06 Feb

#366Project Week 5

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I have succumbed to the pressure of busy times and busy days and all that… I simply don’t have the time I thought I had to look for a shoot, edit and post every day… so a little compromise has to be made… and I will now be posting my 366 Project photos once a week, every Sunday.

This weeks photos are particularly awesome…

I need to start of course with Luschka’s (from Diary of a First Child) Pregnancy shoot!

It was great to seeing them all again – and long overdue – and K’s smile as she said “Hi Uncle Yuri!” and gave me a hug was just priceless! I can’t wait for Squiggly to be around and we’re planning for me to do a New Born Shoot as well so watch this space.

It was LOADS of fun for everyone and the result was just spectacular (and I am forgetting all modesty here… hehehe). I’ll dedicate a whole blog post to the shoot later, but I just think t least a couple of the photos should be included this week

Next in the list of awesome was Big Monkey’s Spontaneous Combustion snap.

Don’t be alarmed… I did not cover him in petrol and light a match on him… hehehehe…

Little Monkey found a glow stick and brought it to the bath with him… Big saw it and when it was his turn for bath time he brought another 2 with him and asked me to turn the lights off… now THAT gave me an idea… I lowered my shutter speed and clicked away… the result is what you see… AWESOME OR WHAT???

And then… FROM fire to ICE…

Well… Snow… And Snow Troopers (LEGO!!!)… And Birds… And fruits… and Slush…

And under special Request even a Tauntaun!!!!!

So… That’s it for this week’s 366 Project photos… I hope you enjoyed them… Stay tuned for more next week… and Carpe Diem… Every Diem!!!!

02 Sep

The One About Friends

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I have never had problems making friends…

My grandma (yes… the wise one…. ) always taught us about the importance of choosing well our friends: “tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are” she’d always say. If you take it as a raw statement I am sure you would disagree as I would too…

Two Cups of Coffee

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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, When 24 hours in a day is not enough; remember the mayonnaise jar.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him..

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and start to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.

The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded With an unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.

‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things – God, family, children, health, friends, and favorite passions Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else –
The small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.

The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, You will never have room for the things that are important to you.

So…

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. holeheartedly worship your God, Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.

‘Take care of the golf balls first — The things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.

‘I’m glad you asked’.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’

Now go on… share this with other “Golf Balls”

I just did……

zya!!

24 Mar

Losing friends and alienating people

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Did you ever watch the movie How to Lose Friends and Alienate people? Well, I didn’t but if the title has to do anything with what the movie is about, I think they might have based the movie on me!

It wasn’t always like that tho… I used to be a people’s person. I used to have more acquaintances a than I could remember names and more friends than I could probably name.

Yes I did have a very closed circle of REAL friends, and some of them are still my friends today. Maybe not as close as they were before, but still when we speak it is as if time had not passed at all…

I think I miss having friend around me. I have somehow managed to alienate most of them for the past 2 years or so. I Haven’t spoken to some people that were like brothers or sisters to me for long long periods of time, I have shut most of them outside the loop of my life. Mind you, I have sort of alienated my brother and sister as well…

I think I’ve stopped believing in people… I actually think I’ve stopped believing in myself and as a consequence I began to think people stopped believing in me. I surprise myself every time someone comes to me for council… I surprise myself when people that are supposed to be leaders of a group of people come to me for counsel…

Last Saturday was my Birthday and it took no one showing up to the party for me to start thinking… Well not really no one… my family did go and Marcio came along too. But I had a list of about 80 people invited (Well… most I already knew they wouldn’t be able to come for one reason or other, like sime were going to be abroad on the day… ). The thing that really hit home was the fact that the people I was sure would come, didn’t come at all.

All and everyone had their reasons and I am not disputing that. I am actually not writing this post to incriminate any or them or make them guilty of anything…

This post is about me (kinda cliché uh… “It is not about you, is about me” … LOL! ).

There is a reason I feel alone most of the time… Intentionally or not, I’ve MADE MYSELF AN HERMITE!

At some point in time I cut off all relationships but my family and a few people I am still in contact with once here or there. And mind you, not even they know most of what’s going on in my life… how I feel… Hell know… God forbid they actually know some of the things that I feel… I have not come into terms with them… I won’t… I will keep on fighting.

The worst thing is that you have no idea how easy it is to drop off everyone’s radar.

I gotta change that… I used to have friends everywhere, that so far as a know considered me a good friend… Once upon a time I would die for my friends… Right now, deep inside I couldn’t care less…

And that hurts because is so unlike me. It goes against my nature…

I care… too much…

I need to get off at he next station so I’ll also end this post before I make a book out of it.

But I’ll leave a question: How on earth do I gat back to who I used to be??? Have a I forgotten who I am???

What would you do???

Zya…

31 Dec

Social me…

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Once upon a time I was a VERY shy young boy. How shy? Well, anti-sociably shy (?!?!?).

I used to hate social gatherings, used to hate the attention and having to give attention to others (which can be a real problem when your mother LOVES to entertain). I used to hate parties (I think I blame part of that in my aunt… she dressed as a clown in my 1st birthday party… after that every year I had to look over my shoulder to see if I could find the scary monster with the white face and red nose… hehehe)

Then one day I decided that being shy was nothing more, nothing less than a waste of time!

Yes… I am just random like that: If something sticks to my head then nothing will ever take it out of there, unless a better argument comes up. Once I decided that sleeping was a waste of time… I still partly think that as true… but Vic convinced me that sleeping can ge good some times so… u gotta compromise somewhere…

Well… back to my point: I became a social beast. Wanna go party? Hell yeah! I was first one one in and last one out of the floor (can’t say I can dance… but I would do it anyways)… Luaus at the beach and serenading with a guitar and a group of friends till late night comes were my favorites. All of a sudden I was surrounded by friends and ready for whatever at any time…

Yup I’ve changed from water to wine.

Those were good days… and they went till… well I think till a bit after I got married really… Sure we do go out and do stuff some times… but I can’t stop noticing how old I feel… Specially once I stop to realize the sort of things I am now doing and that more than half the people now doing the things I used to like are… well… half my age!

Does that ever bother you??

Am I back to water??? I surely hope NOT! I still haz got the skillz!!! A bit more refined but still got it!

Jack, KAthia, Marcio, Vic and me @ the Texas Embassy

Jack, Kathia, Marcio, Vic and me @ the Texas Emabassy

And at least I know that some of my friends are a lot “older” than me! lol! We went out to Texas Embassy with Kathia, Jack and Marcio the other day and whilst they all went home right after the Embassy me and Vic were still willing to go dancing!!

Not that we did go dancing as I managed to block my credit card by punching the wrong pin number more than allowed. I was a bit tipsy okay?!?!?!

“Nada me hara mas feliz que dos margaritas!” <- know what I mean?

I had four so I am justified!

Me, Vic and Mr. Hollywood

December was quite a month full of events!!! Right after that it was our (Me and Vic’s) wedding anniversary… so we went to watch Twilight and then to Planet Hollywood!! And guess what? I kinda liked the twilight movie but still no comparison to the book!

Planet Hollywood was great! Loved the fajitas!

Vic liked the blue cow!

we were going to go dancing… we even got VIP treatment and all but we realized that if we did go in we would be in no condition to anything else for the next day (and we had to hit the road early morning)

Now that I think better… we should have gone into the club!!!! :/

Then there was X-mas at the In-Laws and tonite there is new year at ours. The a non stop of events produced by the CWI HUB next year…. so… Thinking it a bit better… maybe I am just as social as I was… just… grown up.

Time to get things ready then… last year we went to the London Eye for the reveillon… but after waiting for 3 hours to get into the train to come back home we decided to go a bit more… low key this year.

We’ll be receiving some friends and family over at the UVN Headquarters… And that’s going to be our new years eve activity…

How about yours???

HAVE A GREAT 2009 FULL OFF ALL THAT’S GOOD!!

May your dreams for the new year all come true!

Y+V+T

zya!