| Knowledge is Power |
[Nov. 30th, 2006|01:40 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  eager to learn more more more | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the sound of my brain working again | ] |
Wow.
At the risk of sounding redundant, I have come to terms with the extreme knowledge (ha!) and wisdon in the saying: "Knowledge is Power" because it is so so true in every medium that matters at all. I would go so far as to say it's one of the pillars of the meaning of life. That's pretty extreme.
I would also like to report how glad I am to be economically and globally aware in today's day and age when a monumentous shift if about to occur in global economy (about a year from now) when the cost of global goods and services will exceed federal revenues. This is all thanks to thriving and expanding markets such as China, India, Japan, and South Korea (technologically). It'll be interesting to see what happens.
That is all. |
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| Mexican Cell Phone Rant and life summary |
[Nov. 15th, 2006|12:15 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | cell phones, mexico | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Apartment | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  pissed off | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Victor Dinaire - Lost Episode 62 (XM Channel 82) | ] |
Sooooo, it's been a long time since I've posted an entry on here (yes I've made this disclaimer before, but it's probably been a good 6 months or so this time around). I;m not going to go back and update all the big things that have happened since my lsat entries except for this brief summary:
-Got married (in Mexico) over the summer
-Quit RiRa's and went to work at O'Shea's - a startup Irish Pub franchise in Ballantyne
-Started my Bachelor's program in September
-figured out how to graduate 2 terms early... shaving a good 12 grand off my tuition this year (go me!)
-planned out my life for pretty much the next couple years
Anyway, I've gotten into the habit of calling Antonia every couple of days. When she moved to Manzanillo to live with her sisters (and look for a job at the resorts) she got a cell phone because you have to pay an extraodinary amount of money to get a land line installed (something like $600 USD). So the cell phone was the cheaper way to go at the get-go. Unfortunately you have to buy credit not only to call people, but also to recieve calls down there. The cost per minute to buy credit was 2.50 pesos, or about .22 cents USD.
Then government in her state (Colima) passed a law that went into affect on Nov. 4th that the cell phone companies could not charge for incoming calls whether domestic or international. We both thought this was great because we could talk for longer stretches at a time and it wouldn't cost us anymore. Think again.
The past couple of days when I've called down there (same exact way as I always did) I would get a message from the cell phone company (in complicated Spanish so I didn't really understand it that well) that said "wait while your call is being processed" it had done this ever since Nov. 4th, but would always connected me after a wait of about a minute. However, yesterday it would make me wait for about 5 minutes, then tell me the line was busy - even though I found out later that she was not, in fact, talking to anyone at that time. The next couple of times it would give me the same message and then after 2 minutes of waiting would just disconnect the line. oooooookay fine, the line wasn't working today so I'll just try again tommorrow.
So, I call today and I get a new message that says calls to cell phones must now dial "1" after the country code "52" . okay, fine. I do as asked. On my calling card, it usually costs about 5 cents a minute so 3 bucks would give me about an hour of talking time. After I dail the card company tells me how much time I have left to talk on my card. After dialing today, instead of saying I had an hour left it told me I only had 5 minutes left... WTF? So I hang up and try again, with the same message, so I talk for 5 minutes using up all the credit on that card then call again on a brand new card that I was just trying out after the woman at the Latin Store told me it was really good.
So I dail the first time on the new ($5) card without the "1" after the country code and I'm told that I have 5 hours of talk time left (sweet: that means it costs me about .02 a minute). Unfortunately I get that same message that says I have to dial 1 after the ountry code to dial a cell phone number. So I do that and the card company tells me my 5 hours of talk time is now only about 25 minutes ... on that same $5 card. So then it dawns on me after a quick calculation later: at 25 minutes on a $5 card I'm paying 20 a minute... or, about the same amount that Antonia used to pay per minute for credit. Those Bastards didn't take away their charges... they passed them on to me! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 5th, 2006|01:48 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contento | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jae-P - Esperanza | ] |
siempre hay esperanza.
Tambien, estoy muy contento porque voy a casarme con mi novia muy pronto! Tal vez dos semanas o un poco menos... solo estoy esperando por cuando tengo mi paseporte nuevo. |
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[May. 4th, 2006|06:07 pm] |
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I got a freaking 95 in Classical French! woooohooooo! I definitely thought thatwas the first class I was going to fail / get below a C in... and we just can't have that, now can we? |
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[May. 1st, 2006|12:48 am] |
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| |  depressed | ] |
Also, I have the worst timing in the history of the world... |
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[Apr. 30th, 2006|12:24 am] |
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Why is everything so goddamn fucking compliated?! |
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[Mar. 23rd, 2006|10:18 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
So, today I decided to do something that I haven't done in a good long while (beside updating my livejournal). I went to the movies and watched "V for Vendetta". Wow, that movie makes you think a lot about things like current events, especially about terrorism. TIME was right on the money when they said "this is the best movie you'll see or refuse to see this year". It takes place in a futuristic (not too distant future though) dystopian England. The movie slowly tells the story of how society got to be the way it is. The hero / villan of the movie is V, an ex-experiment who's out to get revenge and turn society back the way it was before the high chancellor turned it into a dystopia. V is no Ghandi, however, as in the third scene he is seen with the "average person" character of the film, Evey (Natalie Portman), blowing up one of the government buildings.
The movie comes out and says that V is a terrorist. You also know that the government is very religous-based and you slowly come to realize that although they're so "religous" they would also do anything to stay in power (including killing hundreds of thousands of civilians with biological weapons, blaming it on fanatical Islamic radicals then using the ensuing chaos to "find a cure" and assume power to quell the chaos and, in the process, forget to release power and impose sanctions for the people's own good.
The important thing I got from this movie is that behind all these simplistic emotional-provoking words that people throw around even on a day to day basis (like terrorist) there are volumes and volumes of books that could be written about the origin and the ideas of what these words actually mean. Yes, V was a terrorist, and yes he did kill a lot of people and blew up lots and lots of stuff, but behind the label of terrorist there is reason and logic: he saw a corrupt government run by people that had personally wronged him and had wronged his fellow countrymen as a whole and he did the only thing he could do get the attention of the people and ultimately align together for the actual betterment of society.
Now, I wrote all that about the movie itself, but does it not also apply to the reasons and thoughts of people like Iraqi militants fighting back against US troops? Though we (our government / military) gained power by squelching a greater evil, have we not tainted their view of our righeous deeds by killing thousands of innocent civilians looking for militants. Have we not destroyed the homes and all the worldly posessions of thousands of people through carpet bombing and targeted missiles based off of flimsy intelligence pointing towards the whereabouts of this high ranking militant person or that Al-queda operative.
Don't read this as a Troop Bashing session or anti-American sentiment, I'm just commenting on the extreme relevance of the movie to what going on in Iraq right now. If you were one of the civilians in England in this movie would you not want to fight back? Fight back like the Iraqis are doing in their country right now?
"V for Vendetta" is a great movie, lots of action for you action-heads out there (I'm a self professed-sucker for a good action movie), and it'll definitely make you think by turning the tables on the hero / villan tables.
"Behind every event there is an idea and behind every idea there is a person." |
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[Feb. 23rd, 2006|06:41 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | dj tom - Armaggedon [Boombox Lateshift Remix] | ] |
just thought i'd say that tommorrow at this time I will be in mexico. on a plane with my girlfriend to hualtulco. Yay! |
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[Jan. 29th, 2006|04:14 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  good | ] |
| [ | music |
| | grupo niche - aventura | ] |
All I gotta say is "Aventura... es mas bonita..."
Scandalo's esta noche con mis amigos: Leo, Victor (mi Primo), Paula de K&W, dos otras personas: Reina (una amiga de Paula) y Alex (un amigo de Victor y Leo). Mucho baile'. Y tambien: me gusta techno mucho mucho porque es solamente la musica que puedo bailar con todo. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 28th, 2006|01:08 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tengo sueno | ] |
| [ | music |
| | lluvia - Eddie Santiago | ] |
I'm going to Mexico again! Yay!
(Feb 24 - Mar 3) |
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