Chile at 2010, a good bicentenary so far?

We all know that in 1810 chile started to be an "independent" nation, in 1810 was the first national board of goverment, defining part of the future in the land we live today.

Today Chile has two hundred years, for some people been in a bicentenary is just the first part for the progress and only when we reach the tree hundred or maybe a millennium, we're avaliable to say "we are finally a full nation, a power country just like United States or recently China and Japan" (the last one is right now just a little behind United States, it estimates in a couple years the Goverment of the economy will be in Japan or china's hands, sounds logic to me i don't know if for you does).

In "democracy time" we've had five presidents, one of them a Woman (the first one in the history of latin america) and also one from the "Right"side (National Renovation - RN political way to goverment) since the times "Pinochet's" times, as i remember we had also a couple of revolution the universitary and the school students one (I was part of the Penguin revolution - 2006). So many things have happened, and we only have two hundred years, people have change, education, work, and even the way of think have change, Chile is not a 1000% sexist country, oh well... maybe still have some sexist politics (like the salary difference between women and men, today the women gain so much less than a guy who works the same quantity of time... so lame but true).

Maybe my vision can be a little fatalistic but i think we have to improve a lot of things before to say we have grown up as a country and a community, we have to solve so many issues with our

ancestors, have to improve the education and stuff like that.

Because right now the education is so expensive, and for some people is just a way to make money (the private universities, not all of them but almost all) meanwhile more people enter to that university, more money they make, so more powerful the bussines men became, but in "public education" is so hard to gain a place, if your scores in PSU are sufficiently good, you can go to, for example our university. once you're in the "U" you have to see the way to pay for your education (and been honest, is not much cheaper than a private school, careers like medicine or dental costs more than five million pesos, that's a lot for a middle class family who only live with the minimal salary).

Believe me, is hard to think clearly if the past 200 years have been for good for the country, for us and for the next generations. We have the hard task of being a better place for the next generation, we have to make the next 200 years better than this one. we have to try so hard and make a supernatural effort to reach a total greatness as country and also people. We have past for earthquakes, tsunamis, economical crisis, the half of our patrimony is in foreing hands and we're still working for being a better country, and reach the next century and party hard the tricentenary :P

*Picture from :HvM

Tadadadaaaan! Berny's blog

Hi everybody!

Today i have to give the award for the best blog... so, the person i'll choose is... ME! ahahaha just kidding, a blog i allways read, and post is bernardita's one ( http://nardy-onceuponatimeormaybetwice.blogspot.com/ ) i enjoy every post, she has an excelent english level, i think she's the best one also, her post are real, speak just like she would be talking next to me sitting on the grass at university or casino in the faculty, she's just a normal person with problems just like everybody and i think she's not afraid to write about the non experience she might have with activities like concerts or job, that's interesting to read because, like i said before, she's not afraid to write what she thinks even if is a good or bad opinion, she just write and i really like that =)

What else can i say about she? ummm let's see, her blog has a nice a presence and is very tidy, the blog obey all the week posts and all of them very good write as usual, all with the berny's write style (sounds funny to say "someone' style )

I invite all of you to visit her blog, post her and share with your friends the weekly posts she made, so basicly that's why i gave the award to bernardita =)

Congratz girl! the price is yours see you soon!

Uhhh hard question!

I think today is one of the hardest post i've ever had because i have to write about a great chilean so far (to me the biggest chilean today is my dad or mom), Chile is not so big, but besides all the famous or not really famous person... to me the greatest chilean was Victor Jara (lol, that's may sound like a cliché i know)

Almost everyone know Victor, or recognize his name so i'll put a little piece of his biography: wasa Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer and songwriter.political activist and member of the PC (partido comunista)in Chile.as a theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, working with different things since the classical theatre to the experimental one, as you can see he was more than just a singer or a guy with a "very typical name just because it sounds like Violeta Parra".

I think what he did in our country during the time he was alive (remember he died, or was murdered in the 73, starting the dictatorship of Pin8shit) have no price, he gave a lot of new ways of art to this country, he made songs by his heart to our hearts (that's my point of view) and not only music, also did theatre, wonderful pieces of the national scene like the plays "la remolienda" (originally from sieveking) or "Los invasores".there's no doubt to me that victor was a great chilean.

If i have him with me, i'd ask him how would he feel been alive in our times? i imagine the answer and i can see him saying "very stressful" ajajaja but as i allways say i can think in a lot of answers and things to do with a person i would like to meet but... having the person in front of me... changes everything!

Take care all of you!

Becomin' a doctor (like doctor house?)

Hi everyone, i think we all sometimes have tought if the career we choose is the right one, or if is it really the only career you're going to take in life... i am one of the people who allways wonder "what would it be if i..." with today's task i'm wondering how would it be if instead been studying this career i'd be studying medicine. (yes everyone at school i was scientist and wanted to study it) well i can't imagine myself as a real medicine student right now... i can't stand be around by death bodys or blood constantly, when i was fifteen it doesn't scared me but right now when i'm 20 years old i swear i see blood or an injury i feel sick and have this weird need to run xD.

My mom and friends of her said to me (when i was little and wanted medicine) "oh to reach this career you have study a lot, almost be a lab rat and practicly have absolutely no life" ¬¬. very nice as you can see the friends xD, i knew that time all the pros and cons of the situation but anyway, i had "vocation" or whatever you call. with time this vocation went away from me and right now honestly i don't know where is, but it doesn't bother me not have it.
Been a doctor is hard, and the hard life start when you are in college, it's true that you don't have life, you have a lots of subjects and if you fail one you fail almost the whole year, even when you past the rest of subjects, for example "you fail anato and you come back to first year" so you must be stick at your books and study since math to the micro bone next to the crain behind the neck (its just an example not the real anatomy of the human being).

Anyway... i did not study medicine because i dont like chemistry so i wouldn't be able to reach a lot of points in science psu because of chemistry :P but i'm happy on this career and i'm even more happy with photography

Take care everyone =)

Fashion or sports Photographer /My perfect job?

Well, today task is a little bit polemic i think. because to me an awfull job can be anything related with numbers or bureaucracy but i insist, it's just my opinion =).
We are in chile, is a small country between the ocean, we only have 16 million people and the half of them, or even less people who are avaliable to work (older 18 years old and without legal history) oh, and we have to consider the job offers that the season brings, that today everybody says that "today the unemployment statistics says there is almost 50% more jobs for people)". but what kind of jobs? that's a good question, you may think in a regular job as something related with your profession or even if is not an exactly job for your profession (example, you're an english teacher, but the job for you is checking the rest of english teachers in your school, you're not exactly teaching someone but at least you work in the language you know and with people similar to you) you can learn about and apply later to your future job. but NO!!!! the "regular jobs" are like garbage collector, public areas gardener, even the people who works picking up the gum stick in the floor. is there a way that people who work in that be happy someday? i personally don't think so... the jobs are just temporary and doesn't offer more oportunities, there is not a posibility to scale in work, that's sad but true.

Passing to another topic, if i could choose a job... what would be? hard question xD
as the title said, a job for me would be a fashion photographer, because is a mixture of fashion (a passion for me since i was so little) and photography, both things ini the world i really enjoy.
Been a fashion photographer is not easy, inspite you use the camera allways (well almost allways) in auto-focus and after the take you can edit the picture and let it completely perfect, you have to be very fast and precise because if the model put a funny face or a very complicated pose and you didn't capture it you're really f*cked up because someone else could take it and all your work won't be able to be in the magazine.

Here i left you a couple pictures of an amazing fashion photographer (also one of the most popular because its good in his job and also a very good looking guy 1313 xD)

His name is Nigel Barker













I hope you enjoy the images and if you want to see more of this guy.
Click on this link

http://www.nigelbarker.tv/blog/

Have a nice weekend all of you =)

Regards!

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough,"

Today i will really enjoy this post, sometimes i wonder myself saying "what would happen if someday go to a march and between the photographers appears one guy with an analogue camera, close to the conflict and near from all the action, and of course called ROBERT CAPA"

The phrase i posted in the title reflected what robert capa was. someone decided, and a passionate photographer who let him cameras talk by itself, that is one of the many reasons why i would be excited to meet him. sadly he died in 1954 :(, died in duty killed by a landmine at Thai Binh, as he tried to get just that little bit closer, just like he said, just like his life.

I've allways admired the force he had and the "other way" to see the war or conflicts, despite some people think "oh that's morbid, it's just a bunch of bloody corpes all over the floor" to me it's just a man who decided to go with an extra eye and with it capture his side of the war, someday some people will se the pictures and will have a record of its time in the world.
If he would be alive, anoher difficult question to me would be "what the hell am i gonna talk with him?" lol, it's funny when we say "oh i wish to meet this guy/girl/actrees whatever and have in front of me and say that i love him/her" but we all know that never happen XD. but inspite of that i think i'd asking him "why photography and not another career more conventional or with less risk than to be a war photographer, another question (a little bit stupid) would be what type of film he prefers and of course what lens did he use to take all the pictures he took, i'm pretty sure he'll get bore but at least i'd make another dream came true, and that's a good thing right?

For my generation would be interesting to have one point of view in specific, in particular "these one" because all people who start photography, in particular, journalistic photography have to make works in based the look of capa or see him pictures in classes. hope not to be much wrong :P

Take care all of you!

Viva chile mierda ...Y LOS CHANCHO EN PIEDRA!

Hi everyone, first than anything i'm very sorry for not update my blog in the right time, but i was so ill, stayed in bed with a horrible flu( usually is easy for me to get ill, but now... in SPRING, i don't have an answer, lol)

Today i am going to write about my favourite song, or one o the looooooong list of favourites songs, at the moment, is "eden - Chancho en piedra"



I heard this song when i was twelve years old or something, since i was a little girl i liked chancho en piedra's music, funk music, it was fun to see my parents telling their friends "our daughter listen funk music, and she's only 8 years old!" well, now i'm twenty and still like funk, and chancho en piedra.

This band caught my attention because their lyrics, so funny and charged of true statements about the chilean society (but whoy not to say...also the general society), they have songs like the one i posted in the blog like "eden" and also songs like "condor" that talks about this typical chilean bird that is already in extintion risk.
Eden talks about a type of world for "marranos" or people like us who want a light world, with nothing to worry about, just a paradise, is like the song said "en este cielo funk hay cabida para todos los animales" . why stay here in a heavy world, full of pessimistic people, and who try everything to make you believe in their rules and follow them. why to stay there if you can go to this "eden" i personally would go there, definitely, people there is completely happy. ands in a grey world, put a little color wouldn't be that bad right?

Well... listen the song and i hope you enjoy it =)

Take care!

Danyta with headache :B