<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122</id><updated>2011-09-19T14:48:17.119-07:00</updated><category term='asia'/><category term='elías'/><category term='travel'/><category term='armando elias'/><category term='filipinas'/><category term='manila'/><category term='elias'/><category term='armando'/><category term='rome'/><category term='roma'/><category term='south asia'/><category term='philippines'/><category term='I&apos;m back.'/><title type='text'>La vida según Armando /  Life according to Armando / 据阿曼生活</title><subtitle type='html'>A nice bold gentleman of leisure; a business technologist, skier, MINI Cooper driver. MBA Student. Chilango.. This is how I see the world, thanks for reading.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>89</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-953120097617155490</id><published>2011-09-18T14:49:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T14:50:39.676-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I&apos;m back.'/><title type='text'>I'm back....</title><content type='html'>And this time is for real, welcome to Armando's reloaded v2.0 :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More to come, sooon.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-953120097617155490?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/953120097617155490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=953120097617155490' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/953120097617155490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/953120097617155490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2011/09/im-back.html' title='I&apos;m back....'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4136169342497547983</id><published>2009-05-22T09:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-22T09:47:07.821-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Political Animals… (“the fur war”)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;For decades now, countries and animal right groups around the globe have put Canada in the top the “animal rights” perpetrators list. Most of these accusations come from Canada’s Seal hunting regulations and some videos / pictures&amp;#160; that came out to the light on how hunters kill these animals to satisfy a (mostly European) fur demand.    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;In last week’s edition of&amp;#160; The Economist, an article was published related to the endorsement of a European ban to any trade on seal products, these are some facts and fragments of such a great piece of objective journalism:&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;“On May 5th MEPs (Members of the European Parliament), suddenly disgusted&amp;#160; by the cruelty of people far away hunting seals, voted to endorse a ban on the trade of seal products, most of which come from Canada. Their hypocritical recommendation, which still has to be approved by the European Commission and Council, isn’t even much good for the seals.”     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;The estimated number of seals that die per year (not by mauling from a polar bear but by a gun shot) is estimated to be in the 300 000 figure. Environmental organizations (such as WWF) argue that the Canadian hunt is professional and regulated, but the debate here is not whether is right or not to kill animals by pleasure, &lt;strong&gt;which I TOTALLY oppose and condemn&lt;/strong&gt;, it is the hypocrisy of&amp;#160; some European politicians.     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;The article mention that a few seals are killed to protect fish (isn’t that mother’s nature job?), other as a source of blubber or food but most are indeed killed for their fur.     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;Some facts:     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;- Europe’s fur farms produce over 30 million Mink and fox pelts a year     &lt;br /&gt;- Every &lt;strong&gt;four or five days&lt;/strong&gt;, Europe kills more animals for their fur than the entire annual Canadian hunt does &lt;strong&gt;in a year      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;“… Seal hunting sounds unfair; but Europeans politicians are reluctant to ban the hunting of similarly defenseless game birds, deer or wild board”&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;The main question they post is: “Why did the European Parliament overlook all this?” the answer is simple, elections are around the corner and it is easier to attack seal-murdering foreigners to gain sympathy among European animal-welfare groups than&amp;#160; propose measures to eliminate, for real, the hunting problem as a whole in order to protect animals everywhere, including their backyard.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4136169342497547983?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4136169342497547983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4136169342497547983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4136169342497547983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4136169342497547983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2009/05/political-animals-fur-war.html' title='Political Animals… (“the fur war”)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2056160360307969635</id><published>2009-03-13T14:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T14:32:40.031-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How Risky Is Flying?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Ok, as some of you may know, I’m what airlines consider a “serious” frequent travel, sometimes I complain that I don’t have the miles or the status that some people I know have, but if I compare myself with the statistics, I do fly a lot. Now, when we think about flying and the risks involved on it, the first thing we think is all the accidents and fatalities we’ve seen on TV in the last year, 2 years, then, the following, statistics comes to our head:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="772" border="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign="top" width="200"&gt;         &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SbrQ9FAdVpI/AAAAAAAAFSk/hjkn7FyQPtI/s1600-h/risk-airfatalities-l%5B7%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img title="risk-airfatalities-l" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="550" alt="risk-airfatalities-l" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SbrQ9oBaQoI/AAAAAAAAFSo/qCa2F49RtiQ/risk-airfatalities-l_thumb%5B5%5D.gif?imgmax=800" width="440" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td valign="top" width="570"&gt; We all know that the probabilities to die in an airplane accident are minimum, some people have said that it is more likely to die of a Thunder strike than an air accident.         &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;One day a question came to my mind, if we know that the chances to die are so low, why MOST people (including me) are more afraid to flight than taking the road / train? As soon as we hit the smallest turbulence, ALL the people react in one way or another (except the flight attendants). So, what’s the difference between hitting some turbulence and experience a bumpy bus ride in the middle of the rain? why are we less afraid in the second scenario ?          &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;Well, according to David Ropeik&amp;#160; (Instructor in Risk Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health), the fact that we are NOT in control of the aircraft and that 99.99% of the population is clueless on how to operate a plane, we feel way more insecure that driving, which is actually more dangerous.          &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;Another interesting factor is:          &lt;br /&gt;what denominator are we using when calculating the risk of flying? Here are some options:&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Dividing the number of people who die into the total number of people, which gives you the risk for the average person?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Dividing the number of victims into the number of total flights all passengers took, which gives the risk per flight?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Dividing the number of victims into the total number of miles all of them flew, which gives you the risk per mile?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In case you don’t know, 2007 and 2008 reported ZERO (as of 0) deaths caused by Airplanes accidents in the US, do you want to see the number of casualties by bus or car? I don’t think so…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Going back to Mr Ropeik’s argument, and I quote: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“These 3 options produce accurate numbers, but which one is most relevant to you depends on your personal flying patterns. Some fliers take lots of short flights and some take longer ones, for example. Since the overwhelming majority of the few plane crashes that do occur take place in connection with takeoffs and landings, the risk is less a matter of how far you fly and more a matter of how often. If you're a frequent flier, then the risk per flight means more. For occasional long-distance fliers, the risk per mile means more. A frequent, long-distance flier would want to consider both.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here's another number problem with the risk of flying: do you calculate the risk on the basis of one year, or an average of five years, or 10, or 20? Most years no plane crashes occur, or at least very few. So the number of victims per year goes up radically in years when there are crashes. Just look at the spikes in the number of deaths from plane crashes by year in the graph at right. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Risk perception is not just a matter of the facts&lt;/strong&gt;” &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Another &amp;quot;feelings factor&amp;quot; that informs our perception of risk is awareness. The more aware of a risk we are, the more concerned about it we are. Which explains why, when there is a plane crash in the news, flying seems scarier to many of us, even though that one crash hasn't changed the overall statistical risk much.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I haven’t figured out yet what is my exact risk factor, what I can tell is that I drove the other day to Edmonton and I found myself in the middle of a snow blizzard… Not funny, so, while I live in Canada, Air Canada will be my best and loyal friend…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to read Mr Ropeik’s article, go here:&amp;#160; &lt;a title="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html"&gt;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;If you want to read the List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, go here: &lt;a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_aircraft" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_aircraft"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_aircraft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Safe flights!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2056160360307969635?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2056160360307969635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2056160360307969635' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2056160360307969635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2056160360307969635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-risky-is-flying.html' title='How Risky Is Flying?'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SbrQ9oBaQoI/AAAAAAAAFSo/qCa2F49RtiQ/s72-c/risk-airfatalities-l_thumb%5B5%5D.gif?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8671547245408770833</id><published>2009-03-13T11:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T11:46:11.727-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Travel blog vs Facebook vs New Blog!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Ok, question of the day, What the heck happened to my blog? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Fact #1: I think the number of readers of this blog went down from few hundreds per month to maybe one per quarter, me.      &lt;br /&gt;Fact #2: And you know? it is all my fault,&amp;#160; when I started this blog I had the idea of sharing my experiences related to my constant travels and adventures as a consultant with friends and family. Everything was going fine, I used to post on a frequent basis, (not like &lt;a href="http://melissita.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;lychees&lt;/a&gt;, but enough to consider myself a blogger) and I loved it until &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; became part of my daily life.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Fact #3: Facebook&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But, Why Facebook? Why some people claim that Facebook as the worst thing in the world? Well, I’m not there yet for sure, I certainly love the thing, but what happened is that at the beginning Facebook was the novelty for me &amp;amp; my friends, I gave it 2 months of my attention before “something else” showed up, but almost 2 years after the day that &lt;a href="http://rafaeltello.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Rafa&lt;/a&gt; forced me to join and left my blog floating in the internet, I decided that it was time for me to go back into the blogger world, so here I am. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Most of you have been tracking the changes in my life through Facebook, but for those of you that have no idea where I am, I live in Canada now, the land of the Maple and the noble Beaver, the second biggest land on earth and the 130th less populated, Calgary to be more exact. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So, why am I writing again if I surrender to the power of the Facebook status, well, I’ve been thinking about the hundreds of things I want to share based on what i see, think, read and hear and I guess Fbook is not enough for some reasons:    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;- My Status can change several times a day     &lt;br /&gt;- If you missed 2 days of facebook, you maybe missed stupid things I post like the fact that “I was looking for 4 Mexicans to create the first Mexican Curling team to compete in the Winter Olympics”     &lt;br /&gt;- Most companies have facebook blocked     &lt;br /&gt;- People add &amp;amp; add &amp;amp; add friends, so, it is hard for me to share what I want to share and make sure the people I care read it&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So, what’s going to be new here? Well, I’ll stop talking about my travels, well., I still travel a lot, pretty much every week (I’ve been on a plane 65 of the last 75 weeks) but now I’ll concentrate my efforts on places, day to day things, news, opinion and Global affairs. And the most important change, it will be 100% in English, why? because I need to improve my writing communication skills before 2011 that I will do my MBA.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Said that, welcome to my new blog, and thanks for reading this :)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8671547245408770833?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8671547245408770833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8671547245408770833' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8671547245408770833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8671547245408770833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2009/03/travel-blog-vs-facebook-vs-new-blog.html' title='Travel blog vs Facebook vs New Blog!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4243083819087325267</id><published>2008-07-17T13:21:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-28T18:08:17.236-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armando'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elías'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armando elias'/><title type='text'>Roma, Italia!!!! La bella roma :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 652px; height: 1490px; text-align: left; margin-right: 0px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 225.65pt;"&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 400pt; height: 225.65pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Cuando planée este viaje por primera vez hace dos o tres años, Roma era una de las 3 ciudades que iban estar en mi viaje pasara lo que pasara. Cuando era niño me prometí una vez que iría a Roma en mi primer viaje a Europa, no se bien porqué pero siempre había querido ir, la cultura italiana siempre me ha llamado, su comida, vinos, películas (alguna vez vieron Malena?), idioma, música y tantas fotos que había visto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, he llegado,Roma, La ciudad que me dió mucho más de lo que esperaba. El Coliseo, es enoooooooorme, no como el castillito de Disney (alguna ves les conté mi trauma de lo pequeño que es el castillo de disney?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;En fin, todo empezó la tarde de un 6 de Mayo, al empezar a caminar hacia la Fontana de Trevi sentí por primera vez el poder imperial de esta ciudad, impactante al momento de solo pensarlo y avallasador al vivirlo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por alguna razón, moría de ganas de ir ahí, la primera vez que ubiqué la Fontana fue en un video de Bon Jovi (si si, ya se,, jaja), y simplemente dije WOOW,  y ya estando ahí repetí mi admiración...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La siguiente parada fue el Coliseo originalmente llamado Anfiteatro Flavio, su nombre de Colosseo vino cuando el emperador Neron puso una estatua "colosal" en frente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caminé y caminé por Roma, me perdí varias veces, quería descubrir aquellos lugares que no estaban en las guías de turistas, entender que hizo de esa ciudad la capital del mundo antiguo, y lo logré... Caminar por el foro romano, sus calles sin sentido del orden, las motos, todo,... fue maravilloso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me tocó ver al Papa, fui al Vaticano el día que estaba dando misa y estaba dentro justo cuando la misa empezaba.. El museo de la Capilla Sixtina es igualmente sorporendente, los frescos de Rafael me impactaron al igual que la bóveda de Miguel Angel...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walking tour recomendado:&lt;br /&gt;Tremini - Piazza de la Republica - Via Nazionale - Gov Building - Fontana di trevi - Piazza Sppagna - Via de Corso - Gelattini - Caffe Tazza Oro - Panteon - Piazza Navona - Blvd Vittoriano Emmanuel - Campo di Fiori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando lleguen a Campo di Fiori busquen un lugar pequeño de piezzas a una cuadra de Restaurante Montecarlo.. sabrán cual es el cuanto lo vean, el dueño aparece en una de las fotos, un tipo bigoton...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, Roma acabó, fueron 4 dias increibles... definitivamente voy a regresar a esta ciudad, necesito regresar, tiene muchas cosas que ofrecer y nunca es tiempo de acabar de conocer....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 400.1pt; height: 225.65pt;" valign="top" width="613"&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;When I 1st planned this trip&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; like 2 or 3 years ago, Roma was one of the 3 cities that had to be part of this adventure whatever it took. Everything started when I was a kid, I promised myself that the first time I go to Europe I was going to go to Rome, I don't really know why but I have always felt attracted to the Italian culture, the food, wines, movies (did you ever watch Malena?), the language, music and countless pictures I've seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, here I am, Rome, and the city gave way more of what I was expecting. The Coliseum, OMG it is soooooo big, not like the Disney Castle (did I ever tell you my kid trauma when I realized how small the actual Disney castle is?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Everything started one evening, May the 6th to be more precise, when I started walking through Fontana di Trevi I felt for the 1st time the imperial power of this city, amazing just to think about it, breathtaking and overwhelming at the moment of living it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason, I wanted that to be my 1st stop, the 1st time I saw it and visualize its beauty was in a Bon Jovi video (yeah I know, I know what u may be thinking), anyway, I saw it and thought WOOW, and once there I just enjoyed the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;The next stop was the Coliseum, the original name was "Anfiteatro Flavio" but it took today's name (Coliseum) when the emperor Neron put his statue in the front of colossal proportions and people referred to it as "Coloseo".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I walked and walked, got lost countless times, I wanted to discover those places not listed in my tourist guide, understand what made of this city the capital of the ancient world, and I think I found it. Walking through the Roman forum, the streets without sense of logic, the motorcycles, everything.... just wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day I went to the Vatican I was lucky, I was inside the St Peter church when a mass offered by the pope was about to start, I saw him a few feet away without expecting it, AMAZING. The museum of the Sistine Chapel is amazingly surprising, Rafael's frescos wondered me same as the well know Michealangelo masterpiece...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recommended walking tour:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Tremini - Piazza de la Republica - Via Nazionale - Gov Building - Fontana di trevi - Piazza Sppagna - Via de Corso - Gelattini - Caffe Tazza Oro - Panteon - Piazza Navona - Blvd Vittoriano Emmanuel - Campo di Fiori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once in Campo di Fiori, look for a smapp pizza place one block north from Ristorante Montecarlo, you'll spot it once you are there, the owner is in one of the pictures, a guy like "The godfather", best pizza in town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dream is over, time to move on... 4 amazing days, I will go back, sooner that later, Roma has countless things to offer and I think you will never have the enough time to enjoy all of the thins the city has to offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2H9xvcI/AAAAAAAADbY/lDuoN_iOiy8/s1600-h/100_1251.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2H9xvcI/AAAAAAAADbY/lDuoN_iOiy8/s200/100_1251.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228234795018993090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2WWCNRI/AAAAAAAADbo/2cSDzdxbt9E/s1600-h/100_1322.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2WWCNRI/AAAAAAAADbo/2cSDzdxbt9E/s200/100_1322.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228234798878831890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2cu_p1I/AAAAAAAADbg/Ke1tCkl1sj8/s1600-h/100_1307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2cu_p1I/AAAAAAAADbg/Ke1tCkl1sj8/s200/100_1307.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228234800594134866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2x5Bn_I/AAAAAAAADbw/5odI53FADVw/s1600-h/100_1466.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2x5Bn_I/AAAAAAAADbw/5odI53FADVw/s200/100_1466.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228234806273351666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5stlo5OmI/AAAAAAAADcA/fzV8-_4agJQ/s1600-h/100_1503.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5stlo5OmI/AAAAAAAADcA/fzV8-_4agJQ/s200/100_1503.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228235747877272162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4243083819087325267?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4243083819087325267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4243083819087325267' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4243083819087325267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4243083819087325267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/07/roma-italia-la-bella-roma.html' title='Roma, Italia!!!! La bella roma :)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SI5r2H9xvcI/AAAAAAAADbY/lDuoN_iOiy8/s72-c/100_1251.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-5689838394806513816</id><published>2008-07-01T15:52:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T17:12:00.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Barcelona, Gaudi and my 4 days in España</title><content type='html'>&lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 699px; height: 772px; text-align: left; margin-right: 0px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 225.65pt;"&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 350pt; height: 225.65pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Barcelona   fue la ciudad que visité después de Paris. Para ser honesto, no tenía la más   mínima intención de ir, pero después de que Kamila, Naoli, Aneta, Pere e   innumerable cantidad de personas me metieran la ciudad en la cabeza, decidí   comprar un billete de Paris a Barcelona.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Cuando   llegué lo primero que me agradó fue el español, ya extrañaba ser yo el que   dominara la lengua y no el que tenía que entender costumbres, frases y formas   de comunicarse. Me quedé en el departamento que mi compañía tiene para   consultores, Aneta fue mi host y aunque ella tuvo que irse al día siguiente,   la pasamos super esa noche. Fuimos a cenar a Las Ramblas y caminé por Parc   Gueil y la Sagrada Familia.&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Los demás   días no fueron lo mejor, me enfermé espantosamente, igual el agua europea o   que se yo… Me dio todo lo dable (calentura, panza, mareos, insomnio, fiebre,   todo) y además llovió para acabarla de amolar, horrible…. Pero a pesar de   todo el viernes vi a Majo, una muy buena amiga de la prepa y me llevo a cenar   unos “pinchos” que son como las tapas españolas, pero ya ven que a los   catalanes todo lo que suena a España les da roña, entonces crearon su propia   versión de las tapas. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;La vdd es   una ciudad muy bonita, vale mucho la pena, la arquitectura en ciertos momentos   me recordaba a las colonias antiguas de la ciudad de México. Definitivamente   la recomiendo peor desafortunadamente no fue la mejor parte de mi viaje…   Habrá que regresar a la patria madre para agarrar ese sabor que no encontré   en 3 días.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 460.1pt; height: 225.65pt;" valign="top" width="613"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Barcelona was the city I visited after Paris. To be honest, I wasn't planning to go but after Kamila, Naoli, Aneta and few other people insisted I must add it to my trip and put the city in my thoughts, I agreed to buy a plane ticket from Paris to here and I don't regret it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;When I arrived, the 1st thing I liked was that I could speak spanish again, I missed being me the one who could speak without worrying about slang, idioms and different languages. I stayed in MicroStrategy's apartment, the one the company has for consultants in Barcelona with my dear friend Aneta, what a great host, she took me for dinner that night to Ramblas and we had terrific times. During the day I toured Parc Gueil and Sagrada Familia, AWESOME&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;The following days were not the best ones ever, I got super sick of every known sickness (fever, headache, stomachache, everything...) and if that wasn't enough it rained horrible, it was pouring and even with that I saw Majo, a very good friend from Highschool, she took me for some Pinchos, the Catalan version of the tapas (they refuse to have anything to do with Spain and they created their own version of tapas he he)&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;It is a very beautiful city,  a trip very well deserved and highly recommended, some of the streets reminded me Mexico City, the architecture its awesome but I definitely need to go back there and to Spain (madre patria) to get that "something" that I missed and I didn't get in 3 days&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHniBxcrI/AAAAAAAADZ8/kXMiUatCiYU/s1600-h/100_1028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHniBxcrI/AAAAAAAADZ8/kXMiUatCiYU/s320/100_1028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218202600225206962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHoCBxcsI/AAAAAAAADaE/71P47M1r-pY/s1600-h/100_1040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHoCBxcsI/AAAAAAAADaE/71P47M1r-pY/s320/100_1040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218202608815141570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHoiBxctI/AAAAAAAADaM/s_GK0znf1og/s1600-h/100_1124.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHoiBxctI/AAAAAAAADaM/s_GK0znf1og/s320/100_1124.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218202617405076178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHpiBxcuI/AAAAAAAADaU/h7f2w5zINKI/s1600-h/100_1145.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHpiBxcuI/AAAAAAAADaU/h7f2w5zINKI/s320/100_1145.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218202634584945378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-5689838394806513816?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/5689838394806513816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=5689838394806513816' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5689838394806513816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5689838394806513816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/07/barcelona-gaudi-and-my-4-days-in-espaa.html' title='Barcelona, Gaudi and my 4 days in España'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SGrHniBxcrI/AAAAAAAADZ8/kXMiUatCiYU/s72-c/100_1028.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7307760140023687674</id><published>2008-06-07T16:53:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T14:04:30.232-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris, "la ciudad de las luces" Paris, "City of lights!"  Paris, "ville de lumières"!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzpdt4sI/AAAAAAAACiw/Tsyp8BVdwXg/s1600-h/100_0987.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzpdt4sI/AAAAAAAACiw/Tsyp8BVdwXg/s200/100_0987.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209616722078589634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;París París París... Que decir acerca de la belleza de una de las ciudades mas características de la raza humana. Para mi, París marcó el inicio de mi viaje, el principio del descubrimiento del viejo mundo, un sueño anhelado por dos décadas hecho realidad, la concepción de muchas horas de escuela, trabajo y largas noches... Por fin llegue. París..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando venía en el avión, me costaba trabajo pensar lo que estaba por experimentar, como la mayoría de ustedes saben, este viaje que hice fue el primero a Europa, y un grupo más selecto sabe que es la 3era vez que lo intentaba, las otras dos por X Y Z o W, estando a dos de subirme al avión, simplemente NO se pudo, pero esta vez nada se interpuso en el camino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzJdt4pI/AAAAAAAACiY/OIc-TNhZt_s/s1600-h/100_0540.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzJdt4pI/AAAAAAAACiY/OIc-TNhZt_s/s200/100_0540.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209616713488654994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt; Definitivamente Paris está en un empate junto con Londres y Roma como una de las 3 grandes ciudades de Europa y de la historia de la humanidad, pero, que significó para Armando?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, antes que nada ya sabía a lo que iba, tantos y tantos amigos que conocía que habían ido, fotografías que había visto, películas y tantas cosas vistas y escuchadas y efectivamente, verlo con tus propios ojos es una experiencia de vida. Por el otro lado, Paris no fue la ciudad que mas me gustó, pero momento, no estoy diciendo que no sea una de las mas bellas de Europa, no no, pero sabía a lo que iba, vi lo sabía que iba ver, no mas no menos, quizás me faltó vivir ahí unos meses como varios de mis amigos para encontrarle esa “magia” que la haga estar en mi top 1 de ciudad no creen? &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;En fin, cosas que recordar de Paris&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(Relacionadas a mis notas anteriores)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Insisto, la orangina rockea&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzZdt4qI/AAAAAAAACig/fW_XWCscCzE/s1600-h/100_0884.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzZdt4qI/AAAAAAAACig/fW_XWCscCzE/s200/100_0884.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209616717783622306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Los parisinos, no los conocí… jajajaja solo conocí gente de todas partes, será que se esconden, o será que no se mueven por las zonas turísticas, que se yo, o será que son todos aquellos franceses mal fibrosos que no querían tomarme fotos?? Mejor me quedo con la idea que no los conocí no?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Mis momentos favoritos de Paris fueron: &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Atardecer en Pont Neuf, cenar con Gabriel y Gerardo, encontrarme a Abraham, la comida (cara hasta la madre), las crepas callejeras y sus cafesitos donde vas y te tomas un espresso y no te paran jeta si te quedas horas a contemplar la nada, I loved it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Paris por otro lado es definitivamente una ciudad que cuando uno va solo, es decir, sin novia, amiga cariñosa, pareja, esposa, conyugue, amante o alguien relacionado sentimentalmente, no está tan coool, jajaja veia todas esas parejas en el río y yo asi de “bueno, ya estuvo no?? Basta con tanta miel”, unos atascotes que se daban estos parisinos en el río, jaja envidiables… Así que me prometí NO VOLVER a ir a Paris solo, next time, será con una niña, I promise.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzZdt4rI/AAAAAAAACio/icWWjN3YA9s/s1600-h/100_0979.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzZdt4rI/AAAAAAAACio/icWWjN3YA9s/s200/100_0979.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209616717783622322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Respecto al arte, lo siento, soy naco, solo entré a 1 museo y básicamente entré el día que era gratis, 2 horas antes de que cerraran y solo vi la Mona lisa y la Venus de Milo (si adivinaron, es el Louvre), ah y por supuesto, la foto afuera de la pirámide, básica.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzpdt4tI/AAAAAAAACi4/mUUD0_OO9NI/s1600-h/100_0768.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzpdt4tI/AAAAAAAACi4/mUUD0_OO9NI/s200/100_0768.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209616722078589650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Respecto a la vida nocturna, se las debo, lo más que hice fue cenar con Abraham, tots, Gerardo y Gabriel e ir a un lugar de falafels, pero se veia buena..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Les dejo algunas fotitos, enjoy!!! Next chapter…. Barcelona&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzpdt4tI/AAAAAAAACi4/mUUD0_OO9NI/s1600-h/100_0768.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7307760140023687674?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7307760140023687674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7307760140023687674' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7307760140023687674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7307760140023687674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/06/paris-la-ciudad-de-las-luces-paris-city.html' title='Paris, &quot;la ciudad de las luces&quot; Paris, &quot;City of lights!&quot;  Paris, &quot;ville de lumières&quot;!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SExGzpdt4sI/AAAAAAAACiw/Tsyp8BVdwXg/s72-c/100_0987.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-9121802690722492397</id><published>2008-05-22T17:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T17:46:15.373-07:00</updated><title type='text'>espanol.......</title><content type='html'>Hola.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estare actualizando en ingles hasta que llegue a Seattle de nuevo porque a veces solo tengo unos minutos y asi todos me entienden, los gabachos y los no gabachos... cuando llegue a SEA escribire los blogs buenos en los dos idiomas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-9121802690722492397?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/9121802690722492397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=9121802690722492397' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/9121802690722492397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/9121802690722492397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/espanol.html' title='espanol.......'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-5808709770292945101</id><published>2008-05-22T17:35:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T17:41:37.346-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Notes from Krakow, Poland</title><content type='html'>When you arrive to your hostel at 4 am drunk and the geek I have inside connects to write some notes about it there is only one thing you can say about a city...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT ROCKS!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Krakow's night life is almost as good as in Budapest....&lt;br /&gt;When you go out to a club with 5 other backpackers from you hostel and the first thing you see in the club is a bar (1 out of 6 that club had) where there are only girls and they outnumber by 3 the number of guys (in other words, there were 15 girls and NO MEN in that bar...) that only mean one thing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are in the right place&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McDonalds is open LATEEEEEEEEEEEE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way... the city was nice, but Ill talk about that in a future post...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adios&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-5808709770292945101?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/5808709770292945101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=5808709770292945101' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5808709770292945101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5808709770292945101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/notes-from-krakow-poland.html' title='Notes from Krakow, Poland'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4941694149562134742</id><published>2008-05-21T01:28:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T01:46:56.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Notes from Czeska Republica (Czesky Krumlov &amp; Praha)</title><content type='html'>- Krumlov is....   (do I need to say more?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.zamky-hrady.cz/1/img/cesky_krumlov_let.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.zamky-hrady.cz/1/img/cesky_krumlov_let.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prague:&lt;br /&gt;- Awesome city&lt;br /&gt;- It is really one of ther most beautiful places in the world (it was the only city in Central Europe that escaped to last centuries bombs)&lt;br /&gt;- Czech food is good, but Prague is infested with tourists (like me) which makes the food expensive, it is hard to find a decent local pub with good food.&lt;br /&gt;- Czech souveniers are the most expensive ones accross Europe. A guy tried to sell me a small Prague magnet in 7 Euros.... I saw the same in Paris in 3.&lt;br /&gt;- Prague is expensive, same prices as the US or even more expensive&lt;br /&gt;- It rained the 3 days I was here :(&lt;br /&gt;- The castle is awesome and the Charles Bridge has a lot of mosquitoes after 8 pm&lt;br /&gt;- Service in Prague sucks, is as bad as in Paris (or even worst) with the difference that here they do expect tip....&lt;br /&gt;- The "Pilsner" beer, some sort of national pride is as bad as any average american beer.&lt;br /&gt;- Yumi Fujii&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once Im back Ill write a more detailed blog on my adventures... Ciao&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4941694149562134742?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4941694149562134742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4941694149562134742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4941694149562134742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4941694149562134742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/notes-from-czeska-republica-czesky.html' title='Notes from Czeska Republica (Czesky Krumlov &amp; Praha)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4309003216997196346</id><published>2008-05-17T12:15:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-17T12:25:34.528-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Notes from BUDAPEST!!</title><content type='html'>- My best experience so far (the hostel, the hostel's owner, the people I met, the city, EVERYTHING)&lt;br /&gt;- Whatever you've heard about the beauty of the women in Hungary and eastern europe..... IT IS TRUE!!!!&lt;br /&gt;- I loved the city, it is clean, nice, pretty, NO turists (like Rome) and full of history, museums and good looking girls (I think I already mentioned this part... he he)&lt;br /&gt;- The castle is awesome (similar to Mexico's Chapultepec but way bigger and awesome)&lt;br /&gt;- there are 2 cities&gt; Buda is cool, Pest is even better...&lt;br /&gt;- They have Roma Baths with wave pools, I went, it was awesome...&lt;br /&gt;- The 14 Hungarian wine producer companies have a cellar under a cave with 30 KM of cellars.......... AWESOME&lt;br /&gt;- Budapest has the coolest Catholic Church I've ever been, even cooler (no bigger) than San Pietro in Rome, it is inside a CAVE........  AWESOME (pictures once I'm back)&lt;br /&gt;- Hungarian food is super good and super cheap (the best so far in this trip outside of Italy)&lt;br /&gt;- I loved the city so much that I decided to stay 4 instead of 2 days&lt;br /&gt;- They have the coolest lake I've ever seen&lt;br /&gt;- Hungarian is sooooooooooo hard, that everybody speaks english&lt;br /&gt;- Best coffee in Europa so far (even better than Roma)&lt;br /&gt;- Gulash Comunism (later post)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, Thats all, I'll write more once I'm back since time is limited....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konosom!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4309003216997196346?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4309003216997196346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4309003216997196346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4309003216997196346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4309003216997196346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/notes-from-budapest.html' title='Notes from BUDAPEST!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7531470171065084940</id><published>2008-05-12T06:12:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T06:26:17.043-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Roma &amp; La Bella Italia!!!!</title><content type='html'>After I left Barcelona and enjoyed Gaudi's art (Pedrera, parque Gueil, etc...), I headed to Rome in my 47 euro flight with Clickair (better than the average US airline...) and found myself in the base of the modern civilization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's no way to describe my sensation when I first walked on the streets trying to find "Fontana di Trevi" but I can only tell you that every brick, every street, every step I did was  "THE" experience.  The simple idea to think that some romans or why not, maybe a Emperor walked the same streets  2K years ago made my mind blow away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to fall in the typical comparison between Rome and Paris but I can tell you that both made me feel things I've never felt before (well, only once, the 1st time I walked on Times Square 8 years ago), but if I have to declare a winner between these 2, even with the dirty and not that safe streets, homeless people and the criticism of most of my friends, I'd go for Roma, LA GRANDE ROMA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe is that I have always been in love with the italian culture, who haven't (the food, music, soccer team and the women) but exploring Rome was a nice experience, and also, I don't understand why I have this trauma with Trevi's Fountain, but I have been there like 6 times and I have taken countless pictures....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway... time to go...  Ill upload some pics as soon as I can... meanwhile..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrivederci&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS... the italian version of the Orangina (aranciata) is even better, but I will keep my comments for me this time...  he he&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7531470171065084940?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7531470171065084940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7531470171065084940' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7531470171065084940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7531470171065084940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/roma-la-bella-italia.html' title='Roma &amp; La Bella Italia!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-5761104391036703715</id><published>2008-05-11T10:02:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-11T10:17:07.642-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris &amp; Barcelona</title><content type='html'>Finally I have some minutes to share with you about my feelings about Paris.. After 4 entire days walking and walking and doing nothing else but walking, I found the "magic" of the city of love, it is really magic. Getting lost on it's streets was the best thing ever, climbing the eiffel tower, walking in the night, having dinner with friends, night tour on the Sena and what for me was the best, the gardens of Versailles; everything, absolutely everything made those four days the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 4 magical days in Paris, I flew to Barcelona, another of the greatest cities in Europe. My trip there wasnt that fun,&lt;br /&gt;A) It rained 2 days (worst than Seattle)&lt;br /&gt;B) I got sick, got everything (fever, flu symptoms and some stomach infection).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I left Barcelona, I left better, maybe the city played a bad game on me since I didnt want to go at the begining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Im in Rome.... Bu dont think this is the only post I put about Paris, its just that I have to leave this PC in 3 minutes since internet is free and there's people waiting...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-5761104391036703715?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/5761104391036703715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=5761104391036703715' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5761104391036703715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5761104391036703715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/paris-barcelona.html' title='Paris &amp; Barcelona'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7792416112665016321</id><published>2008-05-06T15:29:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T15:37:51.348-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mas notas de Paris...</title><content type='html'>- Los franceses tienen muchas cosas buenas (monumentos, el idioma, las mujeres, la comida, bla bla bla), pero de todo con lo que me quedo es con la Orangina !! I love it&lt;br /&gt;- Es cierto que los franceses se enojan si les hablas en ingles&lt;br /&gt;- El atardecer en los puentes de Paris es la onda&lt;br /&gt;- No hay que dar propina... Coooool&lt;br /&gt;- El metro es la onda.. (creo que eso ya lo dije)&lt;br /&gt;- Sigo encontrando similitudes con la colonia Roma, Condesa y Polanco&lt;br /&gt;- Les encanta como pronuncio en frances "Disculpe, me puede tomar una foto silvuple", jaja y luego de mi mal frances me sonrien y me la toman&lt;br /&gt;- Ya fui al Moulin Rouge...&lt;br /&gt;- Las crepas son mucho mejores aqui que en Mexico, jajaja&lt;br /&gt;- Los jardines de versalles estan de pelos, se me puso la piel chinita, esos reyes franceses sabian de la buena vida&lt;br /&gt;- Todas las comidas vienen con papas fritas... pero todos los franceses estan re flacos, chale..&lt;br /&gt;- La Catsup sabe diferente, como que mas light y a tomate...&lt;br /&gt;- Los panesitos son la neta, la reposteria es lo cool aqui...&lt;br /&gt;- Tome el barquito del rio y vi la Tour Eiffel de noche&lt;br /&gt;- Me quede jeton donde Luis XIV paseaba a sus invitados.. jajaja&lt;br /&gt;- La Mona Lisa esta cool....&lt;br /&gt;- He tomado mucho cafe.. (por eso es la 1 am y no puedo dormir y estoy en el internet del hostal)&lt;br /&gt;- Mi hostal es la onda.. ademas dos de mis roomates son de Seattle, jajajaja, kgdo no??&lt;br /&gt;- Las ninas andan en moto... vaya los hombres tambien, pero lo otro me llamo la atencion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno es todo, si me acuerdo de mas cosas luego las pongo  En unas horas coy a Barcelona, ahi les cuento como me va...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au revoir...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7792416112665016321?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7792416112665016321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7792416112665016321' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7792416112665016321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7792416112665016321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/mas-notas-de-paris.html' title='Mas notas de Paris...'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4589885013397631417</id><published>2008-05-04T14:31:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-04T14:46:27.220-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris Je t'aime....</title><content type='html'>Breves notas de Paris....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- La ciudad no es hermosa...... Lo que le sigue (bueno supongo que eso todos ya lo saben, pero tiene un encanto UNICO)&lt;br /&gt;- Los francese si huelen feo.... (sin ofensas)&lt;br /&gt;- Polanco, la roma y la condesa son una copia de paris... con sus respectivas diferencias&lt;br /&gt;- Pense que entendia in poco de frances... error, no entiendo NADA&lt;br /&gt;- La comida es cara y demasdiado buena&lt;br /&gt;- Tienen una coca cola de naranja buenisima&lt;br /&gt;- Ser mexicano es coool (a diferencia de USA)&lt;br /&gt;- El metro es la onda... Bueno bonito y barato&lt;br /&gt;- Por 4 euros, subi la Tour Eiffel caminando y me ahorre las colas y los infames 11 euros que cuesta subir en elevador (Nota, son 669 escalones :)  )&lt;br /&gt;- Ya dije que me recordo a la parte bonita de mexico??? ah pero nice, con clase y limpia&lt;br /&gt;- Viendo la Mona Lisa me encontre a Abraham (un viejo amigo de la carrera) y termine cenando con el y su amigo, una tarde excelente&lt;br /&gt;- Vi a Gerry y a Gabriel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todo marcha muy bien, la ciudad me recibio con un sol monumental que espero no se esconda de aqui al martes....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, ya los mantendre al tanto con mas updates... Au revoir&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4589885013397631417?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4589885013397631417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4589885013397631417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4589885013397631417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4589885013397631417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/paris-je-taime.html' title='Paris Je t&apos;aime....'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8347350682691923685</id><published>2008-05-01T15:27:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T16:01:41.334-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Europe 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SBpLs90JQHI/AAAAAAAACh4/K4q3x69JejA/s1600-h/eiffel-tower-day.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SBpLs90JQHI/AAAAAAAACh4/K4q3x69JejA/s400/eiffel-tower-day.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195548356004888690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;I’m back and Europe is here!!! I'm a few hours away to be in Paris and what can I tell, I'm far far beyond the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; "excitement".&lt;/span&gt; &lt;st1:place style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" st="on"&gt;Lot&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; of things have happened lately, but the one that worries me the most is that sometimes I feel I'm loosing the amazement capability I had when I was a kid. I remember those years, the day before my bday I wasn’t even able to catch some sleep, I was always wondering what my gifts will be and the simple uncertainty of not knowing what was going to happen the next day drove me crazy. 20 years later, I’m a few hours to take my flight to Paris and unfortunately I don’t even feel close to the emotion I felt when I turned 7.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Sometimes I feel that being an adult is not that cool regarding the amazement, but the fact &lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I can make this trip gives me a personal satisfaction I could never felt when I was 7.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ok, too much talk and no facts, my trip will be: (See list in Spanish below)&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;I always promised myself not to do the typical &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;25 cities in 15 days trip, but, onces I was planning I couldn’t resist it… I-m going to be 1 month and that-s where I’m gonna be, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;check my blog frequently since I’m going to publish my adventures here…&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Au revoir&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, Europa ha llegado, estoy a unas horas de ir por primera vez a Europa y estoy lo que le sigue de emocionado... Muchas cosas han pasado en mi vida últimamente, y algo que me da un poco de miedo es que he sentido que mi capacidad de asombro va en declive. Recuerdo cuando era un pequeñuelo, el día antes de mu cumpleaños casi ni podía dormir de la emoción de los regalos que me iban a dar, esa intriga de no saber que iba suceder el día de mañana me volvía loco. 20 años después, estoy a horas de tomar el vuelo a Paris, la ciudad de la luz, y ciertamente no siento ni la 35ava parte de la emoción que sentí cuando cumplí 7 años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta estapa de ser adulto creo que no está tan cool en relación a ese poder de asombro, pero por otro lado, el hecho de poder hacer este viaje me llena de una satisfacción personal que pienso que no tuve a los 7 jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi viaje a grandes rasgos va ser el siguiente:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paris&lt;br /&gt;Barcelona&lt;br /&gt;Roma&lt;br /&gt;Venecia&lt;br /&gt;Budapest&lt;br /&gt;Bratislava&lt;br /&gt;Cesky Krumlov&lt;br /&gt;Cesky Bedjoivce&lt;br /&gt;Praga&lt;br /&gt;Krakovia&lt;br /&gt;Edinburgo&lt;br /&gt;Liverpool&lt;br /&gt;Londres....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siempre me prometí no hacer el viaje de 15 ciudades en 10 dias, pero ah, que mas da, no lo pude evitar jajajajaja  Voy 30 días y esperemos que esté de pelos....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los mantendré al tanto de mis aventuras, mantengase pegados a este blog ok??&lt;br /&gt;Ciao....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8347350682691923685?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8347350682691923685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8347350682691923685' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8347350682691923685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8347350682691923685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/05/europe-2008.html' title='Europe 2008'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SBpLs90JQHI/AAAAAAAACh4/K4q3x69JejA/s72-c/eiffel-tower-day.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1423983885145253713</id><published>2008-04-28T10:06:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T10:51:47.679-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Moving day.... Europe countdown: 04</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SBYOmN0JQFI/AAAAAAAAChk/PJ3MVuOkoWE/s1600-h/atlas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SBYOmN0JQFI/AAAAAAAAChk/PJ3MVuOkoWE/s320/atlas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194355269924634706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moving day is here.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy me mudo, no he dormido nada, estuve toda la noche haciendo la mudanza pero finalmente acabé alrededor de las 3.00 am.  La compañía que seleccioné fue Atlas Van Lines, la razón es sencilla, fue la más barata de las top 3, its all about the money....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los mudanzeros llegaron a eso de las 8.30 am y han estado moviendo mis cosas... Lo mas destacado de la mudanza:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Declare mi TV como 1400 dlls cuando me costó 700&lt;br /&gt;- Declaré mi monitor viejo como 200 cuando en realidad tendría que pagar porque se deshicieran de el&lt;br /&gt;- Declaré mi sillón de 50 dlls de craigslist en 1000 dlls&lt;br /&gt;- Declaré una cámara de 300 en 1500 dlls (para tener una nueva jajaja)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todo marcho en orden, las mudanzas aquí no son como Mexico, en casa, llegan 5 mudanzeros y se lo avientan todo a pata, aquí, los sres son mas fancys y traen carritos y ruedas, no cargan nada....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, faltan 4 dias para que me vaya a europa... I'm excited....    Una vez que esté en el viaje, escribiré mis anécdotas de como van las cosas....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos a todos... Nos vemos al rato&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1423983885145253713?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1423983885145253713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1423983885145253713' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1423983885145253713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1423983885145253713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/04/moving-day-europe-countdown-04.html' title='Moving day.... Europe countdown: 04'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/SBYOmN0JQFI/AAAAAAAAChk/PJ3MVuOkoWE/s72-c/atlas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7834113058279030917</id><published>2008-04-22T15:30:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-22T17:31:40.050-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nuevo Trabajo, Nuevo País, Nuevo Post / New Work, New Country, New Post</title><content type='html'>He vuelto, después de muchos muchos meses, varios comentarios de lychees y gente preguntándome que había pasado, I'm back!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al rato posteo de mi viaje a europa, me voy en 9 días....... :=)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7834113058279030917?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7834113058279030917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7834113058279030917' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7834113058279030917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7834113058279030917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2008/04/nuevo-trabajo-nuevo-pas-nuevo-post-new.html' title='Nuevo Trabajo, Nuevo País, Nuevo Post / New Work, New Country, New Post'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4392248463336451132</id><published>2007-09-07T11:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T11:45:41.218-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nostalgia por los 80s... K2, Bubble Gummers, MASK, VIDEOVISION y maas...</title><content type='html'>Hoooola...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vean este video por favor.... les apuesto que muchas cosas les seran familiares... Saludos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9-FnMLXuk3E"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9-FnMLXuk3E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4392248463336451132?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4392248463336451132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4392248463336451132' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4392248463336451132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4392248463336451132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/09/nostalgia-por-los-80s-k2-bubble-gummers.html' title='Nostalgia por los 80s... K2, Bubble Gummers, MASK, VIDEOVISION y maas...'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3207071119473319691</id><published>2007-09-02T22:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T16:22:07.028-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Noticia deúltima hora, FELIZ DÏA DEL BLOG!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rtud4gyzpVI/AAAAAAAAA1g/E-fQ2zzDr1c/s1600-h/blog.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rtud4gyzpVI/AAAAAAAAA1g/E-fQ2zzDr1c/s200/blog.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105848196755858770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Queridos bloglectores...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En días pasados mis fuentes me informaron que &lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/armando/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt; se celebró el 3er aniversario del BLOG a nivel mundial. El 31 de Agosto según mis fuentes, es cuando el blog es oficialmente reconocido como un medio alternativo de comunicación...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Según el sitio oficial del Blog (si, existe uno, lo juro):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="column"&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;¿Qué es el BlogDay?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;                 &lt;p&gt;El BlogDay es el día de los blogueros, ha sido creado para que los blogueros conozcan otros blogueros, de otros países y de otros centros de interés. El 31 de agosto es el día en el que los blogueros dan a conocer otros autores. Así de sencillo.!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;                          &lt;div class="column"&gt;                 &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;¿Qué ocurrirá durante el BlogDay?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;                 &lt;p&gt;Toda la jornada del 31 de agosto, los blogueros en el mundo entero postearán un artículo recomendando 5 nuevos blogs, preferentemente blogs diferentes a su propia cultura, punto de vista y posición. Así, ese día, el 31 de agosto, los lectores descubrirán otros autores alejados de su entorno habitual. Es un día para descubrir nuevos blogueros y nuevas experiencias.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;                                  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mis 5 recomendaciones de blogs:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;                 &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur120333.html?lang=es"&gt;Alfredo Halife&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nevblog.com/"&gt;Financial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/"&gt;Fake Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/netnative/archives/117280.asp"&gt;Las 25 cosas sin las cuales no podemos vivir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ortiztapia.blogspot.com/2007/09/mensaje-solictando-ayuda-al-mundo.html"&gt;La rebelión de los blogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Saludos!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3207071119473319691?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3207071119473319691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3207071119473319691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3207071119473319691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3207071119473319691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/09/noticia-deltima-hora-feliz-da-del-blog.html' title='Noticia deúltima hora, FELIZ DÏA DEL BLOG!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rtud4gyzpVI/AAAAAAAAA1g/E-fQ2zzDr1c/s72-c/blog.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4741581838719461436</id><published>2007-08-31T01:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-31T01:13:47.452-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mi CUMPLE!!!</title><content type='html'>Hoy fue mi cumple, al final del día terminé teniendo una cena privada con los amigos más cercanos.. he aquí algunas fotos del susodicho encuentro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De izquierda a derecha en el sentido de las manecillas del reloj:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Yo y mi pastel&lt;br /&gt;2) Yo con Sara y Davor (excelentes amigos)&lt;br /&gt;3) Mi hermano, Ingrid, Shereen y yo&lt;br /&gt;4) Federico y yo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Gente que no sale en las fotos pero que asistió: Rafa, Arturo, Perla, Eddie, el EXMO consul Roberto y Robin (la novia de Federico)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuimos a un restaurante japonés y la pasamos increible...&lt;br /&gt;Saludos!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM4QyzpRI/AAAAAAAAA1A/m0p-HVGMCsk/s1600-h/DSC_0160.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM4QyzpRI/AAAAAAAAA1A/m0p-HVGMCsk/s200/DSC_0160.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104773969600554258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM4gyzpSI/AAAAAAAAA1I/4U2O0ZJhu_g/s1600-h/DSC_0157.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM4gyzpSI/AAAAAAAAA1I/4U2O0ZJhu_g/s200/DSC_0157.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104773973895521570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM5AyzpTI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/9K4na-WOV78/s1600-h/DSC_0159.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM5AyzpTI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/9K4na-WOV78/s200/DSC_0159.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104773982485456178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM5QyzpUI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/0REW-1EqMkw/s1600-h/DSC_0155.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM5QyzpUI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/0REW-1EqMkw/s200/DSC_0155.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104773986780423490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4741581838719461436?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4741581838719461436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4741581838719461436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4741581838719461436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4741581838719461436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/mi-cumple.html' title='Mi CUMPLE!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtfM4QyzpRI/AAAAAAAAA1A/m0p-HVGMCsk/s72-c/DSC_0160.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-972454167915615023</id><published>2007-08-29T23:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-30T09:13:34.989-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Miami sun, Miami nights, Miami beach, MIAMI BABY!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZnZgyzpQI/AAAAAAAAA04/vCjh9cFKf_c/s1600-h/DSC_0023.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZnZgyzpQI/AAAAAAAAA04/vCjh9cFKf_c/s200/DSC_0023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104380915668460802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZmvQyzpOI/AAAAAAAAA0o/yiEaXSaB85Y/s1600-h/DSC_0147.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZmvQyzpOI/AAAAAAAAA0o/yiEaXSaB85Y/s200/DSC_0147.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104380189818987746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZmvQyzpPI/AAAAAAAAA0w/bwH2_1m9swQ/s1600-h/DSC_0018.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZmvQyzpPI/AAAAAAAAA0w/bwH2_1m9swQ/s200/DSC_0018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104380189818987762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlwAyzpLI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/RYvSCr1IauY/s1600-h/DSC_0077.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlwAyzpLI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/RYvSCr1IauY/s200/DSC_0077.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104379103192261810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He vuelto, después de unas merecidas vacaciones mi viaje estuvo&lt;br /&gt;llena de sorpresas y buenos momentos... a continuación los highlights del viaje...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Llegué el Jueves a primera hora, Glorivee pasó por mi y estuve casi todo el día con ella&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlwQyzpMI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/pH1GyIhW-sU/s1600-h/DSC_0145.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlwQyzpMI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/pH1GyIhW-sU/s200/DSC_0145.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104379107487229122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- En la tarde me dieron las llaves de casa de Jorge y Nat y me tiré en la alberca y jacuzzi el resto del día (ellos llegaban el viernes)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- El viernes tomé el coche a primera hora rumbo a southbeach, me tiré en el sol TOOOODO EL DIA... no hice naaaada. En la tarde pasé por jorge al aeropuerto, me llevó a comer unas carnes argentinas muuuuy buenas y jugosas como las de Falls Church que me llevaba el mijo y en la noche, de regreso a Southbeach a echar el drink. Acabamos como a las 3 am, vi a jorge, nelson y su novia, orlando y a su esposa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlvwyzpJI/AAAAAAAAA0A/3W-UorodMAc/s1600-h/DSC_0059.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlvwyzpJI/AAAAAAAAA0A/3W-UorodMAc/s200/DSC_0059.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104379098897294482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- El sábado Jorge me despertó y nos fuimos a donde creen?  Southbeach.. a tirar a la playa TOOOOOODO el día... en la tarde fuimos a Scotty's un bar en la marina de puro "local", no turistas por coconut groove super chido a echar el dinner y la chela, luego regresamos a casa y en la noche, fuimos a recojer a NAT, fuimos por mas drinks despues...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- El domingo Nat me despertó y nos hizo de desayunar a Jorge y a mi unos deliciosos huevos con jamón, luego a donde creen... efectivamente, soouthbeach, mas sol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlwAyzpKI/AAAAAAAAA0I/-KPCI8j5eL4/s1600-h/DSC_0064.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZlwAyzpKI/AAAAAAAAA0I/-KPCI8j5eL4/s200/DSC_0064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104379103192261794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- Luego en la tarde empezó la aventura, me dejan en el aeropuerto a las 4 y mi vuelo a Houston estaba retrasado 5 hrs.... lo cual hizo que perdiera mi conexión y durmiera en Houston, a cambio.. me dieron N MIL vouchers de comida p tragar en el aeropuerto, muchos descuentos en mis futuros vuelos, me hospedaron el en marriot del aeropuerto en Houston y al día siguiente mas vouchers de comida hasta que me trepé al avión... Y ahi me pasó algo bien tonto, "la anécdota de la hora" pero para ello haré otra entrada mañana... de mientras, disfruten las fotos..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-972454167915615023?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/972454167915615023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=972454167915615023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/972454167915615023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/972454167915615023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/miami-sun-miami-nights-miami-beach.html' title='Miami sun, Miami nights, Miami beach, MIAMI BABY!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RtZnZgyzpQI/AAAAAAAAA04/vCjh9cFKf_c/s72-c/DSC_0023.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4954215617179506158</id><published>2007-08-22T11:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T11:44:08.341-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El video que me hizo la semana: Bloooodaaa, das not funnyyy!! haha</title><content type='html'>Subanle al volumen, en serio... Oigan la risa del papa al final, de 10....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ib0Tll3sGB0"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ib0Tll3sGB0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4954215617179506158?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4954215617179506158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4954215617179506158' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4954215617179506158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4954215617179506158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-video-que-me-hizo-la-semana.html' title='El video que me hizo la semana: Bloooodaaa, das not funnyyy!! haha'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2321099709891302316</id><published>2007-08-19T20:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-19T20:29:00.567-07:00</updated><title type='text'>This weekend to MIAMI!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskKawyzpGI/AAAAAAAAAzo/ky4Fcv4N1Jg/s1600-h/memiami.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskKawyzpGI/AAAAAAAAAzo/ky4Fcv4N1Jg/s320/memiami.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100619507864675426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hooola,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pues este fin decidí castigarme un porquito con unas mereciditas vacaciones (en realidad llevo MESES planeandolo, jeje), y pues me voy a dar una escapadita de 4 días al paradisiaco Miami!!!&lt;br /&gt;Voy a ver a mis amigos, a disfrutar de un poco de sol (con eso que en Seattle nos falta) y pues un poco de rumba y esencia latina!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya les contaré!! Saludos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskKbAyzpHI/AAAAAAAAAzw/9xpZ9x4F9G8/s1600-h/miami+night.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskKbAyzpHI/AAAAAAAAAzw/9xpZ9x4F9G8/s320/miami+night.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100619512159642738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2321099709891302316?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2321099709891302316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2321099709891302316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2321099709891302316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2321099709891302316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-weekend-to-miami.html' title='This weekend to MIAMI!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskKawyzpGI/AAAAAAAAAzo/ky4Fcv4N1Jg/s72-c/memiami.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-9114717025442960081</id><published>2007-08-19T19:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-19T20:22:11.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paint out Seattle!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskHzAyzpFI/AAAAAAAAAzg/tDu24EnITm0/s1600-h/seattle-paint-out-logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskHzAyzpFI/AAAAAAAAAzg/tDu24EnITm0/s320/seattle-paint-out-logo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100616625941619794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Hoola bloglectores, como les va?? Pues les cuento que mi trabajo de volunteer estuvo genial, finalmente no tenía que pintar la estación de bomberos (No estaba en Blanco y Negro como el mijo sugirió, era una foto "artística" jaja), resulta que los grafiteros parecen respetar bastante a sus bomberos, era más de remover los tags y grafitis de mi vecindario llamado "Belltown"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Llegué y no conocía a nadie, así que mis habilidades sociales salieron a relucir e inmediatamente hice amigos nuevos, básicamente hice equipo con dos parejas, la primera eran Derek y Ariel, dueños de una vinera en california y Real Estate Agent respectivamente, la otra pareja son Haluk y Laurie, el es arquitecto y ella como que no entendí bien, y pues entre los 5 hicimos la comitiva que se encargó de limpiar el sur de la zona.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskHywyzpEI/AAAAAAAAAzY/FN-82CZq9hA/s1600-h/08-18-07_1004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskHywyzpEI/AAAAAAAAAzY/FN-82CZq9hA/s320/08-18-07_1004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100616621646652482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Estuvo chido, llevabamos una wagon station (un carrito con ruedas) que tenía 3 botes de pintura (cafe, gris y blanco), espátulas, quimicos anti grafitis, bolsas de basura, recojedores de basura, las brochas y las cosas naranjas p que no nos atropellaran.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;En fin, luego de pintar por horas y recibir “n” sonrisas de vecinos que les agradaba nuestra tarea aprendí varias cosas:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;A)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt; Nunca digas Nunca. Porque? Porque alguna vez dije, “quien demonios pintaría un contenedor de basura?” jaja, I did, removimos grafitis de los contenedores de basura y ahi estábamos pintándolos con todo y la peste&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Es chido ayudar a tu comunidad, se siente bien&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C)&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;Tapar los grafitis en una zona “conflictiva” llena de drug dealers (si, mi vecindario tiene su cuadrita fea también), y borrar los 10 mandamientos del crackhead (jaja les juro que estaban pintados en la pared) es definitivamente “pricesless”&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D)&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Creo que es todo&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-9114717025442960081?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/9114717025442960081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=9114717025442960081' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/9114717025442960081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/9114717025442960081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/paint-out-seattle.html' title='Paint out Seattle!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RskHzAyzpFI/AAAAAAAAAzg/tDu24EnITm0/s72-c/seattle-paint-out-logo.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7043012619863837428</id><published>2007-08-13T09:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-13T09:39:35.626-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Seattle Works / Volunteer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RsCJNif0EpI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/YoYE90RGOqg/s1600-h/Firestation2bDON.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RsCJNif0EpI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/YoYE90RGOqg/s320/Firestation2bDON.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098225643874947730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leyendo el Blog de Ortíz y su experiencia con los bomberos y como los vecinos se preocuparon por su vecindario, me percaté que jamás había hecho un demonio por mi comunidad. Dada esta situación, me pegó un bicho raro y decidí meterme de voluntario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resulta que en Siarol, tenemos una cosa que se llama "Seattle Works" en la que solicitan voluntarios para hacer cosas que benefician a la ciudad. En esta ocasión, voy a ser Neoghbor Lead de Belltown (donde vivo) para pintar la Fire Station el Sábado que viene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta es una imagen del Fire Station que vamos a pintar.. Ya les contaré como me fué...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7043012619863837428?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7043012619863837428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7043012619863837428' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7043012619863837428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7043012619863837428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/seattle-works-volunteer.html' title='Seattle Works / Volunteer'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RsCJNif0EpI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/YoYE90RGOqg/s72-c/Firestation2bDON.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-803890508479701435</id><published>2007-08-06T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-06T16:39:26.269-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Olallo Rubio y la Apocalíptica Destrucción del Podcast</title><content type='html'>Hooooooola&lt;br /&gt;I'm back, seguramente algunos de ustedes que vivieron en finales de los 90s en la ciudad de México recordarán al enigmático y controversial Olallo Rubio, el mejor locutor que la radio en México ha tenido. Si, el de radioactivo, ese mero...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, pues yo soy su fan #1, siempre de chavito compraba los Cds de radioactivo o los conseguía y no me perdía su programa, era la neta. Para los jóvenes lectores, resulta que el 98.5 del FM en la ciudad de México no siempre ha sido un canal de noticias, solía tener a la mejor estación de radio: Radioactivo, 98.5  Era música alternativa, o sea, no el heavy metal que le gusta a algunos ni el pop, musica cool como por  ejemplo los Smashing, Nirvana o Radiohead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, resulta que David me informó que tiene un PODCAST. Es lo mejor que hay en la red en estos días, se los recomiendo ampliamente.&lt;br /&gt;Lo pueden encontrar en la siguiente dirección:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rockandroll.com.mx/programas/olallo.html"&gt;http://www.rockandroll.com.mx/programas/olallo.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En verdad, bájenlo, les va encantar. Y si no lo ubican, bájenlo de todas formas, oiganlos TODOS, van 25 hasta hoy, y por favor, después de escuchar el 25avo, visiten:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laapocalipticadestrucciondelpodcast.org/"&gt;http://www.laapocalipticadestrucciondelpodcast.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos al Argen, al insopor, al profesor y al personaje estelar, el Betornillo o Betorpedo, jajajajaja es la neta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un abrazo!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RrexISf0EoI/AAAAAAAAAys/Z0aQgYTie0k/s1600-h/Captura_12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RrexISf0EoI/AAAAAAAAAys/Z0aQgYTie0k/s320/Captura_12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095736259355349634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-803890508479701435?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/803890508479701435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=803890508479701435' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/803890508479701435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/803890508479701435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/08/olallo-rubio-y-la-apocalptica.html' title='Olallo Rubio y la Apocalíptica Destrucción del Podcast'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RrexISf0EoI/AAAAAAAAAys/Z0aQgYTie0k/s72-c/Captura_12.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1465123443665083414</id><published>2007-07-08T23:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-08T23:29:57.713-07:00</updated><title type='text'>American DAD vs LOS SIMPSONS</title><content type='html'>Ok, si no han leído mi post anterior, vayan y leanlo y luego regresan......&lt;br /&gt;Ya lo leyeron? bueno, después de haber visto Los Simpson, empezó una caricatura llamada American Dad. Desde el intro me moría de la risa, es como "Los Simpsons" pero aún MAAAS estúpido, lo pueden creer??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les cuento, en vez de Homero, el Papa es como el prototipo del American Dad (dah.. por algo se llama así no??), es un brother que tiene una bandera de USA en la pared de su cama y trabaja  en la CIA. Aquí la tonta es la mama, en vez de Marge, ponen una huera toda "Desperate housewife" de 10, la hija esn la rebelde y el niño es el ñoño, jaja eso esta buenísimo, ahhh y en vez del perro flaco pulgoso de los simpson, tienen como un pulpo de mascota (es la única parte que si la neta no entendí), anyway. Es como la versión humanoide de los Simpsons,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También salen personajes de la vida real, en el capítulo que vi, la señora quiere enamorarse de George Clooney, jaja, y el señor se vuelve su guarura para acercar a la esposa a el, comor egalo de cumpleaños de 40 años, jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conseguí en youtube un corto animado de 7 mins con las mejores escenas según esto, vean la intro (la canción está de lo más estúpida..) y la parte donde le dice a la pistola que dispare, jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno... disfruten...  Gooooddd morrrrning UUUSSSAAAAA jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QieE7VKhIjs"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QieE7VKhIjs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1465123443665083414?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1465123443665083414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1465123443665083414' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1465123443665083414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1465123443665083414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/07/american-dad-vs-los-simpsons.html' title='American DAD vs LOS SIMPSONS'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7222650983973787222</id><published>2007-07-08T23:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-08T23:14:13.811-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pequeño TRAUMA viendo Los Simpsons</title><content type='html'>Ayer estaba tonteando en la tele después de la abrumadora victoria de México sobre Paraguay cuando me encontré Los Simpsons. Hacía años que no los veía, se que siguen pasando capítulos nuevos pero creo que la última temporada que vi completa fue la del capítulo del monoriel, se acuerdan? ha ha, buenísimo.. anyway, estaba viendo los simpson cuando de repente me entró el trauma. Bart Simpson estaba jugando un juego de PC en su computadora....... siiiiiiiiii&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRAUMA1: BART ya tiene una PC en su cuarto, jaja, desde cuando Bart es un cyber niño, jaja que no crece el méndigo? yo mi primera computadora la tuve a los 16 años, el sigue de 8 y ya tenía compu y estaba jugando un juego como  ZELDA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRAUMA 2: LISA ya juega soccer, o sea, desde cuando juegan soccer en Los Simpsons, luego me percaté que yo veía los simpson que se habían creado PREVIO al Mundial del 94, entonces el soccer como que no lo pelaban, pero ahora Lisa es toda una jugadora de futbol. y no solo eso, se vuelve una maniática por el futbol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRAUMA 3: Mientras Lisa juega futbol, Marge estaba en la cocina con uan LAPTOP, madre mia, de cuando acá Marge tiene una laptop, solo falta que les pongan una iphone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nota, en el capítulo que vi sale Ronaldo con su playera del REAL, lo cual me indica que el capítulo ya tiene sus buenos añitos,&lt;br /&gt;en fin... solko quería compartir estos pequeños traumas... Nos estamos quedando viejos... that's all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RpHRtiNfVnI/AAAAAAAAAyk/MwEFZtf1XeE/s1600-h/simpsons_family.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RpHRtiNfVnI/AAAAAAAAAyk/MwEFZtf1XeE/s320/simpsons_family.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085076034485704306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7222650983973787222?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7222650983973787222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7222650983973787222' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7222650983973787222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7222650983973787222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/07/ayer-estaba-tonteando-en-la-tele-despus.html' title='Pequeño TRAUMA viendo Los Simpsons'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RpHRtiNfVnI/AAAAAAAAAyk/MwEFZtf1XeE/s72-c/simpsons_family.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2578967731251245047</id><published>2007-07-04T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-04T09:13:29.205-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy 4th of July!!!</title><content type='html'>Hahahaha, la vdd me tiene sin cuidado que sea la independencia gabacha, lo que es un hecho es que como dice Mel, es cool no tener que ir a trabajar hoy y poder echar fiesta todo el día y hacer BBQ con los amigos.. Así que para agradecer al tío Sam que hoy no se trabaja, le dediqué mi Meez porque mas allá de eso, no me podría vestir asi nunca... jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También puse un laguito ahi en el meez porque hoy voy a ver los fuegos en el Lago (Lake Union) p ser más exactos... Luego les paso las fotos que tome hoy en la noche!!!! Saludos&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2578967731251245047?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2578967731251245047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2578967731251245047' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2578967731251245047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2578967731251245047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/07/happy-4th-of-july.html' title='Happy 4th of July!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3201160515017784287</id><published>2007-07-01T21:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-01T22:14:51.397-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Solo Road Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF6yNfVSI/AAAAAAAAAv4/qUT0wIJTpTA/s1600-h/DSC_0003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF6yNfVSI/AAAAAAAAAv4/qUT0wIJTpTA/s200/DSC_0003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082459424444863778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, tiene rato que no escribía, ya voy a dejar de poner pretextos, jaja, soy un perezoso. En fin, el día de hoy les voy a contar un viaje poco común que hice. Para aquellos que me conocen de más tiempo saben que con frecuencia hago cosas poco convencionales como ir al cine solo, viajar solo si nadie quiere ir conmigo, querer vivir en el centro de la Ciudad de México (si toño y jorge, con mi segway por el centro, jaja).&lt;br /&gt;Total, en uno de mis arranques de cosas que la gente denominada “normal” no hace (y lo digo así porque 9 de cada 10 personas que me cuento me ven con cara de : “estas loco”), total que un Sábado me desperté y no tenia nada que hacer, pero así, NAAADA, no les ha pasado? Así que agarré mi cochecito y p no hacer el cuento largo me fui a manejar un circuito muy padre con muchos paisajes que duró como 11 horas y media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7CNfVTI/AAAAAAAAAwA/uLLgPWTbbCc/s1600-h/DSC_0011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7CNfVTI/AAAAAAAAAwA/uLLgPWTbbCc/s200/DSC_0011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082459428739831090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Total, 11 horas después y 467 millas o 747 km después acabé mis mi road trip, jaja, si, 750 kilómetros me aventé manejando ese día… He aquí la reseña del viaje en kms(es más fácil, lo siento)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Km 0 – 85 : Nada interesante, 85 kms de ciudad y suburbio, muchos árboles, McDonalds, y letreros que decían que quedaban algunas salidas de USA antes de llegar a Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Km 85 – 120 Ya se pone mejor, voy manejando y tengo de fondo las montañas, varios minis cruzan en el camino del otro lado y nos echamos  las altas (regla # 3 del conductor de un MINI, siempre saluda con las luces a un MINI que venga del otro lado), es como parte de un código secreto entre los MINI drivers. Total que llego a un pueblo que no van a creer su nombre, CONCRETE , jaja o sea, que pez… así o menos originales, quiero pensar que se dedican a la fabricación del CEMENTO, porque el concreto es el resultado del cemento mas agua. EL pueblo esta cool, nada del otro mundo y tienen una feria del sábado donde venden pura chuchería barata. Ahhh y tenían cafés y donas gratis (la vdd fue lo único que me motivó a detenerme). Sigamos con el recorrido&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7SNfVUI/AAAAAAAAAwI/qZ7AYmS5V2Y/s1600-h/DSC_0015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7SNfVUI/AAAAAAAAAwI/qZ7AYmS5V2Y/s200/DSC_0015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082459433034798402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Km 120 – 240 Paso el pueblo cementero y empiezan los paisajes, vean la combinación entre lago, río y montaña de algunas fotos, en vdd, de postal, se los juro, una cosa que te quedas así de queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee??? No no, buenísisisisisimo. Me paraba cada 3 miradores y tomaba mil fotos, la vdd un espectáculo que solo había visto en el cañón del sumidero. Para este entonces ya llevaba como 4 horas manejando, pero iba super bien el viaje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Km 300s.. Aquí se puso buenísimo. Se imaginan ir manejando en Julio, a 90 grados Fh (como 30 grados supongo) y de repente ingue su.. una bola de nieve en el camino?? Jajaja, bueno, como pueden ver en las fotos, yo andaba de shorts y bien primaveral, resulta que el loop que tomé cruza un sistema montañoso llamado “the cascades mountains”, so.. estaba ya muy arriba y ya no hacía TAAANTO calor, los 90 grados fueron como 50 kms atrás.. el punto es que empiezo a ver paredes de nieve en pleno verano, lo pueden creer?? Habia gente esquiando, super crazy, subiendo a pata y desde arriba de la montaña ámonos p abajo con los esquíes.. Aquí algunas fotos de la nieve y mi coche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7SNfVVI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/8RjfcaJ5o6U/s1600-h/DSC_0016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7SNfVVI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/8RjfcaJ5o6U/s200/DSC_0016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082459433034798418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Km 400s. Whintrop.. Si siguen la secuencia de las fotos, verán un pueblo vaquero, pues si, no manejé hasta Texas, tampoco estoy taaaaaan loco, jaja resulta que unos tejanos mineros que vivían aquí se quedaron sin minas entonces como ya nadie iba al pueblo, decidieron hacer una versión petite del Pueblo Vaquero de Disney pero en la vida real. A las fotos me remito, la vdd hueva vivir ahí, pero así como para ir un día de Road trip está cool, jaja. Te sientes como perdido en el medio oeste, y lleno de gringos barbones con Harleys. 100% Made in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Km 450 -600  Nada del otro mundo, aquí maneje como 100Kms al lado del Columbia River (mijo… que le prometí??), lo bueno de aquí es que tienes visibilidad de cómo 10 kms entonces cuando ves pasar coches y motos a 100 mph, pues te animas y corres un poquito, así que le metí pata y llevé mi coche al máximo (bueno, no tanto, soy medio collón, solo le metí como 110 menos de 3 mins…) estuvo bueno…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiI6yNfVmI/AAAAAAAAAyY/aoAPMjwPl58/s1600-h/DSC_0025.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiI6yNfVmI/AAAAAAAAAyY/aoAPMjwPl58/s200/DSC_0025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082462722979747426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Km 650 Para esto ya llevaba yo como 9 horas montado en el carro manejando, quemando combustible. Para este momento ya había ido a un pueblo cementero, a lagos, ríos, nieve, esquí, ya había comido helado en un pueblo vaquero y ya le había hablado al mijo cuando iba manejando por el columbia river (el mijo es oriundo de esa zona y le prometí hablarle cada vez que viera ese riito) Total que llego a otro “Disney wanna be” town.. Leavenworth. Esta villa se jacta de ser una villa 100% alemana, jaja la vdd es que es lo mismo que Whintrop, un grupo de alemanes perdidos en las montañas ya no sabía que hacer y decidieron re-hacer su pueblito pero ahora con un aire alemán. Todos los señores son así weros, con barbas y bigotes y se visten ridículamente alemanes. He aquí algunas fotos de este pueblito. Esta curioso, la vdd si vale la pena ir y dicen que en invierno se pone increíble. Esta rodeado de bosques y ski resorts, así que en el invierno me daré una vuelta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7iNfVWI/AAAAAAAAAwY/zbwb2vItpgM/s1600-h/DSC_0018.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiF7iNfVWI/AAAAAAAAAwY/zbwb2vItpgM/s200/DSC_0018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082459437329765730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Km 700 algo… De regreso a Seattle, por fin… un buen sushi y a la rumba…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como ven? La vdd me la pasé increíble, fue como un momento de mucha reflexión y la vdd manejar solo en mi cochecín con mi música y el quemacocos abierto a todo lo que da fue una experiencia muuuuy padre. Pienso que la repetiré ahora que venga mi hermano.&lt;br /&gt;Bueno… disfruten las fotos… Saludos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiIzSNfVhI/AAAAAAAAAxw/V6pEj9tCj0A/s1600-h/DSC_0028.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiIzSNfVhI/AAAAAAAAAxw/V6pEj9tCj0A/s200/DSC_0028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082462594130728466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiIzSNfViI/AAAAAAAAAx4/9EnwUOjPE78/s1600-h/DSC_0029.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiIzSNfViI/AAAAAAAAAx4/9EnwUOjPE78/s200/DSC_0029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082462594130728482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RoiIziNfVjI/AAAAAAAAAyA/IoB8qyGyZFg/s1600-h/DSC_0047.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZuWBC0uI/AAAAAAAAAu8/owatmb9uUmk/s200/DSC_0011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670270346875618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzaBGBC0zI/AAAAAAAAAvk/p-PvU9jyowA/s1600-h/DSC_0006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzaBGBC0zI/AAAAAAAAAvk/p-PvU9jyowA/s200/DSC_0006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670592469422898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Hace dos fines de semana vino Limpis de visita, después de varios intentos, logró convencerme de ir con el al Sasquatch Music Fest. Para todos aquellos que no estan al tanto de este tipo de eventos, es asi tipo Woodstock (si, el concierto ese famoso de los 60´s lleno de hippies y rock &amp; roll), bueno, pues ya en el siglo XXI siguen organizando esos conciertos y pues nunca había ido a uno así que me animé... Fedo y Danya me convencieron a ir, para mejorar mis gustos musicales y pues explorar ese inframundo del rock alternativo... It was good, he he&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZumBC0vI/AAAAAAAAAvE/EGjWbPuSUmo/s1600-h/DSC_0037.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZumBC0vI/AAAAAAAAAvE/EGjWbPuSUmo/s200/DSC_0037.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670274641842930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt; Todo empezó el sábado del Memorial Weekend, nos lanzamos a medio día sin boletos. Después de 3 horas de manejar, llegamos al evento. Como era de esperarse, ya no había boletos, así que hicimos unos letreros que decían “We need TKTS” jaja, buenísimo, ahí nos ven al limpis y a mi como si pidiéramos dinero, ja ja, pidiendo clemencia de alguien que nos quisiera vender unos boletos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzaBWBC00I/AAAAAAAAAvs/XJI53MtQwGA/s1600-h/DSC_0007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzaBWBC00I/AAAAAAAAAvs/XJI53MtQwGA/s200/DSC_0007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670596764390210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Anyway, después de una media hora y de compartir el sol y la esperanza de conseguir boleto con dos niñas de Bosnia (que estaban en la misma situación que nosotros), llego una niña con su novio y nos vendieron los boletos a precio real, y entramos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Ese día vimos a los Beastie Boys (si, aunque no lo crean siguen tocando y no fueron el One hit wonder que yo pensaba, tienen más canciones además de Intergalactic), a Bjork (que esa si me choca) y otros grupos aca todos alternativos como Arcade Fire y así.. Ahhh y claro, Manu Chao, ya saben, el francés que se cree latino y no entiende que el SKA ya pasó de moda.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZumBC0wI/AAAAAAAAAvM/9Szjg927qQk/s1600-h/DSC_0150.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZumBC0wI/AAAAAAAAAvM/9Szjg927qQk/s200/DSC_0150.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670274641842946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Para el domingo ya habíamos comprado boletos, asi que volvimos y ese día volvimos a ver a los beastie boys, hubo un delay de varias horas por el viento (jaja aunque no lo crean, el viento puede tirar un escenario completo), anyway al final todos tocaron incluyendo a una banda medio conocida que se llama Interpol. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;La vdd no es así como que mi HIT de música pero estuvo cool…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Aquí algunas fotos del escenario y así.. se ve cool no?? La vdd si estuvo super chido!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzaA2BC0yI/AAAAAAAAAvc/7aY8IMNQsh8/s1600-h/DSC_0162.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzaA2BC0yI/AAAAAAAAAvc/7aY8IMNQsh8/s200/DSC_0162.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670588174455586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;L8r!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZumBC0xI/AAAAAAAAAvU/6VqcHrZ8ZyM/s1600-h/DSC_0158.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZumBC0xI/AAAAAAAAAvU/6VqcHrZ8ZyM/s200/DSC_0158.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074670274641842962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4216194128703680630?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4216194128703680630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4216194128703680630' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4216194128703680630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4216194128703680630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/06/sasquatch-weekend.html' title='Sasquatch Weekend'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmzZuWBC0uI/AAAAAAAAAu8/owatmb9uUmk/s72-c/DSC_0011.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6312047980939998430</id><published>2007-06-10T21:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-10T21:52:59.472-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris, Je t'aime</title><content type='html'>I found this trailer while ago (maybe a couple months) and I knew it was going to be one of the best movies I have ever seen. I was right!, I just watched it a couple hours ago and there's no way to describe it, I can only tell you this one is a masterpiece of art, like they would say here, "a major cinema event".... Highly recommended!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note... The paramedic story, the best one!! Check out the trailer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LkrqtxogmME"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LkrqtxogmME" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6312047980939998430?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6312047980939998430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6312047980939998430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6312047980939998430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6312047980939998430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/06/paris-je-taime.html' title='Paris, Je t&apos;aime'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6531897079867776617</id><published>2007-06-01T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-01T17:40:46.919-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La tierra donde ser Homeless no es una situacion, sino una profesion / (Just available in Spanish)</title><content type='html'>Alo!!! Asi como lo escuchan, Seattle es una tierra maravillosa de oportunidades y esplendor, prueba de ello no solo soy yo, jeje, (ok, esa fue una mala broma), pero en vdd, algo que me tiene anonadado es el issue de los homeless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno esta acostumbrado a que los homeless en Mexico son gente sin recursos, sucias, y generalmente la idea viene de la mano con gente maleducada, olorosas, sin metas claras en la vida y sin ganas de salir adelante. Estan de acuerdo???? (aqui se supone que deben decir todos: SIIIIIII asi como en el monologo de Adal Ramones, ok??) va de nuevo... estan de acuerdo???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pues NOOOOOOOOOOO jajaja whooooowwwwaaaaaa hehe, pues fijense que en esta ciudad todos esos paradigmas se rompen. Para prueba de ello lean lo siguiente y analicen las imagenes que pongo aqui:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A) En Seattle los homeless usan barba de candado y se rasuran diario de ser posible (ya ni yo cara)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B) Si vas a la biblioteca publica en horas de trabajo, ahi estan la mayoria, leyendose y cultivandose.. el negocio de homeless tiene horarios (cuando la gente sale y entra a atrabajar, o sea, de 7 a 10 am y de 4 a 7 pm y a la hora del lunch)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C) Cuando recien llegue, vi varios de ellos con mejores chamarras para el frio que yo, se los juro, no sufren&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D) Son ingeniosos, aplican el MKT, vean la de los NINJAS, esta de 10 no??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E) Algunos tienen perros... yo me pregunto, que no apenas tienen dinero para comer?? WROOOONG, les alcanza para comer ellos y su mascota, la cual creanme, no esta desnutrida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F) Son reteamables, si te piden dinero y no les das, aun asi te dicen, gracias y te desean que tengas buen dia (somos clientes recuerdan? es un negocio ser homeless)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G) Toman cafe de starbucks, porque no gastar 3.59 en un latte?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H) Piden dinero en el vaso VENTI de starbucks, e incluso una vez vi uno pidiendo dinero en una TAZA !! ya saben no?? jaja de las que tienen algun promocional de starbucks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I) Vean el senior del sombrero, esta cool no? jaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por ultimo, una anecodta que me dejo con la boca abierta. Estaba yo en mi cafe favorito, se llama macrina (&lt;a href="http://www.macrinabakery.com/"&gt;http://www.macrinabakery.com&lt;/a&gt;) de repente entra un senior homeless con toda la indumentaria de la profesion, pido mi cafe y el pidio el suyo (si, pago 2.50 dlls por un TALL Americano), acto seguido, se sienta en una mesa (con todo y perro) a disfrutar su cafe y saca un periodico y a leer, era como el brake.... Me quede ahi a ver la escena, fue al banio, se tardo como 15 mins, salio con el cabello mojado (fue como dia de bano, supongo) y a seguir trabajando, saca su vaso de starbucks y se posiciono en la esquina del cafesin... A los 4 dias me lo encontre en el waterfront haciendo linea para el bano publico (nota... ya traia ropa nueva limpia)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, es algo que me tiene ANONADADO!! bueno, es todo, solo queria compartirlo con ustedes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC71jLODdI/AAAAAAAAAuk/Z3Q_f0iPG6k/s1600-h/homeless2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071259709068938706" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC71jLODdI/AAAAAAAAAuk/Z3Q_f0iPG6k/s320/homeless2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7lzLODZI/AAAAAAAAAuE/jC4rdBBvcHM/s1600-h/ninja.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071259438485998994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7lzLODZI/AAAAAAAAAuE/jC4rdBBvcHM/s320/ninja.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7lzLODaI/AAAAAAAAAuM/TvbAKiKrFz0/s1600-h/homeless2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7mTLODbI/AAAAAAAAAuU/wO1B0v8CrcQ/s1600-h/Seattle_Streets_III_by_Manatsu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071259447075933618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7mTLODbI/AAAAAAAAAuU/wO1B0v8CrcQ/s320/Seattle_Streets_III_by_Manatsu.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7mjLODcI/AAAAAAAAAuc/tobhp-4bM8k/s1600-h/homeless3.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071259451370900930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC7mjLODcI/AAAAAAAAAuc/tobhp-4bM8k/s320/homeless3.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6531897079867776617?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6531897079867776617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6531897079867776617' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6531897079867776617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6531897079867776617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-tierra-donde-ser-homeless-no-es-una.html' title='La tierra donde ser Homeless no es una situacion, sino una profesion / (Just available in Spanish)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RmC71jLODdI/AAAAAAAAAuk/Z3Q_f0iPG6k/s72-c/homeless2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6336263374439232900</id><published>2007-05-30T09:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T10:05:29.312-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sobrevivi a mi primer trayecto patinando / I survived!!!!</title><content type='html'>Fue una experiencia dolorosa, muuuuy dolorosa... creo que los anios no pasan en balde.. ademas creo que me quedaron grande los patines, igual los cambio hoy en la noche... Me duele TOOOODO, los gluteos, las piernas.. jaja hice mas tiempo de lo que hago caminando, me paraba cada 5 minutos a descansar.. las pantorrillas, no no no, que dolor...... pero eso si, no me cai...&lt;br /&gt;Ya les contare como va progresando eso de la patinada...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I did it, it was a painful experience... I think the years don't pass by just "because" he he.. The blades are a little bit larger than I expected and they don't fit perfect, I may change then L8R tonight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Evrything is hurting (butt, legs...) I did more time than what I usually do walking, so you can imagine.. but I will improve it, I know!!! See u L8r, I'll keep you posted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6336263374439232900?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6336263374439232900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6336263374439232900' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6336263374439232900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6336263374439232900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/05/sobrevivi-mi-primer-trayecto-patinando.html' title='Sobrevivi a mi primer trayecto patinando / I survived!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3413711168892445434</id><published>2007-05-30T00:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T00:56:25.543-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mi patines y yo!!! / Me &amp; my rollerblades!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rl27zDLODYI/AAAAAAAAAt8/O7cRcZ_bRUg/s1600-h/patine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070415241189133698" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rl27zDLODYI/AAAAAAAAAt8/O7cRcZ_bRUg/s200/patine.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok, para todos aquellos que pensaban que no hacia nada ademas de estar sentado en una computadora todo el dia, (lo cual tiene algo de verdad) pues les informo que me compre unos patines, asi es , resulta que hace como unos 15 kilos.. perdon años yo patinaba muchisimo, entonces ahora que es veranito decidi regresar a esos buenos tiempos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya les contare como me va, espero que todo salga bien. Aqui esta una foto de mis patines y los musculos que voy a ejercitar dia con dia... Les aviso como me va...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Ok, for all of you that believed I do nothing besides being on a computer, I want to inform that today I bought a new pair of roller skates. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rl0jiTLODVI/AAAAAAAAAtk/RrSMhvS29xI/s1600-h/patines1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070247827658902866" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 124px; cursor: pointer; height: 165px;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rl0jiTLODVI/AAAAAAAAAtk/RrSMhvS29xI/s320/patines1.jpg" border="0" height="165" width="144" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Yes, hehe I used to skate A LOT when I was a child, so I decided that I wanted to go back to the exercise life and starting tomorrow, I will skate to the office every day during the summer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Here is a pic of my skates and the muscles I will exercise... I{ll take a pic of me in action and I will upload it ok?? Have a good day ;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3413711168892445434?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3413711168892445434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3413711168892445434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3413711168892445434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3413711168892445434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/05/mi-patines-y-yo-my-roller-skates-and-me.html' title='Mi patines y yo!!! / Me &amp; my rollerblades!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rl27zDLODYI/AAAAAAAAAt8/O7cRcZ_bRUg/s72-c/patine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4227552943516608639</id><published>2007-05-20T11:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-20T11:48:33.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Party @ Seattle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCU4DLODSI/AAAAAAAAAtI/Bswx8Ewp8_o/s1600-h/5dmayo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCU4DLODSI/AAAAAAAAAtI/Bswx8Ewp8_o/s320/5dmayo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066713271437757730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hola!!!&lt;br /&gt;Ahora he andado con mucha fiesta, jaja, total que si no es por una o por otra, siempre dejo esto al final. Resulta que me he hecho de un muy buen grupo de amigos, todos viviendo aquí en downtown y hemos salido de reven y pachanga CASI todos los dias..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les presento a algunos de la raza con la que salgo... de IZQ a derecha: YO, Rafa (nos conocemos desde la prepa y mejor amigo de Seattle), Davor (es de bolivia pero en 2 semanas se casa con una mexicana, asi que welcome paisano) y Timuchin "el turco" (es el alma de la fiesta ene sta ciudad, lo encuentras a donde vayas, lo conocen en cada bar... buena onda el tipo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCTcDLODPI/AAAAAAAAAsw/J_Uz9yoTN4Q/s1600-h/pancho2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCTcDLODPI/AAAAAAAAAsw/J_Uz9yoTN4Q/s320/pancho2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066711690889792754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Todo empezó el fin de semana que vino pancho (ver foto anexa), ahi parecemos YO, Pancho (mi mejor amigo), Eddie (Peruano de buen corazon) y Perla (una mezcla extraña jarocha/regia con un toque japonés)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La he pasado bien, de fiesta en fiesta, de club en club, no me puedo quejar... jaja... Y en la foto donde salgo medio cortado, aparecen Davor, el turco y Jorge y su novia (de El Salvador).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He conocido muchas personas, de todo tipo, desde la niña freak hasta muy buenos amigos!!! Mas updates, soon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCTizLODRI/AAAAAAAAAtA/Jw3L460yj2o/s1600-h/todos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCTizLODRI/AAAAAAAAAtA/Jw3L460yj2o/s320/todos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066711806853909778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hey, it is time guys for you to meet my friends. I have been partying a LOT, I've met wonderful ppl and I have expanding my social circle. Everything started when Pancho came for a weekend, the party was awesome and I haven't stopped until yesterday...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;In the 1st pricture, you can see (left to right) ME, Rafa (very good friend since highschool and best friend in town), Davor (Bolivian guy which is about to convert to mexican in 2 weeks, he's getting married) and Timuchin aka "El turco"(he is an authentic party animal, you can find it everywhere in the city)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCX8TLODUI/AAAAAAAAAtY/YZNvUL1Mj2s/s1600-h/panchoyyo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCX8TLODUI/AAAAAAAAAtY/YZNvUL1Mj2s/s320/panchoyyo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066716642987085122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Next Pic is ME, Pancho (my best friend ever), Eddie (A peruvian gentleman) and Perla (a very interesting jarocha/regia mix with a japanese accent)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;I have had really GREAT times, it 's been awesome!!!! I'll keep you posted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCWLTLODTI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/rkp6IpikxhY/s1600-h/panchoyyo.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4227552943516608639?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4227552943516608639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4227552943516608639' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4227552943516608639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4227552943516608639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/05/party-seattle.html' title='Party @ Seattle'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RlCU4DLODSI/AAAAAAAAAtI/Bswx8Ewp8_o/s72-c/5dmayo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4116894719106775340</id><published>2007-05-07T21:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T22:27:29.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bienvenido Paisano!!! / Welcome Paisano</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHMc6jADI/AAAAAAAAAq8/nxx2CLlr7uE/s1600-h/DSC_0653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHMc6jADI/AAAAAAAAAq8/nxx2CLlr7uE/s200/DSC_0653.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062053891666018354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgM6jAII/AAAAAAAAArk/T53b_BAeRJg/s1600-h/DSC_0664.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgM6jAII/AAAAAAAAArk/T53b_BAeRJg/s200/DSC_0664.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054230968434818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Este domingo fue un dia peculiar, decidí acompañar a mis amigos del consulado a una Fiesta en conmemoración del 5 de mayo (cincou di maiou como lo conocen en USA). Por alguna razón, este día es el día donde todos celebran a lo mexicano, hay tequila por todas partes y los lugares mexicanos o tex mex mas zarrapastrosos que se puedan imaginar cobran 10 dlls de cover, la razón?? Ni ellos lo saben, jaja, solo se que ese dia me llegaron entre 5 y 7 mensajes deseándome feliz día, claro si uno es mexicano, hay que felicitarlo, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;supongo que como no pueden pronunciar Septiembre, maiou es mas fácil y aunque todos saben que no es la independencia sino cuando le ganamos a los franceses, aun así te felicitan, de hecho todos los lugares de e-cards o greetings tenían su arsenal de “Happy 5 de mayo”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHM86jAFI/AAAAAAAAArM/Mhdkd7rO_4o/s1600-h/DSC_0657.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHM86jAFI/AAAAAAAAArM/Mhdkd7rO_4o/s200/DSC_0657.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062053900255952978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgs6jAKI/AAAAAAAAAr0/dmgsW41Ayw8/s1600-h/DSC_0679.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgs6jAKI/AAAAAAAAAr0/dmgsW41Ayw8/s200/DSC_0679.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054239558369442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Anyway, cuando hemos necesitado los mexicanos de un pretexto p celebrar, total que la comunidad mexa organizó su feria de pueblo con banda, tacos, tostada, ceviche y demás (además aun andan muy calientitos porque el jueves pasado estuvo “El Recodo”).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHMs6jAEI/AAAAAAAAArE/ZTAdhWg3W_Y/s1600-h/DSC_0656.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHMs6jAEI/AAAAAAAAArE/ZTAdhWg3W_Y/s200/DSC_0656.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062053895960985666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgs6jALI/AAAAAAAAAr8/vH8XBoqMQb8/s1600-h/DSC_0686.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgs6jALI/AAAAAAAAAr8/vH8XBoqMQb8/s200/DSC_0686.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054239558369458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Como les decía, fui con mis amigos a conmemorar el 5 de Mayo y a convencer a los paisanos de que sacaran su pasaporte y su matrícula consular. Estuvo super chido, sobre todo porque me llegaron a decir, Sr Funcionario, jaja. Aquí hay algunas fotos de la celebración, tomé fotos de la gente, del stand del Consulado (no es que no haya presupuesto p el letrero, fue falla logística, les juro que sus impuestos si llegan hasta aca)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHM86jAGI/AAAAAAAAArU/-3P_cLg4P7M/s1600-h/DSC_0662.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHM86jAGI/AAAAAAAAArU/-3P_cLg4P7M/s200/DSC_0662.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062053900255952994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgc6jAJI/AAAAAAAAArs/3J7BdJxuCh0/s1600-h/DSC_0677.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHgc6jAJI/AAAAAAAAArs/3J7BdJxuCh0/s200/DSC_0677.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054235263402130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;También le tomé foto a algo que no puede faltar en toda celebración mexicana, un coche naqueriiiiiisimo, asi bien “pimp my ride” nomas vean el coche rojo, jaja esta de 10 no? También hay una foto de un cónsul jugando al Juan Escutia y otro tratando de convencer a una sra de sacar su pasaporte. No podían faltar los mariachis, la banda, y los puestos con tacos, frutitas, elotes (ahí aparece Roberto, el cónsul &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;honorario comiendo elote)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHws6jAOI/AAAAAAAAAsU/JBsug_6Z7lM/s1600-h/DSC_0683.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHws6jAOI/AAAAAAAAAsU/JBsug_6Z7lM/s200/DSC_0683.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054514436276450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHNM6jAHI/AAAAAAAAArc/TsY7DW6vNF0/s1600-h/DSC_0663.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHNM6jAHI/AAAAAAAAArc/TsY7DW6vNF0/s200/DSC_0663.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062053904550920306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Estuvo buenisimo, y lo mejor fue que gracias a eso, me hice amigo de unos taqueros y ya se donde hay tacos al pastor de trompo aquí en “Siarol” como se pronuncia esta ciudad al estilo paisa. La pasé muy bien ayudando a la gente con sus dudas, comiendo garnachas y escuchando música grupera… de 10&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHwc6jANI/AAAAAAAAAsM/KvfLW8qX02Q/s1600-h/DSC_0675.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHwc6jANI/AAAAAAAAAsM/KvfLW8qX02Q/s200/DSC_0675.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054510141309138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHw86jAPI/AAAAAAAAAsc/qp_ySXymp_8/s1600-h/DSC_0709.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHw86jAPI/AAAAAAAAAsc/qp_ySXymp_8/s200/DSC_0709.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062054518731243762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHw86jAPI/AAAAAAAAAsc/qp_ySXymp_8/s1600-h/DSC_0709.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4116894719106775340?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4116894719106775340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4116894719106775340' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4116894719106775340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4116894719106775340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/05/bienvenido-paisano-welcome-paisano.html' title='Bienvenido Paisano!!! / Welcome Paisano'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RkAHMc6jADI/AAAAAAAAAq8/nxx2CLlr7uE/s72-c/DSC_0653.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8629643720734943177</id><published>2007-05-04T09:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T09:52:38.708-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gatos que se parecen a Hitler / Cats that look like Hitler</title><content type='html'>Jaja, lo que es tener NADA que hacer. Echenle un ojo a esta pagina, esta cool...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;He he, take a look to this page, is really cool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RjtkuM6jACI/AAAAAAAAAqk/NE46obVE-ug/s1600-h/kitler1090.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060749351184433186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RjtkuM6jACI/AAAAAAAAAqk/NE46obVE-ug/s320/kitler1090.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8629643720734943177?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8629643720734943177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8629643720734943177' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8629643720734943177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8629643720734943177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/05/gatos-que-se-parecen-hitler-cats-that.html' title='Gatos que se parecen a Hitler / Cats that look like Hitler'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RjtkuM6jACI/AAAAAAAAAqk/NE46obVE-ug/s72-c/kitler1090.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1784594816583380513</id><published>2007-04-29T16:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T16:25:16.396-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LIfe @ Starbucks</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;It's been a week since I started this project in Starbucks and it has been a nice experience at all. The best think is the corporate offices, imagine a 200 000 sq ft Starbucks, same furniture, same environment, same look. Is really good, the people is the friendliest ever and the best thing, the coffee. In every floor, there is a coffee station where you can prepare any Starbucks drink like the new “dulce de leche” (cajeta) haha. Or any white mocha, latte, whatever u want… just follow the manual and you are done.    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Working in Seattle also put me back into the reality, my food sponsorship ended, as you guys may know, since I’ve been traveling for the last 6 months, basically I never went to the groceries store, the company was paying my meals M – F and sometimes even in the weekends, so have to pay again for MY food is simply not nice.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Some friends have asked me how is to work at starbuscks, so I will let you know my typical schedule.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;A typical “Working at Starbucks” day:&lt;br /&gt;by @rm@ndo @ Se@ttle&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;6:15 am &lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;==&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Wake up @rm@ndo… Gym time… (believe it or not, I’m doing exercise or at least trying to AGAIN)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;7:00 am &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Wingdings;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;==&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Take a shower, breakfast and read the news @ cnn.com&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;7:45 am &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; Start walking to Starbucks by the Waterfront (please refer to the map between English and Spanish section to see my daily walk to work in BLUE)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;8:25 am &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; Arrive to the office and prepare the first triple grande latte of the day&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;9:15 am – 12.15 pm&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Wingdings;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Meetings and boring stuff&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;12:15 pm &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; Heat my lunch (I usually cook the day before and I bring my lunch to work)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;1:15 pm &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; Doppio Espresso Machiato (double espresso with a small shoot of milk)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;1:15 pm – 5.30 pm &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Wingdings;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; More meetings and boring stuff&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;5:35 pm &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; Start walking back home, I usually make a stop to any coffee shop and I read, or I do some shopping or I join some friends for dinner to any of the good restaurants we have in the Downtown / Belltown area)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;8:15 pm &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; Netflix time. If I’m not still dinning with friends or getting drunk in some bar, I try to watch a movie. I don’t have cable… I’m so cheap.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;11:15 pm  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;= &lt;/span&gt; Cook for the next day and then sleep&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Well… I love it!!!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Cheers!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RjUo5M6jAAI/AAAAAAAAAqM/0ZnlHG3yjjY/s1600-h/BelltownDowntown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RjUo5M6jAAI/AAAAAAAAAqM/0ZnlHG3yjjY/s400/BelltownDowntown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058994719605063682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1784594816583380513?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1784594816583380513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1784594816583380513' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1784594816583380513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1784594816583380513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/04/life-starbucks.html' title='LIfe @ Starbucks'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RjUo5M6jAAI/AAAAAAAAAqM/0ZnlHG3yjjY/s72-c/BelltownDowntown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6494074132670652010</id><published>2007-04-17T20:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T20:06:54.147-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yahoo! ==&gt; Seattle ==&gt;Atlanta ==&gt; Houston ==&gt; Portland ==&gt; Seattle ==&gt;Starbucks!!!</title><content type='html'>Ok, el título de este blog puede sonar como una MUY mala conexión entre 2 destinos no?? (Yahoo y Starbucks) jaja, pero el punto es que así me han traído... después de trabajar como pocas veces en mi vida en Yahoo, y mi semana de vacaciones (ver blog "mom in town"), el sabado que se fue mi mama me fui a Atlanta a un congreso de un día y medio y el martes, regresé a Portland haciendo escala en Houston.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y la pregunta se vuelve a repetir (si no has leído el blog anterior, no vas entender este chiste), Porque Portland?? esta vez no fue por marro, sino porque estaba ya destinado a un proyecto de 6 semanas ahí. El punto es que me bajo del avión, dispuesto a irme con el cliente, y recibo la llamada de mi jefe... "Armando, change of plans, I need you in Seattle by 4 pm today (era medio día y yo en Portland), you start tomorrow a new Project in Starbucks"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jaja... y al son de 1 2 3 agarré mi poderosísimo Cooper y a manejar las 175 millas de diferencia entre el Aeropuerto de Pórtland y mi oficina en downtown Seattle. Y así como suena, Starbucks será mi próximo proyecto, para aquellos que no lo saben, me considero el cliente de Starbucks #1 de toda la gente que conozco, así que pensar que voy estar en el HQ 1 mes, con TODO el café GRATIS que quiera... jaja, bueno, que les puedo decir… wordless... :)  Ya les mandaré fotos y updates al respecto, así que la aventura Starbucks comienza... 3, 2, 1..... Triple Tall Latte please...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiWK7uBQdaI/AAAAAAAAAp0/tO0QL5yJAkI/s1600-h/starbuckslogo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiWK7uBQdaI/AAAAAAAAAp0/tO0QL5yJAkI/s320/starbuckslogo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054598915363468706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Ok, the title for this post may sound like a BAD several stops connection flight, don’t you think? well, that’s how I’ve been in the last days, after working so hard in Yahoo (as few times in my life), and a week of vacation (please refer to the previous post “Mom in town”), this last Saturday after my mom took her flight back to Mexico, I went to Atlanta for my company’s Spring Symposium. After 1 and a half day in training, today morning I flew to Houston, and then back to Portland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The question comes back, why Portland? (if you haven’t read the Mom’s post, you wont understand this joke) haha, well, this time it wasn’t because I’m cheap, I was supposed to start my new project there today. Ok, I’m out of the plane, I’m ready to drive with my customer when I receive a call from my boss: “Armando, change of plans, I need you in Seattle by 4 pm today (it was noon and I was in Portland), you start tomorrow a new Project in Starbucks"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Ha ha, and 10 minutes later, I was driving my cooper back to Seattle to reach the 175 miles between Portland International Airport and my office in downtown Seattle. So, just like you read, Starbucks will be my next project. For those of you what don’t know, I’m the best Starbucks customer I know between the ppl I actually know (including myself), so just to think the idea of being 1 month in Starbucks HQ is exciting. All the coffee I want for free aI’ll update with pictures (they offices are awesome) and this is how the Starbucks Adventure starts… 3, 2, 1… Triple Tall Latte please!!  :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6494074132670652010?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6494074132670652010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6494074132670652010' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6494074132670652010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6494074132670652010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/04/yahoo-seattle-atlanta-houston-portland.html' title='Yahoo! ==&gt; Seattle ==&gt;Atlanta ==&gt; Houston ==&gt; Portland ==&gt; Seattle ==&gt;Starbucks!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiWK7uBQdaI/AAAAAAAAAp0/tO0QL5yJAkI/s72-c/starbuckslogo.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1907737220626197333</id><published>2007-04-17T17:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T18:56:03.597-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mom in town....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV4SeBQdYI/AAAAAAAAApk/fVSkR9DQuPk/s1600-h/DSC_0228.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV4SeBQdYI/AAAAAAAAApk/fVSkR9DQuPk/s200/DSC_0228.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054578415484564866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3euBQdSI/AAAAAAAAAo0/4HLlYet0qlw/s1600-h/DSC_0486.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3euBQdSI/AAAAAAAAAo0/4HLlYet0qlw/s200/DSC_0486.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577526426334498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La semana pasada me desconecté completamente del mundo (incluyendo este blog). La razón?? Mi madre... vino a verme dos semanas. Estuvimos muy contentos. Les cuento el viaje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La penúltima semana de mi proyecto en Yahoo!, manejé el domingo a Portland y volé de ahí, el jueves en la noche regresé y mi mama llegó en el vuelo de Mexicana. Porque en Portland? porque soy un marro tacaño y para no comprar boleto, la traje con millas, y lo mas al norte de EU que llega Mexicana en el West Coast es Portland. Anyway, nos venimos a Siarol el viernes y la llevé a cenar sushi. El Sábado la llevé a la NIEVE; vean las fotos, pasamos muy buen tiempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3Q-BQdNI/AAAAAAAAAoM/H-wxlvJgtSY/s1600-h/DSC_0169.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3Q-BQdNI/AAAAAAAAAoM/H-wxlvJgtSY/s200/DSC_0169.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577290203133138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3e-BQdTI/AAAAAAAAAo8/BpOzfWBJ4y8/s1600-h/DSC_0500.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3e-BQdTI/AAAAAAAAAo8/BpOzfWBJ4y8/s200/DSC_0500.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577530721301810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Luego el Domingo nos fuimos a San Francisco, hicimos un poco de tour el domingo y yo a partir de el lunes, pues ya era trabajar como enfermo de sol a sol, mientras ella se divertía de lo lindo, básicamente conoció todo San Francisco mientras su hijo descifraba los enigmas de la programación en JAVA en Yahoo!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El viernes regresamos a Siarol, y nos retrasan el vuelo, así que el tour empezó el Sábado. A continuación una lista de las actividades realizadas por los dos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Viñedo y Fabricación de Vino (si soy miembro de un club de vinos)&lt;br /&gt;- Tulip Festival (entiéndase como Festival de Tulipanes),&lt;br /&gt;- Downtown Seattle (aka Siarol), Public Library, Starbucks #1 y Pike Place Market (la atracción turística #1 de Siarol, un mercadito asi todo pintoresco)&lt;br /&gt;- Vashon Island.. (vean este link:&lt;a href="http://www.tvicr.com/"&gt; http://www.tvicr.com/)&lt;/a&gt; y West Seattle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3puBQdXI/AAAAAAAAApc/RzyQBnTUkwI/s1600-h/DSC_0618.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3puBQdXI/AAAAAAAAApc/RzyQBnTUkwI/s200/DSC_0618.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577715404895602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3eeBQdRI/AAAAAAAAAos/4iLvFSG0Crg/s1600-h/DSC_0460.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3eeBQdRI/AAAAAAAAAos/4iLvFSG0Crg/s200/DSC_0460.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577522131367186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- Otra vez al mercadito&lt;br /&gt;- El Parque de la esquina de mi casa (Atracción # 3 de Seattle),&lt;br /&gt;- EL Space Needle (atracción #2 de Seattle) a 3 cuadras de mi casa&lt;br /&gt;- EL mercadito nuevamente&lt;br /&gt;- Caminatas por el malecón (waterfront como lo llaman los gringos)&lt;br /&gt;- Mercadito nuevamente&lt;br /&gt;- Planta de BOEING (si, la de los aviones no de los refrescos, vimos la línea de producción del 777 para Air France y Japan Airlines)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3QeBQdMI/AAAAAAAAAoE/q5BADKuUtWc/s1600-h/DSC_0158.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3QeBQdMI/AAAAAAAAAoE/q5BADKuUtWc/s200/DSC_0158.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577281613198530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3e-BQdUI/AAAAAAAAApE/Bn5Avi_m92g/s1600-h/DSC_0563.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3e-BQdUI/AAAAAAAAApE/Bn5Avi_m92g/s200/DSC_0563.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577530721301826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- Tour de café por todos los coffee shops de Seattle (nota… es la ciudad cafetalera # 1 de USA)&lt;br /&gt;Y el último día, adivinen… mercadito (creo que le gustó la idea de ver hueritos de ojo azul despachando la fruta y con sombrero de granjeros como menonitas)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nos divertimos muchísimo…. Un abrazo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;In the last couple weeks I have been completely out of this world. The reason? My mom was in town. She came for a couple weeks and we had terrific time 2gether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3QeBQdLI/AAAAAAAAAn8/sthegNB-Fz8/s1600-h/DSC_0154.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3QeBQdLI/AAAAAAAAAn8/sthegNB-Fz8/s200/DSC_0154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577281613198514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Let me tell you about the trip&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;2 weeks ago I drove down to Portland instead of flying from Seattle to San Francisco, the reason was my mom’s flight. Since I’m a cheap guy and I flew her using miles, the northern west coast city they flight in the US is Portland,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3eOBQdQI/AAAAAAAAAok/e-2Nm0bBplU/s1600-h/DSC_0316.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3eOBQdQI/AAAAAAAAAok/e-2Nm0bBplU/s200/DSC_0316.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577517836399874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; haha…anyway, we came to Seattle that Friday and did absolutely nothing rather than going out for diner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;On Saturday we went to the snow, it was awesome, first time for my mom (check the pictures). Next Sunday we flew down to San Francisco, we did a small tour &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(cable car, golden gate and Alcatraz) and then, during the week, while she was having fun, I was working sun to sun to finish my project on time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3ROBQdOI/AAAAAAAAAoU/qFPMW_8Nx3c/s1600-h/DSC_0175.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3ROBQdOI/AAAAAAAAAoU/qFPMW_8Nx3c/s200/DSC_0175.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577294498100450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The Friday arrived and we went back to Seattle.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;I took 1 week of vacation to be with her and this is the list of all the things we did:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Winery Tour (yes, I’m a Columbia Winery Club Member)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Tulip festival (check the pics)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Downtown Seattle (aka Siarol), Public Library, Starbucks #1 and Pike Place Market (small market very nice which is the tourist attraction #1 of Seattle)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Vashon Island (check this link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.tvicr.com/"&gt;http://www.tvicr.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;) and West Seattle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Pike Place Market again&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Olympic Sculpture Park  in the corner of my apt… (Attraction #3)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- The Space Needle (Attraction #2 just 2 blocks from home)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Pike Place Market AGAIN&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Walking the entire at the Waterfront “n times n” times..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Pike Place Market AGAIN and AGAIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3o-BQdVI/AAAAAAAAApM/jIUzMuTTukc/s1600-h/DSC_0632.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3o-BQdVI/AAAAAAAAApM/jIUzMuTTukc/s200/DSC_0632.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577702519993682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3peBQdWI/AAAAAAAAApU/4txz1RCQ0N8/s1600-h/DSC_0628.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV3peBQdWI/AAAAAAAAApU/4txz1RCQ0N8/s200/DSC_0628.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054577711109928290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- BOEING factory (yes, the planes, we saw the 777 production line for Air France and Japan Airlines) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Coffee tour to the best Seattle’s coffee shops&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;And finally, guess… YES, PIKE PLACE MARKET, haha (I think the idea of blonde &amp; blue eyes people selling fruits and vegetables in a market caused certain impression on my mom)&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;It was a great week, it deserved be away from my cyber world… but I’m back &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1907737220626197333?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1907737220626197333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1907737220626197333' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1907737220626197333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1907737220626197333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/04/mom-in-town.html' title='Mom in town....'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RiV4SeBQdYI/AAAAAAAAApk/fVSkR9DQuPk/s72-c/DSC_0228.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-383332356207871516</id><published>2007-04-11T00:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T00:59:03.689-07:00</updated><title type='text'>@rm@ndo recomiend@ / @rm@ndo recommeds</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hey guys... Sorry I haven't updated this site, working for Yahoo the last 3 weeks has been the most demanding project in my life. Anyway, I'm done with that, now I'll have more time to update this much more frequently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Today I will like  to recommend one site  for those who love the graphical marketing. Is really funny and interesting. Just CLICK on the image.... Ross recommended it to me and is really good&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sandeepmakam.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RhyU64xzxFI/AAAAAAAAAnM/VzyxCL-2DRU/s320/axe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052076621397476434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una disculpa por no haber actualizado este sitio, el proyecto que tenía en Yahoo en vdd me desgastó, nunca haía estado en un proyecto tan demandante. AHora voy a un nuevo proyecto y tendré más tiempo de dedicarle a este sitio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Hoy quisiera recomendar un sitio que Ross me pasó, si les gusta el marketing gráfico, tienen que verlo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Disfruten... (DENLE CLICK A LA IMAGEN)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-383332356207871516?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/383332356207871516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=383332356207871516' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/383332356207871516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/383332356207871516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/04/rmndo-recomiend-rmndo-recommeds.html' title='@rm@ndo recomiend@ / @rm@ndo recommeds'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RhyU64xzxFI/AAAAAAAAAnM/VzyxCL-2DRU/s72-c/axe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2914820561380373150</id><published>2007-03-28T08:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T08:28:19.427-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Faces project... by Lychees y yo</title><content type='html'>Hola...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre Lychees y yo tuvimos la idea de hacer el siguiente video.. es el video de aniversario de los que llegamos hace 1 año de México a MicroStrategy....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey guys, this is the anniversary video that we did to celebrate our 1st anniversary in MicroStrategy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PlHjFx5a2XE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PlHjFx5a2XE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2914820561380373150?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2914820561380373150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2914820561380373150' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2914820561380373150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2914820561380373150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/faces-project-by-lychees-y-yo.html' title='Faces project... by Lychees y yo'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-874840424399964094</id><published>2007-03-25T14:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T14:43:23.149-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Now @ San José</title><content type='html'>En mi vida las cosas cambian muy rápidamente, en la mañana estaba en Portland desayunando en un PUB alemán porque venía a san francisco a escuchar un concierto, y resulta que la amiga con la que iba ir le cancelaron el vuelo y sigue en portland (son 2.30 pm), iba ver a Redo (mi amigo de San Francisco) un rato, pero ahora lo veré toda la tarde, voy camino para allá, a ver que sale...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EN la noche los actualizo de como terminó el día.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;As I have told so many times, the change is the only constant in my life, in the morning I was taking breakfast in Portland with a plan for the afternoon in San Francisco, suddenly everything changes. The friend that was going to take me to the concert, is still stucked in Portland, they canceled her flight (bad luck, don't you think? )  Anyway...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;I'll drive to san francisco and I'll spend the afternoon with Redo (my friend @ san fco), let's see how the day ends, I'll keep you posted. Buon Voyage..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-874840424399964094?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/874840424399964094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=874840424399964094' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/874840424399964094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/874840424399964094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/now-san-jos.html' title='Now @ San José'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7237950039509536229</id><published>2007-03-25T10:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T11:14:51.209-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A German Morning Br.eakfast</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gea.liha-shop.de/articles/img/119B.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://gea.liha-shop.de/articles/img/119B.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora les escribo desde Portland. Esta semana en vez de volar de Seattle a San José, me vine a Portland por dos razones:&lt;br /&gt;a) Mi mamá llega el viernes a Portland (usé las millas de Mexicana y es lo más al norte que vuelan)&lt;br /&gt;b) quería estrenar mi coche en carretera, jaja (6 meses después y apensas tiene 3000 kilómetros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EL punto es que estoy en el aeropuerto y tratando de buscar que desayunar, teminé en un PUB alemán aquí que considero es lo más decente para comer. Acabo de pedir Käse Fondue que según el menú es de lo mas tradicional que hay por aquí. Se ve buena la foto y es un fondue de quesos con Salchicha en vez de pan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy en la noche voy con una compañera de trabajo al concierto de su hermana que estudia en el conervatorio de San Franciso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update (acaba de llegar mi plato y si esta muuuuuuuy bueno, provecho)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hello!!!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Today I came to Portland to take my usual flight to San Jose, there are 2 reasons behind this trip&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;a) My mom arrives on Friday to Portland (we used Mexicana miles and this is the northern they flight from Mexico)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;b) to drive my car (Can you believe it only has 2K miles? )&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Anyway, I was looking what to take for Breakfast and the most decent place I found is a German Pub called Gustavs. I ordered Käse Fondue that according to the menu it is the house specialty. It is a fondue but instead of bread, they use sausage (germans)&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight I'll be hearing a concert from the San Francisco Conservatory, one of my co-workers invited me coz her sister will play there, I'll keep you posted&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update, My food has just arrive and it is delicious.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;See u l8r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7237950039509536229?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7237950039509536229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7237950039509536229' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7237950039509536229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7237950039509536229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/german-morning-breakfast.html' title='A German Morning Br.eakfast'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8090893528137184381</id><published>2007-03-22T23:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T08:51:45.238-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Web2.0</title><content type='html'>If you think you have not understood what the Web2.0 term means, I encourage you to watch this video. Ii is really AMAZING... Kind of geeky but well, I'm in the Silicon Valley, what can we expect...&lt;br /&gt;Hehe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If for some reason you find it boring, don't be desperate housewives, ii is just 4 minutes, it really deserves 4 minutes of your time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy and let me know what you think!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No desesperen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NLlGopyXT_g"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NLlGopyXT_g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8090893528137184381?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8090893528137184381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8090893528137184381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8090893528137184381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8090893528137184381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/web20.html' title='Web2.0'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4601625021069870529</id><published>2007-03-22T22:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T23:33:24.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Guía para obtener boletos de avión gratis</title><content type='html'>Hoy voy en español... (Lychees, vas ganando, lo reconozco) Hoy me han dado ganas de escribir un blog acerca de los tips y las cosas que un ciudadano común como tu y como yo debe hacer para poder volar gratis sin desembolsar más que la mínima cantidad posible (o nada en el mejor de los casos).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando llevas 3 años viajando de manera constante (esto es mínimo 4 vuelos redondos al mes), hay ciertas cosas que aprendes, trucos, mañas, páginas de Internet y demás. Empecemos por lo más básico, para poder obtener boletos gratis el secreto se esconde en una palabra: “flexibilidad”. Esto me lleva a proponer lo siguiente, si quieren juntar las millas suficientes para poder considerarse un viajero frecuente, deben:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- No tener una relación sentimental posesiva y demandante, es decir, pueden tener, novio, novia, esposa, perro, cotorro, lo que gusten pero cero posesividad, si no no funciona. Viajar una vez al mes no sirve, se necesita hacer seguido&lt;br /&gt;- Conseguirse un trabajo de “campo”, esto es, un trabajo que les permita estar fuera de una oficina  (un trabajo fijo no ayuda). Consultor o Account Manager son buenas opciones.&lt;br /&gt;- Vivir en una ciudad que tenga un Aeropuerto decente (entiéndase Mexico, Guadalajara o Monterrey en México o cualquier ciudad de USA con un aeropuerto con más de 3 letras de salas de abordar)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si no cumplen las 3 condiciones anteriormente descritas, mejor vayan por un café y sigan soñando en vuelos gratis. Si si las cumplen o creen que tarde o temprano van a llegar a ese punto, vayamos a la siguiente etapa, las ACCIONES:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Escoger una Aerolínea y ser fiel a ella (esto implica hacerse a la idea que las demás en verdad son malas). En mi caso es Alaska Airlines, cualquier otra apesta.&lt;br /&gt;- Sacar la tarjeta de crédito de esa Aerolínea (si no tiene su aerolínea, les recomendaría cambiar YA). Cada dólar o peso es una milla acumulada.&lt;br /&gt;- Siempre siempre siempre volar con esa aerolínea y bajo ninguna circunstancia buscar otra opción para ahorrarse una escala o unas horas (recuerdan lo de la flexibilidad)&lt;br /&gt;- Preguntar promociones y tomarlas. Ejemplo, si van de Seattle a Los Angeles pero la promoción de SEA a San Francisco da doble millas ese mes, entonces van a volar SEA-SFO-LAX, aunque hagan 2 horas más, millas millas millas, es todo lo que hay que tener en la cabeza ok?&lt;br /&gt;- Buscar Hoteles afiliados a esa aerolínea, aunque les quede lejos de donde van a trabajar, recuerden, hacer millas es su nueva meta en la vida&lt;br /&gt;- Hacerte amigo de una azafata y que te pase tips&lt;br /&gt;- Poner dentro de tus 3 metas de vida llegar al siguiente nivel de tu Plan. (Es decir, si eres mortal, soñar con ser nivel Elite  y después Gold y después Platino). La razón es que entre más alto sean, mejor los tratan y mas millas les dan, recuerden, millas llaman millas.&lt;br /&gt;- Leer los mails que lleguen, si hay promoción en un restaurante (3 millas por cada dólar por ejemplo, bueno, ya saben a donde ir a cenar esa noche),&lt;br /&gt;- Bajo ninguna circunstancia olvidar su número de viajero frecuente, darlo siempre que puedan, cuando lleguen al mostrador dicen: “hola, me llamo Armando Elias, mi número de viajero es XXXXX,…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Siempre llegar una hora y media antes a la sala de abordar, y en cuanto se ponga una señorita ahí, ser el primero en abordarla y decirle: “necesitan voluntarios??” generalmente  sobrevenden los vuelos y si te pones como voluntario, te mandan un par de horas después y te regalan un vuelo redondo (pregúntenme si no me creen). Nota importante, así como uds ahora ya saben el cual es el santo grial de los vuelos gratis (o sea este punto), hay otros seres humanos que también lo saben y harán hasta lo imposible por ser el TOP 1 en la lista de voluntarios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Para poder aplicar el punto anterior, hay que hacer un análisis de que vuelos van llenos, para lograrlo, convencer a colegas de ir en ese vuelo. Analicen la ruta varios días o semanas antes, vean que vuelo siempre se llena. Ejemplo, el SEA – San Jose lo sobrevenden TODOS lo viernes en el vuelo de las 5.35 y las 7.45, así que ahí hay boleto seguro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Tomar vuelos pequeños, ejemplo, Pórtland – Seattle son 165 millas, pero por ley te dan MINIMO 500, o sea, 345 gratis, entonces si vuelo Seattle - Pórtland – San José en vez de volar directo, me dan 500 + 590 en vez de 630 que son directos (millas millas millas ok??)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Visitar este sitio: &lt;a href="http://www.seatguru.com/"&gt;http://www.seatguru.com&lt;/a&gt; ahí van a ver los mejores asientos de cada aerolínea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Notas importantes: Si van en un avión Mc Dougal MD80, los mejores lugares son 21 y 22 B, C, D y E, tienen 7 pulgadas mas para las piernas (creanme, es muuuuuuuuuuucho espacio) yo llevo 7 semanas volando solo en esos lugares.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20 A-F y 21 y 22 A y F no se reclinan, el 21 y 22 A y F tienen las 7 pulgadas extras pero no se reclinan. La fila 6 tiene mas espacio, pero una pared enfrente, y la mesita sale del descansa brazos que es más incómodo. Del lugar 28 al 33 solo va oir la turbina. Si van en un Boeing 747-400, tengan lugares en las líneas 19 y 20, si no encuentran, vayan hasta atrás, ahí la turbina está debajo del ala.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ya me desvié un poco, estábamos en los vuelos gratis. Otro tip, inscríbanse a un programa de hoteles que este afiliado a su aerolínea, ejemplo, Fiesta Americana está afiliado a Mexicana, entonces por cada estadía te dan lo que gastes en millas y te dan puntos de hotel (que mas tarde, van a transferir a su cuenta de mexicana), y además paguen con American Express, entonces esos membership rewards también van a la aerolínea, entonces de una ida a gadalajara, vamos a sacar millas de:&lt;br /&gt;- Las 625 que da cada segmento, o sea, 1250.&lt;br /&gt;- De los 1200 que se gasten de hotel, son 500 por la alianza, mas 1200 puntos de Fiesta, o sea 1700&lt;br /&gt;- De los 1200 que gasten, son 120 dlls, o sea 120 millas, y tenemos un gran total de 1250 + 1700 + 120 = 3075.  hagan esto 10 veces y tienen un vuelo redondo a Estados Unidos o Canadá (o sea 5 viajes a Guadalajara)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero lo más importante de todo, sean flexibles para usar las millas y usenlas en unas vacaciones donde la fecha dependa de sus millas, no de Navidad o Semana santa.&lt;br /&gt;Be smart, be milleage plan!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cualquier pregunta, no duden en decirme&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4601625021069870529?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4601625021069870529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4601625021069870529' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4601625021069870529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4601625021069870529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/gua-para-obtener-boletos-de-avin-gratis.html' title='Guía para obtener boletos de avión gratis'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1027971096840750087</id><published>2007-03-16T16:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T16:52:49.988-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fotos / Pictures / 图片</title><content type='html'>Hola,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como muchos de ustedes saben, la fotografía es una de mis pasiones. Hoy quiero compartir con ustedes las últimas fotos que he tomado, estas son de mi viaje a Hong Kong y Manila. A ver si les gustan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Today's post is a photographic post, as many of you already know, Photography is one of my passions, these are the latest pictures I took, I hope you enjoy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstHnS8QI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Tdb-9XgFTOc/s1600-h/DSC_0313.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstHnS8QI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Tdb-9XgFTOc/s320/DSC_0313.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042673361421005058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstXnS8RI/AAAAAAAAAmk/tE6v4TZwSYk/s1600-h/DSC_0645.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstXnS8RI/AAAAAAAAAmk/tE6v4TZwSYk/s320/DSC_0645.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042673365715972370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstXnS8SI/AAAAAAAAAms/wk0oIo_ttM8/s1600-h/hey_you_western_guy_by_aelias80.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstXnS8SI/AAAAAAAAAms/wk0oIo_ttM8/s320/hey_you_western_guy_by_aelias80.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042673365715972386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTHnS8NI/AAAAAAAAAmE/r-3e8o9NDlA/s1600-h/DSC_0196.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTHnS8NI/AAAAAAAAAmE/r-3e8o9NDlA/s320/DSC_0196.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042672914744406226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTXnS8OI/AAAAAAAAAmM/OWQp2UrzVGA/s1600-h/DSC_0231.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTXnS8OI/AAAAAAAAAmM/OWQp2UrzVGA/s320/DSC_0231.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042672919039373538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTHnS8MI/AAAAAAAAAl8/xu77NgpTRuo/s1600-h/DSC_0074.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTHnS8MI/AAAAAAAAAl8/xu77NgpTRuo/s320/DSC_0074.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042672914744406210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTnnS8PI/AAAAAAAAAmU/QYQs6qgZgWw/s1600-h/DSC_0307.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssTnnS8PI/AAAAAAAAAmU/QYQs6qgZgWw/s320/DSC_0307.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042672923334340850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssS3nS8LI/AAAAAAAAAl0/YBEYOLnprwE/s1600-h/DSC_0059.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfssS3nS8LI/AAAAAAAAAl0/YBEYOLnprwE/s320/DSC_0059.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042672910449438898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1027971096840750087?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1027971096840750087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1027971096840750087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1027971096840750087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1027971096840750087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/fotos-pictures.html' title='Fotos / Pictures / 图片'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfsstHnS8QI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Tdb-9XgFTOc/s72-c/DSC_0313.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8128468918408862845</id><published>2007-03-11T17:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T20:33:20.132-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My afición por el SKI WORLD / I'm a ski junkee /</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHuGb3GKI/AAAAAAAAAlo/n2dsCxqWa2c/s1600-h/DSC01033.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHuGb3GKI/AAAAAAAAAlo/n2dsCxqWa2c/s200/DSC01033.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873477749807266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHc2b3GDI/AAAAAAAAAkw/B99NE428SCA/s1600-h/DSC01010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHc2b3GDI/AAAAAAAAAkw/B99NE428SCA/s200/DSC01010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873181397063730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cuando yo era pequeño, siempre quise saber que se sentía estar en contacto con la nieve. Veía todas estas películas y solo soñaba con tirarme a la nieve, hacer monitos de nieve, aventarles bolas de nieve a mis amigos y hacer todo lo que uno hace cuando se encuentra en la nieve. Me tomó 25 años llegar a ella, jaja.. (caminando hubiera llegado antes desde México  no creen), el punto es que aunque no he vivido en un "snow town", experimenté algo que si ha cambiado mi rutina de fin de semana: esquiar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para nosotros los mexas esquiar es una actividad "nice, fancy y cara"; solo algunos cuantos pueden darse ese lujo viviendo en México. Para no hacerles el cuento largo les cuento que en los últimos 7 fines de semana he ido a esquiar 5 veces. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdmb3GHI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/QhgXWUjYc60/s1600-h/DSC01024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdmb3GHI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/QhgXWUjYc60/s200/DSC01024.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873194281965682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdWb3GFI/AAAAAAAAAlA/sbft9Vr5FHY/s1600-h/DSC01020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdWb3GFI/AAAAAAAAAlA/sbft9Vr5FHY/s200/DSC01020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873189986998354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He ido a mi montañita (así le llamo a la montaña que está a 30 mins de mi casa), y a dos Top Resorts… la última experiencia fue Lake Tahoe. En vdd es un sueño hecho realidad, y además, es el límite entre California y Nevada, así que del lado de Nevada hay Casinos y me gané 250 dlls en una maquinita de 25 ctvs. Gané el premio de 1 paga 1000. que mala pata que fueran 25 centavos no?? Haha, en fin, estuvo muy divertido. Al viaje fuimos Pablo, Limpis, Mara, su novio, un amigo de ella, Edgar, y dos gringos (Jordan y Julie).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo renté una Liberty y fue uno de los dos coches en los que fuimos, Redo llevó su Jeep Wrangler. Fuimos el sábado a las 5.30 am y llegamos de vuelta el domingo a las 8 pm.&lt;br /&gt;Esta vez me pasó algo muy padre, ya le perdí el miedo a la velocidad y ya me aventé por TODAS las pistas  de Intermedio, en un par no se cuantos km/h llegué pero ciertamente jamás había sentido esa sensación de vértigo, velocidad y aire en mi cara. Si un día vienen a verme o les entra la curiosidad por esto, en verdad intenten esquiar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disfruten unas fotillos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdWb3GGI/AAAAAAAAAlI/kQz6ta69ZuE/s1600-h/DSC01016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdWb3GGI/AAAAAAAAAlI/kQz6ta69ZuE/s200/DSC01016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873189986998370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHtmb3GII/AAAAAAAAAlY/7OCdj-gMKGI/s1600-h/DSC01030.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHtmb3GII/AAAAAAAAAlY/7OCdj-gMKGI/s200/DSC01030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873469159872642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;When I was a child, I always wanted to know what the feeling for the snow was. I used to watch all these snow movies and I just dreamed of doing angels in the snow, snowman, throw snow balls to my friends and do everything related to this magical powder. It took me 25 years to reach my first snow (it should be faster walking from Mexico, don’t you think? he he).&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;For the Mexican people, ski is such kind of “nice, expensive and fancy” activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Ok, but this is not the topic of this blog, is just that from the last 7 weekends, I’ve been skiing 5 of them, is really becoming my addiction. I’ve been in my small mountain, Crystal resort and my last experience was in Lake Tahoe. Is such a beautiful place, it is a small ski town full of things to do, hotels, party and casinos (is the line between Nevada and California), I won 250 dlls with a 25 cents coin. Nice, don’t you think?&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;We went I couple trucks, I rented a Liberty and Redo took his Jeep Wrangler. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdGb3GEI/AAAAAAAAAk4/JFl6-ts1FNc/s1600-h/DSC01015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdGb3GEI/AAAAAAAAAk4/JFl6-ts1FNc/s200/DSC01015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873185692031042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHt2b3GJI/AAAAAAAAAlg/Zdw8Yjv5kfc/s1600-h/DSC01032.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHt2b3GJI/AAAAAAAAAlg/Zdw8Yjv5kfc/s200/DSC01032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040873473454839954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;We went for the weekend and I finally conquered the speed and the intermediates one, take a look. to the pictures and judge by yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHdGb3GEI/AAAAAAAAAk4/JFl6-ts1FNc/s1600-h/DSC01015.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8128468918408862845?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8128468918408862845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8128468918408862845' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8128468918408862845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8128468918408862845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-aficin-por-el-ski-world-im-ski.html' title='My afición por el SKI WORLD / I&apos;m a ski junkee /'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RfTHuGb3GKI/AAAAAAAAAlo/n2dsCxqWa2c/s72-c/DSC01033.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8349171276016772359</id><published>2007-03-06T22:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-07T19:10:41.473-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Green, Green @ Yahoo! / 走绿,绿@雅虎</title><content type='html'>Hola!! he vuelto, se que el blog antepasado prometí no dejar de escribir tanto pero no es mi culpa, se los juro, me tienen trabajando como pocas veces en mi vida. En fin, hoy me pasó algo chistoso, estaba yo en mi cubículo trabajando (para los que no saben, estoy haciendo desde hace una semana un proyecto en Yahoo!), en fin, estaba yo ahi peleándome con las bases de datos cuando paso un chavo y me dejó un foco en una caja. Punto, un foco y se fue. Y yo así de "que pez con el hombre". Cuando veo la caja del dichoso foco, era una caja verde que decía Go green. Y yo asi de... mmmmm desde cuando la luz en verde, si navidad ya pasó, jaja, igual eran los focos que les sobraron.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, abro la mentada cajita esperando encontrarme pues un foco con el logo de Yahoo! no?? pues naaaada, un triste foco común y corriente. Pero traía una página: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.18seconds.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;http://www.18seconds.org/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;está curioso el nombrecito no? en fin, me metí a la página a ver si ahí venía mi regalo (soy amante del free stuff que te dan en las empresas, jaja) y naaaaada, mas focos, pero ahora entendí. Así que si unos foquitos blancos en caja verde les causan la misma curiosidad, descúbranlo ustedes mismos. Nota..Refiéranse al banner verde que tengo abajo de los visitantes en el layer derecho de mi blog :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.18seconds.org/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Re5f92SFFiI/AAAAAAAAAkg/7MCfd0y3buU/s400/green.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039070549222168098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hello!! After so much work and so few blogs I’m here again. I think the work load I’ve had in the last weeks is something I’ve never experienced, anyway, I won’t use arguments today, I’ll just explain something that happened to me, let’s say “funny”. I was working in my cube (for those of you that didn’t know, I’m currently doing a project for Yahoo!), anyway, I was loosing (as usual) my fight against databases when someone passed by and dropped a white bulb on my desk. Yes, a white bulb, strange don’t you think? It was a green box with the “go green” legend and a reference to a site called 18 seconds. I thought that maybe it was a green Christmas bulb, haha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Finally I open the small box and there it was, a white bulb, so I was expecting at least a Yahoo related white bulb. No, it was JUST a white bulb, so I went into the site &lt;a href="http://www.18seconds.org/"&gt;http://www.18seconds.org/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and there they were; more white bulbs. So, if you are curious about this site, go and join the cause… Note: please refer to the green banner in the right layer of this blog. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Enjoy!! &lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8349171276016772359?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8349171276016772359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8349171276016772359' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8349171276016772359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8349171276016772359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/03/go-green-green-yahoo.html' title='Go Green, Green @ Yahoo! / 走绿,绿@雅虎'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Re5f92SFFiI/AAAAAAAAAkg/7MCfd0y3buU/s72-c/green.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3766118986468896459</id><published>2007-02-28T21:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T23:05:54.391-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Knack-Dilbert = "He'll be an engineer"</title><content type='html'>Jajajaja, por favor vean este video, si tienen conexión no muy buena, déjenlo que cargue y véanlo... y súbanle, en vdd me hizo el día, es más, la semana, Un saludo a los Ingenieros..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hey!! what's up?? Please watch this video, I got it in the e-mail today and it really made my day... Distribute it with the engineering community :=)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CmYDgncMhXw"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CmYDgncMhXw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3766118986468896459?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3766118986468896459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3766118986468896459' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3766118986468896459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3766118986468896459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/02/knack-dilbert-hell-be-engineer.html' title='The Knack-Dilbert = &quot;He&apos;ll be an engineer&quot;'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3105644248792955486</id><published>2007-02-23T16:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T09:06:31.344-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mi vida en el Silicon Valley / My life at the Silicon Valley / 在我的生命硅谷</title><content type='html'>Antes que nada Silicon Valley, Valle de Silicón o Valle del Silicio es el nombre de la zona sur del área de la Bahía de San Francisco, en California del norte (Estados Unidos). Comprende Santa Clara Valley y la mitad sur de la Península de San Francisco, abarca aproximadamente desde Menlo Park hasta San José, California y cuyo centro se situaría en Sunnyvale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El término Silicon Valley fue acuñado por el periodista Don C. Hoefler en 1971. Silicon (Silicio), alude a la alta concentración de industrias en la zona, relacionadas con los semiconductores y los ordenadores; Valley se refiere al Santa Clara Valley, aunque en la actualidad se podría también aplicar a los alrededores, a ambos lados de la bahía, hacia los que muchas de estas industrias se han expandido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, una vez aclarado el bervario cultura, Yahoo! que es donde estoy haciendo mi proyecto se encuentra en el mero centro, en Sunnyvale. Trabajar aquí como contractor es interesante, pero para mi la mejor parte es que en la cafetería, tengo TODO el cafe GRATIS que quiera (y no café de oficina, cafe gourmet), así que ya se imaginarán, para un cafeinómano como yo, es el paraíso. Trabajar aquí también me permite entender como funciona mejor el sector del High Tech que se supone es donde yo trabajo, es interesante ver como esta gente va en unas fachas a la oficina, no bueno, increible, los shorts y huaraches se ven "elegantes" jaja, se los juro. Las oficinas no están tan imponentes como pensé, todo es morado y amarillo, si MORADO, yo pensaría que todo sería rojo, pero no, el color de Yahoo! es MORADO (a que esa no se la sabían... ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Han pasado cosas curiosas, como que me hice cuate de las niñas de la recepción, porque como no tengo badge de entrada, así ya me dejan pasar después de una sonrisa. Es muy sencillo, cuando esperaba el primer día, me percaté que en 40 minutos NADIE le dijo buenos días a la niña de la recepción, yo hábilmente me puse a hablar con ellas y los siguientes 3 días llegaba saludando, como estas, ya saben, al 4to día, ella propuso dejarme entrar sin que bajaran por mi, ya saben. Public Relations y estás hecho :) A la semana siguiente, nuevo reto, que me cambian a la recepcionista, misma técnica, pero esta vez la mejoré, me tomo 5 minutos y no 3 días, secreto?? hablaba español... jaja..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moraleja para cuando vengan de proyecto al silicon valley, si vienen de vestir se van a ver ridículos y háganse amigos de las recepcionistas, la vida es tán sencilla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otra cosa buena de estar por aquí es la cercanía con San Francisco, manejas 40 mins y estás en downtown, es es buenísimo porque te ayuda a salir de la rutina suburbana. Anque déjenme decirles, antier fui a la zona de Stanford, que bárbaro, está de pelos, mucha lana, muuuuucha lana, esa zona se llama Palo Alto (sin albur)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luego tomo fotos y las subo. Salu2....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high tech businesses in the area. Even though it's not truly a valley, it is a metonym for the high-tech sector generally.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the small cultural lines, I can tell you that working in the Silicon Valley is a good experience. I'm in Yahoo, which is located in Sunnyvale at the center of the Silicon Valley. Working at Yahoo! is good, the best thing definitely is the free gourmet coffee (nor office coffee, gourmet...), as u may know, with all my caffeine running in the blood, that was the best thing I found the 1st week.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Now, let mw give u some tips, when u come to a High Tech industry, the access can be complicated, if you don't have a badge,(like me) and dont want to go trough the Background check process, just smile the receptionist and you're done. After waiting 40 minutes the 1st day, I realized that not a single person said "Hi", so I talked to her and repeating that technique every day, by the 3rd day she let me in without a Yahoo Employee.. This week the challenge was bigger, a new receptionist was in that place, but now that I've mastered the technique it took me 5 minutes, it was easy, she speaks spanish :) So, you know, if you come to the SV, don't forget to say hi, you will never know when you will need someone to open you the door.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other good thing is how close we are from San Francisco, that allos me to do things like the one in my previous blog, I just simply love it. Keep posted!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3105644248792955486?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3105644248792955486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3105644248792955486' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3105644248792955486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3105644248792955486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/02/mi-vida-en-el-silicon-valley-my-life-at.html' title='Mi vida en el Silicon Valley / My life at the Silicon Valley / 在我的生命硅谷'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1028856232496230540</id><published>2007-02-23T00:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-07T08:56:50.974-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tarde de un jueves cualquiera / Any given Thursday / 有鉴于周四</title><content type='html'>Hoy ha sido un gran día, el proyecto va bien, mucho trabajo y terminé la tarde de jueves de la mejor manera. Resulta que hablando con mi amiga Harumi, hace algún tiempo me pasó un CD con unas canciones de Bosa Nova, me dijo que era su prima la que cantaba, por supuesto no le creí, total que hoy, años después le dije, ya dime la vdd, quien canta? e insistió que era su prima y me refirió a su sitio web. Bueno, pues resulta que al entrar a su sitio se escuchaba la misma música que están oyendo ahorita (si no oyen nada pónganse audífonos, súbanle o cómprense bocinas). Total que me  percaté que hoy tenían una tocada en downtown San Francisco, así que tomé mi coche, maneje 40 millas a downtown y disfruté de un buen puro, una buena cerveza, una buena cena y con esta musica celestial de fondo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Más información del grupo AQUI:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=43289323"&gt;http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendID=43289323&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su nombre es Michelle y toca en un grupo llamado Bossa Suave aquí en San Francisco y el área de la bahía, son muy buenos en verdad, si un día andan por aquí, no dejen de ir a escucharlos, tocan en bares locales&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=43289323"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Re7s4WSFFjI/AAAAAAAAAko/0IS2Z0kuBiE/s400/BossaSuavse2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039225485872404018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Today has been a great day, the project is going good, lot of work and I finished this Thursday Afternoon in a very different and trendy way. I was walking to Harumi, a friend of mine and some time ago she gave me a CD with Brazilian music, bosanova. She argued that it was her cousin singing, of course I never believed that, just hear this music (if you can't hear, increase volume, use earphones or buy speakers...). Well finally, she sent me her cousin website and it was her, it was really her cousin and I found that they were playing in a small bar today in San Francisco downtown, so I took the car and drove 40 miles until frico's downtown to hear this celestial music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information about them here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=43289323"&gt;http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendID=43289323&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Her name is Michelle and she sings in a group called Bossa Suave here in San Francisco and the bay area, they are really good, so if you are in town any given Thursday, catch them and enjoy a heavenly afternoon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1028856232496230540?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1028856232496230540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1028856232496230540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1028856232496230540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1028856232496230540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/02/tarde-de-un-jueves-cualquiera-any-given.html' title='Tarde de un jueves cualquiera / Any given Thursday / 有鉴于周四'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Re7s4WSFFjI/AAAAAAAAAko/0IS2Z0kuBiE/s72-c/BossaSuavse2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-5137478341886540502</id><published>2007-02-17T16:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T16:31:09.439-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr SNOW is who I am... (Mexican skier!!!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHgMIL_I/AAAAAAAAAjQ/fM81AcqBLlc/s1600-h/DSCN2705.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHgMIL_I/AAAAAAAAAjQ/fM81AcqBLlc/s200/DSCN2705.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672656928288754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekwgMIL6I/AAAAAAAAAio/L0hq6XzZFDM/s1600-h/DSC_0128.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekwgMIL6I/AAAAAAAAAio/L0hq6XzZFDM/s200/DSC_0128.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672261791297442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ahí estamos, a 40 minutos manejando de mi casa, nos encontramos Matute, su servidor y una pequeña montaña llena de skiers, snowboarders y mucha nieve para disfrutar. Por fin lo logré, mi primera vez en un centro de esquí.. Que les puedo decir, hubo de todo, jaja, moretones, caídas, pies cuasi-fracturados pero fue una experiencia increíble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es la primera vez en mi vida que hago eso, de hecho yo solía patinar muchísimo hace como 25 kilos, (perdón 10 años) jaja, entonces como que le agarré medio rápido, para la 3era hora ya me andaba aventando de la azul (que es intermedio), con muchas caídas, pero lo hacía. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekwwMIL7I/AAAAAAAAAiw/Ie8-q9r_dyE/s1600-h/DSC_0139.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekwwMIL7I/AAAAAAAAAiw/Ie8-q9r_dyE/s200/DSC_0139.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672266086264754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hubo una caída que estuvo tan &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHgMIMAI/AAAAAAAAAjY/aAo_2rZ7s9E/s1600-h/DSCN2707.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHgMIMAI/AAAAAAAAAjY/aAo_2rZ7s9E/s200/DSCN2707.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672656928288770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;espectacular que los que iban en el lift (el teleférico chiquito que te lleva arriba de la montaña) me aplaudieron, de tan espectacular que estuvo el trancazo, jaja, los esquís salieron volando, se me safaron las botas, los palos, tooooodo, hasta el gorro salió volando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekwwMIL8I/AAAAAAAAAi4/rf6Z7hmq3vE/s1600-h/DSC_0142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekwwMIL8I/AAAAAAAAAi4/rf6Z7hmq3vE/s200/DSC_0142.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672266086264770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHwMIMBI/AAAAAAAAAjg/1quEes3W13A/s1600-h/DSCN2709.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHwMIMBI/AAAAAAAAAjg/1quEes3W13A/s200/DSCN2709.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672661223256082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;P no hacerles el cuento largo, les cuento que al siguiente fin de semana regrese con Rafa y mañana voy a volver a ir a esquiar con Adrien (un cuate de la oficina, pero el ya es PRO, a ver que tal me va, miedo…) Luego Rafa me tomo una foto hablando con mi mama en la cima de la montaña, jaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí algunas fotos de los días, es una chulada no?? Mañana trataré de tomar más fotos ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekxAMIL9I/AAAAAAAAAjA/LJqRPFRPkPQ/s1600-h/DSCN2696.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekxAMIL9I/AAAAAAAAAjA/LJqRPFRPkPQ/s200/DSCN2696.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672270381232082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHwMIMCI/AAAAAAAAAjo/pDT1ywF5Qtc/s1600-h/DSCN2713.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHwMIMCI/AAAAAAAAAjo/pDT1ywF5Qtc/s200/DSCN2713.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672661223256098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Ok, here we are, just 40 minutes driving from my place, Matute, myself  found the mountain full of snow, snowboards, and ski. We made it; we finally arrived to Summit at Snoqualmie for our first ski experience ever. The day was full of falls, pain, and some semi-broken legs, very funny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekxAMIL-I/AAAAAAAAAjI/UEyHo5BPAF4/s1600-h/DSCN2702.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdekxAMIL-I/AAAAAAAAAjI/UEyHo5BPAF4/s200/DSCN2702.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032672270381232098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;This is the first time I ever ski in my life, and it was simply AMAZING, I really loved it and it was not so difficult for me, I used to skate like 40 pounds ago (sorry, 10 years, did I say pounds?? Ha ha) Anyway, by the 3rd hour, I was skiing in the intermediate ones, plenty of falls, but I was really enjoying. The picture where I'm in the cell, was taking by my friend while talking to my Mom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rdlb693IZwI/AAAAAAAAAkU/bPKHUmOEmLU/s1600-h/DSCN2700.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rdlb693IZwI/AAAAAAAAAkU/bPKHUmOEmLU/s200/DSCN2700.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033155127159580418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;There was one particular fall so funny, I was trying to behave like a pro and suddenly, I was eating snow and some guys in the lift clapped my acrobatic skills, the skies went far away, the poles, everything.. so funny.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;To end this soon, next weekend I went back with another friend (Rafa) and I’m going again tomorrow, with Adrien (a real skier), I’ll try to get some pics. Meanwhile, enjoy some pics for those days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-5137478341886540502?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/5137478341886540502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=5137478341886540502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5137478341886540502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5137478341886540502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/02/mr-snow-is-who-i-am-mexican-skier.html' title='Mr SNOW is who I am... (Mexican skier!!!)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdelHgMIL_I/AAAAAAAAAjQ/fM81AcqBLlc/s72-c/DSCN2705.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3604538567083894966</id><published>2007-02-17T15:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T16:47:31.297-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Im BACK!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqAMIL2I/AAAAAAAAAh4/B4xVRxYCZmc/s1600-h/DSC_0105.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqAMIL2I/AAAAAAAAAh4/B4xVRxYCZmc/s200/DSC_0105.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032660055494242146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hola!!!&lt;br /&gt;I´m back!!!!   He recibido múltiples quejas por no haber hecho update de mi sitio, no voy a echar culpas, jaja, no hay pretextos, no hay razón, simplemente el exceso de trabajo y el exceso de fatiga, pero he vuelto, y he prometido updatear esto AL MENOS dos veces a la semana, así que ahí voy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recuerdan hace un par de blogs que les hablé del nuevo parque que tenía a la vuelta de mi casa?? Bueno, pues aquí hay algunas fotos. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqQMIL4I/AAAAAAAAAiI/kcTpC9Hf9YM/s1600-h/DSC_0127.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqQMIL4I/AAAAAAAAAiI/kcTpC9Hf9YM/s200/DSC_0127.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032660059789209474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La verdad está muy bonito, es un parque que la gente de Seattle (de ahora en adelante, seattletes) hizo a través de sus donativos,  la idea fue que por cada “X” cantidad que donaras, iba ser proporcional al tamaño de tu nombre, por supuesto, el buen Bill Gates como buen seattlete,  tiene un anfiteatro en el, pero bueno, es bill, el hombre más rico del mundo (legalmente hablando…)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeaCAMIL5I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/vhLxLSdyiUM/s1600-h/DSC_0108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 157px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeaCAMIL5I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/vhLxLSdyiUM/s200/DSC_0108.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032660467811102610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Este parque tiene varias cosas interesantes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A)Está en la esquina de mi casa&lt;br /&gt;B)Tiene una vista de las montañas ESPECTACULAR&lt;br /&gt;C)Tiene buenos ángulos de toma (vean la foto del final donde se ve el space leedle, el edificio de más a la derecha es el mío)&lt;br /&gt;D)Es un buen lugar para terminar un date o empezar uno, vean el fondo con el atardecer… BREATHLESS&lt;br /&gt;E)Se llama olympic porque las montañitas del fondo así se llaman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqQMIL3I/AAAAAAAAAiA/d_dY_K8aSac/s1600-h/DSC_0118.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqQMIL3I/AAAAAAAAAiA/d_dY_K8aSac/s200/DSC_0118.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032660059789209458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Enjoy!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ENGLISH VERSION IN PROGRESS, give me couple hours..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3604538567083894966?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3604538567083894966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3604538567083894966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3604538567083894966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3604538567083894966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/02/im-back.html' title='Im BACK!!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RdeZqAMIL2I/AAAAAAAAAh4/B4xVRxYCZmc/s72-c/DSC_0105.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8583561120886862226</id><published>2007-01-31T21:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T17:14:50.884-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Las Vegas Adventure 2007!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8QzJAII/AAAAAAAAAg8/rEQewHY9_wg/s1600-h/reDSC00429.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8QzJAII/AAAAAAAAAg8/rEQewHY9_wg/s320/reDSC00429.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026458024098201730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Por fín llegó el día donde puedo medio actualizar esto. Vegas fue toda una aventura, a continuación pongo algunas fotos de referencia y hechos que sucedieron en el viaje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] El jetlag del viaje a Manila fue bastante decente gracias a la agitada vida de esta ciudad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Vi a Sandy después de mucho tiempo de no verla.. (Ya cayó en el lado oscuro de la fuerza MicroeStratega)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Fui a ver Cirque du Soleil, "O", increible, a pesar de las muchas quejas de Lychees y demás, valió la pena&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Guax tomo fotos de todas las weras que pudo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Sandy aprendió un nuevo término: "cierre cierre cierre"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8wzJALI/AAAAAAAAAhU/TcBSWQ1YKfg/s1600-h/reDSC00426.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8wzJALI/AAAAAAAAAhU/TcBSWQ1YKfg/s320/reDSC00426.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026458032688136370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;[-] Mucha fiesta, diversión, cierre y alcohol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Guax decidió que las polacas es lo suyo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Tuve training de UNIX 2 días (esa fué la parte Non Grata del viaje)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] El "Venetian" es altamente recomendable&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] A las fotos me remito&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ENGLISH VERSION IN PROGRESS, give me couple hours..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8wzJAMI/AAAAAAAAAhc/_COR0fX5Gy4/s1600-h/reDSC00342.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8wzJAMI/AAAAAAAAAhc/_COR0fX5Gy4/s320/reDSC00342.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026458032688136386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8gzJAJI/AAAAAAAAAhE/mG4fJVZrpgc/s1600-h/reDSC00310.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8gzJAJI/AAAAAAAAAhE/mG4fJVZrpgc/s320/reDSC00310.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026458028393169042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8gzJAKI/AAAAAAAAAhM/Hmj92Dz0UT8/s1600-h/reDSC00425.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8gzJAKI/AAAAAAAAAhM/Hmj92Dz0UT8/s320/reDSC00425.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026458028393169058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8583561120886862226?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8583561120886862226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8583561120886862226' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8583561120886862226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8583561120886862226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/las-vegas-adventure-2007.html' title='Las Vegas Adventure 2007!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RcGQ8QzJAII/AAAAAAAAAg8/rEQewHY9_wg/s72-c/reDSC00429.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6023535826298692847</id><published>2007-01-28T01:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T22:08:55.151-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome Back @rm@ndo!! Atte: Se@ttle!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rb2PZQzJAHI/AAAAAAAAAgw/wb8GJPlqOzY/s1600-h/olympic.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rb2PZQzJAHI/AAAAAAAAAgw/wb8GJPlqOzY/s320/olympic.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025330423384309874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y la profecía se cumplió, según Nostradamus algún día iba volver a Seattle, lo logré. 2 meses después, pero lo logré!!!. Es curioso cuando haces cuentas de cuando fue la última vez que dormiste en tu cama y te das cuenta que fue hace exactamente dos meses (26 de Noviembre). Ja ja... En fin... he llegado y la ciudad me ha recibido con los brazos abiertos...Soleada y despejada cual en medio verano, se ven las montañas "The Olympics" de fondo todas nevadas, Mt Rainier y no solo eso, la ciudad está radiante!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy me pasó algo curioso, resulta que mi edificio están en la parte tranquila de Belltown (así se llama la zona trendy de la ciudad, o sea, donde yo vivo), en fin, nunca hay gente mas que los que vivimos por aquí y hoy, cuando salí al medio día, se veían venir hordas de gente en ambas direcciones, no entendía que pasaba, dónde estaba aquella tranquilidad de fin de semana, resulta que enfrente de mi casa por fin abrieron un parque que se llama "Olympic Sculpture Park", y como es lo "inn" de la ciudad, todos los seattletes se dejaron venir en masas, tratar de encontrar estacionamiento es simplemente IMPOSIBLE!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aún no hay fotos del parque en Internet, mañana bajo y tomo algunas, lo prometo, esto fue lo mejor que encontré. &lt;/span&gt;Disfruten!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I did it; I'm finally back, just as the prophecy said that one day I was coming back, I’m here. 2 months later, but I did it. Is funny when you realize that the last time you slept in your own bed was 2 months go (Nov 26&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; to be precise), ha ha, anyway, I’m here and the city has welcomed back with the arms wide open. I found a sunny and full of light &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Seattle&lt;/st1:city&gt;, the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Olympic Mountains&lt;/st1:place&gt; can be seen in at the horizon, Mt Rainier and the city is alive. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Today was an interesting day, happens to be that my building is located in the “quiet” zone of Belltown (the city’s trendy area), anyway, you rarely see people walking except for locals, when I went out today, suddenly I was surrounded of people coming from all directions, I felt like in Downtown for a second, I didn’t understand what was going on, lots of people with cameras, and I finally got it, the new “Olympic Sculpture Park" was open, that’s the new “inn” place in the city and all the “seattletes” came to admire the new park, trying to find parking?? IMPOSSIBLE… &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;There are no pictures of the park on the internet, this is the best I found, I’ll go down tomorrow to take some for you!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;See ya&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6023535826298692847?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6023535826298692847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6023535826298692847' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6023535826298692847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6023535826298692847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-back-rmndo-atte-settle.html' title='Welcome Back @rm@ndo!! Atte: Se@ttle!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Rb2PZQzJAHI/AAAAAAAAAgw/wb8GJPlqOzY/s72-c/olympic.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2433698924706071524</id><published>2007-01-25T20:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T20:56:17.451-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Vegas Vegas Vegas!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzQzJACI/AAAAAAAAAf0/Jj1vODEuvoo/s1600-h/Conlasninas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzQzJACI/AAAAAAAAAf0/Jj1vODEuvoo/s320/Conlasninas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024197273572671522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Una disculpa por no haber hecho un post antes, entre el vuelo de 16 horas de regreso de Manila, la locura y fiesta desenfrenada de Vegas y el exceso de trabajo (si,  sigo trabajando 12 horas al día), apenas he tenido tiempo de respirar, pero este fin de semana voy a postear mucho, así que estén pendientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Highlights de Las Vegas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Llegué el viernes y luego luego a la fiesta, nos quedamos en el Venetian (ver foto),  el primer día fuimos al "light" en el Bellagio. La ñañis y Guax se fueron de mi cuarto a las 6 am, así acabó la fiesta (claro, para mi eran las 9 pm, jajaja yo con mil pila)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] El segundo día estuvo más tranquilo, fuimos a concoer algunos hoteles, fui al casino y ganéeee (15 tristes dolares, jaja)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Más alcohol, mientras apostábamos, todos tomábamos alegremente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzgzJAEI/AAAAAAAAAgE/9pNtoLaKaNs/s1600-h/paris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzgzJAEI/AAAAAAAAAgE/9pNtoLaKaNs/s320/paris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024197277867638850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;[-] Mi amigo Christian de la secundaria me alcanzó.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Fuimos al Bufet del París... Bueníiiiiisimo... (Aunque no le llega al del Shangri-La Makati)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Cirque du Soleil "O"   WOOOOW&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] El 3er día Training y cena de la compañía (muy mala por cierto)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] "Tryst" en el Wynn (Nota, Nicky Hilton estuvo ahí la semana pasada, ahi nomas p que vean de quien me rodeo, jajaja) Nota: Mas alcohol pagado por la empresa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] El último día más training, nada interesante, alcohol y casino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Fotos cortesía de Becca y Lychees. El fin de semana voy a tener más fotos y ya redacto algo mejorcito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzQzJADI/AAAAAAAAAf8/hNcfNmzHwDc/s1600-h/LAS+VEGAS+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzQzJADI/AAAAAAAAAf8/hNcfNmzHwDc/s320/LAS+VEGAS+049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024197273572671538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Vegas was A M A Z I N G, some highlights:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] I arrived on Friday and after that, party party party. We stayed at Venetian (see picture), that 1st day we went to "light" @ Bellagio. Ñaña and Guax went out of my room @ 6 am, u can imagine how good the party was.(it was 9 pm for me ha ha)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] 2nd day was relaxed, casino, some hotels tour, Casino and I won (15 dlls)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] More alcohol while we were gambling, everyone was drinking hard.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] I saw Christian, my high school friend.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] We went to the Paris Buffet , Very goooood (But Shagri La's one is better in Makati)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzgzJAFI/AAAAAAAAAgM/cz_onsZjX7I/s1600-h/wynn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzgzJAFI/AAAAAAAAAgM/cz_onsZjX7I/s320/wynn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024197277867638866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] Cirque du Soleil "O"   WOOOOW&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] 3rd day was training and company dinner.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] "Tryst" @ Wynn, very nice (Nicky Hilton was there the previous week). mor ealcohol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] Last day training, not so much interesting&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzgzJAGI/AAAAAAAAAgU/FO6ZN27sqfI/s1600-h/Venetian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzgzJAGI/AAAAAAAAAgU/FO6ZN27sqfI/s320/Venetian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024197277867638882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Pictures courtesy of Becca and Lychees, the weekend I will update this, I've been working sooo hard. Keep posted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2433698924706071524?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2433698924706071524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2433698924706071524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2433698924706071524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2433698924706071524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/vegas-vegas-vegas.html' title='Vegas Vegas Vegas!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RbmIzQzJACI/AAAAAAAAAf0/Jj1vODEuvoo/s72-c/Conlasninas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-5246172842672711702</id><published>2007-01-18T09:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-18T09:57:53.852-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Good Bye Asia!!! Salamat Manila!!! VEGAS!! Here we go!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lasvegastraveldepot.com/las-vegas/las_vegas_vacation_package_hotels_airfare_specials_images/lasvegasmain2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.lasvegastraveldepot.com/las-vegas/las_vegas_vacation_package_hotels_airfare_specials_images/lasvegasmain2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asia ha quedado atrás, muchos blogs más escribiré sobre mis aventuras aquí, pero es momento de moverse. Que sigue?  San Francisco, VEGAS babie VEGAS y después 2 semanas en Phoenix Arizona, así es, de isla tropical al desierto!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manténganse al tanto!!! VEGAS!!! Here we go!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Asia is in the past now... Is time to move on, what's next? San Francisco, VEGAS babie VEGAS, and later 2 weeks in the sunny Phoenix, yes, from tropical island to the sunny desert of Arizona!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Keep posted, meanwhile, VEGAS!!! Here we go!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-5246172842672711702?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/5246172842672711702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=5246172842672711702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5246172842672711702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5246172842672711702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-bye-asia-salamat-manila-vegas-here.html' title='Good Bye Asia!!! Salamat Manila!!! VEGAS!! Here we go!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1992297651754550963</id><published>2007-01-16T07:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-16T08:35:52.170-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Karaoke - Videoke @ Philippines</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz9KPlu4LI/AAAAAAAAAe0/4ty74iEykAg/s1600-h/DSC_0081.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz9KPlu4LI/AAAAAAAAAe0/4ty74iEykAg/s200/DSC_0081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020666037036572850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz76flu4FI/AAAAAAAAAeE/kf_pHBWmTXQ/s1600-h/DSC_0032.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz76flu4FI/AAAAAAAAAeE/kf_pHBWmTXQ/s200/DSC_0032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020664666942005330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hoy me sentí como Bill Murray en "Lost in Translation" (Perdidos en Tokyo) Resulta que mis amigos filipinos me organizaron una despedida en un Videoke. Si, Videoke, aquí hay una diferencia entre un Karaoke y un Videoke, en el primero solo te ponen la musiquita de fondo pero no hay tele ni guía, en el Videoke ya incluye la tele con las letras de la canción, supongo que en el Karaoke usaban papel o de plano a pura memoria no? jajaja No encuentro otra lógica detrás de la comparación, en fin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86vlu4GI/AAAAAAAAAeM/YN60Ojd41HY/s1600-h/DSC_0036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86vlu4GI/AAAAAAAAAeM/YN60Ojd41HY/s200/DSC_0036.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020665770748600418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz76Plu4DI/AAAAAAAAAd0/NVNmyexWjFo/s1600-h/DSC_0022.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz76Plu4DI/AAAAAAAAAd0/NVNmyexWjFo/s200/DSC_0022.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020664662647038002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Regresando al punto, cuando me dijeron del videoke, karaoke, o como quieran llamarle, me imagine uno al estilo Western, entiéndase un bar con un escenario al frente o al centro y un micrófono donde cantas, pues no, es un complejo con cuartos, como si entraras a un hotel, y te meten a un cuartito con tus amigos y ahí adentro ya echas todo el relajo que quieras, jaja tal y como la película. Vean las fotos, de paso les presento a mis amigos filipinos: Kat, Tin Tin, Noel, Willy, Phedok, Van, Melvin y Willy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz76Plu4EI/AAAAAAAAAd8/uJ2eXs8u9cU/s1600-h/DSC_0025.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz76Plu4EI/AAAAAAAAAd8/uJ2eXs8u9cU/s200/DSC_0025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020664662647038018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86_lu4JI/AAAAAAAAAek/qFthbpTLnsI/s1600-h/DSC_0072.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86_lu4JI/AAAAAAAAAek/qFthbpTLnsI/s200/DSC_0072.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020665775043567762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nuestro cuarto era el 408, y además tu programas las canciones a través de una computadora, jaja, esto es ASIA, no?? Y definitivamente pasamos un buen rato, les canté la macarena, la bamba y bésame mucho y por supuesto, mi especialidad, Frank Sinatra,. (algunos ya han tenido el placer de escucharme cantar los grandes éxitos del buen frank)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si un día vienen a ASIA, no dejen de pasar por un Videoke, les aseguro un buen rato de sana diversión. Enjoy!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86vlu4HI/AAAAAAAAAeU/LP7tqqonL1o/s1600-h/DSC_0052.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86vlu4HI/AAAAAAAAAeU/LP7tqqonL1o/s200/DSC_0052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020665770748600434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz75vlu4BI/AAAAAAAAAdk/gF5Vi0Ibrvg/s1600-h/DSC_0013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz75vlu4BI/AAAAAAAAAdk/gF5Vi0Ibrvg/s200/DSC_0013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020664654057103378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Have you seen Lost in Translation? well, today I felt like Bill Murray, I went to a Videoke (karaoke with VIDEO according to filipino standards). My filipino friends from the office, organized a "good bye" event tonight and after the dinner, the videoke was selected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When they told me, I thought of the typical karaoke with a central stage, a big TV and some mics, dont you? well, here the thing is different, just like the movie, we all were in a small room just singing to us (check the pictures), is like being in a hotel, very funny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86_lu4II/AAAAAAAAAec/Agn2FZ3iszA/s1600-h/DSC_0064.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz86_lu4II/AAAAAAAAAec/Agn2FZ3iszA/s200/DSC_0064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020665775043567746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz75_lu4CI/AAAAAAAAAds/t1BKRN5IFxo/s1600-h/DSC_0019.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz75_lu4CI/AAAAAAAAAds/t1BKRN5IFxo/s200/DSC_0019.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020664658352070690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Here you can see my friends Kat, Tin Tin, Noel, Willy, Phedok, Van, Melvin and Willy. Our room was the #408 and we had a very good time. I sang some of my favorites (frank sinatra) and I sang for them some spanish pieces (La macarena, Besame mucho and La bamba)&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;If you come to ASIA, don't miss a Videoke!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz90Plu4MI/AAAAAAAAAe8/1X8hu2HKucc/s1600-h/DSC_0074.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz90Plu4MI/AAAAAAAAAe8/1X8hu2HKucc/s200/DSC_0074.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020666758591078594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1992297651754550963?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1992297651754550963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1992297651754550963' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1992297651754550963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1992297651754550963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/karaoke-videoke-philippines.html' title='Karaoke - Videoke @ Philippines'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/Raz9KPlu4LI/AAAAAAAAAe0/4ty74iEykAg/s72-c/DSC_0081.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3101009523487044956</id><published>2007-01-15T05:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T07:54:46.875-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Jeepneys"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQT_lu36I/AAAAAAAAAcA/76qT8vT59n0/s1600-h/DSC_0018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQT_lu36I/AAAAAAAAAcA/76qT8vT59n0/s200/DSC_0018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020264882796158882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9Plu38I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/vgK8f1gPBFQ/s1600-h/DSC_0056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9Plu38I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/vgK8f1gPBFQ/s200/DSC_0056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020265591465762754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hong Kong ha quedado atrás, es tiempo de regresar a blogs de Filipinas, aun hay muchas que contar en los 4 días que me quedan aquí antes de regresar a tierras americanas (y conste que hablo a nombre del continente eh?? ). En varios blogs he hablado de la subcultura de los "Jeepneys" en Manila. Los Jeepneys hoy en día se han vuelto símbolo de la cultura filipina y es lo primero que a uno le llama la atención cuando va por las calles de Manila&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQTvlu33I/AAAAAAAAAbo/XvdwH8UJbDU/s1600-h/DSC_0012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQTvlu33I/AAAAAAAAAbo/XvdwH8UJbDU/s200/DSC_0012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020264878501191538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Para los mexicanos es muy sencillo entender la cultura del Jeepney, piensen en una combinación entre  Microbus con combi )mejor conocida como pesera) pero con una jeep transformado para dicho efecto. Así es, de ahí surge el término  Jeepney. Este peculiar medio de transporte fue desarrollado después de la segunda guerra mundial y como resultado de la re-utilización de los jeeps dejados por los americanos en las bases militares. Hoy en día hay fábricas de Jeepneys en la isla de Cebu y por supuesto, cada Jeepney es después acondicionado con mensajes como "Jesus is alive" y "God bless you" de acuerdo a la personalidad de cada conductor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9flu39I/AAAAAAAAAcY/cbZk9Wjlmdw/s1600-h/DSC_0062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9flu39I/AAAAAAAAAcY/cbZk9Wjlmdw/s200/DSC_0062.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020265595760730066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ayúdenme a escojer su Jeepney Favorito, los hay de todo, desde el discreto hasta el de GRINGO pasando por uno de Disney y de la NBA, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQTvlu35I/AAAAAAAAAb4/XdQHXbmtyls/s1600-h/DSC_0015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQTvlu35I/AAAAAAAAAb4/XdQHXbmtyls/s200/DSC_0015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020264878501191570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;cada jeepney es único e irrepetible, cruces y rosarios por todas partes y lo mejor es el precio, PHP7.50 (como 15 centavos de dólar). Si un día requieren subir a un Jeepney, la dinámica es sencilla, escogen la ruta, se suben, le indican al conductor el destino y pasan el dinero, igualito que en las combis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asi que ya lo saben, escojan al Jeepney &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9vlu3_I/AAAAAAAAAco/aenTH-hOjzk/s1600-h/DSC_0137.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9vlu3_I/AAAAAAAAAco/aenTH-hOjzk/s200/DSC_0137.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020265600055697394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQTvlu34I/AAAAAAAAAbw/ypQzDGQz6Ws/s1600-h/DSC_0014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQTvlu34I/AAAAAAAAAbw/ypQzDGQz6Ws/s200/DSC_0014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020264878501191554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Jeepneys are a popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. They were originally made from US military jeeps left over from World War II and are well known for their flamboyant decoration and crowded seating.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; They have also become a symbol of Philippine culture.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;When American troops began to leave the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Philippines at the end of World War II, hundreds of surplus jeeps were sold or given to local Filipinos. Locals stripped down the jeeps to accommodate several passengers, added metal roofs for shade, and decorated the vehicles with vibrant colors and bright chrome hood ornaments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauR7_lu4AI/AAAAAAAAAcw/WrKZEE2cqsw/s1600-h/image27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauR7_lu4AI/AAAAAAAAAcw/WrKZEE2cqsw/s200/image27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020266669502554114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9Plu37I/AAAAAAAAAcI/frplFGv6vzA/s1600-h/DSC_0023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9Plu37I/AAAAAAAAAcI/frplFGv6vzA/s200/DSC_0023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020265591465762738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;If you've ever been in Mexico city, you will find the jeepneys very similar to the "Micros" or "Combis". As you can see in the pictures, each jeepney reflect the driver personality, from Coke to Disney passing for NBA and the most modest ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Help me decide your favorite one. if you find yourself in Manila, the instructions are very simple, you get into de jeepney for the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; back part, tell the driver where are you going and pay PHP7.50 (around 15 dollar cents).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;So you know, let me choose the winner jeepney.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9flu3-I/AAAAAAAAAcg/OsCSSrq_JB8/s1600-h/DSC_0078.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQ9flu3-I/AAAAAAAAAcg/OsCSSrq_JB8/s200/DSC_0078.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020265595760730082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3101009523487044956?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3101009523487044956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3101009523487044956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3101009523487044956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3101009523487044956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/jeepneys.html' title='&quot;Jeepneys&quot;'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RauQT_lu36I/AAAAAAAAAcA/76qT8vT59n0/s72-c/DSC_0018.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1026245896380828256</id><published>2007-01-11T09:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T09:38:27.051-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dato Cultural / Facts/  事实上</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZ0OPlu30I/AAAAAAAAAbI/JaOP1ZdPt9c/s1600-h/DSC_0653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZ0OPlu30I/AAAAAAAAAbI/JaOP1ZdPt9c/s200/DSC_0653.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018826622802779970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Según la SRE, hay 125 mexicanos viviendo legalmente en Hong Kong, y 2 son dueños del Taco Loco. (si, ciento veinticinco, 3 cifras, jaja), yo conozco a una.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- En algún blog pasado dije que no sabía porque un café en starbucks se llamaba Mocha Valencia. Bueno, Jorge me sacó de la ignorancia, resulta que hay unas naranjas que son Naranjas Valencia. jaja, no sabía, sorry :) Dah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZ0OPlu31I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/PrWDPPe40kI/s1600-h/valencia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZ0OPlu31I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/PrWDPPe40kI/s200/valencia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018826622802779986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;- According to Mexican government, there are 125 Mexicans legally established in Hong Kong, I know 1 of them &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;- As I described in a previous blog, the Starbucks Mocha Valencia tastes as orange and I didn't know why, the reason is that  there is a type of orange called Valencia Orange, I didn't know that. Thanks Jorge. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to sleep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1026245896380828256?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1026245896380828256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1026245896380828256' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1026245896380828256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1026245896380828256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/dato-cultural-facts.html' title='Dato Cultural / Facts/  事实上'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZ0OPlu30I/AAAAAAAAAbI/JaOP1ZdPt9c/s72-c/DSC_0653.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6257086918386659947</id><published>2007-01-11T08:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T09:02:58.702-08:00</updated><title type='text'>LAST pics from Hong Kong / 去年香港图片</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZqDflu3lI/AAAAAAAAAX4/EgE1LyknUkI/s1600-h/DSC_0560.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZqDflu3lI/AAAAAAAAAX4/EgE1LyknUkI/s200/DSC_0560.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018815443002908242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZqDPlu3jI/AAAAAAAAAXo/hyZq_ZCtQt8/s1600-h/DSC_0508.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZqDPlu3jI/AAAAAAAAAXo/hyZq_ZCtQt8/s200/DSC_0508.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018815438707940914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Este post es fotográfico. Enjoy!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Templo Budista&lt;br /&gt;- Yo en el Mar de China&lt;br /&gt;- Turistas SIN traje de baño (era el único loco enfermo con shorts en la playa, jaja)&lt;br /&gt;- Yo tocándole la panza al Buda&lt;br /&gt;- La belleza asiática hecha persona (El póster que dice Delux)&lt;br /&gt;- Más fotos de Central&lt;br /&gt;- Una fonda china&lt;br /&gt;- Hong Kong de noche&lt;br /&gt;- Coca Cola y McDonalds (No podían faltar)&lt;br /&gt;- Una jetita en el aeropuerto?? Esa es la sala de espera. Nice no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZprflu3eI/AAAAAAAAAXA/yVTSu85gYWg/s1600-h/DSC_0236.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZprflu3eI/AAAAAAAAAXA/yVTSu85gYWg/s200/DSC_0236.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018815030686047714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZqh_lu3oI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/5PzKgkt1qek/s1600-h/DSC_0604.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZqh_lu3oI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/5PzKgkt1qek/s200/DSC_0604.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018815966988918402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;This is a photographic post. ENJOY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Buddhist temple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Me @ China Sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Tourists without swimsuit in the beach (I was the only crazy guy in shorts)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Me and Mr Buddha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Asian beauty made person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- More Central pics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Chinese restaurant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Hong Kong @ night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- Coke and McDonalds (what is a trip without  a McDonalds pic??)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;- What about a small nap at the airpot, check the waiting area, nice don't u think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaZrrvlu3uI/AAAAAAAAAZA/8oIVCK8SFxs/s1600-h/DSC_0605.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPB1JbAagI/AAAAAAAAAPw/KvS0UVDphIE/s320/HK_Mid-Level_Escalators.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018067528627284482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ok, cuando uno piensa que Hong Kong ya lo acabó de impresionar, termina uno caminando por SOHO (South Hollywood) y de repente ahí están, imponentes, diciéndome ven y úsame, algo que uno no ve en una ciudad, el Sistema Público de Escaleras Eléctricas que van de Central a los Mid-Levels (entiéndase Medio Cerro). Así es, el sistema público exterior de escaleras eléctricas más grande del mundo. Según Wikipedia, sube 135 metros y tiene un trayecto de 800 m. No se si 800 peor me tardé 25 minutos en subir TOODO, imagínense a pata, la subida al pípila se queda corta no creen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consiste en 20 escaleras eléctricas y 3 como túneles o puentes. Es algo impactante, aquí hay algunas fotos. En el inter encuentras bares, mezquitas, escuelas, lugares históricos, calles y un chorro de edificios y depas, a la mitad, hay un súper para los que viven ahí, es el lugar “inn” para vivir no creen?? Además es donde los depas son más caros porque TODOS tienen una vista espectacular (aunque estén en el primer piso, eso ya los pone a 80 metros sobre el nivel del mar, jaja) Ahhhhh&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;pero si van, cuidado con el “rush hour” ya que de 6 am a 10 am, las escaleras van para abajo, y de 10.30 am hasta media noche para arriba, así que si te vas de jarra y vives arriba, mejor agarrar un taxi o esperar hasta las 10.30 del siguiente día, dudo que alguien con alcohol encima pueda subir caminando casi 1 KM de escaleras, jaja Para más información échense un brinco en el sitio de Wiki:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central-Mid-levels_escalator"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central-Mid-levels_escalator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPBkpbAafI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Dp-Tc26rRDY/s1600-h/Esculator.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPBkpbAafI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Dp-Tc26rRDY/s320/Esculator.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018067245159442930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nota: Ahí en las escaleras encontré un ligar de Tacos Mexicanos, se veía Buenísimo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nota2: Algunas fotos son de WIKI, mi cámara no traía pila ese día, sorry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ok, when you think Hong Kong has already showed you everything it can show you, you can finish your trip walking by SOHO (South Hollywood) and suddenly, something calls your attention, there they are; the Central-Mid-levels escalators, the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world. The whole system is half mile long, and the vertical climb is 400 feet. Believe me, I walked them and the total travel time was twenty minutes.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPBkZbAaeI/AAAAAAAAAPg/xl_Tsis5k1Q/s1600-h/DSC_0653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPBkZbAaeI/AAAAAAAAAPg/xl_Tsis5k1Q/s320/DSC_0653.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018067240864475618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It consists of twenty escalators and three moving sidewalks, in the middle you can finde bars, schools, mosques, streets and a lot of apartment and condo buildings, ah and a grocery store in the middle to buy your stuff, ha ha. It is the “inn” place to live, ans the apartments are so expensive, just imagine the view even from the first flor, at 240 ft over the sea level. You must take care of the rush hour, ha ha the escalator daily runs downhill from 6:00am to 10:00am and uphill from 10:30am to midnight. More info thanks to Wiki:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central-Mid-levels_escalator"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central-Mid-levels_escalator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3643208471435865103?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3643208471435865103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3643208471435865103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3643208471435865103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3643208471435865103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/central-mid-levels-escalator.html' title='Central-Mid-Levels Escalator /中環至半山自動扶梯'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPB1JbAagI/AAAAAAAAAPw/KvS0UVDphIE/s72-c/HK_Mid-Level_Escalators.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1890895217709774947</id><published>2007-01-09T08:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-09T08:32:07.425-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Peak / 高峰</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPA7pbAabI/AAAAAAAAAOs/Jo76W5Nd_XY/s1600-h/DSC_0629.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPA7pbAabI/AAAAAAAAAOs/Jo76W5Nd_XY/s200/DSC_0629.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018066540784806322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAjpbAaXI/AAAAAAAAAOM/Y1nLoogN8SA/s1600-h/DSC_0624.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAjpbAaXI/AAAAAAAAAOM/Y1nLoogN8SA/s200/DSC_0624.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018066128467945842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hong Kong tiene una geografía interesante, además de ser una isla que lo tiene todo (malls, chinos, westerns, playa y un no se que que que se yo), tiene unas montañas que alcanzan los 800 metros. Una de ellas la llaman EL PICO o “The Peak” desde donde se puede ver la ciudad y tomar fotos como las que ven aquí&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Para subir hay que agarrar un tren que sube en 7 minutos. Toda una experiencia (sobre todo porque hace parada en los MID LEVELS)&lt;br /&gt;• Ya arriba, lo que solo en HK puede pasar, OTRO mall, jaja enorme con las marcas que HK nos tiene acostumbrados y no solo eso, un museo de Cera (Madame Tussauds) hasta arriba con la imagen de Jackie Chan (héroe nacional)&lt;br /&gt;• Hicieron todo un observatorio de 5 pisos de alto&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPA75bAacI/AAAAAAAAAO0/yBMHwwZMw1k/s1600-h/DSC_0638.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPA75bAacI/AAAAAAAAAO0/yBMHwwZMw1k/s200/DSC_0638.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018066545079773634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Desde ahí se ve la isla de Hong Kong, la bahía Victoria y la isla de Kowloon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAjpbAaYI/AAAAAAAAAOU/psnQ0Z5xlbI/s1600-h/DSC_0637.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAjpbAaYI/AAAAAAAAAOU/psnQ0Z5xlbI/s200/DSC_0637.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018066128467945858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hong Kong has a very “interesting” geography, is not just an island with everything you need (malls, Chinese people, western people, a beach…) no no, it also has some mountains that rise 2200 ft over the sea level. One of them is called “The Peak” from where you can see the city and take pictures like these ones&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;• To reach the peak, you need to take a train that goes up in 7 minutes. All an experience (specially because makes stops in the MID LEVELS)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;• Once up there, what only happens in HK, ANOTHER mall, ha ha, with same brands as Central. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The story doesn’t end here, they also have…. Madame Tussauds ha ha, with Jackie Chan’s (national hero)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;• They made an entire Observation Deck of 5 floors&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;• From there, you can see Hong Kong, Victoria Bay and Kowloon Island&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPCtZbAaiI/AAAAAAAAAQM/4J6WBa_FzQQ/s1600-h/Hongkong_peak_tram.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPCtZbAaiI/AAAAAAAAAQM/4J6WBa_FzQQ/s200/Hongkong_peak_tram.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018068494994926114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAj5bAaaI/AAAAAAAAAOk/VS1ReNynyJk/s1600-h/DSC_0642.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAj5bAaaI/AAAAAAAAAOk/VS1ReNynyJk/s200/DSC_0642.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018066132762913186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAj5bAaZI/AAAAAAAAAOc/CIWBLHKteRY/s1600-h/DSC_0641.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPAj5bAaZI/AAAAAAAAAOc/CIWBLHKteRY/s200/DSC_0641.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018066132762913170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1890895217709774947?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1890895217709774947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1890895217709774947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1890895217709774947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1890895217709774947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/peak.html' title='The Peak / 高峰'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RaPA7pbAabI/AAAAAAAAAOs/Jo76W5Nd_XY/s72-c/DSC_0629.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6306459158275757879</id><published>2007-01-06T04:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T09:52:40.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shopping time.. Destination?? Hong Kong / 购物时间.. 归宿? 香港</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWJbAaNI/AAAAAAAAAMU/YC8OOCoIKN8/s1600-h/DSC_0120.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWJbAaNI/AAAAAAAAAMU/YC8OOCoIKN8/s200/DSC_0120.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016903712749152466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Niñas, amantes del shopping, gente en general que disfruta el fenómeno social de derrochar su dinero en grandes boutiques, centros comerciales y tiendas de chácharas por mero placer, les tengo un tip: Tienen que ir a Hong Kong.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;A lo largo de mis 26 años de vida he oído que muchas ciudades son la capital del shopping, no quiero entrar en discusión de cuales si y cuales no, pero basado en mi infíma y mínima experiencia en la vida, les puedo asegurar que este lugar si es una de ellas. Tiene todo lo que el ser humano ha inventado y puesto a la venta, desde iPods, chácharas chinas, buenos trapitos, imitaciones muy buenas de buenos trapitos (donde gente como yo compramos j aja), relojes, imitaciones de relojes hasta Armani Fiores. Si, Armani vende flores con el logo de “A” en ellas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nS5bAaVI/AAAAAAAAANU/OhMa7zFlFLk/s1600-h/DSC_0250.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nS5bAaVI/AAAAAAAAANU/OhMa7zFlFLk/s200/DSC_0250.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016912453007599954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Imperio Armani (No Emporio, Imperio): Voy hacer un párrafo especial para el Señor Armanni para ejemplificar como esta ciudad lleva el fashion al extremo, no tengo la dicha de haber ido a Italia, pero en HK, hay un mall que tiene un piso pequeño dedicado a Armanni, en un espacio de 12 locales hay: Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Armani Woman, Armani Men, Armani Home, Armani Fiores, Armani Libre (libros), Armani Parfums y Armani Cosmetics.&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Jaja, no sabía la cantidad de líneas que manejaban ellos y asi, lo mismo con D&amp;G y Hugo Boss. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Si un día van a HK, estos son los lugares que tienen que ir:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fW5bAaRI/AAAAAAAAAM0/2PMXlm2zV6o/s1600-h/DSC_0267.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fW5bAaRI/AAAAAAAAAM0/2PMXlm2zV6o/s200/DSC_0267.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016903725634054418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;En Tsim Sha Tsui en la isla de Kowloon&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;- Ladies Market: Jaja, obvio no??, cosas de mujeres, chácharas, ropa, y todo lo que la mujer contemporánea necesita&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Temple Street: Otro mercadito de chácharas y ropa barata, para nosotros los hombres corbatas de seda (según ellos) en 15 y 20 dlls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nTJbAaWI/AAAAAAAAANc/DhwwSkhdfF0/s1600-h/DSC_0729.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nTJbAaWI/AAAAAAAAANc/DhwwSkhdfF0/s200/DSC_0729.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016912457302567266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mongkok: Electrónicos, comida, ropa, perfumes, celulares, you name it, ellos lo venden&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Harbour City (Ocean Centre): Este es considerado por muchos “EL LUGAR” para el shopping, lo mejor del mundo está aquí. Un lugar para ir a ver y ser vistos. Esta en Canton Road&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Central &amp; The Landmark: Ya del lado de Hong Kong (lo anterior es en Kowloon), está esta zona y este mall donde pueden ver el piso del Sr Armani entre otras marcas&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Causeway Bay: (Esto ya está en Wan Chai) Para los bolsillos modestos, aquí encuentran lo bueno bonito y barato. Por supuesto, las grandes marcas también están aquí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Así que si un día van a HK, lleven muuucho dinero o una trajeta de crédito con muuuucho crédito porque se va necesitar.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vean las fotos relacionadas al “shopping”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Saludos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nSZbAaSI/AAAAAAAAAM8/TTfILRU1p4w/s1600-h/DSC_0161.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nSZbAaSI/AAAAAAAAAM8/TTfILRU1p4w/s200/DSC_0161.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016912444417665314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Girls, shopping lovers, ppl who enjoy the social dynamic of spend the Money just for pleasure, I have a tip for you: You MUST go to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;In my 26 years of life I’ve heard many cities called as the Shopping capital, I wont argue all those lists, but there is something I can say for sure, this place has on sale every single thing the human being has ever created, from iPods, Chinese gifts, good clothes, even better replicas of the good clothes (where ppl like me fall), watches, fake rolex to finish in Armani Fiores (flowers) store. Yes Armani sells flowers with the “A” logo on them&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Armani Empire (Yes, Empire not Emporio). I will make a special paragraph for Mr Armani to show you how this city drives the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWpbAaPI/AAAAAAAAAMk/jgET4MhE7Zo/s1600-h/DSC_0249.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWpbAaPI/AAAAAAAAAMk/jgET4MhE7Zo/s200/DSC_0249.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016903721339087090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;fashion to the extreme. I haven’t had the chance to be in Italy, but in HK there is a mall with a special Section devoted to the Armani World, there you can find: : Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Armani Woman, Armani Men, Armani Home, Armani Fiores (flowers), Armani Libre (books), Armani Parfums and Armani Cosmetics. Ha ha I didn’t know that they had so many lines, same with Hugo Boss and D&amp;G.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;This is the shopping list for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" st="on"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;In Tsim Sha Tsui in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Kowloon&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Island&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nSpbAaTI/AAAAAAAAANE/x2Axrwsa6ss/s1600-h/DSC_0181.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-nSpbAaTI/AAAAAAAAANE/x2Axrwsa6ss/s200/DSC_0181.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016912448712632626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;            &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;- Ladies Market: Jaja, well, the name talks by itself, ha ha, women stuff, clothes, gifts, everything that the modern contemporary woman needs to survive in this world&lt;br /&gt;- Temple Street: Like a flea market, cheap and for the men, silo ties for less than 20 bucks. &lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Good deal&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mongkok: Electronics,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;food, clothes, lotions, cell phones, you name it, they sell it.&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Harbour&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;City&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; (Ocean Centre): This is by far “the place” to go, the best of the best is located in this big shopping complex. The place to see and be seen. It is in canton Road.&lt;br /&gt;- Central &amp; The Landmark: Back in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Island&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, this is the trendy zone where u can see the Armani Empire and other brands. &lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Luxury shopping&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Causeway&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Bay&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;: (In Wan Chai) For cheap budgets, as we say in spanish, the 3B: “Bueno, Bonito y Barato” “Good, Nice and Cheap” Of course, big brands also have presence here&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWZbAaOI/AAAAAAAAAMc/KY-Y4T1YAAA/s1600-h/DSC_0169.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWZbAaOI/AAAAAAAAAMc/KY-Y4T1YAAA/s200/DSC_0169.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016903717044119778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So you have it, if you go to Hong Kong be prepared, tons of cash and a good credit in your credit card.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;See ya later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div id="result_box" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;o:p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6306459158275757879?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6306459158275757879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6306459158275757879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6306459158275757879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6306459158275757879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/shopping-time-destination-hong-kong.html' title='Shopping time.. Destination?? Hong Kong / 购物时间.. 归宿? 香港'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ-fWJbAaNI/AAAAAAAAAMU/YC8OOCoIKN8/s72-c/DSC_0120.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-12616353615552466</id><published>2007-01-04T10:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-09T08:33:55.487-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Llévelo llévelo, marisco vivo, perdón fresco, llévelo / Live seafood (did I say live or fresh?) /是否可以把新鲜的海鲜</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-FHr7wI/AAAAAAAAALk/Gggk_bFKXso/s1600-h/DSC_0091.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-FHr7wI/AAAAAAAAALk/Gggk_bFKXso/s200/DSC_0091.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016244691812478722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span  lang="ES-MX" style="color:black;"&gt;Ja ja, así como lo leen, no no que impacto. Estaba caminando a mi hotel y vi una cosa impactante que amerita un addendum al post anterior. Quien haya tenido la oportunidad de pasearse en un barrio chino (NY, San Francisco, La Habana, donde sea) sabría que una de sus características es el marisco fresco no?? Bueno, aquí llevan el concepto al extremo, no esta fresco, esta VIVO… Vean las fotos, no hay mucho que decir. Asi funciona, llegan las señoras, lo tocan, si se sigue moviendo entonces se lo llevan y depende del gusto o se lo matan ahí y lo filetean o se lo llevan asi. Una señora regreso por otra bolsa porque de tanto que se movía el pobre pescadito, rompió la bolsa de plástico. Luego, una anguila como que estaba muy larga y como se movia mucho no cabía y se salía, pues porque no la cortamos a la mitad no?? Ahí en frente de todos. No no no IMPACTANTE…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.75pt 0in 24pt;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-lHr7xI/AAAAAAAAALs/L1ai4iUbFUE/s1600-h/DSC_0092.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-lHr7xI/AAAAAAAAALs/L1ai4iUbFUE/s200/DSC_0092.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016244700402413330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span  lang="ES-MX" style="color:black;"&gt;Tienen a los pescados en agua (además tienen sus sistemas de flujo de agua en cajas de unicel p que esté transparente) En otro puesto era lo mismo peor con GALLINAS, estaban VIVAS!!!! No no que impacto… Jamás había visto eso, y cuando se acababan los peces (porque no son pescados, aún son peces), con la red sacan mas y así todos vivos zangoloteándose, vean las fotos ANEXAS. En fin moraleja de la historia, si lo tocan y no se mueve no está fresco ok??? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Ja ja Me voy a dormir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.75pt 0in 24pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-1Hr7zI/AAAAAAAAAL8/kLEOcHX-tdw/s1600-h/DSC_0095.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-1Hr7zI/AAAAAAAAAL8/kLEOcHX-tdw/s200/DSC_0095.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016244704697380658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Yes, just like you read, it was AMAZING. I was walking to my hotel when I found something that deserves an addendum to the last post. If you’ve ever been in a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" st="on"&gt;Chinatown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; (NY, Sn Fco), you know that a “must see” is a market with fresh sea food, right?? Well, these guys took that concept and went to the extreme, when you think in fresh food, you may think in “recent” killed food, but not in LIVE food, haha, this is how it works: If you touch the fish and it doesn’t move, is not live, you don’t buy it, haha REALLY!!! One lady came back because the fish was moving so hard that broke the plastic bag, unbelievable  (take a look to the pics)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have the fishes in water and some have developed an advanced system of water hydration to keep them alive. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-lHr7yI/AAAAAAAAAL0/ok-TShFCyqg/s1600-h/DSC_0093.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-lHr7yI/AAAAAAAAAL0/ok-TShFCyqg/s200/DSC_0093.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016244700402413346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When they are running out of fishes in the main plate, they take the net and they put live fishes there to make the customers happy. I also saw a place with chickens, yes,  LIVE chickens, same rules just that they don’t kill the animal in front of you (because with the fishes they do) No no no that was an impact. Haha.. nice cultural experiences don't u think?..&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-12616353615552466?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/12616353615552466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=12616353615552466' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/12616353615552466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/12616353615552466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/llvelo-llvelo-marisco-vivo-perdn-fresco.html' title='Llévelo llévelo, marisco vivo, perdón fresco, llévelo / Live seafood (did I say live or fresh?) /是否可以把新鲜的海鲜'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1H-FHr7wI/AAAAAAAAALk/Gggk_bFKXso/s72-c/DSC_0091.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4386215245423828954</id><published>2007-01-04T09:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-04T10:18:36.163-08:00</updated><title type='text'>La primera caminata / 1st Walk / 香港一日散步</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BgVHr7oI/AAAAAAAAAJw/5YEgYPLaefw/s1600-h/DSC_0032.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BgVHr7oI/AAAAAAAAAJw/5YEgYPLaefw/s200/DSC_0032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016237583641603714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_h1Hr7jI/AAAAAAAAAJI/YB1a58yVGkw/s1600-h/DSC_0020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 131px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_h1Hr7jI/AAAAAAAAAJI/YB1a58yVGkw/s320/DSC_0020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016235410388151858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;1st day, I finally get out of the train, the only clue I have about my hotel is that it appears in all the "tourist" maps of the city, good sign don't u think??  I am still amazed with the city, the sky buildings, the Chinese letters, Chinese ppl, the drivings everything. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Ok, let's start. the first thing I see when I get out of the train station is a CAB, all of them are cute red cars but hold on.... they  drive in the other way.. like in England (of course, they were british colony ha ha), that's nice, it was so funny to me see ppl driving in the wrong side, for hose of you that have been in places like Uk or India u know what funny feeling. Second thing.. ALL the buses are of 2 floors, haha they are not RED but 2 floors, that's funny, check the pictures&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Anyway, I keep walking and I see the buildings, I drink my first "orange" flavor latte @ starbucks and I keep taking pictures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BglHr7pI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Olv7rfEjXbk/s1600-h/DSC_0036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BglHr7pI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Olv7rfEjXbk/s200/DSC_0036.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016237587936571026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iFHr7lI/AAAAAAAAAJY/fbuZiiOrOls/s1600-h/DSC_0037.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 140px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iFHr7lI/AAAAAAAAAJY/fbuZiiOrOls/s320/DSC_0037.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016235414683119186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;This area is called "Central" which is like NY downtown or any other city downtown. Is the nice area, where the good brand offices, shops and expensive stuff is located. The area where you can't have a car. My hotel is East, in Wan Chai ( 湾仔) the called "red light district"&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;I keep walking and the scenario changes radically, now old buildings, markets and suddenly the TRAM appears infront of me, this is like a traditional rail of 2 floors that runs from Central to the East part of the Island, is a very popular and common way to transport for the ppl in this island. I also took a pic of the 1st ad in 100% chinese, of course, that ad is not directed to ppl like me so I couldn't take advantage of the promotion he he... FInally I arrive to the Hotel (refer to the previous blog for the "hotel" experience"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iFHr7kI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/tXEFUycuGbY/s1600-h/DSC_0033.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 235px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iFHr7kI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/tXEFUycuGbY/s320/DSC_0033.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016235414683119170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Que dijeron, que no iba escribir en español?? jaja, lo que pasa es que como el otro me dio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1Bg1Hr7rI/AAAAAAAAAKI/-MBlF6vjezc/s1600-h/DSC_0062.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1Bg1Hr7rI/AAAAAAAAAKI/-MBlF6vjezc/s200/DSC_0062.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016237592231538354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt; flojerita traducir el blog del hotel y no veo para cuando, pues para reivindicarme no?? pero uds shhh.. Ja ja, pues ahí va el blog de  la primera caminata, que experiencia, que bárbaro.. Salgo de la estación de tren y lo primero que veo es un taxi, todos son rojos, están chistosos, curiosos pero lo mejor, tienen el volante al revés, del lado chueco, jaja jamás relacione que aquí iban a manejar al revés como en UK, jaja fue una experiencia bastante grata, para los que ya han ido a Londres o la India, saben a que me refiero, por supuesto, de milagro estoy aquí hbo dos veces que por voltear al lado erróneo casi me lleva el bus. Por cierto, los camiones aquí son de dos pisos, (ver las fotos por favor), no son rojitos así bonitos como los de Londres pero están muy cool y trendies, tienen su TV a color y todo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BglHr7qI/AAAAAAAAAKA/a_zc8wMJdyg/s1600-h/DSC_0039.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BglHr7qI/AAAAAAAAAKA/a_zc8wMJdyg/s200/DSC_0039.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016237587936571042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, sigo caminando, están los rascacielos, esta zona se llama "Central" es como el downtown, la zona financiera donde esta lo bueno, bonito y caro de la ciudad, es "el lugar" para trabajar o ir de shopping. Mi hotel está en una zona que se llama Wan Chai (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;湾仔&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt; ) o la zona rosa "red light district", &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iVHr7nI/AAAAAAAAAJo/rg3yUhK9Nvs/s1600-h/DSC_0064.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 128px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iVHr7nI/AAAAAAAAAJo/rg3yUhK9Nvs/s320/DSC_0064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016235418978086514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;se supone que estaba feo, pero nah, jaja, lo que pasa es que no esta asi todo fashion como el resto de la ciudad, vean estas últimas fotos.. Además hay como mercaditos y le tome foto al primer menu en chino que vi. Seguro tenía una promoción pero como no entendí púes no pude aprovechar jaja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;De repente aparecen los TRAMS, que cosas tan mas interesantes unos trensesitos asi chiquitititititos que van en medio de la calle, son una forma muy popular de transporte aquí pero son delgaditos y largos, vean la foto, esos van de lado a lado, total que al fin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;llego a mi hotel y bueno, para eso lean el blog pasado (a menos que hablen inglés, entonces se tendrán que esperar al fin de semana je je)   Saludos!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1DS1Hr7tI/AAAAAAAAAKY/bAk3SN723E0/s1600-h/DSC_0077.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 116px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1DS1Hr7tI/AAAAAAAAAKY/bAk3SN723E0/s200/DSC_0077.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016239550736625362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1DTFHr7uI/AAAAAAAAAKg/6a_5OnI7ngk/s200/DSC_0090.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016239555031592674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1DTFHr7uI/AAAAAAAAAKg/6a_5OnI7ngk/s1600-h/DSC_0090.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iVHr7mI/AAAAAAAAAJg/cq2KBho9NsE/s1600-h/DSC_0059.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ0_iVHr7mI/AAAAAAAAAJg/cq2KBho9NsE/s320/DSC_0059.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016235418978086498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1Bg1Hr7sI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/3vFuKpauzcE/s1600-h/DSC_0066.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1Bg1Hr7sI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/3vFuKpauzcE/s200/DSC_0066.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016237592231538370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4386215245423828954?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4386215245423828954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4386215245423828954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4386215245423828954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4386215245423828954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/la-primera-caminata-1st-walk.html' title='La primera caminata / 1st Walk / 香港一日散步'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZ1BgVHr7oI/AAAAAAAAAJw/5YEgYPLaefw/s72-c/DSC_0032.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1463486477294239952</id><published>2007-01-03T08:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T08:52:12.680-08:00</updated><title type='text'>El Aeropuerto y el Hotel!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdblHr7cI/AAAAAAAAAH0/5syYZKseABk/s1600-h/DSC_0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdblHr7cI/AAAAAAAAAH0/5syYZKseABk/s320/DSC_0001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015846075897736642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT-BR"&gt;OK, aqui vamos...sábado 10.20 am, cruzo aduana.. &lt;/span&gt;Estoy en Hong Kong y que es lo primero que veo, esta foto.. Letreros en chino, Siiiiiiiiii estoy aquí, no lo creo, es una sensación que hacía mucho no tenía, es esa capacidad de asombro que aún existe en mi, que días antes pensé que había desaparecido pero no, renació, como cuando de niño vas por primera vez a Disney, o de adulto... esa sensación de emoción....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;En fin, llego y busqué el primer atractivo turístico de todo viaje a Hong Kong, el tren bala. (jaja, en realidad no se si este sea tren bala pero iba hecho la madre). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Aquí hay una foto de el también... Es una sensación padrísima, todo en chino y algunas cosas en inglés, tecnología de punta, tal y como uno lo ve en los documentales de National Geographic (ah no, esos son de animales, jaja, bueno Discovery whatever, me entendieron).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZveQVHr7fI/AAAAAAAAAIM/2tR_BRFMgMU/s1600-h/DSC_0015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZveQVHr7fI/AAAAAAAAAIM/2tR_BRFMgMU/s320/DSC_0015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015846982135836146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Después de 30 minutos, voces en chino salen de las bocinas, solo entiendo una cosa: Hong Kong (jaja bueno no, la vdd había un letrerote en todas las pantallas diciendo que ya había llegado a Hong Kong ja ja ja). En fin, me bajo del tren este y emprendo la caminata al hotel que estaba como a 20 mins (claro, yo hice una hora entre que me perdí e iba baboseando). En otro blog pondré la historia de como demonios llegué al hotel y la forma de caminar en esta ciudad, jaja. Lo único que voy a rescatar es mi primer encuentro con Starbucks (jaja no sería yo sin ir a un starbucks no??) Probé mi nueva 2da bebida favorita... Latte Valencia que es un Latte con Naranja (no se porque no se llama Latte Orange, en fin). Llego al hotel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdblHr7dI/AAAAAAAAAH8/jo8UY9O1SC0/s1600-h/DSC_0101.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdblHr7dI/AAAAAAAAAH8/jo8UY9O1SC0/s320/DSC_0101.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015846075897736658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;El hotel... The Charterhouse en Wan Chai (Alias el Red Light DIstrict de HK), jaja dadas las referencias que tenía y tomando en cuenta que fue la cosa mas barata que encontré en downtown esos días gracias a expedia, esperaba un hotel de mala muerte tirándole a algo peor.. Oh Sorpresa!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De afuera se veía X, como que sus años de gracia ya fueron, se ve que fue de los buenos antes que los Sres Marriot y Westin dominaran el mundo. En fin, entro al hotel, y había gente normal, (tomando en cuenta que me imaginaba llegar a un rascuacho con gente pulguienta, ya íbamos de gane). Ohhh Sorpresa..  Resulta que tenía reservada una habitación en el NUEVO y renovado "Signature Floor". Ya desde que el hotel aparecía en todos los mapas de HK supuse que no era tan rascuacho, pero dios santo, ese piso era una cosa, no no ULLTRA moderna y lujosa, y todo por 115 dlls la noche. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZveQVHr7gI/AAAAAAAAAIU/LPMw5KWlNI4/s1600-h/DSC_0102.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZveQVHr7gI/AAAAAAAAAIU/LPMw5KWlNI4/s320/DSC_0102.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015846982135836162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Y no solo eso... resulta que fui el PRIMER cliente, jaja entonces me recibieron con flores y me tomaron fotos con algunos empleados y la que iban a colgar con el gerente y la gerenta, así que si un día van, seguro verán mi foto ahí jajaja IRREAL no??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Bueno, ya me toman la foto (aquí está una copia) entro al cuarto, no no que cosa, llámenme naco pero jamás había visto semejante cosa, y miren que me la vivo en hoteles por el trabajo, jaja, empezando con el LCD; un CD de jazz oriental con sonido surround en todo el cuarto, no sabias ni de donde venía la música, luego la regadera.. Ohh sra regadera, el baño mas placentero de mi vida. El agua sale del techo, y además tienen 8 salidas de agua para que te den en la espalda y todo el cuerpo. Irreal... (bueno a mi me gustó jaja, si no piensan lo mismo es respetable)   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdb1Hr7eI/AAAAAAAAAIE/_VxuoNR0O_0/s1600-h/DSC_0104.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdb1Hr7eI/AAAAAAAAAIE/_VxuoNR0O_0/s320/DSC_0104.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015846080192703970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;El servicio de primer nivel, mis flores en la cama, DVD en el cuarto con varios  títulos, y por supuesto todo minimalista. Fui muy afortunado, bueno, estaba yo fascinado cuando me acordé que deje abajo a un sr que acababa de conocer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Un señor de Seattle que me invitó a tomar una chela y me quedé platicando con el como una hora, un arquitecto de aeropuertos (el diseño con otros el proyecto del aeropuerto de HK que habrán de saber es una isla artificial construida  con la última tecnología de punta). Total que este señor diseña aeropuertos y ahora andaba en un proyecto en una ciudad de China, haha  las cosas que uno conoce cuando viaja no?? bastante interesante. En fin, creo que es todo, ahi hay algunas fotos del cuarto el hotel y mis flores, jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Mañana actualizo más.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZveQlHr7iI/AAAAAAAAAIk/0kHgeR1q--M/s1600-h/DSC_0103.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZveQlHr7iI/AAAAAAAAAIk/0kHgeR1q--M/s320/DSC_0103.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015846986430803490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;English version will come soon... stay tuned (is too late and I'm sooo tired, sorry )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1463486477294239952?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1463486477294239952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1463486477294239952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1463486477294239952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1463486477294239952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/el-aeropuerto-y-el-hotel.html' title='El Aeropuerto y el Hotel!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvdblHr7cI/AAAAAAAAAH0/5syYZKseABk/s72-c/DSC_0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6951978195555262781</id><published>2007-01-03T07:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T08:16:15.276-08:00</updated><title type='text'>LIVE from Hong Kong!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvV1FHr7ZI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/WpdVWYUACvw/s1600-h/DSC_0371.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvV1FHr7ZI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/WpdVWYUACvw/s320/DSC_0371.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015837717891378578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He Vuelto!!! WOOW, que experiencia tan increíble. Niñas... si el shopping es lo suyo, Hong Kong es la ciudad... 3 días fueron más que suficientes para poder decir que Hong Kong es una de las ciudades más Cosmopolitas e increibles que el ser humano pudo haber creado.  Hay muchas cosas que quiero compartir con ustedes, pero para no atascarme en un solo blog, los he segmentado por experiencias, momentos y cosas chuscas que me pasaron, así los vamos digiriendo poco a poco no?? Y las fotos?? calma, las iré subiendo a la par del blog, tomé cerca de 600 entonces hay que segmentarlas.  Así pues, ahi va el primer blog....&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvV1VHr7bI/AAAAAAAAAHg/SamMez8g_bE/s1600-h/DSC_0468.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvV1VHr7bI/AAAAAAAAAHg/SamMez8g_bE/s320/DSC_0468.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015837722186345906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm back, WOOW, what an amazing experience. Girls, if shopping is "your" thing, Hong Kong is "THE PLACE". 3 days have been enough to be able to say that HK is one of the most Cosmo and amazing cities the human being has ever built. There are a million of things I want to share but instead of write 1 hour here and write the longest post ever, I'll be posting all of them one by one with experiences, thoughts  and things that happened in my trip. And what about the pics?? Take it easy, they will come with the posts, I took more than 600 so there is a lot to show. So, here I go..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6951978195555262781?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6951978195555262781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6951978195555262781' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6951978195555262781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6951978195555262781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2007/01/live-from-hong-kong.html' title='LIVE from Hong Kong!!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZvV1FHr7ZI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/WpdVWYUACvw/s72-c/DSC_0371.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3415889361477507455</id><published>2006-12-29T07:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-29T07:40:56.756-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HONG KONG!!! El día ha llegado / The day has arrived</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2RM6aHKI/AAAAAAAAAGU/_uK7gs50-vk/s1600-h/HK1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2RM6aHKI/AAAAAAAAAGU/_uK7gs50-vk/s320/HK1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013973429298797730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Así es.... En exactamente 11 horas estaré aterrizando en CHINA.. Me voy a Hong Kong a Recibir el Año Nuevo. Vean las fotos que adjunto como preparativo ha ha. Estoy muuuuuy emocionado, es momento de borrar una de las cosas que tenía en mi "To do list" antes de morir. Voy 3 días, conseguí un boleto con Air Cebu (Solo dios sabra que tan buena es esta aerolínea, jaja, me sono como AeroCalifornia no??? )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La idea surgió desde que supe que venía a Manila, de hecho fue una de las cosas que me movió a venir, que podría ir a Hong Kong, solo que jamás  pensé que en el fin de semana de Año Nuevo.  Conseguí un hotel en mero downtown, y pienso gritar el 5, 4, 3,  2  Happy New YEar!! en Times Square... haha, si, hay un Times Square en Hong Kong (y un SOHO también para los amantes de las coincidencias)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2sM6aHOI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Ieyh3rEDWKU/s1600-h/HK4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2sM6aHOI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Ieyh3rEDWKU/s320/HK4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013973893155265762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No voy a postear en unos días, ya a mi regreso les contaré y pondré fotos... De mientras HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!! Les deseo lo mejor...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Yes, In exactly 11 hours I'll be landing in CHIN!! I'm going to Hong Kong to receive the New Years Eve... Check these pictures as my preparative for this celebration. I'm very excited, is time to delete one row from my "To do list" before die. I'm going 3 days, I got a ticket in Air Cebu haha, God bless cheap airlines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2Rc6aHMI/AAAAAAAAAGk/_SjTTpdiS-8/s1600-h/Hk5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2Rc6aHMI/AAAAAAAAAGk/_SjTTpdiS-8/s320/Hk5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013973433593765058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The idea came to me at the first minute I knew I was coming here, actually, this was one of the reasons why I accepted coming here, but I never thought spending the new years weekend in HK, ha ha. I got a hotel in downtown and I will do the countdown in Times Square (yes, there is one in HK and also a SOHO if you love coincidences haha)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;I wont post for some days but I will let you know how everything goes and I'll share some pictures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Happy NEW YEAR!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2r86aHNI/AAAAAAAAAGs/5cvy9rTJt6I/s1600-h/HK2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2r86aHNI/AAAAAAAAAGs/5cvy9rTJt6I/s320/HK2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013973888860298450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2RM6aHLI/AAAAAAAAAGc/uc8l81IoodQ/s1600-h/HK3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2RM6aHLI/AAAAAAAAAGc/uc8l81IoodQ/s320/HK3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013973429298797746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3415889361477507455?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3415889361477507455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3415889361477507455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3415889361477507455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3415889361477507455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/hong-kong-el-da-ha-llegado-day-has.html' title='HONG KONG!!! El día ha llegado / The day has arrived'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RZU2RM6aHKI/AAAAAAAAAGU/_uK7gs50-vk/s72-c/HK1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-7799143600096033930</id><published>2006-12-28T08:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-28T09:03:20.286-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Facts about Filipino nightlife / Facts sobre la vida nocturna filipina</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;- El lugar after party #1 de los filipinos es el Starbucks (los que están cerca de los antros abren las 24 horas) jaja Yo en verdad me pregunto, a que demonios sabrá un triple light latte a las 5 am con medio litro de tequila encima, WAKALA&lt;br /&gt;- El 2do lugar after party es el McDonalds o el Jellibee (donde sirven arroz en el desayuno, comida y cena y hot dogs taco style, recuerdan??)&lt;br /&gt;- La vida nocturna es laaaaaaaaarga, como en México, tipo 5-6 am (ahh como se extraña eso viviendo en el gabacho no??)&lt;br /&gt;- El antro de moda se llama "Havana Cafe", música en vivo los 7 días, lo curioso, una de cada 5 canciones es latina jaja&lt;br /&gt;- Los antros están segmentados (al igual que la sociedad) por clase social, A,B,C o D.&lt;br /&gt;- Aquí tampoco existe el concepto de "La Tella de 1000 pesos" (Thanks God)&lt;br /&gt;- En los lugares nice, uno puede encontrar a las filipinas de la vida galante.&lt;br /&gt;- En los lugares no "nice" también&lt;br /&gt;- Los "tables dance" están prohibidos (eso no quiere decir que no exista algo similar, jaja) Cabe aclarar que esto me lo contaron, ok?&lt;br /&gt;- Los Karaoke son lo "in" de la sociedad filipina, mis nuevos amigos del starbucks me invitaron a uno (jaja, que raro que tenga amigos en el starbucks no??)&lt;br /&gt;- Creo que es todo, si me acuerdo de algo más les digo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Ciao&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                      &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;- After pary place #1 is the Starbucks (some of them are open 24 hours). I really ask myself what the hell is to drink a triple venti latte with 5 shots of tequila inside. Agghh&lt;br /&gt;- Second place is McDonalds or Jellibee (remember the place where they serve rice all day long and hot dogs taco style?)&lt;br /&gt;- Night life is looooooooong like &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Mexico&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, 5-6 am (not like the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, Viva &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Mexico&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;!!!&lt;br /&gt;- The “place” is called Havana Café, live music 7 days a week, funny thing is that one of every 5 songs is latin. Ha ha&lt;br /&gt;- Night clubs are segmented (as Filipino society) by social status; A, B, C or D&lt;br /&gt;- The “tella” concept doesn’t exist here. If you r not Mexican, you may not understand this term, ask me ok??&lt;br /&gt;- In the nice places, you can find the Filipino woman that your mother told you to be aware of&lt;br /&gt;- You can find them also in the NOT “nice” places ha ha&lt;br /&gt;- Strip Clubs are forbidden here, that doesn’t mean they haven’t found the substitute, ha ha, for the record: I was told about this ok?? &lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Karaoke places are the “place to go” of the Filipino society&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt; I think this is all. I’ll let you know if I’m missing something&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;See ya!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-7799143600096033930?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/7799143600096033930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=7799143600096033930' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7799143600096033930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/7799143600096033930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/facts-about-filipino-nightlife-facts.html' title='Facts about Filipino nightlife / Facts sobre la vida nocturna filipina'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-5419337761576239564</id><published>2006-12-27T07:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-27T07:42:08.475-08:00</updated><title type='text'>McRice Burger</title><content type='html'>Una imagen vale más que mil palabras...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V4ySYIRXmKA"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V4ySYIRXmKA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-5419337761576239564?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/5419337761576239564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=5419337761576239564' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5419337761576239564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/5419337761576239564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/mcrice-burger.html' title='McRice Burger'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-8385782842745232272</id><published>2006-12-27T07:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-27T08:06:27.301-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Víctima del Tsunami!!! /  My 1st Tsunami!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Hola!!!! Hoy fui víctima de un Tsunami!!!! Chiquito, jaja pero ya viví mi primer Tsunami, Resulta que ayer hubo un terremoto en Taiwán de 7.2 que causó un tsunami de 3 pies de alto en la costa este de Filipinas (menos de 1 metro). No paso nada afortunadamente peeeeeerooooo, que según esto los cables de poder del fondo del mar que conectan Asia se afectaron, jaja, total que debido al movimiento telúrico las conexiones a Internet de Manila se vinieron abajo como 2 horas, se los juro, estaba yo, bueno de súper mal humor, no servía el MSN, Google, Yahoo, CNN, NADAAA. Cuando me enteré la razón y ya mejor me reí. En fin, fue como el dato curioso del día y quería compartirlo. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Salu2&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Es la noticia del día: ASIA INCOMUNICADA!!!  Vean estos links&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.desastres.org/index.asp"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.desastres.org/index.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.desastres.org/noticias.asp?id=27122006-10"&gt;http://www.desastres.org/noticias.asp?id=27122006-10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/internet.asia.reut/index.html"&gt;http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/internet.asia.reut/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: EL tsunami fue mas fuerte de lo que pensé, jaja, están VUELTOS locos en Asia, Hong Kong y Tokyo tuvieron que cerrar hoy la bolsa y hacer las cosas a mano. NO HAY INTERNET EN ESTE LADO DEL MUNDO!!!! No hay llamadas Internacionales excepto a gente como yo que carga su VONAGE a todo el mundo!!! jajaja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos desde mi burbuja de cristal (donde aun funciona el internet)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hi!!!! Yesterday, The Japan’s Meteorogical Agency said that an earthquake off &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; had a magnitude of 7.2 that generated a 3-foot high tsunami headed for the east coast of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Philippines&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. I felt my 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; tsunami (to be honest, nothing happen, ha ha, but I was in a tsunami). The point is that this earthquake generated that some cable powers at the bottom of the sea had some issues and the Internet connection here in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Manila&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; dropped for a couple hours. I was very pissed off, Yahoo, CNN, MSN, Google, nooothin worked… but when I realized that the tsunami was the reason, haha was like the funny thing of the day and I wanted to share it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Have a good day!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Check the links below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-8385782842745232272?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/8385782842745232272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=8385782842745232272' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8385782842745232272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/8385782842745232272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/vctima-del-tsunami-my-1st-tsunami.html' title='Víctima del Tsunami!!! /  My 1st Tsunami!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1684235712118367296</id><published>2006-12-24T05:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-24T05:22:57.762-08:00</updated><title type='text'>XMAS, Tiempo de reflexiones / Time to think</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY56ds6aHHI/AAAAAAAAAFw/nbr4ca4gsuQ/s1600-h/DSC_0166.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY56ds6aHHI/AAAAAAAAAFw/nbr4ca4gsuQ/s320/DSC_0166.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012078086000876658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Es 24 de Diciembre, estoy más cerca de la media noche que del medio día, acabo de tener mi cena de navidad y ha sido uno de los momentos que más me ha hecho reflexionar en mi vida. Es la primera Navidad que paso lejos de casa, lejos de la familia, lejos de los amigos, lejos de mi mundo, pero lo más importante, es la primera Navidad que en realidad paso cerca de mí. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Este día en vez de salir a socializar y a reventarme por ahí, decidí quedarme en casa, cocinar, disfrutar el momento y reflexionar. Me hice una deliciosa cena a la cual he bautizado Salmón Navideño, que consistió en salmón, jitomate en pedazos, champiñones en una cama de vino y puré de tomare (no se puede hacer mucho estando en un Hotel). Yo lo he cocinado todo y más que haber disfrutado una deliciosa cena en compañía de las luces de esta ciudad y la música que más me relaja, fue una cena donde analicé lo que he hecho hasta ahora. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Acabo de terminar de cenar y me dieron unas ganas irresistibles de empezar a escribir como me siento. Tengo sentimientos encontrados entre melancolía, nostalgia, soledad combinados con alegría de estar aquí, de estar logrando mis sueños y de poder decir poco a poco, lo logré. Me falta mucho, mucho por recorrer, pero he recorrido mucho de lo que alguna vez me propuse. Siento ganas de llorar pero a la vez de reír, tengo ganas de saltar &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;y a la vez de descansar, es un sentimiento muy raro. No creo que muchos de ustedes hayan pasado una Navidad completamente solos, no es algo que diría “recomiendo”, pero tampoco es algo que me arrepiento de haber hecho. Pude haberme quedado en América, ir a México, quedarme en Seattle con gente que conozco, pero decidí venirme, decidí aceptar la oportunidad de conocer cosas nuevas, una cultura, gente, un modo de trabajar, experiencias y sobre todo, realizar parte de mis anhelos personales, viajar. El costo? Pasar navidad solo, reencontrarme, meditar, pensar y reflexionar. Lo tomo, lo acepto, lo pago y lo disfruto también.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY56yc6aHJI/AAAAAAAAAGA/vsRxkroBP0w/s1600-h/DSC_0164.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY56yc6aHJI/AAAAAAAAAGA/vsRxkroBP0w/s320/DSC_0164.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012078442483162258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Ha sido un día difícil pero interesante, de esos días que van a quedar grabados en mi memoria, de esos días que nunca voy a olvidar, de esos días que me van a formar carácter para el ser humano que seré el día de mañana.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;A todos los que lean esto, les deseo una Feliz Navidad, que donde quiera que la vayan a pasar o la hayan pasado (depende cuando lean esto), la disfruten al máximo como yo la he disfrutado, vivan la vida intensamente, vivir es lo más importante.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Un abrazo desde el lejano oriente!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;@rm@ndo!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;December the 24th, I’m closer to midnight than noon, I have just had my own Christmas dinner and it has been one of the moments where I have analyzed myself the most in my entire life. This is the first xmas far from home, famil, friends, my world but specially, this is the first xmas that I really share with me.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Instead of hanging out for social reasons, I decided to stay here in the hotel apartment I’m living now to cook, enjoy and think. I made a delicious dish that I have given the name of “Christmas Salmon”, it consisted on Salmon, mushroom, diced tomatoes on a wine bed (you can’t do much staying in a hotel). I’ve cooked everything and more than just enjoyed a delicious dinner with the city lights I have in my window, the music I enjoy the most, it was a dinner where I analyzed what I have done until now.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;I’ve just finished and I felt he need of write how I feel. I have different feelings right now, melancholy, nostalgic and solitude along with happiness of being here, making my dreams and being able to say “I’m doing it, I’m doing it” I still have a long way to walk, but I have done a lot of what once I proposed to myself. I feel I want to cry, but at the same time I want to laugh, I want to jump and I want to rest, it’s a strange feeling. I don’t think many of you have spent a Christmas completely alone, I won’t say it is something I “recommend”, but if on regret my decision. I could have stayed in America, went back to Mexico, stayed in Seattle with ppl I know, but I decided to come into this journey, I accepted the chance to meet new things, a new culture, new ppl, a new way to work and see the life, experiences and most important, realize part of my dreams, travel. The price? Spend Christmas alone, find myself again, to think, to meditate. I take it, I accept it, P pay it and I enjoy it too.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today has &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;been a difficult day but interesting, of those that will remain in my memories forever, of those moments that I will never forget, one of those days that will forge the person I am going to be tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;To all of you reading this, I wish you a Merry Christmas, that wherever you will be (or you were depends on when you are reading this), enjoy the most as I have enjoyed my own moment, enjoy life, enjoy the moment, enjoy who you are, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;remember, living is the most important thing in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A big hug from the far East!!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;@rm@ndo!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1684235712118367296?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1684235712118367296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1684235712118367296' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1684235712118367296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1684235712118367296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/xmas-tiempo-de-reflexiones.html' title='XMAS, Tiempo de reflexiones / Time to think'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY56ds6aHHI/AAAAAAAAAFw/nbr4ca4gsuQ/s72-c/DSC_0166.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1544707302056253341</id><published>2006-12-24T03:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T20:27:58.791-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Imágenes hablan por si solas... / Images talk by themselves</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY5lwM6aHGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/J6mwyoRNd84/s1600-h/arroz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY5lwM6aHGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/J6mwyoRNd84/s320/arroz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012055314084273250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY5ljM6aHFI/AAAAAAAAAFY/H60n3W2sJWE/s1600-h/taco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY5ljM6aHFI/AAAAAAAAAFY/H60n3W2sJWE/s320/taco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012055090745973842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para aquellos incrédulos que piensan que exagero con lo del "TACO" style, me remito a las imágenes. Ahh y también añado la imagen del ARROZ en el desayuno. Estas imágenes vienen de Jollibee que es como el McDonalds local (tipo nuestro Taco Inn)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su página es: &lt;a href="http://www.jollibee.com.ph/"&gt;http://www.jollibee.com.ph/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;For those who thought I was being exaggerated with the food issue like the "TACO" style and the rice in the breakfast, check this images. They come from the local Fast Food chain (like McDonalds). Their webpage es: &lt;a href="http://www.jollibee.com.ph/"&gt;http://www.jollibee.com.ph/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1544707302056253341?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1544707302056253341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1544707302056253341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1544707302056253341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1544707302056253341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/imgenes-hablan-por-si-solas-images-talk.html' title='Imágenes hablan por si solas... / Images talk by themselves'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY5lwM6aHGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/J6mwyoRNd84/s72-c/arroz.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2097981161536078105</id><published>2006-12-23T07:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T08:03:40.960-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The MOVIES experience!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY1Q_s6aHEI/AAAAAAAAAFM/IprP_jRfbL8/s1600-h/agoodyear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY1Q_s6aHEI/AAAAAAAAAFM/IprP_jRfbL8/s320/agoodyear.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5011751015651351618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Hola!! Hoy fui al cine a ver "A good year", la película esta cursi y buena, pero lo mas interesante fue la experiencia del cine, haha&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-] Cuando compras el boleto, escoges en que lugar quieres, están numerados y los seleccionas en una pantallita (como si fuera avión no, jajaja). Además es bueno para saber si ya alguien se va sentar delante de ti o al lado no? Así locos como yo sabes si junto a ti hay otro loco que va solo, nadie o una parejita jajaja&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-] Cuando entras a la sala, alguien te acompaña con una lamparita a tu lugar (como en el teatro) jaja&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-] La sala tiene sus baños propios, el de niños y el de niñas del otro lado. Así si te dan ganas de ir al baño, no tienes que salir y correr al otro extremo del cine, el baño está acondicionado con el AUDIO de la película, entonces te pierdes unos momentos de la imagen. Así puedes hacer pipi a gusto y no perder el hilo de la movie. WOW&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-] Afuera del cine no hay palomitas y refrescos, hay toda una variedad gastronómica para escoger (pastelitos, jugos, comida china, y hasta un starbucks), una vez seleccionado lo que vas a comer, lo compras y lo mete al cine y listo. &lt;/span&gt;AH, y no cuesta mas caro, haha&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Interesante no??? :)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hi, today I went to the movies to watch “A good year”, the movie is OK, thats all I can say, but the best was the theater experience:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-] When you buy the ticket, you select your seat (like an airplane haha). They are all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; numbered, so you can see if there is someone in front of you or beside you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-]&lt;/span&gt; When you get in, someone guides you with a light until you find your seat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;[-]&lt;/span&gt; Each movies room (olvidé la palabra jaja) had its own pair restrooms. One for the ladies one for the boys. so you don't have to go out to the main lobby and miss the movie, the restrooms have the movie audio. Now you can pee and never miss the best phrase of the movie..NICE don't you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] Outside they don't sell Popcorns or sodas, they have a full gastronomic variety for your choice (desserts, chinese  and even a Starbucks) you buy and you get into the movies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2097981161536078105?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2097981161536078105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2097981161536078105' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2097981161536078105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2097981161536078105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/movies-experience.html' title='The MOVIES experience!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY1Q_s6aHEI/AAAAAAAAAFM/IprP_jRfbL8/s72-c/agoodyear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-111289622462881419</id><published>2006-12-23T07:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T07:35:38.342-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mexico segun la gente filipina / Mexico according to filipinos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY1Mi86aHDI/AAAAAAAAAFA/J7m8KcTCKdY/s1600-h/eric.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY1Mi86aHDI/AAAAAAAAAFA/J7m8KcTCKdY/s320/eric.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5011746123683601458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola!! He encontrado cosas curiosas acerca de lo que la mayoría de los filipinos sabe acerca de México que quiero compartir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Hay 3 cosas que los filipinos se les viene a la mente cuando les dices que eres de México:&lt;br /&gt;  - Marimar (Thalía es para Filipinas lo que Angelina Jolie para los mexicanos jaja)&lt;br /&gt;  - Erik Morales (Boxeador mexicano respetado en este país, jaja diario se aprende algo nuevo)&lt;br /&gt;  - TEXAS (Si, jaja, por alguna razón muchos piensan que TEXAS es parte de México)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] "Taco" es un sabor, no un tipo de alimento. Puedes encontrar HotDogs Taco flavor, Doritos Taco flavor y una infinidad de alimentos "taco" flavor, que no es mas que una combinación de crema con jitomate muy picante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Pregunta concurrente: “El mexicano es parecido al español? Entienden el español?” Como no ceceamos y no decimos VOS, piensan que los españoles hablan español y nosotros algún dialecto derivado de él. Interesante no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Se sorprenden que la capital se llame igual que el país. Analizando la zona, todos los países tienen una capital con un nombre distinto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] Hay un parque llamado “Parque México” que tiene el escudo conmemorando los X años de la Nao Manila – Acapulco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] En el hospital central, hay una imagen ENORME de la virgen de Guadalupe en el exterior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si encuentro más yo les informo. Saludos!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hi, I’ve found interesting things about what the filipinos know about Mexico and I want to share them&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] There are 2 things that the filipinos think when you say Mexico:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Marimar (Mexican soup). Thalia (the main actress) is a HUGE celebrity here&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; - Erik Morales, for some reason this boxer is respected here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; - TEXAS haha the best one, for some reason some think that TEXAS is part of Mexico&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] “Taco” is a flavor not a kina of dish. You can find Hot Dog Taco flavor, Doritos Taco flavor and a lot of different food “Taco” flavor, ha ha&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] Concurrent question: Is the “Mexican” similar to the Spanish? No comments.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;[-] There is a park called “Mexico Park” with Mexican national symbol.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[-] In the main central hospital, there is a huge image of the Guadalupe Virgin, which is the Mexican representation of Virgin Mary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;If I find more coincidences, I’ll post them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-111289622462881419?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/111289622462881419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=111289622462881419' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/111289622462881419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/111289622462881419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/mexico-segun-la-gente-filipina-mexico.html' title='Mexico segun la gente filipina / Mexico according to filipinos'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RY1Mi86aHDI/AAAAAAAAAFA/J7m8KcTCKdY/s72-c/eric.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-2279266023718009625</id><published>2006-12-23T07:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T07:13:07.400-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ASIAN TV Media!!</title><content type='html'>Vean este par de comerciales. Me gustaron mucho y tienen un toque cultural bien interesante!! Los pasan todo el día en la tele. Especialmente el 1ero.. Loved it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Check this 2 TV Ads, I liked the "cultural" influence they have within the region. They are transmitted all day long on the TV, ENJOY!! I loved the 1st one!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wmEud1g6h5o"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wmEud1g6h5o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/STclYLS8RHE"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/STclYLS8RHE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-2279266023718009625?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/2279266023718009625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=2279266023718009625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2279266023718009625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/2279266023718009625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/asian-tv-media.html' title='ASIAN TV Media!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3779213164237691665</id><published>2006-12-20T08:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-20T08:11:55.621-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tagalog Lesson #2 (sponsored by Coke)</title><content type='html'>Todos hemos visto este comercial en español o inglés.. Disfrútenlo en TAGALOG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;We all have seen this TV Ad wither in Spanish or English. Now, enjoy it in TAGALOG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ourx95ng5uk"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ourx95ng5uk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3779213164237691665?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3779213164237691665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3779213164237691665' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3779213164237691665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3779213164237691665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/tagalog-lesson-2-sponsored-by-coke.html' title='Tagalog Lesson #2 (sponsored by Coke)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6130861444483818662</id><published>2006-12-20T07:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-20T07:25:56.930-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Acerca de la comida en Las Islas de las Filipinas / About the Food in The Philippines (Soon in english)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYlSg86aHCI/AAAAAAAAAEw/GqIQvy9S8CQ/s1600-h/PlpMnlFoodEbhoi4327.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 247px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYlSg86aHCI/AAAAAAAAAEw/GqIQvy9S8CQ/s320/PlpMnlFoodEbhoi4327.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010626786486787106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Es momento de hablar de la comida en esta isla. Es muy sencillo empezar este blog, primero explicaré en que consiste la comida filipina seguido de algunas experiencias gratas y non gratas. La comida filipina la podemos dividir en 7 grandes componentes:&lt;br /&gt;- Arroz&lt;br /&gt;- Pollo&lt;br /&gt;- Especies (desde curry, sangre como la moronga, chiles, mucha pimienta y cosas tipo pipián)&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Calamares gigantes, tilapias (sigo sin saber como se traduce al español, pero son como los pescados “x” del mercado, tipo carpas) y marisco barato en general (no salmón, ostiones, camarones, caviar, atún etc). Por cierto, los pescados solo los tostan y ya, hasta con ojos te los dan, no los limpian ni nada, de la canasta a  &lt;/span&gt;las brasas, HORRIBLE!!!&lt;br /&gt;- Cosas extrañas que no se su nombre y en la vida había visto&lt;br /&gt;- Sopas&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Arroz ( si hay McRice, merece doble mención)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Empecemos por el arte de “comer arroz”. 1 semana después, me percaté que en este país los cuchillos son algo meramente cosmético, no se usan, para eso está la cuchara, hoy que pedí un cuchillo, se rieron de mi y me dijeron que no tenían, y me sacaron el cuchillo de la Cocina, si, el que seguramente están pensando, el de cortar carne, y todo debido a la técnica para comer arroz. Si algún día quieren sentirse filipinos, coman arroz de la siguiente manera:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;1) Necesitan DOS bolas enormes de arroz, sopa (menudencia con pancita sería lo mas cercano a las sopas de aquí o literalmente que ya probé, sopa de moronga con cerdo), y un Calamar gigante no es chorro, en todas partes los venden (medio brazo es la medida Standard)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;2) Necesitan una Cuchara y de ser posible, un tenedor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;3) Con la cuchara, aplasten el arroz (todos lo hacen)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;4) Con la misma cuchara, tomen un poco de carne o pellejos o lo que sea que tenga la sopa, pónganlo en la orilla del arroz ya aplastado por la cuchara en cuestión&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;5) Con la cuchara (no hemos cambiado cubierto, ok?), intenten partir el contenido para que quede en pedazos comestibles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;6) Con la cuchara (si, la misma), tomen un poco de sopa o menudencia, vacíenla en la parte de arroz que tiene la carne o pollo o lo que sea que estén comiendo y remojen el arroz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;7) Con la cuchara nuevamente (en algún momento dijimos que la dejaran?? No verdad? Ok.. ), tomen arroz humidificado con carne y coman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;8) Cuando el plato se esté acabando, aparece nuestro amigo el tenedor, el cual es usado únicamente para ayudar a subir a la cuchara los últimos rastros de comida (como habitualmente haríamos con el cuchillo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;9) Terminando la merienda, pueden usar el tenedor para el postre (yo usaría la cuchara, pero como ya sabe a calamar con moronga, pues mejor con algo que no usé jaja)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;10) Variables: Si no pueden cortar y necesitan un cuchillo: Reclamen, o necesitan una cuchara mas filosa o la carne mas suavecita, pero el cuchillo, olvídenlo ja ja  (Referencia: Vean la foto, díganme cuantos cuchillos ven)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Bueno, esa fue la lección de comer filipino, una vez que dominen los 10 pasos, pueden sentirse seguros de sentarse a la mesa en cualquier Fast Food de Filipinas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respecto al sushi: Acabo de llegar del sushi y vengo muy decepcionado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;1)Uno pensaría que dada la cercanía con Japón, pues el sushi sería diferente no?? MENTIRA!!! SI de por si en USA es malísimo comparado con el de México, el de aquí es aun peor. Al menos en USA le ponen pepino, aquí, a falta del mismo, le ponen la cosa verde (wasabi) p que parezca pepino, HORRIBLE!! Casi me vomito. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;2) No vine tan lejos para que me den Salsa de Soya KIKOMAN!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;3) El jengibre, INEXISTENTE, no lo tenían, cuando pedí entre mi queja de Kikoman, mi show para desmoronar mis makis para quitarle lo verde y que además quería jengibre me vieron con jeta de “bueno, y ese indio de que rancho viene, que no sabe comer sushi??” jajaja… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahí fue cuando dije: “Ok Armando, calma, igual esto es lo auténtico”, y me animé a pedir el especial de la casa: sushi. Llega el tan famoso sushi (ya saben, pescado con arroz abajo) y de repente lo pruebo, ingue su!!!!!!!,  saben con que pegan el pescado y el arroz?? CON WASABI……..  No no, horrible, ahí me ven nuevamente limpiando el pescado con una servilleta y quitando medio arroz VERDE Ahhh  y además tuve que pagar cash, no aceptaban tarjetas y nuevamente me quedé sin dinero (lo bueno es que esto fue abajo del hotel)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que prefiero el sushi de Sushi Roll, es más el de Sushi Itto que miren que es malo, sabía mejor que esto. En fin, por eso llevo 1 semana comiendo diario en un restaurantito bonito, occidentalizado y Nancy que está a 5 mins de la oficina, se llama Café Museo Ayala y se supone que es de “Modern Asian Cuisine”, pero está muy bueno, tienen cosas más normales. Luego escribo un blog de ese cafesito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me voy a dormir, luego traduzco esto!! Ciao&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6130861444483818662?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6130861444483818662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6130861444483818662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6130861444483818662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6130861444483818662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/acerca-de-la-comida-en-las-islas-de-las.html' title='Acerca de la comida en Las Islas de las Filipinas / About the Food in The Philippines (Soon in english)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYlSg86aHCI/AAAAAAAAAEw/GqIQvy9S8CQ/s72-c/PlpMnlFoodEbhoi4327.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-264928398706899656</id><published>2006-12-16T22:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-18T07:58:13.324-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Walking tour @ Manila (y el ataque del virus Filipino) / (and the Philippine virus attack)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa6Dc6aHAI/AAAAAAAAAEc/OyrsuAj49F0/s1600-h/DSC_0076.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa6Dc6aHAI/AAAAAAAAAEc/OyrsuAj49F0/s200/DSC_0076.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009896203959802882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ayer lo hice, pese a la negación de todos mis nuevos amigos filipinos que estaba mas que loco si quería caminar todo el día, no me importó y lo hice, solo así uno puede conocer ciudades como esta, no? y saben, estuvo a todo dar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Primeras impresiones, una vez que salí de la burbuja de cristal donde me tienen encerrado (Makati alias Polanco), si fue un shock bien fuerte,  esta ciudad tiene mucho que ofrecer y mucho que aprenderle si uno se fija en los detalles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El blog de hoy va largo, así que ya saben, se vale leerlo en partes pero hay que leerlo todo ok??&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5Js6aG9I/AAAAAAAAAD0/Zqqk0YiMSJk/s1600-h/DSC_0122.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTsyM6aG2I/AAAAAAAAABo/6Mr1McQIQuk/s1600-h/Manila.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTsyM6aG2I/AAAAAAAAABo/6Mr1McQIQuk/s200/Manila.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009389032746654562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Todo empezó porque en la guía que me compré por ahí del segundo blog (ya mido el tiempo en blog posts :) ), venía un walking tour recomendado, el problema es que el starting point estaba muy lejos de mi hotel, así que decidí añadir una parte al tour, caminar hasta el starting point. Mi tour empezó caminando hacia fuera de Makati por una avenida que se llama Ayala y de ahí emprendí camino al malecón por la avenida “Senador Gilberto Puyati”. En esa calle me encontré demasiado contraste, vean estas primeras fotos, a los niños les encantaba la idea de salir bajo el lente de mi cámara.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5Js6aG8I/AAAAAAAAADs/ygYsyjJGvNo/s1600-h/DSC_0036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5Js6aG8I/AAAAAAAAADs/ygYsyjJGvNo/s200/DSC_0036.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009895211822357442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTsx86aG0I/AAAAAAAAABY/PiNuTWJ88pY/s1600-h/DSC_0099.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTsx86aG0I/AAAAAAAAABY/PiNuTWJ88pY/s200/DSC_0099.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009389028451687234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Luego llegué al malecón (ver fotos anexas), ahí fui victima de los señores que dan tours en calandrias, no me lo pude quitar de encima y cedí, y de esa forma llegué a donde empezaba mi walking tour (como a las 3 pm, pero bueno,ja ja). Lo chistoso es que el señor me llevó a los puntos que iban a ser parte de mi walking tour, asi que terminé haciendolo en caballo y a la inversa, primero fuimos al Old Manila, la embajada de USA en el malecón (que es el sueño de casa de playa, tiene hasta su propio muelle para que lleguen los barcos de guerra), un campo de golf muy “chupas” que tienen ahí en el malecón, una zona que se llama INTRAMUROS que no es más que un fuerte español (como los cientos que hay en México), luego donde mataron a su héroe nacional que se llama J Rizal para terminar en el parque México – Manila (ver foto anexa). En este parque está el escudo de México y un anuncio de la conmemoración de la Nao de Manila a Acapulco en tiempo de los españoles.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5J86aG-I/AAAAAAAAAD8/o9Qsbt5GPc8/s1600-h/DSC_0120.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5J86aG-I/AAAAAAAAAD8/o9Qsbt5GPc8/s200/DSC_0120.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009895216117324770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTsyM6aG1I/AAAAAAAAABg/a5midQrgH8s/s1600-h/DSC_0120.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTsyM6aG1I/AAAAAAAAABg/a5midQrgH8s/s200/DSC_0120.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009389032746654546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fact: 2 guardias cuidan 7x24 sin MOVERSE (como en Londres) la estatua del señor Rizal, es impactante tomando en cuenta que estábamos a 33 grados y con 100% de humedas..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una vez tomadas las respectivas fotos, fue tiempo de ir a lo que no puede faltar en cualquier asentamiento humano que se haga llamar ciudad, Chinatown  (hasta en la Habana hay uno)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTuPs6aG3I/AAAAAAAAABw/mIqXkb0dquo/s1600-h/DSC_0122.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTuPs6aG3I/AAAAAAAAABw/mIqXkb0dquo/s200/DSC_0122.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009390639064423282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5Js6aG9I/AAAAAAAAAD0/Zqqk0YiMSJk/s1600-h/DSC_0122.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa5Js6aG9I/AAAAAAAAAD0/Zqqk0YiMSJk/s200/DSC_0122.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009895211822357458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ya en Chinatown, le dije al señor del caballo que ahí me quedaba,  me encantó y dsfruté mucho mi caminata,  porque es como muy auténtico, tomando en cuenta que es el Chinatown mas cerca de China, es demasiado auténtico, tiene su entradita como todos los demás (ver foto), pero ya caminar en el es una mezcla entre filipinos y chinos muy interesante. Cosas que destacar:&lt;br /&gt;- Me robaron mi camarita de fiesta (así le llamo a la que no es Profesional)&lt;br /&gt;- Me quedaban 70 pesos filipinos pues le di todo lo que tenía al señor del caballo, para que se den una idea, una coca cuesta 30 pesos, entonces 70 no te alcanzan ni para decir gracias.&lt;br /&gt;- No pude comprar nada&lt;br /&gt;- No pude comer nada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTwe86aG4I/AAAAAAAAACo/V5pWey-zX5Y/s1600-h/DSC_0162.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYTwe86aG4I/AAAAAAAAACo/V5pWey-zX5Y/s200/DSC_0162.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009393100080683906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dado que no tenía dinero, no me quedó de otra mas que caminar como 5 KM hasta que llegara a una calle donde pude agarrar un camión que me dejara directo en Makati. (Y esa, es otra historia que pronto publicaré… Jeepneys rules).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El punto es, en esta caminata vespertina es cuando el virus filipino apareció, me sentí muy mal en esa caminada, ya eran como las 4.00 pm, pensé que era la insolación y que no había tomad agua, me sentía bien cansado, sin energías, llegué a mi casa, afortunadamente mis nuevos amigos filipinos me cancelaron una ida a un karaoke y no dormí nada, estoy BIEN BIEN enfermo, toda la noche con calentura, escalofríos, horrible. Entre comer comida en lugares no muy occidentalizados (uds me entienden) y andar tomando agua no embotellada en los restaurantes, quien sabe que demonios tengo pero me duele todo  Ahhhh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, para no hacer mas largo esto, disfruten algunas fotos…  Al rato escribo más. Bye bye&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hi, even to the negation of all my co-workers here, I did it, the desired walking tour for all over &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Manila&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, that the only way to really know a place, don’t you think?&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;First impressions: once I was out of the crystal burble where they have me living (Makati alias Beverly Hills), it was a hard shock walking on some of the streets, this city has a lot to offer if you put attention into the small details&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYWdk86aG5I/AAAAAAAAADI/KPfW7Yo4KSE/s1600-h/DSC_0034.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYWdk86aG5I/AAAAAAAAADI/KPfW7Yo4KSE/s200/DSC_0034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009583418671504274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Today’s blog is quite long again, so you can read it in parts but read it, ok?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything started when reading the guide I bought in the second blog (ha ha, now I measure the time in blog posts &lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ), this guy recommended a walking tour, the problem is that the starting point was far away from the hotel, so I decided to add an extra walk to reach the starting point. My tour started walking outside of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Makati&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; by &lt;st1:street st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:address st="on"&gt;Ayala Ave&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:street&gt; and then, I took another big avenue to reach the waterfront. Walking there was when the contrasts started, just take a look to the first pics and how the boys loved to be under the camera.&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Finally I reached the waterfront and I was the target of the horse riders that give you a tour, I accepted the tour and that’s how I reached the starting point (around 4 pm, hehe) In the way to the starting point, I did the walking tour but inverse, I went to Old Manila, USA Embassy (the dream beach house, believe me, it has it own pier and it is in the beach), a very nice golf cruise in the waterfront, a zone called INTRAMUROS which is like any other Spanish fort we have in Mexico, then where the national hero was killed to finish in the Mexico park.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYWdk86aG6I/AAAAAAAAADQ/0PBmq63Z-o4/s1600-h/DSC_0109.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYWdk86aG6I/AAAAAAAAADQ/0PBmq63Z-o4/s200/DSC_0109.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009583418671504290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fact: 2 guards watch 7x24 without MOVE  (like in London) Mr Rizal's monument, is amazing specially when we are at 100 F degrees (33 C) with 100% of Humidity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Once the respective pics were taken, I went to an area that any single city in the world has, Cinatown (there is one even in La Havana). Once in Chinatown, I loved it, it is very authentic, especially if you know that is the closest Chinatown outside of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;China&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. It has the typical entrance and it is an interesting mixture between Philippine and Chinese people. &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Chinatown&lt;/st1:place&gt; facts:&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYWdlM6aG7I/AAAAAAAAADY/Q2EeIW4sz0k/s1600-h/DSC_0074.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYWdlM6aG7I/AAAAAAAAADY/Q2EeIW4sz0k/s200/DSC_0074.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009583422966471602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;- My small camera was stolen&lt;br /&gt;- I only had 70 PHP (less than 2 dlls)&lt;br /&gt;- I was not able to do shopping&lt;br /&gt;- I was not able to eat&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Since I didn’t have money (I gave all to the horse driver), I had to walk 5 km until I reached the street to take the bust to reach &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Makati&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; (Jeepneys blog will come soon). The issue is that in this evening walk the Philippine virus attacked me, I thought it was sun excess, I didn’t drink water and when I reached home, I went into bed until now (Monday early morning). I was very very sick, really, but I learned the lesson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;That’s all, I’ll write more later. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;See ya&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-264928398706899656?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/264928398706899656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=264928398706899656' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/264928398706899656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/264928398706899656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/walking-tour-manila-y-el-ataque-del.html' title='Walking tour @ Manila (y el ataque del virus Filipino) / (and the Philippine virus attack)'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RYa6Dc6aHAI/AAAAAAAAAEc/OyrsuAj49F0/s72-c/DSC_0076.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-3293567607357798046</id><published>2006-12-13T16:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T16:16:02.982-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Letty las mas Fea en Tagalog</title><content type='html'>Ayer la televisión Filipina me hizo el día. La influencia de México en este país va mas allá de la Nao de China que iba de Manila a Acapulco durante 200 años (se acuerdan?? lo enseñaban en la primaria jaja). Anyway, andaba viendo la televisión y me encontré con el logo de: "Televisa presenta" y chanclas... Angélica María y Angélica Vale hablando tagalog, ja ja  me hicieron la noche se los juro. Vean un ejemplo de lo que encontré anoche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hi, yesterday philippino TV made my day. The Mexico’s influence in this country goes far away than the Nao Mexico – Manila that the Spanish ppl used to transport goods and gifts by more than 200 years. I was watching TV when I saw the: “Televisa Presenta” (refer to this link about what is Televisa; TELEVISA) and there we are, Angelica Maria and her daughter Angelica Vale (Mexico’s soap celebrities) talking in tagalog, it was very good. Check the example of what I found&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mgjGOyLlwTo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mgjGOyLlwTo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-3293567607357798046?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/3293567607357798046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=3293567607357798046' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3293567607357798046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/3293567607357798046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/letty-las-mas-fea-en-tagalog.html' title='Letty las mas Fea en Tagalog'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-6302858481557491454</id><published>2006-12-12T08:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T08:26:15.248-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pequeños cambios culturales / Small Cultural changes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VM3GCyhI/AAAAAAAAAAY/vKFQWRjxsvI/s1600-h/ManilaRoom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VM3GCyhI/AAAAAAAAAAY/vKFQWRjxsvI/s320/ManilaRoom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007674252607015442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Han pasado 2 días y medio desde que llegué y el jet lag sigue haciendo de las suyas sobre mi organismo, si todo sale bien, ya hoy duermo como se debe (de noche jaja), espero que para mañana se quite. Esta vez voy a escribir sobre esas pequeñas diferencias que he encontrado en este país con lo que estaba acostumbrado:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Sigo impactado del arroz, hoy      descubrí que tienen McRice Burgers en McDonalds, no es que las hagan de      arroz en vez de carne, sino el PAN es de arroz, es una BigMac normal o una      McRice BigMac (ver foto de jeepney). Como imaginar una comida filipina sin arroz??, IMPOSIBLE.      Llevo 2 días aquí y me han ofrecido arroz en todas y cada una de las      comidas que he hecho. Siguiendo con McDonalds, tienen servicio a      domicilio, pero no marcas un número, mandas un mensaje a 8MCDON (862366)      con tu orden y dirección, el celular lo manda al McDonalds más cercano &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;y te llega en 30 minutos. AWESOME.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Cuando pagas con tarjeta, uno      generalmente firma un recibo y se queda el otro, aquí hay 3, y te hacen      firmar los 3 y te devuelven uno, 1 para el banco y el otro para el local.      Raro no?? Jaja.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Jeepneys, (luego dedicaré un      post a estos singulares medios de transporte, de mientras vean unas fotos,      ja ja)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Los Camiones son una cosa      impactante, se auto-promocionan con los amenities con los que cuentan, es      decir, si tienen Aire Acondicionado y Video lo ponen en vez de la ruta      (eso es secundario, todos los caminos llevan a Roma no?? ) además &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;si eso fuera poco, cuando llega el camión      en vez de hacer la parada normal, se acerca y la gente se amontona para      subirse primero MIENTRAS EL CAMION SE MUEVE pues a veces no se paran,      mañana trataré de tomar video y lo publico.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;El turno laboral de una oficina      “off shore” asiática es de 11 am a 10 pm pues hay que sincronizarse con el      tiempo de USA (claro, entre eso y la cosa del VOLTAJE que nadie le dice a      uno, pues se lleva esas sorpresitas); así que trabajaré en esas horas a      partir de hoy, ni modo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Hoy tomé algunas fotos en la mañana de ida a la oficina, véanlas &lt;a href="http://new.photos.yahoo.com/aelias800/album/576460762367713272"&gt;en este link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Es de MAKATI el tipo Santa Fe de Manila (que es donde me estoy quedando)&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Saludos!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VXHGCyjI/AAAAAAAAAAo/TRGjv_KLoUw/s1600-h/jeepney2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VXHGCyjI/AAAAAAAAAAo/TRGjv_KLoUw/s320/jeepney2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007674428700674610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;There have been 2 days since I arrived and the jet lag is still causing some issues in my body, if everything goes fine, today I will sleep normal (in the night ha ha), hopefully tomorrow it will disappear. This time I will write about those small differences that I’ve found in this country compared with what we are used to.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;I’m      still in shock with the “rice” issue here, today I discovered the McRice      burgers @ McDonalds, this doesn’t mean that there are rice burgers instead      of meat, but the bread is with rice, can you imagine a Philippine meal      without rice?? ( NO way, I have been offered rice in every single meal      I’ve had in this country (see jeepney picture). McDonalds doesn’t stop there, if you send a SMS      to 8MCDON (862366), with your order and address, they have delivery and      they send your burgers, the cell company sends the SMS to the nearest      McDonalds. AWESOME &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;When      you pay with debit / credit card, usually one signs 1 receipt and keeps      the other one, here they make you sign 3, 1 for you, 1 for the bank and 1      for the merchant, strange don’t you think?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Jeepneys,      (I’ll make a post on these ones later, in the meanwhile see the pics ha      ha)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;The      buses are an shocking, they promote themselves with the amenities they      have inside, instead of post the route in the outside, it says if it has      Video or AC inside (route is secondary, all the ways lead to Rome, don’t      you think?) but the story doesn’t finish here, when the bus arrives the      crowds run after it because IT DOESN’T STOP, ha ha, I’ll try to shoot      video tomorrow and I’ll publish it here.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;The      shift when you work a project in an “off shore” company is according to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;      times, so here they work from 11 am to 10 pm, I’ll be working that      shiftstarting today&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VXXGCykI/AAAAAAAAAAw/CdyjOjgWE_c/s1600-h/ManilaBuilding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VXXGCykI/AAAAAAAAAAw/CdyjOjgWE_c/s320/ManilaBuilding.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007674432995641922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I took some pics today of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Makati&lt;/st1:city&gt;, which is like downtown. See them &lt;a href="http://new.photos.yahoo.com/aelias800/album/576460762367713272"&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Manila&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; (and is where I’m working / living)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VXHGCyiI/AAAAAAAAAAg/u8dYQFC3-K0/s1600-h/jeepney.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VXHGCyiI/AAAAAAAAAAg/u8dYQFC3-K0/s320/jeepney.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007674428700674594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-6302858481557491454?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/6302858481557491454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=6302858481557491454' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6302858481557491454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/6302858481557491454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/pequeos-cambios-culturales-small.html' title='Pequeños cambios culturales / Small Cultural changes'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RX7VM3GCyhI/AAAAAAAAAAY/vKFQWRjxsvI/s72-c/ManilaRoom.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-4476281865606824162</id><published>2006-12-10T03:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T11:38:40.123-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lost int Translation</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Vieron la película de Lost in Translation?? &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Bueno, pues así me sentí hoy. Llegué a mi hotel después de 16 horas de vuelo y me dieron una suite increíble, mucha luz y ventanas de piso a techo, I love it!! Luego en el elevador la gente hablando tagalog y yo sin entender nada, además aquí todos son chaparritos y flaquitos, entonces pues como que yo desentonaba. El post de hoy es largo, se vale leerlo en partes pero leanlo todo, son demasiadas cosas las que traigo en la cabeza, prometo ser mas conciso en los subsecuentes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;En fin, les cuento que ya estoy en Manila, la ciudad tiene lo suyo, como diría el buen Guax, está bien chupas (ver el blog de Mel &lt;a href="http://melissita.blogspot.com/2006/11/diccionario-practico.html"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt; para referencia a esa palabra) &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;esta cute, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;me dio risa que para algunas cosas me siento más como en casa aquí que en Seattle ja ja, vueltas a la izquierda desde el 4to carril, la luz roja es meramente decorativa en las calles, la gente cruza toreando los coches y por supuesto, tener amigos en el “sistema” hace la vida más fácil, especialmente cuando eres un filipino influyente que conoce alguien de los de inmigración y te ahorras la fila de 40 minutos que tuve que hacer… ya extrañaba eso je je.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Mañana es el primer día del proyecto, mi hotel esta en una zona tipo Reforma-Polanco llena de edificios altos e increíble, 29 Starbucks en menos de 10 mins caminando a la redonda, solo en Seattle había visto eso y tomando en cuenta que ahí esta el HQ, es medianamente entendible, también me encontré un “Seattle Best Coffee” por ahí.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Idioma: El idioma oficial es el filipino (que contiene influencias del español), el filipino es base del tagalog pero la gente habla un tagalonglish exquisito, jaja, el 95% de la población educada de este país habla inglés entonces combinan el inglés y el tagalog fuertísimo, incluso en la tele, de repente están hablando en inglés y de repente empiezan a hablar tagalog, es impactante, si nos da risa como algunos “pochos” hablan spanglish, estos si nos dicen “quítate que ahí te voy” además cuando hablan tagalog, meten mucha palabrita en inglés entonces medio entiendes de que hablan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy fui a la plaza “snob” de la ciudad y está enorme, me llamó la atención lo americanizado que está esta parte de la ciudad pero más que nada la manía por los teléfonos celulares, que impacto. Tienen mejores celulares que el promedio de los países, la última tecnología de Nokia la tienen aquí, tiendas de Nokia y Samsung cada 5 locales y unas colas para comprar teléfonos irreales. Justo ahora en la tele están promocionando los nuevos nokia 3G que tienen DVD quality y teclas inteligentes para frases predefinidas como: 6E = Sexy, HHOK = Ha Ha Only Kidding, L8R = Later y TTL = Talk to you later entre otros.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fact = Los filipinos son los líderes mundiales de mensajes SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;y mandar media entre celulares, aquí se mandan mas mensajes y fotos a través de SMS que TODO EUROPA por día. (Nota, siguen los comerciales y 7 de cada 10 son relacionados a SMS y celulares, WOOOW)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;También les cuento que troné mi Vonage, resulta que aquí hay voltaje de 220 y creo que en America (USA y Mexico) usamos 110, así que ya no jalan, tendré que comprar un SIM de aquí.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;SHOCK cultural 1: Aquí comen arroz todo el día, hasta en el desayuno me sirvieron el huevo con arroz.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Luego les escribo…. Déjenme comentarios!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Have you ever seen “Lost in Translation”? Well, that’s how I felt today. I arrived to my hotel after my 16 hours flight and they gave me an incredible suite, lots of light and windows from the roof to the ceiling, I love it!&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Then, in the elevator and airport ppl were talking tagalong and I without understanding a single word, also everybody here is like smaller and thinner so I didn’t fix in the scene hehe, anyway, today’s post is larger than usual, there is a lot in my head and I promise to be concise in the following posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m finally in Manila, the city&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;has its own charm, it’s cute and for some reason, I feel more like @ home here than in Seattle he he, left turns from the 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; right lane, the red light is just “decorative”, ppl chasing the cars in the streets&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;and of course, having friends in the system makes your life easy, specially when you are an “influent” person that knows the correct people in the immigration office and makes you avoid a 40 minutes lane…. I missed that &lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow is my 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; day of project, my hotel is located in a very nice area (like Polanco – Reforma in Mexico City), full of sky buildings and 29 Starbucks in less than 1 mile (the only place with&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;that pattern is Seattle, believe me).&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Language: The official language of this country is the Filipino, a mixture between tagalong and Spanish, but ppl here speaks an exquisite tagalonglish, he he, 95% of the educated population speaks English so they mix the language amazingly, if we are amazed about our “pochos” and the spanglish, they are a joke compared with what I’ve seen here, because of this it is not impossible to understand them and speak here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today I went to &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Greenbelt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;, the “snob” mall and it is BIG, very big but what amazed me the most was the cellular mania in this country, is unbelievable, there are a lot of Nokia and Samsung stores with lanes to buy the cool and latest phones. Just right now they are advertising the Nokia 3G phones with DVD quality and smart keys for SMS pre-defined phrases like 6E = Sexy, HHOK = Ha Ha Only Kidding, L8R = Later y TTL = Talk to you later&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Fact: The Filipinos are word leaders in texting (SMSM) and sending pictures, they send more of both per day than the whole Europe together. The main show of the Sunday Afternoon is about SMS and cell phones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Some fun stuff: I burned my Vonage router, hehe I didn’t know that 220 V will burn your AC adapter &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;hehe, I will have to buy a SIM here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cultural Shock 1: These guys eat rice ALL DAY, even in the breakfast, the eggs come with rice as a side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll write later, post comments!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-4476281865606824162?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/4476281865606824162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=4476281865606824162' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4476281865606824162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/4476281865606824162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/lost-int-translation.html' title='Lost int Translation'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-1115343127206033527</id><published>2006-12-06T22:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T00:07:05.640-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armando'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='filipinas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philippines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manila'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='south asia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asia'/><title type='text'>MANILA PHILLIPINES....Mabuhay, Kumustá en Tagalog, Hola como estás en español!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RXeyyYVROZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ahu4D0h_Ynk/s1600-h/PhilippinesTravelGuide.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RXeyyYVROZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ahu4D0h_Ynk/s320/PhilippinesTravelGuide.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005666089440459154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;Han pasado un par de días  desde que abrí este blog y más de 100 personas han entrado a ver mis loqueras con Alaska Airlines. Gracias a todos por el darse un tiempesito de entrar!!!..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy escribo porque mi vida a tomado un rumbo bien diferente, todo empezó ayer miércoles a las 9.00 am. Estaba yo en INTEL (California) haciendo lo mismo que llevo haciendo una semana, cuando recibo una llamada del santo patrón (o sea, el jefe) que me cambió todo el paradigma.  Para no hacer grande el cuento, les comentó que mi plan original de fin de semana era ir  a esquiar con Roberto Juarez y disfrutar un rico desayuno en MACRINA el domingo (luego les cuento que es MACRINA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originalmente volaba de SAC a SEA el viernes en la noche, pero claro, en mi vida poco predecible cambié unas cosas, ahora vuelo mañana jueves a las 8 pm a seattle por mi pasaporte y una maleta mas grande, el viernes a las 6 am vuelo a san francisco (solo estaré 9 hrs en Seattle, suficiente para lavar, secar, ir a la oficina, pedir taxi y dormir 1 hora), llegando a San Pancho tengo que ir a la embajada de Filipinas a sacar una visa especial, ¿¿¿porque???  pues porque ese mismo día a las 8.55 pm vuelo de SFO a Manila a un proyecto de varias semanas (se estiman 6)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así es, me mandan a pasar 6 semanitas ALL INCLUSIVE a Manila, Filipinas a un proyecto con el Offshore de American Express de ese lado del mundo. Estoy bueno, que les cuento, FELIZ de la vida, sobre todo porque está bien cerquita de Hong Kong a donde pienso darme una escapada alguno de los fines de semana :)   Inmediatamente y siguiendo los consejos de Lychees &lt;a href="http://melissita.blogspot.com/"&gt;(VER AQUI PARA IR A SU BLOG)&lt;/a&gt;, fui a comprar una guía de viajero como la que se ve en la foto.   Si quieren saber más de Filipinas, vayan a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines"&gt;WIKIPEDIA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dato curioso: La presidenta se llama Gloria Macapagal Arroyo y NO HABLA ESPAÑOL!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paalam en tagalog, adios en español!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;It’s been a couple days since I created this blog and more than 100 individuals have read what I have published (like mi &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Alaska&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; crazy story), thank you all for your support.&lt;o:p&gt;  &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today I write coz my life has taken a new way, everything started yesterday Wednesday around 9.00 am when I received a call from “the boss” that changed my life’s paradigm. To avoid boring stories, let me tell you that my original plan for this weekend was going to ski with Roberto and having a Sunday brunch at Macrina (best in town).  My flight was originally scheduled for Friday night as usual and now I have changed my flight, I’m going to Seattle tomorrow Thursday @ 8.pm, I have to go to the office for a letter and my passport basically&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(11 hours in to do some laundry, errands and sleep 1 hour), at 6.00 am on Friday, I flight down to San Francisco, I have to be @ the Philippines consulate at 9 am,, at 4 they give me my working Visa, and at 8.55 pm same day I flight to Manila for a 6 weeks project!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hell yes, I am going to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Manila&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Philippines&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; “ALL INCLUSIVE” to support an offshore project with American Express. What can I say, I’m so happy, especially coz I’ll be very close from &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Hong  Kong&lt;/st1:place&gt; where I think to go out for a weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Following Lychees advise (CLICK HERE TO SEE HER BLOG), I went to Barnes &amp; Noble and I bought a travel guide for The Philippines like the picture. If you want to learn a little bit more about the country, WIKI it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact: The president’s name is Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and she DOESN’T SPEAK SPANISH!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-MX"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paalam en tagalog, adios en español!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-1115343127206033527?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/1115343127206033527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=1115343127206033527' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1115343127206033527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/1115343127206033527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/manila-phillipinesmabuhay-kumust-en.html' title='MANILA PHILLIPINES....Mabuhay, Kumustá en Tagalog, Hola como estás en español!!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1DPB4HBovRw/RXeyyYVROZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ahu4D0h_Ynk/s72-c/PhilippinesTravelGuide.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880122.post-116528422914361476</id><published>2006-12-04T17:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T18:47:48.339-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Alaska conquista MEXICO!!! / Alaska conquers MEXICO!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1864/1047/1600/659498/alaskaLogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1864/1047/320/946956/alaskaLogo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así como se oye, el día de hoy decidí dos cosas cruciales en mi vida, empezar mi blog y hacer de Alaska Airlines mi aerolinea de cabecera. Respecto a mi primera decisión no hay mucho que decir, MEL, Ros, Mijo, uds me inspiraron a empezar mi espacio también :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respecto a la segunda fue poque llevo 2 semanas viajando con ellos y la verdad tienen bastante buen servicio. El otro día se retrasó mi vuelo (emergencia médica a bordo, el avión que venía de Seattle se tuvo que regresar a bajar a alguien que se sintió mal), bueno regresando a lo del vuelo, como se retrasó me regalaron 6 dlls de snacks. Jaja, no es que sea un "cualquiera" y me conforme con 6 dlls, pero además me dieron primera clase en mi primer vuelo, 1000 millas SOLO porque se retrasó  y su programa de millaje ganó el año pasado como el mejor de este país, además Seattle es su HUB, y me percaté que vuelan al 95% de las ciudades que voy andar viajando incluyendo mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por esas razones Alaska Airlines ha conquistado MEXICO y no solo eso, con suerte serán la primera aerolinea en hacer el NON STOP  Mexico - Seattle !!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saludos desde el norte del mundo!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hello and welcome to my blog. Yesterday I decided a couple crucial things for my life, that I was going to start writing my own blog and to make Alaska Airlines my top 1 airline in this country. About the first thing, there is no much to say, MEL, Ros, Mijo, you were my inspiration. &lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;According the “&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Alaska&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:State&gt;” thing, well, I’ve been traveling with those guys for a couple weeks and being honest, they have an outstanding service. My flight was delayed (medical emergency, the plane coming from Seattle had to turn back to drop a person with medical issues), anyway, because the flight was delayed, they gave me $6 to buy a snack, he he, this doesn’t mean I’m an “easy 6 dollars guy”, but it was a nice detail; also, they put me in 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; class in my 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; trip and gave me 1000 miles because of the delay. I also read that their mileage program is one of the best of the country. Another interesting point is that &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Seattle&lt;/st1:City&gt; is the biggest HUB for them in the US and they flight to 95% of the cities I will be flying including &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Mexico&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Because of this, Alaska Airlines has conquered &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;MEXICO&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and hopefully, they will become the first Airline with a NON&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Stop flight between &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Mexico&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; – &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Seattle&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;!!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Cheers from the north of the world!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37880122-116528422914361476?l=armandoelias.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/feeds/116528422914361476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37880122&amp;postID=116528422914361476' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/116528422914361476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37880122/posts/default/116528422914361476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://armandoelias.blogspot.com/2006/12/alaska-conquista-mexico-alaska.html' title='Alaska conquista MEXICO!!! / Alaska conquers MEXICO!!'/><author><name>@rm@ndo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05437479032767524163</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
