Monthly Archives: February 2011

Downgrade, Upgrade, Firmware, Software, WLAN, LAN, OS, and the story goes on and on and on…

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It was not so long ago that we had to type our homework with our parents typewriter, I personally prefrerred to make them by hand, it was faster and easier. I then discovered computers, “WORDSTAR” and “LOTUS 123” were like the lost treasure of the word processing. I imporved my homeworks and my teachers would appreciate the clean and sleek presentation when they had to read to make their grading.

It was a good time, I remember my mother would use it very easily and there was not too much to be said and done, just type in and “Presto”!!!! , last night i brought a new printer/scanner/fax machine home. My friends, i spent three hours, upgrading the firmware, installing the drivers, now they do not even use cables, it is all wireless, good for me and the cleaning lady but if i hadn’t had any google reference or ask.com i bet i would still be installing the printer. while installing i was thinking of  my aunts or my mom doing the same. I guess they just could not do it in three hours, they would have to call someone to do it for them. We have made things more complex, more unfriendly, if you do not have an “Intermediate” knowledge on computers terms and skills you are not installing your printer! and they say on the box it is plug and play! well as a good friend just mentioned yesterday, < I had a problems with your website “cookies” , She said she was having problems with the cookies she bakes let alone the ones in her computer! >
Year ago, i read that simplicity is the greatest sophistication. the simpler the more advanced. I think we are on the wrong direction.
 and if you do not have a credit card, you are nobody here in the world wide web!!! hope i can see the day computers become more simple and more sophisticated…

If it does not have sugar, it does not deserve to be called candy.

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Today I was joking with my wife, we had some Chinese “candies”, but they are totally sugarless, how can you call something a candy if it does not have any sugar? How can you call yourself a person if you don’t have problems? don’t have scars? don’t have hope? you need certain things in life to be called human…
Might sound crazy but life goes trhough with our without you wanting, it goes on an on in this sea of joy and sometimes sea of madness, you can’t stop things from happening, just be aware that in every problem there is an opportunity, in every tear there is hope, in every wonderful moment there is triumph. enjoy your life and forget your sorrows, today what may seems the end of the road is actually a new beginning…

today is a cold rainy day, tomorrow will be summer and someday it will be your day, as I once read, eat more candies, walk around more often, climb more mountians, listen more music, be a little crazier than usual, because someday you will be 80 and would love to go back and do it all over again but there’ll be no more time….

Children of the Google

iron maiden, Juanmanuel Cunningham, Music, old times

I remember when we used to be unaware of most of everything. We did not know anything at all, we just were, there, around, walking and trying to find mysteries we did not even know they existed.
I remember having to copy cassettes from friends to get the latest imported album, borrowing underground porn, renting copied VHS tapes, and finding the best Slayer album 3 years after its release. it was fun, we were surporised and amazed by everything. I always had this hope of having that bootleg album I had heard of. That song I heard somewhere and I did not have a clue who sang it.
We are now all doomed , we must know it all, if we don’t the common questions comes: “did you google it?? ” and we believe everything that there is, we even trust our health to Google. If we have a pain somewhere, just search it and do what it is said there.
Have a problem, do what that old blog says, need to know the future, consult the online fortune teller, we are so submerged in it that we do not even bother to walk around and meet the neighbors, we just twitt what ever thought is in our minds.
I am not against it, but I am aware of it. We should be more responsible when using Google, twitter, Facebook and all those hundreds of social sites and networks.

When was the last time you heard a record from the first note to the last, when was the last time you spent the day listening over and over to a LP just mesmerized by its cover (Iron Maiden used to blow mi mind) …??

I feel like talking with my granpa and apologizing by not understanding his words when complained about the TV, Atari and Walkman…..

To lose trust.

forgiveness, Friendship, golden years, sorrow

37 years and still cannot manage how to deal with other people’s trust and making clear I am not a stepping stone.
It all began last year, I met some people far up north in Beijing and thought It was a good idea to broaden up my social circles a little bit. Among this people there was this guy who was really eager and pushy about starting business with me. At the time I was so confident in the well being of my current job that had the space to feel imaginative towards new ways of making money.
People disguise frindship with personal interest, and I sometimes forget this. I started making plans of business with this “new friend” and knowing his social connections all hails to the new born friendship.
He started to make plans of moving to my city and I agreed, when he arrived here I realized he did not have a penny, just friends and talking. Well, let’s help him with a place, then food, then shoes, then, then, then……
At the end, his friends never backed his mouth, just talking. He would spend all day long daydreaming about his impossible love, his utopic way of life and his long gone “Golden years”…

It all ended the day I said, “I don’t have more money” , he turned into a monster, a green swamp slime…. He hated my guts and blamed me for all his sorrows. I felt sorry and sad. because we all have our dark side. Who are we to blame and to judge. We are all talk as well.

Storyline, never mix business with friendship, is like juggling with japanese Knives.

High Blood pressure.

BlackBerry, China Living, heart, technology desease

Ever since a teenager I felt my heart was running a little faster than usual. I started smoking and drinking (beer) at around 15. Now I am 37, three kids and Living in China. 150/110 , high blood pressure, hypertension and stressed. I have been fighting my stress but it’s hard when you have three kids and problems at work.
I am now finding myself with less sleeping time than before, and I think that is the key. Sleeping is the best medicine, I am trying to become a normal person once again, one without BlackBerry, eMAILS, No TV in my bedroom, Learning Mandarin (I live in China) and all these gadgets that make us more “communicados” . At the end we lose our biological rhythmn and our health. I said once to some friends just joking about this and I could not believe their reactions, Not having a Mobile phone is like being a criminal, an antisocial.
If tomorrow I decided not to use a mobile phone anymore I think most of my friends and family will think I’m weird or crazy. This is our time, communication Era, when being available 24/7 is a must, and when you get sick nobody will be in bed for me. so i am trying to turn my phone of at night and if there is something important coming up I try to make a good schedule and ask my overseas customers to understand that I am on the other side of the world and if they are working at 10 am it means it’s 10 pm for me.