Leire

A different story

2009-05-21T05:42:00.000-07:00

I meet a camera who told me about a lovely party. She was invited to a blogger party in Sitges and there she found a house really special, full of memory, experience, illusions, dreams, wisdom and mainly, enjoyment.
This camera told me that she felt really comfortable there, her objective could turn easily, looking for those faces that expressed firstly shyness and later happiness, relaxation, laughter. All things seemed to ride alone. Then, when the harmony was completely inside, it appeared in scene an amazing food cooked by an exceptional cook, who is dedicated to education but it seems she’s got other goodness too…. Brilliant, very tasty!

Besides, the camera said to me that she was held by other “collaborators” as a taller of uncanny stories or a little man who’s got a good future as photographer. So she felt really nice with all them. Finally, she discovered a roof with a nice view. She could capture from there the marvelous Sitges with different sort of light, with a sun coming down.......

Now, she only wants to say, thanks! thanks on behalf of her and me!

Difficult moments? put some poetry in your life!

2009-05-14T11:41:00.000-07:00

Some moths ago we had to take a poem to class in order to share and reading it there. I think that it was an interesting activity, I didn’t read poetry from years and I have to confess I enjoyed a lot.

I tried Susan Polis, who is an American poet and producer of greeting cards. She was born in Peekskill, NY in 1944. A long time activist for women’s rights and antiwar causes, she initially worked as a freelance writer. In 1971, she turned here hobby of writing poetry into a commercial venture by founding (with husband Stephen Schutz) the greeting card and poster company Blue Mountain Arts.

Schutz’s poetry focuses heavily on themes of love, family, motherhood, trust and gratitude. Her poems’ simple language and unrhymed free verse give them an approachable and sincere quality. However, their predictable idiom, consisting mainly of straightforward declaration of strong emotion, has led some readers to deride them and being kitschy and cloying.

I want to post this poem because maybe it will help to cheer up who need a bit of support and courage in difficult moments. Enjoy the poem!

This life is yours
Take the power
to choose what you want to do
and do it well.
Take the power
to love what you want in life
and love it honestly.
Take the power
to walk in the forest
and be a part of nature.
Take the power
to control your own life
no one else can do it for you
nothing is too good for you
you deserve the best.
Take the power
to make your life
healthy
exciting
worthwhile
and very happy.
Take the power
To reach for your dreams.

I recommend it to you !

2009-05-09T15:11:00.000-07:00

I saw this nice film some years ago, but still now many times I can't avoid thinking in it. Her main character tries to leave all things arranged before her death as she is known about her irreversible illness. The film is a lovely recreation about the limit of the love, suffering and respect to the life and death.

The director, Isabel Coixet creates a big work which let to Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman, Leonor Watling, Deborah Harry, the actors, express feelings and huge communication without excess of words. Simply, it is an amazing film that can teach us to live of other way.

Just a thing! It is a real weepie……

The singer

2009-05-09T13:22:00.000-07:00

Why this singer is so special for me?. I guest her story shocked me so much, but evidently also her music, her lyrics, her beginning and basically all around this gorgeous singer caused me a big pleasure.

Here below you can find a little introduce about her and maybe I will get to contaminate you with this brilliant artist. Besides, you can see the video where she recreates her own hard childhood but at the same time her love for the music, in fact her natural evolution and finally she nowadays. Enjoy it!

Tell Me More, January 15, 2008 - The latest musical sensation from Europe, German-born singer Ayo Ogunmakin is celebrating the U.S. release of her new album, Joyful, whi
ch has already seen double-platinum success in France. Born to a Nigerian father and a Romanian mother, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter — whose name means "joy" in Yoruba — has experienced her share of hardship and pain. As a youngster, Ayo was sent to foster care after seeing her mother descend into heroin addiction. She says her experiences have influenced the openness that many have come to appreciate about her music. "When I started singing about my life ... suddenly, it was my own voice," Ayo says. That voice works in a soulful and eclectic mixture of genres. "I call it regg-afro-folk," she says, referring to a mix of reggae, R&B and folk sounds. "You can't really name it. ... It's like a big mix." The mix seems to come naturally to Ayo. Her father was a '70s disc jockey, and that helped foster her appreciation for a range of artists, from Bob Marley to Donnie Hathaway to Pink Floyd. In addition to the breakout success of her first solo album, Ayo is experiencing the joys of motherhood with the birth of her son, Nile.

My father is a big Barça's supporter

2009-05-03T05:41:00.000-07:00

Everyone thinks we know our father very well, but yesterday I discovered my real father.

Yesterday the first football team of our city made history and its supporters inundated streets, squares and neighborhoods, hundred of people needed to express their enthusiasm and support for the team that yesterday made us to dream.

Congratulations Barça!!!

Now more relaxed, he can explain me why he exploited in huge happiness and it is easy, the thing is that there is more than football…… there is a city, a history, feelings……. That’s Barça, more than a club.

R.Madrid 2 - Barça 6

A BIG T-SHIRT

That madman and genius: Antoni Gaudí

2009-05-02T12:22:00.000-07:00

Antoni Gaudí is for me the most universal Catalan architect. He was born in Reus, next to the sea and to the mountains. His origins left their prints firmly on his own development. The young Gaudí grew up in a family of artisans who imbued in him a sense of precision, as his father was inspector of weights and measurements, the faithful regulator of measurements for the Reus Town Council.

In 1878, Gaudí was qualified as an architect. Elies Rogent, director of the Barcelona College of Architecture, said at that time: "We've given our diploma to a madman or a geniuous: time will tell us which one he is".

He left us many worder as Palau Güell, Casa Calvet, Casa Batlló, Casa Milà or La Pedrera, Col.legi Teresià, Güells pavilions.... all them in Barcelona and outside Barcelona, El Capricho in Comillas, Casa de los Botines in Leon, GÜell Crypt in Santa Coloma de Cervelló... and so much and all them amaziing ......

This video talks about The Sagrada Familia Church, maybe the most emblematic piece of Gaudí. Enjoy the video !

Our health and the mobiles phone

2009-05-02T03:50:00.000-07:00

I firmly believed that there is no link between use of mobile phones and any adverse human health effect but after see this video I have made a decision, use my mobile phone with more moderation....... Enjoy the video and be surpresed with the BBC news below.

The impact that mobile phones have on health is unclear. Some scientific studies have linked use of mobiles to headaches, memory loss and cancer, while the industry claims that they are perfectly safe.

A government-funded committee headed by scientist Sir William Stewart concluded that while there was no direct evidence of a health risk from using mobiles, more research was needed to prove their safety.

Now the government is unveiling a £7.4m research project to try to uncover the truth. BBC News.

The Earth Fair

2009-05-02T02:56:00.000-07:00

Is it possible eating of a health way?. Yes, it is. But how much cost it ?. Nowadays, expensive, really expensive, but many associations and cooperatives are working in order to change that.

Last week it was the Earth Party in Barcelona, hundred of people walking around the fair and learning why it is so necessary learning a best way of feeding themselves and getting a best sustainable lifestyles.

This event is promoting the agroecological market, given a good way to fight against aggressive climate change is to buy garden produce directly, cultivated on our land, it is healthy, natural and has no chemical additives.

The fair included an agroecological market with vegeables and food that will be directly marketed by their producers, who make up pat of the Slow Food movement.

We could know the concept of ecological basket which consist in to buy weekly fruits and vegetables of the season but if you can not they bring you the basket home you can get to their cooperative and buy the amount you want to.

I found it really interesting, so I hope you can attend next time!

A way of relaxing....

2009-05-02T02:31:00.000-07:00

Have you ever experimented with your hands and your “oven” the most relaxed time of your life??? Try it cooking!

Here an amazing recipe of chocolate cake, really easy and delicious…. Well, the only thing is that this pleasure has about 406 calories per piece……

Enjoy it !

Chocolate Mousse Cake
1 cup (about 5 ounces) chocolate cookie or chocolate graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
2 pint baskets California strawberries, stemmed and halved
2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 1/2 cups whipping cream, divided
1 tablespoon sugar

In bowl, mix crumbs and butter to blend thoroughly. Press evenly onto bottom of 9-inch springform or cheesecake pan. Stand strawberry halves, touching, side-by-side, pointed ends up with cuts sides against side of pan. Set aside.
Place chocolate chips in blender container. In small saucepan over medium heat, mix water and corn syrup; bring to boil and simmer 1 minute. Immediately pour over chocolate chips and blend until smooth. Cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile, in large mixer bowl, beat 1 1/2 cups of the cream to form stiff peaks. With rubber spatula, fold cooled chocolate into whipped cream to blend thoroughly. Pour into prepared pan; level top. (Points of strawberries might extend above chocolate mixture.) Cover and refrigerate 4 to 24 hours.
Up to 2 hours before serving, in medium mixer bowl, beat remaining one cup cream to form soft peaks. Add sugar; beat to form stiff peaks. Remove side of pan; place cake on serving plate. Using a Pastry Bag with a star tip pipe or dollop whipped cream onto top of cake. Arrange remaining halved strawberries on whipped cream. To serve, cut into wedges with knife, wiping blade between cuts.

Saint George Day in Catalonia

2009-05-02T01:36:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you have meditated about why Saint George day is so important in Catalonia?. Simply it has become a symbol of identity for the catalans maybe such as 11th September.

Hard to understand for those who have never experienced it, Saint George's Day is a popular festive day when book and rose stalls, and, above all, floods of people, take over the streets of all Catalan towns and villages. The celebration could not be simpler: the ritual consists of going for a walk and buying a rose, a book or both to give to loved ones, family members and friends. Although it is not a public holiday, the day and the essential walk fill the streets and squares, making it a unique national festival celebrated on a working day.

This year I was lucky because I could take holiday this so special day and enjoyed the Ramblas and all activities arround the city. Here some pictures I toke of the city.
I hope you like them !

Sedation for surgery anymore?

2009-05-02T00:24:00.000-07:00

Recently I have watched a interesting documentary about the effect of using hypnosis as sedation in surgery. It seems that for the heath this method is so better that the chemical sedation, the time of convalescence is almost null and healding is quicker than the usual method. In some countries has even dared to assist childbirth. You can see in this video a childbirth using this revolutionary method with hypnosis. The sound is not really good but you will be able to read it.
Enjoy it!

My first time

2008-10-05T11:05:00.000-07:00

This is my first time I create a blog. I know people use a lot this new kind of relation-ship and expression and I think it is simply fantastic.

As it is my first time I want to introduce myself. My name is Leire, I am from Barcelona. Now I live in Esplugues de Llobregat and I have worked as logistical technician for 15 years. I can say that I like my job, in fact I find it really interesting although I have to admit it is also very stressful.

Sometimes I think I have worked too long in the same bussiness because 15 years are to many years working with the same matter, I think so. For this reason I would like to begin some studies in dramatic art. Why is this ?. I don't know exactly. Maybe because my father's family has always worked at the theater and I admire them. My cousin for instance, he started acting when he was a child. I remember one day when my school organized a visit to the L'H teather and we had to see a performance as well. I think it was the first time I went to the theater and that was really spectacular for me. I was really observant, my mouth was opened, expectant when suddently the actors were between the spectators and one of them came closer me and told me: "qué fas aqui ??". That familar voice was my cousin. I felt I was the happiest kid in the world. He is currently an important man in the show bussiness.

Well, if I decide to star a new carreer I will advise to you and I will tell you about my adventure, now my thoughts are only a possible project............

Leire.