Cesar - met through CS. He was kind and gentle. He has wife and a son. Independent accountant. Felt very comfortable speaking Spanish with him. He is a cautious idealist who follows norm. He simply wants to be a good person by his definition. He wants to learn and practice English. He wants to go to USA, he wants his son to go to US for a bright future.
Melissa - cool girl who is an ambassador of CS in this city for having most activity. We met twice through Cesar. We exchanged contact info but did not continue. Software programmer
Julieth - young girl, who lives alone. Driven but very naively matarialistic but works hard at the same time. Studys too. Doesn't have many friends. Ditzy. Honest.
Mayra - best time was with her. She portrayed deep knowledge of what's going in the world because she studied international relationship. Spoke very good English. Idealist who does not know clearly where she wants to go. Very kind and a gentle person.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Aracataca, Colombia
Within 10 years, Aracataca, Colombia will be top 10 visited place in Colombia due to wide recognition by Novel Prize winning writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In his most famous book "100 years of solitude", takes place in Macondo, which is based on geographical settings of Aracataca.
There is only one accomodation in Aracataca. The name of the hostel is The Gypsy Residence
Its owner Tim Buendia has a passion for Aracataca, Macondo. So he renovated an old house to create an inviting accommodation for tourists who are attracted to the area that inspired the literary creations of the Nobel Prize winner. He can be reached here
phone# 321.251.7420
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Obtaining a motorcycle
1. Medical examen and paperwork and computerized driving test $172,000 pesos. Then pay another $90,000 for the actual card.
There are options, I was told this was the fastest. So I went this way. But there are place that handles everything for $240,000 but takes ten days.
Selecting a bike
There are used good place but combined with cars and bikes there are but many options.
New ones are simple. As long as you have a Colombian or international license you they take care of all the paperwork. Cheapest is about $4m pesos.
There are options, I was told this was the fastest. So I went this way. But there are place that handles everything for $240,000 but takes ten days.
Selecting a bike
There are used good place but combined with cars and bikes there are but many options.
New ones are simple. As long as you have a Colombian or international license you they take care of all the paperwork. Cheapest is about $4m pesos.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Happiness
I met a austrian girl in Las Tablas, she is 20 years old and here in panama for community service program that she had to pay to do.
She does not like it and she is bored. She asked me many questions about my travel and all if sudden decided to quit her program and travel for next three months. I can tell she was very bored with her life.
I looked back on the time where I felt that way. Everything was same. I didn't push myself out of comfort zone I was very happy for long time with my life that I have gotten used to it for too long.
Lesson is this: don't get too comfortable. Stay hungry, be wrong by doing silly things to test boundaries and give myself some down times, feeling appreciation for life is biggest key to happiness but just telling my mind that I am thankful is a mere brainwashing and half asses. Instead let the actions my decisions lead to that feeling by going through bumps on the road. Uncanny potential is residing in me, my true happiness is embedded within it. When I overcome challenge is when I am at my utmost happy.
I am happy. I used to think being happy is the ultimate purpose of life. But now I believe unhappiness is as equally important. Not a depression, but rather rejections and let downs are necessity. Advancing, growing, also living on the edge which is actually so difficult that very few people do this.
Those people who jump from a relation to another. If they are independent ones and really give love to and ok with being vulnerable have lifestyle of living on the edge.
Those who can feel negative feelings from others, can go On with their life without receiving love, attention, respect are the ones living onthe edge.
Fighting inner ego and doing what I want despite outside noise is a good place to start.
Showing people what they are missing can be egotistical maneuver. But doing it out of love and leading by example shows character to live on the edge because there are always potential rejection if not isolation comes with it.
Let others be, but lead my life as fast, hard, effective as I can. Really let action do the explaining because it's a clearest form of communication.
She does not like it and she is bored. She asked me many questions about my travel and all if sudden decided to quit her program and travel for next three months. I can tell she was very bored with her life.
I looked back on the time where I felt that way. Everything was same. I didn't push myself out of comfort zone I was very happy for long time with my life that I have gotten used to it for too long.
Lesson is this: don't get too comfortable. Stay hungry, be wrong by doing silly things to test boundaries and give myself some down times, feeling appreciation for life is biggest key to happiness but just telling my mind that I am thankful is a mere brainwashing and half asses. Instead let the actions my decisions lead to that feeling by going through bumps on the road. Uncanny potential is residing in me, my true happiness is embedded within it. When I overcome challenge is when I am at my utmost happy.
I am happy. I used to think being happy is the ultimate purpose of life. But now I believe unhappiness is as equally important. Not a depression, but rather rejections and let downs are necessity. Advancing, growing, also living on the edge which is actually so difficult that very few people do this.
Those people who jump from a relation to another. If they are independent ones and really give love to and ok with being vulnerable have lifestyle of living on the edge.
Those who can feel negative feelings from others, can go On with their life without receiving love, attention, respect are the ones living onthe edge.
Fighting inner ego and doing what I want despite outside noise is a good place to start.
Showing people what they are missing can be egotistical maneuver. But doing it out of love and leading by example shows character to live on the edge because there are always potential rejection if not isolation comes with it.
Let others be, but lead my life as fast, hard, effective as I can. Really let action do the explaining because it's a clearest form of communication.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Focus
There are my type of people. I belong in this group. This group exist to be remembered by the world.
I want to be significant. The only way to be significant is by providing a value to people through action. Not being afraid of consequences. Wasting less time on analyzing and collecting data rather leading the people. Serving the people by focusing on one area of specialty. Being the expert and master of one field, dedicating all my resource on one thing. Some do this by creating a technology or a drug, some provide a service.
I want to be significant. The only way to be significant is by providing a value to people through action. Not being afraid of consequences. Wasting less time on analyzing and collecting data rather leading the people. Serving the people by focusing on one area of specialty. Being the expert and master of one field, dedicating all my resource on one thing. Some do this by creating a technology or a drug, some provide a service.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Ciudad de panama
Muchas cosas ocurrido hace ultimo visitado.
When I arrived in miramar, went immediately to the dock and talked to people. Jokingly told me price was $1500. I played easy, innocently relying in their kindness. Usually works and gives me a time to analyze in my head the truth and values. Two boats, leaving different time and different location. Finally grabbed on to the price. $25 for Carti where San blas is.
This time I did my careful shopping and assessing every option possible because once I get stuck in the middle I am vulnerable to whatever price they call for lodging and food by kuna or high price by the captains of lanchas.
I found a brazillio s boat. $50 for estupo island which is a lot closer to puerto obaldia. They were located in other dock where Chinese grocery store is at. It's name is ocean king. It was tiny, not only the boAt but also the living spsce where I will be stuck for six days. When I saw the map distances, price and time all made sense. $50 for getting to estupo is something that many travelers do jot know and ends up paying $550. Of course thAt comes with food and lodging but both boats go to the same locations, visiting all the cool islands.
At the end I chose my alternate option, gnu lack of desire for world class beautiful beaches said I will explore panama more and take the plane to to puerto obaldia which takes one hour and $90. Price on website was misleading compare to price upon purchase. This system I am used to, don't like, but not attached enough to bring me sudden anger. Letting go has grown in me.
Overall I will get to colombia two weeks later than I wanted. Because plane schedule is booked out for two weeks. If I had done more thorough research upon arriving panama would have sufficed.
Upside is that I got to have some unforgettable experience.
Took 3 hours of espanol lesson between two days. Stayed in Casco Antiguo for one day after saying good bye Nina and meeting Mimi.
I met both Nina and Mimi on CS. Nina had most luxurious home I have seen through my couch surfing experience. It was 15th floor and there were only two units in that floor. Giant three separate living rooms, kitchen, two master bedroom. It was sexy. Her and her husband Michael greeted me. Kind I regretted that I didn't arrive on time because almost skipped to visit Nina for the determination to catch a boat to Colombia.
After deciding that I would fly to frontera, visited Nina in a hurry.
Thy invited me to their dinner and wine. Slowly our backgrounds were peeling one at a time. Most interesting aspect is that Michael is working on the new canal and gave me a valuable lesson about the canal as well as history and future. Later found out he is the head designer for the canal.
New canal will bring half a million per boat.
Nina and I went ancon hill to see the two sides to the city. One is where all big sky scrapers are viewing toward avenida balboa. Other side is where canal is being built next to the original one.
Nina showed me frank Gerry s new museum with its unique design of roof that are separated, not touching each other but block all wind and water from penetrating inside.
We also went to calle causeway here mainland connects to islands. When canal was being built they used the dirt to dig canal for this.
Learned history bout panama how it was a nation created for the canal, taken from Colombia. French and USA involvement.
Said good bye to ninand hung out with Mimi. She was very flirtatious. We talked half time in espanol half in ingles.
Next day I was leaving Casco Antiguo without knowing where I want to go then suddenly someone was shouting my name from behind. I looked back to make sure she wasn't calling someone else. It was Katie someone that I messages a while back from CS, but we were communicating very slowly.
We sat had a coffee and she decided to teach me Tu nai massage. Meet into days. She also told me about electronic music scene in Casco Antiguo so I decided to stay for another two days. Went signed up for Spanish lesson to make my time useful. It was pricy compare to what I was used to paying in Guatemala and Nicaragua but lesson was definitely worth it. Great teacher named Elena.
Learned about promonombres direct and indirect.
Through testing I am early stage for intermediate. Showed me exactly how far I have come and how much more to go to perfect this language.
Partied hard for two days Thursday and Friday. Followed by massage lesson, ended up deciding to stay in Katie a house, had awesome spiritual talk. Many things coincided with things bill said from Guatemala. Katie mentioned a book that steve jobs read before going to India. Told me that we are all one. Later she gave me a vibe like Taylor brooks with depth in yoga, massage, spirituality, compassion, oh and she has a long article written about her in Wikipedia, suing school for a dollar when she was fifteen since then she dropped out. She protested against war in her school and was suspended, then she got media and large organizations help to win.
That made her a real cool person along with her independent work, smoking herb came later.
When I arrived in miramar, went immediately to the dock and talked to people. Jokingly told me price was $1500. I played easy, innocently relying in their kindness. Usually works and gives me a time to analyze in my head the truth and values. Two boats, leaving different time and different location. Finally grabbed on to the price. $25 for Carti where San blas is.
This time I did my careful shopping and assessing every option possible because once I get stuck in the middle I am vulnerable to whatever price they call for lodging and food by kuna or high price by the captains of lanchas.
I found a brazillio s boat. $50 for estupo island which is a lot closer to puerto obaldia. They were located in other dock where Chinese grocery store is at. It's name is ocean king. It was tiny, not only the boAt but also the living spsce where I will be stuck for six days. When I saw the map distances, price and time all made sense. $50 for getting to estupo is something that many travelers do jot know and ends up paying $550. Of course thAt comes with food and lodging but both boats go to the same locations, visiting all the cool islands.
At the end I chose my alternate option, gnu lack of desire for world class beautiful beaches said I will explore panama more and take the plane to to puerto obaldia which takes one hour and $90. Price on website was misleading compare to price upon purchase. This system I am used to, don't like, but not attached enough to bring me sudden anger. Letting go has grown in me.
Overall I will get to colombia two weeks later than I wanted. Because plane schedule is booked out for two weeks. If I had done more thorough research upon arriving panama would have sufficed.
Upside is that I got to have some unforgettable experience.
Took 3 hours of espanol lesson between two days. Stayed in Casco Antiguo for one day after saying good bye Nina and meeting Mimi.
I met both Nina and Mimi on CS. Nina had most luxurious home I have seen through my couch surfing experience. It was 15th floor and there were only two units in that floor. Giant three separate living rooms, kitchen, two master bedroom. It was sexy. Her and her husband Michael greeted me. Kind I regretted that I didn't arrive on time because almost skipped to visit Nina for the determination to catch a boat to Colombia.
After deciding that I would fly to frontera, visited Nina in a hurry.
Thy invited me to their dinner and wine. Slowly our backgrounds were peeling one at a time. Most interesting aspect is that Michael is working on the new canal and gave me a valuable lesson about the canal as well as history and future. Later found out he is the head designer for the canal.
New canal will bring half a million per boat.
Nina and I went ancon hill to see the two sides to the city. One is where all big sky scrapers are viewing toward avenida balboa. Other side is where canal is being built next to the original one.
Nina showed me frank Gerry s new museum with its unique design of roof that are separated, not touching each other but block all wind and water from penetrating inside.
We also went to calle causeway here mainland connects to islands. When canal was being built they used the dirt to dig canal for this.
Learned history bout panama how it was a nation created for the canal, taken from Colombia. French and USA involvement.
Said good bye to ninand hung out with Mimi. She was very flirtatious. We talked half time in espanol half in ingles.
Next day I was leaving Casco Antiguo without knowing where I want to go then suddenly someone was shouting my name from behind. I looked back to make sure she wasn't calling someone else. It was Katie someone that I messages a while back from CS, but we were communicating very slowly.
We sat had a coffee and she decided to teach me Tu nai massage. Meet into days. She also told me about electronic music scene in Casco Antiguo so I decided to stay for another two days. Went signed up for Spanish lesson to make my time useful. It was pricy compare to what I was used to paying in Guatemala and Nicaragua but lesson was definitely worth it. Great teacher named Elena.
Learned about promonombres direct and indirect.
Through testing I am early stage for intermediate. Showed me exactly how far I have come and how much more to go to perfect this language.
Partied hard for two days Thursday and Friday. Followed by massage lesson, ended up deciding to stay in Katie a house, had awesome spiritual talk. Many things coincided with things bill said from Guatemala. Katie mentioned a book that steve jobs read before going to India. Told me that we are all one. Later she gave me a vibe like Taylor brooks with depth in yoga, massage, spirituality, compassion, oh and she has a long article written about her in Wikipedia, suing school for a dollar when she was fifteen since then she dropped out. She protested against war in her school and was suspended, then she got media and large organizations help to win.
That made her a real cool person along with her independent work, smoking herb came later.
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