I feel fine about Chile. I mean, I've lived all my life here, and never left the country for whatever reason (althought if I had the opportunity, I'd travel somewhere else, but I'd come back), and for some reason, I feel comfortable. The only thing that bothers me at this time, is the importance people give to the World Cup. Its alright if you like football, but at the point of destroying public transportation and looting places? Come on!
The attendance people show to their cellphones always irritates me too, but I think that happens in every country.
I like my friends. But that doesn't mean every person on the country is friendly; but I like friendly people in Chile (and, in general) , specially my friends. I like the neighborhoods; places with lots of houses and often lots of short passagges where its easy to get lost. I like where I live because its near a hill. Ilike the beach. Ilike the forests. I like the street market. I like sopaipillas.And I think that is everything I like from this country.
What I don't like are: angry fat ladies in the public transprtation, schools, city convergence, large distance between cities, mongrels in the streets and people doing nothing about it (including me), ultra high prices, local football teams, local football fans, sink water (at least in the city), celebrity shows, streets with holes, and a lot more things I can't remember.
I would definitely change public transportation and make buses's frequency faster and fare prices lower, though I don't know how I could.
I don't know if I have to trust the news when they say others countries think Chile is good at sports, or a "tough rival". I just think they are overstating themselves, just for having more confidence. Anyway, I've heard a couple of times other contries think Chile is a "poet's country".
Like I said before, I like where I live, and I rarely imagine myself living in another part of the country, but my home. I think I'm just too homesick, or I just don't know much more places.
That's all guys!
Bye!!
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
9th Post!
2014 to me has been a very quiet year so far.
Academically, I have not much to say. I only have two different classes and this course. I think at this moment I've done well. I have plenty of time to do my homework though sometimes I don't do cause I'm lazy.
The best moments so far are: when I found $10.000 at the sidewalk, way to my girlfriend's house; when I had the oppornunity to see Pixies twice; going to the beach with my friends; taking my girlfriend's pig to its new home in valparaiso, and, lately, visiting the planetary for the first time. I think there are much more good moments to me, but those are the ones I remember more easily.
University experiences of this year has been very quiet, like I said before. Not much to say, really. I don't have too much classes, but when I come to the University its nice to be with my friends, at least for a short time. There has not been much movement related to the sutdent movement I've perceived. Classes keep its normal frequency without been interrupted. Just quiet.
During my freetime I do what I usually do every year; play videogames, go to the street market every time I can, seeing my girlfriend, and often study for tests and doing homework.
Relate to trips, recently I came back from Algarrobo. It was very nice. I went with my girlfriend's family to one of her relative's house. Weather there is very warm compared to the one we have in Santiago right now.
I expect this year to be hard before second semester begins, so I have to prepare. I'm too lazy right now. I hope everything continue calm and to not have bad news. Bye!
Academically, I have not much to say. I only have two different classes and this course. I think at this moment I've done well. I have plenty of time to do my homework though sometimes I don't do cause I'm lazy.
The best moments so far are: when I found $10.000 at the sidewalk, way to my girlfriend's house; when I had the oppornunity to see Pixies twice; going to the beach with my friends; taking my girlfriend's pig to its new home in valparaiso, and, lately, visiting the planetary for the first time. I think there are much more good moments to me, but those are the ones I remember more easily.
University experiences of this year has been very quiet, like I said before. Not much to say, really. I don't have too much classes, but when I come to the University its nice to be with my friends, at least for a short time. There has not been much movement related to the sutdent movement I've perceived. Classes keep its normal frequency without been interrupted. Just quiet.
During my freetime I do what I usually do every year; play videogames, go to the street market every time I can, seeing my girlfriend, and often study for tests and doing homework.
Relate to trips, recently I came back from Algarrobo. It was very nice. I went with my girlfriend's family to one of her relative's house. Weather there is very warm compared to the one we have in Santiago right now.
I expect this year to be hard before second semester begins, so I have to prepare. I'm too lazy right now. I hope everything continue calm and to not have bad news. Bye!
Monday, June 9, 2014
Post 10
I have to apologize cause this isn't really my 10th post, just my 9th. Its because I had not noticed the one from last monday. So, I'll do it right after this post, what its kinda confusing anyway.
My experiences while trying to learn english!
Well, I started learning english from the school, from the first year of basic education. I know that nowadays, kids start with english classes from early kindergarten, but back in the day, this was not very common (at least not for middle class/ low class population), and just a few schools had english classes. I even got to know classmates that came from other schools that didn't have english classes at all, and that happened a few times when I was like 7th grade, but that other story.
Well, at first I sucked to english classes. I didn't understand anything until, I think, 5th grade, when every kid started playing trading card games, and everybody was into yu-gi-oh! in a very rough way. There was some street sellers right outside of the school, and they had pirated decks. Everyone bought them, in fact, it was surrounded by kids everyday. The thing was that many of the cards were in english, and to try to understand what the effect of the card was, I used a dictionary and some of the things I barely learned at school.
From then, I started to pay more attention at english classes, and it worked somewhat. I started to get better
marks and even I thought I was good at it.
When I got to the University, I realized that approving english was necessary to graduate, unless you had something to certificate you know the language, so, I had to take the classes. English classes from the university are far different from the classes I had in school. I started from level 3 and half of the classes since that were blog based. I'm not disappointed, that helped me to practise my english, and I got used to the blog system very fast. I don't know how to use blogger at its best, but I least I learned how to post properly, I think!
I'm always using english in my daily basis. I don't practice pronunciation because I don't need to speak in english regularly, so I think that is the main problem of my usage of the language. Instead of speaking, I use my knowledge of english for reading other blogs, visiting websites in english and watching videos, what allowes me to understand what I'm watching.
I think I've not learned english in full, but what keeps me in contact of the language is pure interest in things written and spoken in english. So, I'd say the key for learnig a language (at least for me) is interest. Bye!
My experiences while trying to learn english!
Well, I started learning english from the school, from the first year of basic education. I know that nowadays, kids start with english classes from early kindergarten, but back in the day, this was not very common (at least not for middle class/ low class population), and just a few schools had english classes. I even got to know classmates that came from other schools that didn't have english classes at all, and that happened a few times when I was like 7th grade, but that other story.
Well, at first I sucked to english classes. I didn't understand anything until, I think, 5th grade, when every kid started playing trading card games, and everybody was into yu-gi-oh! in a very rough way. There was some street sellers right outside of the school, and they had pirated decks. Everyone bought them, in fact, it was surrounded by kids everyday. The thing was that many of the cards were in english, and to try to understand what the effect of the card was, I used a dictionary and some of the things I barely learned at school.
From then, I started to pay more attention at english classes, and it worked somewhat. I started to get better
marks and even I thought I was good at it.
When I got to the University, I realized that approving english was necessary to graduate, unless you had something to certificate you know the language, so, I had to take the classes. English classes from the university are far different from the classes I had in school. I started from level 3 and half of the classes since that were blog based. I'm not disappointed, that helped me to practise my english, and I got used to the blog system very fast. I don't know how to use blogger at its best, but I least I learned how to post properly, I think!
I'm always using english in my daily basis. I don't practice pronunciation because I don't need to speak in english regularly, so I think that is the main problem of my usage of the language. Instead of speaking, I use my knowledge of english for reading other blogs, visiting websites in english and watching videos, what allowes me to understand what I'm watching.
I think I've not learned english in full, but what keeps me in contact of the language is pure interest in things written and spoken in english. So, I'd say the key for learnig a language (at least for me) is interest. Bye!
Monday, May 26, 2014
Comics & Cartoons!
I would like to know about comic books. I have always found them interesting, by the drawings, and you know, the appeareance they show. But I've never got into them, I mean, classic comic books like Superman, Batman, Deadpool, etc. Cause I don't know where to start. And I'm afraid that if I get a comic book, I wouldn't understand the story at all. I would like to know about Deadpool, and the story of his comic book cause you know, he looks so badass!
Althogh I don't read that kind of comics, I like very much Peanuts by Charles Schulz. It is so simple and funny, and you dont have to follow an extense story to get their jokes. Other comics I've read are some Simpson's comics (yes, they have comics) and some Condoritos too. But I don't like them that much.
Cartoon shows have always been more accessible to me, and I think, to many of the world population. I mean, cartoons are the first thing every child see on television. Who didn't feel attracted by Dragon Ball, or Cow & Chicken when he was a kid?
Even though many of the shows are attempted to child's audience, I would say I still dig them a lot. I don't watch them with the same frequency when I was a kid, but I've never stopped to watch them. And even now I like much more some of the shows that in my childhood I didn't like so much, such as Ren & Stimpy, for example.
Some people say cartoons of today suck, and the best cartoons will always be the ones from the past, the ones from their childhood. I think they are totally wrong. Everyone knows that the most of those shows were very good, but some of today's shows are as good as them, like Adventure Time and Regular Show.
Even though past shows were very good, some of them became pointless by the years, and ended sucking really bad, and what is worse, some of them seem they are not going to end never (Pokémon anyone?).
Conclusion: I don't read comics but I like cartoons. I still watch some of the shows from the past and today. I don't have any particular favorite but I like a lot Ren & Stimpy and Regular show.
Bye!!
Althogh I don't read that kind of comics, I like very much Peanuts by Charles Schulz. It is so simple and funny, and you dont have to follow an extense story to get their jokes. Other comics I've read are some Simpson's comics (yes, they have comics) and some Condoritos too. But I don't like them that much.
Cartoon shows have always been more accessible to me, and I think, to many of the world population. I mean, cartoons are the first thing every child see on television. Who didn't feel attracted by Dragon Ball, or Cow & Chicken when he was a kid?
Even though many of the shows are attempted to child's audience, I would say I still dig them a lot. I don't watch them with the same frequency when I was a kid, but I've never stopped to watch them. And even now I like much more some of the shows that in my childhood I didn't like so much, such as Ren & Stimpy, for example.
Some people say cartoons of today suck, and the best cartoons will always be the ones from the past, the ones from their childhood. I think they are totally wrong. Everyone knows that the most of those shows were very good, but some of today's shows are as good as them, like Adventure Time and Regular Show.
Even though past shows were very good, some of them became pointless by the years, and ended sucking really bad, and what is worse, some of them seem they are not going to end never (Pokémon anyone?).
Conclusion: I don't read comics but I like cartoons. I still watch some of the shows from the past and today. I don't have any particular favorite but I like a lot Ren & Stimpy and Regular show.
Bye!!
Monday, May 19, 2014
7th Post
I think people learn most of their enviromental friendly practices from school, when they are just kids. I say this from my own experience, cause the few things I know about it came from my school education, from students books, and, in some cases, commercials and propaganda.
I don't usually recycle, cause I'm too lazy to gather all the wastes that can be recycled in the recycle cans. However, whenever I find something I can reuse I do it.
For the most of the time, I prefer using my bicycle to get to places near me. Sometimes not so near too. Sadly, recently my bicycle got broken and I can't use it for now, so for places near me, I must walk. And for places that are far from my home, y use public transportation.
I've never joined any Eco-organizations, mostly because I've never been asked to join them, and if I got asked, I would'n do it. That's because I think everybody can do the environmental caring job from their own, without joining any act. It's not necessary, only motivation is needed.
Honestly, I hardly do anything about it, and is because I'm too lazy. Don't get me wrong, I don't like to contaminate, throw my trash on the floor and burn trees for fun. I like to be clean with my own wastes, and try not to throw them anywhere but the trash can.
Once I got the idea of planting apple trees wherever I could, and use the seeds that come in every apple I eat for doing it. I searched in the internet and found that apple trees grow very slow, and dont give fruit until almost 10 years they are planted. After that realize I couldn't do it, cause if I did, I would need time for every seed I planted in every place, and that is a lot of time. However, I still think is a good idea, it would reduce hunger and pollution.
I hink what is missing in our society about this issue is motivation and promoting. You know, recycle spots are not in every corner. Another thing missing, I think, is pollution regulation in industries and factories, There are so many and they have their part on this problem too.
Bye!
I don't usually recycle, cause I'm too lazy to gather all the wastes that can be recycled in the recycle cans. However, whenever I find something I can reuse I do it.
For the most of the time, I prefer using my bicycle to get to places near me. Sometimes not so near too. Sadly, recently my bicycle got broken and I can't use it for now, so for places near me, I must walk. And for places that are far from my home, y use public transportation.
I've never joined any Eco-organizations, mostly because I've never been asked to join them, and if I got asked, I would'n do it. That's because I think everybody can do the environmental caring job from their own, without joining any act. It's not necessary, only motivation is needed.
Honestly, I hardly do anything about it, and is because I'm too lazy. Don't get me wrong, I don't like to contaminate, throw my trash on the floor and burn trees for fun. I like to be clean with my own wastes, and try not to throw them anywhere but the trash can.
Once I got the idea of planting apple trees wherever I could, and use the seeds that come in every apple I eat for doing it. I searched in the internet and found that apple trees grow very slow, and dont give fruit until almost 10 years they are planted. After that realize I couldn't do it, cause if I did, I would need time for every seed I planted in every place, and that is a lot of time. However, I still think is a good idea, it would reduce hunger and pollution.
I hink what is missing in our society about this issue is motivation and promoting. You know, recycle spots are not in every corner. Another thing missing, I think, is pollution regulation in industries and factories, There are so many and they have their part on this problem too.
Bye!
Monday, May 12, 2014
A South American news story
In the past month, or even the past two months, we had a couple of sad events happening in our country. They were covered by the media for weeks, some has been forgotten and some other ones remain in people's and media memory, and keep updating. We all know which were these events.
The one that got me the most was the suicide of a man that leaped from the 25th floor of the Costanera Center the past saturday may 3rd. Interesting and sad, doesn't it?. But the most interesting part of this story, for me, was all that hype that the event had in the media, and particularly the video of that exact moment. I gotta say, if it wasn't for that video (or those videos) I wouldn't have noticed it until, I think, two days or less, because I don't usually watch the news or read the newspaper. So, because of the video, I think, everyone noticed it even before the TV news, and so many ended with that video right in front of their noses without even looking for it. Thats very interesting if you ask me.
Not so much has been said about it in the television (or maybe I haven't noticed), because I didn't see the media searching for the cause of it, contacting some relative, or even giving the name of the person. All I know about it, is that the man was wearing a shirt that reads: "paz y amor" as depicted in some photographs. Some people understand the event as some kind of "anti-capitalism pacifist" expression. Maybe they're right, we'll never know.
I saw people uploading several videos of impressions of the event. Some call him a coward, some a hippie, and some think it would be a good idea for him not to do that in public. Some others attack people who acted wrong while filming the event by calling them stupid, and even wishing those people got raped, what I think is really stupid and so friendly-moral. I personally think everyone is responsible for its own life, and so they have the right to choose whenever to die or not, whatever the reason it is. Bye!
The one that got me the most was the suicide of a man that leaped from the 25th floor of the Costanera Center the past saturday may 3rd. Interesting and sad, doesn't it?. But the most interesting part of this story, for me, was all that hype that the event had in the media, and particularly the video of that exact moment. I gotta say, if it wasn't for that video (or those videos) I wouldn't have noticed it until, I think, two days or less, because I don't usually watch the news or read the newspaper. So, because of the video, I think, everyone noticed it even before the TV news, and so many ended with that video right in front of their noses without even looking for it. Thats very interesting if you ask me.
Not so much has been said about it in the television (or maybe I haven't noticed), because I didn't see the media searching for the cause of it, contacting some relative, or even giving the name of the person. All I know about it, is that the man was wearing a shirt that reads: "paz y amor" as depicted in some photographs. Some people understand the event as some kind of "anti-capitalism pacifist" expression. Maybe they're right, we'll never know.
I saw people uploading several videos of impressions of the event. Some call him a coward, some a hippie, and some think it would be a good idea for him not to do that in public. Some others attack people who acted wrong while filming the event by calling them stupid, and even wishing those people got raped, what I think is really stupid and so friendly-moral. I personally think everyone is responsible for its own life, and so they have the right to choose whenever to die or not, whatever the reason it is. Bye!
Monday, May 5, 2014
Article
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/may/05/24-guide-past-eight-seasons-tv-kiefer-sutherland-jack-bauer-recap
This article I've chosen its related to the television series "24". It is basically a recapitulation of the previous eight seasons (and TV movie). The article's liner notes says it is a way to follow the upcoming series without have watched the previous eight seasons.
The article tells what basically happened each season from beggining to last:
Jack Bauer is the main character. A family man who has a daughter (who is an idiot) named Kim, and a job at an counter-terrorism wing of the US government. He discovers an assassination plot against the president and then his daughter (who is an idiot) gets kidnapped. Kidnappers wants him to kill the president. Then his wife gets killed. Jack is sad.
Eighteen months later, there is a nuclear bomb somewhere. Jack helps his boss to take the bomb in a plane and crash it into the desert, because he is a man of action. His daughter (who is an idiot), runs and scream at things all day. The president gets poisoned and faints.
Three years later, Jack is an heroine addict. Got a helper named Chase who is in love with Kim (who is an idiot). Terrorists want to release a new virus, and the president wife is now a murderer. Jack saves the day by cutting off Chase's hand.
Eighteen months later, again, Jack has to stop someone who wants to blow up some power plants. Jack stops him. The president now wants Jack dead, then he fakes his own death and runs away.
Eighteen months later, everyone is dead. There's some nerve agent, and the president did it all. Then, the chinese torture Jack on a boat.
20 months later, Jack is back and discovers the president's brother is now president. A nuclear bombing destroys most of L.A., and now Jack's father is now the baddie. Jack blows him up in an oil rig and gets sad.
Jack goes to africa for some peace of mind, and kills some soldiers.
Jack goes to Washington to face some charges and stops terrorists from blowing up the white house. He gets poisoned, but later saved by advances in stem-research.
Finally, he goes to New York to kill as many russian soldiers as he can. He is in steps to make a movie, but nobody wants one and comes to london to make another series.
The article mocks on the series's intention of extension and action-man based scenes to counter-promote the new series, in a certain way.
This article I've chosen its related to the television series "24". It is basically a recapitulation of the previous eight seasons (and TV movie). The article's liner notes says it is a way to follow the upcoming series without have watched the previous eight seasons.
The article tells what basically happened each season from beggining to last:
Jack Bauer is the main character. A family man who has a daughter (who is an idiot) named Kim, and a job at an counter-terrorism wing of the US government. He discovers an assassination plot against the president and then his daughter (who is an idiot) gets kidnapped. Kidnappers wants him to kill the president. Then his wife gets killed. Jack is sad.
Eighteen months later, there is a nuclear bomb somewhere. Jack helps his boss to take the bomb in a plane and crash it into the desert, because he is a man of action. His daughter (who is an idiot), runs and scream at things all day. The president gets poisoned and faints.
Three years later, Jack is an heroine addict. Got a helper named Chase who is in love with Kim (who is an idiot). Terrorists want to release a new virus, and the president wife is now a murderer. Jack saves the day by cutting off Chase's hand.
Eighteen months later, again, Jack has to stop someone who wants to blow up some power plants. Jack stops him. The president now wants Jack dead, then he fakes his own death and runs away.
Eighteen months later, everyone is dead. There's some nerve agent, and the president did it all. Then, the chinese torture Jack on a boat.
20 months later, Jack is back and discovers the president's brother is now president. A nuclear bombing destroys most of L.A., and now Jack's father is now the baddie. Jack blows him up in an oil rig and gets sad.
Jack goes to africa for some peace of mind, and kills some soldiers.
Jack goes to Washington to face some charges and stops terrorists from blowing up the white house. He gets poisoned, but later saved by advances in stem-research.
Finally, he goes to New York to kill as many russian soldiers as he can. He is in steps to make a movie, but nobody wants one and comes to london to make another series.
The article mocks on the series's intention of extension and action-man based scenes to counter-promote the new series, in a certain way.
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