Thursday, 31 May 2012

I can't think in a original title because mi imagination was murdered

Hello dear readers, this post is about a Ken Robinson's talk concerning how creativity is being “killed” by the actual education, you con search the video by “Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity”.
First he talks about human creativity and how amazing it is, he says every kids born as artist but the problem is that they grow up trough a school that restrict his creativity. So he purpose we should treat creativity as important as literacy in schools. 
In the talk, he does a relation between the creativity in kids and his preparation to be wrong; when we are kids we don’t ‘know so much about the world so if a kid have to answer something that he don`t know , he will use his creativity to try to go out with a answer. But when we grow up we learn through education many things and we are not, 
What education is doing now is to creating people with a degree but education isn't stimulating his intelligence at all. Ken said that adolescents come back from university with a degree but they don’t work and keep in house playing video games because the education they had didn't develop his full potential as a young student. 
What I wrote up there is a brief summary about the talk’s topics, but that talk wasn't just explaining ideas, he frequently said jokes and anecdotes giving to the talk a similar atmosphere to a humour monologue. 
That’s all this week, bye bye everyone!

Sunday, 27 May 2012

The photo and the mustache

 Hello everybody, sorry for the delay. You sure have seen the photo on the left, well; this post is about that photo. That guy in the photo is me, two years ago. It was taken by a classmate... I don´t remember exactly who take it anyway.
This isn’t a normal personal photo; I was wearing PE uniform since it was a school trip, and I’m wearing glasses because I was trying to look alike a teacher for an activity in which we had to perform a typical class situation.
This photo is funny because to start, I´m similar to that teacher and for being identical, the members of my group painted a mustache on me. If you know me in person, you will know that I have real mustache at present, so the only thing to being identical again is to wearing glasses! …maybe in a year or two I will be using glasses since I´m getting myopic for spending so much time on the computer xD.  

Thursday, 10 May 2012

5 Centmeters Per Second


I don`t know if it`s my favorite movie, but it`s one of the best(and saddest) films I have ever seen. I`m talking about 5 Centimeters per Second, a Japanese Animated feature Film by Makoto Shinkai. 
It`s a Drama and Romance movie, the story centers in a boy named Takaki Tono, he quickly befriends with Akari Shinohara because they have similar interests and attitudes. The time goes on and the relationship between Takaki and Akari get deeper. Unfortunately one day Akari  moves to a faraway place in Japan; even though they keep in contact by sending letters , the distance between each other is too much…and I`m not talking only about distance: the two have fewer to tell each other in the letters.
Maybe you will be thinking “How sad! :c”
Well, it get worse more and more during the film. Now Takaki will be moving to an island even more far away from Akari, so he decides to personally go see Akari, since they will be too far apart to visit each other at all after moving. This is my favorite part of the movie, when Takaki travel several hours in order to see Akari and finally tell him his feelings, it`s so emotive because due to a snowstorm the travel get very difficult.
This isn't even the first of the three parts of the movie but I expect to you seeing how this story ends. 
Makoto Shinkai  is Known for his animation films Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below. In this films Makoto ads Science fiction and fantasy topics but in 5 Centimeters per Second the reality is the strong point unlike his others films.
I feel like I wrote down so little, but I`m already over the 250 words so that`s all for this post, don`t forget to see the film if you haven't!    

Thursday, 3 May 2012

Ikio and his bike


Hello everyone, today I`m writing about a story of a man and his Harley-Davidson, but is not a ordinary man, he is Ikio Yokoyama, a victim of the tsunami in Japan the last year, he is alive obviously, but he lost his home, three family members…and his bike (I`m sorry if that sounds harsh). Anyway, the last month many things have been founded in the coasts of North America coming from Japan, for example last month a Japanese fishing boat and lighter items, such as buoys and bottles, and recently was found in a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. This bike was discovered by Peter Mark on 18 April on the coast of an island in British Columbia, Canada.
I can`t imagine the surprise Mr. Yokoyama feel when he saw his bike on the TV, because he recognize his bike! He said "When I looked at the picture he took, I knew immediately it was my bike""This is unmistakably mine""It's miraculous."

Indeed, it`s very uncommon find thing you lose long ago, but losing it in the sea!? Finding it 6,400km far away in another continent!? That`s far too magical, even coming from Japan…well sometimes reality surpass fiction.
The shop that sold the motorcycle to Mr. Yokoyama is now hoping to ship the Harley-Davidson back to Japan and restore it, so Mr. Yokoyama is going to ride in his bike again very soon, I hope.
This odd news make me remember when I lost my Digimon toys in the beach when I was a Kid (;_;) so if there is any Japanese people reading this post please take care of my lost toys. xD

Thursday, 26 April 2012

My Laptop

 Hello everybody, This week`s post will be about a piece of technology indispensable for my life style: my laptop.
My laptop is black and is a Dell and that`s all I know about it, XD I search it on Google and is a Dell Inspirion 15, yeah I don’t’ know so much about laptops, I only use it.I got it like three years ago; my parents gave it to me as a Christmas present, my parents told me that if I was a good boy they will buy me a laptop...but that was like five years before I requested the laptop! So it was a big surprise find the laptop under the Christmas tree because after all that time I forget about it XD.
Since my parents gave me my laptop I use it whenever I have the time and the desire. That means like more than five hours per day, in that time I do a lot of things: Download and watch anime and manga, listen music, learn songs on the guitar use facebook and recently studying and doing works for university.
I don’t know how would be my life without my laptop, maybe would be a healthy life for my eyes XD. That`s all folks, enjoy the long weekend! If you can of course...

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Asian Kung-Fu Generation


Today I will talk (write) about my favorite music band: AKFG (for short).
AKFG is a Japanese alternative/indie rock band. They are 4 members: Gotoh Masafumi guitar, vocal and songwriter; Kita Kensuke guitar; Yamada Takahiro Bass; Ijishi Kyoshi drums.
I knew the band for the first time when I saw the second opening of the anime Naruto, the name of the song of that opening is Haruka Kanata, I like that song because they make me feel the intensity even if I don`t know what the lyrics are talking about, it’s the same with all of their songs they can make me feel sadness, happiness, enthusiasm, nostalgia and others feelings without knowing the meaning of the lyrics, because most of the lyrics are in Japanese. However I look for the translations of the lyrics of some songs, but sometimes even reading the lyrics in English or Spanish, I don`t understand because the use many metaphors (XD)
I can`t go to Japan so is impossible to go a concert, but my dream is to go Japan and listen him in live.
There are so many good songs so is difficult to have a favorite one; however here is the video-clip of Atarashii Sekai(the song who give the name to this blog). 




That`s all for today, if you want more information go to http://www.akfgfan.com or wikipedia or google xD
Bye Bye :D

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Autobiography


Well, this is my autobiography: I was born in Santiago de Chile on January 29, 1994. During my first 2 years of life I lived in Ñuñoa ,but I don`t remember anything at all of that time. Then we moved to El Bosque where i`m living right now. I did all my school studies in Colegio Tantauco El Bosque and graduated  last year with the best grades of my class(i`m not being vain) .At present  I`m studying Psychology in Universidad de Chile. Now i will talk of my family: I live with my parents, my little sister and 2 cats(Mimi and his mom ,Cuchita); There is also my nanny, Mrs Rosa. She has worked in my house since I was 4 !.If you read my first post you will know some of my hobbies:i enjoy reading manga, watching anime, playing with the Wii, play the guitar and playing with my cats and my sister. I haven`t done none of my hobbies recently because i have to read a lot of books for the university, I hope I could have more time for those things(:c).Well that`s all for now, see ya.