Uno

Let me tell you some wise words a good man told me some time ago:

"You can change whatever, whenever and as many times as you want,
but always remember to breathe: you'll always be you.
It depends on your choices and your very soul who you end up being
(most of the time, we all have an error ratio, heh).
And there's only one you, so also remember to love yourself."

So, what I'm trying to say is, be whoever you want to be, you'll always be you.
And if you don't like something about yourself, change it so you do,
or simply accept your own flaws and see the bright side about them.

Deep inside, you know who you want to be, who you don't want to be,
but most importantly, who you are.

Just follow your heart.

That's the very best advice I can give you, at least.

Hay cuatro cosas importantes a las que venimos a este mundo:
Uno, ser felices.
Dos, amar.
Tres, aprender.
Y cuatro, dejar huella.
- Coco Legrand, 2010.

Citas

No, no "citas" de salir por ser 14 de Febrero. "Citas" de frases que alguna vez salieron de la boca / pluma de un pelafustán cualquiera y que sonaban tan bacanes que quedaron marcadas en la posteridad.

Nada más cool que eso.

El otro día, me puse la meta de encontrar UNA que simbolizara todo lo que siento por el arte de escribir.

Estuve 2 horas en eso.

Y, ¿adivinen qué? NO EXISTE UNA SOLA.

Así que aquí les va la lista de mis citas favoritas con respecto a las letras.
o palabras.
o literatura.
o LOQUESEA.

... y en spanglish, porque así se maneja mi mente y no puedo evitarlo. Deal with it.

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Jean-Luc Picard: "Las cosas son imposibles hasta que dejan de serlo."

Thomas Berger: "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Beryl Pfizer: "I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."

Hector Berlioz: "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."
Min Kim: "There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively."

Benjamin Franklin: "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing."

Real Live Preacher: "If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear."

Isaac Asimov: "I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

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Algunas sirven sólo para ciertos días. Otras, se las dedico a ciertas personas, pero ellas saben, así que no hay necesidad de nombrarlas aquí.

Y espero que les sirvan a ustedes también.

Hagan el ejercicio. Vale la pena.

(nótese el corazón en la esquina inferior izquierda - ese es mi aporte para el día)

No freebies for you!

srsly, NO FREEBIES FOR YOU!

Every day, there are more and more Craigs List posts seeking “artists” for everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs. More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative service.

But what they’re NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.

To those who are “seeking artists”, let me ask you; How many people do you know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you need? A dozen? Five? One? …none?

More than likely, you don’t know any. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting on craigslist to find them.

And this is not really a surprise.

In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.

So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?

Would you offer a neurosurgeon the “opportunity” to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him “a few bucks” for “materials”. What a deal!)

Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?

If you answered “yes” to ANY of the above, you’re obviously insane. If you answered “no”, then kudos to you for living in the real world.

But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks?

Graphic artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such, to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes you look like a twit.

A few things you need to know;

1. It is not a “great opportunity” for an artist to have his work seen on your car/’zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a “great opportunity” for YOU to have their work there.

2. It is not clever to seek a “student” or “beginner” in an attempt to get work for free. It’s ignorant and insulting. They may be “students”, but that does not mean they don’t deserve to be paid for their hard work. You were a “student” once, too. Would you have taken that job at McDonalds with no pay, because you were learning essential job skills for the real world? Yes, your proposition it JUST as stupid.

3. The chance to have their name on something that is going to be seen by other people, whether it’s one or one million, is NOT a valid enticement. Neither is the right to add that work to their &#x201Cortfolio”. They get to do those things ANYWAY, after being paid as they should. It’s not compensation. It’s their right, and it’s a given.

4. Stop thinking that you’re giving them some great chance to work. Once they skip over your silly ad, as they should, the next ad is usually for someone who lives in the real world, and as such, will pay them. There are far more jobs needing these skills than there are people who possess these skills.

5. Students DO need “experience”. But they do NOT need to get it by giving their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the experience they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is obviously the type of person or business they should be ashamed to have on their resume anyway. Do you think professional contractors list the “experience” they got while nailing down a loose step at their grandmother’s house when they were seventeen?

If you your company or gig was worth listing as desired experience, it would be able to pay for the services it received. The only experience they will get doing free work for you is a lesson learned in what kinds of scrubs they should not lower themselves to deal with.

6. (This one is FOR the artists out there, please pay attention.) Some will ask you to “submit work for consideration”. They may even be posing as some sort of “contest”. These are almost always scams. They will take the work submitted by many artists seeking to win the “contest”, or be “chosen” for the gig, and find what they like most. They will then usually have someone who works for them, or someone who works incredibly cheap because they have no originality or talent of their own, reproduce that same work, or even just make slight modifications to it, and claim it as their own. You will NOT be paid, you will NOT win the contest. The only people who win, here, are the underhanded folks who run these ads. This is speculative, or “spec”, work. It’s risky at best, and a complete scam at worst. I urge you to avoid it, completely. For more information on this subject, please visit [ [link] ].

So to artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a favor, ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to pay you. Whether they are “spec” gigs, or just some guy who wants a free mural on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need them.

And for those who are looking for someone to do work for free… please wake up and join the real world. The only thing you’re accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a clue.

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Si no le encuentras la razón a esta persona, estás cagao.
kthxbai.

HOPE

La mejor forma de definir mi 2009 es: MIX. Srsly.

Pasaron hartas cosas pencas y hartas cosas wenonas. Eso sí, no esperen que las nombre todas acá; si me conocen aunque sea un poco, saben que tengo la memoria de un niño de 10 años con síndrome de déficit atencional, lalala :D Y como me sé así, busqué ayuda para hacer un resumen conclusivo sort of no sé qué de una revista (Cosmopólitan de Diciembre 2009) porque NO tengo la cabeza para hacer el tipo de sumario que hizo Conny en su LJ.

Como primera cosa en preparación al año que nos cuelga encima, cambié el formato layout de mi blog. Me dio la wea, literalmente.

... Y mirando la revista, no quiero hacer su "balance". Nada de metas fijadas ahora, las fijo de acuerdo al camino que estoy siguiendo en el momento. Mucha planeación lleva a frustración.

Lo que haré será recordar ciertos eventos claves en el año, no TODOS los claves, sólo los que meriten ser recordados. No se sientan si los nombro en un contra, así es la vida.

So...

La Nico se operó de manga gástrica en Enero. Me asusté mucho durante su operación, creí que se me había ido. Temí como hace rato no temía. Pero gracias a... no sé, aláh o guatever, fue todo bien, hasta le sacaron el pen--eeeeh hernia que tenía por ahí de 15 cm, y ahora está viva :3

(hace trampa y revisa su blog)

Fuimos a las Torres del Paine unos días.

En Punta Arenas, descansé como no había descansado hace mucho, mucho tiempo. Fue MUY agradable. Las vacaciones de invierno también, salí a caminar enferma después de haber ido al dentista y vi mucha nieve y respiré aire puro. Me junté con la Jeshu-lovelove, su mapachita, y con el sensei. Ambos me ayudaron demasiado en tanto crecimiento personal: Aprender a amarme a mí, a lo que soy y a lo que hago y pienso. Pucha que cuesta, pero voy bien :3

(20 de Junio) Me reencontré con la Mishy <3 y conocí a la Tato, Tama y Lan. Son re tela los locos, pero onda los vi LA vez LOL.

Me di cuenta que no puedo jugar amigo secreto, porque yo me saco la chucha pero la otra persona no xD Y yo espero esfuerzo igual o mayor.

Murió Michael Jackson. Aún tengo un par de canciones de él en el iPod.

Tuve peleas con mucha, mucha gente. Cosa que sé que van a seguir, pero ojalá nunca tan a la personal como fueron estas. Igual no me dejaron pa la cagaa como hubiera pasado durante el 2008.

Tuve un ataque de nervios y fue peeeeeenca. Aprendí a la fuerza a delegar.

Hubo veces en las que no pude dormir, variadas razones.

De La Barra. Peirano y Udo.

SOBREVIVÍ AL PROYECTO DOCUMENTAL, OMFFFFFFFFFFFFFG. I CAN OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AKJHSDLKASDKASD

Conocí gente nueva y muy buena onda.

Me (re)hice amiga de buenas personas.

Descubrí que el documental NO es malvado, es la mala fama que tiene lo que me asustaba.

Ahora sé que hay gente con la que NO puedo tratar.

Sé que hay gente que también puede tratar conmigo y yo con ellos.

Fui al concierto de Depeche Mode con la Molkita y FUE LO MÁS BACÁN DEL MUNDOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU AKJSHDLJKASDKAHBSDHJASD 8DDDDD

El calentamiento global dejó la cagaa en todos lados y ahora TODO el mundo puede sentirlo. Countdown, quedan dos años para que la cosa cambie o si no, cagamos pistola.

Aumenté la socialidad y kitchen skillz, empecé a escuchar nueva música.

Admiré mucho animé y rallé la papa con Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni y Umineko No Naku Koro Ni. Dudo que haya otra cosa que me ralle la papa tanto como esas dos series.

Me hice twitter y ahora no sé cómo vivía antes sin eso. No, en serio, es más que una ayuda a descargar pulsiones constante, sino que es un simulador de alguien que escucha cada uno de mis pensamientos. Es mejor que el blog, en ese sentido. Y me sorprende que gente que no conozco me siga y hable por ahí. El otro día alguien random me preguntó qué andaba escribiendo ahora, y me sentí cool.

Nuestras investigaciones y ensayos van bien encaminados para cosas que pueden llegar a ser grandes, y eso me gusta.

Empecé a escribir el hasta ahora cuento del Príncipe sin nombre, la Bruja Jilliette, el guerrero del hacha Gappa y el traidor Feind, sin olvidar a la espada Esmeralda.

También, retomé Reset, el fic de Shaman King de hace mil años, y no me arrepiento de haberlo dejado botado porque ahora sí tengo la habilidad para poder hacerlo épico y dejarlo bonito. Quería terminarlo antes de fin de año, pero no se pudo.

Escribí mi primer fanfic de Sailor Moon y quedó decente.

Oh, oh, me di cuenta que mi corazón no está marchito. Yaaaaaaaaaay :D


Percepción que debo conservar y fortalecer:

- Dar vuelta el tablero; pensar como piensa el otro.
- Priorizarme a mí sobre el resto, a pesar de que a veces tenga que pasar a llevar a gente que quiero, porque me estaba desplazando demasiado para cuidar de aquellos que me necesitaban y me estaba haciendo mal.
- Dar mi todo, mas reconociendo mis límites.
- Seguir jugándomela por lo que quiero.
- No temer a lo que puede ser resuelto; No lamentarse ante lo que no puede ser resuelto.
- Elegir bien mis grupos de trabajo.
- No temer al fracaso.
- Visualizar el futuro como yo lo quiera. Como quiera vivir, lo que quiera hacer, lograr, probar, evitar, etc.
- WIN HIM OVER-ejemejem xD LOL
- No olvidar mis sueños y no pasarlos a llevar.
- Ser feliz.
- Mirar hacia el futuro con esperanza.

... Muchas cosas que ahora no recuerdo, pero son más xD

Gracias por leerme, dears.

Feliz año nuevo :D

Going nowhere fast

Scared of losin' all the time
He wrote it in a letter, he was a friend of mine
He heard you could see your future
Inside a glass of water with ripples and the lines
And he asked, "Will I see heaven in mine?"

That is just the way it was
Nothing could be better and nothing ever was
Oh, they say you can see your future
Inside a glass of water, the riddles and the rhymes
"Will I see heaven in mine?"

Oh, son, don't ask
Neither how full nor empty is your glass
Cling to the mast
Spend your whole life living in the past
Going nowhere fast

So he wrote it on a wall
The hollowest of halos is no halo at all
Televisions selling plastic figurines of leaders
Saying nothing at all
And you chime, stars in heaven align

Oh, son, don't ask
Neither how full nor empty is your glass
Cling to the mast
Spend your whole life living in the past
Going nowhere fast

What are we drinking when we're done?
Glasses of water

Wiiiiii~

Tengo tableta c:

Depeche Mode - Hole To Feed

Ángel

Your Result: Ángel Protector El Ángel de la Justica y el Valor… Eres el clásico líder del grupo, en ti las derrotas son una forma de aprender a no perder más. De palabras fuerte y rígidas, lo tuyo no es caer bien sino llevarte bien con quienes te rodean, odias lo incorrecto y el desorden, tu vida se rige en la bondad, respeto y ganas de hacer todo lo posible por lo que deseas de la mejor manera. (Sentimientos irrompibles, pero con delirios de perfección). ... :)