Sunday, November 8, 2009

Segovia

One week ago, we were on our way to Segovia from Cercedilla, a good 35~40 Km moving up and down…

God that was a long trip.

By that I don’t mean it wasn’t awesome, is just that it was tiring, really tiring

We left at 08:20 from our residence, took the underground to Atocha (Madrid’s main train station) to get the train to Cercedilla, from where we will start our journey. the thing is: we missed that train, so we took the one 5 minutes later to Chamartin (north of Madrid) where we met with Dani, waited 50 more minutes and got in the train.

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The trip there was uneventful, Potter slept his way there because he did not sleep at all that night! other than that we were there in an hour or so.

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once there, we started walking at 11:20 approximately, first across the little village

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then the real thing started, a steep way up on an old Roman path full of rocks that will roll their way down if you touched them. awesome.

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We hardly made it, and really beat, took a break to have some lunch

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Once done, we started our “way down” (actually it was full of ups and downs, but anyways) that took us a hell of a lot of hours

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Until we finally made it to Segovia! we met with a friend there and had a few drinks, a walk around the city and off to the bus station to catch a train back home.

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It was really gratifying when we finally got there… more pics in the facebook album!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Ninite

I know many of you have had to format a computer at least once. in my case for instance, it can get boring in the end if you have to fetch the same programs again and again (you know, firefox, messenger…)

So it was then when I read about Ninite.

This website justa asks you what free software you would like to install and it does it for you by getting a simple installer on your PC and doing all the job (downloading and installing) for you, without installing bars and other annoying stuff!

If I were you I would give it a try

Friday, October 23, 2009

Servers and stuff alike…

virtualserver1 You know, we have a problem. In my residence we’ve had some issues with the internet for as long as it’s existed, mainly because we get stuff 7 years after they come out.

Take wired internet for instance, it came out ages ago and it wasn’t until 5 years ago that we started having it. and now the issue is wireless.

You see, we only have 10 Mb of internet speed at the moment, which is exactly the same I have in my house, the only difference is that in my house there are 4 people and here we are 103! so you can imagine how long it takes to check my Gmail for instance (I get enough time to go to the toilet and come back) which is only worsened by the amount of people downloading stuff from P2P and such. This is going to end now.

I have gathered the techiest heads here and managed to get some ideas going, starting with the creation of a Linux server to filter all Megaupload, rapidshare…  connections, block P2P ports and avoid any sort of Spotify-alike program (Any other thing that you can come up with will be great)

the real issue is: how?

It’s probably going to be a Ubuntu Server Edition PC, but I have never set up a server myself and neither have any of the people that are going to help me. I know our friend Google is always there but I just read Ubuntu server had no graphical interface, so I have no idea how I’m going to manage (I’m not the best with Linux console).

Any revolutionary ideas on how to help or any program to get stuff working?

Sunday, October 18, 2009

United Nations Volunteering

unvlogo_en   You know, for quite  while now, I’ve been thinking about going somewhere to do some volunteering, mainly because I thought it would be a very nice experience that will (1) make me feel useful and (2) let me see how the real world is like… also because I love travelling.

So yesterday night I decided to give it a shot and have a look at the official UN Volunteering Website. after a few minutes browsing to find what I was looking for, I finally found it and, to my disappointment, I can’t apply for it.

Professional qualifications

  • A university degree or higher technical diploma;
  • Several years of relevant working experience;
  • At least age 25 when taking up an assignment (there is no upper age limit);
  • Good working knowledge in at least one of the three UNV working languages: English, French and Spanish.

So yeah, no can do this time. Seems like I’ll have to wait for a few more years.

So, does anyone know anything I can do of that sort (volunteering or working away from Europe)? Remember I speak Spanish and English and I’m still not done with my degree (although anything related to it would be extremely great).

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Notepad++

  It’s been a long time since I last wrote anything geeky on the blog (which is supposed to be the main objective) so I guess I’ll start again by my newest software addition: Notepad++

Notepad++ is a Free Software that intends to improve the original Notepad in Windows (or notepadppLinux/Mac). Personally I think its well worth switching to it.

As the “Notepad on steroids” that it is, you will have access to the possibility of editing any sort of text file, also *.nfo and, any sort of programming language you want:

Here are the features of Notepad++ (from official website):
Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding Supported languages :

C
C++
Java
C#
XML
HTML
PHP
CSS
makefile
ASCII art (.nfo)
doxygen
ini file
batch file
Javascript
ASP
VB/VBS
SQL
Objective-C
RC resource file
Pascal
Perl
Python
Lua
TeX
TCL
Assembler
Ruby
Lisp
Scheme
Properties
Diff
Smalltalk
Postscript
VHDL
Ada
Caml
AutoIt
KiXtart
Matlab
Verilog
Haskell
InnoSetup
CMake
YAML

WYSIWYG If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour.

User Defined Syntax Highlighting It allows user to define his own language : not only the syntax highlighting keywords, but also the syntax folding keywords, comment keywords and the operators. ( screenshot1, screenshot2, screenshot3, screenshot4 ).

Auto-completion For most supported languages, user can make his/her own API list (or download the api files from dowload section). Once the api file is ready, type Ctrl+Space to launch this action (see screenshot). For more information about Auto-completion, please see Auto-completion HOWTO.

Multi-Document You can edit several documents at the same time.

Multi-View You have two views at same time. That means you can visualize (edit) 2 different documents at the same time (screenshot). You can visualize (edit) in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well. The modification of document in one view will carry out in another view (i.e. you modify the SAME document when you are in clone mode, see screenshot).

Regular Expression Search/Replace supported You can search and replace one string in the document by using the regular expression.

Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported You can open a document by drag & drop. You can also move your document from a position (or even a view) to another by drag & drop.

Dynamic position of Views The user can set the position of the views dynamically (only in 2 views mode : the splitter can be set in horizontal or in vertical), see screenshot.

File Status Auto-detection If you modify or delete a file which opened in Notepad++, you will be notified to update your document (reload the file or remove the file).

Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the block more easily. See screenshot1, screenshot2 .

A must program for everyone with computer skill, specially for programmers.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Few updates

wow, I’ve really had two tough weeks!

I know it sounds like a lousy excuse for not writing anything on the blog since the Google Wave update but it’s true, I’ve been really busy!

First, I started with Judo again and fortunately, I still fit in my suit (I really thought I had grown something in 4 and a half years of Judo inactivity). anyways, the Judo thing keeps me busy Tuesdays and Thursday every week.

Second, everything is starting to get hard at uni. Programming in Java is no issue (seems like I have some natural talent for programming I didn’t know about), and algebra I can manage single-handed. as of the other is starting to get challenging, specially physics, where my professor is…. don’t know…really funny but really hard to understand at times. Calculus is still manageable.

At any rate, I have some news:

  1. I’m back on Twitter! I promise I’ll keep it updated! My profile is here and there is also a new Twitter gadget in this blog
  2. I’ve had the most awesome Birthday present ever (check below), together with a gift card (that I’m not attaching, sorry)
  3. I got my Google Wave account! YES! thanks to Zenitram (classmate) for inviting me. I was really not expecting to get it so soon! The system is really incredible, still with some bugs and so on, but I think its really going to be the future, beware hotmail and yahoo!

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Google Wave

You know what? I love Google. Really. They are one of the most awesome company in the world. Now they have showed us they are one of the key companies that will make the future of the internet something incredible, by developing Google Wave.

Google Wave is a new Web-based platform intended to be “What email would look like if it were reinvented today” and they pretty much did it again! watch the video for more detailed info (its 1 hour and 20 minutes, but is REALLY worth watching)

Google Wave Preview

If you don’t feel like it, you can always check their sneak preview site.

I can’t wait ‘till this is out!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Most beautiful video ever

I had this sent to me via Tuenti (Spanish Facebook), with the following text:

Hay padres que además de ir a ver a sus hijos a ver como toca el saxofon o la fauta o.... hacen otras cosas....

El hijo le preguntó a su padre, 'Papá, formarias parte en el maratón conmigo? El padre respondió, si'

Fueron al maratón y lo completaron juntos. Padre e hijo fueron juntos a otros maratones, el padre siempre decía 'si' a las
solicitudes de su hijo de ir juntos en las carreras. Un día, el hijo le preguntó a su padre, ' Papá, vamos a participar juntos en el 'Ironman' ' El padre le dijo si tambien.

El triatlón Ironman abarca un 2,4 millas ( 3,86 kilómetros ) nadando en los océanos, seguida por una 112 millas (180,2 kilometros) paseo en bicicleta, y terminando con un 26,2 millas (42,195 kilometros) maratón a lo largo de la costa de Big Island.

Which, in English, is pretty much the following:

There are parents that instead of going to see their kids play saxophone or the flute….they do other stuff…

The son asked his dad: “Dad, would you run the marathon with me? The father answered yes”

They went and finished it together, father and son went together to other marathons and dad would always say “yes” to his son’s requests of running together. one day the son asked his dad “Dad, lets participate together in the ‘Ironman’” to which he also agreed.

The Ironman triathlon consist of 3.86 kilometers swimming the oceans, followed by 180.2 kilometers biking and finishing with 42.195 kilometers) marathon along the coast of Big Island.

Now watch the video:

 

So, what do you think? Isn’t this post’s title the most appropriate?

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Augmented reality on mobile devices

Seems like Nvidia (all hail) has released a new and very powerful mobile device that allows good graphics and a 800x600 screen resolution. not only that but has an incorporated cam! so it was only a matter of time before geeks took matters into heir own hands, and this is what came out: a augmented reality Zombie-killing game. AWESOME!

Incredible isn’t it? well, if you look in the related video section you will find the next video with a software built for a more affordable device, an Android phone:

Dutch testing of course :D

So what do you guys think? is this going to end up in some future where we all have glasses with this augmented reality thing?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Back to Madrid and Uni!

OK guys I’m back to Madrid! (weeee)

 CHOE aereoAfter one week here (yeah, sorry I didn’t post anything) I finally started with my classes in my Bachelor's Degree in Communication System Engineering (Bolonia adaptation of Telecommunications engineering: communication systems) yesterday, well actually today. My opinion? this doesn’t seem all THAT hard… but it’s the first day, its supposed to be easy

yes, I had calculus I (easy stuff, just reminders of IB and absolute values (uuuuhhhh, scaaaary), but nothing really impressive. Programming was really funny because the teacher’s PC wouldn’t work, so we started with this ALICE thing, which was more like a 3D Flash than a programming language. anyways the teacher said we will be starting Java soon (yesh!)

At any rate, I’m FAR more motivated that I’ve ever been with business management and I swear I’ll pass all my subjects… ALL! (Isidoro, the bet is still on), I’m gonna prove that I can freakin’ do it, although most people seem not to believe it.

You’ll see…Can't stop thinking cartoon

Monday, August 31, 2009

Programas utiles

I’m sorry guys, but this post I have to do it in Spanish for some of my friends, but I’ll try to translate asap

Bueno, de vuelta al castellano (quieras o no, echaba de menos el escribir en mi idioma…). este post tiene todos los programas y curiosidades de los ordenadores que he ido encontrando a lo largo de los años, haced con ello lo que os plazca. NOTA: creo que todo lo que hay aqui esta en español, si el link a algun programa esta en ingles, buscad la opcion para cambiar de idima o durante la instalacion os dejará.

 

Internet:

Os recomiendo que dejéis el internet Explorer… tiene muchas brechas de seguridad y a la larga es por donde se suele meter la mayoría de la basura que viene de internet, por ello os recomiendo el Mozilla Firefox.

El Firefox tiene otra gran cosa (aparte de velocidad y seguridad) que son los Add-ons (complementos creo que se llama en Castellano) los cuales permiten un nivel de personalización del programa bastante amplio. Ya escribí un post hace tiempo sobre mis add-ons de firefox, pero si queréis os explico los más destacados en español:

  • Adblock Plus : este maravilloso Add-on te permite eliminar los anuncios que molestan en las páginas que visitáis a diario, ya sean imágenes o animaciones. Para bloquear algo (por ejemplo la foto de publicidad del Tuenti cuando carga) solo hay que hacer click derecho en la imagen y a “Adblock plus: bloquear imagen” ¡ya está! ¡Olvidaos de esa foto que siempre consume ancho de banda!. También os encontrareis a veces con otra opción que pone “bloquear macro” (por ejemplo en youtube) esta lo que hace es eliminar el cuadro donde estaba la foto junto con la foto, asi que en youtube por ejemplo, se quita la publicidad y se sube la información del video y todo lo demás para arriba, evitando molestias de tener que ir para abajo en la pagina y eso.
  • BugMeNot: este no es necesario instalarlo, porque se puede hacer desde google. Lo que este add-on hace es evitar tener que registrarte en páginas y foros solo para ver una cosa puntual. Por ejemplo, si quieres ver una cosa en Vagos.es pero te pide registrarte, le darías a botón derecho donde pondrías tu nombre de usuario y a “log me in with bugmenot” y el programa solo te logea con una contraseña y un usuario que alguein ha decidido compartir, evitando molestias a los demás. También se puede hacer desde google escribiendo “bugmenot vagos.es” (o lo que sea) y el primer resultado suele ser la página de bugmenot con el listado de nombres y contraseñas.
  • Skipscreen: este lo que hace es automáticamente baja archivos de megaupload y rapidshare y todos esos sin tener que esperar y elegir servidor y toda la chorrada, además si tienes que esperar te pone el tiempo que falta en el titulo de la pestaña.
  • Google Toolbar: pues eso, la barra de google, que elimina los pop-up y todo eso
  • Compact menú 2: si estáis en un portátil y queréis salvar espacio en pantalla, podéis evitar una barra entera con este add-on que comprime todo lo de “Archivo, editar, herramientas….” En un botón desplegable que luego te muestra esas opciones
  • VideoDownload helper: para bajar videos de youtube o cualquier sucedáneo, simplemente darle a botón derecho en algún lado en la pantalla (ojo, que no sea el video!), a “Videodownloadhelper” y en la pestaña de “Media” esta el video para bajarse!
  • Xmarks: este lo que hace es permitirte sincronizar los marcadores (favoritos) en internet, así nunca los perderéis! Hay que instalarlo y luego crear una cuenta para sincronizarlo!
  • Download Statusbar: una barrita abajo en la que saldrán las descargas, muy practica para evitar la molesta ventanita de descargas de firefox

También os recomiendo que el buscador de arriba a la derecha lo cambiéis a youtube, para hacerlo, escribir “Firefox Search engines” en google y el primer link os lleva a una página con un montón, luego veréis que hay 10 favoritas, pues una de ellas es youtube

 

Programas del ordenador
  • Songbird: este programa es in iTunes pero mejor, porque permite el uso de Add-ons (es de los mismos creadores que el firefox) para mejorar su uso, por ejemplo el add-on Lyric master te bja las letras de las canciones automáticamente, y hay tropecientos add-ons para que descubráis! (y si, sirve para el iPod)
  • Voipbuster: para mensajes y llamadas desde el ordenador. Cada mensaje cuesta 5 céntimos (ha subido desde la última vez que lo mire) y tiene la ventaja de que lo escribes con un teclado normal. Luego las llamadas a fijos en España es gratis (si no me falla la memoria) y costaba nosecuantos céntimos el minutos móviles, pero aseguraos primero.
  • Ccleaner: para limpiar mierda del ordenador, solo abrirlo y darle a “ejecutar el limpiados” y ya veréis. También permite la opción de desactivar programas del arranque de Windows, lo cual os recomiendo hacer.
  • Avast: mi antivirus por excelencia, gratis de bajar y solo hay que registrarse y escribir una licencia que caduca cada año (pero da igual, porque se vuelve a pedir en la pagina y 3 segundos después la tienes renovada) y por ahora no me ha dado nunca un problema. NOTA: cuando se instala te da la opción de pasar un escaneo antes de que se ejecute Windows, si aceptáis lo cual os recomiendo, dejad el ordenador tranquilo hasta que acabe”)
  • Fences: permite crear cuadrados en el escritorio para organizar los iconos de forma mas fácil y limpia, muy muy recomendado.
  • VLC: ¿Cuántas veces habéis tenido problemas de codecs? Pues se acabo, porque este programa lo lee todo! Y es sin duda el mejor reproductor de video jemas (y permite hacer capturas de pantalla!)
  • Jdownloader: para bajar links de internet, solo hay que pegar la lista de links y el se encarga de bajarlos y de escribir el captcha y todo.
Paginas Web:
  • Dropbox: esta página te ofrece 2 Gb de disco duro en internet, al cual puedes subir archivos desde la pagina o bajándote su programa y en una carpeta que te crea en Windows, una autentica maravilla! (si alguien está interesado que me lo diga y yo le invito, porque así nos dan 300Mb mas gratis a los dos!)
  • Taringa y Vagos: pues eso… todo lo que necesitáis de pelis y eso suele estar ahí
  • Mi blog: ¿qué? ¡Hay que hacer publicidad corcho!

Ale, eso es todo, ¡espero que os haya sido útil!

Berlin, days 5 to 10

On day 5 we went to the Berlin zoo and Aquarium. It was not really all that amazing overall, the zoo was big but the aquarium tiny (compared to Valencia’s…) during the evening we went to the Hard Rock Cafe next to the Zoo.

on day 6 we went to the Berlin wall… now THAT was interesting! we even had a chance to participate in that historical monument!

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Day 7: Leisure at youth hostel… not much to do

Day 8: in the morning we went to church (at least some of us), then to checkpoint Charlie where I finally had the chance to buy my “you are leaving American sector” plate and in the evening we had the blueman group show which was SUPERB! I mean… really, it was pure awesomeness taken to the next level, I had so much fun watching those guys doing stupid stuff and in the end we had the toilet paper fight…. oh god AWESOME! (I know this might sound weird, so check the website for more info)

Day 9: we had waterskiing! and seems that I am extremely good at it since I was, together with two more people, the only one that didn’t fall ONCE! it was all in a lake 5km from the nearest train station 4 stops away from Wandlitzsee. we had to go there from the station to the place by van and RUNNING on the way back… on our barefoot

Day 10: Visit to the German Reichstag! also incredible, it was lots of fun being in there and the design was also great!

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Berlin, days 2, 3 and 4

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That's pretty much for the day because it started raining at night after the other Spanish group leader arrived and had a swim at the lake, which meant that no BBQ as scheduled (instead of great German meat we had crappy sandwiches which NONE of us liked…)

Day 3 and finally some interesting activities! at morning we took the train to Karow and then the underground to Gesumbrunnen. there we had the Bunker tour, which was a one hour long OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         tour in a WWII bunker. it was really nice even though the guide was quite a weirdo…

During the evening we had the “Berlin by boat” activity in which we had a tour in the river  Spree on a German marines boat. Really, really nice! mainly because we had a chance to “taste” Berlin and have a first look at the main important buildings that were around the river. The pic on the left is me after the boat ride on out way back to the train station

Day 4 was boring… its not just my opinion but also most of the kid’s opinions. this is because we had the town rally in which we were slit in teams of 4 or 5 and then given a sheet with lots of P1010151questions to fill. it was nice in a way because we had a chance to go in the underground by ourselves (Potsdamer Platz and the Sony Center are AWESOME) but other than that it was WAY too long and tiring (from 11 until 16).

Monday, August 24, 2009

Berlin, day 1

As in the post below, I’m still in a plane on my way to Berlin, and we’ve already had some problems, like… I don’t know… almost missing the plane!

Today morning I woke up at 09:00 or so, prepared everything and left for the airport at 12:00 or so. got to the airport, met everyone, had lunch and started running because we didn’t realize we were late.. really late.

At any rate (yeah, I’m no longer at the plane) we got there in time and we managed to fly to Berlin with no problems concerning luggage but one small bag that we had sent to us a few days later.

So yeah, we’re in Berlin! back to central Europe! on my way to the youth hostel (40 minutes or so) I got really nostalgic, I kept on remembering my days back in Holland and how different everything is back in Spain.

Once at the youth hostel, we had a lousy dinner all of us were complaining about, a small briefing about how the camp was going to look like and us leaders had some time for introducing ourselves. around midnight I met my roommate Pino, an Italian guy with a hilarious sense of humor.

Here are some pics from that day:

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The youth Hostel! my room was the first from the right in the upper floor.

And that was it for day one!

Santoña ICC

I am currently in a plane on my way to Berlin as I write this, so I am not really sure when I’ll be able to post it. anyways.

Santoña ICC! yes! it was awesome, had a great time, everyone was really nice there, everything worked out the way it was supposed to…great. now lets go on the detailed explanation

Day 1: Madrid, 09:00 AM. We supposed to be all one hour early than the departure time to Santoña by bus, so there I was, at 9, ready to start my first summer camp as a group leader. to my surprise (well, not really), we left at 11:00 or so because this one girl was late… really late. the main problem arrived when I was told that I wasn’t going to the camp in the bus like everybody else, but instead, I had to go to the airport with a Spanish guy and a girl to pick up the Bulgarian, German, Czech and Polish with four huge-ass bags full of sandwiches and water bottles (roughly 100).  so there I was, on a cab on my was to Barajas airport with 4 humongous plastic bags. the Spanish guy (Pablo) stayed in Terminal 1 waiting for the German and Bulgarian, while the girl (Alejandra) and me left for terminal 4 in a bus to pick up the Polish and the Czech. they all arrived at the correct time so we all left in a Bus to Santoña. we got there late… like really late, had dinner, attended the welcoming meeting and off to bed.

Day 2: group leaders were assigned to each different group and as for me, I stayed in the camp working as a Staff member and joining random activities every now and then in case there were people missing and so on. we showed the kids around and they had a few introductory games. that's pretty much it.

Days 3, 4, 5 and 6: kids had some activities and we basically did the work behind the scenes. I must admit it was fun.

Day 7: on the 7th day we all had a trip to “El Soplao” caves in Cantabria. the experience was great and the cave was awesome, although we had some problems with the guide. You see, her English was crap, and some guy in the group I was going with mocked her once. then she got mad and started to shout at us group leaders and staff members, so from the moment she explained in Spanish while I translated for the whole group. I think I did pretty well, but the thing is that I don’t know all the geological terms for everything (at least not right away, I have to look them up in the dictionary) so whenever I made a mistake or couldn't come up with the right word, the woman will start correcting me, but whatever.

Days 8, 9, 10 and 11: pretty much the same as 3, 4, 5 and 6 but this time I joined twice for diving and kayaking, once to Karts and… some other stuff.

Day 12: I love this activity, I really do. kayaking down river Deva. This activity consist on getting a Kayak, a partner and a rowing pad, get to the river and start rowing for 8 Km, which is awesome. also, the good thing is that when you are a group lead, you become a pirate, which means you can take on ships! so I started jumping from boat to boat in an attempt to make all canoes flip. and I made it! it was a lot off fun and I’ll try to do this activity as many times as possible.

Days 13: Today we had the medieval fair, which is pretty much getting everyone dressed as a middle age character and have some games around, it was also lots of fun.

Day 14: packing up and saying bye and so on, also cleaning day.

Day 15: Everybody home!

I’m really gonna miss this camp, I had lots of fun.

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Apologies (yes, ONCE again)

Hey there everyone!

Yesh, I’m back. In a way at least, because tomorrow I’m leaving to Berlin! (woohoo)

Everything's been a little messy these days, maybe too messy. for instance, I was told 3 days before leaving to Figueras summer camp that I was going to another different camp. and I was told 6 days ago that I was going to Berlin summer camp!

apart from the whole organizational issue, my summer’s been great! I will explain how the Santoña ICC went in the next post (yes, it deserves it’s own post).

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Geo-mining museum.

I really should have posted this a long time ago (we went there roughly 3 weeks ago or so…) but anyways:

the title is pretty self-explanatory, we went to the geo-mining museum here in Madrid, and it was awesome. i loved it because it was more of a guided visit thanks to our particular geologist (Isidoro) and our particular mining engineer (Pocoyó).

here are some pics of the visit:

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Theater time!

I haven’t been to the theater for a loooooong time (and by long, I mean from September 2008) but yesterday, my uncle invited my cousin and I to go watch a Cabaret called “Pasión sin puñales”. At first, I thought a cabaret was what women did in movies from the west and stuff but no, a cabaret means that there are a number of acts not related to each other.

and it was fun! there were 10 acts and most of them were really nice, except one of them, where the guy started talking for like 40 minutes and got boring in the end, but other than that, it was really nice.

If you guys want more info check the official website.

Below there are some pictures of the theater and stage (yes, it was my phone camera and it sucks)

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Dinner time!

Yesterday night we all went to a “foster Hollywood” here in Madrid and we had lots of fun.

the thing about these restaurants is that once you get a drink, you can refill as many times as you want (which meant that each of us drank like 2~3 liters of coke or Fanta) and the best meat ever (well not really, but its pretty good).

Most of us had a hamburger, except for Isidoro, that had a steak. lots of fun times.

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after that we had an Italian ice cream and then a tourist visit through Madrid’s center (the royal palace, Opera, Cibeles, etc…) thanks to Rosado. then a bus home and it by 2:40 we were there already.

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and no, they’re not gay… lool

PS: I know, the quality sucks, I did not have my phone camera properly configured… I really have to buy a good camera….