Feared visit to the ULAT

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

I can’t postpone this forever!

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#5/34 Panama's flag

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

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#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.

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#3 Dottie at the Rainbow Bridge

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

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From my window

Sun rising over the Panama bay

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#1 Tucan

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

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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.

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New Friends...

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

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Ran 15 min today

Day 1/90 15min

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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”

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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.

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