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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;CkQMSXs-fSp7ImA9WhdUFks.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899</id><updated>2011-10-03T19:46:28.555+03:00</updated><category term="amazing" /><category term="nature" /><category term="science" /><title>El Gran Caribe</title><subtitle type="html" /><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/GranCaribe" /><feedburner:info uri="grancaribe" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>GranCaribe</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEcEQX09fCp7ImA9WxNTFk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-5078941894212152312</id><published>2009-08-19T00:37:00.003+03:00</published><updated>2009-08-19T00:46:40.364+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-19T00:46:40.364+03:00</app:edited><title>!Galán Vive!</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/Sosg_ZGF4dI/AAAAAAAADwo/vrTt_2aDU2c/s1600-h/galan.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/Sosg_ZGF4dI/AAAAAAAADwo/vrTt_2aDU2c/s320/galan.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371423254009733586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;On his last days Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento had the appearance of a martyr, of somebody who knew that the imminent shadow of death had casted over him. His intimate friends and family noticed that he seemed much worried, thoughtful and distant. But his reaction is just logical, as he had been notified that his life and his family’s was endangered by, among other forces, the most obscure and dangerous mafia that Colombia has ever had: the mafia of Pablo Escobar. One might think that in such situations the best thing to do is to follow the most basic of your self-preservation instincts and flee, but if you think so you didn’t know Luis Carlos Galan, this one man was different. He walked straight to his fatal destiny with the firm convictions that his ideals were enough reason to risk his life in the service of Colombian society.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It was the year of 1989 and by this time Luis Carlos Galan was a brilliant Senator and candidate for the Liberal party for the presidential elections of 1990; a real leader followed by millions of people, whose speeches were as inspiring, passionate and visionary as those given by Jorge Eliecer Gaitan; a person who understood that the way of the arms is not the way to reach the peace but a radical change of our society over the legitimate and sincere basis of Democracy. Under all perspectives, Luis Carlos Galan was predestined to be the next president of Colombia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The history of Colombia was drastically changed, as he was shot to death during a speech in the main square of Soacha, near Bogota. The whole country was paralyzed in disbelief and drawn in tears of sadness. The ambition of a small group of people was more important than the transcendental change he would have given to the country. Further investigations have shown that behind his death was a powerful complot of politics, mafia, paramilitary and state agents. Unbelievably, 20 years later, his crime still in impunity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Unfortunately scenes where a life is truncated with such an easy, gives the impression that the value of life in Colombia is nearly null. This is consequence of the ingrained idolatry for money of our society, the indifference and the fear to the powerful. Unfortunately stories like this aren’t strange to out history, and even so, and despite all the atrocities our history has suffered, we haven’t given up hope. What is important in the chapter that Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento’s life has written in Colombian’s history is that his legacy will remain, that men might die but ideas will forever live.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galanvive.com/"&gt;Galán Vive!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-5078941894212152312?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/TVjZdW7Ef6M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5078941894212152312/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=5078941894212152312" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/5078941894212152312?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/5078941894212152312?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/TVjZdW7Ef6M/galan-vive.html" title="!Galán Vive!" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/Sosg_ZGF4dI/AAAAAAAADwo/vrTt_2aDU2c/s72-c/galan.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/08/galan-vive.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0YGRX8_cSp7ImA9WxJaFE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-6192212492473132210</id><published>2009-08-04T19:56:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T19:58:44.149+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-04T19:58:44.149+03:00</app:edited><title>Woah, I'm a total geek!</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I shall admit that I was very lucky in some of the answers, but hell yeah, got 100% baby!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Can you beat me? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/code"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/code_100.jpg" alt="Name That Code" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Created by OnePlusYou - &lt;a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/"&gt;Free Dating Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-6192212492473132210?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/0utcOtKu52U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6192212492473132210/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=6192212492473132210" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/6192212492473132210?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/6192212492473132210?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/0utcOtKu52U/woah-im-total-geek.html" title="Woah, I'm a total geek!" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/08/woah-im-total-geek.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D04NQHs7fyp7ImA9WxJVF04.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-7739379289942306894</id><published>2009-07-04T22:11:00.003+03:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T22:33:11.507+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-07-04T22:33:11.507+03:00</app:edited><title>Expand your music horizons</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Recently I've feel in the urge to evolve my music taste in every direction, meaning I'm constantly searching for new music styles and songs because at some point I realized I'm listening the same music for years. I really hate when I go to a place where the DJ is the only person who seems to be enjoying the music. People gives up and leaves the dance floor and throws away the dance momentum. In such cases I take care of the playlist, more often recently than before people demands my services as a DJ and I really enjoy it. Getting people to the dance floor and getting crazy with the music you provide is create a direct connection under the same language.&lt;br /&gt;There are some free options there in the internet to allow you to access a whole new world of music.&lt;br /&gt;This website provides for free the opportunity to listen to music and organize an online playlist (perfect for parties) http://listen.grooveshark.com&lt;br /&gt;If you want to listen to a tune with the given option of download http://www.tagoo.ru&lt;br /&gt;There are also search engines that finds the music file using Google search, case of http://www.beemp3.com and http://g2p.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Note:&lt;/span&gt; I don't promote piracy, if you like a tune, buy it, support the artist to keep doing more music and think about all the work that is behind the production of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-7739379289942306894?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/jIY_pztbMWI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7739379289942306894/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=7739379289942306894" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/7739379289942306894?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/7739379289942306894?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/jIY_pztbMWI/expand-your-music-horizons.html" title="Expand your music horizons" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/07/expand-your-music-horizons.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkECQHk4eip7ImA9WxJVF04.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-4962497297883182940</id><published>2009-07-04T22:04:00.003+03:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T22:11:01.732+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-07-04T22:11:01.732+03:00</app:edited><title>Which generation are you?</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Normally I don't participate in facebook quizes (specially about personality), but tonight I found one interesting tittled: "What Decade Fits Your Personality Best?". After answering few multiple selection questions, I got I'm in the 80's generation!&lt;br /&gt;I have read the description and found it actually somewhat pretty accurate to my personality and therefore I'd like to share it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/Sk-o4K8gFMI/AAAAAAAADeU/_M_OyA833bc/s1600-h/80s.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 98px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/Sk-o4K8gFMI/AAAAAAAADeU/_M_OyA833bc/s320/80s.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354684164931065026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Everybody's doing a brand new dance now, and you are ready to jump on the party train! You are anything ut dull. In fact, you are wild, spontaneous, quirky, flirtatious, flashy, and spunky. Life is a wild ride for you, and you take downfalls with a grain of salt. Your motto is "the bigger, the better." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;You might be a little indulgent, but it gets you far in life. You work hard so you can play even harder. You are one of the rare combination of conservative ideologies and cutting-edge attitude. You know when to take life seriously, but overall you just wanna have fun and live your life to it's fullest, most radical potential. You use any and every thing to express your creativity and individuality-- your clothing style, hair, the music you listen to, the way you decorate, the kind of car you drive, and the way you can turn something boring into a statement-piece. Your vivaciousness is what people love about you and is what will make your life wonderful..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-4962497297883182940?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/c8F5-71823U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4962497297883182940/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=4962497297883182940" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/4962497297883182940?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/4962497297883182940?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/c8F5-71823U/which-generation-are-you.html" title="Which generation are you?" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/Sk-o4K8gFMI/AAAAAAAADeU/_M_OyA833bc/s72-c/80s.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/07/which-generation-are-you.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEMEQXg-fip7ImA9WxVWFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-4471165147160207609</id><published>2009-02-24T23:38:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T23:53:20.656+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-02-24T23:53:20.656+02:00</app:edited><title>This is why you're fat</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Stumbling around websites on a lazy &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Sunday&lt;/span&gt;, I found this pearl:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SaRrVM3O3gI/AAAAAAAADII/oQBiI0OA1Js/s1600-h/Sandwich.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SaRrVM3O3gI/AAAAAAAADII/oQBiI0OA1Js/s320/Sandwich.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306484272923598338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Sandwich of Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;The bottom tier contains eight strips of bacon, six sausages and four burger paddies; followed by a second tier of black pudding; topped by a third tier comprised of two diced chicken breasts and six fried eggs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I couldn't believe there are such a gross combinations of food for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;satisfying&lt;/span&gt; the enormous demand of calories for a  big person. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/"&gt;This is why you're fat!&lt;/a&gt; Check it out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-4471165147160207609?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/0yuZ8AK8u_U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4471165147160207609/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=4471165147160207609" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/4471165147160207609?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/4471165147160207609?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/0yuZ8AK8u_U/this-is-why-youre-fat.html" title="This is why you're fat" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SaRrVM3O3gI/AAAAAAAADII/oQBiI0OA1Js/s72-c/Sandwich.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-is-why-youre-fat.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcESHY5cCp7ImA9WxVXFkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-2977675735575595722</id><published>2009-02-15T10:58:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T12:33:29.828+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-02-15T12:33:29.828+02:00</app:edited><title>Habanero</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SZftguXGzsI/AAAAAAAADDI/U99I9jg1fXw/s1600-h/Habanero_closeup_edit2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 143px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SZftguXGzsI/AAAAAAAADDI/U99I9jg1fXw/s200/Habanero_closeup_edit2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302968232708591298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Last weekend I had the opportunity to try what is considered one of the most spicy chili's on the face of earth. The famous &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habanero"&gt;Habanero&lt;/a&gt;. It happened during the party of a &lt;a href="http://estonished.blogspot.com/"&gt;friend&lt;/a&gt; who had the chance to know forehand that he finally approved all his university courses and he will finally graduate eventually as an adult educator. This event was perfect excuse to gather at his place and mix tequila with beers and wine and vodka. Being there a couple of Finnish guys invited me to try a chili. I didn't have problems to recognize the specific one because coincidentally I happened to get curious, some days earlier, over a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAP78yBZio"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; I saw on Internet of a guy eating a freaking Habanero and describing the experience in the meanwhile, among another related videos of teenagers making competitions about eating the chili. So, it was a fearsome moment, but it was a challenge I had to take, and very soon regret.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Despite it name means "From the Habana (Cuba)" they can come from different places and countries as Mexico, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, and some U.S. states. It scores from 100,000 to 350,000 heat units. Heat units are actually determined by how many parts of sugar water it takes to dilute a sample so that the heat of a chili can no longer be detected. The chili sample is provided in the form of an extract.  The more sugar, the higher the spice, the greater measurement in Scoville units.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;As my nature of a non believer, I asked the guys to eat it first. The guys happened to eat it and chew it very well, to later make grin faces and go along the painful process for about 5 minutes and right after that, they had a beer and kept the party going on. It was my turn. To the hell with it, I have to find out what eating a Habanero is. I mean, I've lost my fear for spices in Turkey. This couldn't be so bad. Oh boy, I was so wrong. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SZftQB_zmpI/AAAAAAAADDA/BXKAA32OFsM/s1600-h/Habanereando.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SZftQB_zmpI/AAAAAAAADDA/BXKAA32OFsM/s200/Habanereando.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302967945921796754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I put the chili in my mouth and started chewing it for about 10 seconds. Briefly after that, I could feel the rush of pain going from the back of my throat to my ears. I started sweating and some tears came out of my eyes. I opened my mouth but the air wasn't helping. It was real pain! The time stopped and seconds were passing really slowly. Again my ears and the back side of my head were hurting. The pain was going just to return stronger. It took me 10 long minutes to go along with it. I had to drink some yogurt afterwards to help out the spicy sensation. But the worst wasn't really there yet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;When I was new to Turkey my friend told me a very wise phrase "Bad thing about spices, my friend, is that they burn coming in... and going out. You should always remember that." Hell I did remember.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Another good reference:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.mojavefarm.com/pepper_scale.htm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-2977675735575595722?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/OY5OsOJY5yQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2977675735575595722/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=2977675735575595722" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/2977675735575595722?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/2977675735575595722?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/OY5OsOJY5yQ/habanero.html" title="Habanero" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SZftguXGzsI/AAAAAAAADDI/U99I9jg1fXw/s72-c/Habanero_closeup_edit2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/02/habanero.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4CSH0zfCp7ImA9WxVQEEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-3276907361893440666</id><published>2009-01-28T00:29:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T00:56:09.384+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-01-28T00:56:09.384+02:00</app:edited><title>About Relationships</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A &lt;a href="http://kingsol.blogspot.com/"&gt;good friend of mine&lt;/a&gt; asked me to do and interesting exercise: to write something about men and women relationships. Believe me, this is truly a daunting task, but I feel this time I really have something to talk about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SX-PoIyofNI/AAAAAAAADCY/-5-WEgofhhI/s1600-h/stones.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 170px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SX-PoIyofNI/AAAAAAAADCY/-5-WEgofhhI/s320/stones.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296109606528384210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Knowing from my own experience a relationship is a process in which two individuals shape each other into gears that fits well in a common engine. Same engine that, if runs well, can take you really far and smoothly to your dreamed destination. This shaping process is not easy, especially if you’re more up to the shaping than getting shaped, and the other way around. Some people are really scared to the shaping and submit themselves to the other persons will. Most likely because of the fear and insecurity that the other person won’t like the shape they’re getting. I put an example. Say you meet somebody and there is the chemistry and after some really shared moments you finally get together. Incredible feeling, unbelievable emotions and you don’t want to screw up, right? The tiger is dead and now you start feeling fear for its skin. You start feeling like this person will lose interest on you, so you turn down whatever your life plans, including your truly self, in order to keep the other person happy. What happened to that person that they used to know? That funny person, open, sociable and happy suddenly turns into a submissive character into mortal fear to be left alone. Now dependency has been created: you become a ballast for the other person and most likely your happiness depends on the mood swings of your beloved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Do you remember how you learned to ride a bicycle, do you? You fell, several times; you woke up and kept trying until you learned how to ride a bicycle properly. Do you remember how did you learn to cook a good pasta? That’s right: don’t be afraid to screw it up, you should risk and turn down the curtain and find out whether the person behind is who likes you the way you are and who deserves to shape you as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;There is the other extreme, when it’s you who is demanding the other person to fit whatever the shape is: a triangle, a circle, a square… it doesn’t matter it should fit perfectly or nothing. Take a break, think of a relationship as a partnership where everybody wins if the project goes fine. Let the other person feel like its part of something important where the effort is worthy and the reward at the end of the journey is great.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Those were the extremes. What is in between is what gives spicy to the relationship: to find those critical points in which the boundaries are drawn. There are personal spaces, convictions and whatsoever that has a line that certainly shouldn’t be crossed. Think of it as a matter of personal respect and space. Some days the boundaries are different, both for male and female. Battlefield has been set and then comes the common sense and lots of patience to sort things out as soon as possible. It’s not worthy to move the little differences to other areas and let them grow as a snowball. Face them, solve them and be happy. After each little fight comes the sweet taste of the reconciliation and a lesson has been learned. Remember: it’s all about shaping.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I wouldn't talk about a perfect relationship because it is an utopia. But think of somebody with whom you can speak for hours and hours as if it were just few minutes; somebody who understands you and have lots of thing in common and most important that you can build a future together. For me that's good enough to describe a good relationship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;People comes and goes, you never know what is beyond the sea if you don’t dare to swim all the way to the other shore. Some day you will feel that this is the right person, and you will have the experience to sort things in a better way. Experience makes the master. It is better if you carry no pressures at all, even life is short but still it’s a ride that deserves to explore the terrain and figure it out whether or not is the area you want to settle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-3276907361893440666?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/U9LLlWprKLk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3276907361893440666/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=3276907361893440666" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/3276907361893440666?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/3276907361893440666?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/U9LLlWprKLk/about-relationships.html" title="About Relationships" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/SX-PoIyofNI/AAAAAAAADCY/-5-WEgofhhI/s72-c/stones.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2009/01/about-relationships.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0cFR30-eSp7ImA9WxVRF0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-4549547469751573015</id><published>2008-08-24T15:35:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T14:50:16.351+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-01-23T14:50:16.351+02:00</app:edited><title>Apocalypse now</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I was just a kid when my father revealed me that the sun is an incredibly big star burning out in space and that someday will turn off ceasing with itself all life in our planet. At this very point, I felt sad in my childhood innocence. So, life has an end; this planet will someday will exist no more. He added: “but don’t worry, it will happen million of years from now”. Later that evening, I felt pity for the people that would live in earth for that time… millions of years later from that very day the life will be wiped from earth surface for the simple reason of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.&lt;br /&gt;Several years have passed since then and with the accelerated revolution of technology and industry, exponential growth of human stupidity along with all the consequences also known as global warming, atomic war menaces and pollution seems like the apocalypse isn’t million of years from that day but could be just around the corner. I feel pity of myself now. I should clarify that I’m not being alarmist; I won’t hang out in the streets with a two-month beard and holding a paper in my hands saying “apocalypse is coming, regret your sins”, but in the way we are going, things in Earth will change irreversibly. Earth is getting more and hotter; predictions say that in 5 years all the ice in the North Pole will completely melt! Imagine that, what are we doing?&lt;br /&gt;So, the question is: what would you do if the end of the human race comes to an end while you’re still here? Yes, this very moment when we will give step to a new kind of race that will consume our remains as petrol and expose our buildings as prehistoric relics.&lt;br /&gt;My imagination consumes entire hours by trying to solve such kind of questions for no particular reason but maybe just to be prepared for what could happen. Imagine to bag pack few supplies and wander in a battle for survival through inclement weather conditions for safe lands to extend your life at least. Then failure is not an option, and to live to survive another day is a must quest.&lt;br /&gt;Are we really prepared to face the future we would create for ourselves?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-4549547469751573015?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/WFoWTGwZDWg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4549547469751573015/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=4549547469751573015" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/4549547469751573015?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/4549547469751573015?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/WFoWTGwZDWg/apocalypse-now.html" title="Apocalypse now" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2008/08/apocalypse-now.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck4BSXY7eip7ImA9WxdbE0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-534504053088575683</id><published>2008-08-08T12:57:00.004+03:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T12:35:58.802+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-08-10T12:35:58.802+03:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amazing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nature" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="science" /><title>Amazing</title><content type="html">&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.todaysbigthing.com/betamax/betamax.swf?item_id=309&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autostart=true" width="480" height="360"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.todaysbigthing.com/betamax/betamax.swf?item_id=309&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autostart=true"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;For some reason I've been always afraid of thunders: while crossing open fields in the country side while a little rain drops are falling; in the beach when is cloudy, when I'm home in the middle of the night under my blankets, and some other common situations: the sky is trying to touch you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Discovery channel on their wisdom have revealed that there is not a rule for which you wouldn't get one of those in the top of your head and the get the electric shock to make your blood boil and destroy all sort of tissues and get 3rd grade burnings: it can be in a perfect sunny day, when the thunder just crosses the mountain from the dark clouds some kilometers away and then chooses you, riding a bike, as the best pole to get in touch with the ground. In a matter of a probabilities is really rare you get as the chosen one. Like a Balotto, you can get extremely lucky to either one of those, or even worst, to get both at the same day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;At the moment I just let myself get amused with such a great spectacle, I wanted to share with you this video.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-534504053088575683?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/er6VIvHYSJc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/534504053088575683/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=534504053088575683" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/534504053088575683?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/534504053088575683?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/er6VIvHYSJc/amazing.html" title="Amazing" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2008/08/amazing.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkUBQXY6fyp7ImA9WxZUE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-9039723361699944197</id><published>2008-04-05T04:05:00.003+03:00</published><updated>2008-04-05T04:17:30.817+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-04-05T04:17:30.817+03:00</app:edited><title>She</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;She&lt;br /&gt;She screams in silence.&lt;br /&gt;A sulley roit penetrating through her mind.&lt;br /&gt;Waiting for a sign to smash the silence with the brick of self control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you locked up in a world that's been planned out for you?&lt;br /&gt;Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?&lt;br /&gt;Scream at me until my ears bleed.&lt;br /&gt;I'm taking heed in just for you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Green Day - She&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-9039723361699944197?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/dL76I6QC_Ok" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/9039723361699944197/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=9039723361699944197" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/9039723361699944197?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/9039723361699944197?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/dL76I6QC_Ok/she.html" title="She" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2008/04/she.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UBQHk9eSp7ImA9WxZVEEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-8970628899685872373</id><published>2008-03-20T19:04:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T02:27:31.761+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-03-21T02:27:31.761+02:00</app:edited><title>Tricking publicity?</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/10000bcposter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/10000bcposter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;For some days I was pending with excitement for the release of a movie named 10,000 B.C. why? Well, the trailers showed a promising movie full of action and prehistorical animals! There was even a guy facing a saber teeth tiger in the edge of a cliff with solely a white bone spiked spear! I saw some short trailers on tv about a guy (maybe the same one in the poster) trapped in some sort of cave with the huge cat! a win win movie!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In the other hand I really like movies to surprise me by not documenting myself previously so I can enjoy them at the cinema, with pop corn and cola. After the movie I digest them outside while getting a drink. Thinking and discussing key scenes, speculating about actors destiny, director's hand, and this amateur observations we make ourselves. I'm one of these.&lt;br /&gt;C'mon, this is 2008 we have hollywood movies with enough technology and budget as to display in front of our eyes, whatever ( I really mean whatever) story, flawlessly, full of details, sounds, great actors, impossible camera angles and all that sort of stuff that makes the 2 hours of a movie feel like just a couple of minutes! Ok, enough preamble, let's get to the point: 10,000 B.C.&lt;br /&gt;The movie started with a great story about hunters and the mammoths that weren't returning to their valley, the starving tribe was worried. Then a cheesy prophesy came along with a little blue eyed girl that came suddenly after her tribe was owned by some sort of demons ( I thought, the tigers! maybe a horned t-Rex! I couldn't wait to find out who/what was a demon) even I managed to forget that the girl would be the true love of the hero (damn, a pinky taste). The mammoths chase scene was ok, but &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/10000bc.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/10000bc.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;something wasn't ok... there wasn't blood, broken bones, smashed people, so I deduced it was clearly a 12+ rated movie. Later one the movie got quickly more  cheesy and pink! The story was a bad remaking of the far better movie apocalypto of Mel Gibson. The worst is maybe that there is not such a scene of the guy in the edge of the cliff!!! what the hell? The demons were, finally, some guys with masks that takes people from tribes and sell them as slaves (as apocalypto) in an area with a sacrifice pyramid (as in apocalypto). I don't want to spoil you the story but there are plenty and plenty of clichés in this movie and at the end the guy became an Independence day's style hero (everybody cheering up, and reunited to face evil and  war yelling and world is safe an stuff like that).&lt;br /&gt;Ok, I have to recognize, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;maybe I'm too old to enjoy such a movies. If I had 13 to 15 years less I would have enjoyed it to the bone,  but to the sake of my money, at least I found it a bit entertaining. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-8970628899685872373?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/TFMPtfhHuMc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8970628899685872373/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=8970628899685872373" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/8970628899685872373?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/8970628899685872373?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/TFMPtfhHuMc/tricking-publicity.html" title="Tricking publicity?" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2008/03/tricking-publicity.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYFRHoyfyp7ImA9WB9bF0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-3631792929634565003</id><published>2007-12-26T06:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-12-27T19:38:35.497+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-12-27T19:38:35.497+02:00</app:edited><title>Volver</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Some kilometers above the earth I was facing one of the greatest blend of feelings I have had in my life: To return home after a long journey that took me living in 3 different countries, visit more than 30 cities in 3 years and 3 months.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;As the plane approached the Caribbean coast on a splendid sunny Wednesday, In the distance, I could recognize the tropical surface of my home land. This has been a long awaited moment and finally it was becoming true. I would definitely need some support. I asked  for another whiskey.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;----------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dear reader, let me embrace you in a wonderful tale of a fascinating lifetime before I put my story back to Earth. Probably the best thing I can offer you for this unexpected twist of my post is &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI76sKLMkMU" target="_blank"&gt;this song&lt;/a&gt; in the background. The song is  "La Noyée" from the movie "Amelie" from Yann Tiersen. No soundtrack can fit better this enchantment of poor literature. Listen to it twice and continue reading while it plays.  It works good for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;----------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/R3H2SQYIqdI/AAAAAAAACDA/lduYslSXR7Q/s1600-h/snow_gaze.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 129px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/R3H2SQYIqdI/AAAAAAAACDA/lduYslSXR7Q/s320/snow_gaze.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148166642555464146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Its been 3 years full of experiences, some of them sad, some of them amazing, some of them of an euphoric moments of victory, great tastes of an exquisite world, a perfume of places, a blur of faces turning and going up and down like in a Waltz dance; a bubble filled of human voices and trains moving on the railway. The smell of airports and a recently opened suitcase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I picture myself running behind a train going to a sunny field, each wagon carry a lot of people: all the people I've met in this journey. They wave their hands to me. I run faster. On the train sides there is colors, there is music, there is a feeling in my soul of an unbreakable silent of gratitude. This train stops in an old station where the walls are high and there is plenty of mosaics and  the windows are decorated with great micro sculptures of angels of the Roman Empire time. I can see the great design of the floor while I move towards the exit of the station. There are kids selling newspapers and candies. The people walks so graceful in all directions. I can hear the sound of the footsteps and the fresh air of the sea ventilating the big hall. The door is just in front of me. The fresh air fills my lungs, I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Slowly I can feel how a warm energy is filling me. The Waltz continues; the melody is inside of me now. The big halls turns transparent each time. I keep the air in my lungs and then I let it go by exhaling slowly. I open my eyes, put my tie in place, hold harder my luggage case and put my feet together. It is time to go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;There is a song of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Gardel" target="_blank"&gt;Carlos Gardel&lt;/a&gt; named "&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpmznpR99U" target="_blank"&gt;volver&lt;/a&gt;" (to return) and comes like:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Tengo miedo del encuentro con el pasado que vuelve a enfrentarse con mi vida.&lt;br /&gt;Tengo miedo de las noches que pobladas de recuerdos encadenen mi soñar.&lt;br /&gt;Pero el viajero que huye, tarde o temprano detiene su andar;&lt;br /&gt;Y aunque el olvido que todo lo destruye, haya matado mi vieja ilusión,&lt;br /&gt;Guardo escondida una esperanza humilde que es toda la fortuna de mi corazón.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Which translates:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I'm afraid of the meeting with the past that comes back to face my life.&lt;br /&gt;I'm afraid of the nights that full of memories enchains my dreams.&lt;br /&gt;But the traveler that flees, soon or later stops its march;&lt;br /&gt;And even though the forgetfulness that everything destroys, had killed my old illusion,&lt;br /&gt;I hold hidden a humble hope that is all the fortune of my heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;At this very moment in the airplane I was having and invisible hand holding my heart that pulled out a couple of tears. There was, in front of my eyes, the precious land I can finally call "home". The life has finally brought me in one piece back home. Back to my family and friends. Back to these feelings that has been worned out after many recalls  from the most remote corners I've been in this world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Home. Such a meaningful and important word. There was no fit for its meaning on me for the very moment in which the plane landed. My bag didn't arrive with me, and due to a big damage to the highway that leads to the airport my parents didn't arrive on time to pick me up. I went out of the airport with merely my hand luggage and a empty reception hall. The tropical weather was just too hot, I forgot how hard it was. The whiskey was finally having an effect on me. I made the report for the lost luggage and after a fair moment of distress I looked towards the clean sky I just came from; I smiled silently and went upstairs where in few minutes I would meet my parents. At last!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-3631792929634565003?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/HiQpSDliqE0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3631792929634565003/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=3631792929634565003" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/3631792929634565003?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/3631792929634565003?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/HiQpSDliqE0/volver.html" title="Volver" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp0.blogger.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/R3H2SQYIqdI/AAAAAAAACDA/lduYslSXR7Q/s72-c/snow_gaze.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2007/12/volver.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkEMRnw8eSp7ImA9WB9VE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-1775051914524024614</id><published>2007-11-29T21:35:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T00:18:07.271+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-11-30T00:18:07.271+02:00</app:edited><title>Show your body who's boss.</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The human body has limitations," Karnazes says. "the human spirit is boundless." your mind, in other words, is your most important muscle. As a running buddy told him: "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! what a ride!"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wired magazine, article about Dean Karnazes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-1775051914524024614?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/YWzQGgcJ8vw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1775051914524024614/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=1775051914524024614" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/1775051914524024614?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/1775051914524024614?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/YWzQGgcJ8vw/show-your-body-whos-boss.html" title="Show your body who's boss." /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2007/11/show-your-body-whos-boss.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE4DR3k8cSp7ImA9WB9SGE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-5554443453601633957</id><published>2007-10-07T19:24:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T08:56:16.779+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-10-08T08:56:16.779+03:00</app:edited><title>The origin of the Universe</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Since I was a kid, I got interested about the fact that we live in a floating sphere immerse in something called space; and as its name nominates is just space.  Earth is a big sphere and, I have to say, beautiful in comparison to the neighbor spheres: Mercury, the one closer to the sun, which looks pretty much like the moon, has an unbearable temperature that goes between −180 to 430 °C. Venus, the Earth sister, has a very dense atmosphere layer of sulfuric acid. Mars, the red planet, we still wonder if there is water in you… perhaps life. As for the other Earth’s proximity spheres all of them have in common being covered into mystery, estimates, approximations, speculation, etc. No clue of what is really happening in there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Terrestrial_planet_size_comparisons.jpg/300px-Terrestrial_planet_size_comparisons.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 120px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Terrestrial_planet_size_comparisons.jpg/300px-Terrestrial_planet_size_comparisons.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Being just aware of the oddities and the marvelous properties of the universe, the question comes to me “From where all this came from?”   As humans we strive to understand the why of the things. We have to face our constant questionings about things we can’t understand. Some questions have a big gap in between and the bounds of our imagination are simply not enough to answer them. Such is the case of the prehistoric men. Try to imagine yourself in a cave-like environment, when suddenly you see a rainbow in the horizon, or a thunder. How can you explain that? Is that so, that we came to develop a full optic, reflection, color spectrum, electricity theory to come with a decent answer some centuries later. Now, in my case, the origin of the universe is so complex and perfect that in my opinion all the things should have come from some kind of superior force that made it blow and expand all around the space. The question is “what was it?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Our mind has a property which is the panacea and the karma of all our reality: Constraints. Things have to follow rules in order to function in our reality. If the atoms structure theory were wrong, then electrical things wouldn’t work. Constraints are at the same time our great limitation since they cut the wings of our imagination. As we evolution and develop science our constraints expands. For example, human genetic code is being studied and processed and soon these constraints will expand for sake of medicine. But related to what is out there, to all those spheres floating, to the wanderer comets, to the black holes, to the novas, supernovas, mini novas, giant red stars, dwarf stars,  the constraints as we know, doesn’t allow solving this universe origin question.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So far it is demonstrated that matter can’t be either created or destroyed, but transformed. The universe, in such a case, should have been just transformed out of something else. Coming back to the example of the cave men, at this point of the time the necessary tools weren’t developed and there was no way to come to an answer.  The developing societies started to create cults to divinize those answers and assign them to some human-shaped Gods. I consider that the best point to start understanding things is from the beginning. But, where is the beginning? There was a beginning? I pull myself forward more and more trying to cross my constraints and go backwards in time as much as I can. The beginning of the times? Big bang? Where all this hydrogen and energy came from?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Go ahead; try to imagine the very beginning of everything, where there was nothing else but nothing. But still consider this nothing as something. A minuscule atom immerse in a huge empty space or the other way around: a minuscule atom containing this huge space inside itself. This primary unit of something was just being there before massively blowing into what we know as universe. I’m afraid to adopt a divinizing posture and admit that more probably there was superior force that has been always there (how can something be always there? I mean, from the very beginning of the time? This force has being present all along our history and going infinitely much further. As we know, infinite is an immeasurable amount of something. Mathematically is possible to get an idea about this concept. Time should be something circular, not linear. Probably is not possible to go linearly backwards but to restart a cycle, a lap that involves us to reborn, choose a different profile of life, leave a trace on earth and finally become dust and start all over again. Maybe next time you would be a monkey or a cell of a monkey yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So what is the end of this line or the beginning of this lap? When would be the time of our expanding universe to return to its original state? At least I might predict how our galaxy will. As you know our sun is just a huge sphere burning out. Someday it will be completely burned and become something different in which the mass will just absorb our planets and erase us away. This, in the lucky case we didn’t already smash out ourselves with atomic bombs or global warming.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Will I ever get to an answer before I die? Or it is necessary to be dead to find out the answer? It would be a pity if life just stop being and don’t keep going somewhere else. It would be really a pity not to find answers to these questions. Somehow I think that many sources for getting us into the right path will eventually emerge. Maybe a superior force manifestation would provide us some answers. Imagine yourself beyond this life going into an intergalactic trip in which this and all other secrets, like the meaning of life, would be revealed. Wouldn’t that become just wonderful?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Our brain is bigger and different than animals one, our brain can process more information and manage a different scheme of memory. Probably animals don’t come with these questions to themselves. Or maybe they do. Maybe I’m just too curious. And as a friend of mine simply suggested me: just let it be. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Please if somebody has had some extra human experience, have been kidnapped by aliens or have had some momentum in which some of these answers have been revealed, contact me, and please let me know what the beginning of the universe is truly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-5554443453601633957?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/HorQ3Em960I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5554443453601633957/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=5554443453601633957" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/5554443453601633957?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/5554443453601633957?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/HorQ3Em960I/origin-of-universe.html" title="The origin of the Universe" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2007/10/origin-of-universe.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUMHSHw9cCp7ImA9WB9SFkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-2567160013899649758</id><published>2007-10-05T21:10:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-10-05T23:50:39.268+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-10-05T23:50:39.268+03:00</app:edited><title>I'm awake, I'm awake!</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/RwahxPkNGCI/AAAAAAAABqY/LvtqeoTwxss/s1600-h/TeaCups.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 233px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/RwahxPkNGCI/AAAAAAAABqY/LvtqeoTwxss/s400/TeaCups.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117955893917194274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The summer is gone for good and the autumn is now coloring the surroundings in beautiful red, yellow orange colors. As the cold is slowly settling down, almost imperceptible, the memories of a great the summer are displaced for new experiences in between fallen leaves and the smell of long-stored jackets. I'm sitting in my room contemplating the misty night and the dark blue sky with gray clouds.  From my window I can see the magnificent old church tower built during the German occupation and its solemn surroundings. Yes, the enchantment and solemnity of the architecture of the old days keeps intact in this little town.&lt;br /&gt;After a virtual absence of six months and motivated by the aroma of a smoky cup of coffee, I finally decided to face once again this monster that is my personal blog.  Welcome back to Gran Caribe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-2567160013899649758?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/gnrj0oljw3M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2567160013899649758/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=2567160013899649758" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/2567160013899649758?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/2567160013899649758?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/gnrj0oljw3M/im-awake-im-awake.html" title="I'm awake, I'm awake!" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp1.blogger.com/_vGfaAwWKjXY/RwahxPkNGCI/AAAAAAAABqY/LvtqeoTwxss/s72-c/TeaCups.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-awake-im-awake.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEQEQHw-fyp7ImA9WBFVEkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-917898558128495176</id><published>2007-04-11T12:57:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T13:11:41.257+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-04-11T13:11:41.257+03:00</app:edited><title>Good night Turkey</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;At the Istanbul Airport, in the middle of the night, just few hours before leaving Turkey, a typo of my name on my flight ticket reservation would create a big problem. The reservation was made with "Anya" instead of "Anaya" and when corrected the old one was canceled, but the new one, with the right name, not created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I’m sorry –  said the woman in the tickets office with a smooth grin of guilt on her face –But there is nothing I can you do and you will need to buy a new ticket if you want to flight tonight.  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The calling for the flight check in started. There was nothing to do: resigned, I took a bunch of Euros and put them over her desk.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I was feeling tired, irritated and uncomfortable in my own skin. I headed to the bathroom and decided to change my clothes and wash my face before the check in. I tried to close my luggage but as to complete the chain of bad luck, the zipper broke away. I couldn’t believe it would be happening. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I was about to scream and send everything to the hell. Would I be able to buy a new luggage at 3 am in the morning? What could I do? After a couple of minutes I calmed down; the zipper was double, so I closed the second one very slowly; like a step of faith. The zipper menaced to break definitely.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;All the problems seemed to conjure as a prediction, as a revelation. I was desperate and the luggage closed just right on time to find out that it has been probably enough of this country. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I checked in (with 7 kilos overweight for which I didn’t pay anything) and headed to the boarding area. It was huge. It’s the same place I’ve been twenty one months ago – I thought. For those days, it was September of 2004 and the sun was shining brightly, almost wildly over the black sea and its beautiful miniature ships in the surface of the splendid green water; Interesting contrast with this quiet, warm and starry night of my departure. It was then when I started to feel nostalgic. I gazed thru the window and saw, thoughtfully, the distant lights of the incoming planes. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;If I would resume my overall experience in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Turkey&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; in just one word I would say: “emotions”. Since I came every place and face was attached to an emotion, to a live feeling; listening to a certain song would evocate perfectly a moment, as an instant picture of colours, fragrances, lights and feelings. In an order of sequences, the first months might be called joy, then love, then doubts, then desperation, then depression, then self recognition, then hope, then freedom, then joy again. Wow! What a trip!&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It was time for boarding the plane. A line of tall - blond people made a queue and a special bus took us to the small Polish plane. Then I realized that most probably I wouldn’t stand in Turkish lands anymore or for a long while at least. I tried to eat in my memory a last picture of the airport. I took the stairs up to the plane and accommodated myself in one of these tiny spaces on where the chairs were (after all it was the cheapest flight I could find). The plane started its motor in no time and we started to lift. The view of the night in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Istanbul&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; was amazing. I saw the entire city covered in orange – yellow – white lights and hundred of miniature cars in the roads that surround the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bosporus&lt;/st1:place&gt;. In my chest a burning feeling started to bloom: An immense gratitude mixed with melancholy. My sight got blurred because of the tears. A smile drew the spirit of 21 months in a single moment. My soul knew it was tied somewhere in this country, that I might come back that we would see again, that I would walk over its chaotic streets again.. And then, I just said “Good night &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Turkey&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, thanks for everything”.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-917898558128495176?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/w7PU_LTb22M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/917898558128495176/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=917898558128495176" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/917898558128495176?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/917898558128495176?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/w7PU_LTb22M/good-night-turkey.html" title="Good night Turkey" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2007/04/good-night-turkey.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0EDRng7fip7ImA9WBJaEEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-114906640655021493</id><published>2006-05-31T11:24:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T13:34:37.606+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-31T13:34:37.606+03:00</app:edited><title>Excursión</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/topkapi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/200/topkapi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Palacio de Topkapi, Istanbul.  En la sala especialmente acondicionada para exhibir las hermosísimas joyas que adornaban los atuendos, muebles y otros objetos de uso personal de los sultanes, Mariam y Amadeo observaban detenidamente los objetos en exhibición.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Por Dios! mira el tamaño de esa esmeralda!, es tan grande como mi puño!.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Sí Mariam, !te podrás imaginar cuanto debe costar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amadeo, en su inocencia juvenil verificó que los rincones más altos de la sala estaban llenos de cámaras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Mira ese trono! está hecho de Oro!, y mira cuantas incrustaciones de esmeraldas y diamantes tiene! ¿es ese un rubí?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- ¿dónde?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Amadeo! ¿Cómo que dónde? ¿acaso estás ciego? allá, mira, arriba, en la cabecera!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amadeo, a pesar de que sabía que era una piedra preciosa, no recordaba cómo era un rubí. Hizo un rápido ejercicio mental para encontrar palabras como ruborizarse y rubicundo que de alguna manera están relacionadas "rubí". Así que debía ser colorada. Debía verificar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- La roja ¿verdad?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- !Pues obvio! ¿acaso hay más piedras aparte de los diamantes y esmeraldas? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amadeo verificó, un poco frustrado, que su búsqueda léxica hubiera podido ser omitida por un sencillo ejercicio de observación. Sintió que los créditos de su hazaña léxica fueron un desperdicio que nunca reconocería nadie. Menos Mariam, eso era lo peor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pasaron a la siguiente sala donde estaban los atuendos estampados de los sultanes. Con la premisa de que algunas inscripciones sobre el estampado daban una "protección" especial a los sultanes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- !Son como tener un papel periódico de camisa!- Dijo Mariam Jovial soltando una sonrisilla que enloquecía a Amadeo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Más allá, otra sala con unas armaduras que no interesaban a Mariam pero si a Amadeo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- No entremos aquí, no me gusta ver maniquíes recubiertos de hojalata! vamos a ver la sala de los pendientes y los aretes Amadeo. !vamos Amadeo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Amadeo no le importó estarse perderdiendo la exhibición de Armaduras, Sintió que Mariam estaba acercándose más a él más a pesar de no despegar sus ojos de los diamantes. !Vámos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Amadeo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;! !vámos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Amadeo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;!vámos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Amadeo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; su corazón se llenaba de alegría cada vez que escuchaba su voz en un tierno tono imperativo. "Diamonds are women's best friends" recordó como una visión la canción de Marilyn Monroe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dentro de la sala estaban los pendientes más hermosos que Mariam haya visto jamás. Azules, amarillos, verdes, rojos, todos los colores unidos en Oro. Mariam no podía contener su emoción.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- !Es lo más hermoso que haya visto jamás!- Dijo Mariam en una exclamación de júbilo que la embargaba.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amadeo supo era el momento. No lo tenía preparado. Nunca se hubiera atrevido, pero estaba como enajenado de si mismo. Una explosión de algo que no se pudo explicar lo obligó a finalmente decir la frase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Si Mariam - La miró y le dijo rápido - !Tú eres lo más hermoso que haya visto jamás en mi vida. ¿me das un beso?.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ella lo miró extrañada por un segundo y le respondió simplemente, - No -. Así, sin más explicaciones, sincera, honesta y corta respuesta. Mariam  volvió a fijar su mirada en los pendientes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amadeo sintió que lo había echado todo a perder, un pequeño vacío. Incómodo. Avergonzado. Pero la misma energía que lo había hecho disparar la frase le hizo reponerse al instante y le dijo a Mariam. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Ya me cansé de los diamantes. Me voy a ir a ver a los maniquíes recubiertos de Hojalata. Nos vemos al rato con los del grupo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-114906640655021493?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/5AmgRiua8LI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/114906640655021493/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=114906640655021493" title="6 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114906640655021493?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114906640655021493?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/5AmgRiua8LI/excursin.html" title="Excursión" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2006/05/excursin.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU4GQHs6fip7ImA9WBJbGEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-114889391857957860</id><published>2006-05-29T11:30:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T12:12:01.516+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-29T12:12:01.516+03:00</app:edited><title>Desolado</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Muy despacio dejó correr las monedas calle abajo. Una a una. Las veía rodar y luego hacer círculos concéntricos, cada vez más pequeños hasta detenerse en una agonía elíptica sobre la calle pedregosa. Las observaba paciente, desinteresado, sereno. Miró sus zapatos de cuero color café ya desgastados al igual que su pantalón de paño. Miró sus manos curtidas y arrugadas y sintió una ráfaga de lástima por si mismo. Levantó su mirada tragando unas lágrimas que nunca habían de emerger y suspiró en silencio. Esperaba quizá un tren imaginario que había de llevarlo a cualquier otro lugar. El destino era lo de menos. Estaba derrotado por la vida y la mismas calles que le vieron crecer. Cuando no le quedaban más monedas, se levantó del andén y contempló a su al rededor las casas pintadas de azul, otras blancas, unas otras verdes.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Un perro, casi en la esquina de esa misma calle, husmeaba en la basura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El cielo estaba despejado y solo unas nubes enormes sin mucha consistencia, casi transparentes, se interponian entre el sol y su piel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; No había mucha gente en esa calle. Sólo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;unos niños esperaban a que él se fuera para ir a recoger las monedas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;  El andén resquebrajado dejaba emerger unas florecillas amarillas que la furia de la hierba mala había ayudado a levantar. Sacó su paquete de cigarrillos y puso uno en su boca. Allí quedaban sus memorias. Pensó que era tiempo de irse. ¿para dónde? Todas las calles hacían trazas iguales hacia los mismos lugares que año tras año había visto descascararse por el paso del tiempo. Fumó sus últimas esperanzas con la paciencia de un reo y se fue calle arriba dejando atrás sus pocos y desolados pensamientos, mientras una rapiña infantil se lanzaba a recoger alegres las monedas.&lt;br /&gt;Un viejo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-114889391857957860?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/n27ODmlaDQw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/114889391857957860/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=114889391857957860" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114889391857957860?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114889391857957860?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/n27ODmlaDQw/desolado.html" title="Desolado" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2006/05/desolado.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEABRnoyfip7ImA9WBJbFUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-114856675747831454</id><published>2006-05-25T17:18:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-25T17:19:17.496+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-25T17:19:17.496+03:00</app:edited><title>Colombia is Passion!</title><content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;object align="center" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DvAAAAG7ggqAHSiJjpW0D3w4aYTUYwssMObZpwqG8kYEcwz06LL9UfBP3qQtsAvUH6MNsqx8LH6uTQLBXl9aohIoCleXE8NTmhZ3Mr1hICp4SbUeAF1Do6IZ9Qbu0-na1EG1lcYWLjuE9U7qrPn-ZlizdHgFAH8EvRWcrhhhGRNEGDMGFonc_MdSDjTUtC4QVaSobAclx6woTrYycjWCsvyQKoCeDa3kGbtN6RKkIGN9NpaWCZo7yvfLNMOGaEmUibtimoQ%26sigh%3DY6ZpOls49XB__onE9RlNSpEO2CI%26begin%3D0%26len%3D206806%26docid%3D-523284703878018143&amp;autoPlay=" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="325" align="center"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-114856675747831454?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/j5KewNQQ-Ow" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/114856675747831454/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=114856675747831454" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114856675747831454?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114856675747831454?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/j5KewNQQ-Ow/colombia-is-passion.html" title="Colombia is Passion!" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2006/05/colombia-is-passion.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0MAQ386eCp7ImA9WBJUEUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-114716501463931100</id><published>2006-05-09T11:38:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-09T15:57:22.110+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-09T15:57:22.110+03:00</app:edited><title>Recordando a Chernobyl - Una cronología siniestra.</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/ChernobylPlant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/ChernobylPlant.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La noche del Viernes 25 de Abril de 1986 el reactor número 4 de la planta nuclear de chernobyl tenía programado una desconexión para un mantenimiento de rutina. Los técnicos de la planta decidieron que era un buen momento para efectuar unas pruebas sobre el sistema alternativo de refrigeración en el eventual caso de un fallo en la energía.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El reactor ya contaba con motores diesel que activaban los sistemas de refrigeración en caso de un fallo de energía pero éstos no se activaban de inmediato, por lo que la prueba consistía en verificar si los sistemas de refrigeración de emergencia podrían ser activados por la inercia de la turbina principal antes de que los motores diesel entraran en funcionamiento.&lt;br /&gt;Básicamente, un reactor nuclear es un contenedor de uranio enriquecido que se encuentran experimentando una constante reacción en cadena. Cada vez que los átomos de uranio liberan neutrones otro los toma y libera otros a su vez. Dicha reacción libera una gran cantidad de energía a manera de calor y radiación. Este calor se transmite a un combustible que evapora el agua cuyo vapor hace mover las turbinas que generan la energía eléctrica. Estas reacciones en cadena, son el mismo principio de funcionamiento de la bomba atómica, pero como lo que se quiere no es una explosión, se utilizan unos controladores de reacción (Grafito en el caso del reactor de chernobyl) que se introducen en el contenedor "intoxicando" la reacción y moderando la energía que se libera. Además, a lo largo del reactor corren unos torrentes de agua para refrigerar el contenedor.&lt;br /&gt;Ese viernes en la noche los operarios decidieron iniciar las pruebas. En un principio decidieron disminuir la potencia del reactor de 3000MW a 1000 MW para operar en condiciones menos riesgosas, pero una falla de cordinación de los operarios hizo que se disminuyera la potencia a solo 30MW. La concentración del producto veneno nuclear xenon-135 se incrementó considerablemente (el Xenon-135 es consumido por el reactor funcionando en condiciones normales). Los operarios decidieron continuar el experimento e incluso decidieron tomar un "atajo" trabajándolo con solo 200MW de potencia (incrementar a 1000MW tomaría tiempo y ya tenían 9 horas de retraso). Los operarios para poder continuar el experimento, decidieron retirar algunas barras de grafito para que la reacción se viera menos moderada. Los operarios comienzan a retirar las barras y dejan solo 8 de las 30 barras mínimas exigidas por el reglamento. También desconectan los controles de cierre de reacción automático (SCRAM) dejando al reactor sin controles automáticos de seguridad (es un error grave de diseño el permitir que todos los sistemas de control automáticos pudieran ser desconectados por los operarios).&lt;br /&gt;A la 1:05 a.m las bombas de agua fueron accionadas por la turbina. El flujo de agua que comenzó a circular era mayor que el especificado por las regulaciones de seguridad.&lt;br /&gt;El experimiento continuó.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/control%20room.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 189px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/control%20room.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A la 1:23:04 a.m. comenzó el experimento y el estado inestable del reactor no fue mostrado en el panel de control. Ningun personal del equipo se percató del peligro. Se desconectó la electricidad de las turbinas que impulsaban el agua al reactor y el experimento falló. La temperatura del reactor hizo que el líquido refrigerante del reactor comenzara a hervir. En ausencia del flujo de agua que circula por el contenedor ocasiona en éste tipo de reactores un aumento de la potencia (el flujo de agua que circula por el reactor absorbe los neutrones de la reacción). En ausencia de los controladores de neutrones el reactor comenzó a aumentar incontrolablemente su potencia hasta llegar a 30GW (10 veces más que lo que los reglamentos de seguridad permiten).&lt;br /&gt;Cuando se percataron de que algo andaba mal presionaron el botón de parada total del reactor (SCRAM). Pero ya era demasiado tarde. El SCRAM activa la entrada de todas las barras de grafito en el combustible, para detener la reacción. Pero tardaron entre 18-20 segundos en ser insertadas. Su incerción además generó un desplazamiento momentaneo del refrigerante haciendo que todo ocurriera aún más rápido. La temperatura había subido tanto que las barras de grafito se deformaron por el calor y solo entró 1/3 de su capacidad. Entonces ocurrió una explosión de las tuberías de vapor que revientan el techo del reactor. La entrada de oxígeno al reactor hace arder las barras de grafito y ocurre una segunda explosión que libera 8 toneladas de material radioactivo a la atmósfera.&lt;br /&gt;La explosión ocurrió a las 1:23:47, siete segundo después de que los operarios activaran el SCRAM. 31 personas murieron instantaneamente. El núcleo del reactor se funde y la base del reactor se destruye haciendo que el contenido del reactor se vierta hacia los niveles inferiores del edificio (un hecho afortunado porque disminuye la probabilidad de nuevas reacciones).&lt;br /&gt;La intensidad del fuego era tan alta que pudo ser observada a varios kilómetros de distancia. Los bomberos acudieron a apagar las llamas inmediatamente después de la explosión sin ningún tipo de protección. Todos ellos murieron debido a la radiación. Algunos de ellos alcanzaron a describir la sensación de radioactividad como punzadas de agujas en la cara y un sabor metálico en la boca. Durante la noche era posible ver una nube que brillaba en la oscuridad sobre el sitio del accidente. La foto en blanco y negro a continuación muestra el contenido vertido del contenedor, cuya forma hace que le hayan bautizado como "la pata de elefante". La radioactividad de ésta masa es tan alta que si alguien estuviera en ese mismo cuarto moriría al cabo de 3 o 4 minutos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/fruin11m.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 155px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/fruin11m.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Con el fin de detener la fisión de la mezcla, fueron arrojados desde helicópteros algunas sustancias para cubrir el reactor y fue necesario construir una estructura protectora alrededor de la planta conocido como el sarcófago para encapsular el reactor y contener la radiación y la dispersión de la contaminación. Para su construcción se emplearon alrededor de 650,000 personas, conocidas como "liquidadores", la mayoría soldados de los cuales muchos no tenían el equipo necesario para dicha labor. Entre 8000 a 10,000 liquidadores murieron a causa de la radiación. Hay que resaltar que muchas más vidas se salvaron gracias  a su labor. Entre sus relatos a la hora de la construcción del sarcófago describen el comportamiento extraño de los perros y gatos en la zona, no tenían certeza acerca de la razón de dicho comportamiento hasta que ordenaron dispararles.&lt;br /&gt;Resultan afectados por la catástrofe: ukrania, Russia, Turquía, Moldova, Romania, Lithuania, Finlandia, Dinamarca, Noruega, Suecia, Austria, Hungría, República Checa, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, Polonia, Suecia, Alemania, Italia, Irlanda, Francia, el Reino Unido y principalmente Bielorusia donde cae el 60% del material radioactivo producto de la explosión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/chernobyl-a3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 164px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/chernobyl-a3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La información fue mantenida como secreta por el gobierno en Bielorusia desde el día de la tragedia hasta el año de 1989. Ingluso el comunicado oficial del gobierno ruso 10 días después de la tragedía emite información falsa para evitar el pánico y tratar de ocultar la magnitud de la tragedia.&lt;br /&gt;El total de las víctimas se calcula entre 300,000 y 400,000 y se sigue contando.&lt;br /&gt;Las generaciones siguientes de humanos y animales resultaron genéticamente afectados y muchos de ellos sufrieron mutaciones o padecen de cáncer en la actualidad. Hay algunos niños que nacieron después de esa tragedia, que no miden más de 50 centímetros a pesar de que tienen casi 20 años de edad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A manera de reflexión:&lt;/span&gt; Las pirámides de Egipto tienen entre 5000 y 6000 años de edad, hay muchas cosas que nos quedan del pasado como los libros sagrados y otras reliquias que nos hacen recordar las civilizaciones pasadas. Chernobyl será nuestro recuerdo para las generaciones futuras ya que permanecera radioactivo por lo menos 100,000 años más.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Algunos enlaces de interés:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Video-documental español&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5737205697914049502&amp;q=chernobyl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Chernobyl hoy: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Fotos:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.spaceman.ca/gallery/chernobyl/Helicopt03_05_86_1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Explicación del accidente:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://curiosoperoinutil.com/2006/04/27/el-accidente-de-chernobyl/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-114716501463931100?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/WHoSvpnSqhI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/114716501463931100/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=114716501463931100" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114716501463931100?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/114716501463931100?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/WHoSvpnSqhI/recordando-chernobyl-una-cronologa.html" title="Recordando a Chernobyl - Una cronología siniestra." /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2006/05/recordando-chernobyl-una-cronologa.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE4CRXc8eyp7ImA9WBVRF0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-113274296492882037</id><published>2005-11-23T10:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-23T12:49:24.973+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-11-23T12:49:24.973+02:00</app:edited><title>Spaghetti Monster</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Le interesaría saber la cantidad de adeptos que tiene la satírica teoría religiosa que profesa que el universo y todas sus criaturas fue creada por un Monstruo de espaghetti volador "Flying Spaghetti Monster".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Esta singular teoría fue formulada por &lt;a href="http://www.venganza.org/faq.htm"&gt;Bobby Henderson&lt;/a&gt; un joven de 25 años egresado de la Universidad estatal de Oregon en una &lt;a href="http://www.venganza.org/"&gt;carta de protesta&lt;/a&gt; por la inclusión de la teoría del &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dise%C3%B1o_inteligente"&gt;diseño inteligente&lt;/a&gt; junto con la teoría de la evolución dentro del currículo de estudios propuesto por el departamento de educación de Kansas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bobby sostiene que siendo la teoría del diseño inteligente tan creíble como la de su monstruo de espaguetti volador, debe también ser estudiada en las aulas de clase junto con las otras dos teorías.&lt;br /&gt;El Supuesto creador es representado como un manojo de espaghettis sobre dos albóndigas y unos ojos saltones que sobresalen en la parte superior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La trascendencia que tuvo esta noticia en la Internet y en los medios fue increíble. Hoy existe un movimiento de personas que se disfrazan como el espaghetti, diseños, animaciones y todo tipo de cosas impensables.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nota: &lt;/span&gt;Bush apoya la petición de incluir el estudio de la teoría del diseño inteligente en las aulas de clase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-113274296492882037?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/BK7b8pX-3b8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/113274296492882037/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=113274296492882037" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113274296492882037?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113274296492882037?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/BK7b8pX-3b8/spaghetti-monster.html" title="Spaghetti Monster" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2005/11/spaghetti-monster.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUMCR3o9fip7ImA9WBVRFUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-113257746621337576</id><published>2005-11-21T14:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-21T14:51:06.466+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-11-21T14:51:06.466+02:00</app:edited><title>Ilustrando porqué las votaciones en la costa son una farsa</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/PORTADA_01a_2A.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/PORTADA_01a_2A.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Leyendo un artículo en &lt;a href="http://semana.terra.com.co/"&gt;semana&lt;/a&gt;, encontré una joya del recién elegido alcalde de cartagena Nicolás Curi (electo con una abstención histórica del 70% y una campaña por el voto en blanco que se sintió en todos los rincones de colombia). !El hombre se le dio ventiladores y mercados a cambio de votos! un video lo capta todo. Aquí un aparte:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Curi y sus colaboradores convocaron y llevaron a un centenar de personas hasta una discoteca llamada Bololó en el occidente de Cartagena, con el objetivo de realizar una reunión política. Cerca de una docena de ayudantes de Curi se encargaban de la logística del evento. Los asistentes, la mayoría de barrios humildes, habían sido convocados con la promesas de rifas y regalos. En el interior del lugar, acondicionado como una especie de centro de convenciones, estaba una mesa en donde estaba sentado Curi con varios de sus colaboradores de campaña. Aunque el sitio estaba a reventar, pocos les prestaban atención a las promesas políticas. El interés estaba centrado en los regalos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los organizadores entregaban una especie de boletas a los asistentes. Con ellas podían reclamar 'abanicos', que es el nombre con el que se conoce a los ventiladores en la Costa. La ñapa eran bolsas con mercados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A comienzo de octubre se realizó una reunión política en una discoteca llamada Bololó. En la reunión, donde asistió el entonces candidato Nicolás Curi, se repartieron ventiladores a los asistentes en nombre de la campaña&lt;br /&gt;Los 'abanicos' eran entregados en el interior del lugar y en el parqueadero de la discoteca. Allí estaban estacionadas varias camionetas pick up con calcomanías pegadas en las puertas con la inscripción 'Nicolás Curi alcalde'. En el platón de cada una de ellas había decenas de ventiladores que eran entregados a quienes estaban en el acto. Aquellos que no salían del lugar con un ventilador al hombro iban hasta otro sector del parqueadero y reclamaban una bolsa de mercado con aceite, arroz y granos, entre otros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;El artículo completo puede ser visto &lt;a href="http://semana.terra.com.co/opencms/opencms/Semana/articulo.html?id=91300"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ja!... un ventilador para que saqueen el presupuesto de la ciudad y lo peor es que les va a tocar pagar mucho más por los impuestos de lo que se robaron de las arcas públicas...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-113257746621337576?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/B2Fe5exNWRk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/113257746621337576/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=113257746621337576" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113257746621337576?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113257746621337576?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/B2Fe5exNWRk/ilustrando-porqu-las-votaciones-en-la.html" title="Ilustrando porqué las votaciones en la costa son una farsa" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2005/11/ilustrando-porqu-las-votaciones-en-la.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEQDSXY6eyp7ImA9WBVRFUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-113257637801272997</id><published>2005-11-21T14:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-21T14:32:58.813+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-11-21T14:32:58.813+02:00</app:edited><title>En la mira</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/notlike.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/notlike.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El tío Sam nos está observando...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-113257637801272997?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/DGwZxNm2izA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/113257637801272997/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=113257637801272997" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113257637801272997?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113257637801272997?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/DGwZxNm2izA/en-la-mira.html" title="En la mira" /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2005/11/en-la-mira.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEQMQnwzeyp7ImA9WBVRFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-113251619324892203</id><published>2005-11-20T20:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-20T21:53:03.283+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-11-20T21:53:03.283+02:00</app:edited><title>La compra de conciencias.</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/votacion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/200/votacion.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Desde que era niño siempre aborrecí las vísperas electorales. Se trataba de un mal chiste. Todos se enfilaban tras los candidatos sinverguenzas a combatir en la rebatiña de las sobras de sus famosas gestiones. Estos candidatos eran apoyados por maquinarias prehistóricas a ir a hacer lo que era mejor para sus intereses personales. De paso saquear las arcas del distrito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Es que está dicho, el que llega al poder y no roba es bobo". !Bobo es el que vota por ellos!, !que estupidez!. Me indigna como se venden por una plancha, una camiseta, una botella de ron o un billete. Ahi están!. Les prometieron y les dieron su voto y el de la familia, incluyendo al más viejo de la familia, que ni siquiera puede ver y que lo trasladan a codazos hasta las urnas para consignar un voto, ¿y? ¿valió la pena?¿les respondió?.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lo único que quedó de esa campaña de soles calcinantes es conservar una camiseta china con la foto del candidato, y que no resiste dos lavadas, que sea dicho de paso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Alrededor de las urnas hay una gran fiesta que busca pescar a las personas de votos indecisos. "Venga, tome su botella, su camiseta y un buen sancocho. Mire!, Aquí la compañera lo acompaña, pa' que no se pierda". Los carros estacionados tienen todas sus ventanas tapizadas de números y frases coloridas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Por todas partes hay afiches con fotos de candidatos sonrientes, de cándida inocencia, de cara de buen amigo. Buscan mostrar su mejor ángulo. Un bigote bien arreglado, un buen peinado. Pero la cosa ha ido evolucionando: ahora miran al horizonte mientras una luz les da en la cara como si fueran iluminados desde el cielo, otros tienen herramientas en las manos, otros ponen las manos en pose de discurso, y lo último que alcancé a ver fue un afiche inmenso con un par de ojos verdes.... No me impresionaría ver una ecografía cuando regrese a Colombia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Les hacen rimas en la radio. Indigna. De verdad usted no identifica si se trata de un chiste o se trata en serio de una campaña electoral. Yo personalmente propongo "vote en blanco, en la casilla de abajo, hace lo debido y manda a todos al carajo".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Todos los candidatos necesitan una frase que defina su campaña. Tiene que tener profundidad, sonoridad, resonancia poética, unidad aristoteliana (no sé que otros criterios). Yo veía frases como "el voto inteligente", "a limpiar la ciudad", "ahora si el candidato que vale la pena", "la hora de hacer algo bueno", "a barrer corruptos"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El departamento electoral les asignaba los números y todos los candidatos sufrían esperando uno que sonara bueno. Milagrosamente al movimiento cristiano no habría de tocarle el "666". Al movimiento feminista depronto un "69", quien sabe...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Los grandes almacenes de cadena y otras empresas grandes exigían su voto a los empleados que tenían en nómina a cambio de conservar su puesto... de otra manera correrían cabezas... muchas de ellas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Me enferma la época electoral en la costa porque todo es una farsa, siempre quedan los mismos!, es una dinastía de alcaldes que luego pasan a senadores y que lanzan a los hijos y luego éstos de paso a sus hijos.... en fin...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Sin embargo, no todo es el lodazal que parece ser: Creo en el despertar de las conciencias, creo en que ya se excedió la tolerancia, creo en que ya la genté está mamada y en el perdón de los pecados... amén. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-113251619324892203?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/TAGpB5fRt68" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/113251619324892203/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=113251619324892203" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113251619324892203?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113251619324892203?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/TAGpB5fRt68/la-compra-de-conciencias.html" title="La compra de conciencias." /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2005/11/la-compra-de-conciencias.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUINQH49fip7ImA9WBVREEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432899.post-113205356047679977</id><published>2005-11-15T12:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-15T13:19:51.066+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-11-15T13:19:51.066+02:00</app:edited><title>Por el Sureste de Turquía, primera parte.</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/tripManu.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/tripManu.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turqu%C3%ADa"&gt;Turquía&lt;/a&gt; no tiene muchos festivos. La mayoría de ellos, muy escasos, están relacionados con fechas patrias y generalmente solo personal que labora para el gobierno puede tomarse el día libre. Las añoranzas de los lunes festivos de &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia"&gt;Colombia&lt;/a&gt; son cada vez más latentes: las visitas furtivas al rodadero en &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Marta"&gt;Santa Marta&lt;/a&gt; o a Boca Grande en &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartagena_de_Indias"&gt;Cartagena&lt;/a&gt; se han convertido en solo una utopía distante. Normalmente en Turquía se trabaja hasta los sábados en la tarde.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr"&gt;bayram&lt;/a&gt;, un festivo que sigue al ramazán, son 4 días libres para todo el mundo y es la ocasión perfecta para viajar y encontrarse con aquellos seres queridos que viven en otros lugares del país. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Por dos semanas había estado planificando, con toda suerte de mapas y libros, una ruta para recorrer el sureste de turquía y hasta el día antes de bayram todavía no había concretado nada. Las personas que venían conmigo habían cambiado de planes, no había tiquetes de bus para ninguna parte, algunos amigos turcos intentaron insistentemente de hacerme cambiar de idea acerca de éste viaje: que no era seguro, que el invierno no me permitiría visitar los lugares a los que quería ir... en fin, todo tipo de razones y argumentos contrastados con la falta de tiempo y la incertidumbre de conseguir transporte o lugares para quedarme fueron el marco de mi maravilloso viaje al sur de Turquía.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;El comienzo de mi ruta fue de Eskisehir hasta Adana, en un tren lúgubre tren lleno de personas de todas las edades que llevaban consigo todo tipo de carga y que llenaban el tren hasta su último asiento. El frío del ambiente era contrarestado con unas placas metálicas calientes que se extendian junto a las sillas por todo lo largo del interior de los vagones y que en ocasiones producían el sofoco. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A medida que el tren se adentraba con su fragor metálico monótono y pesado hacia la parte sur del país, el paísaje cambiaba de verdes campos a un terreno pedregroso cuyas plantas duras y filosas atornillaban sus raíces de hierro en las rocas de las montañas adyacentes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Los rieles de traviesas de hormigón pretensado dibujaban una línea que se sumergía curvada en medio de túneles y montañas para volver a salir a unas planicies con vistas magníficas cuyas tierras se desplegaban hasta las faldas de unas montañas inmensas o se perdían en el horizonte muchos kilómetros después.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pasó la noche y yo seguí concentrado en mis lecturas devorando sin tregua más de la mitad del libro de las memorias de Gabriel García Márquez mientras el tren se balanceaba y estremecía en algunos desniveles del camino que ponían a temblar los vagones de lata. Las señoras con la cabeza cubierta por un velo florido trataban de capturar a los niños que correteaban alegremente tratando de servirles piezas de pan. Los estudiantes leían con furia libros extensos. Los fumadores furtivos entablaban charlas entre los vagones soltando risotadas que se escuchaban hasta en las sillas más lejanas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/HPIM3930.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/HPIM3930.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amanecía, y con las primeras luces me encontré con un episodio extraordinario.Ya había recorrido yo ésta zona en varias ocasiones más sin embargo, disfruté la experiencia como si se tratara de la primera vez: el color de la tierra en esta parte de Turquía es rojo. Es un terreno árido y arenoso que en verano puede alcanzar fácilmente los 48 grados centígrados. Las majestuosas montañas se erigían imponentes en el horizonte. Sin duda me encontraba atravesando la &lt;a href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-73/lores/sts073-723-054.jpg"&gt;zona Montañosa de Taurus&lt;/a&gt; (zona desde la cual el río Eufrates desciende hasta Siria e Irak). Era pues, un bello contraste carmesí, de un cielo que se diluía en las primeras luces de un día de noviembre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;uego de 18 horas de un viaje temerario, había llegado a mi destino. El tren se detuvo con parsimonia y las gentes se despertaron de su letargo como si todavía no creyesen que fuera verdad que, por fin, hubieramos llegado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La tarde era maravillosa: una brisa fresca contrastada con un sol brillante que me hacían percibir con alegría los colores en la vieja ciudad de Adana. De allí tomé el bus hacia Gaziantep, el primer destino de mi viaje. Eran 3 horas más de viaje. La paciencia y el letargo adquirido luego de 18 horas de viaje en ese tren atiborrado de gente me cedió la virtud de sentir ya me daba lo mismo viajar 1 hora o 30 horas más. Me acompañaba desde ese punto Erika, la mexicana, con quien por medio de otros estudiantes de AIESEC pude establecer contacto para que me acompañara en el viaje. Fue una fortuna para mi, pues resultó ser una persona extraordinaria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Llegamos a Gaziantep a las 4 de la tarde y ya se podían ver las primeras nubes grises en el cielo. Las luces de ese día alegre y brillante se habían esfumado pero mi motivación por iniciar la visita a los sitios históricos seguía intacta. Todavía con el impulso de aprovechar al máximo los días del bayram le propuse a Erika que nos fuéramos de inmediato a ver el castillo que de seguro cerraban muy pronto. Ella, más prudente que yo, que ya venía de Mersin también cansada de viajar me llevó al apartamento en el que se está quedando, junto con una polaca y una turca, y me dijo que esperara un momento que iba a avisarle a unos amigos que vivían en el mismo edificio. Yo aproveché para tomar un baño caliente y comer pistachos (que son famosos en ésta ciudad de Turquía), al cabo de 20 minutos se presentó con dos personas que me soprendieron por su infinita amabilidad y disposición a ayudar: Serdar y Evre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Serdar tiene un carro que puso a nuestra disposición y nos llevó a volandas hasta el castillo donde llegamos a las 5 y 20 pero la situación no era lo que yo me esperaba: una oscuridad que bien podría hacer pensar que eran las 9 de la noche y una lluvia ligera pero continua que me hizo desistir del plan de visitar el castillo a esa hora que de seguro también estaba cerrado. No queriéndome dar por vencido, saqué la cámara digital y comencé a tomar fotos desde las afueras del castillo en las que solo se alcanzaban a distinguir unas luces lánguidas a lo largo de los perfiles amurallados... Nada que hacer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Melancólico les dije que nos iríamos al día siguiente temprano hacia Sanliurfa sin visitar el castillo ni el museo de mosaicos de Gaziantep. Ellos rechazaron mi idea tajantemente y nos dijeron que los visitáramos en la mañana, igual, ya estabamos allá. No me pareció mala la idea, así que nos fuímos a un restaurante típico a celebrar con unos platillos especiales el primer día del Bayram: una sopa con leche en cuya superficie flotaba un manto de aceite y en cuyo fondo reposaban unos pedacitos de carne, todo acompañado con pan... una delicia. Erika, que es vegetariana, pidió en cambio “Patlican Kebap” (asado en parrilla de berenjena) y sorprende ver el tamaño de las berenjenas en ésta región, todo vino acompañado con ensalada y tomates con ajíes asados.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/1600/Gaziantep%20-%2049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4966/457/320/Gaziantep%20-%2049.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Luego de la espléndida cena, nos tomamos algunas fotos aprovechando la decoración típica del lugar y visitamos, a 50 metros del restaurante, un pequeño bazar donde vendían todo tipo de artesanías y decoraciones además de animales tallados en piedra y madera. Caminamos un poco más y llegamos a un restaurante a tomar Salep, una bebida caliente hecha a base de leche endulzada y espolvoreada con canela molida. Los meseros tenían puestos los atuendos típicos del imperio otomano con sombreros rojos y redondos y pantalones de tiro muy largo. Sobre las paredes colgaban alfombras turcas, herramientas típicas para trabajar la tierra y pieles de animales. El dueño del lugar nos encontró particularmente simpáticos y nos dió una atención especial. Me sentí tan bien en ese momento, en ese lugar, con esos nuevos amigos, que pude recordar con claridad las emociones de mis primeros días en turquía. Allí si tomé fotos a discreción.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Por la noche las Erika y Evre se fueron a dormir y yo me fui con mi nuevo amigo Serdar a tomarnos una botella de vino de 2,5 litros que sabía a gloria. Hablamos de las mujeres y otros demonios hasta bien entrada la noche. Eran las 3 de la mañana cuando me fui a dormir contento y con ansias de comenzar a explorar Gaziantep durante el nuevo día.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Esperen la segunda parte muy pronto: Gaziantep y Sanliurfa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7432899-113205356047679977?l=manaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GranCaribe/~4/NWdANnrGXGc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://manaya.blogspot.com/feeds/113205356047679977/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7432899&amp;postID=113205356047679977" title="7 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113205356047679977?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7432899/posts/default/113205356047679977?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GranCaribe/~3/NWdANnrGXGc/por-el-sureste-de-turqua-primera-parte.html" title="Por el Sureste de Turquía, primera parte." /><author><name>Manuel Anaya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06622183180011708499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://lh4.google.com/manaya8/RwkNisbobzI/AAAAAAAABrc/dTOUH9Bh9CY/s144/SSL15561.JPG" /></author><thr:total>7</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://manaya.blogspot.com/2005/11/por-el-sureste-de-turqua-primera-parte.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

