See the new picture? I am sitting at the bar of AeroMexico’s VIP lounge at Mexico City’s airport. Nice building, typical contemporary Mexican architecture, which means lots of gray concrete and small little windows, it reminded me of the Managuan Cathedral.
The organisation I work for suggested me getting a Dinner Club credit card, it has as wide travel insurance coverage and it provides access to many airport lounges. I am drinking now my second gin tonic, have you noticed? Many times I write my blog when having a second glass!)
I just converted my ham and cheese croissant (strange ham and yellow cheese) into a vegetarian variation by replacing the strange content with tomato and normal cheese. I love this VIP lunge: I have free internet access, lots of magazines and now, a third gin and tonic; by the way, when I drink a glass of gin and tonic, it reminds me of Maurizio a.k.a. BRTKLLR.
…pause…
I stopped writing this text for 26 hours, I am now in Chihuahua.
The plane arrived safely yesterday evening (I am afraid of flying). Chihuahua has an aggressive, dessert weather, not to be compared with the constant 30°C from tropical Managua. Here the sun goes down at 5 p.m. and temperature drastically sinks from 18°C to 5°C, meaning we have really chilly nights. In NIcaragua I really miss a cold winter…
I am driving my sister Tita to a Christmas party to Kenneth’s place (many of you know this legendary Chihuahuan guy who conquered many Europan girls who love Latinos). Afterwards I am going back to the airport to pick my brother Tomás, he’s arriving from Los Cabos, remember Jackie Brown?
Want to see some pics? Click here to see Mexico City´s Airport and here to see Managua´s Cathedral
sábado, 19 de diciembre de 2009
lunes, 14 de diciembre de 2009
I think I’m back OR I assure you this entry is better than the last two
Today is the first time I have a title for a blog entry before writing it. Meaning I know how to start this text and how to conclude it; in my present situation this is an achievement, believe me, I am everything but happy with my two last blog entries (but I love the new pic). I am sorry guys.
What I personally enjoy in my blogs is the comfortable melancholy and the funny tone of loneliness, I know this may sound kitsch, but we all know I usually write about things that I cannot change, about things that I have to get use to. I think it’s funny to write about the pleasure of eating of rice & beans every day, about the inexplicable love for cream-cheese sandwiches with banana chips and jalapeno peppers…and my weirdest feeling at present: missing sorrow.
Yesterday I felt lonely for the first time in 2 weeks, and it was great. I had a wonderful guest for the last fourteen days and I truly enjoyed every single minute of her visit. In fact, Kathrin was the first woman (not biologically-related) with whom I have spent more that 7 days in a row under the same roof and it was nice! Oh shit, it is sad to realise that I am 31 and I have never had the chance to go on vacations with a girlfriend for longer than 5 days…that may be another story…
Chatting and discussing with Kathrin for the last two weeks was great, and if it wasn’t for her, I would have never visited a single club in Managua. I think that Kathrin’s depart sharpened my feelings: I am currently having the time of my life writing my blog while having my second glass of Chardonnay (2007, Undurraga Estate, Valle Central - Chile) and I am like Han, solo.
That was it...I think I am back, oh yeah!
What I personally enjoy in my blogs is the comfortable melancholy and the funny tone of loneliness, I know this may sound kitsch, but we all know I usually write about things that I cannot change, about things that I have to get use to. I think it’s funny to write about the pleasure of eating of rice & beans every day, about the inexplicable love for cream-cheese sandwiches with banana chips and jalapeno peppers…and my weirdest feeling at present: missing sorrow.
Yesterday I felt lonely for the first time in 2 weeks, and it was great. I had a wonderful guest for the last fourteen days and I truly enjoyed every single minute of her visit. In fact, Kathrin was the first woman (not biologically-related) with whom I have spent more that 7 days in a row under the same roof and it was nice! Oh shit, it is sad to realise that I am 31 and I have never had the chance to go on vacations with a girlfriend for longer than 5 days…that may be another story…
Chatting and discussing with Kathrin for the last two weeks was great, and if it wasn’t for her, I would have never visited a single club in Managua. I think that Kathrin’s depart sharpened my feelings: I am currently having the time of my life writing my blog while having my second glass of Chardonnay (2007, Undurraga Estate, Valle Central - Chile) and I am like Han, solo.
That was it...I think I am back, oh yeah!
sábado, 12 de diciembre de 2009
The weekend is only starting
My best Nicaraguan friends visited me today, Katy (who is ten) and her five-year old brother Martin, they came to Managua along with their mother, the SOS village director from Estelí (if you are a regular reader of my blog you will remember Estelí as the city where I mainly subsisted, for a week or so, on cheese sandwiches).
We had a wonderful time: We went to a viewpoint to see the city and the huge Managua lake, then we went to play at the arcades, at noon - it was hot as hell - we visited Managua’s Metropolitan Cathedral (clarification: not because of religious issues, but because of its post-modern, minimalistic and child-friendly architecture), if you got curious, I have a photo album of the cathedral on facebook called “Nicaragua”.
At 1 p.m. we had lunch: Burger King for the children and Chinese food for the adults (big mistake, I only realised the Chinese food was bad until I had the plate in front of me). Those who know me well, know that I love cooking above everything. They also know I only prepare vegan/vegetarian food (although I do eat meat) and that I use less oil, salt and sugar when preparing it. Well, today I sent my “do-yourself-a-favour-eating-good-food philosophy” to hell. I wanted Katy and Martin to have a good time, and for them; having a good time means eating junk-food. As a matter of fact, Katy told me today, I quote: “today is a junk-food day and I love junk-food”. I have no guilty conscience for buying then non-healthy food since I know that they are regular fruit and vegetable eaters.
After describing the eating preferences of Katy and Martin, I have to list some personal culinary data: I did not chopped my first onion for self-consumption until I was 15, Innsbruck was the city where I first tried fresh tomatoes (it was weeks before turning 18) and only I tried papaya this summer.
As I wrote on my first blog entry, I came to Nicaragua to study how children and young people describe the life they value. One of the hypotheses I have, is that we adults no longer know what is important for a child. Many people (including myself) see childhood as a stage in human life in which people increase their body mass and height at unbelievable speed and acquire important knowledge for their future life; however Katy and Martin reminded me today that being a child is also living as such. Children love and hate things that may sound strange to adults, like hating garlic-bread and loving over-sweetened drinks (does the adjective “over-sweetened” exists at all?).
Well, today is Saturday and Kathrin is going back to Cuba in a couple of hours (with a valid tourist visa this time), Katy and Martin are asleep right now and I am writing something new for my blog. Usually, I try to write using a fixed narrative structure, but in my last entry, the one about the iPod and the Antennas, I violated this self-stated-canon and have now the feeling to go back to my rule and write down a conclusion…let’s try to summarise this blog-entry:
- Managua’s cathedral is a nice and friendly building (go to my facebook album)
- Junk-food is bad, but it makes children happy
- Junk-food is bad and it makes many adults unhappy
- Grown-ups cannot understand children because they are no longer children, they are adults
- Kathrin is leaving and I will miss the cool conversations with her and also talking in German
See you, have a nice day,
Oscar
We had a wonderful time: We went to a viewpoint to see the city and the huge Managua lake, then we went to play at the arcades, at noon - it was hot as hell - we visited Managua’s Metropolitan Cathedral (clarification: not because of religious issues, but because of its post-modern, minimalistic and child-friendly architecture), if you got curious, I have a photo album of the cathedral on facebook called “Nicaragua”.
At 1 p.m. we had lunch: Burger King for the children and Chinese food for the adults (big mistake, I only realised the Chinese food was bad until I had the plate in front of me). Those who know me well, know that I love cooking above everything. They also know I only prepare vegan/vegetarian food (although I do eat meat) and that I use less oil, salt and sugar when preparing it. Well, today I sent my “do-yourself-a-favour-eating-good-food philosophy” to hell. I wanted Katy and Martin to have a good time, and for them; having a good time means eating junk-food. As a matter of fact, Katy told me today, I quote: “today is a junk-food day and I love junk-food”. I have no guilty conscience for buying then non-healthy food since I know that they are regular fruit and vegetable eaters.
After describing the eating preferences of Katy and Martin, I have to list some personal culinary data: I did not chopped my first onion for self-consumption until I was 15, Innsbruck was the city where I first tried fresh tomatoes (it was weeks before turning 18) and only I tried papaya this summer.
As I wrote on my first blog entry, I came to Nicaragua to study how children and young people describe the life they value. One of the hypotheses I have, is that we adults no longer know what is important for a child. Many people (including myself) see childhood as a stage in human life in which people increase their body mass and height at unbelievable speed and acquire important knowledge for their future life; however Katy and Martin reminded me today that being a child is also living as such. Children love and hate things that may sound strange to adults, like hating garlic-bread and loving over-sweetened drinks (does the adjective “over-sweetened” exists at all?).
Well, today is Saturday and Kathrin is going back to Cuba in a couple of hours (with a valid tourist visa this time), Katy and Martin are asleep right now and I am writing something new for my blog. Usually, I try to write using a fixed narrative structure, but in my last entry, the one about the iPod and the Antennas, I violated this self-stated-canon and have now the feeling to go back to my rule and write down a conclusion…let’s try to summarise this blog-entry:
- Managua’s cathedral is a nice and friendly building (go to my facebook album)
- Junk-food is bad, but it makes children happy
- Junk-food is bad and it makes many adults unhappy
- Grown-ups cannot understand children because they are no longer children, they are adults
- Kathrin is leaving and I will miss the cool conversations with her and also talking in German
See you, have a nice day,
Oscar
sábado, 5 de diciembre de 2009
A fish soup, a Latin-music gig and the trip planned for tomorrow
I have the feeling that if you have an iPod you are automatically a poser…at least in Austria; down there, many people try to go against the iPod,-mainstream and use explicitly “non-apple” mobiles and mp3 players to hear their music, and music plays a significant role on today’s blog.
I am now hearing “Antennas” wearing headphones in order not to wake Kathrin up. I discovered this band thanks to my brother,Tomás; he sent me once an e-mail telling me about “a cool Swedish band playing in our favorite venue” (that's the P.M.K. in Innsbruck). I went there and enjoyed the concert; and met the band, nice guys by the way!
That night I borrowed money from Helmut, the concert-promoter, and bought two band cd’s at bargain price, one of the CD’s was for my brother, the other one was for me. Right now I am hearing the psychedelic song “sinners repent”.
I came back home about an hour ago; tonight I went out to see my first concert in Nicaragua. The gig was typically Latin: There were huge amounts of testosterone on the stage and only one female singer (7 percussionists, a bass player, two guitarists, a keyboarder and a sexy-heavy-weight-black-beauty as a singer). The best thing of the concert was the repeatedly use of the word “candela”, it really reminded me of my last gig with BRTKLLR - one keyboard, one mic and two drummers, that was a nice concert!
Before going to the concert tonight, we had dinner at a fish-restaurant, I tried one of the best soups ever: it was a huge plate with a whole a lobster in it, also a crab, fish pieces and plenty of garlic and clams, all this on a milky broth.
Tomorrow we leave for playa Madera near San Juan del Sur; I heard there are many surfers there, I hope I see none, I actually don’t like hippies - just as Hannes and Tomás ;-) By the way, I am writing this blog wearing my sunglasses and it is dark outside.
P.S. The album "feeling feline tonight" from Antennas is nice, cool and it helps you write down your ideas late at night - even if you are not sober ;-)
I am now hearing “Antennas” wearing headphones in order not to wake Kathrin up. I discovered this band thanks to my brother,Tomás; he sent me once an e-mail telling me about “a cool Swedish band playing in our favorite venue” (that's the P.M.K. in Innsbruck). I went there and enjoyed the concert; and met the band, nice guys by the way!
That night I borrowed money from Helmut, the concert-promoter, and bought two band cd’s at bargain price, one of the CD’s was for my brother, the other one was for me. Right now I am hearing the psychedelic song “sinners repent”.
I came back home about an hour ago; tonight I went out to see my first concert in Nicaragua. The gig was typically Latin: There were huge amounts of testosterone on the stage and only one female singer (7 percussionists, a bass player, two guitarists, a keyboarder and a sexy-heavy-weight-black-beauty as a singer). The best thing of the concert was the repeatedly use of the word “candela”, it really reminded me of my last gig with BRTKLLR - one keyboard, one mic and two drummers, that was a nice concert!
Before going to the concert tonight, we had dinner at a fish-restaurant, I tried one of the best soups ever: it was a huge plate with a whole a lobster in it, also a crab, fish pieces and plenty of garlic and clams, all this on a milky broth.
Tomorrow we leave for playa Madera near San Juan del Sur; I heard there are many surfers there, I hope I see none, I actually don’t like hippies - just as Hannes and Tomás ;-) By the way, I am writing this blog wearing my sunglasses and it is dark outside.
P.S. The album "feeling feline tonight" from Antennas is nice, cool and it helps you write down your ideas late at night - even if you are not sober ;-)
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