Y pasa el tiempo

Y yo te busco en ese perfume que no es tuyo, que es de la noche y se irá mañana.

Te busco en esa sonrisa, que es tan mía cómo de aquel con el que cruzaste miradas en la metropolitana.

Te busco en esas cartas, las cuales has escrito pensando en aquel que un día rasgó tus vestidos,

ese aquel que no era yo

Envejezco, y me siento mejor

A mis 28, el mundo se pone a mis pies

Las sorpresas, en cambio, escasean

Y esa idea de cambiar el mundo, ya lejos queda

Me estoy cansando de esto, ya ves

He dejado de sentirte, tu presencia es sólo un recuerdo

El sentimiento se transforma, las cenizas queman

Y el corazón siente, ese insalvable vacio

No te amo, los dos lo sabemos

pero desde aquel momento, ese punto de ruptura

el amor dejó de existir para mí

y comienzo a pensar si no fue un sueño

Quiero revivir el sentimiento

Volver a creer que hay un futuro

Pensar en que uno más uno es más que dos

y que aquello que fué, no evitará un mañana.

Fragility

Today is a sad day, very sad indeed. I've recently received a couple of news from my former university that left me breathless for a while. The dean of postgraduate studies of what once was my university was shot by three individuals while parking his car in front of his mother's house. Still the information available is very unclear when referring to the identities of the perpetrators of such a crime, and I would not run into conclussions about the rationale or the provenance of these people.

I met John in 2003 when I was looking for an undergrad thesis. Along with Camilo Rueda and John E., we started looking into the problem of the computation of economic equilibria for multiple products using a constraint programming approach. Due to reasons that are outside the scope of this post I stepped outside of the project, but I got to know the work John had being doing during his MSc and his PhD. I remember him as a very dedicated person, with very practical questions to answer in his research and always available to explore new research ideas. I know that after I finished my career there he undertook duties as head of the Industrial engineering programme and later as the dean of postgraduate studies at Javeriana.

The second sad event, comes from the same university and the same department of engineering. My former professor Hernando Prado was shot by individuals after having withdrawn money from an ATM. Fortunately, he is now recovering from the shots, and I expect him to be sound and safe soon. Hernando was my professor of Economic engineering, and I think that if I would have met him earlier I would have probably chosen a different path in my career. I remember that despite the time where the lectures were held (19:00 till 22:00) he was still able to fill up the classroom with students eager to learn, not only about the topics he was teaching, but about all the life experiences he was including in every single lecture. Sometimes, I remember him as an inspiration when I have to teach, and I try to convey those values in the lectures, finding them hard to transmit when you are such a rookie in teaching matters comparing to people with 20+ years of experience.

My relation with none of them is close nowadays, but still I feel touched by the fragility of life, even in "safe" environments like the university. One of the reasons why I decided to pursue an academic life is because I feel I can make a change on the life of others, just by providing a little bit of motivation and base tools for their own research. It's hard to hear that still such a honorable (and humble, in both cases cited previously) profession can be affected by cruelty like assassination, and I still refuse to believe a student can possibly be included in this matter. It also left you thinking how else can you possibly contribute to a society like mine, when such minimal values are not taken into consideration. Between my ideals are still to contribute to my country by helping others in the lines of research and education, fostering R+D in Colombia and at some point strengthen my relationship with Colombia; however, I won't put in risk the safety of my family or mine in that effort.

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sono vivo

Oggi scrivo per dire quello che penso di questo blog. Per me non è importante se lo leggete, se non siete d´accordo con quello che scrivo, non m´interessa in assoluto creare polemica ne farvi crescere in nessun senso, non riceverete di me nessun link per scaricare niente che vi sia utile e se vi piace cosi sono contento, se no è comunque per me un piacere che ancora ci sia almeno un lettore di questi post.

Sono qua per esprimermi, che alla fine è stato sempre il mio scopo per scrivere. Non penso scrivere cose serie, ma neanche sono un comico, soltanto voglio lasciare andare il cuore libero con tutta quella libertà che le parole li permettono. Se scambio la lingua dal inglese allo spagnolo ed oggi al´italiano è soltanto perché lui piace cosi, ed io sono soltanto un interprete di quello che vuole. Se non scrivo in mesi (perdendo cosi miei unici lettori) dovreste scusarmi, ma lui non vuole svegliarsi, è li latente ma muto, ed io devo rispettarlo cosi.

Oggi sono tornato in piscina dopo 5 anni di non nuotare come si deve. Qua i prezzi per fare uno sport come il nuoto sono veramente pazzeschi, 235 corone danesi (più di 30 euro) per 10 entrate è proibitivo, ma dopo tanto tempo mi sono sentito vivo! il mio corpo si scorreva per la superficie aquosa come tanto tempo fa, ed era una sensazione che non mi ricordavo più. I danesi non sono grande nuotatori, ed è un vero problema il trafico in palestra; ma quello non è il punto, oggi (e grazie al mio papa in questi ultimi giorni) ho ricordato tante cose che mi piacciono ed ho lasciato per mancanza di compromesso con me stesso. Non ho tornato a capoeira, non faccio più fotografia, non nuoto più. Sempre c´è una scusa: il lavoro, la università, una ragazza qualsiasi, una birretta dopo il lavoro.... il vero punto è che sono io quello che deve godersi se stesso: il ambiente che ti circonda è finalmente una fantasia, e le sensazione che da li provengono soltanto aiutano a complimentarti su quell trasfondo dentro di te.  Ora sento che sto invecchiando; si, ho soltanto 26 anni, ma sento che tante cose ormai non ci sono più: cose di me stesso, gli elementi definitori della mia personalità. Ugualmente mi sento vivo, pieno di nuove cose che mi caratterizzano e che ormai non li ho messo in considerazione. Comincio una nuova ricerca, per riscoprirmi: ora.

A good recipe

Tonight I tried to come up with a new recipe, as some of the italian pasta that I was used to eat while in trento are not easy to find over here. Here's the version of cannelloni all spinaci e ricotta that I was able to do, i'm really satisfied with the results and --along a good red wine-- it should be excellent for a romantic dinner.

Cannelloni all Spinacci and Ricotta.

(Recipe for 4 person)
• 10 sheets of italian Pasta Sfoglia (I think it's called Puff Pastry).
• 250g fresh ricotta or cream cheese
• ¼ cup grana cheese
• 250g frozen spinach (thawed)
• 2 egg yolks (beaten)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• pinch ground black pepper
• 2 cloves of garlic (crushed)

• 425g can tomato puree
• 1 level teaspoon ground basil leaves
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 level teaspoon salt
• ½ cup cream (optional)
Topping
• ½ cup grated cheese
• pinch of Oregano
• One piece of mozzarella cheese (medium size)

1. The Filling


Start mixing the spinach, ricotta cheese, egg yolks, garlic, grana cheese, salt and pepper together thoroughly in a medium sized bowl. Aside, boil a pot of water and introduce the sheets of pasta sfoglia, one by one, in order to soften them for a couple of minutes. Take each sheet and rolled up leaving some space for the filling. Finally fill the rolls with the mixture.

2. The Sauce


Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, add tomato puree, the cream, fresh basil, salt and pepper and bring to boil. Remove from heat after boiling.

3. Baking

In a greased oven proof baking dish pour a layer of sauce, leaving enough to cover cannelloni.
Place a single layer of filled cannelloni side by side in the baking dish. Pour over the remaining sauce. Cut small pieces of mozzarella and cover the top of the recipe.
Bake in oven at 200°C for 25 - 35 minutes (test by pricking with a skewer).

La 33

Recently I succumbed to the power of marketing of one of the most interesting sites I´ve came across on the net. Last-fm is not a new service on the net, and it mainly offers a free-customizable radio station that suggest new or underground artists based on your parameters of preference. It gathers that information by synchronizing its servers with your audio tracks in Itunes/ipod. In some sense this "free music" comes at a really high price: you are sharing your consumer preferences so the mayor companies can studie your market behaviour. Moreover, it's a market platform where every artist played in Last-fm is actually offering its products in front of a potential consumer that otherwise wouldn't notice them. However, the strategy is not bad for the final user, as it gets to know interesting music when he is tired of his own collection of purchased items, and allows the possibility to enrich his taste proposing interesting combinations that can suit to its needs.

Was in this process where La 33 arrived to my ears as one of the suggestions of new artists in the salsa field. These bogota-based salsa group doesn't have anything to be discontent of being in a city with no salsa heritage. Actually, as most of the business in Colombia, the centralization of power makes the best players move to Bogota as it is more probable to find an a recording label sponsoring them than in any of the other mid-size cities. Its single ¨La pantera mambo¨ is a rich collection of fusions between latin jazz and underground salsa movements. I was very pleased to find that its album is much more than just one single, and that not only covers salsa, but also mambo and bogaloo with different perspectives.

Listen to this album of La 33 is like being transported to one of the almighty salsa clubs in Cali, Colombia. The band succeeds in shaping an album with the energy of a live performance even in a recording studio.

The style of the album can be catalogued as ¨a unisex salsa¨, that is, a genre that can well be worth for a fan of the Gran Combo de Puerto Rico or to an avid listener of new groupings like Orishas or Sergent Garcia. Its swing is in some respect influenced by Yerba Buena, Sidestepper, and Eddie Palmieri.

The best songs for my taste:
- La pantera mambo¨
- Que rico boogaloo
- La 33
- Suelta el Bongo

Fisherman

Con ganas de caminar y hacer un poco de ejercicio en este frio verano danes me pase por Strandparken, un complejo de playas artificiales creado por los daneses que desean

 tomar un poco de sol. A mi parecer, la arena "fa schifo" (o deja mucho que desear, en español y me gustan espacios con mas facilidades para el que quiera irse a tumbar en la arena (una tienda donde comprarte un refresco sería genial!). Obviamente, tiene sus pros: No hay una masajista de 300 kilos que quiere untarte aceite de coco, los vendedores costeños no te regalan ostras capturadas dos semanas atrás, y en general el ambiente es tranquilo y seguro. En general, lo que más me llama la atención son los diseños daneses, así sea en las islas aritificales son interesantes...la siguiente es la vision de googleearth de strandsparken

. Bueno, eso es tdo por ahora