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Noon Coffee in China

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12:45 pm at a Starbucks in Shenzhen China is a scene hard to believe, here in the land of the “tea” hundreds line up to get a cup of coffee at around 25 rmb (4 US$) . The logical conclusion is that everybody likes to feel “cool” , is not the coffee, it is the status and the opportunity to look different amongst millions who just have the same 4 US$ to have a decent lunch.

Good thing: Hundreds of people get the chance to feel good and have a nice break from the daily routine.

Bad thing: The gap between middle and and low class gets bigger and someday it might blow on people’s faces.

Not good not bad: In 2 years perhaps we will drink coffee at a regular chinese restaurant.

The eye of the Huracan

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At this point Venezuela is going through a tense calm, it’s been like that for almost a decade and people are starting to get used to it. Long queues to buy food and daily care products, something unimaginable some year ago. People would laugh and make jokes about how Cuba went into decadence and abrassive retoric and now we are suffering the same “evil” of the XXI century socialism… Things are said and you never now what they are actually trying to say, there is this double speech that goes nowhere. Mr. Capriles is running AGAIN for president on a last stand against the “Chavismo” now without Chavez in this Planet… Mr. Maduro a former Bus Driver and Union Lider makes Jokes on TV and falls vicitim of the 6 Million People that Voted against Chavez the last October. Jokes that are laughable and sometimes a raw reality of how sarcastic and careless the government has turned into. The truth is that none can tell what is really going to happen next April 14th on election day but there is something I am sure of, whatever results come People will continue their lives and Venezuela will always be a Mistery and Irony castle where Nobles and Peasants hate each other and secretly detest their Modus Vivendi. Hope someday we all realize that the world has changed and while we think we are in the center of everything, we are seen as a Country ruled by dictators and an Oil-Giving-away ugly cousin.

Hotter than Hell.

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Sometimes we confuse bravery with recklessness but the question here is to think how far you would go in a moment of trouble. Would you run that extra mile we should not? Would you break the rules for a piece of bread? I guess we would in a certain moment of our lives. The issue goes more deeper than we think, when we walk this earth we leave a footprint bigger than ourselves, we create ripples in the fabric of our social life that sometimes bring us to the center and sometimes to the edge of it. I have flown all across the world and left footprints everywhere, my image and soul have cracked the very core of many dreams and I apologize for it. I had to do it. I had to walk in the shadows; I had nothing else to do, nowhere else to flee.

Find yourself in the middle of the storm and cry out for help for none to listen, none to care. I guess you will become the lightning that strikes many times in the same spot. The lone wolf hunting in the meadows.

For I was to be here, fighting against fate and being drunk of love. Blinded by circumstances and lost in a foreign land. We are very good at judging and crawling over people’s motivations. We love to live in the conditional world and wallow in uncertainty. For those ready to jump into conclusions, close your eyes and feel the air cutting your forehead. For those ready to crawl into sin be aware of the mud gathering on your knees.

Sometimes life is hotter than hell.

Killing yourself to live

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Well people look and people stare
Well I don’t think that I even care
You work your life away and what do they give?
You’re only killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live

Just take a look around you what do you see
Pain, suffering, and misery
It’s not the way that the world was meant
It’s a pity you don’t understand
Killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live

I’m telling you
Believe in me
Nobody else will tell you
Open your eyes
And see the lies, oh yeah

You think I’m crazy and baby
I know that it’s true
Before that you know it I think
That you’ll go crazy too

I don’t know if I’m up or down
Whether black is white or blue is brown
The colors of my life are all different somehow
Little boy blue’s a big girl now

So you think it’s me who’s strange
But you’ve never had to make the change
Never give your trust away
You’ll end up paying till your dying day

 

 

 

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Life is incredible difficult at times. And then, at the end we die. It certainly must have been easier before we developed consciousness, the “knowledge of good and evil”. But, we can’t go back. As Sartre noted, there is “No Exit.”

Most of us cope adequately at least. But there are so many who do not have the resources to cope and life just beats the hell out of them. I know a few who fall into this category and they struggle even though they have so much going for them. Auden likened them unto the “toy of some great pain.” It is as if some darkness has enthralled them and will not let them go and it has nothing to do with intelligence, or will power, or moral integrity.

People in the grip of this pain often despair completely and make horrible choices, some of which…

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Crushed by circumstances

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It’s not for me to decide whether the day will turn out well, sometimes we cannot follow the right path and fall into troubles. It’s also true that even if we are not walking we can also fall. This month I’ve been crushed to my bones but here I am writing these words to drain out the pressure that built up by the pressure.

We have to open our eyes to the signs written on our life’s wall, even if they say go and break a bone!

When I was by myself everything was so easy, so superficial, nothing had more than 2 layers. Now that I’ve become a father, there are 30 layers on each issue.

How can we steer up our pain? How can we find our center once more?

Speedfan

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If you are having problems with the temperature of either your desktop or laptop computer you can analyze the reason by using this wonderful app. speedfan

You can read the speed and voltages of the internal fans of your computer and might also tweak some of their relative speed to minimize the internal device’s heat.

I have been using this application for a long time and it has helped me understand and control the usage of my computer’s internal cooler fans.

Give it a try, it’s a stand-alone app, very light and friendly. from time to time go to the developer’s site to chek for updates becuase the app lacks of an updating system.

enjoy!