Tampico is like New York City #1

I've always thought that Tampico it's like New York City, well in very different sizes, but the same, we have our own Central Park (which is getting better thanks to the promotion and the investment of the actual governorship on it) called "Laguna del Carpintero" [Carpenter's Lagoon] we also have our own Saint Patrick's Church, The Cathedral of Tampico, I love its interior, it's bigger and it's amazing every detail on the ceiling I mean it's like watching the space and see all the stars clearly, all the images of saints, sculptures on the faҫade and the mural at the top of the entrance, those two columns and the english clock in one of them is very stylish that totally amazing. Both cities are surrounded by a river, in the case of New York City there is the Hudson River, and here in Tampico City we have de Panuco River.

I've never been in Manhattan (not yet) but I can think of lots more similarities between NYC and Tampico, the Barrio Chino here in Tampico it's like China Town in NYC.

We don't have a Liberty Lady to receive our visitors, but at least we have "Pepito el Terrestre" to keep oneself amused, actually I've noticed that there are lots of new statues in Downtown, unfortunately I don't have pictures to prove this but I remember all of them, there are two in the main street, the one which is in front of Sears, we have "Pepito el Terrestre" on The Plaza de Armas and at the Plaza de la Libertad (Liberty Square) we have a Soldier as in a position ready to attack, there is also the statue of Humphrey Bogart in front of

this famous square in some kind of tribute to the movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" filmed in Tampico (at least a few scenes), more recently the statue of Porfirio Díaz (former president of México) in the balcony of a café in front of the same square. All this statues all over the city reminds me to the ones placed in Manhattan, at Central Park.

Too much spare time...

   Oh God... This days has been very productive, since I'm used to wake up very early in the morning and I don't have classes at my college, rehearsals of the play and my french course my days are longer than usual, I even came up with a new schedule just-for-spring-break-time which consists in trying to make good use of the whole day.

   In the "morning" from 6:30 am to 2:30 PM I try to use this time to do some advance in my Thesis about translation, writing on my records to move on this project and get a good advance for the time when I come back to school and then it could be a little bit hard to put more time on it, more than just an hour, some reading of french to revise my weakness on the grammar, and all those kinds of thing that keep me in front of my desk.

    In the "afternoon" from 2:30PM to 11:00PM... when I get a bit tired of being in front of my Lap or my books, then I go outside to my backyard and walk the dog or I just take a shower if I don't have any appointment then I watch TV, I like Warner Channel Primetimes, I even have a schedule of the broadcasting  of different TV channels from 9:00 to 11:00, my favorite shows are "Without a Trace","Big Bang Theory", "Gossip Girl", "Moonlight"  and from Universal Channel I like "Heroes", "Brothers and Sisters","Dr. House" and this new show called "Greek", each one has its pros and cons, but all are good enough for those nights when I stay at home.

  For my weekends I don't plan nothing, so I have the chance to go for a last minute plan.

  I plan it this way because according to what I've read it's better to study during the morning, because you're mind is more like a sponge which absorbs everything better after have a good night of sleeping, and there's no way I can go out of my house early in the morning, there's nothing open in the city, and TV's programing it's only about old episodes.

Are You Ready For Spring Break??

Well, here in Tampico we have our personal way to celebrate the beginning of Spring Break, you guys from Tampico should have heard about the "Playazo", I'm pretty sure that if you're from Tampico, or you've been living here for a while, you have went to the beach on the last day of classes previous to the Spring Break (here in México called Semana Santa), and this year starts since March (according to the Wednesday's Ashes and something else that I really don't understand why it starts on a different date each year... I'll Google it later)

Everybody who's planning to go to the beach tomorrow, should take into account how is going to skip their classes and hide it from their parents, actually is a well-known secret by all the parents that their sons & daughters no matter if they're from high school, or college, they are going to try to skip their classes to go to the beach, this is like a celebration which has a few years (well, maybe it's older), I don't even remember how it made so famous than almost any school has students on this day (and there are some schools that don't work on this day), because the "Playazo" consists in skipping only the last day of classes for going just to the beach, so you might imagine how is the beach full of guys and girls, some of them even ask for a permission to their parents LOL, since it gain more and more famous or, to speak more accurately, promotion, more students come to the beach that day every year, and that's why the Madero City Police Department has increased the security of the Boulevard, because you know what happens when you gather beer and young people.

Well not all in the "Playazo" is bad, there are also people having fun without needing alcohol, some of them just play, dance, eat like in a picnic, or walk around.

On the previous day (today) everyone calls you to know whom you're going with, where you're going to stay at the beach, or where are you going after. Who knows... maybe there'll be a day when you'll be able to buy postcards with the legend "Have a nice Playazo" or something like that, because it seems like this event becomes more and more famous, and a lot of people from Monterrey and another cities come to the Miramar beach on this day just to celebrate with loud music, beer and sometimes food. So I invite you to come to Madero City this March 14th to start the Spring Break, if you want to have fun and meet thousands of people. 

Ctrl + Z

     I'm the kind of guy which prefers to spend his time in front of the PC rather that watching TV, that's why I bought me a LapTop and I'm totally sure that's why I need lenses. Yes, I like to spend my free time on the internet doing a lot of things and by now I have a blog, a Myspace, my own web site, my account on Flickr, YouTube, Polyglot, Hi5, Facebook, Google, My Yahoo, Hotmail, Messenger, MSN Live and  subscriptions to the New York Times, Men's Health, Tampico Cultural, Play Montreal, BBC languages, MSN Groups, I even have a Metroflog which I deem as a waste of time if you take into account that you can only upload a picture a day! ...well this time I'm not going to write about that, I'll complain about it later.

    The thing is that I've spent a lot of time using a computer for translating, editing pictures, sending e-mails, chatting with pen pals, doing my homework, listening to music, watching videos, surfing the web, and everything you can work on with a computer I've done it, so I'm very used to the using of tools and shortcuts to make it easier my working on a computer and sometimes a unusual thing happens to me, as you may know, when you make a mistake when working with the computer you just push keyboards Ctrl and Z and your mistake is gone, as if it has never happened,  Wouldn't you like to be able to do this on the real life? By just pushing a bottom redo something...

   I mean sometimes I think of it and I wish it could be possible, there was a time when I was talking with someone face to face and then I call her by the name of his not-best-friend and I was so ashamed that I could only think of   "Ctrl + Z" ... obviously nothing happened, I have to face what I've done.  Let's think  of another example... once I was very hungry, and then I started cooking some pancakes, a minute later my cell phone rang and I went to answer the call, It took me too much time talking on the phone that the pancake got burned and I instantly said to myself  "Ctrl + Z"... God, I was so hungry!

I really like blogging.

Actually I like to have a blog, it is a very useful tool and since I have my own blog, now I'm trying to meet people with the same interests on translation and languages that I have and whom also have a blog.

I like to write about anything... I may consider myself as a "natural" writer, I like to write about what's happening in my life, write about how I'm dealing with problems, about people, the developing of my new ideas.. everything.

What I like the most is to read the things I wrote on the last years, because it's like see myself from a different perspective,

I think I will not stop blogging for a while. There are so many blogs left in the Internet, it looks to me like buildings which are not finished yet, like a structure that was left after the construction started. I guess it depends on your motivation for maintaining a blog and what it's about, because if you don't have nothing interesting to talk about, you'll quit with it soon. I write mine for a very basic and personal reason: to keep track of the things that interest me. They may not be interesting to anybody else. If other readers find my blog worth-visiting, I feel flattered. I do my best every time I write a new post, I mean I want it to look good and to make it interesting... well, I don't spend thousand hours a day on it, because there are other things that I need to do, and this is only a blog after all, it is not the New York Times, I mostly do it on my free time, I try to make each post interesting and easy-to-read.

Since I started whit this blog as a school task, I've been reading a lot, I've been reading more and more, not only about grammar rules but about languages, science, health, history, literature, and a tons of other topics that across my path when surfing the web, and when something new come up to me, I look for it's meaning and usage, and then I add it into my own glossary, that's the best way I know to improve my vocabulary, because there are some things that people from America use a lot when they speak, but that will never appear on a ESL book no matter how modern or actualized it is.

Keep on blogging!!!

My Top 5 of the best antidepressants.

I want to share with you The Top Five of the best Antidepressants that I know, and notice that Prozac and Valium aren't included here, actually I don't believe in medicines to cure something like depression. Everything is in our minds, and we can control our own body, and get what we want for our lifes. Try it!!

Well here we go...On the number Five If you like going out at night you're like me, once you get ready to go out at night to your favorite club, you already feel it. In my own case I start feeling different and I can even feel the energy and the emotion of going out with friends or whoever, once you're at the club, the music makes you move and forget about everything, I don't even need any drink to feel excited and keep it going all night long.

On the number Four of my top list, there is an afternoon doing gardening work, I used to garden early in the morning and I spend at least 30 minutes in gardening and in evening 15 minutes for watering all the plants I have it at my frontyard and backyard, I feel good when I have done it,I love the fresh air, I love working with my hands and making things grow.

In the middle of this list, on the number Three is the amazing SUNLIGHT, it may sound ridiculous but it's true, if you feel like you need some little bit of energy you just need to turn off TV, stop a bit with your work or house chores and go out to take a deep breath and feel the sunlight in all your skin and instantly you'll feel how the energy of the sun makes you feel better, this is totally true, haven't you notice what happens with a plant when doesn't catch enough sunlight for a few days... well that's the same that happen to us, If you lack sufficient sunlight on your skin, you will suffer terrible health effects, including depression, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and even schizophrenia. That's because the human body was designed to be exposed to sunlight on a frequent basis. So in case you can't visit go to the beach for a few hours, at least take a break and go outdoors. Don't you believe me? Then check this.

On my number Two of this list I consider that have a long chat with a closer friend, there's nothing you can hide to your best friend, at least I think like this, once I gather with my best friend, I can tell him everything, it's good to have someone who cheers you up when you feel so blue.

And finally, Workout is on the top of my list... There's nothing better than workout on the mornings, once I've started my day running in the park, or going to the gym, there's nothing that can let me down during the whole day, I don't even know how to describe the sensation I had after finish my rutine every day. The whole day seems to be totally amazing, I can face anything after my daily Workout session. Actually I'm not the only one who consider workout as a good antidepressant, check this.

Have you ever tried any of these?