MY DAY: A GOOD DAY.

MY DAY: A GOOD DAY

 I will explain what I did 2 days before. There isn’t a day as "my" as the 24 December: Christmas, “tió”, holidays... and above all, the day when exacly 17 years before, the world recieved a great Christmas present: me!

Well, like many things in life I cannot begin to explain the day without explain the day before my birthday. Curious? The truth is that on 23th I had to take the A1 motorcycle exam. At first, when I was practicing before the test, Marta (the teacher) want me to reconsider do the exam because the road was very wet and skate a lot. At first I decided not to do the exam because the bike does not stop well, of course, I passed many times the detention line. But unfortunately over time I learned how to do it well (a few times) and so I motivate myself to do the exam ... Result: I failed to touch the line and I hurt my left hand. As Teresa Balldaura said on “Mirall Trencat”: one postcard don’t make an artist. "

The next day I woke up with a strong student hangover (the hangover involved studies, practice bike and receive dislikes), so I spent a very confusing morning. After eat my mother's chicken and a “surprise” cake from Cantoni’s secret pastry (I say this because years ago she left the cake-shop but she is still making cakes for commissions) I recharge my batteries. Was in that moment, when they gave me the presents: a weight (the gift that made me more excited) and 40 Euros (20 from my grandmother and 20 from my uncle). And the divine present!! look the photo; My father make this photo in my birthday's day...

In the afternoon I played "Age of Empires" and I enjoyed myself. At night, we bind “tió” to shit something. I received a colony (one million) and ... Indian pajamas! I think my parents gave me it because they know I do not like sleeping with clothes but it’s too obvious that they gave me the pajamas to laugh a little. If Nancy had seen it...

Well, we had dinner and my sister told me that she will go to Helena’s (a friend) house and she wanted me to go to the “local” at 11 o’clock (when the people arrive). Now, At the same time I am writing it, I think "how is possible that you hadn’t understood it, Ignasi?" But the point is that when I arrived to the local I discovered a surprise party. The gift: a cake and a bottle of wine (How can people know what I like to drink?).

If a guy (who can’t drink because he is doing an anti-acne treatment that mistreated his liver) hasn’t getting a drunk, it would have been a day 100% perfect.

After all, I went to sleep happy, with a flavor of wine, Russian vodka and Cuban lime in my mouth. A smell of a millionaire and a few extra-grams divided between the belly and the ball of my right hand. All that, of course, under my new Indian pajama: I'm very humble...

IGNASIUS BOFULLUS ASTROLUPITECHUS

CURED WITH HEALTH

CURED WITH HEALTH

This weekend I have a lot of work: I have to prepare the TR oral presentation, the motorcycle exam and Spanish exam, etc ... But, even this, I want to post something on my blog. The truth is that I never had a blog, and now, when I have one, I think I like it. I think I'm "Curring" my blog and that I never had written in English as I do in this blog (or as well as I try to do).  The best thing about make a blog: you can choose the issue of the text.

As I said, I want to publish something that, for time reasons, easy. So I will publish a video. In other words, you cannot say that I have not posted anything this weekend “cured with health ".

We try a video of Alanis Morissette, is a little “cursy”, but Alanis is one of the few authors I know (and I like) who speaks English. In addition, I must confess that some of her songs make me crazy. Well ... Alanis make me crazy too (even everyone thinks Alanis look like a horse) ... The aesthetics of the video is amazing, the lyrics incomprehensible and... "Alanis is naked!"

I hope you enjoy the video. I promise to my "followers" (well, nonexistent followers), that the next weekend I will come back to post a REALLY text.

Here you are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU

Here you are a parody of this video, it is funny! "WASH ME" (I recomend it)

MadTv - Wash Me, Alanis Morisette parody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvHwVtGawE

Ignasius Bofillus Astrolupitechus

MY PICTURES

Several months before, I had created a document "Word" where I had been puting pictures  I like. Some pictures had been find by me In internet, other pictures were find in facebook etc ... I know  I don’t practice English putting photos but I don’t want too words in my blogg.

BOARDING SHOOLS

►Many people wondered how the ideal world should be. And many of the great thinkers (Plato, Marx ...) have concluded that everyone should be equal (a communist idea.) Speaking of communism, these days we see many images of North Korea which have attacked the island Yeonpyeong. A place where everyone dressed alike, everyone lives in the same houses ... in other words a “boarding school country” (the same room, same amenities and the same clothes). Is it good for anyone? Increase the results live in a boarding school? We're not talking about a method of education but a life philosophy.

Well, at first we must ask ourselves what gives live in a boarding school. The "Bulling" is a nonsense because everyone is equal (square a society, not triangular). Nobody can make fun of your clothes or your house ... In addition; students share their professional life and personal life together. Many aspects of professional life are better because they always have a teacher, and a library...

But competition will increase much because everyone has the same hours of work and resources, so if someone doesn’t have good grades is because he has the only disadvantage that someone can have in a boarding school: laziness or low qualifications. But we also must ask to our self: what happens about personal life? How can you learn to communicate with grandparents, with ordinary people, with librarians? In the same way, a boarding student will never have an excuse for not doing homework because he has the same hours as any pupil in the school. So how can you learn that "The homework must be done?” how can you learn to manage your personal time? You don’t have occasions to “not do the home work” or “plan your day”.

The contact with people of different character is lost in a boarding school. If someone lives in a house he will link with town people, and consequently learn new things (not possible to learn in a school). So live in a boarding school can clean our brain because you only will receive information from the school.

In summary, the pros and cons are served. The boarding schools don’t achieve student’s results, but neither worsens it: Only change the results.

 

PROBLEMS WITH "TR" AND A STUPID GOD. PART II.

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These days I'm not inspired to publish something so I will publish a simple text, at same time, publish it makes me very excited. The last post I spoke about the problems with the TR, as well as you knows I had more problems (someone had torn a page of my work). However, the TR is already delivered. The text I will publish is the translation of the “Personal opinion and anecdotes”. I Think Blogger should be a place to put all that makes me excited, and now, my TR is one of the things that make me happy. I have to say the translation has been VERY DIFICULT (I had needed two hours) and I had to remove some paragraphs and I have changed many difficult words to translate more easily, and the “time” of the writing. To finish this stupid introduction, I would say that I discovered a contradiction: If you touch a think too much, it breaks down (as I said in the last text) but it is also true that when you have many problems the work acquires greater value. May be, this bitter –sweet feeling (like Chinese chicken) is what have motived me to publish this text. Only one question, now I know what means “bitter”, but what means “kas”?

PERSONAL OPINION AND ANECDOTES

Initially I wanted to make the work with a scientific perspective (as I explained in the introductory part), but now I know that it was impossible, and how make it with a journalistic perspective had enriched me.

I liked focus controversy and society (who knows me, know how I like controversial topics.) So I think I've done the work from one of the most interesting aspects that GM offered.
A very representative anecdote: apart from the presence in Osona’s supermarkets, I also wanted to know who sells transgenic seeds in the region. So I visited and asked in three agricultural cooperatives (I don’t say the names for obvious reasons). The answers were very clear: "we do not have, and I don’t know where you can find it", "send an email to Monsanto," you cannot change the topic of the work?”... The presence of GM in the region is more than proved, however is too obvious that the word "GM" don’t sell much. Similarly, to buy kits for GM detection to any biotech company, you need patience, and time to receive thousand of personal questions ... (Except the Company “Bios”)… So I could only identify a place where biotech companies sells seeds (hybrid seeds and chemicals, but I could not check the presence of GMO’s) in the region: “Agricamp”, a shop with several Pioneer seeds (C / Ripoll, 75, 08500 Vic).

I sincerely hope that I have made this work well, I think it don’t has any “white point”.  Behind the pages, there is a complex process of organization, reflection and planning  all sections to make it correspond exactly to what I wanted (a process that is not very common in me, for this reason I am  most proud  and I think I've overcome a personal challenge).

On the other hand, I’m very surprised for the cooperation that I received. The truth is that I’m very surprised for the help I received and that how easily has been find people involved in the issue very close to my home and / or without have to make extraordinary efforts. For example, one day in August, Quim Oliu saw one of my surveys in a Cantonigròs’s restaurant, so one day I found in the letterbox a letter filled of publications and articles of GMO’s. Needless to say, this story is just one of many stories that support (and I won’t be tired of repeating and praise) the excellent cooperation I received.

I had discovered with the interviews is that you can feel the controversy that exists around the issue. For example, one of the persons that I had interviewed (I won’t say the name) told me that he/she had said “no” to make a study about OMG because he/she perceived the political background (vull dir “rerefons”) of the same investigation.

Before finish this text, I would add that this work has become an opportunity to make a study "on my way" (without the help of a third person) to meet fantastic people and discover, for me, an "exotic" world. As a result, I started to look for details that before the TR I ignored (the labeling of products, posters in the fields that indicate their transgenic nature ...). So this research isn’t a boring work (which you only work hard to get a good grade) is an attractive research and even exciting (or in my case). Now, I only have to say that I hope TR continues!

IGNASIUS BOFILLUS.

* The word's significate: GMO (GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM), MG (modified genetically)... in català "transgènic".