I won´t get mad !!

Jajajajaj, there´s this video that I´m 100% sure that you´re gonna enjoy and laugh just so much..., it´s just sooo #"$#" I can´t find a word to describe it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KZMoM-V7QI

Monday Morning...

I can´t remember when was the last time that I had breakfast in my bed.., but today I did the exception..., and the best thing of all is that I turned on the TV and there was Dawson´s creek, my favorite tv series, it´s sad that now it´s over..., but it was good to watch it again even though if I already saw that chapter. That brought me a lot of memories, most of them good..., but closed pages of the book that my life is. Closed pages that are going to remain in that stage, but reading a few of them once in a while have a healthy effect on my life.

Beto, 5 days and there´s no signal of you...., I´m afraid I won´t see you again.... : (

Friday Afternoon

Finally friday afternoon. This has been a week full of work and some stress. Beto got lost in the farm (Beto is a Beagle) since 3 days ago..., I´ve done anything but calling to the farm every single day but there´s no track of the dog, I´m doing some posters to post in the most common places..., I hope we can find him.

In the other hand I have some plans for this weekend, tomorrow there´s a national paintball torunament in Llanogrande, I´m thinking on going, and in the night there´s this party at Lobby with Vitalic, I already bought my tickets !

Well, I´ll get back to work.., ll´be posting later.

wedding

So I got invited to Jorge´s wedding but still don´t know what to wear that day and still don´t know if I´m going alone or with somebody else.

I don´t know what it is..

This afternoon the rightmost finger of my left hand was tickling, now it´s gone but what I feel is a kind of cramp ....., but in my leftmost fingers of my left hand, can´t even type on the keyboard...

Instead of blaming DO something..

This past weekend I went to Carambolas for our monthly work there. It happens that we gathered 110 kids to show them a movie, it was "Nemo", they enjoyed it very much, most of them haven´t had the chance to see it before (Most of them doesn´t have a TV at home). However, after the movie we gave them something to eat, it was a piece of bread with "Zoom!", most of them were very educated doing the line and waiting for the others, but there was this kid in particular which didn´t had any respect for his friends, for the people that was there, not even with me.... He did the line three times, in the third I asked him very nicely to please leave the line because it wasn´t fair what he was doing, he yelled to me that this was his first time in the line, so I replied: No, it is not, please leave it... In the end the boy left the line and started to play very strong with his friends (It was a fight simulation I Guess), so one of his friends hit him a little bit hard, so he replies with a punch in the face of the other boy and then he throws him to the floor and hits him again.., in that moment I went and separated them..., I thought that the other boy was injured but he wasn´t.., and he told me that they were playing.., that did amazed me again!
I started to think about what could be the future of this violent kid, and to be honest I don´t see a clear one for him..., and I don´t blame him.., some of this kids have a lot of violence inside their families, fathers that hit their wifes, sons that hit their mothers or yell at them, kids that are the hole day in front of a TV without nobody who can guide him, kids who are the whole day on the streets sometimes surrounded by bad influences, kids that probably doesn´t receive a hug or a "I love you" quite often, kids that are missing love, kids that are missing comprenhension, kids that are missing affect, kids that are missing a family, kids that are missing oportunities..., kids that are missing everything...., so my question again: How can I blame him...? should be translated in: How can I help him? And the answer came inmediatly..., and it was what I was doing that day there..
In the other hand, when I was giving the food to this kids, there was a very particular girl which came, I recognized her and I asked if this was her second time in the line, she replied that yes, it was her second time, so I said to her that I wasn´t able to give her more food because if I did there would be other kids that wouldn´t be able to eat.., she understood. I finished my labor and went to the kitchen to drink something.., and after 10 minutes she came to the kitchen with 2 of her sisters and asked me again for a piece of bread.., so I started to talk to them and asked them if they have eaten something today, they said "no". The little girl was looking at the bread like the most precious thing on earth, I felt just sooo bad because in my entire life there hasn´t been not even one day where I have woke up and haven´t had anything to eat.. I took one bread and gave it to them but before that I told them to hide it and eat it somewhere else because otherwise the other kids would realize about it and then that wouldn´t be fair with them... This girl touched my just soo deep...

The picture above has one of the nicest views of Medellín.

Xbox 360 Platinum Edition for Sale..

Hey I´m selling my Xbox 360 Platinum Edition, in case you´re interested just drop me a line.

Quote of the day

"...The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do..."
-B.F Skinner

Chavez...Chavez....Chavez....

"Venezuela se arma hasta los dientes.

El presidente Hugo Chávez realizó una gira por varios continentes buscando armas y un puesto en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU. Y en contraste, incumplió su promesa de venir a la posesión del presidente Álvaro Uribe.

Una gira estratégica de dos semanas por Argentina, Bielorrusia, Rusia, Qatar, Irán, Malí, Vietnam y Benín, países ubicados en Suramérica, Europa, Asia y África, acaba de realizar el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez. Quedó demostrado que el mandatario es un comprador compulsivo de armas y que no se detiene en su afán por conseguir un escaño en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, ONU.

Después del ingreso, en forma improvisada, a Mercosur, o al Neomercosur, como lo llama, Chávez emprendió una ofensiva diplomática con escalas en cada país que consideró clave para enfatizar su odio a Estados Unidos y ascender en la escalada armamentista.

En su trayectoria dejó una estela de donaciones y apoyos financieros destinados a comprometer los votos para acceder a un escaño en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, en calidad de miembro no permanente, que le disputa a Guatemala. Quizás el último respaldo fue de Yayi Boni, gobernante de Bení, tras ofrecerle 2,9 millones de dólares para construir viviendas en esta empobrecida nación africana cuya población tiene un ingreso per cápita de sólo tres dólares diarios.

Chávez tiene puestos los ojos en el Consejo de Seguridad. Allí aspira compartir tribuna con las potencias mundiales, entre ellas Estados Unidos, toda vez que este organismo jugará un papel decisivo por las implicaciones que sobre la paz mundial tienen los conflictos de Irak, Medio Oriente e Irán y Corea del Norte.

La ofensiva diplomática y política, montada sobre una postura antiestadounidense y un rechazo tajante y ofensivo al presidente George W. Bush, era uno de los objetivos del periplo. El segundo motivo de la gira lo llevó a Rusia a firmar un acuerdo armamentista por unos tres millones de dólares.

Chávez compra armas sin medida. Ya había adquirido 100.000 fusiles Kalashnikov AK-103 y algunos helicópteros rusos el año pasado. Con su colega Vladimir Putin logró un "aliado de confianza" que le suministrará 24 cazas Sukhoi 30 y 53 helicópteros, convirtiéndose así en el principal abastecedor de Venezuela. Esta decisión está provista de complejidades logísticas, porque no es sólo reemplazar los equipos suministrados anteriormente por Estados Unidos, Francia y otros países por materiales rusos, sino que se produce un viraje de dependencia militar.

Estas compras, que ya suman 5.700 millones de dólares en dos años, contemplan también la adquisición de 12 aviones y ocho barcos patrulleros a España. Venezuela justifica su carrera armamentista. Chávez sostiene que su intención es prepararse para la defensa de una "eventual agresión" de Estados Unidos y lograr un equilibrio regional de fuerzas en vista del Plan Colombia. Desde 2005 el presupuesto del Ministerio de la Defensa registró un crecimiento de 31 por ciento y alcanzó unos 2.000 millones de dólares.

A su regreso Chávez encontró el vacío que está dejando su paradigmático líder Fidel Castro, por cuenta de su grave enfermedad. Ahora, en el plano interno, enfilará sus baterías injuriosas para ocultar las denuncias de corrupción, violencia, censura, en medio del fragor de la contienda electoral. En la región, arreciará su talante provocador, alentado por la condecoración del gobierno iraní y por la renovada dotación de sus fuerzas armadas. Y en Colombia, quedan las dudas por la excusa para no venir a la posesión del presidente Álvaro Uribe. Todos, motivos de preocupación continental."

This document was taken from http://www.elcolombiano.com.co/BancoConocimiento/V/venezuela_se_arma_hasta_los_dientes/venezuela_se_arma_hasta_los_dientes.asp?CodSeccion=6

Vitalic

Another awesome Dj is coming on the 19th of August (for more info www.vitalic.org), I guess I´m going !

Quote of the day

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry

Pinned Down.

I was sitting at my desk and suddenly I started to receive an attack from somewhere.., they were shooting with a CO2 powered gun copper balls..., some of the balls entered right by the balcony... So I crouched myself and went to my parents room..., started to look arround and found the kid that was doing it.. I´m gonna be patient and won´t start any offensive at the moment.., however if the shooting persists I´ll have to "engage".

Speed !

I never thought of this before, but it´s quite usefull when you´re able to change the speed of your mouse (increase or decrease) with the hit of a button. I saw this quite usefull a few minutes ago while working with cmaps where I need lot´s of precision when designing my conceptual maps.., so slowing the mouse speed allows me to achieve this task very easy.., and when I need to move from one place to another I just increase the speed...

Raising money for a friend.

I´m raising some money for this friend of mine that is having some issues with his life, if you want to cooperate just give me a call.

It´s a pity to see this guy, just look at the pic.

Playing with Cryptonite!!

Those pictures below are real, those green things weren´t added with any graphical editor ! They were just taken as that !

Tip: It was with a Cryptonite stone !

Voodoo or Just Pain ?

Since yesterday I have a small pain in the left part of my stomach.., it goes and comes back, it goes and comes back.., it´s not that hard though but I can feel it.
It is only pain or somebody that is performing some voodoo magic over me? Time will tell, but if this pain isn´t gone by tomorrow I´ll have to go to see what´s going on.
Finally I finished reading a book called "The art of the war", quite interesting as I said in my previous post about this book, and I started a new one called "La Horrible Noche" which is a book that talks about how Pablo Escobar ran away from "La Catedral" (A Jail) and the most interesting part of it is that it talks about the political situation by that time, why the country did what they did with their politics and negotiations, why the narcotrafic hitted so hard the country and created a huge unbalance inside it. It´s not only a "book", it contains plenty of history which is kind of interesting to know because you can tie it to what you already know and understand more why things are the way they are right now.
It´s quite particular, because some of the philosophy that I read in the book "The art of the war" wasn´t applied by our politicians by that time and some of the tasks that they needed to perform went down because of that !
This book "The art of the war" is highly recommended to read by the international negotiators when they´re going to perform business with China and Japan, this is something that I didn´t understand at the beginning of the book, but when I finished I did and I would say also, it´s a book for anyone because everybody needs to make hard and difficult decisions throughout their entire life..
Today I´ll be finishing the book about Escobar run´s away and I´ll be starting another one called "La rueda de la vida", I´ll make some posts about it later on.

Real Dreams = Confussion !

2 years without dreaming about "that", and las night appeared again, I just woke up without knowing what to do, I almost broke my promess of opening that page of my life that was already closed.., that´s why I call lufer to ask for advice..., why him? Because he was the only person that went throughout all of that with me by that time... I was hoping to hear something else, because I wanted to, something inside me wanted to hear it, but in the other hand you were completely right...mental stability above everything...

"..I´ll see you in another life when we´re both cats..." Meaauuuuu..

Finally my first "cache" !!

While I was in Santa Marta I had the chance to go to the Tairona park, where I placed my first cache for the geocaching game (For more info go to: http://www.geocaching.com).

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

The GPS coordinates for it are as follow: N 11° 18.897 W 073° 56.773

The place where it´s hidden is here:



This catch is located in the Tairona Park which is located in the city of Santa Marta, is just an awesome place. The cache is located in "Arrecifes Beach" in a rocky small mountain between the sea and the beach.., just to the right. You will have to climb the rocks to reach it because it´s on the top of it.

The cache is in a small box covered by a black plastic bag, inside it you will fin a log book, some pencils and 2 suvenirs that I left on it. When you´re on the top go to the border (To the North) that faces the sea and on it you will find a series of rocks (on the top), there is a small crack between 2 rocks, the box is inside it covered by some wood sticks and leafs.



And here I was.., getting ready to start my journey in the Tairona park.

If you are a fan of geocaching you can fetch more info about my cache here:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=60c15f29-c4c1-454a-a75b-f8d04dc6c889

Jack Johnson

I just downloaded all the Jack Johnson Albums, his music is very similar to ColdPlay, John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper and Jason Mraz.

"...Jack Johnson (born May 18, 1975) is a Hawaii-born singer-songwriter who has achieved commercial success and a dedicated following since he first appeared on G. Love & Special Sauce's album "Philadelphonic." The release of his 2001 debut album, “Brushfire Fairytales” further cemented his popularity. He has written, recorded, and released the albums “On And On” (2003), and “In Between Dreams”(2005). His newest album is entitled “Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious.."

BTW, my favorites songs are called "Banana Pancakes" and "On and on..".

Casualidad? - No English at all !!

El lunes salí de mi casa por la noche, bajaba por la 10, en el semaforo donde se junta con la inferior paré porque el semaforo estaba en rojo. Se me acercó un niño a pedirme plata, y le dije q no tenia, entonces me dijo que si por favor le compraba algo que estaba con habmbre, le dijo que listo....., seguí y me parquié en Carulla o Pomona de Pinar del rio, la verdad no me acuerdo exactamente cual de los dos es el que está allí. De cualquier forma no pensé que el niño fuera a ir, el caso fué que allá llegó...., empezamos a hablar y depronto nos dimos cuenta que nos conociamos..., la verdad yo no sabia de donde hasta que le pregunte que donde vivia y el me dijo que en "Carambolas"..., fué entonces cuando empezamos a hablar mas y me contó que la mamá (Luz Dary) trabaja cuidando los carros de el mall que sigue de pinar del rio, donde esta un alquiladero de películas. Ah, se me olvidaba, el nombre del niño es Alfonso. Me contó entonces que en la casa no tenian nada para comer, y que estaban pasando por una situación muy difícil. Yo me acordaba muy bien de él, porque la ultima vez que estuvimos en carambolas, en la carrera de observación que hicimos el llegó de un momento a otro y queria jugar..., obviamente le dije que se metiera a buscar unos tarros de "veneno" que yo tenia escondidos en la manga (Los tarros no eran propiamente de veneno, pero la actividad trataba de enseñarles a los niños los peligros de estos elementos). Son de esos niños llenos de energía y que de cierta manera lo cautivan a uno con solo hablar.....
Tenia los ojos rojos (Alfonso), fué entonces cuando me contó la mama que los tenía así porque les había hechado limón debido a que el día anterior en el local de alquiler de películas por la divina eucaristia le habian dado $2,000 para que echara un veneno y de cierta manera le había caído en los ojos..., le pregunté entonces que si lo que le había enseñado no le habia servido para nada? Y me dijo que si, que al principio no le hiban a dar guantes para echarlo, pero que el les dijo que sin guantes "nada de nada"..., entonces bueno, por lo menos de algo sirvió lo que enseñé ese dia.
Luego de hablar mucho rato y comprar algunas cosas para la casa de él llegó su mamá.., me saludo muy querida y luego de recoger a Alvaro los llevé donde cogian el bus.

After my first Yoga class..

Finally I can understand a class, got to know the name of each movement like the cobra, the grasshopper, the bridge, the mountain and so on.... It happens that my first Yoga classes were in Swiss-German, so I couldn´t understand a bit of what the teacher was saying..., even though I miss the teacher speaking in swiss-german because the names of the movements were nice to hear.....

Now I feel like relieved, like I can go slower on everything, like with no stress...., relaxed in other words.., something that I was missing since long time ago....

Latest book..

My latest reading is a book called "The Art of the War", kind of interesting though!! It has very interesting ideas and concepts that fit perfectly in your daily life.., I´ll post some of those later on.

Yoga !

This week I decided to start again Yoga classes, I like them very much (I´m sitting on a desk most of the day) becauase they help me to keep the balance of long hours seating in front of a computer screen.

Best Video Ever....

If you like paul van dyk just take a look at this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1344552963226490563&q=paul+van+dyk

ARRGGHGHHHHHHH !!!

I just called EPM which is my internet provider because my speed is not fast enough, I have 700kb/s and I´m getting just 89kb/s !! So I called and I´m just sourprised the answers that I´m getting from level 1 (The last guy that I talked with told me that the internet speed can´t be measured in bytes, only in bits, that bytes are only for storage!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I just asked him to put me with next level....)..., I´m just tired of having to call at least 3 or 4 times a week..., and the worst thing of all is that I have to go throughout level 1 people each time I call, they´re only following a procedure.., I know that.., but please EPM PIMP my internet connection or at least give me the speed that I´m paying for !!!

Rio Rayo..

This trip was to Federico´s farm, located in Taraza... It was just soooo hot, but most of the time we spent it inside the water or walking... I should have done this post before..., now I can´t remember lot of things that I wanted to write....

Water + Hot weather + River + Rocks = High probability of finding a snake.., however I didn´t find not even one though.... : (

Looks like I definetively need a sun burn....

This is myself jumping into an old mine hole..., it was just soooo high.., probably the highest jumpo I´ve ever done in my entire life.. It was awesome.

And this is one of the presents that the nature gives you once in a while.... I could have stayed taking pictures of it, but it was getting late..., translated into snake time !!!!!!!

Some of the friends that went to Rio Rayo..

It´s interesting to know that according to some studies and statistics that scientist have performed (National Geographic I think), in the hole world this is the area with the biggest number of lightings by square meter !!! Probably that´s why the name of the river ("Rio Rayo" which translated in english would be "Lighting River" or "Thunder River").

Confusion

Can´t decide what to do..., sometimes I want to or would like to, and others and I don´t..., the thing is: If I can´t understand myself sometimes, who can ?


BTW, I have a lot of things to post.., but no time, or at least not this week.

Sometimes it´s pretty hard to say: NO

I just got an employment offer with IBM as a Consultant, it was hard for me to say no, because the job looks pretty cool, plenty of opportunities to learn and also travel, but I like very much my current job and it´s heading to where I want to be in the near future....., so as the title says, sometimes it´s pretty hard to say: No thanks.

Graduation..

I was supposed to be graduated by now...., but things happen, and for a sumatory of reasons I didn´t succed.., I should have posted this weeks ago.., but I was trying to avoid the topic..., to think like if it didn´t happen at all. According to the director of thesis I was unlucky in the way things happened.., but I don´t believe in luck..., you just build your own road and what you find on it or not depends on the way you decided to build it.. if you want your road to have a bridge you just need to know where to look for a river, so you can build it.., if you want your road to have a tunnel, you just need to find a huge rocky mountain, so you can build it of course..., and I can continue writing things about the matter here... But what if in the middle of that construction something happens, something that wasn´t in your plans.., and something that affects very deep the direction of that road....., let´s say there´s an earthquake that pumps up a new mountain just in front of your road..., then you´ll have to build a tunnel.., something that you didn´t expected but that makes your road look "cooler" if you take that "problem" as an opportunity.... So here´s the point.., every bad thing that happens can be looked from 2 perspectives.., one good.., one bad... being the good in this case the one most difficult to achieve and to find.., but as my mother says: "When one door gets closed another gets open" and you´re so damn right about it...
So my friends got graduated last week....., and I felt those "bad" butterflies on my stomach that I hate just "so" much........, but well, now that´s in the past...
Taking a look at the way things are going I don´t thing I´m gonna get graduated on August, instead in December..., not what I expected but it works for me though.

Xbox 360

I just bought it 2 weeks ago, but I haven´t played that much.., I don´t know if I grew up and don´t enjoy it that much as I used to, or is just because I don´t want to get focused in another screen after work.., or maybe I don´t have the right game.., honestly I don´t know. It also has a bunch of cool features, like for example I can stream mp3 from my computer located in the other side of the house to my room, also videos and movies.., which is a cool feature... I guess I just need a cool multiplayer game..., and that´s what I´m gonna get.

Friendship

There´s a point where a friendship melts, get mixed and reborn again.., accepting defects and qualities of each one..., and it doesn´t happen quite often.

Backfire..

Sometimes helping people can backfire to you...., it just happened to me a few minutes ago and I hate when that happens.... Most of the times is because of the ignorance of people..., however that´s not an excuse..


Argghh

Esteban´s 25th Birthday

Yesterday was my 25th birthday..., somehow it was different, it started different and it ended different.
2 years since I didn´t spend one of my birthdays with my family, 2 years ago I was in Switzerland, last year I was in Balsillas with Natalia, and finally this year I spent it with them.
We had a great lunch, plus that they bought me my favorite cake from deli (Torta de Caramelo).., YUMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!.

Later on, I spent some time at open sky, it was also a great time, we even rented a narguila with apple essence, it just tasted soooo good..
Thanks to all who gave me a call and spent some time with me.

I just feel that stepping into 25 is going to be pretty interesting, full of challenges (more?????), and I also think that this new year that I´m starting to live is going to be awesome.., probably because it´s my lucky number??? jajajajajja, but honestly speaking I just have the sensation that this year is going to be packed full of surprises and new learnings.... Can´t wait !!!

PD: I´m leaving this saturday to Santa Marta.., and finally I´m going to get to know the Tairona Park, a place that I´ve always wanted to know.. Trip time is almost 13 hours... A little bit far, isn´t it ? And the best of all is that I´m going to have the oportunity to take awesome pictures, because the wilderness there is pretty different from here and all the places where I´ve been.

PD2: My foot is getting better (This is a pending story that I´ve to post here..), finally I can support it fully on the ground. ; )

Worthless Reality Show..

Yesterday I was watching TV with my mom, and between the switching of channels we started to see a new Reality from "Canal Caracol" a local tv station, which is being filmed in Costa Rica I think, and the 3 competing teams are divided according to their social status, as follows:

1.Los Afortunados (Or something like that).
2.Los Rebuscadores.
3.Los Llevados.

My question here is: What is this kind of crap giving to the society ? Is it helping somehow ? Because from my point of view the only thing it´s doing is higlighting more and more the different social classes that we currently have instead of trying to break the hole bewteen them..

So here are my biggest and honest congratulations to the people that created that Reality..., if you ever read this (I don´t think they will anyway...) please try to do something that gives more to the people instead of just making your rating go "high" and destroying others people work and efforts......

Irony..

Guess what.., I´m just eating a Toblerone right now... (Juanma thanks !!), I´m just loving this chocolate bar.., it´s kind of my favorite this days..., and the interesting thing about it is that it´s made in the land of chocolates or clocks where I was 2 years ago..., and I could have eaten lots of them..., but I didn´t because I wasn´t that magnificent chocolate lover as I´m becoming..... Arrgghhhhhhh.....

Milkshake

Today I´m trying a new milkshake recipe invited by myself, the ingredients are:
- 1 cup of milk.
- 1 full spoon of protein with chocolate flavor.
- 2 bananas.
- 1 twix (Candy Bar).
- 1 cup of ice.

Put it on the blender and it´s ready!!
I just tasted and it´s yummyyyyyyyyyy !!!

Esteban´s Time..

Normally it goes from 6:00PM until 8:00PM and it´s the most important time of my day, where I have no cellphone, no connection to internet, no fixed phone, no nothing...., just me.... , and plenty of time to thing about what I´ve done, what I´m doing and what I´ll do with every single thing that surrounds and affects my life .....
It´s also a time where I balance long computer hours with plenty of exercise at the gym.

Best of all..., no interruptions !!



Se Finito !!

Quote of the day

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
- Isaac Newton

Brigadas..

2 weeks ago we went to Carambolas for another session of our "Brigadas de la Salud y la Solidaridad" where we did some activities for the small and for the adults..



For the kids we did an observation race where we talked to them very much about the team work and at the same time we taught them about a wide variety of topics, and for the adults a series of awesome conferences about the family where they did a very nice paper work (specially the moms!).

In the other hand, we did a journey by the neighborhood where we visited a series
of people with different kind of illness, what allows us to get more sensitized with the community.
Its very sad to see these people in this kind of situation having in mind the poor conditions that they face every single day of their lifes.
All of us got a warm welcome by each one of them, we saw the happiness of these people when we came in...., they´re very lonely people...

We are definetively just soooooo lucky of living the way we live and how we live, because we could be occupying their places and their ours very very easily... Its just so sad that sometimes people just don´t realize how lucky they are because they´re always looking above their heads, but never underneath them..., and is much more what they´ll find if they look underneath that if they look above... Helping the people that needs us is very easy..., you just need to want to give soooo much without expecting to receive anything in exchange.., but believeme, with this people you receive 100 times or more what you give them, and is something that money can´t buy, your parent´s can´t give you..., is something that you can only gain it by yourself.

In the middle of it...

PVD party was just amazing...
I guess the picture can talk by itself.

Paul Van Dyk: Politics of Dancing Tonight..

Tonight.., at paisatown (Medellín) is PVD Politics of Dancing 2 !! This party is going to be awesome, I´m just listening some intros of the songs and they look quite amazing...., also having in mind that this is my favorite dj.., and my last party was 2 years ago with him in Zürich (Unforgetable).... It´s 9:00PM..., and I´m planning to be there at 10:30PM.. I have to work tomorrow (that´s the only bad thing), however I´ll make sure to have plenty of fun !

What I like about PVD is that he´s not only a "DJ", just take the time and read the following and you will realize what I mean:

Fear and Love..

I was listening to 40 gigs of music that a friend did copy to my hard drive..., and after listening soooooo manyyyyyyyyy songs I found this one called "Fear and Love" from a band called "Morcheeba" which plays a laid-back mix of fusion, funk, and blues (I just realized the name of it), however I used to hear this song very much while I was living in Switzerland, so today I searched for the lyric of it and here it is..
I think this song has applied to me in the past, in the present and probably will in the future.

Fear and love - Morcheeba


"We always have a choice
Or at least I think we do
We can always use our voice
I thought this to be true
We can live in fear
Extend our selves to love
We can fall below
Or lift our selves above


Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
Fear can stop you loving
But it's not always that clear


I always try so hard
To share my self around
But now I'm closing up again
Drilling through the ground


Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
Fear can stop you loving
But it's not always that clear


I'd love to give my self away
But I find it hard to trust
I've got no map to find my way
Amongst these clouds of dust


Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
Fear can stop you loving
But it's not always that clear"

Weird Dreams.

I keep having this weird dreams that are almost real, so real that when I wake up I get confused for a while thinking if what I dreamt I really did it or if it was just a dream.... There´s no problem with that.., the problem comes when you do bad things like in my dreams...., they stop being dreams and get converted into nightmares..... What´s the difference between a dream and reality ? Studies have shown that the same areas in the brain get activated whenever you´re seeing something or dreaming that something.., so another question here is: Which one is really seeing? The eyes or the brain ?? And again.., what´s the difference between reality and dreams ? The only answer that comes to my mind right now is that dreams are not as consecutive as reality...

Missing you..

Hey mom, it´s been just 2 days and I´m missing you like never...., even though I talked with you a few minutes ago. I know you´re having a good time with your friends on the beach and I like that.., because you were needing that space!
Probably I´ll be going also to the beach on July, hopefully everything will come up flawlessly..

Cooking Time...

This cooking has been the best of the best...., the food was just so great..., each one of us did a little part of it..., and the result was hilarious. I just received the pictures today and in the moment I saw them I started to feel hungry....

Beagles...

Theres a new beagle in the family, it´s called Beto. I think I already posted about him, I even showed a picture of him. He´s just so big this days...
Yesterday I went to the farm because of the father´s day and had lunch with my family, well, not all of it because sadly for this time my mother wasn´t here, and other memebers were traveling.., however it was a pretty good time. I took some pictures of Hugo, Beto and Salpina... Salpina is a dog from our neighbors but she likes very much to come to our farm. Her kind is of those dogs used to do agility (like in animal planet..), it´s just so funny...



PD: Can´t wait for the 25th of this month !

Paul Van Dyk !!

This Dj (My Favorite) is going to be playing here on the 25th of june on Plaza Mayor..., I already got my ticket.... This party is going to be awesome.

Cactus..

I´ve been looking for one for days.., well, actually not looking too much because I haven´t had enough time. I would like to put in on my desk, I like the green nearby the monitor, so if you want to have an awesome detail with me just give me a Cactus...

The Artist that my mom is..

She did this 2 paintings on the weekend and their awesome..., she´s just so good at it !!!
Mom, I really admire your work !!!For me the first one (Above) is like a plain on fire...., it´s pretty hugeeeeeee, like to put it on a living room.....

The second one is obviously a watermelon but what I like most about it is that is divided into 3 pieces...., giving it a very nice touch......
Again Mom..., congratulations !!!!!!! I liked them very very much.

Silicone..

I´m shocked !!!.., today I decided to go to the gym in the morning cuz I have something else to do on the afternoon, so I went there and started to see lot´s of womans with silicone on them..., I decided to count and got a rate that 2 womans out of 3 had silicone implants on them... Isn´t that too much ?? I´ve read and found out that Medellín is a city with a very high rate in this kind of surgeries..., why ?? Some people says that´s because of the fashion mostly..., at the same time Medellín is one of the cities with higher rates of bullimia (is that the correct way to write it??) and anorexia........, they also say that´s mainly because of the fashion.... So my question is what´s the fashion doing with our nice people ?? To be honest I prefer a girl without any kind of surgeries, makeup or whatsoever.., I prefer natural people.., however I´m not against a little bit of vanity to fix some imperfections but here this is going crazy... To fight that, EPM (Empresas Públicas de Medellín) in association with other companies are throwing a pretty nice and strong campaing about all this kind of #%$#%#, showing for exampel a cammel with huge back implants on it (looking pretty ugly), a pretty thin giraffe (looking also ugly because that´s not natural...., I mean, not normal). I´ve found girls with huge implants on them that instead of looking nice they look like porno stars.. and to be honest I don´t like that, it doesn´t look right...
A few weeks ago I was at the university doing the line at the cafeteria to buy a yogurt, I looked back and saw this extra thin girl.., obviously she was anorexic.., you can tell by the color of her skin, the way her hair is..., and other couple of things that I´ve learned from girl-friends that have been throughout anorexia or bullimia. But this girl..., it reallly shocked me..., the width of her arms and legs were just soooooo thin that I think that if somebody touches her she will break inmediatly.....

Email sent..

Sometimes is difficult to accept something.., a something that you have always looked for, dreamed for, worked for, fighted for.... It´s not easy to accept and understand that it won´t be possible at least for now, turn down all of those expectatives that I could have, set them aside....... That´s why I didn´t wrote this email that I should have sent days ago until today...., an email that wasn´t easy to write, to compose... I guess is one of those emails that I think twice before releasing the "Send Email" button..., and that I don´t want to send.., that I don´t want to accept.., but that I have to..., that I must face and accept the way they come no matter how and no matter when and where..
It´s interesting, because I should be feeling sad about it, however I feel ok, but I have to admit that it wasn´t easy to "digest"..
But as I always say when I´m in this kind of situations, when one door gets closed another one gets open, so................................................... I let the rest to your imagination.., because that´s the only place where I can find an answer.

Lava Lamp...

So I´m here, sitting at my new workstation finishing Analisis´s Numerico final work..., looking at my lava lamp bubbling while I try to get new Ideas on how to finish this thing....
There´s also this cold that is making me sneeze the hole day.., I have to admit that mj contributed to it somehow...jajajjaa, I´m not that sure about it..., but I think that my defenses came down after the rush and stressfull that was my life in this las 2 weeks..., in the meantime I´m drinking green tea with honey like a madman to see if I get any better... (I´m pretty sure I will.., it´s not that bad this cold.., it´s just that sometimes I want to make a big think out of a small one..., just teasing you in case you haven´t realized it...)

In the other hand I love my new place of work.., next by the balcony at home.., looking at the threes and again the squirrels..., I definetively like very much my work when I´m near the nature..., and the view it´s just amazing....

ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzzz is not present right now on me and that´s quite extrange because usually I sleep a lot during weekends.., maybe it´s a collateral effect of the green tea ?? Hope so, because if it is (And I think it is) I´ll definetively switch from coffee to tea.

Ok, I shall get back to study !

Black !

I bought this game for xbox 1 week ago and now it´s over..., I thought it was going to be longer.... Awesome game.., I highly recommen it.

Midnight..

It´s midnight.., and I just decided to have a break from my studing session, it feels so quiet, plenty of silence... I like that..., the only sound that I can hear are the keystrokes of this computer..., nothing more nothing less...
I have to confess that I do feel tired these days.., soooo much to study.., soooo much to do.., I just want to finish this university and have a break for a while, enjoy the small things and don´t have to be in a rush all the time..I hate that.
I´d better get going back to studies...

Cursed or Blessed?

This is an open question that came to my mind while I was talking to a friend: Is knowledge a curse or a blessing?
From my point of view I can tell that it´s a blessing, even though it has of course it´s own disadvantages.., I´ve got into a looooot of problems because of "knowledge" but at the same time I´ve got a huge amount of opportunities because of it...., so the answer to my question is that it has as everything a BALANCE (Like I always say), and if you can´t keep that balance then get prepared because problems are going to be reaching you. One good balances one bad.., which is equal to 0 !! So 0 is the answer...., like everything.., just take a look at one of the smallest things on earth: An Atom.., which is composed of positive and negative charges always looking for a balance.., and if doesn´t get it, it becomes something else.....

Short but interesting.

Pico y Placa

I drove out of the university and saw a car standing by the side of the road,
I saw it´s plate and saw that it ended in 0, wich means that it had pico y placa
today, and the "azules" where putting an infraction on him.., and I thought for
myself.., poor lady.., and continued driving..., then I started to think and
realized that today (Wednesday) I have pico y placa, so I had 2 options..., the
first one was to stop, and the second one was to avoid the law and continue on
my way to my office that by the way was quite near... I decided to stop and parked
in an empty spot of a building.., and from there I saw the road that I was supoussed t
to take.., and guess what.., at the end of it were 2 "azules"..., which means
that if I didn´t stop like I did the the most probably thing is that I would
have gotten an infraction......

Hot Chocolate

I´m sitting in my farm..., in a pretty old desk, I think I was used by
my grandma when she was young.., so I can somehow imagine
how old it is..., while it´s raining. The roof
is made of wood, so you can feel every single drop of rain that fall´s over it.
I´m already writing my thesis..., silence is everywhere.., no linghts at all in
the surroundings....
The maid just brought me a cup full of empanadas a and hot chocolate, which is perfect
because I´m kind of freezing... I would rather definetively being by the chimenee but
the thing is that my family is there and there´s a lot of noise, so I won´t be able
to get concetrated.
It´s sad to not be able to be with them, sharing, laughing, and doing all of
the things that they´re doing right now.., because this doesn´t happen quite
often...., instead I need to write this Thesis to be able to get graduated..., which by now is
47 pages long already..., and I have to add to it a lot of things that I haven´t finished
figuring them out already.., so I would say that I´m on a 35% ~ 40% of progress..

In the other hand I was supoussed to start writing again my thesis today at 1:00PM, but after
seeing david´s bicicross competence at the columbus school and getting pretty wet
I was just so tired.., so I just falled asleep until 5:00PM.... I woke up and started
writing it again.. It´s 7:22PM and I think I´ll continue until late in the night.

After 3 hours of typing, I´m posting here again...., and now I´ve written 72 pages non-stop...., which
in my opinion is a good advance....

No time at all !

With no time at all, this last weeks and weekends have been somehow the worst..., not even being able to go out, to chill out or to do just and simple nothing because of the study. My thesis is taking almost all of my time if you take in mind that it consists only of the weekends and the nights after work, with análisis numérico final work that its supoussed to be a 3 persons job actually being done only by me, because the other 2 guys are like in the stratosphere or something like that..., and if you add to all of that the normal studen life quizes and partials then my time is more than full..., and sometimes I like that but after a while I get tired of it. This week I was sopussed to start again at the gym, but my hand wasn´t that good at all, and at the same time had plenty of school related things to do and I really miss it.., maninly because I breath a different kind of air there..., my body gets oxigenated which makes me feel ok even if I´m pretty stressed out..
There´s something that I haven´t posted here already, codenamed ITP, but I don´t want to get into details upon I have something more certain that what I have now....

My last post was "Maybe" and it was yesterday.., I really liked that song.., from stereophonics.., it has a "I don´t what in a I don´t know where", I guess that´s the reason I liked it sooo much.

Maybe..

Maybe one thing
Maybe something
Maybe nothing
All I know is friend
Its nothing new

Maybe its me
What is to be?
Maybe lucky
All I ask is where
Were sposed to be

I give a lot
I take a lot
Its nothing new to me

Maybe youve grown
Am I so wrong
How longs too long
All I want is us to be happy

Maybe moving
Always proving
Am I losing
All thats meant to be?
Thats meant to be?

Ya hear a lot
Ya told a lot
Its nothing new to me

Maybe laughing
Something lacking
Always sometimes
All I hear is how, its meant to be

Maybe learning
Always searching
Am I asking
Things Ill know too soon?
Ill know too soon

We talk a lot
Dont do a lot
Its nothing new to me

I give a lot
I take a lot

Its nothing new to me

Funny Picture..

When Heading to Carambolas Rosy took and modified this picture and putted on me a kind of "mask", it was pretty funny...., she called it "Batman"....
The one on my left is my uncle Diego with a kind of modification too on his forehead.

Book : )

In spanish its called "Un mundo feliz" but I searched for it on Amazon.com and found that the name is "Brave new world" written by Aldous Huxley.

Amazon.com
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "

I finish reading it yesterday, and it like it very much...., sometimes I even think that today society shall have some of the points he describes it in the book where the concept of "individual" doesn´t exist at all, but as I said "ONLY SOMETIMES!!!" because somehow that would create a kind of order, balance and equity in this unbalanced world.

We can see in nature, ants for example since the first moment they born they already have a place and a described function in their society, for example the workers ants are going to be workers for the rest of their lives until they die, you won´t never see a worker ant becoming a warrior, or become king or something like that.., that´s how they keep their balance, and we can see that panorama in other species..., but the problem comes when the species can think and when the species can make questions about his own life..., when it sees differences...

In the other hand, a question that just came to my mind.., what would happen if in Huxley´s society people ran out of "soma"?? if for any reason the natural resources used to make it just ran out ?? I guess they would figure something else out, but in the meantime their society would become a chaos !!! So, he´s world is not perfect at all for the simple reason that people is not happy, and that´s why they need to be taking that pills all the time..., so is it really worth it to have a balanced world if people is unhappy? Switzerland for example is somehow a "perfect" country full of beauty, full of nature and with no crime, no poverty, no hunger, no nothing !!! But is the country with the HIGHEST rate of suicide !!!!!
Latin America, one of the most poor continets in the world, acording to a research is where people lives more happier !!! and if we take a deep look we have a lot of poverty, crime, and I can continue listing things here... BUT that´s what makes the difference, that´s what makes that every day counts ! that every day is different and has its own flavor !! Maybe the feeling that we don´t know how tomorrow is going to be is what keep us like that..

I guess unbalance is the price that we have to pay for being happy......

Hangover..

Today I´m a little bit hangovered....
Yesterday was poveda´s birthday.., we went to "El Sombrero" in Envigado City..., we had a pretty cool time..., the thing is that I didn´t have dinner.., so at poveda´s house I had 3 tequillas and that was enough to get me drunk.., well not drunk exactly but a little bit.
I think that the last time that I drank was 1 or 2 months ago..., so much work, so much study..., so many things...

I´m trying to work in my thesis and at the same give poveda advice on his and honestly I can´t focus.., I hate when that happens.., I mean..., being hangovered is the worst.

Tonia drove my car yesterday.., I wasn´t that drunk to not being capable of driving..., but it was just as a precaution..., it´s just so good when you have somebody that takes care of the driving..

Today is Thursday and I´ve advanced so much my thesis..., I haven´t done anything except working on it........, I need a rest.

Quote of the day..

I read it today, and found it very true in my life:

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

Surgery on it´s way..

I can see it coming and I don´t want that day to arrive..

I have this terrible pain on my right hand again, the doc says it´s because of the highly use of the computer, so I´ll have to go and do some exams on it to see if it´s necesary or not.... It feels pretty weird actually, because it´s not pain, I mean, it´s pain but not that one that is really hard on you, this one feels quite extrange, it feels like if a beam of electricity went over it..

At the Gym it´s also becoming a problem..., because in some exercises I can feel that beam and I hate it... So I guess esteban that we will have to face that.., Surgery on it´s way !!

BTW, I think I know who would like to see that surgery on live! even though it´s not that complicated I guess...jajajajja

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

When Page_Load Does / Will Not Fire!
Visual Studio At It Again :-)
So I decided I didn't have any more gunpowder in my Page_Load - it wouldn't fire!! In having problems with my default.aspx page not running the Page_Load function I found out after watching the files that Visual Studio .NET was removing my code from the InitializeCompenent() function. I am not sure why but I simply replaced:

this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);

in the function and I was good to go. Of course this also can apply if a form doesn't seem to submit on your onClick code for a button isn't running (ASP.NET onClick code). If this is the case make sure it has a System.EventHandler in the InitializeComponent() function.

Perfume..

This was funny, today I was waiting for my 6AM teacher to arrive, so I was in the outter part of the building.., while I was there a lot of people came in (Naturally) and I don´t know what happened to my nose today .., but I started to smell pretty deep every single perfume of every single person that got into the building.. Some people use, others don´t.., but then came this woman.., she was a teacher I guess, she wasn´t the most pretiest woman or something, she was pretty tough..., however the thing is that her perfume almost killed me...., I mean, it was just sooooo good.., it was like the smell of something soft, definetivelly the smell was yellow, very natural by the way....., very pleasant and ethereal.. kind of sweet but I´m not so sure what´s a sour smell, so this point it´s a little bit senseless...., I almost asked her what was the name of it....., I was dying for it.... It was like a candy, like something sweet, that tastes good, that you want to keep tasting and tasting and tasting it..... I´m sure the name of that perfume was "New West", because I remember that when I was a child one of my mothers friend used to use that perfume, and every time I smelled her I told to my mom that I wanted her to buy it.., that smell definetively kills me......, I like it sooooo soooooo sooooo much.


Then another woman came in, this time the effect was completely different..., her perfume smelled pretty bad, like hell (Well, I haven´t been in hell so..), but it was like a very artificial smell, like something extrange, without essence, without that special thing........, like sour..., like somehting that you don´t want to get into your nose..., like something that you wish didn´t existed...

3 $200 coins !

In the last week I have found 3 $200 coins in different locations of the city, one I found it in the street near my office, another one in the Gym, and the other one in mmmmmm........, can´t remember right now..but that´s definetively a lot of coincidence......, ...., why ?
Got it, i also found the other coin at the Gym too..

Maybe a magical number ?? Let´s try some combinations: 3200, 600, 2300, 5 (+ of all the numbers), 3020, 2030, 2003, 3002..., does any one of this numbers means anything to me?? Kind of cryptic though..

Paintball....

After playing more that 30 times, I had an accident.., I wasn´t hurted at all, but a friend did.... He was trying to clean his mask inside the field..., and while he was doing it a ball hitted it and one of the parts of the paintball hitted him in his eye, causing some damage on the cornea and a some other in the Retina.., the docs said that he´s not loosing his eye.., however he had today at 2:00PM an eye surgery.., I´m gonna call him later on to see how everything went....





After that incident we continued playing and had plenty of fun...

Esteban el mago..

Last weekend I went to a very poor zone of the city, this time to teach the children how to take care of their body, my part was about how to take care of their lungs..., so I did a pretty cool experiment that I did learn at the science fair a couple of years ago.., it was about showing them what happened when a person smoked a cigarrete..., so I did it using a Coca Cola Bottle, full of cotton, and in the top of it one cigarette attached, so when I pressed the bottle it throwed out air, and after that sucking a lot of it, making of course the same process that somebody smoking does. After some cigarettes the cotton started to turn yellow, thing that impressed sooo much not even the kinds but the older people that were there...





This activity was organized by "El CES", a very important university in Medellín.

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I took all of these pictures last weekend in a Neighborhood called Carambolas,

located in a very poor zone of the city.
I´ve never seen before anybody so happy because he or she is going to be
photographed !! This kids enjoyed every single part of the process..., I wish
sometimes I could do the same.....



I feel a lot of sorry for them, they are children with no oportunities at all even
if there´s some people that say that they have plenty of them, a lot of missing
things on their lifes like LOVE, sometimes their parents can´t pay enough atention
to them because of the long hours that they have to work just to earn a minimum
salary (today is the day where I can´t already understand how can anybody live with
that amount of money.... and in most of the cases more than 4 people live with this
amount for 1 month), maybe they can´t eat three times or as many as we want each
day, childrens that in a lot of situations have to work just to get a little bit of
money to buy the food of the day, money that for example we spend in expensive
clothing, party, travelling, cocktails, cafés, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera....

The only conclusion that I can get here is that life is not fair.., what I mean
is.., what makes me different.., what did I do, or what did they do, or who choose
why I´m where I am, and why one of those kids is where he is ? I mean, why amn´t I
in their position and they in mine? Or why aren´t we in the same situation?? It´s
just not fair...

Why everything needs to have two sides instead of only one???....for example black
or white, love or hate, happines or sadness, hot or cold, poor or rich, low or high,
vanilla or chocholate, friendly or unfriendly, ally or enemy, live or die, give or
take, construct or destruct, breathe or not breathe, ying or yang, kill or born,
down or up, left or right, good or wrong, hell and heaven, angel or deamon, proton
or electron, known or unknow....., why aren´t we in the same position ?? in the same
situation? In the same side? In the same edge? That would avoid a lot of conflicts
and wars.... The only answer that I find for this is that we need the balance to
LIVE, YESSSS !!! but at the same time a balance that is killing us !

Some people say that freedom is the ability to choose, yes I agree with that, but at
the same time I think that the ability to choose is somehow a curse in a world where
things are NOT well balanced, like ours.... I know that choosing makes the
difference, for good or bad..., but just take a look at it from this point of view..
How diferent the world would be if we wouldn´t need to make any choice at all in
our lifes..., for the simple reason that the "choice as choice" didn´t exist at all!
No choices !! which means..., a simpler life.., somehow untasty..., but without all
the sad things that we see today...., everybody on the same situation, a kind of
global comunism, but without a top, without a government, without a board, without
rich people, without poor people.... But I guess that in this "perfect" situation I
would also find people trying to take advantage of others, trying to get more from
the others..., which if he look in the long term will get as a result the same
situation that we have today...... So then I guess that the problem is not the
balance, it´s the human kind itself...

Lizard

I was walking with a friend towards the office, I was looking the floor and I saw this small Lizard in the sidewalk, so I tried to put it aside with a my hand and I realized that it had a hand that couldn´t move.. So I took it with my hand and putted it in a safe place.....


Photographer: Camilo Duque.

Today I came by the same sidewalk and realized that it wasn´t where I left it yesterday, so I guess it got better and moved away...

While I was taking the Lizard camilo took this picture.

Sunday Morning...

This is one of those days where I´m not in a hurry..., where I can prepare my breakfast slowly, enjoying every part of the cooking process which today consisted of:
-Eggs with tomato,onions and cheese.
-Pancakes with butter and honey.
-Banana Milkshake.

Im seriously thinking on creating a time window called "Esteban´s Time" where I´m going to be unplugged from the world, I´ll turn off my mobile phone, no fixed phone, no internet...., no interruptions, no nothing.., just time for me, to think, to read, to do things that I enjoy and I like. It will be probably one hour or so....., the thing is that these days I´m doing something the hole time, no spare time at all, and that´s something that I really need.

This week seems to be a little bit more pacefully, I only have one task to give on friday which is cool, but in the other side of the coin, I have to continue working on my thesis, working on Analisis Numerico´s final project, and a bunch of other things that I don´t know where am I going to get the time to doing them...

That´s all for now..

Hope..

According to people this is the last thing that you should let go.., but for now I just decided in this exact moment that I´m letting it go......., it´s sad to accept that but not everything is the way we want...

Old !!

I was suppoused to do this post months ago.., in fact I did it but without the right pictures !
I just got them yesterday from a friend that I almost had to beg him in order to get a copy of´em, thanks for that Poveda.., you just better go an do Kung-Fu !!
This trip was in "El Peñol", a dam that is huge and wonderfull. It produces a lot of energy and years ago was a good place to go fishing, today you can catch some (Very small by the way) but not like in the old days where you could easy catch 40 or 50 in one day of a very good size.



The weather was just sooo cool, and we had a pretty good party over the deck until pretty late in the night..., one of this guys released the cable from where it was tied to (In the earth), so the people who were above it went very far away from the border (Including me), after 30 mins poveda and I realized that it was going to be a problem to get the deckback to the border if we didn´t realize something..., having in mind that the boat wasn´t repaired yet because the engine was kind of "dusty" we jumped into the water and started pulling and pulling the deck, finally after swimming 30 minutes we arrove to the border with the deck full of people (It was almost dark).
The next day couldn´t manage to fix the boat at all so we lose a huge amount of fun however that didn´t stopped us from having a good time !

BTW, I got caught in another picture sleeping..., didn´t find it so I didn´t published it here... Why am I getting caught in the pics sleeping so much ????

New Pets !!

There´s a new pet in the family, well, actually there are 2..., the first one is "Beto" a new dog (Beagle), is being shown on the picture below.., it´s just so cool that dog..., if he´s not playing all the time he´s just sleeping....., and he has this sharpy teeth that when he bites you it hurts very much.... Anyway the dog is so lovely..., everybody wants to play with him, touch him..., small dogs are just to love them.



He´s living in the farm.

In the other hand there´s "Crypto", my new fish.., it´s a Beta. The story of this fish is quite particular.., somehow I gave it as a present to a certain somebody, and then I have to take it back..., because that certain somebody wasn´t taking enough care of it.. Now it´s living in my room, near my bed...., so I feel some kind of special company each night...
I´ll post a picture of him soon.., the thing is that I´m never early at home, so taking a picture at night it´s kind of complicated.., however I promess that I will take one this weekend and post it here...

That´s all for now.

Girl or Boy.., what would you rather?

I was talking to a girl-friend today and I asked her the next question:
-What do you feel when you like very much a boy, and you want him to kiss you soo badly?
So she gave me her answer, and after that I told her what a boy feels when he wants to kiss a girl... In the end both answers converged to the same point.., however, the final question here was:
What´s worst? Being that girl wanting to be kissed?? or being that boy trying to figure out if he will or not kiss the girl (Maybe because he´s afraid of doing it)????

Also, take in mind that this question came under a conservative idea.

Napster..

Today I went to 6AM class.., the teacher never arrove (it was 6:20AM by that time), so I continued reading my book "El hombre que calculaba" which is pretty awesome and I highly recomend it ! It´s about the story of a guy who solves a huge amount of problems using only mathemathics, I wish I had read this book before starting mathemathics at school.., it makes you love them ! it´s incredible.
So as I was saying.., I started to read the book for aproximately 45 mins, after that I was very sleepy, so I went to my car and took a 1:15 nap !! then when I woke up I was late 20 mins for my next class, but it wasn´t the big deal. Now I´m just here at the office, got the notice that I got switched AGAIN of project, am I a Fireman or what ??? I definetively hate that and that is boring me so much at this work....

Regarding the title of this post, believeme, when you feel tired and sleepy, just take a small nap and you´ll wake up like having new alkaline batteries!

No title..

That´s the status of my mind right now.., I´m just soooo tired..., this week I was with a kind of cold.., I´m not so sure if I´m going to get sick or not, however I felt it. I was seelpy all the time.., sneezing..., headache..., and the common symptoms of one on those.
It´s 9PM and I don´t know if I´m going to go out or not..., I would like just to make something different, but at the same time I´m just so tired that I think that if I just step out of this door I´m going to fall asleep wherever I go...
This weekend is going to be long because monday is holiday, the bad thing of it is that I have a big exam on tuesday (Análisis Numérico) so I guess my weekend is going to be all but fun...., so when I´m not at work during the weekends I have to study.., it´s not fair..., I need some time to chill....., but as always.., it will come when the time is right...

By the window..

It´s 05:17PM, and I´m in front of my window, studying for a quizz of "Análisis Numérico" which I don´t understand even a bit... until now that things are starting to make sense.
It´s raining and I like that..., it feels very cozy, the perfect ambient for me to study, or to read a book or to watch a good movie. Talking of books I just finished "El perfume" today.., it was a pretty good book, didn´t like the end too much though..

Test...

Jajaja, I just did this test on the web (www.bbspot.com) and those were my results:


Which File Extension are You?



Which OS are You?

Caught asleep..

I was reviewing some pictures from "la caja del amor" and I found this one.., can´t remember (Obviously) who took the pictures because I was asleep..., anyway it was funnny though.

Lost !

Funny, that´s the way to describe it...
It happens that I arrove today to the university sooooo sleepy at 6AM..... It was 9:10AM and I realized that I had forgotten something on my car, so I went to the parking lot (The university has two, one in the opposite side of the other one..) and searched and searched and searched for my car...., I searched for about 10 minutes without success..., so I started to go back in time and realized that it was in the other parking lot.., so I did the traveling between them and finally found it... It was just funny to see how sleepy I was this morning...

Wishing you were here...

This is the lyric of a song that I like very much, from pink floyd..., guess why I´m putting it here !!!

Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange
a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground. What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.

Lucid Dream..

I don´t know if I hate "real dreams" or if I don´t, yesterday was sunday...., I was veryyyy tired, after working the hole weekend..., one week after another, I couldn´t be in a better shape though..., so I just had this "real" dream....., everything was just sooo real...., I tried to wake up from it but I couldn´t, so I tought: Ok, this has to be real....., it felt just so good..., then I woke up and realized that it was a dream, and that it was as real as my reality..., only that it didn´t happened on it.., what if dreams are real lifes in another frecuencies?? or parallel lifes that we just hop on them when we fall asleep ?? It´s just so incredible to think that my brain is capable of reproducing sounds, images, voices, sounds, characters, stories while I´m asleep.... How cool would it be if there were a machine where you could record your own dreams ?? What if my life is and endless dream ?? How can you tell the difference between a real dream and the real reality ? I mean, there´s no way to do it until you wake up..., and what if you wake up from this dream when you die ?? I don´t know.., those are just broken ideas that are flying by me head right now....... what if...what if....what if.....
The funny thing is that right now I´m eating a mango..., so I eat a piece of it, and my mouth send the signals to my brain telling it that it tastes yummy....., so I enjoy it and continue eating.., one piece after another.... The same thing happens on a dream.., only electrical charges that make me beleive that what I´m doing is "real", but here I come again.., what´s the definition of "real" ?? What about "electric impulses" ????
I know.., that would sound pretty sad and empty, because life is more than that...., but then.., what´s that "more than that" ?????
Suddenly this movie "Vanilla sky" comes to my mind..., and what if there´s a way to create a "lucid dream" where you can be that person that you always wanted to be ? The point is, what difference would it make to live in a dream that you don´t know it´s a dream, and a "real life" that you don´t know what it is ?

BTW, I couldn´t wake up this morning for 6AM class...

Capuccino over me...

After having lunch we went to the Tiger Market in the Esso Gas Station and happens that I was talking to a friend from work, he was holding an empty cup of capuccino, we were laughing at something, so he moved very fast the cup and it was holding a small drops of coffee already, so guess where did they crash ?? On me !!!
And that´s not the end of story..., while we were drinking the coffees at the store I started to play with the smal stick that they give you to spin the sugar !! Spin spin sugar !!! Spin Spin sugar !!! So ok, I was playing with it, spining the sugar, and happens that I did spill my yummy capuccino over the hole table..., and I just have tasted it a couple of times..., the lady from the counter saw my sad accident and gave me a new one.. Of course that all the people that were with me were joking and laughing..., anyway it was fun though.

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers.

This is a paper that I wrote today for an Asignature, I found it soo important that I wanted it to remain forever.


1.A project manager should visit everyone who is building anything for his project at least once, should know all the managers on his project (both government and contractor), and know the integration team members. People like to know that the project manager is interested in their work and the best proof is for the manager to visit them and see first hand what they are doing.

2.Don't get too egotistical so that you can't change your position, especially if your personnel tell you that you are wrong. You should cultivate an attitude on the project where your personnel know they can tell you of wrong decisions.

3.A manager who is his own systems engineer or financial manager is one who will probably try to do open heart surgery on himself.

4.The seeds of problems are laid down early. Initial planning is the most vital part of a project. The review of most failed projects or project problems indicate the disasters were well planned to happen from the start.

5.Cooperative efforts require good communications and early warning systems. A project manager should try to keep his partners aware of what is going on and should be the one who tells them first of any rumor or actual changes in plan. The partners should be consulted before things are put in final form, even if they only have a small piece of the action. A project manager who blindsides his partners will be treated in kind and will be considered a person of no integrity.

6.You cannot watch everything. What you can watch is the people. They have to know you will not accept a poor job.

7.If you have someone who doesn't look, ask, and analyze; ask them to transfer.

8.People who monitor work and don't help get it done never seem to know exactly what is going on (being involved is the key to excellence).

9.There is no greater motivation than giving a good person his piece of the puzzle to control, but a pat on the back or an award helps.

10.Hide nothing from the reviewers. Their reputation and yours is on the line. Expose all the warts and pimples. Don't offer excuses—just state facts.

11.Documentation does not take the place of knowledge. There is a great difference in what is supposed to be, what is thought to have happened, and reality. Documents are normally a static picture in time that get outdated rapidly.

12.Being friendly with a contractor is fine—being a friend of a contractor is dangerous to your objectivity.

13.There is only one solution to a weak project manager in industry—get rid of him fast. The main job of a project manager in industry is to keep the customer happy. Make sure the one working with you knows that it is not flattery but on-schedule, on-cost, and a good product that makes you happy.

14.Remember the boss has the right to make decisions. Even if you think they are wrong, tell the boss what you think but if he still wants it done his way; do it his way and do your best to make sure the outcome is successful.

15.Never ask management to make a decision that you can make. Assume you have the authority to make decisions unless you know there is a document that states unequivocally that you can't.

16.Most of yesteryear's projects overran because of poor estimates and not because of mistakes. Getting better estimates will not lower costs but will improve NASA's business reputation. Actually, there is a high probability that getting better estimates will increase costs and assure a higher profit to industry unless the fee is reduced to reflect lower risk on the part of industry. A better reputation is necessary in the present environment.

17.All problems are solvable in time, so make sure you have enough schedule contingency—if you don't, the next project manager that takes your place will.

18.Wrong decisions made early can be recovered from. Right decisions made late cannot correct them.

19.Never assume someone knows something or has done something unless you have asked them; even the obvious is overlooked or ignored on occasion, especially in a high stress activity.

20.Never make excuses; instead, present plans of actions to be taken.



All of these ideas were extracted from the following link:

http://www.altisinc.com/Links/100_Rules.html#ProjectMgr

are you asking me that if I´m used to that ?

Then my answer would be a BIG and HUGE YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS, I don´t know if I should laugh at myself or what but this is just incredible...., or is it coincidence??
Anyway.......