I’m not ready
I’m not ready
I’m not ready
I can’t postpone this forever!
See more progress on: get my life in order
Monday, July 31, 2006
#4/34 Diablico Sucio Mask
It’s an old custom from when we were a Spanish Colony, the dance of the dirty devils or in spanish “Danza de los diablicos sucios”, it is one of the 9 dances celebrating the Catholic holiday of Corpus Christi. People using masks made of papier mache and red and black suits would dance stomping their feet in the ground.
See more progress on: paint everyday
#3 Dottie at the Rainbow Bridge
A friend’s dog, Dottie, just passed away. I painted this for her.
See more progress on: paint everyday
Thursday, July 27, 2006
#1 Tucan
My first paint. I’ll keep this goal until my birthday on August 30th.
See more progress on: paint everyday
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Arghhhhhhhhh!!
Now I’m undecided between typo3 and Mambo. Mambo is great, but to do something “useful” is painfully slow. Typo3 has a cluttered admin interface, it allows you to “build” the hierarchy, which is good, is something you can’t “see” within mambo clearly, but so many options that you get lost.
It seems I better build my own framework from scratch.
Typo3 would be great if I have a clear idea of a static site. But welcomepanama.com as I intended it to be would be half static, half organic.
I’ll go back to do more research.
See more progress on: Finish my website
New Friends...
Poland (3)
Norway (2)
China (2)
France (1)
See more progress on: make friends all over the world by the end of the year
Untitled
Sunset atop the Avila Mountain looking towards the caribbean. Caracas, Venezuela.
Sunset at the Tamarind Cove. West Coast, Barbados
Panama City at Sunset. Panama City, Panama
Sunset at Accra Beach. South Coast, Barbados
See more progress on: Photograph 43 Sunsets
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Strong enough?!
My lover and I practically destroyed my bed after a week of having know each other.
We went to a place that sells furniture, there was one with the right height, felt heavy enough (I hate when it starts moving) and solid. However the price was around the USD 2000, and it wasn’t even real wood! The saleswoman mumbling something about being imported from Spain! Yeah sure!
Well, still looking.
See more progress on: buy a new bed
These are the two first postcards I sent
The one at the top is a picture of Panama viejo ruins.
The one at the bottom is a couple of Emberá indians sieving for gold in a river.
See more progress on: receive a postcard from and send a postcard to every country through postcrossing
I'm lacking in this one since I'm not going to the gym anymore...
I’m mostly focused on losing weight:
I started Mu Thai training
I’m going to start for real to play Rugby on saturdays
I’m also going to run daily
I’m eating mostly protein and vegetables, lots of water and vitamins.
See more progress on: Work out more
Got 23 so far
Great goal, anyone knows if there’s a 43 sunrises , I do that too!
You can see my sunsets at my photoblog
There are sunsets taken in Barbados, Panama and Venezuela
See more progress on: Photograph 43 Sunsets
Great weekend!
I got to spent the weekend with mom. They prepared sancocho and a lot of people came over. It was good to see the family together again and see how much my mom is loved, her cellphone rang every 5 minutes since 12:00am the night before!
Pictures of the blast here
I also got to meet our newest addition, my little brother Emir , two years old now.
See more progress on: spend more time with my mother
My Three Things...
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
Ken
chino
cholo
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
kenpty
kpty
kchen
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
I’m not judgmental
I regard mankind as my own child
I feel connected to everything
THREE THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
Being out of shape
Not having time to paint anymore
When I lose my cool
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
Fanatics of any kind
Politics
Religion
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
Wikipedia
43things
Coffee
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
Black trousers
Pink shirt
White undies
THREE FAVOURITE DESSERTS
Death by chocolate
Brownie delight
Hot chocolate
THREE THINGS YOU WONT EAT
Raw meat
Raw eggs
Raw turtle eggs
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS (at the moment):
Robbie Williams
Royksopp
Craig Armstrong
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
Learning to sail
Play a complete Rugby game
Mix a song
THREE THINGS YOU’D WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
Love
Understanding
Passion
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
I’d sex with men
I’d sex with women
I’ll burn in hell for all my sins
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
Legs
Boobs
Booty
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN’T DO:
Sing
Karaoke
Videogames
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
Digital painting
Photography
Learning
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
Sex
Hot sex
Kinky sex
THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
Buddhist monk
Politics
Exobiology
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
London
Choroni
Caracas
THREE KID’S NAMES:
Guillermo
Ken
Elias
THREE CELEB CRUSHES:
Natalie Portman
Helene Bonham Carter
Drew Barrymore
THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A GUY:
Practice Mu Thai
Play rugby
Smoke red malboros
THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A CHICK:
I feel like ‘one of the girls’
I like cooking shows on television
I enjoy gardening
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
Have children
Build our family tree
Sow a forest
See more progress on: Get everyone to play the 3 Things Q's on 43T
So first steps...
-Write down the actions I’m dragging out
-Find why I’m so afraid of taking them
-Put a date for any decision and a date for any action to be taken
See more progress on: get my life in order
Maelstrom
Past year was pretty intense for me! There were bad things, good things and incredible good things. I’m still trying to come to terms with what I’d learned and what I’ve to unlearn. It’s hard since coming back to my country, to the seemingly boxed mind of the people, I wonder if I feel this way because I got out of the box, or just got a peek outside of it. But whatever reason, I learned that my life is mine, and no one has the right to force the way I should live it. That’s the hardest part, when the people in your path, is your family and friends. How can I make them understand.
Maybe because of it I’m delaying taking decisions, hiding like a ostrich, my head covered with too many trivial tasks in order to avoid the ones that are really important.
So many things I don’t even name in my head afraid of doing so forcing me to take action.
I feel sometimes I’m in a maelstrom, trapped like Nemo without a way out, a toy of the waves, pushing me around, I want to stop, I want to hold to something and getting out of it and at the same time, i’m afraid of doing so.
Mom was clever, she had realized it. She told me on sunday “You still doesn’t know what to do”
See more progress on: get my life in order
My try at "TEXTURE"
When I was a child I painted using anything at hand when I felt like doing so, and mom always encouraged me. One night, I was home alone, and I found a box of colored chalk, yellow, blue and white. I draw a 2 meters x 2 meters winged unicorn in the wall of my room, where after these many years still can be seen. After that, mom got made for me a headboard with a unicorn motif.
That motif is the one in the picture. I took it this weekend while visiting for her 57 birthday.
Getting in shape!
It seems a viable goal! So I’m going to take it! Running 1 hour daily ( 6:00am to 7:00am ), one hour Mu Thai practice on tuesdays and wednesdays, playing Rugby on saturdays, If I don’t get in shape before my birthday I’m going for a lipo hahaha.
See more progress on: Run every day for 3 months
Two truths and a lie
I’ve sex with women
I’ve sex with men
I’ll burn in hell for all my sins
See more progress on: Get people to play 2 Truths and a Lie on 43T.
Accidental tourist
I don’t think my bosses nor my fiancé would approve me leaving the country over a weekend.
But there are so many places in my country I hadn’t go yet. The towns in the Darién Jungle, Bocas del Toro province or the Kuna Yala Archipielago.
See more progress on: show up at the airport with a bag and a passport and take the first flight available
Friday, July 21, 2006
I miss listening my friends in Barbados asking "Hello mate"
British rules!
See more progress on: learn and use as much british slang as possible
I miss listening my friends in Barbados asking "Hello mate"
British rules!
See more progress on: learn and use as much british slang as possible
Casco Viejo
Bought the lonely planet guide Panama and started with The Casco Viejo. Anyways, Panama’s Capital city is still alien to me since I’m from Chiriqui and since I left for so long and the city has changed so much, I really feel like a tourist on it.
It’s a great goal this one! I’ll publish all my findings and pictures in my Journal Entries Photoblog
See more progress on: be a tourist in my own town
Sent my two first ones.
To Finland and to Poland.
See more progress on: receive a postcard from and send a postcard to every country through postcrossing
Mom's birthday
Mom’s birthday is this weekend. I’ll be leaving today for Chiriqui.
See more progress on: spend more time with my mother
Tools of the trade
-Got installed Painter and updated to IX.5
-Need to arrange my desktop in order to be able to use my tablet.
-Install Painter in my laptop
-Install the tablet drivers in my laptop
See more progress on: Paint for one hour a day during a month
Kickboxing Day 2
Second Class.
My whole body aches, but my muscles are growing, I always wondered how they do that with such a little stimulation, genetics said my old trainer. Probably just water retention hehehe. Anyways, it’s awkward to say, but it feels good this sort of pain.
I’ll ask Lia if I can go to practice everyday, they even has a weightlifting section.
Still in 206lb.
See more progress on: Lose 40 lbs
My current challenge:
1. Finland
2. Poland
3. USA
4. Germany
I’ll buy the postcards this evening! Tried yesterday but couldn’t find not a single one at the WTC (Guess in this time of e-mail sales just went down).
Also I was considering to print some pictures I took from my country in postcard format, I know they do that at the printshop.
Let’s see.
This task is cool, I hadn’t had send a postcard since my trip to Caracas in 1990.
See more progress on: receive a postcard from and send a postcard to every country through postcrossing
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Why I want to meet adaptable
He’s from my country! I’d lived abroad and know how important is to keep in touch with your roots.
Where do I start!!
As part of a Art Installation I compiled a whole universe of things I’d started but not finished, from paintings to trivial things. It covers a whole wall, God I’m so depressed!
See more progress on: complete projects that I start
Musings...
Edouard asked me who helped me to create an account in the russian forums!! Should I tell he I.. No, its fun to read and listen to them talking, I guess if they realize I can understand them they won’t talk as freely.
See more progress on: Become fluent in more than one language (including sign language)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Found two interesting sites in Spain.
Found two instructives on birdsighting from a site in Spain. Also spotted the “Birds of Panama” book at a local bookstore, it was within my budget but I choosed to buy the Lonely Planet Panama guide instead.
See more progress on: be better at identifying birds and bird calls
My corner of the world
I went to “El Casco Viejo” (The Old Quarter) to get some Ice cream (There’s a new gourmet Ice cream store there)and I snapped a picture of this Kuna people selling their molas at Plaza Bolivar. The Old Quarter is the second city that was built after Morgan sacked the old city. It was built in a small peninsula and was surrounded by walls (now gone).
To see the rest of the pictures I took of Panama’s Casco Viejo
To see the place on Google Maps Satellite view
Update
I started kickboxing classes today. Is twice a week. I’ll try to run every morning but sometimes is so cold I just want to stay under the blankets. Since D is too tired after work we had suspended our causeway’s circuit.
See more progress on: run 5 times a week
204lbs
That’s not much. It seems hard to go back to the 200 Mark. I’m having vegetables and fish for lunch and vegetables and chicken for dinner. I reduced my beer intake from a daily guiness to once a week. I had lost a lot of weight but not enough.
D seems not to enjoy walking after work, so, well, that won’t be an option. I got into kickboxing classes instead. With the instructor that Edouard recommended. It was pretty intense for my firt lesson, but a lot rewarding, with only two hours my muscles took shape and tone, if only my belly would work like that hehehehe.
I’ll try to skip dinners and have some light snack instead of dinner to see if I can go down the 200lb mark.
See more progress on: Lose 40 lbs
A Lifetime of Catholicism tried to got in the way but ...
Just keep yourself objective and open to enjoy and value it.
See more progress on: Read the Book of Mormon
Since 1989 until 2006
The quality of most programs in my country are so bad I shun TV completely. For years I hadn’t own one.
This year thought, at mom’s request (She complained she was missing her soap operas when visiting me so my best friend gave her one to have at my apartment) there’s a set at home.
It looks kind of hideous to me, most used now to watch movies on DVD, National Geographic while doing my morning exercise and on the Cartoon Network Channel (Because my Welsh Corgi really loves it) while I’m at work.
See more progress on: live without a television for a year
I was born in Chiriqui, but I call Caracas home
I traveled to Caracas to work there in a project. It’s a great city, and the venezuelan people is very open and friendly. I’ll always be in love with that city and its people.
You can see pictures in my Photoblog
See more progress on: Live in Venezuela for more than a year
These are the languages I want to learn
Languages I know and I can help others:
English
Spanish
Italian
Languages I’m learning and want help:
Using Primsleur CDs Courses: – Hebrew – Danish
Using Talk to me CDs Courses:
- French- German- Japanese- Arabic- ChineseLanguages I hadn’t found Courseware:
- Greek- Hindi- Russian- Persian- Norwegian- PortugueseSee more progress on: Become fluent in more than one language (including sign language)
Monday, July 17, 2006
Great!!
I found this tool The Emergent Task Timer it’s pretty cool. I put in the tasks for the day I wrote down at my 30min morning session (While waiting for the coffe to be ready) and every other task that shows up during the day. At the end of the day I’ve been able to identify what’s eating my time and make ammends! and it has a chime that blips every 15 min if you want to keep your attention on the current task.
It’s a ubecool tool!!
See more progress on: Organise my Life for 30 minutes every day
Would be great to have one!!
Benefits:
-It would be easier for me to geotag the pictures I take for my site WelcomePanama.com
-To map the locations of the places in the mashups
-Be able to play geocaching
See more progress on: get a Garmin, or some similar device
Monday, July 03, 2006
Starting Tonight
I’m trying to run every day, since I leave work at 6:00pm the only place to do it is in the causeway at Amador.
The Causeway is a long road built by the americans that joins 3 islands together at the pacific entrance of the Panama Canal.
I’ll take my cam tonight and snap some cool pics of the night city skyline.
See more progress on: spend a day taking photos of my city
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)