Monday, July 31, 2006

Feared visit to the ULAT

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I’m not ready
I’m not ready
I’m not ready

I can’t postpone this forever!

#5/34 Panama's flag

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I was in a hurry! Is the most easy thing to paint!

#4/34 Diablico Sucio Mask

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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.

#3 Dottie at the Rainbow Bridge

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A friend’s dog, Dottie, just passed away. I painted this for her.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

From my window

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Sun rising over the Panama bay

#1 Tucan

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My first paint. I’ll keep this goal until my birthday on August 30th.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Arghhhhhhhhh!!

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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.

New Friends...

Poland (3)
Norway (2)
China (2)
France (1)

Ran 15 min today

Day 1/90 15min

Untitled

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

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Strong enough?!

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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.

These are the two first postcards I sent

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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.

I'm lacking in this one since I'm not going to the gym anymore...

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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.

Got 23 so far

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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

Great weekend!

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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.

My Three Things...

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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

So first steps...

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-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

Maelstrom

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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”

My try at "TEXTURE"

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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!

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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.

Two truths and a lie

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I’ve sex with women
I’ve sex with men
I’ll burn in hell for all my sins

Accidental tourist

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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.

Friday, July 21, 2006

I miss listening my friends in Barbados asking "Hello mate"

British rules!

I miss listening my friends in Barbados asking "Hello mate"

British rules!

Casco Viejo

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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

Sent my two first ones.

Mom's birthday

Mom’s birthday is this weekend. I’ll be leaving today for Chiriqui.

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

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.

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.

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!!

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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!

Musings...

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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.

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.

My corner of the world

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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.

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.

Mom's birthday is coming

23th July

A Lifetime of Catholicism tried to got in the way but ...

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Just keep yourself objective and open to enjoy and value it.

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.

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

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- Chinese

Languages I hadn’t found Courseware:

- Greek- Hindi- Russian- Persian- Norwegian- Portuguese

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!!

Would be great to have one!!

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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

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.