jueves, 16 de diciembre de 2010

I will drink Martinis and eat ceviche every day for the next 25 days.

Its been a while since I last wrote a blog entry, and the reason for it weas that in the last two weeks I did not manage to relax, think and write down what was happening around.

Right now I am at Mexico City's Airport waiting for my flight to Los Cabos, where I will meet my mom, my sister, Victor (her husband), my brother, Allison (his girlfriend), and the rest of the Castro family (mom's side).

Well, in the last days I have:
1. Been Nikolo, the German Santa Claus, in order to give little Jonathan (the son of two good friends) his goodie bag for behaving well all year,

2. Organised and moderated meeting with 17 participants from 12 different countries,

3. Finalised things at the office, so I could take 3 weeks off,

4. Had a christmass dinner with Hannes, Lindsey and Wall.e,

5. Bought presents like never before,

6. Packed 54 kilos of lugagge in two bags

7. Went to three good concerts and one bad concert. Goods were: Lambchop, Yann Tiersen and Torche; bad was a jazz gig by a pianist called Ibrahim something...

8. Made up with Sarah the schedule for the next Food Conspiracy Dinner in Vienna and Innsbruck (By the way, in Aeromexico's magazine there is an article on this kind of illegal restaurant movement and realised we offer more courses than the ones in the article from Brazil, Argentina and USA)

9. Edited a documentary with Verena

The points above are a sample of what happened in the last two weeks, but from now on, I will just relax on the beach, drink red Martinis and eat ceviche every single day...I am not exagerating, I will drink Martinis and eat ceviche every day for the next 25 days.

P.S. Ceviche ist that delicious mix between sashimi and gazpacho with lime and coriander.

miércoles, 1 de diciembre de 2010

a smiley in the title :-) OR Männer im Wasser

I was about 6, and Tita one year younger, when my mother asked us in Tita’s room a tough question for a child, at least for a child in our age. She told us “I am moving out today. I am going to live with your grandparents; do you want to stay here with you father or do you want to come with me?” Tita and I picked up the second choice. Tomás wasn’t asked, he simply came with us; he was not even two-years-old.

In the years after, I did have the feeling my father made a strong effort to re-bond with us. He later got married. Once, it may have been 1995, he took my sister and me to the cinema to see “The father of the bride”. A screwball comedy in which the main character (a man in the mid-life crisis) tries everything to improve the relationship with his daughter. I also remember that the movie had a happy end and that my father cried. Tita and I found that kitsch and funny.

Last Saturday Hannes and I went to the cinema to see “Allt Flytter” a Swedish film translated in German as “Männer im Wasser” (Men in water), but I think the English title is “the swimsuit issue”.

Allt Flytter is a visually beautiful (as all Swedish movies I have seen) and a fine comedy. The main theme is actually about friends and the sacrifices they make to save their friendship. There are many problems to solve in the movie (all of them have to do with the mid-life crisis), however the characters manage to solve them all in their very own way, in a way I haven’t seen in mid-life crisis-comedies.

The situations in the movie are so human and natural, and friendship plays such an essential role that I had to avoid crying at least three times. I did my best because I don’t like to be seen when crying…and Hannes was aside!

After seeing one of the most beautiful movie-endings, we went out of the cinema and Hannes told me that the film made his eyes wet several times, I thanked him for saying it first, and then I told him that the same happened to me.

I am happy my sister was not there, because she would have laughed like hell if she would have seen us there with glassy eyes, she would have laughed the way we laughed about our father back then…no, I know her, she would have laughed even louder :-D

Watching a beautiful film about friendship with my best friend was one of the nicest things I’ve experienced so far.