Una vuelta más

marzo 30, 2009 23:59PM: llamada de Mari

marzo 31, 2009 00:00AM: feliz cumpleaños cantado por el pollito

qué buen día... en estos últimos minutos de mi cumpleaños #26, tomo unos instantes para escribir lo bueno que estuvo todo:

almuerzo con torta invertida de piña (pineapple upside down cake), luego un café auspiciado por León, después comida árabe con Mari... todo el día recibí mensajes de todo el mundo de gente querida.

y al último último, el video hecho por mi hermana, su regalo a mí... excelente.

Gracias a todos!

Ride of the Valkyries

Here's a fun game from Facebook...

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1. Put Your Media Player on Shuffle/Random.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends
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What do your friends think of you?
"Amber" - 311

If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
"Let it Rock" - Chuck Berry

How would you describe yourself?
"Warm Beer and Cold Women" - Tom Waits

What do you like in a guy/girl?
"Mein Teil" - Rammstein [lol!]

How do you feel today?
"Pretty When You Cry" - Vast

What is your life's purpose?
"Seeing Red" - Minor Threat

What is your motto?
"Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple

What do you think about very often?
"Gloria" - The Doors

What is 2 + 2?
"Something in the Way" - Nirvana

What do you think of your best friend?
"Lounge Act" - Nirvana

What do you think of the person you like?
"Sweet Little Rock & Roller" - Chuck Berry

What is your life story?
"The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" - Smashing Pumpkins

What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Midnight in the City of Destruction" - The Nightwatchman

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
"Precious" - Depeche Mode

What will you dance to at your wedding?
"Juan en la Ciudad" - Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz [Salsa!]

What will they play at your funeral?
"It Takes a lot to Laugh" - Bob Dylan

What is your hobby/interest?
"Pulling Teeth" - Greenday

What is your biggest fear?
"Remedy" - Seether

What is your biggest secret?
"My Ding-A-Ling" - Chuck Berry [lol]

What do you think of your friends?
"Situation" - Yaz

What will you post this as?
"Ride of the Valkyries" - Richard Wagner

Did you know?

Nueva Huevadilla de la FEF

Ecuador Santacruz, abogado del EMELEC dijo a los medios falsedades ofensivas para cualquiera persona objetiva que haya visto las tomas de lo que aconteció. Dijo que Elizaga no agredió al árbitro, que no pudo frenar y que "el juez no se movió ni un centímetro". El árbitro fue desplazado con la fuerza de Elizaga... mentiras. Los dirigentes azules están ahora culpando al árbitro de todo lo acontecido. Qué vergüenza.

Es una vergüenza que la FEF siga en manos de mafiosos que interpreten las reglas y las sanciones según su conveniencia. Pregúntense, ¿cuál sería la sanción si el agresor hubiera sido Banguera de la ESPOLI o Wilmer Zumba del Macará? Un año de castigo SIN DUDA.

Marcelo es un arquerazo, de eso no hay duda. Tenemos suerte al tenerlo en la selección, pero debe medirse más y ser más tranquilo.

Sinceramente creo, penosamente, que no volveremos a clasificar a un mundial hasta que salga Chiriboga y todos esos pelafustanes de la FEF.

SALUTATIS SEMPITERNUM

The forever greeting dilates;
for Eternity has lost its years.
Fortune cries helplessly;
Destiny in not what She wanted.
Always has no meaning,
and the shadows of Nothing
overwhelm the dimming lights.
Lights of hope.
Lights of faith
burn in an underwater flame.
The Flame with eternal fuel
will not smite thee,
For thou will not step into its
candor,
its burning cold
its consuming warmth.

With my grapling claws
I will hang to the edge,
And with the grin of Eternal Salutation
upon my lips,
wait for you to push me
off.

15-II-2K1

END-YEAR INTROSPECTION:

I miss you... and you, and you...

SNOW

What is snow? Wikipedia tells me it's "a precipitation in the form of crystaline water ice"... that I already knew, but what IS snow? What does it represent? What does it entail? What are the metaphorical allusions that come to mind when crystaline water ice is precipitating upon oneself? Having resided all my life within the tropics, minutes away from the imaginary horizontal division of the globe, I have never lived a winter. I live almost 3,000 meters up in the sky, but because of our close and direct relationship to the sun, there is no snow around here... Sure, there are snow covered mountains and volcanoes, but that crystaline-water-ice thing never precipitates anywhere near any thirdworlder like me would dare reside... Anyways, I have a blank space where there should be a 'snow context'... In the north, snow could arise thoughts of Christmas. In the south, June-July... I don't know. But now, near the end of 2007, snow has brought something to mind: all those people that are away from home, experiencing these end-year holidays under flakes of snow, in distant lands, new countries, different cities, strange customs...

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She dances under that glorious new artifact of nature, the snow, apparently alone... But what she doesn't realize -not fully at least- is that she is not alone. We close our eyes and see her footprints in the frost and her breath dance unevenly and eventually vanish into the dark. We hear her laughter and feel her voice tremble when she is sad. She smiles a lot, on account of the snow, and many other things, and that makes us smile too.

Love you mila.