
Monday, May 5, 2008
Big Fish

Friday, May 2, 2008
Princess on Ice
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Que refrescante es ver a Junot Díaz darle a los gringos una cucharada de su propia medicina. El Pulitzer a mejor escrito de ficción. Pero ficción sólo por los nombres de los personajes, y por el orden de las casualidades. Mas la escencia de cada quién, el ambiente, son meras realidades sobre la situación de inmigración, o como él la llama, Diáspora de dominicanos hacia el extranjero.
Con un idioma totalmente pintoresco, una deliciosa mezcla de inglés con gotas del español más dominicano salpicado por sus páginas, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" nos lleva, desde esas oscuras épocas que trajo el Trujillato, hasta los actuales barrios dominicanos de Nueva York. Ciertamente, refleja la sociedad dominicana en su mayor pureza, tanto los defectos como las virtudes.
Un libro que muestra la belleza de la individualidad, la seguridad, el amor, y el apoyo. Que refleja los valores morales y familiares. Que nos da un ejemplo, un modelo a seguir.
Oscar Wao definitivamente no es el típico protagonista. Es totalmente cierto que parece todo menos un héroe. Pero es el que más cosas nos enseña a lo largo del camino. La tolerancia, el autoestima, el cambio, su ingenuidad, y más que nada, su forma de amar indiscriminadamente.
Pero el libro tiene un mensaje todavía más general, y más conmovedor. Y es que no importa lo poco que hagas, mientras se lo dediques a esos a los que amas, marcarás una diferencia.
Random 2
It's the thrill I find in change,
that pulls me forward,
that carries on.
But what if I told you it's not?
What if I said it's for the prize?
Would it be vain, would it be real?
Would it actually sound like me?
The pain tells me my heart's in ruins.
Maybe that's why I seek the truth.
It's all a secret, it's a shame
to be unhappy where I live.
I'm still working on the balance,
I hope that's what it takes to heal.
Yet I fear that nothing changes
since I won't know how to pull through.
"Try optimism for a change",
is what my mom always suggests.
All I say is "No, I just can't."
I'm scared to lose myself again.
But uniqueness at what cost?
A life of miserable regret?
Trapped in rules of society,
judged by the blind who just cause loss.
May the deadly sins keep the chase,
and as I run I'll just forget,
all the mistakes, the pain, the loss,
become pure light in all that dark.
Cause it's about the chase, that's right,
but it's also about the prize.
Because what you gain in the way
actually makes the prize worth it.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
White Orchid
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Un nuevo año

Wow.. que rápido pasa el tiempo.. ayer, 18 de abril, cumplí un año más. Y lo mejor es que todavía recuerdo el anterior como se fuera hoy. Un año marcado con tantos eventos, tantas experiencias de las que no me arrepiento. Giffoni, CILA, Hispanidad, Ecos, son tantas las cosas que me cambiaron durante este año -- y creanme que el cambio fue radical -- y me hicieron lo que soy hoy. Pero más que los eventos son esas personas a las que tengo que agradecer, por darme su apoyo en todas los nuevos proyectos en los que me emprendo. Gracias a mi familia, a mis amigos Sarah, Hoi, Mabel, Peter, Freca, Diane, Mary, Beate, Johny, Albertico el Cabezón, Piwi, Giorge, Alé, y a todos los otros que, aunque nunca chequean ni comentan en mi blog (a excepcion de Beate, mapel y jorge), son los que me hacen reir e insipiran todas las cosas que escribo en el. A algunos teachers que me han dado lecciones que me han durado toda una vida, aunque todavia es corta. A Vista Vi, por haberme criado como me crió, por ayudar tanto a mami y a papi desde el principio hasta el final. Gracias a todos por estar conmigo.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Pensamientos...

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Destellos...

Monday, March 31, 2008
Rondeau 2

Feeling frustrated, time goes by,
nothing shifts as I look the sky,
sure that someday it will all end,
but that is no excuse to bend,
so I hope that soon my tears dry.
I think it is my time to fly,
yet no one lets me, don't ask why,
but hopefully my wounds will mend,
feeling frustrated.
Maybe it is because I'm shy,
that I can't adapt to this lie,
all the messages people send
with bad intentions, at the end
they just help me to justify
feeling frustrated.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
the Great Escape..
Monday, March 24, 2008
Into the Fire...

Tal vez no sepas lo que viene, tal vez mueras,
pero tal vez no pase nada.
Caminé sobre fuego y no me quemé los pies,
viví la vida y con éxito terminé.
Hay que enfrentar los miedos, si no sólo somos cobardes,
y los cobardes verdaderamente no aportan nada.
Preocuparnos por las cosas sin que todavía pasen
es sólo una manera de amargarnos.
Por eso es bueno entrar al fuego, a lo oscuro,
a lo desconocido, pues no sabemos si realmente es
dañino o sólo una nueva forma de crecer.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Dog al Attack...

sólo necesita la indicación para actuar...
cualquier amenaza es inútil...
cuando tienes un guarda espaldas como éste...
Con su olfato, se entera de lo más distante...
con sus oídos, acata las órdenes de su dueño...
con su instinto sin embargo, nos divierte...
y al ver esta pose lo bautizo como: el dog al attack..
:)
El tiempo mas feliz...

Nuestras noticias...

Es un titulo muy interesante no? "Memorias de un año duro, con paseo en metro incluido."
No es que quiera meterme en temas de política, pero es totalmente cierto. Ahora, no creo necesario culpar al gobierno por que éste tenga los deseos de convertir a la República Dominicana en un país mejor, creo que es más culpa de nosotros mismos. Imagínense, construyen un metro en cuatro años, y en un día ya lo desbaratan. Construyen un puente, y le roban las barandas de protección, ahora el peatón que trate de cruzar por el río Ozama puede caerse por cualquier mala pisada. Pasa el camión de la basura y detrás de éste aparece un gracioso que tira la funda de Doritos en el piso. Honestamente, no podemos poner el cambio de un país poblado por alrededor de 8 millones de personas en los hombros de uno solo. El cambio lo tenemos que lograr trabajando juntos o nada. Buscar el camino fácil puede ser una buena respuesta ahora, pero no a largo plazo. Volviendo al título del periodico, memorias de un año duro, porque lo quisimos, y el paseo en metro, bueno, algo tiene que salir de todo esto.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Truth about time...

Al horizonte...
Rondeau

you can feel the wind in the bay,
the water that goes through your toes,
it tickles, but that's all it does,
that's when you think you're there to stay.
You don't mind what the people say,
those things will never ruin your day,
that's what you think when the sea goes,
as you walk.
It's the first time you've felt so gay,
and now in the sand you just lay.
But hurry, you do not want foes!
Sadly that's just the way it goes,
you will see how the slow ones pay
as you walk.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The City

that's just the life in the city,
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
La mente de una fatalista.

I love you and I miss you Miss Joffe!
The Split of a Second.
That remarkable day was in fact, a rainy, cold, busy day in New York City, when I got up from bed with my left foot. I had run out of shampoo, I could not find my uniform, and there was no breakfast. Besides, just to make it better, I was late.
Getting late is awful, not only you are missing duties, but when you have a boss like Martha, it really is worse. When I try to sneak in late, somehow she always notices. Then she grabs my tiny arm with her big fat dirty fingers and starts yelling at me with her manly voice, looking at me with her bulging eyes. At this point of the day, when she starts explaining me how being late won’t sell more Happy Meals, I begin to realize how pathetic is my life. And then I come to realize that the fact of working as a cashier of McDonald’s at thirty-four is not helping either.
So what do you do when you are me, and want to improve? How do you grow from it? You know, I am still waiting for that moment in my life, where I can finally take that leap forward and make myself proud. Never thought it would be the way it really happened. Now I just kind of regret it.
Going back to the chronology of my bad day, I had just heard my boss screaming at me, when I finally started to work. The day was kind of normal from then, selling all the different options we had to offer to a whole different variety of costumers. That was until this curious man came in. It was around two in the afternoon, and he was drunk as he could ever be. Then that feeling I had in the morning, it just came back to me.
At this point, all I could do was watch and be alert, because I did not know what to expect. When he finished his meal, he just left stumbling with everything around him. Then he got in a car, in the driver’s seat, and drove off. I’m more worried by that moment, since as we all know, if you are going to drink, don’t drive. Guess my feeling was right, because he still hadn’t crossed the nearest intersection when he crashed right into another car.
I rush out to the street, panicking. I mean, I feel in my veins such a rush, everything is hectic, someone is yelling: “Call 911!” I do not know what to do, yet all I know is that I want to help. Finally, that moment to prove myself, that moment I’ve been waiting for is here.
Once I get there, all I can see is blood. It’s everywhere, and so is glass. I’m seeing the ugliest scene ever. As you might never guess, turns out that in the drunk’s car, there’s also a pregnant woman. She does not seem very hurt herself, but all she can do is scream about her baby, and how she thinks she lost it. With her, there is the drunk man, who now is unconscious. Then I see the other car, and I just can’t believe it, it is my dad in it.
Now I’m taking panic to a whole new level. I was determined to help when I ran out to the street, but now I’m frozen. Firefighters and paramedics are just coming in. Everything is going like in fast motion. Now, I finally react. I pull one of them and get him to do everything he can to help my dad. Still, my dad is stuck in the car because of the seatbelt, so it is going to take more time.
While the firefighters do their job I am holding on to my father’s hand. We are talking, and I’m trying to keep him distracted. I ask him how has been his day, and he answers in a very sarcastic tone: “It has all been very good you know, experiencing new things.” This is the part of the story where I just shut up and look to him in the eye, and tell him over and over again that he is strong, and that he will go through this, and than in a year or so we will sit together and laugh at the story. Suddenly one of the firefighters asks me to move. They are about to free him.
Once he’s out of the car, the paramedics start working on him. I’m worried sick now. We hop into the ambulance in a hurry, seems that he does not have that much time, they have to work quickly. In a matter of minutes, we are at the hospital. The doctors come and take him in seconds. Now all I can do is wait.
As he is taken to surgery, through my mind come all types of thoughts. What if I loose him, what if that was the last time I’ll speak to him, what if he really is hurt that badly? All I know is that things won’t be the same ever again. I pray, and I hope. I realize it is the first time I’ve felt this way. Seconds go by as if they were minutes, and minutes go by as if they were hours, I’m as desperate as I could be.
The doctor sends updates once in a while, but when they start sounding as the same they don’t exactly tranquilize you, but upset you more. I’ve had around a liter of coffe, I’m exhausted. It is around midnight now. Seems my dad got pretty wounded in order to need a nine hour surgery. I’ve heard from everyone involved in the accident during all this time. It’s kind of sickening. The drunk dude that caused the whole thing just had a concussion, he is going to be just fine. The woman lost the baby, which I am sorry for, but she still has the opportunity to have more. But my dad, my dad is in surgery with his life on the line, and no one knows if he is going to live.
Finally, as I am realizing how unfair life can be, and how quickly it can end, I start giving up hope. Then the doctor comes out. My eyes light up in a second. I am thinking to myself: “He is going to live, he is going to be ok, and everything will be fine. Gladly! ” As the doctor comes closer, I get to see better the expression of his face, he is not that happy. He comes and looks at me in the eye and just tells me: “We did everything we could, but the damage…”
I can not hear anymore, my legs are shaking, and I can’t stand up anymore. I just let myself fall to the floor. Tears start running through my face, I can’t speak. He is gone I think. Worst is, that morning my father was ok and by that night he wasn’t. I would never have imagined that things would turn out that way, it was the least I expected. But that day I learned how life really is, and that it can change in a split of a second. For me, that was it.
My father was the only person I had left, you see, I am an only child, and my mother died of cancer when I was sixteen. All I ever wanted was to make him proud. But for what I can be thankful today is, the single fact that I got to be with him when he was in agony, those few moments in the crash, in the ambulance. Nothing has changed from then, but everything has. I still do the same things I did back then, but now, I look life with a different perspective. As we all know, you never know when is going to be your last day, so it is better to live every single one of them to the fullest.
Sunny Days.

-"Damn it mom! I told you to wake me up!" -Dylan cries.
-"Ohh sorry darling, I just forgot."
That was a routine. "What can't my mother forget?"-Dylan thought as he got his bathing suit, his surf board and left in a hurry. Dylan ran through the streets and sidewalks, crashed everything that ran near him, and almost got hit by a car. But this competition, he thought, was worth it, it had to be worth it.
In a matter of minutes, what he felt like second, he could see it, the beach, the tents. But he did not see anyone there.
-"was it earlier? Is it over?"- he asked.
Still, he kept running, but when he got there he did not like the view. It was all empty. That's when he felt tears going down his face, and he felt this impulse, this thing he couldn't control. So he started screaming. In that, a man noticed and approached him.
-"Kid, what's wrong?"- asked the man nicely, trying to understand.
-"I blew it! I overslept and I blew it! This was my shot.. "- suddenly Dylan was interrupted.
-"Ohh, the competition? It was postponed. There was an accident early this morning with a shark so it was postponed."
-"Really? "
-"Yes! It's going to be next Saturday. Good luck and don't oversleep!"
As the man walked away, Dylan felt relief and happineness swept him away. He still had a chance, and he promised himself to be more prepared than ever.
Promiscuidad?
con amor para: beate y diane.. y la hoi.. por nuestras conversaciones de en el recreo.. jeje..
y también para el self-proclaimed "trío candente del babeque.." no se pq.. jeje.
also.. al feo por prestarme sus frases de sexo y filosofia...
<3>
Aunque muchos dicen que es necesario, que es lo común, y que está de moda, el ser promiscuos no nos define como hombres ni como mujeres. Al contrario, la promiscuidad es un reflejo de la inmadurez y la inseguridad. Lamentablemente, caemos bajo la falsa impresión de que mientras más chicas te ligas, o mientras más sean los chicos con los que te acuestas, serás más admirado y finalmente invensible. No podemos culpar a nadie por esto, porque no es culpa nuestra que en todas las series de televisión y películas jóvenes de nuestra edad sólo piensen en acostarse con otros, o que las revistas prefieran publicar esas portadas en las que la modelo lleve menos ropa. Pero cualquier persona que haga buen uso de sus neuronas llega a entender que todo eso es una gran mentira. Antes que nada, debemos ver las cosas en un plano distinto. En vez del ahora, dentro de diez años, en vez de fiesta, un tanto más de seriedad. Realmente dentro de diez años, queremos ser esas mujeres desgastadas y usadas, y en el caso de los hombres, quieren ser esos ninfómanos a los que nada les impresiona, y que no sienten nada en verdad. Es como dijo alguna vez Tom Clancy: "Creo que el sexo es una de las cosas mas bonitas, naturales y gratificantes que el dinero puede comprar. " Y a lo mejor sea cierto, porque después de todo esto no es una crítica al sexo, pero a qué precio?
Una vez más, no malinterpreten esta nota, pues obviamente no tengo la intención de escribir un sermón. Pero no reconocemos la gravedad del asunto porque sólo vemos las cosas desde adentro, nosotros contra el mundo. Mas no se necesita más de un paso para salir del círculo y ver, desde fuera, lo patético que es el depender de un número de besos, de mujeres, o de hombres, para tener una buena autoestima y una tal llamada "personalidad". Ahora, eso no es una personalidad, eso es ser un parásito o un vegetal. Sí, el sexo probablemente sea maravilloso, y también besar a una persona, etc etc, pero realmente girar nuestras vidas alrededor de esto es autodestructivo. Si es cierto eso de que los hombres piensan en sexo cada siete segundos, entonces no extrañaría que haya tantas mujeres volviéndose lesbianas a diario. Y si es cierto que cada día niñas más jóvenes se van entregando a hombres porque sí, en fiestas y en otros sitios, no extrañaría que los hombres terminen siempre casándose con las que ahora llamamos "anticuadas y monjas". Edgar Wallace no se equivocó diciendo que:"Un intelectual es alguien que ha encontrado algo mas importante que el sexo." Ahora, es nuestra elección: queremos desde ahora ser intelectuales o no?
Creciendo.
las horas se pasan como días,
sé que suena muy exagerado,
mas hablo de un desesperado.
Los nervios se apoderan de él
tan rápido que es díficil creer,
como se pierde y deja de ser fiel,
aunque no tenga nada que perder.
La inseguridad que se apodera
cierra todas las puertas posibles
o al menos esas que él considera
son los caminos más entendibles.
Su corazón palpita con fuerza,
sus ojos abren desorbitados,
no pasa nada por su cabeza,
solo se siente incomunicado.
Bastante lejos de la realidad,
ya ha perdido todos sus complejos,
y ya no tiene miedo a la verdad,
no necesita ese mar de espejos.
Luego de esta experiencia inhumana,
no teme, no piensa, ya es otro,
descubierto con cuernos de toro
y en su pelo no se ve una cana.
Be Straight.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
El Paisaje
