My future (and present) concerns

Since I was 16 years old I have been dreaming about my job. It usually impress the persons that I tell because it isn't conventional. To be simpler on my explanation, I would like to study untill it tires me, and have a simple job. With a simple job I mean the jobs that are usually underestimate for every one of us because there is no need to study a career to work on them, like part of the cleaning staff, truck driver, porter, etc. Those jobs gives you a lot of experience on how is the world for the majority of the human beens on this planet, and thus open parts of your mind that have been on stand-by due to the comfort. Altough I have experienced that on a little magnitude, maybe I'll have a sabbatical year to experience deeply those kinds of things. Also, those jobs gives you some unapreciated things, like time, that you can use to think and listen music in the case of truck driver, that is why that job attracts me.

Nevertheless I wanna study a variery of things. Enter on Forestal Engineering have really opened my mind to understand how the nature works and hence how WE work as humans, individuals, and social beings. I won't give a precise answer on what I'm gonna study on the future, like doctorate, mayors, minors, etc, but I really know that I'm gonna keep studying untill I find how I can be helpful to the society, therefore I can't neither give a particular answer for my future job.
One thing I do know, is that I'm gonna work on the public system because I have done all of my studies on the public system, so I have to give something back.

Sorry if I let more unanswered questions than those that I replied, but thats how I think and feel :(

Fiestassss patriass

My Fiestas Patrias are usually very simple ones. Generally my family met with two other families, the Reyes Duran and the Núñez. We do a little family "fonda" in my house the 18 of september, anyone able to invite whoever they want. There is a lot of food since everybody buy or prepare something to bring, not only empanadas but salads, all kind of meats, cakes, icecream, and obviously "chicha" and "terremoto".
The "Cueca" is danced only when the radio plays it and there is avalaible drunk or high people who wanna make the fool of themselves. Is not that we are bad dancers or don't wanna dance, is just that it isn't a tradition for us and we prefer to dance cumbia or whatever is playing the radio.
The other days we go fonda to fonda searching for good music to hear. Every year we listen to Los Jaivas, Manuel García, Los Tres, Congreso, Inti Illimani, and a long etc.
Another thing we love to do is play or "raise" the volantin, a paper made comet. Regrettably we don't usually do it because we don't have a lot of time to go to a place where we can buy them for a cheap price.
Nevertheless I personally spent these Fiestas Patrias half on the beach half on Santiago, but I could done all I wanted to do. I went to Loncura to see my grandparents the weekend before the 18, we ate untill our belly button went out and walk along the beach for hours and hours.

My favourite food

Speaking of food in general, I couldn't say that I preffer salty or sweet, but I find wonderful the fruits and vegetables wheter if eaten fresh and without a recipe, or in fancy restaurant-like dishes. Throughout my life I hadn't made my "food decisions" based on the fact that they are healthy or junk, but in the past 3 years I had enhance that facet because food is one of the principal factors that determine our performance physically and psychologically.

Lately my dish have been changing from one to another since I have made some changes in my life like becoming a vegan. Now that place is occupied for the "porotos granados". 

The "porotos" are from my very country Chile, so if I wanna eat some porotos I just have to go to a traditional restaurant or like we say here, a "picada". No matter of what I wrote, I eat porotos granados very often because my mother and grandfather cook them a lot and really nicely, in fact I bet there is no better porotos than those made by them. Been honest, I don't know how to cook them but I'd really like to learn.

This is how my mother cook them.

And this is like my grandfather's technique, except for that dark-brown fluzzy thing on the surface.

That's all, good bye and see you on my next random post :P

The wonder of Music

If I have to talk about concerts, I can't leave outside any of these. First Megadeth's, David Gilmour's, and finally Bob Dylan's concert, principally because of what they meant for me.

The Megadeth's was special because it was the first "big" concert I went by my own, been only 12 years old. I still remember the old guys beside me on the Movistar Arena's gallery offering me some weird smoky stuff which I didn't accept (thank God) and then we all laughing and rocking like if  the world was ending.

David Gilmour's, on the Estadio Nacional was a awesome experience too. I mean, I saw one of the greatest guitar player and musician that have ever exist playing those uncountable solos that I had listen so many times on the radio or in my cellphone. I almost cry when I heard Shine On You Crazy Diamond, but I literally got frozen.




Last but not least, Bob Dylan's. Well, it's hard to me to explain how does listening my favourite art maker feels. I remember pretty well feeling kind of high or stoned all along the concert. The way he stand on the stage and owns the environment with his crude and non esthetic voice, how the whistle of his harmonica chills you, and his mere presence really blow my mind. Well, that is a little part of my experience with concerts, hope you've enjoy it and see you next time.

Dreaming the world

Hello guys. Today I'm gonna talk about the country i want to visit some day. To be honest, the place I wanna visit is a world region characterized for it's support with the Buddhist culture and traditions, the East Asia region, however I will talk about China.

Although I've already told my general motivations, my specific reasons lie on my interest about all that beautiful culture, it's millenary monuments, the landscape associated with the regions involved with the people who practiced (and keep practicing) Buddhism, and so much more stuff that I can't just easily tell you.

I've always had the picture in my head living on a mountain on those regions meditating most of the day, relating with the nature and trying to find it's true reality, and hence the nature of ourselves. So if one ask me if I see myself living there, yes, I truly do, but first I gotta learn more about the world.

It's a hard place to live and visit because of the conditions in which the people of those regions live (little judicial and police control, low economic inputs and therefore poor resources to live, etc) but I'm already like a beggar so it won't be that hard for me I guess.

Finally, enjoy these beautiful pictures of this unknown region for the occidental people in general.

This is from Ling Shan, Siddharta Gautama (better known as Budda), standing and transmitting his wisdome. Tell me that the size of that is not impresive.