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jueves, abril 21, 2005

The path is becoming clearer!

Well, I had made my choice... i'm going to start a micro business!

I still have some more months to finish my work at the MC, so I will also use this time to develp the bussines plan, and aslo finding the providers and investors (as I am a poor poor guy with lots of debts!)

Some other stuff are getting more claerer as well... but let's wait a little bit more for that!

Exited,

Lu

martes, abril 19, 2005

Interesting Paradox...

Almost 25... worked in some different organizations since 19...

I learn many stuff, meet so many people(good and not so good).

Now i just want to be out there, working and learning from it... but.. i did not finish the university yet cuz i was to woried working...

I want to get graduated, but I do not feel like studing! Damn good paradox..

lunes, abril 18, 2005

Otoño en Buenos Aires.

English version on request, sorry :(

Llega el otoño...
Buenos Aires va desvistiendose...

Usa a la lluvia, a los dias grises como biombo de su sensual strip, todo un show para los que tenemos una casa donde escondernos.
A este fin, creo yo, se crearon los cafes. Uno puede esconderse del mundo en uno de los miles de cafetines porteños, y respirar los aromas calidos mezcla de cafe malo quemado con cigarrillos... con una nostalgia que recuerda a algunos tangos.

Buenos Aires se va poniendo gris.
Las nuves la acompañan, la tiñen, la ocultan del sol tibio de otoño. A veces, estas nuves van desapareciendo, dejando lugar a que el sol despida con sus tenues caricias a las ultimas ojas que van quedando. El cemento omnipresente tambien, ayuda a crear una atmosfera de gran urbe solitaria, donde el cielo nublado parece o tener fin, o reflejarse en la tierra.

(Cabe un parentesis. Que mal me caen esos arboles que son inmunes a todo. Esos que no importa que, siguen verdes siempre. Algunos sin la minima gracia de una flor esporadica...)

Buenos Aires se va poniendo marron.
Los arboles desnudan sus ramas, tiñen las calles de marron, amarillo... el agua suele acunularse en las veredas entre las hojas, lo que hace que el caminar tenga mas musica que antes... el viento va cambiando, vienen rafagas que hacen volar hojas al caminar, que te golpean la cara con aroma a garrapiñadas, con viento cada dia mas frio.

Ulgunas de mispostales preferidas del el otoño porteño serian las ventanas de los edificios mas viejos, coloniales, con marco de madera marron oscuro, blancas cortinas, reflejando el otoño que hay en las calles, en los arboles... hablando de arboles, ver las callecitas con sus cupulas de arboles secos, como tratando de tocarse por encima de todos los vehiculos.

El sol se va entiviando, en un lento alejarse de este lado del mundo. Es gracioso ver am is amigos del otro lado del mundo contandome exactamente lo opuesto.
Ahora camino con las manos mas frias, buscando los ultimos rayos de sol, amarillonarjas que son como manos que se despiden.

Otro placer, bastante nuevo, fumar sentado en un banco de una plaza, mirando el espectaculo del otoño.

Ahora... ahora voy a casa, a preparame un cafe express... y a tomarlo mientras fumo mi cavendish, mientras dejo que el otoño entre por una ventana, para acompañarme en esta fria soledad.

¡Que poesia se dibuja, desdibuja, pinta y vuelve a escribirse a diario en estas calles de mi amante adoptiva!

domingo, abril 03, 2005

Why do we travel?

I was reading about Descartes, this matematician and philosofer of the 15 century... when he had finished his university, he wanted to discover the world and had started many journeys, to paris to the netherlands and so... He wanted to see the world... and he arrive to discover himself.

By traveling, by discovering other cultures we get to discover ourselfs, being in a place when you are at your own force you, push you in to grow... you gain time to be just with you.

I think, that by traveling we can discover ourselfs. We can discove who we really are and where we go in this life... wich are our goals, our path... it can help us to reach our desteny.

there is an spanish singer Joan Manuel Serrat, that sings a poem of Antonio Machado that i remebered last night while I was at the sea... It says something like:

"Traveller there is no path, the path is made while we walk thru it. While walking we make the path, and when we look back, you can see the path that won´t be wlaked again. Traveller there is no path, but wakes in the sea"

now in spanish, for those that can!! "Caminante no hay camino/ se hace camino al andar/ al andar se hace camino/ y al volver la vista atrás/ se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar/ caminante no hay camino/ sino estelas en la mar"

Cheers...

Lu

viernes, abril 01, 2005

Viajem por no Brasil.

well, this will be my first post here... even thought i ´ve never rode any other nomad post!

I was triyng to go to the AXLDS in Vitoria (AIESEC conference, starting 17*3 and ending 23/3)... but in the end, i think it was just an excuse for this trip.
a few days befor the conference started, we in the office still were looking for money to attend there... on the day 15 a company gave me a bus ticket for the firs part of the trip.... wich covered 1/3 of the trip... at that time began the friends-who-support-me-found-rasing-marathon and i get 200 U$ and 50 E$... this was to cover the resto of the tikets, for the FEE of the confeence i invest the rest of my salary at the MC from march till june... so i am basicly broke after this.

So i traveled on 16 to floripa, 26 hs by bus. Floripa was also an excuse for this trip, cuz i reaaly wanted to see some very close friends that i did not see in 2 and a half years! a lot of time for some friendships. On the same day i went to Sao Paulo (from now on on my expense) took a shower in this bus station (rodoviarias) and, as i had like 10 hours to take the other bus to vitoria, so i grab my backpack, left the rest of the lugage in the lockers and went for a mini selfguided city tour... some good things i´ve seen in two museuns, the MASP (they say maspi, so fun hoy brazilians pronounce this kind of words) it was pretty good, I got to see some artist that I´ve never had the chance to see, like Renoir, Monet, some others... I think it was an "impresionism" (?) exibition... and one other museum "Galeria de Arte do SESI", they have many plays (i was not going to be in town, and i can-t understand portugues anyways!) and a big exibition of a Portuguese guy, his paintings were very interestings in this way: at the begginings of his pains and arts, he belived on the art as a key that could lead to the understanding of the different cultures.. but as the time went by, and many wars happened, by this days he is beliving the the cultural understandig is not possible... his name is Jose de Guimarães.... Sao Paulo was left... and in the road, a lot of time to think... specially when traveling at night and by bus, you get to see all the the houses in the hills (morros), like favelas... they look like if the sky fell on them, all blacks and with millions of stars on the floor.. during this hours i get to think... what if Guimarães was right?... what if we can never understand other cultures? should be not a big deal... but it is. Specially to people that works in AIESEC!!

Besides all this things, since some moths i have a hurrican in my mind and soul, mainly two questions... why did i was born? (meaning, why did i chose this parents, why was i born with the facilities i have, and things like that), and what will i do with my life? (where will i go, in where will i work, where is my desteny, and will i ever reach it?)... this could be the main Qs in my mind and soul... unleashing hurricans, tornados, hearthquakes in me.... and this trip is, and the people i met here is helping me to figure this put...

allright! more from this in the next posts! you should wait for some fun stuff as well!
cheers! the newie LU!

This is some of Guimarães art! "la monalisa negra" :) enjoy!!!!!