MIchael Jackson Is Dead

Today I have been walking around Prague with Mr Metzner. I met him in the corner of Stepanska with Vaclavske. One month a go I met Mr Jaromir Metzner, a 80 years old czech man.

It is quite hard to get focussed into czech lessons when I am at home... I feel like I am learning and improving but I can't get into it as I would like to... With Mr Metzner I am learning a little bit of italian because we speak a kind of spanish/italian mixture, because Mr. Metzner speaks italian and some spanish and wants to learn more spanish and to practice more italian. As well hi is teaching me some czech vocabulary.
He is fluent in english and german as well and is able to understand french.

Prague is a beautiful place, I still have to get use to a lot of things but the place got something that I like and encourages me to stay here.

Sara will come in two weeks, and will bring Mooi, our dutch cat. I am really waiting for them as you can imagine, to be alone over here is not beeing very funny. Anyway my workmates and Mr Metzner are helping me out on this matter. As well my friend Alfonso, who came a couple of weeks a go and expend whit me a nice weekend, visiting the Kafka Museum, and looking for Kafka's grave (which we didn't find..) at the new jewish cemetery.

I got some very good news from Masaaki, who was visiting us in Barcelona for Christmas. He got a job in Den Haag and he is back to Europe. I just though that maybe I would not been able to meet him again perhaps for years because he went back to Japan in April, but fortunately he is gonna come to Prague during July. The same than Kosuke, who is in Germany for five weeks and who is gonna visit me as well in the upcoming weeks. The last time we met was october 2007... I really would like to meet them right now.. it is saturday night!!

Pd. I would love Ricky Rubio getting into Knicks!

Home Alone

After the last post I must say that I have to learn better; something has been bothering me for few days. I thought I took the right approach to this matter, and I still think that it is right, although the situation is influencing my mood turning it on a bad mood, and here is my mistake, because the right approach on a bad mood doesn't works. The best always will be whether the right approach or not, being on a good mood.

By the way, I started with my czech lessons and I think It will be fine if I make an effort. I am getting into it although I should be already into it. I just have been trying to make empty my mind about the mix of languages I got on it. Even just without doing anything the czech language comes into the mind because I am in touch with it.
I don´t get why people is always saying that dutch, czech or to learn any other language is difficult...It is difficult but perhaps I don't need to know how many of us failed trying to learn it. I still love to learn like a kid. I wish I couldn`t speak any english to learn faster;-)

Last weekend Sara was here with me in Prague... Now she is back and I am missing her again. This blog is becoming more personal because nowadays I am expending more time alone and sometimes I get bored or just I start to think; and that is not bad at all because I got some practice and I love mistakes as well.

iBarça

I am very happy. Like on a bubble. And I love to be within that bubble. I have my own reasons.
Recently I noticed that I am learning about how to be happy; I am actually on a good mood; I feel ready to the challenge and ready too accept the world as it is appearing to me.

Perhaps I am wrong. Sometimes I am wrong. I feel fine to accept that. I look forward to learn from it.

I am very happy about that.

I was watching the match with Radek, Filip, Atila, Rosangela and Ricardo and I really felt like at home. I was missing Sara and some more friends as well; I even think my whole family have been watching this game.

Prague

Wow! Yeah, Yes I know.. I have been few months without updating the blog... but it is just because I went back to Barcelona and I felt really bored over there despite my family and friends... Indeed they did their best, but at moment I can't feel myself at home in Barcelona... actually on a way perhaps I am becoming a kind of nomad or globe-trotter, or at least sometimes I am dreaming about ending up like that... if I could choose I would love ending up on any far and poor country... as Sebastia Alzamora Martin, a Spanish poet, wrote on a poem.

I feel pretty young still and probably I just have learned how to move around, and that is why I am living in Prague nowadays, after being working in Barcelona, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.

I am sorry for my girlfriend, she almost can't follow me.. (Sara, my love, don't follow me darling, you know I am completely lost (lol), as Alberto Garcia Alix. But Sara, you know I am indeed waiting for you once more, because we love each other.

Sara will join me in a couple of months, or at least that what she told me (lol).

I feel a little bit lazy to keep translating to spanish this blog as I was doing before, therefore from now on it is gonna be just in english language... Sara, my mum wasn't reading our blog ;-) so perhaps you could do your part of the job honey..

I love you, as I always said.

PD. I am preparing a new bunch of pictures to publish on Flickr, on a new account (I love renewing); it will be soon on the net.. I will let you know about it very soon.

iSpain

I never saw the spanish soccer national team winning a championship (it sounds even weird for myself); we always thought we had very good players but we never got making a good team. This time we had the best ever team. Hopefully from now on we are gonna be often the great team that the whole world always expected from us.

Campeones! Olé!

PD. Fortunately I still feel myself more Catalan than ever.

iWalk To Work

Porque no podemos exactamente irnos a Pluton, el pasado jueves 5 de Junio fue el Dia Mundial del Medio Ambiente.

Olvide decir que estoy trabajando en Hong Kong; No lo quiero decir muy alto porque solo he estado trabajando un par de semanas y considero que aun puede que no sea muy definitvo (uno nunca sabe seguro que puede pasar); de todas maneras, en la oficina organizaron una ruta por Hong Kong Island para que los empleados fueran a trabajar caminando (voluntariamente).

Me uni a ellos en la estacion de Metro Causeway Bay (la oficina esta en Quarry Bay) y realmente fue una actividad muy divertida; casi 50 empleados caminando hacia el trabajo en algo parecido a una manifestacion con panfletos diciendo cosas como: " Si vas a usar energia, utiliza algo de la tuya" y "Porque no podemos exactamente irnos a Pluton". A traves del camino fuimos interactuando con la gente que nos ibamos encontrando y consegui algunas fotos geniales que puedes encontrar en nuestra cuenta de Flickr; (No pierdas el tiempo y miralas!).

Lo mas divertido fue que un fotografo del periodico South China Morning Post vino con nosotros durante una parte de la accion y realizo varias fotos de nuestra "locura", y al dia siguiente el articulo fue publicado en el periodico; Buscame en la imagen;-)

PD: Cuando lei el texto: Porque no podemos exactamente irnos a Pluton, pense: Porque no podemos exactamente hacerlo, que si no lo consideraria; Ya sabes que me gusta mucho viajar!!

Because we can't exactly just move to Pluto, last Thursday 5 June was the United Nations World Environment Day.

I forgot saying that I am already working in Hong Kong; I don't wanna say it too loud because I have been working just for a couple of weeks and I consider still it may be not something definitive (oneself never knows for sure what could happens); whatever, at the office they organized a route around Hong Kong Island for the employees for going walking to work (voluntarily).

I joined them at Causeway Bay MTR station (the office is located in Quarry Bay) and actually it was a fun activity; about 50 workmates walking to work on a kind of demonstration with pamphlets saying things like: "If you're going to use energy, use some of your own" and "Because we can't exactly just move to Pluto". Along the way we were interacting with the people we were meeting and I got some nice pictures that you may find in our Flickr account; (Don't waste your time and check them out!).

The funniest thing was that a photographer from the newspaper South China Morning Post came with us during a part of the action and took few pictures from our "madness" and next day the article was published on the newspaper; look for me at the image;-)

PD: When I saw the copy: Because we can't exactly just move to Pluto, I thought: Because we can't exactly just do it, otherwise I would consider that; You know I love traveling!!

My Torre van Babel

I'm getting a weird feeling because on a way languages are getting really mixed whithin my mind. It have been happening since I am abroad but right now it looks like is getting even worst.

This morning I was on a bus and two guys were talking English but they had this Indian accent and although I'm pretty sure they were talking each other in English I think I heard a part of the conversation in indian mixed with few spanish words (If they were talking in Indian language I heard them speaking mostly of the time in english...) When people speaks chinese in Hong Kong sometimes I hear spanish expressions like: "Luego te llamo Pedro"... (I will call you later Peter); o "Venga vamos"... (Come on let's go); and I think: OK, let's go Peter!
Seriously!
I know it is myself completely lost in translation; Does not matter which languages people are speaking, if I'm not a part of the conversation I just get a weird mix; as if they were actually mixing few different languages...

Imagine algo com chin taalen; a bit raro... Veritat? Chao! Molts kisses!

Jaume A


Me esta ocurriendo algo un poco raro porque de alguna manera los idiomas se estan mezclando en mi cabecita. Me ha pasado desde que estoy fuera de Barcelona, pero ahora parece que la cosa va a peor.

Esta manyana estaba en el autobus y dos tipos hablaban en ingles pero tenian acento indio y aunque estoy bastante seguro de que hablaban en ingles creo que escuche parte de la conversacion en Indio, mezclado con palabras en castellano (Si hablaban en Indio yo escuche media conversacion en ingles...) Cuando hablan chino en Hong Kong algunas veces escucho expresiones como: "Luego te llamo Pedro"; o "Venga vamos"; y yo pienso: Venga vamos Pedro!
En serio!
Yo se que soy yo completamente perdido en la traducciones; No importa que lenguage hablen los demas, si yo no estoy en la conversacion solo pillo una mezcla rara; como si ellos mezclaran varios idiomas..

Imagine algo com chin taalen; a bit raro... Veritat? Chao! Molts kisses!

Jaume A

BTW: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel 1563