no longer....

Some products impossible to find at stores.....and some stores that are no longer the same or don't even exist.

• Continente (among others, such as Pryca) became carrefour.

I kept a packet of odd paper: 63 g! It's even hard to find 70 g paper...

• Caprabo merged (sort of) with eroski and became caprabo amb eroski oder eroski.

I liked seeing the names and information about the products in catalan (well, Bonpreu supermarkets do so)...but seeing names and texts on products in basque, galician, spanish and catalan is interesting and one can learn some basic daily-life vocabulary.

아 ~, 진싸!!!

Really....these are scary times....What have people done to deserve such a govenrment?? Finally, yesterday there was a reaction to the situation, I mean, a real reaction, since the measures since then had been rather random and uneffective. However, such measures aren't the best at all...and it feels that they're taken too late, under pressure and rushing. Other parties had been saying to do changes and adopt certain policies for a long time but that useless politician the citizens have to suffer as head of the executive, was too stubborn and childish to accept them, to admit the situation was bad. It's never been a sign of intelligence to cover one's ears so as to ignore suggestions. It felt like "since it's x, who is bad, the enemy, who makes the suggestion, it's a bad suggestion and I'm going to ignore it". It's healthy and enriching to listen to different and even contrary opinions or to thoughts from those who think differently and then think about it.

아, 진싸...

The time when the ruling party boastfully talked about protecting the worker and avoiding cuts in social expenditure is not far away. The time when they boastfully called themselves socialist is neither far away from now....Worker's party? socialist party? Just seeing their salaries, the way they dress and the way they act places them far away from such adjectives...And how they love to waste money on useless things and trips....and how they love to appear smiling at some meetings and photographs.

Really.....there's a lot to say, a lot to be fed up with and too much to feel just too disappointed. Fortunately I didn't vote for them but for a party who got no representation in the Parliament.

Really....it's still too long until the next general election.

QUI VOL BESTIOLES LLIURES?

Fa poc han estat les consultes sobiranistes, en un moment en què hi ha qüestions més rellevants
en què pensar i temes pendents de resoldre o millorar. La identitat no servirà com a crostó de pa
per la gana. Només ens fa menys lliures i ens tanca...però és interessant ficar en els caps idees
sobre identitats (ja poden ser nacionalismes, idolatries a marques o imatges, adoracions diverses)
per fer que les criatures humanes actuin sense donar gaires arguments. s'ha de fer això perquè
sóm un grup, un col.lectiu d'iguals, una comunitat diferenciada. Res més.

Diria que és millor veure el que uneix les bestioles humanes: veure la diversitat com riquesa, no
pas com trets diferenciadors. Per què les cultures han de ser patrimoni de comunitats concretes?
Tant per aprendre i per compartir que hi ha...

Les banderes no són més que draps pintats. Sense draps, nus, tots esdevindriem iguals. Nus,
sense etiquetes ni aferraments, més feliços i menys cecs.

en els temps que corren....

...mocadors en packaging estilós.

M'han agradat els mocadors del bonpreu. Són diverses les marques blanques que presenten dissenys allunyats del que podria considerar-se cutre o hortera. Al marge de la situació econòmica i la bona opció que són els preus de les marques de les distribuidores i les marques blanques, aquestes van presentant cada cop més dissenys més agradables. Molts han anat canviant els dissenys millorant (ex: els productes d'higiene i cosmètica del Mercadona, diversos productes de l'Alcampo, canviant-li els colors cridaners a l'ocell del logo...)

Yellow-Forward

A brand-new age? It seems so. This time it might feel different since so many things have been changing inside and out. Illness, new projects, different perspectives and finally, the feeling of having found a path. Having started with advertising studies seems to be the right decision. I wonder why couldn’t I see it before. I always liked to think and remember ads, I even cut ads from magazines....and recorded or downloaded some, enjoyed watching tv programmes about adverts (the last one I remember was “La Rentadora”, on Tv3). What kind of blindness is that? Turning 28 and seeing clearly things about oneself and paths to take in life is better than keeping blind in that sense and keep going nowhere, keep losing energy, fading because of lacking dreams.

Stop, think, pick up something and choose a more suitable way. It won’t mean going backwards but getting better prepared instead, so as to keep moving better, smoothly. On yellow high-heel boots. a Bright and vivid colour to make steps shinier, more pleasant.

Made in W. Germany

Last Saturday, there was some kind of special street market in this city. Most shops downtown
had their own stand and sold kind of outlet items. They organise such an event from time to time
and it’s pretty successful. I often find some interesting bargains: fashionable and good quality
pantyhoses (for 1 euro or so, just because they’re from years ago...but still perfect and nice), some
silver earrings (I got some for 5 or 4 euros once)...and this time I got, for 0,50 euro, some kind of paper fastening stuff (rapesco’s Supaclip)....and 3 fountain pens ( 1 euro each). I like using
fountain pens and I got a crush on a couple of colourful ones (Inoxcrom, Spanish brand) and an old Pelikan one,
very old since it’s written on it “W. Germany”. I like it when I find items that were made back then. It’s somehow odd to be able to buy West-german products. Many things were better at that time....I might be kind of nostalgic about my childhood in the 1980es..

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not-so-caged-animal

Floating feet are useless feet but in some dreamt landscape. Wearing leopard-print shoes but unable to walk for too long or go too far away is like walking inside some kind of cage.

Outside I can feel the cage.

Inside, there’s no cage.

Illness has been coming, fading and coming change so many perceptions that I became some kind of odd creature with an intermittent cage. A leopard-shoed woman running fast inside, going far away. Yet with limited movements outside.

POCOYOLDA

I read somewhere by chance (in some blog) about pocoyoisation option on Pocoyo’s site. I quite liked the idea and gave it a try. Some pocoyo-alter egos can be really good and look quite the same as the real person.

Now....some versions of pocoyolda....

¡POCOYOÍZATE!

Brand new

Fading past,
brand new paths,
casually it was at the end of a year.
Another brand new and shiny January.
A better year....

Plastic brain, rubber brain...

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I recently heard, in Eduard Punset’s TV program Redes, about the ability of the brain to adapt, to change its structure whenever something new is learn, no matter how old we are. It might be a bit more difficult to learn new things when we get old but yet we can learn new thing....great! there’s so much to learn and there can be so many possible paths to take in life...

Find or come across-learn-adapt....and another change or something else new comes.

We often underestimate our capabilities and don’t take advantage of all our possibilities. Rationally it seems very easy to improve oneself, as well as to solve emotional problems (there were also some interesting reports and interviews to scholars studying consequences and solutions to some emotional problems)...but there’s always something seemingly making us become passive and somehow silly and lazy.

I feel sad when I think of Spanish society nowadays. I feel effort and willingness to improve oneself is rarely praised or seen as something important. Not so long ago it wasn’t this way... Also, patience and perseverance were seen as necessary to get something, to succeed and thus to be admired. Having so many facilities and resources has, too often, made us become lazier instead of better. It’s so easy to get used to easier things....and instead of being more efficient and better we seldom fill the time we gain doing something to improve ourselves....how often do we just sit in front of TV?...So easy to fall into idleness.... Being idle from time to time is good and even healthy....but aiming idleness might turn us into passive beings wasting time, precious time....Precious specially knowing the wide range of possibilities we have.