Seem the party posts are becoming common here, however I most say that yesterday was a great twitterfest, that is Twittab, the twitter group here in my homestate. We gather a good crowd and got to chat with many people including a series of places which went from horrible to great. We first start the night at First cup a Starbuck offshoot to get the people to talk between each other and just chill. I actually got there late, and didn’t stay fully there, since once I got there, they were talking about leaving.
The crowd was so large that people couldn’t even find a sit. I shoot some nice pictures for the meeting:
After that the drama started, we went to a place that seemed like taken out of a movie where people go to die. The sound was so loud that we couldn’t hear between each other, the music was to die right there, and people sang horribly. In the end, I was this close to call it quits with the rest of the group. Since I couldn’t get a ride back home, I remain but after some more painful minutes we eventually call it quits and left.
Next stop was Fun city which is really, well fun. We hang out at the 2nd floor and chat around some of the things that happens in the state, and our academic background. Some are young so they talk about their internships and others about their job. We started getting into more interesting topics about the diversity of believes in this state. Finally we went to get dinner to a taco place and had a good baked potato with cheese. It was pretty good and we continue the conversations about politics and development.
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Last time I blog I mentioned my high school reunion. This time I had a new high school party. Only this time it was organized by ourselves and went pretty good. Really enjoyed the time I spent with them. The conversations weren’t dull nor reminiscing, well it was a bit but it didn’t went on and on forever. Some interesting talk was about their current professions and their immediate plans which sounded great.
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So these couple of years have been not so good for my fitness. Long hours at the computer and intense sedentarism has caused to get huge. Lately I have decided to take matters into my hands and get my ass up and go to the gym. Since I have been going for two months now, there has been days where I wish I wouldn’t have gone. On the other side, I have been amazed how unfit I am and even yesterday some exercises I remember doing pretty well were nearly impossible.
After a month going to the gym there is little progress to be honest, I haven’t experience any weight loss, however usually things work like this. I think that my burning of fat has not started yet, and maybe I will see results by the end of the second month. In average I am burning somewhere around 2000 – 3500 calories per session. Last time I was attending a gym I was burning somewhere around 3000 but sweating A LOT thanks to my sweating gear. In this city is impossible to wear the sweat gear because is simply too hot and suffocating. However I think that with persistence I will be able to at least disappear this belly.
So far I haven’t weight myself so I also haven’t been able to measure if any kg have been dropped from the scale, however I can start feeling some tensification of muscle under the fat layer on my belly, maybe once the burning of the fat starts I will be able to get a better body shape.
And so the fighting continues…
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I know I didnt do any blogging during the summer so I am putting a brief of what happened in the past weeks.
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was launched…yaaaay with that the the ES version and went out to all plataforms
We had a good cycle with many people participating with the QA and other aspects of the builds like testing it for different platforms. I think we did a good job overall. This launch feature OOo new image and logo.
Went to NY for my OOo Meetup
Finally after 10 years I got to go back to New York city and be able to hang out for a whole week doing shopping and relaxing. The hot NYC was pretty new to me who experience mostly winter NYC. I like it how it all played out and even thought I went a b it over budget I think I needed that trip.
High School reunion
Had my high school reunion with some of my friends, which I went on to have a great time and eventually went to a club for the first time since Romania. At the end it was all good and came back home pretty late
Twittab meetups
The meetings have been pretty good lately specially last week where many people came to watch the boxing match in Chillis and had a great time all night long.
LeBron James signed to the Heat
Wow big 3 in the making, with Dwayne Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh in Miami it seems this will be some great trio coming together for the Championship.
Tags: Ex-Arjis, LeBron James, nba, New York, OpenOffice.org, twittab
Back on Wu-ForEver site they re-pulish an article about the Rebel INS upcoming manifesto, the article actually got me thinking into providing a bit of my take. How does the Wu-Tang prime flower shine so much within the group yet so lost in the solo environment… here is my original answer:
You know when I think of the Rebel INS I expect a battle cat with a very guttery like story telling. Unfortuantely you are completely right, his highlights havent really pass to his solo projects. I mean I think of Inspectah on Cold World, talking about “I thought he was death but instead, he hit a 12 yr old girl in the head and then left”.
Or a big opener like Triumph “I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies and high prophecies, can’t define it how I’ve been droppin’ this“. Just pure epic hiphop gold.
He is definitely a force of nature in his verse, the talent is there, but the inspiration and ability to create momentum goes kind of sour.
I remember Deck doing great collabo’s like the one with Gangstar “I leave scientist mentally scarce, triple extra large, sounds like rockstars who smash guitars“. However when I heard uncontrollable substance, revolution, it was just an angle more of talib kweli than an old shaolin soldier.
Mast Killa album in contrast could recreate the magic, the kung-fu flics, the 120 questions, the science and math was basically in place, and even if his albums was slept on, it was a classic in it’s own nature.
I think Deck need to come back to the shaolin soul, prove his own thoughts, and inspire the pain from the slums. Bring Tekitha, that girl build miracles. The project would be much powerful and gutterful and then you have a master works.
Tags: 120 questions, deck, hiphop, masta killa, shaolin, tekitha, wu-tang
So usually I claim this blog is personal but seldomly do I talk about personal stuff, sure I talk about my hobbies but never about anything meaningful or private except on few topics where I really thought it will help getting things out like my ex gf. I dunno if it helped or not but it surely was something that I can thought of it as personal. Well here is another thing it has fill my brain today.
So I had a dream, I wouldn’t call it a nightmare but neither would I call it a pleasant dream. It was a quite odd in regards that I actually repeat itself on a few parts specially the tsunami part. This time the dream started with me and a group of friends (I supposed) came into a small root at the roof of a house in Cancun. Inside it was a tv a chair and some storage stuff. Then I remember that a grey fog came and took the visibility of even the door and window. Then I saw that something start showing and it was the head of a small plane, the planes were floating, being dragged by the fog.
I remember stepping out and seen that the planes were actually quite cloose to other roof of the houses and one even stumbling with a slightly higher wall. I went to the ground level and to the sea to find a sea filled with larger planes, huge planes floating in the water. In the horizon I saw some starting to blow up and causing a fire on the shore because of the fuel in them.
This started forming some kinds of Tsunamis that start covering the ground and hitting us. I most have had many lives since I was squashed several times by this huge waves. Even learn how to avoid them, most of the other toursit were trying to gather food and water to survive, and even do concerts to entertained and then waves just kept crushing them. At the end I just woke up, no grand finale but just woke.
What I start thinking after that day was that tsunami dreams and high school dreams are one of the most common dreams I have. Earlier that week I also dream about being in high school playing basketball and going to the last year of HS on my old school which I actually never went since I changed schools before. My sister made a comment that makes me think she is right and maybe she have happened the same on her. She mentioned that it’s what provoke me the most stress in my life. Something I totally agree and I found it very interesting to keep me looking into it.
Tags: arji, dreams, high shcool, planes, tsunamis
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Seems that more and more we are leaving the old formats and going into other things like special places and parties. Now it was the Twit&Pizza event in a Bufete Pizza restaurant in a pretty good restaurant. The restaurant was full and we call forward for a 10 member table. We were lucky since we got 11 people showing up and everyone got the chance to chitchat and laugh about the many jokes that this group has. From a funny laugh to also commenting on the slow service (which speed up eventually). We got an odd table where the wifi didn’t quite reach the other side of the table and I wasn’t able to get online althought the other side could.
We also have a good time enjoying the birthday from the table next to us which did some dancing and stuff, the only annoyance was the loud music made it impossible to talk and we need to switch cellphones to basically pass messages around in order to communicate. All in all was a good idea and we enjoyed the food. I personally liked the “sweet pizzas” which I was curious to know how they taste like.
We talked about our ongoing projects, the news from TQV webmaster about pushing the shows on to his site and also having our own terrestial radio show in the local news outlet. Eventually it was fun and we had a good time, I would love to see an event like this happening, I started thinking about going bowling and doing a Twitt&Bowl so we can actually do more than just chit chat around food. Hope this turns out like a good thing in the future.
Tags: community, food, friends, pizza, twittab, twitter, web 2.0
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Lebron off the back two hand jam
With the season now beyond the All-Star break a new lineup is happening as the Denver Nuggets have lost the touch and teams like the Magics and Maverics have become tougher and hotter. Then again is the Lakers which have been able to hold on to their title lead on the West however the Cavaliers still reign supreme with Lebron making people give something to talk about.
Finally some Michael Jordan news when he took the GM of Charlotte new posts have been coming up about the expectation that the game faces when the greatest player is now the owner of the team. The throwback to last year speech about Jordan’s life insight also became a major event that is always great to remember.
Tags: Bobcats, Charlotte, Denver, lebron, magics, Maverics, Michael Jordan, MJ, shaq
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Bajan Beach
From my point of view, 2009 has been an extension to 2010, basically a stronger development of projects on the professional task of making OpenOffice.org a viable project with independence and more robust roadmap. This year I establish the OOoES as a legal entity, I celebrate contracts with first clients, and got structure an organization.
This year I came close to become a part of the OpenOffice.org Community council and finally gave a talk at OOoCon2009. As a matter of fact I had 4 talks of OOo including some projects where I am playing a key role including OOo4Kids, ODFKit, and OpenOffice.org Certification. With more experience also dealing with people and a more ‘closer’ attitude I hope that 2010 continues my education on making and starting deals.
In basketball I lower my exercise but also came back to be a passionate NBA fan and following my team thanks to online video I was able to follow last season as well as the current. I was able to record my first video playing basketball in a while and also got a new ambition to go back into competing.
On the traveling side, I was able to go to many places, including Barbados, Barcelona, Canary Islands, Brazil, Rome and United states. I was able to travel also withing Mexico and also got in touch with some friends I haven’t talk in a long time. I got to meet long time friends like Leandre and felt happier of having someone to care for.
Technologically speaking I didn’t accomplish more except of maybe keeping trace of whatever is hot including, html5, Google technologies, and some more python.
This year I got to hang a lot more with old friends from school including Victor (College) and Lalo (high school), Alejandro (high school) and now working together on doing something that could be interesting. Also I saw how hard life was for some of my friends and many others I wasn’t able to meet at all. Actually I am quite surprised this year there wasn’t many meetings from friends. However I was able to meet a new community of friends that we share the same passion for technology through the twitter network, we are further getting together to come out with cool stuff to do together including a vidcast and now we are thinking on a network. Another group of friends might come from another acquired passion which is hiphop which this year was rewarded with an unexpected comeback to the Wu renaissance with Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx Pt II and Ghostdini. But a whole crew here in my hometown became visible enough for me to catch the show and maybe even be part of it in the future.
I still burning for an unmatched desire to come back to Europe and stay for a while, same thing in the U.S. and unfortunately I haven’t been in the position to do this, I hope next year I would be able to breakout. I also hope to meet new people and continue my good relationship with my friends. I also hope to get back in shape and workout and also improve my overall health and lifestyle improve in quality.
Tags: 2009, 2010, arji, barbados, barcelona, basketball, brasil, certification, cleveland, college, Europe, friends, google, lalo, lebron, linux, nba, OpenOffice.org, podcast, rome, technology, twitter, us, vidcast, wu-tang
Tomorrow I will be at the first hiphop show in my city, I am very excited and plan to be there and enjoy a good hiphop evening. Myself being a long time hiphop fan with figures such as Biggie, Raekwon, RZA, Method Man and Mos Def, I am basically proud that I will be able to finally come into what hiphop is all about. well to be honest I am not having such high hopes and I have been about hiphop in the past since living in the US and being able to listen to Mos Def, and Ghostface perform live, also lived in Mexico city where underground groups also performed, however this is the first time something like this happens in Villahermosa.
Some groups will be here from other cities around and I wonder how they sound, I will probably buy their cd’s or whatever they have on sale just to give back to the movement. I have heard some rappers already on youtube and have already some songs from the Internet, they rhyme mostly in Spanish and one doesn’t sound bad at all. Unfortunately the rest seem to be more limited and don’t really sound that hot. Then again I am glad this is happening and I hope to do some networking.
Looking forward to it… will report back.
Tags: agresor, ghostface, hiphop, method man, rap, rza, south cartel, villahermosa
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