its that time again it seems

and no im not talking about christmas, im talking about the end of the year and the decade, i didnt knew about this since i dont pay attention to that meaning when a decade ends, so no this is not going to be and entry of how was the decade per se, this is more a blog about some things ive been thinking about lately, in my first post overall in here i was talking about why the need to start putting christmas ornaments in december which has nothing to do with this post i just wanted to mention it.

there have been a lot of repairs and constructions done in the city in the past year that supposedly will help traffic among other things, the thing is these repairs and constructions are causing more traffic than ever which creates more stress from the drivers overall not only that but constant complains from everyone, the solution to replacing the old buses from the city is a mass public transportation buses that have a stupid name to be honest theyre crammed with people almost all the time they pass, and this is what the major of the city wants as the alternative to the old public transportation, not only that but the amount of time it takes for those buses to pass is eternal sometimes hope they fix this.

im thinking of doing my last post of the year a relatively long one , since ive had time to think about a lot of things im going to express my opinion on those topics or things, moving on im kind of worried for my sister she has had a lot of painful headaches lately we dont know why yet, after the lab exams well know for sure, even though my mother has had surgery on both knees she still has pain in them at times, and lately that pain has passed to her feet , that not only hurt but swell a lot, making it difficult for her to walk.

theres a reunion of my high school since theyre celebrating its 40 years of existence, im thinking if i should go or not since my memories from that time werent the best i was a loner even though i sometimes hanged out with some people from my classroom, i had depression all the time , i was always stuck in my own inner world to escape from the real world, i talked very little and with who i did talk to were very few people, i didnt thought of any of the people i hanged out with as friends since i had the idea that they were there because they had pity for me or something like it, i never went to parties since i hated places with a lot of people i prefered to stay at home, the very few times i went out was to a club my parents were members of to swim in the pool, bowl, play pool and that was it after a while i became bored of this.

did i forget to say that the only times my classmates called me was for what i mentioned before, so all this time they were using me and turns out i was right, the only kind of positive memory was since my high school was specialized in art and music, i moderately enjoyed this but the fact was everyone only played traditional folk music from my country; which after a while becomes boring and repetitive.

i thank tv and the interwebs for helping me get into a lot of the music i listen to today, this is going to be a two part entry so this is the end of part one, in part two ill continue talking about a lot of other topics and memories from past times

random talk on cities and stress

well after a while of not blogging, finishing a college semester and for the most part doing well im posting again, this time about life in the city and how is that related to stress, and maybe how people who live in cities something for copious amounts of stress which i think doesnt happen a lot to those who live in the country.

ive been living in the same city for the amount of years i have which is a lot i could say , since i wasnt born here things are different and you can see everything from a different perspective , even though this particular city is center to a clash of different types of cultures from all over the country, is most popular because of salsa a type of music thats very tropical and kind of catchy, in the last couple of years that has somewhat change theres a festival called cali underground that displays the different types of music proposals that are in the city.

living in a city can be stressful specially if you like near shopping malls, main streets, dowtown, etc, and even if you dont like in this parts there are other ways that living in  a city can become stressful, like driving in rushour traffic that can leave anyone with a headache, or riding in public transportation that seems like a can of sardines from the amount of people riding them, the smog , etc, if you have a neighbor that loves a type of music you hate and puts it at full volume and doesnt care about it, or a noisy neighbor that wants to know everything about anyone.

thats someways the city can stress you, so its good to once in a while get out of the city and go to different place maybe other cities but that are smaller than the one you live in, or a small quiet town, thats your decition not mine, right now theres a construction in the house beside mine and it kind of stresses me but i dont pay attention to it.

ill finish this post later on the day

so heres a random thought

well first time i think im going to mention social networking sites and blogs, ok i started using the internet like 10 years ago , didnt know a lot about it but i managed, i past time on chats , music sites, launch , etc, in that time i dont know if social networking sites existed then, i think since friendster is commented as one of the first type of this type of websites, it might be one of the first, i didt know anything about this until i joined hi5 sure its not that great, and there isnt a lot to do on the site, they used to have a decent music section that disappeared and no one knew why, as it has become a common in these types of sites a lot of spam enters your mailbox, or the amount of random comments some people get i think makes this anoying.

so after a while of being there i got bored of the site, and started visiting forums mainly about music or a specific band, it was a different experience and i like it, anyone could express their opinion freely related to a specific topic without any prejudice it seemed, ill get to blogging later on this post, so yeah after a while of talking with a friend i made on a forum i decided to enter the myspace zone , there i decided to not stay there to find friends but instead look for any type of band that had a different or unique sound so i could expand my music taste and library, the groups there are random i could say, the post are too, but i could sat that thanks to this site ive heard bands that i now love, i started posting random thoughts there too, which i guess helped since i dont talk much and writing became kind of terapeutical.

then i heard about the big f you know what site im talking about , theres also a semi-catchy and moronic song that a person from my country composed, that im starting to hate, the song not the person just to clarify, one of the few things i like about the site are the music and movie apps, and and app about famous quotes, and i agree with a post i saw earlier the status that people post on facebook are rather random sometimes, i guess theyre even more in twitter a site that i actually doesnt any purpose to exist, why would you want to tell the world what youre doing every hour of the day, thats stupid and youre just looking for attention, no more no less, maybe im wrong, not everyone is there for that , there is a supernews video about it thats very funny.

finally blogging, i never wrote about anything before that wasnt for school or college, and i started doing that like three years ago, the more random thought i posted were in lj and xanga, about music, movies , daily routine and random stuff, now that i have this blog i decided to not be as random at times, because it can get boring, question to anyone that visits this blog, what have you learn from blogging or social networking sites and what do you hate or enjoy about both

of families and college

yeah i didnt know what to put as a title so i went with the one mentioned above, i dont post as rarely as id like to but its ok, so october passed rather quickly and with it halloween a holiday that many love and some hate where we see little kids in various types of costumes, i dont hate or like this holiday its just ok, at least i can watch cheesy horror movies every day before and in halloween so thats a plus.

i dont know what is it with modern families , where it seems everyone is on their respective rooms doing theyre own stuff, or with their friends but rarely with its parents or sons and daughters, i dont know if it can be said that the concept of family nowadays, its different than how it used to be before, theyre called modern families, where a video game, a tv show or a computer takes the place of the parents some might call this bad parenting , i dont know since my family seems very traditional though some of us argue a lot sometimes, about little things.

no family can be truely consider normal, since everyone whether they admit it or not have problems, changing topic for a moment ive been thinking of what to do after i graduate from college, the usual path is get a job and thats it i guess, i dont know it seems at times that the life of a person or any person in general becomes sooner or later like a big giant revolving routine thats done every day, while some may get used to this, i dont like that at all, life shouldnt be routinary , but it is sometimes, so im thinking of creative ways to vary my routine, so yep.

living on background music

the title may seem pretty obvious is not, as you see not only is this entry music related is about the constant relations between music and life, what could be the first music anyone has ever heard well mainly in my case , it was the music my parents listened to at the time which was colombian folk music it was ok, and apart from that i was studying in a school that teached it so yeah.

in my childhood that was the only type of music i listened to, after that when i was a teenager, i started to listen to the radio and discovered rock in spanish it was different from what my parents listened to and i liked it, the years passed with boring situations and depressing times, in the 90s i discovered nirvana thanks to mtv, my music taste wasnt towards a specific band or genre , then my first true favorite band was discovered the offspring, on a vacation to the u.s i bought ixnay on the hombre out of curiosity since i liked some of the singles ive heard, its still one of my favorite albums, this band and the foo fighters helped shaped my music taste in part.

the years passed and i went through a really awful time in my life that was when i entered college among the pressure from my parents to choose a career, and my nervousness i started to listen to some of the flavor of the mont bands specifically every numetal band i could find not going to list names since almost everyone knows about this bands mainly linkin park and papa roach ,i know .

i was drowned in my study until i had to choose another career, since i wasnt doing so well in the one i chose before which was medicine, after this thanks to a mp3 cd my dad bought for me and random mp3s i listened to on the web, i discovered punk and other music genres that i still listen to today, i still have some of the cds from my numetal phase but i never listen to them .

music has become and integral part of my life, i listen to it every day to get away from the world and to try to relax , im always curious to listen to different musical proposals and bands, i started reading our band could be your life to see if i can learn how was the music scene in the 80s and how was the camaradery inside the bands, and what they thought about the music and how it affected them

i pretty much almost finished the book and im liking it a lot, theres some stories about bands like black flag, the minutemen, fugazi, minor threat, the replacements and big black that in my opinion are very good.

so i recommend the book to anyone whos interested in knowing about the indie underground of the end of the 80s to the beginning of the 90s.

vacation part 2

so after a while of not writing and having a disastrous birthday , im here to finish my short vacation entry.

as i was saying the day after the whole family went to downtown cartagena, my father decided to go to rosario islands, theyre like 24 islands one next to the other in some cases but in others theyre quite separated.

so every travel agency that sells trips to these islands, have their own private islands where tourists can relax and have lunch for a while, after these everyones brought to another island called white beach its called like this because the sands very clear and it has crystal clear waters, it was and ok trip i didnt really wanted to go there, after spending all the entire day on this we came back by boat to cartagena and that was the day.

the two final days were spent buying stuff likie souvenirs and things like that, and that was the whole vacation not good or bad just ok, the only thing that helped for this trip to not suck was music specially the music i brought and my discman it helped me calm down or distract myself from what was going around me if i was bored or kind of depressed.

improvize a vacation part 1

well last week i wasnt in the city where i live, i was with my family in cartagena a city thats famous for history and old buildings i could say it was and improvized vacation since the one who plan it didnt asked anyone specially me if they could go in that date or anything, he just make the reservation for the whole family and left it at that.

i was kind of nervous thinking i was going to lose a week of classes, though i only go to the university twice a week, wednesday for a class on educational psychology and thursday a meeting with my thesis director to correct my thesis.

the trip started ok, though we had to wait in bogota for a while and ate lunch there, finally when we arrived in cartagena the weather was very hot and humid which was a little exasperating to be honest, after that we checked in into my dads friend apartment which was and ok place not the best but not the worst either, since there was only three beds, we had to inflate a mattress that had a pump to inflate it, we didnt go out anywhere the first day thank god, but i didnt slept too well while the others slept great.

the next day was the familys first trip to the beach i wasnt ecstatic about this to be honest, but the rest of the family was so whatever, i brought my discman and a crossword puzzle magazine to kill some time while they swam in the ocean, then it happened those anoying beach venders started coming to where me and my family were offering massages, t-shirts, sunglasses among other things.

so whenever you go to cartagena be careful of these beach venders theyre anoying and sometimes insist too much on someone to buy their product which stresses the person out, after this we had lunch in a restaurant near the place where we were staying i admit the lunch was great though as always my father was looking closely at the prices of everything everyone ate, contrary to popular belief not everyone that goes to cartagena only eats fish every freaking day at least i didnt did that.

in the third day of the trip we went to the center of the city, that day was extremely hot and humid , we walked in downtown cartagena and in the old city for a while my father bought cholados for everyone this is chopped ice with a specific flavor, everyone sat on a park bench for a while and after that we took a taxi to a supermarket to buy some grosseries for the breakfast of the next day, and finally we came back to the apartment we were staying in.

end of part 1