Gui Boratto @ Madrid
Yesterday I saw one of my favorite DJ’s live in Madrid. Show was espectacular (as it should) and we even managed to go all the way to the front and pose for the DJ’s picture of the crowd! Peace out!
Magic Beans
Things are moving fast nowadays, even though I have been working a lot from home lately I needed to take a break, but a real break, like mentally. Things happen for a reason, right? Well, it happened that one of my best friends emailed me a link to promote a vegetarian farm/guest house he runs […]
Coca-Conomía: El consumo de Coca-Cola y la obesidad infantil
Es por todos bien sabido que México tiene los índices de obesidad infantil más altos del todo el mundo, lo cual no sorprende cuando se sabe también que somos el consumidor más grande per capita de Coca-Cola. Ambas cosas parecen absurdas dado que somos un país donde 40 millones de mexicanos viven en la pobreza […]
Where does the Italian saying “Smoking Like a Turk” comes from?
One of the things I first noticed in Italy was that people smoked a lot. Although they have this phrase “Smoking like a Turk”. ¿Who smokes the most? Additionally, being a non smoker it’s sometimes a big problem because tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year, from which 600,000 are the result of non-smokers […]
Doing The Right Things
Story short, I want to buy a scooter. The details? I must go through hell to do so. Truth is that unfortunately the more bureaucratic a country is, the more the people try to get around procedures to achieve what they need. These going-around is not necessarily illegal, but not the right thing either. In […]
Demonstrations in Istanbul for the Taksim Gezi Park
In May 2013 a wave of demonstrations sparkled in Istanbul, Turkey as a result of urban development plans for the Taksim Gezi Park. Demonstrations in Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park became violent as anger unfolded into a wider range of civil concerns freedom of the press, of expression, assembly, and the government’s encroachment on Turkey’s secularism. […]
A Japanese Lesson
Today as I was coming back home something very interesting happened, one of those learnings from living abroad. It was around 11:00pm, I get on the bus, which has half empty, and a Japanese guy (tourist I suppose) came down from the back seats all the way to the driver and stood up next to […]