Advantages and disadvantages about the Christmas

First we have to keep in mind that the Christmas festivity is very old, it’s a tradition, but a Christian tradition. Really, this festivity began being a pagan festival, but the Christian people wanted to eliminate the pagan festivities. That’s why they created a new Christian festivity over the pagan one.

Nowadays, only the real Christian people care the origin of the Christmas. There are a lot of people that only considerer this tradition as holidays, a break in their job, sometimes to have fun, forget everything and try to be happy.

I’m not against this people, I think that the better thing of the Christmas festivity is the holiday, but on the other hand I think that if we aren’t Christian, we shouldn’t celebrate this... And the worst thing is that the Church thinks that everyone who celebrates this is Christian; we’re under the Church likes and dislikes. And it isn’t true. Many people goes with the flow, doesn’t arise anything, and try to escape from the routine because it is easier that someone takes decisions for you.

Other important factor is all that the big multinational companies have created: from the biggest advertising campaign, the unreal and vulgar environment, up to the big waste of money. You finish very stressed and giving away the conventionalism of the Christmas. Because we are in the extreme, if you don’t celebrate Christmas you are different, but if you aren’t Christian it doesn’t care... It’s crazy!

On the one hand we have the empty of the commercial value of the Christmas; but on the other hand it’s true that in Christmas lot of people wants to change to be better, try to be sincere, and wants to have an illusion and share it with the family.
I see Christmas as an excuse for doing everything I said, and I think that in some years it will stop being a religious festivity.

Although it is commercial, or the Church think they want, I think it is better for the people. Christmas is a part of our routine and life, our childhood and our future, and remove it is like removing a part of us.

Credits:

My thought

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

Hidrogenesse

Hidrogenesse is a pair of electro-pop formed in 1997 in Barcelona by Carlos Ballesteros (voice) and Genís Segarra (keyboards). The same year they recorded his first demo, "Hidrogenesse en Rimini", with 5 songs.

In 1998 they included four songs in a collection titled "Lujo y misería". Three of the four songs already appeared in their first demo. But it was not until the year 2000 when they published their first work alone, single titled “Así se baila el siglo XX". The following year they left on sale the EP; “Eres PC, eres Mac” and in 2002 their first album was published, "Gimnàstica passiva". After these three launchings in two years, Hidrogenesse was a long period without publishing new works and with little activities in direct.

In 2007 they published a new album, “Animalitos”, engraving with Alfonso Melero, battery of the Murcian group “Hello Cuca”. These are basically theme that turn around the animal like "Disfraz de Tigre” and "Caballos y Ponis”, although also they include versions, like "El vestit d'en Pasqual", a number of Catalan music-hall, popularized in years 70 by Guillermina Motta. All this with influences of glam rock, dirty guitars and a presence of sax.

In 2008 they have published “Bestiola”, that according to them is an epilogue of the year 2007 and it includes the themes that they have played in direct, new recordings of old themes, themes removes of “Animalitos”. Genís is also member of the Astrud group.

Their links:

Official Web of Hidrogenesse:
www.austrohungaro.com/hidrogenesse

Hidrogenesse in MySpace:
www.myspace.com/hidrogenesse


Hidrogenesse Video Clip - Disfraz de Tigre (Costume of Tiger):




Credits:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidrogenesse
http://www.concierta.com/grupos/hidrogenesse/biografia
http://www.musicoscopio.com/hidrogenesse/biografia/
http://lafonoteca.net/grupos/hidrogenesse

Essay - in an orange world

If you stop to think, the action to see only a color would be too much sad. But we have to admit, if you have seen well and suddenly you see the orange you would begin to like the things that surround us, as the orange things (or other color), and we would be most happy. Then we would feel sadness because we don’t see the green color; that’s why, what there is to have present is that always there is to look (and not “see”) the life colors. Our around is everything colors and that’s why we have to focus it, to leave in other place the damn grey problems and smile when someone smile us, or simply to demonstrate to all the world that we are here, that we are not going to move, and that we have come for do something really big, something that it pass to the history, at least to the history of our life, our little and multicolored life.

;)

Credits:

·my thought

My last voyage

The last 2nd of August at 7 o’clock I was in Valencia’s bus station with my family, and we were getting on in the bus that would take us to Brittany and Normandy (France).
We went in a bus with capacity for sixty people. And the majority of the travellers were old people, but we were with another family too, and several couples and individual travellers too.
Our guide was called Isabel, and she told us many regional histories. In each city or town we had other guide; normally they were French and speck us in Spanish, of course.
Now I’m going to tell our planning in this trip, each day:

Sunday, 02/08/09: We were in the bus all the day! We stopped every two or three hours, in service areas. I finished very tired. We slept in a hotel in Burdeos, or Bordeaux. But we didn’t visit the city.

Monday, 03/08/09: We left Bordeaux and we went to Nantes. We visited the Dukes of Brittany Castle: It’s a very big and white castle; the Nantes guide told us the Anne of Brittany's story. She was Queen of France twice and Duchess of Brittany too. We visited the Saint Pierre’s cathedral. We slept in Rennes, the capital of Brittany.

Tuesday, 04/08/09: We went to Vannes, it’s a little city, very pretty and with many tourism. The houses over there are very picturesque and old. Then we took the bus and we went to Josselin. It’s famous because the town has a “small” castle, but this little castle isn’t of the state, but it is of a rich family. It is the only castle on France that it isn’t of the state. Finally, the guide shows us Rennes, we visited it and then we came to the hotel.

Wednesday, 05/08/09: Ohlalá! I was waiting for this excursion all the week! The bus took us to le Mont Saint Michel. I always liked it because when I was a child I saw a cartoon video of the Mont Saint Michel, where twins had an argument and Cantinflas resolve it. This is the TV video, I found it in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2RRqTozC8 Well, we saw the Mont Saint Michel and the abbey that it’s in the summit. It was so beautiful! And it was so full! In the small streets of the M.S.M. it was many people that we cannot move, and we were late to the bus for coming. The Mont Saint Michel is famous because two days in the year the tide come in and the mountain become an island, but in 1880 the state built an enormous dike for the tide doesn’t come in. Now they’re trying to destroy it, it’s on the way for the Mount Saint Michel returns to be an island. Then we went to Saint Malo and we ate the typical seafood of the zone.

Thursday, 06/08/09: This day we went to visit Romanches, where there are the “pointe du hoc” the disembarkation of the United States of America’s army during the Normandy Battle in the Second World War. Many people died here, because the Nazi’s soldiers were beginners and they didn’t think that the enemy army would attack here, in a cliff.

We visited Omaha Beach too. It’s where the other part of the USA army and British army disembarkation. Omaha beach and the other beaches were the place for the disembarkation; there were 80 km where 30.000 troops entered in Normandy, this day is knew that Day D, the 6th of June of 1944, and the Hour H was the hour the allied army would land.
We went to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. There were the tombs of the American army. The strangest is the tombs can be a Cross or the Star of David, it disconcert me. Then we took the bus and we went to Canes, but we only visited the Mans Abby and the Cathedral.

Friday, 07/08/09: We took our suitcase of the Rennes hotel and we went to Bordeaux again. In this visit we saw the city; a pretty city. We visited the Cathedral, and the historic centre. The guide of Burdeos showed us a strange think on the city: a horizontal fountain. It’s a space next to the Place de la Bourse; it’s as big rectangle with water inside, in the height of the foot. It’s as a swimming pool but only with two or three fingers of depth. And the people take off their shoes and they wet the feet. The children and the teenagers only wear a bathing suit and they play to wet.

Saturday, 08/08/09: We took the bus and we returned to Valencia. But in the middle of the trip the air-conditioning of the bus broke and we had to wait to other bus forty-five minutes. Then we arrived to home at 23:30h more or less. But after all, I have loved this trip!

Credits:
My experiences

References:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Normand%C3%ADa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

The Client, by John Grisham

Reggie said, ”First you have to pay me something.”
She took a dollar from him then said,
“Okay, now I’m the lawyer and you’re the client. Let’s hear the story.”

John Grisham was born the 8th of February of 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the United States. He is a writer met by his judicial thrillers, selling of his works more than 250 million unit anywhere in the world.

He dedicated to the law before becoming success writer. Ever since he published his first novel in 1988, almost one per year has written: all without exception has been best sellers; apart from that, eight of his histories have been turn to scripts for the cinema. All has been received with enormous enthusiasm, on behalf of the readers, critics and lovers of the cinema.

His work is made up of the novels: A Time to Kill (1989), The Firm (1991), The Pelican Brief (1992), The Client (1993), The Chamber (1994), The Rainmaker (1995), The Runaway Jury (1996), The Partner (1997), The Street Lawyer (1998), The Testament (1999), The Brethren (2000), The Summons (2002), The King of Torts (2003), The Last Juror (2004), The Broker (2005), The Appeal (2008), The Associate (2009), Ford County (2009), and the nonfiction book the Williamson project: a real history and of the cinematographic script of Conflict of interests, that it directed Robert Altman.
Grisham had been the sold author more anywhere in the world during the Nineties.

The Client:

The Client is the story of Mark Sway, a boy of eleven years old, that at the beginning of the book saw the suicide of a lawyer of New Orleans. Minutes before die, the lawyer tells a terrible secret to him, related to the murder of a senator of Louisiana. And his killer, a man of the Mafia, Barry, is on the verge of being judged. The police, the federal public prosecutor and the FBI press to Mark so that he reveals the last words of the lawyer, because Mark knew the place where Barry had buried the senator, Boyette. But Mark knows that the Mafia watches all his movements, and knows that if he tells something, the Mafia could kill him shore. And he olny has the Reggie's help, a lawyer who risk her life for her little client.

Credits:

My summary
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grisham
http://www.casadellibro.com/libros/grisham-john/grisham32john
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Client