Old and New Hobbies...

Hobbies for me are my own way to escape the reality not for vanity or being selfish, but the most part of the day I don’t feel comfortable with myself and I try to become something else every time, that’s why videogames are my main hobby, to have the opportunity to travel among other wonderful new worlds and experiment a new kind of emotions and sensations, while you are sit in your world controlling other different characters all of them with their own stories to tell.

But even with videogames as a hobby they’re all sometimes frustrating and a little bit stressful (Dark Souls), so when that happens, my new escape is the music. As a child my dream were to become a great pianist, it was an amazing hobby, every single day going to piano classes and practicing even without warming up, but now for medical issues I can’t play piano anymore, but trying to keep on with the music and practicing other instruments, without problems to play, like cello and some keyboard, as I written some months ago in some older posts the last semester; music and videogames are my main hobbies, I’m not really good at sports, and I don’t like too much reading, but except all of that, I try to make any other activity available to improve myself, for example, I would like to learn other kind of instruments to play and maybe become good at it, the theater is also a very interesting idea for me, but I have not enough time to dedicate myself to that. But someday I will.

       Old photo from old posts (And old times)

Your Brain And You

Once you woke up in the morning you are trying to remain without falling asleep and just keep living the day just like we all have to live, we see the same people and eat the same food that most probably we already have eaten before, so why don’t we just drive ourselves mad? Why aren’t we thinking like savages trying to escape from our reality and routine? That’s because we have an amazing and strong brain, up here inside your head…it’s only a little bigger than your fist and it's divided in four lobes, but it’s making stronger since we born, no matter how we are, we all have thoughts and desires guiding us to a future filled with adventures that only our own brains can see, or maybe this is not an adventure, it’s just a boring and predictable movie, or a chess match against the life itself, all of that is only possible because of our brains working all together at the same time, seeing different realities and perspectives; I’m not very good to understand all the different points of view in a situation, but some people can, their brains are amazing; also we are all able to think and imagine other kind of things maybe extremely different from my thoughts.

As I said, our brains are getting stronger and faster every day, probably just by reading this words your brain is improving itself right now, we are always seeing, listening, touching, smelling and tasting the world around us, and all that experiences improve our brains and after that, improve us,what we do, our decisions and desires, our dreams and hopes, even our deepest secrets, our brain

 keep all of that, and is always ready for some action unexpected for us.  

That’s why we are wonderful machines and capable to solve problems, create cities and even entire continents, and also it can destroy all of that, just because we have a brain working for us, with us, and if you want to, against us. We decide what we can eat, how to study, how we fall in love, but a healthy brain it’s very difficult to me to differentiate. Would you draw the line between an insane and a healthy mind?

The Best Concert Ever

I love music, a good song gives me a lot of fun and makes me feel in a beautiful environment no matter where or how I am in that moment, but a live concert is the same music with the feeling multiplied for one thousand, the adrenaline and dopamine fills all the present public, with an atmosphere of good music and a crowd of music lovers. I try to go to any possible concert, but it’s always difficult, I can’t go to all the concerts I want, until this date, I’ve only been in classical music concerts as a member of an orchestra or as a member of the public, same thing with rock and metal concerts, playing and listening covers and original hard music.

A little photograph I took

The best concert I remember took place this same year, at the O’Higgins Park, on April 1^st, the Lollapalooza; there I heard many kinds of music, but more specifically I heard Metallica’s concert. Metallica is a heavy and thrash metal band raised in Los Angeles, United States; in the concert I was able to saw the four members of the band, on flesh and bones, the place was filled with a huge crowd of people, even four of five hours before the event, with the concert of Rancid, another great band of punk rock, on both of them was an environment just a little suffocating, but with the time and with the moshes the space there grew up a little, but been there was one of the most exciting experiences of my life.

A country I would like to visit

With all the movies I’ve seen and the videogames I’ve played is really difficult to chose a specific place or country to visit to, especially because I’ve never been to another country or traveled on a plane, so that’s a little sad to me, and I want to travel around the world at any simple chance to do it, but if I only had one chance to chose only one place to visit, it would be Venice, Italy.

Venice is a really lovely place to travel in my opinion, and not only for the gondolas and channels, I felt in love with Venice just for the Carnival of Venice, it’s a huge festival with two weeks of many masks, costumes, make up, music, dance, theater and a lot of other public events, it would be an amazing experience for me if I could go there as a tourist only for a day or two…maybe three. Is not my plan to stay there, becuase my home is here, in Chile, I have no reason to live there, for the moment.

But Venice is only a city, and the title says a country, so the entire Italy would be my touristic target, from north to south, Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, Napoli, Tuscany, and finally Sicilia. All this cities have an interesting history and an amazing architecture, it would be a dream to me just to spend a week in Italy, the language is not very difficult, the gastronomy is perfect even for the most demanding tastes, and the whole country is a boot!!! (Except for Sicilia and Sardegna of course). So even if I’ve never been there I really recommend a travel over there, you will never regret it.

Greetings, and good bye

For an unknown reason it’s a little easy to me to write what I’m thinking (In Spanish), at least it’s easier than talk, but writing this blogs I’ve experimented some interesting things, like some opinions and thoughts that not even me know that I have, also was good for some old memories about me and the things I like to do.

This semester was extremely useful to me because I’ve never wrote things directly from my mind until your mind, because I’ve always wrote what I saw on a whiteboard, so that’s why I thing I’ve improved a lot my writing skills and my vocabulary, and learned why I don’t have to use the Google translator.

In a future I would like to keep writing about everything, if you can think it, you can write it so I’d like to never let my sloth winning me and just see how the time goes on without give my opinion to this world, I don’t care if nobody reads me, or even if everyone reads me, I’ve learned to share my thoughts and it felt very good, it was very relaxing, including the opportunity to read my classmates posts.

Thanks to everyone.

A nearly far future

I have no the enough creativity or imagination to think in a future in 20 years, and I have no the optimism to create an utopic world, but if someone ask me about the future I can think in the song ‘’imagine’’ from John Lennon, it’s a beautiful song specially because it gives me some expectations for a good future, no matter the difficulties.

Returning to the real world, I can only think about a future where everyone are trying to don’t hate the world we’re living on, not much different from now, a difficult life immersed in selling and buying stuff to survive this world, attempting to accept the different people no matter how we are in general, because we are filled with many kinds of people and every year we have more and more people, and not everyone are going to accept this fact, but if we want to improve this world we just have to work together, and if we don’t do that, I’m not sure, maybe we fall in another big war, the resources are going to disappear and the life are going to extinct.

It’s a little sad to think about the last things, but I was just trying to think all the possible points of view.

A course I enjoy

This is my first year in the university, and I chose my career, chemistry, because I love science and how the Mother Nature works, so I think my favorite course is general chemistry I, because it’s the course where I’ve most improved my knowledge about chemistry, even more than laboratory or the introductive course. This is a course totally theoretical, I just have to hear the words of my teacher and write in my notebook the most important parts, I have to be very concentrated in the class or I just get lost and misunderstand all the class. I don’t think I chose this course because the teacher, and as a first year student, I can’t create my schedule, so I just like it because the contents, for example, now I’m studying stoichiometry, that means, calculating the mass or the percentage of a reactive or product on a reaction, I’ve seen this content before but now I’m learning new methods to solve problems of that kind and new forms to see the reactions, so that is very exciting for me, to know even more points of view to solve simple and complicated problems related with chemistry.