<?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-65800456313959011</id><updated>2012-03-14T05:34:04.451-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anything Goes</title><subtitle type='html'>In English and Spanish</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-8083404447097912301</id><published>2012-03-04T19:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-03-04T19:47:12.022-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Caroline</title><content type='html'>I wanted to write a song on my toy guitar that is kind of bluegrass country.&amp;nbsp; The melody is inspired by 60s Beatles songs and the lyrics came to me&amp;nbsp;in a jiffy.&amp;nbsp; This is dedicated to&amp;nbsp;Caroline on her birthday.&amp;nbsp; Hope it is not too painful on the ear drums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queriá componer&amp;nbsp;una canción con mi guitarra de juguete, algo que suena como bluegrass country.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;La melodia está inspirada por los Beatles&amp;nbsp;de los 60s y las letras me salieron enseguida.&amp;nbsp; Está dedicada a Caroline para sus cumpleaños.&amp;nbsp; Espero que no sea demasiado dolorosa para los oidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/6iANXCr99vM/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6iANXCr99vM&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6iANXCr99vM&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-8083404447097912301?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/8083404447097912301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2012/03/caroline.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8083404447097912301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8083404447097912301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2012/03/caroline.html' title='Caroline'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-8792884885234671251</id><published>2012-03-03T22:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-03-03T22:42:58.329-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Anniversary</title><content type='html'>Such a beautiful autumn day to celebrate 18 years.&amp;nbsp; It was also on this day in 2000 that I first arrived in Auckland.&amp;nbsp; What better than my favorite sushi and sashimi restaurant.&amp;nbsp; And with some sake.&amp;nbsp; Wish everyday was like this.&amp;nbsp; Yoohoo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qué diá de otoño más esplendido para cumplir los 18 años!&amp;nbsp; Tambien era en el 4 de Marzo de 2000 cuando llegué a Auckland.&amp;nbsp; No hay nada mejor que celebrarlo en mi restaurante favorito de sushi y sashimi.&amp;nbsp; Y con algo de sake.&amp;nbsp; Ojála todos los diás fuesen así.&amp;nbsp; Yoohoo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BRIkQqIp6lI/T1MMs4dQHLI/AAAAAAAAAMg/rOsm0P7NkXQ/s1600/100_1235.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BRIkQqIp6lI/T1MMs4dQHLI/AAAAAAAAAMg/rOsm0P7NkXQ/s400/100_1235.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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None of which are mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncgJbZ7MvXE/TvzhXmlQngI/AAAAAAAAAKs/LggHZH4eSRc/s1600/cat%252Ccat%252Cand%252Ccomputer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncgJbZ7MvXE/TvzhXmlQngI/AAAAAAAAAKs/LggHZH4eSRc/s400/cat%252Ccat%252Cand%252Ccomputer.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sleeping with the Enemy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mwc1cy2uTag/Tvzhk85xouI/AAAAAAAAAK4/ZMkRmCcp2M8/s1600/cat_sandwich_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mwc1cy2uTag/Tvzhk85xouI/AAAAAAAAAK4/ZMkRmCcp2M8/s400/cat_sandwich_1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sandwich Kitteh, too bad it's not wholemeal&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kPyNyYoJPQg/Tvzh-5wtXHI/AAAAAAAAALE/s2aeLabr4Pw/s1600/cat-computer-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kPyNyYoJPQg/Tvzh-5wtXHI/AAAAAAAAALE/s2aeLabr4Pw/s400/cat-computer-4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;My New Netbook, yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hpRrvbYrnrs/TvziPDoRkpI/AAAAAAAAALQ/XCcx_pDzcEc/s1600/CatAteMouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="350" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hpRrvbYrnrs/TvziPDoRkpI/AAAAAAAAALQ/XCcx_pDzcEc/s400/CatAteMouse.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sleeping on the Job&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RtC5O1Ddeuk/TvzieCDTruI/AAAAAAAAALc/g1X5qUUs4Hc/s1600/showercat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RtC5O1Ddeuk/TvzieCDTruI/AAAAAAAAALc/g1X5qUUs4Hc/s400/showercat.jpg" width="268" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Don't forget the armpits&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gfV1fJtOeAY/TvzjCGs82yI/AAAAAAAAAL0/QAWyZa0TNpU/s1600/The+kitten+with+a+Hitler+moustache+that+even+gives+the+Nazi+salute+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gfV1fJtOeAY/TvzjCGs82yI/AAAAAAAAAL0/QAWyZa0TNpU/s400/The+kitten+with+a+Hitler+moustache+that+even+gives+the+Nazi+salute+3.jpg" width="272" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Heil Kitler! World Domination, Muahahaha!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D9mJPKU-Qws/TvzjQ2CvLXI/AAAAAAAAAMA/DiUut1M7FgI/s1600/hotdog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D9mJPKU-Qws/TvzjQ2CvLXI/AAAAAAAAAMA/DiUut1M7FgI/s400/hotdog.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Best Hot Dog&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-qZj-wBUms/TvzjwjZBFvI/AAAAAAAAAMY/wKdtqARdlY0/s1600/hjh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="323" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-qZj-wBUms/TvzjwjZBFvI/AAAAAAAAAMY/wKdtqARdlY0/s400/hjh.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Viva Lucha Libre!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-7041107213123452394?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/7041107213123452394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-favorite-kittehs-and-puppehs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7041107213123452394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7041107213123452394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-favorite-kittehs-and-puppehs.html' title='My Favorite Kittehs and Puppehs'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncgJbZ7MvXE/TvzhXmlQngI/AAAAAAAAAKs/LggHZH4eSRc/s72-c/cat%252Ccat%252Cand%252Ccomputer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-4128601179481043732</id><published>2011-12-23T18:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T18:41:53.757-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Becoming</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pskgVUWN5AI/TvU7uLlZD9I/AAAAAAAAAKg/1wTtCDHmkCE/s1600/cat-in-mirror-thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pskgVUWN5AI/TvU7uLlZD9I/AAAAAAAAAKg/1wTtCDHmkCE/s400/cat-in-mirror-thumb.jpg" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;This ongoing process of transformation in our lives, from the womb to the tomb, is filled with so many struggles.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In my case it is an incessant search for meaning; filtering and processing the external stimuli from the physical world that enter through my senses.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I have become what I am today due to the many experiences but most of all through my mistakes, which for some reason I just cannot seem to stop making.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Even on a daily basis we all experience the becoming and unbecoming, with each little birth of an emotion and thought, followed by its inevitable death.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is easy to fall into hate and loathing, since it takes no effort on our part.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is nothing more than an instinctive reflex.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;The hardest part is to transform the external stimuli into something sublime.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Although it is exhausting, I believe it is worth the effort.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The observation and acceptance of the becoming and unbecoming can lead to true joy, via the intuition and comprehension of the suffering of all beings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;I know this is not constant and it is not meant to be.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Personally I go through the births and deaths of so many mental states in one single day, some good and others not so.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But if we make an effort, the final result of becoming can be truly satisfying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Merry Christmas to all!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I hope all of you will find what you seek in your hearts! &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Este imparable proceso de la transformación en nuestras vidas, del vientre a la tumba, está lleno de tantas luchas.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;En mi caso se trata de una búsqueda incesante por algo que da sentido a la vida cada día; filtrando y procesando los estímulos externos del mundo físico que entran por mis sentidos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Me he convertido en lo que soy hoy en día debido a las experiencias pero sobretodo por mis errores, que por alguna razón no puedo dejar de cometer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Diariamente todos experimentamos la transformación y la terminación; con cada pequeño nacimiento de una emoción y del pensamiento, seguido por su muerte inevitable.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Es fácil caerse en el estado del odiar y detestar, puesto que no requiere ningún esfuerzo por nuestras partes.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;No es nada más que un reflejo instintivo.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;La parte más dura es transformar los estímulos externos en algo sublime.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Aunque el esfuerzo constante es muy agotador, creo que vale la pena.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;La observación y la aceptación de transformación y terminación pueden conducirnos a la verdadera alegría, a través de la intuición y la comprensión del sufrimiento de todos los seres. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Sé que el buen estado no dura y no tiene por qué dura.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Personalmente voy pasando, como todos, por los estados de los nacimientos y las muertes de tantos estados mentales en un solo día, algunos buenos y otros no tan buenos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Pero si hacemos un esfuerzo, el resultado final de ‘becoming’ puede producir una verdadera satisfacción. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;¡Feliz Navidad a todos!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;¡Espero que Ustedes encuentren lo que buscan en sus corazones!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-4128601179481043732?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/4128601179481043732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/becoming.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/4128601179481043732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/4128601179481043732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/becoming.html' title='Becoming'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pskgVUWN5AI/TvU7uLlZD9I/AAAAAAAAAKg/1wTtCDHmkCE/s72-c/cat-in-mirror-thumb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-5530693932279979406</id><published>2011-12-16T18:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T19:02:57.941-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Litany against Hate</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gGlnsctUQHk/TuwBjoGQKxI/AAAAAAAAAKA/0yvf9YpQF-k/s1600/gesserit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gGlnsctUQHk/TuwBjoGQKxI/AAAAAAAAAKA/0yvf9YpQF-k/s400/gesserit.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bene Gesserit&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I could actually go on and on in many article talking about the mundane, the worldly, about human nature and idiosyncrasies of different civilizations; there are so many stories to share and many observations too.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Quite boring, really!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;At the end of the day, very few people can change their genetic blueprint.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But today I would like to share something that might actually help others.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This is my personal incantation against hate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Just as the wise Yoda have taught, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear &lt;span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;leads to anger&lt;/span&gt;. Anger leads to &lt;span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;hate&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hate&lt;/span&gt; leads to suffering”, I am led to believe that The Litany against Fear of the Bene Gesserit would also translate into a litany against hate.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I recite my litany often in my mind:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I will not judge others;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For they are but suffering beings.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be aware that, in whatever people do,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They must have their reasons;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They cannot avoid their conditioning.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUQ_kf5Sxpc/TuwBuqz7UgI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/PsNuT-4HPH0/s1600/Yoda_SWSB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUQ_kf5Sxpc/TuwBuqz7UgI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/PsNuT-4HPH0/s320/Yoda_SWSB.jpg" width="277" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Podría seguir sin cesar escribiendo muchos artículo hablando de lo de siempre, lo mundano, lo previsible de los humanos, no porque son buenos o malos, solamente que son humanos que están guiados por sus sentidos de la sobrevivencia; hay tantas historias y experiencias para compartir y muchas observaciones también.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;¡Qué aburrido, no!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Al final muy poca gente son capaces de modificar su condicionamiento según su microchip genético.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Así que hoy prefiero compartir algo que puede ser útil para otros.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Éste es mi encantación personal contra el odio. Tal como el sabio Yoda nos ha enseñado, “El miedo es el camino al lado oscuro. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;El miedo conduce a la cólera. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;La cólera conduce hacia el odio. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;El odio conduce al sufrimiento”, pienso yo que la letanía contra el miedo del Bene Gesserit también se puede interpretar como una letanía contra el odio.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Recito a menudo esta letanía en mi mente:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“No voy a juzgar a otros;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Solo son unos seres sufridos. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recuerde que, hagan lo que hagan las personas,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ellos deben tener sus razones; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No pueden evitar su condicionamiento.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&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/65800456313959011-5530693932279979406?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/5530693932279979406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/litany-against-hate.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/5530693932279979406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/5530693932279979406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/litany-against-hate.html' title='The Litany against Hate'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gGlnsctUQHk/TuwBjoGQKxI/AAAAAAAAAKA/0yvf9YpQF-k/s72-c/gesserit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-1655996972190958499</id><published>2011-12-13T00:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T21:08:24.661-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Honesty – New Zealand &amp; Singapore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TG-twfmpeDA/TucTNvGRyiI/AAAAAAAAAJw/m1s7ITGvYzY/s1600/jpg_law_justice_003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TG-twfmpeDA/TucTNvGRyiI/AAAAAAAAAJw/m1s7ITGvYzY/s320/jpg_law_justice_003.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I really have to give praise where it is due, in this case, it has to be the unquestionable honesty and righteousness of the above two countries where I have spent the most time in my life.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Honesty in the political caste, the social tapestry and also the general psyche of the citizens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I think it all flows top-down and ultimately it is passed on to the next generation through the educational system and the family upbringing.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Despite all my criticisms on these two countries, I still think that they are ideal places to reside.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Both have exhibited an astonishing level of honesty and also a respect towards the law and even nature.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Just a few examples:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In New Zealand, the utilities companies treat all the users, or the citizens like the shareholders of the companies.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They will consolidate their results and actually make a cheque refund to the users after their accounting period.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;So once in a while you will get a cheque for a few hundred dollars in your mail, representing the surplus made by the electric company that you use.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In Singapore the government sovereign funds will invest the surplus in global assets.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They employ the best minds from the universities to administer the portfolio of investments, be it in the shares of a blue chip company in Europe or a port in Dubai.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The gains and proceeds from the investments are then returned to the citizens periodically in the form of shares which can then be redeemed in cash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In New Zealand, there is a system for recourse for the consumers and citizens in many aspects of life.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If you feel that you have been charged too much, that you have not been treated fairly in any of the governmental services, for example medical, you can voice your concerns and you will be attended to promptly without prejudice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In Singapore, the government will refund part of GST income periodically to the citizens.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Even though I have not resided in Singapore for more than 20 years, I still received a letter informing me that I have received a few hundred dollars pertaining to GST rebates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In New Zealand, the yardstick by which the politicians are measured by is extremely strict.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Recently there was the case of a veteran politician who bought tickets for her and her spouse for a leisure trip to China.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;She paid for the trip with her own funds but did get a special price for the flights.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The difference was only around a thousand dollars, being the difference between normal and special fares.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Her infringement of the law occurred when she attended a dinner with her husband, where he got to know some potential business partners.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Thus the trip was deemed not of a leisure nature and she had to return the small difference.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As a result she also resigned from her Member of Parliament post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I could bring up many more examples of each of the above countries, especially when it relates to the governments.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well today I got another surprise here in New Zealand.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I received today a letter from a bank here that I haven’t transacted with for some time.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They informed me that since banking with them from 2000, the interest paid to me was erroneous as the interest rate applied was less than that which corresponded to my account.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As a result, they will be refunding me $900 for all the differences in interest paid for the past decade, which also includes the compounding adjustments as well.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Can you imagine a private banking entity refunding money after discovering its mistake?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Most of my criticisms usually pertain to the idiosyncrasies of the people of a country, which is something inevitable.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But I will really be clutching at straws to find fault with these countries’ political and social righteousness.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Tengo que dar alabanzas donde este merecido, en este caso, me refiero a la honradez y rectitud indiscutible de los dos países antedichos en donde había pasado muchos años de mi vida.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Se trata de la honradez en la casta política, la tapicería social y también la mentalidad general de los ciudadanos. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Pienso que tiene un efecto “top-down”, es decir fluye de arriba hacia abajo, hasta que llegue a la próxima generación en los colegios a través del sistema educativo y la enseñanza dentro de la familias.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;A pesar de todas mis críticas sobre estos dos países, todavía pienso que son lugares ideales para residir.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ambos han exhibido un nivel asombroso de la honradez y también un respecto hacia la ley e incluso la naturaleza.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Los siguientes son algunos ejemplos: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En Nueva Zelandia, las empresas que abastecen la electricidad tratan a todos los usuarios, o a ciudadanos como si fuesen los accionistas de las empresas.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Consolidarán sus resultados y luego harán un reembolso por cheque a los usuarios después de su período de contabilización.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Usted recibirá de de vez en cuando un cheque para unos cientos dólares en su buzón, lo que representa un superávit de las operaciones de dichas empresas. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En Singapur los fondos soberanos del gobierno invertirán su superávit en activos globales.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Emplean las mejores mentes de las universidades para administrar la cartera de inversiones, sea en los títulos de una compañía Blue Chip en Europa o una inversión directa en un puerto en Dubái.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Las ganancias, los ingresos y plusvalía de las inversiones entonces se devuelven a los ciudadanos periódicamente bajo la forma de títulos en los fondos que se puedan redimir en efectivo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En Nueva Zelandia, hay un sistema de recurso para los consumidores y los ciudadanos en muchos aspectos de la vida.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Si usted siente que ha habido un caso de injusticia, o que no le han tratado correctamente en los servicios estatales por ejemplo en la asistencia médica, usted puede expresar sus preocupaciones y le atenderán en seguida sin prejudicios. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En Singapur, el gobierno consolidará la parte de renta del IVA periódicamente y hace un reembolso a favor de los ciudadanos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Aunque no he residido en Singapur por más de 20 años, el gobierno me mandó una carta informándome que he recibido unos cientos dólares referentes al reembolso del IVA. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En Nueva Zelandia, el criterio el cual miden a los políticos es extremadamente estricto.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Recientemente había un caso de un político veterano que compró billetes para ella misma y su esposo para un viaje del ocio a China.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ella pagó el viaje con sus propios fondos pero consiguió una tarifa especial para los vuelos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;La diferencia era solamente alrededor de mil dólares, siendo la diferencia entre los precios normales y especiales.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Su infracción de la ley ocurrió cuando ella atendió a una cena con su marido en China, adonde él conoció a algunos hombres de negocios.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Como resultado de esta cena, el viaje ya no era de ocio y ella tuvo que devolver la insignificante cantidad de dinero.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Como consecuencia de este escándalo ella dimitió del puesto como miembro del parlamento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Podría destacar muchos más ejemplos de estos dos países, especialmente cuando se trata de sus gobiernos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Pero hoy me han dado otra sorpresa aquí en Nueva Zelandia.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Recibí hoy una carta de un banco de aquí, un banco con el que cual no he tenido muchas transacciones hace un par de años.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Me informaron que desde que abrí la cuenta con ellos a partir del año 2000, el interés que me han pagado ha sido erróneo, porque el tipo de interés aplicado era menos que lo que realmente correspondía a mi cuenta.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Consecuentemente, me van a pagar una cantidad de $900 para todas las diferencias en el interés pagado durante la última década, que también incluye los ajustes para el interés compuestos, es decir interés sobre el interés. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;¿Puede Usted imaginar que una entidad privada bancaria le devuelva dinero después de tantos años, sobre todo cuando era el banco lo que ha descubierto el error?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;La mayor parte de mis críticas pertenecen generalmente a las idiosincrasias de la personas de un país, algo que es inevitable.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Pero no sería justo para nada si no expreso mi aprecio y no hago alabanzas sobre la honradez y rectitud de esos países.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-1655996972190958499?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/1655996972190958499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/honesty-new-zealand-singapore.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1655996972190958499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1655996972190958499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/12/honesty-new-zealand-singapore.html' title='Honesty – New Zealand &amp; Singapore'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TG-twfmpeDA/TucTNvGRyiI/AAAAAAAAAJw/m1s7ITGvYzY/s72-c/jpg_law_justice_003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-3244295627222064755</id><published>2011-09-17T23:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T23:12:15.837-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Curse of the Vertebrates – No Pain, No Gain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p2yFS8iYFyw/TnWLcWDOI3I/AAAAAAAAAIY/zmFqbjWqogk/s1600/Beondegi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="288" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p2yFS8iYFyw/TnWLcWDOI3I/AAAAAAAAAIY/zmFqbjWqogk/s400/Beondegi.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Curse of the Vertebrates – No Pain, No Gain&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Lately I have acquired a liking for beondegi, which is Korean for silkworm larvae. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;You might squirm at the idea of popping 20 larvae in your mouth every morning, but they are really high protein food, with zero fat.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Now, the question is, is it inhumane to eat the ‘fetuses’ of the silkworm.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In trying to justify my craving for these little brown invertebrates, I found a few studies that attest to the theory that all they have are chain ganglia, and their movements in reaction to stimuli is nothing more than reflexes.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;So for the moment that means that I will continue with my alternative diet, which might have been featured on an episode of Fear Factor.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If this is the case with invertebrates, then evolution must be a curse for us the vertebrates.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Is there a reason why nature will choose this path of augmenting our suffering, just for the sake of having a spine?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Such a developed nervous system just to feel more, think more and suffer more on both physical and mental levels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In my case one of the biggest challenges is to navigate the waters of human relations.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In my worst moments I transform into a misanthrope of the first degree, filled to the brim with hate and aggression, something which I have managed to conceal from people who know me.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;On the other hand, during my best moments, I mutate into a hybrid of comprehension and intuition, at one with the whole world and harboring a sense of omniconsciousness.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I believe that this affliction has to do with our highly developed senses, to feel, to regret, to destroy and self-destruct.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This must surely be the ultimate curse of the vertebrates, being bombarded on all the five fronts (sight, smell, sound, tact, taste) with perceptions, thoughts and mental concepts.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Is there no upside to the effects of evolution?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The answer lies in the observation and the transcending of the five senses as prescribed by Buddhism.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The more developed the nervous system, the more acute will be our senses, to be able to digest and neutralize the instinctive mental formations via the five forms of stimuli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I once saw on a documentary that all animals (with the exception of primates) are unaware of the physical pain that they cause to another creature.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;A shark will be oblivious to the pain that they cause when they rip the leg off a surfer.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Though the worst members of the human race might very well deserve the moniker ‘shark’, they would not even come close to the total lack of feeling and suffering for other creatures, which is the case of the real sharks.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The truth is that all of us feel immense pain many times over in our lives, but the potential gain is the possible opening of the mind’s eye, which hopefully will give us a glimpse of Dharma.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ktu_XT4uW0o/TnWLmz2ZWmI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Sk1fXM--00A/s1600/minds-eye-296x3001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ktu_XT4uW0o/TnWLmz2ZWmI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Sk1fXM--00A/s400/minds-eye-296x3001.jpg" width="394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;La Maldición de los vertebrados – No hay avance sin esfuerzo&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Últimamente he adquirido un gusto para el beondegi, que es coreano para las larvas del gusano de seda.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Esto puede hacer que muchos Ustedes se pongan la piel de gallina, solamente con esta idea de meter 20 larvas en su boca cada mañana, pero es un alimento realmente sano, de alto valor proteico, con cero grasa.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ahora, la pregunta es, es inhumano comer los “fetos” de los gusanos de seda.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;En mi intentos de justificar mi antojo por estos pequeños invertebrados marrones, encontré algunos estudios que atestiguan a la teoría que todo lo que tienen esos animales son ganglios de cadena, y los movimientos en sus reacciones a los estímulos no son nada más que reflejos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Este descubrimiento significa que por momento continuaré con mi dieta alternativa, algo que se pudo haber ofrecido en un episodio de un reality show.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Si éste es el caso con los invertebrados, entonces la evolución debe ser una maldición para nosotros, los vertebrados.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;¿Hay alguna razón por la que la naturaleza había elegido esta trayectoria de aumentar nuestro sufrimiento, solamente por tener una espina dorsal?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Un sistema nervioso tan desarrollado para sentir más, pensar más y sufrir más en niveles físicos y mentales. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En mi caso uno de mis desafíos más grandes es navegar por las aguas de las relaciones humanas.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;En mis momentos peores me transformo en un misántropo del primer grado, lleno de odio y agresión, algo que me he esforzado en esconder de las personas que me conocen.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Por otra parte, durante mis mejores momentos, me convierto en un híbrido de la comprensión y la intuición, con una felicidad de estar unido con el mundo entero, abrigado por un sentido del omni conciencia.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Creo que nuestras aflicciones son el resultado de nuestros sentidos altamente desarrollados, de sentir, lamentar, para destruir y también auto-destruir.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ésta debe ser la maldición más grande para los vertebrados, siendo bombardeado por todos las cinco puertas (vista, olor, sonido, tacto, gusto), con opiniones, pensamientos y conceptos mentales.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;¿Hay alguna ventaja en los efectos de la evolución?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;La respuesta está en la observación y la superación de los cinco sentidos según lo prescrito por Budismo.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Contra más desarrollado sea el sistema nervioso, más agudos serán nuestros sentidos, de poder digerir y neutralizar las formaciones mentales instintivas &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;a través de las cinco puertas de estímulos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Una vez vi un documental que dice que todos los animales (con la excepción de los simios) no están enterados del dolor físico que causan a otras criaturas.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Un tiburón desconocerá el dolor que causa cuando arranca la pierna de un surfista.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;A lo mejor los peores de la raza humana merecen el apodo ‘tiburón’, pero en ningún modo van a llegar a un estado de la carencia total de la sensación del mal ajeno como los tiburones.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;La verdad es que todos nosotros sentimos inmensos dolores muchas veces en nuestras vidas, pero lo que nos redimen es la posible apertura del ojo de la mente, que nos harán ver a la Dharma de forma intuitiva. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&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/65800456313959011-3244295627222064755?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/3244295627222064755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/09/curse-of-vertebrates-no-pain-no-gain.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/3244295627222064755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/3244295627222064755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/09/curse-of-vertebrates-no-pain-no-gain.html' title='Curse of the Vertebrates – No Pain, No Gain'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p2yFS8iYFyw/TnWLcWDOI3I/AAAAAAAAAIY/zmFqbjWqogk/s72-c/Beondegi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-1440811253136775887</id><published>2011-08-20T20:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-20T20:08:20.718-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slow-cooked Pork Hock and Cod in Tomato Sauce</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;These are two dishes that taste better than they look.&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I can’t remember what I put into each dish, they were more like experiments.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Agustin made the cod and I did the pork hock.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;No collateral damage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVL69HChAho/TlB2YIYDh-I/AAAAAAAAAHI/EfpV7OHmD3g/s1600/Bacalao+en+Salsa+de+Tomate.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" qaa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVL69HChAho/TlB2YIYDh-I/AAAAAAAAAHI/EfpV7OHmD3g/s400/Bacalao+en+Salsa+de+Tomate.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cod in Tomato - Bacalao en Salsa de Tomate&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QOzLLYcWJcw/TlB2aRnj25I/AAAAAAAAAHM/J8KJ1CrZms8/s1600/Mano+de+Cerdo+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QOzLLYcWJcw/TlB2aRnj25I/AAAAAAAAAHM/J8KJ1CrZms8/s400/Mano+de+Cerdo+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Slow-cooked Pork Hock - Guiso de Mano de Cerdo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Esos dos platos saben mejor de lo que parecen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;No recuerdo lo que eché en cada plato; eran experimentos más que nada.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Agustín preparó el bacalao y yo la mano de cerdo.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;No hubo daños colaterales.&lt;/span&gt;&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/65800456313959011-1440811253136775887?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/1440811253136775887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/08/slow-cooked-pork-hock-and-cod-in-tomato.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1440811253136775887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1440811253136775887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/08/slow-cooked-pork-hock-and-cod-in-tomato.html' title='Slow-cooked Pork Hock and Cod in Tomato Sauce'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVL69HChAho/TlB2YIYDh-I/AAAAAAAAAHI/EfpV7OHmD3g/s72-c/Bacalao+en+Salsa+de+Tomate.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-7279933392821127068</id><published>2011-07-27T20:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T20:13:48.038-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OCEANS - MODERN PHYSICS - BUDDHISM</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUKS-Sgf8-w/TjDS85dTtlI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/HS-uSHEZ19s/s1600/macro-water-droplet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUKS-Sgf8-w/TjDS85dTtlI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/HS-uSHEZ19s/s400/macro-water-droplet.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;From a water droplet.....&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aU5klpkt34Q/TjDTAR6KPAI/AAAAAAAAAGU/ifTaKbTdD5I/s1600/water_ripple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aU5klpkt34Q/TjDTAR6KPAI/AAAAAAAAAGU/ifTaKbTdD5I/s400/water_ripple.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;To mild ripples.....&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qx31GD9iBYo/TjDTDfzHhHI/AAAAAAAAAGY/FSclx1kHBZ4/s1600/waves-ocean-foam-water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qx31GD9iBYo/TjDTDfzHhHI/AAAAAAAAAGY/FSclx1kHBZ4/s400/waves-ocean-foam-water.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;To Ocean Waves.....&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-stOZQlTrdAk/TjDTFkzOeKI/AAAAAAAAAGc/WUqEvFafH58/s1600/ocean.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-stOZQlTrdAk/TjDTFkzOeKI/AAAAAAAAAGc/WUqEvFafH58/s400/ocean.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;To the Wild Ocean Waves.....&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWtRhUvdZKc/TjDTPTr2peI/AAAAAAAAAGg/q1HJSmeeniY/s1600/2007_then_what_1194710580_land-x-ocean.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWtRhUvdZKc/TjDTPTr2peI/AAAAAAAAAGg/q1HJSmeeniY/s400/2007_then_what_1194710580_land-x-ocean.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;To the Infinite Interaction of Land and Ocean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;As an extension of the post on Donnie Darko, the film that touches briefly on the Eisenstein Rosen Bridge and wormholes, I have reflected upon the progression of Modern Physics and its relation with Buddhism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Classical Physics had taught us about motion and energy and this can be likened to the view of a drop of water, out of the agitation of the waves.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Quantum Theory has gone a step further to help us understand our physical world in describing the mass energy interactions.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This would be akin to a ripple that has agitated and produced the drop of water, and vice versa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Relativity Theory has always been a challenge to the human mind as it forces us to reassess our comfort levels with the physical world by introducing the space time element.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This would be akin to the waves of the ocean which exists only because there are ripples which in turn are caused by the interactions of the water droplets.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In other words, our previous understanding of the world would form subsets of each of the later postulates in our comprehension of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;How does Buddhism come into the picture?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If via intuition we can introduce more and more dimensions into modern physics, we might be faced with a whole ocean of waves, which only exist due to each and every wave, which in turn exists due top each and every ripple and every drop of water.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But at the same time the ocean is ONE.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And in its interaction with land and other oceans, the permutations are infinite, and as such physics could then be expanded to include dimensions to the power of infinity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Thus the world cabal vision, the ultimate vision of Nirvana in Buddhism, which would embody the infinity of dimensions or variables.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The Einstein Rosen Bridge would only be but a wave within this ocean of possibilities.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I do wonder if there could ever be a formula in physics to quantify the Truth. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;He reflexionado mucho sobre la Física Moderna y su relación con el Budismo, como una extrapolación de mi artículo sobre Donnie Darko, la peli que brevemente toco el tema del Puente Einstein Rosen y hoyos de gusano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;La Física Clásica no enseño sobre el movimiento y la energía y esto puede ser descrito como la visión de una gota de agua que surgió de la agitacion de las olas.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;La Física Quántica ha ido más lejos en ayudarnos a comprender sobre las interacciones de la masa y energía.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Esto se asemeja a las ondas en el mar que había agitado y producido la gotita, y viceversa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;La Teoría de la Relatividad siempre ha sido un reto para la mente humana porque nos obliga a reassesorar nuestros niveles de confort con el mundo físico, a través de la introducción del elemento de tiempo espacio.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Esto puede ser descrito como las olas grandes del océano que existen solo porque existen las onditas, que fueron causados por la interacción de las gotas de agua.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;En otra palabra, nuestra comprensión del mundo anteriormente formaría subconjuntos de los postulados en la posteridad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;¿Y cómo puede encajar el Budismo en este cuadro?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Pues, si podemos introducir cada vez más dimensiones en la Física moderna, estamos encarados a un océano entero de olas, que solamente puede existir debido a cada ola, que a su vez, existe debido a cada ondita sobre su superficie y cada gotita.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Pero al mismo tiempo, el océano es una ENTIDAD.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Y en su interacción con la tierra y otros océanos, las permutaciones geométricas son infinitas.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Como consecuencia, la física moderna se puede expandir para incluir las dimensiones a la infinidad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;En conclusión, la visión cabal del mundo, que es la más alta de las visiones, Nirvana en Budismo, que plasmaría la infinidad de dimensiones o variables.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;El Puente Einstein Rosen solamente sería una ola dentro de este océano de posibilidades.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Dudo si esta Verdad se puede cuantifica como un formulario en la Física.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&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/65800456313959011-7279933392821127068?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/7279933392821127068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/oceans-modern-physics-buddhism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7279933392821127068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7279933392821127068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/oceans-modern-physics-buddhism.html' title='OCEANS - MODERN PHYSICS - BUDDHISM'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUKS-Sgf8-w/TjDS85dTtlI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/HS-uSHEZ19s/s72-c/macro-water-droplet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-5356121020474087170</id><published>2011-07-23T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-23T20:51:53.039-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cod with Fermented Black Beans</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-weftkjJkuPk/TiuWn7D43vI/AAAAAAAAAGI/dvE4Et-6XBY/s1600/Black+Bean+Ling.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-weftkjJkuPk/TiuWn7D43vI/AAAAAAAAAGI/dvE4Et-6XBY/s400/Black+Bean+Ling.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This dish really surprised me.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is so delicious.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I simply browned slices of ling fish or cod (450g) covered with corn flour and cooking wine and soy.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Remove from the pan.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Then I fried fresh ginger, garlic, red onions, red chili, fermented black beans.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Once it becomes fragrant, add celery and return the fish into the pan and cook for 2 more minutes with a little soy and cooking wine.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;ENJOY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HD65B0j3qiQ/TiuWxFbmX1I/AAAAAAAAAGM/tiXGf7Bn4QA/s1600/Black+Bean+Ling+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HD65B0j3qiQ/TiuWxFbmX1I/AAAAAAAAAGM/tiXGf7Bn4QA/s400/Black+Bean+Ling+1.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Este plato me sorprendió.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Era riquísimo.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Simplemente cubre 450 gramos de bacalao cortados en lonchas con harina de maíz, vino de arroz y soja.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Retíralos de la sartén una vez que se pongan doraditos.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Echa jengibre fresco, ajo, cebolla roja, chile rojo y el ingrediente secreto, alubias negras fermentadas en la sartén y fríelo todo hasta que suba la fragancia de los especies.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Por último, mete trozos de apio y vuelve a meter el bacalao en la sartén y cuece por 2 minutos más con un poco de soja y vino de arroz.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;DISFRUTA!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-5356121020474087170?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/5356121020474087170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/cod-with-fermented-black-beans.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/5356121020474087170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/5356121020474087170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/cod-with-fermented-black-beans.html' title='Cod with Fermented Black Beans'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-weftkjJkuPk/TiuWn7D43vI/AAAAAAAAAGI/dvE4Et-6XBY/s72-c/Black+Bean+Ling.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-5343733769313153533</id><published>2011-07-12T23:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T23:36:00.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wholemeal Bread Crumbed Shrimp with Sage</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Agustin loves this dish.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Just peel and devein about 16 prawns and sprinkle salt over them.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Butterfly the shrimps and cover with corn flour then egg and finally the wholemeal bread crumbs and sage.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Shallow fry at medium high heat on both sides for a total of 10 minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The sauce is made with lemon, Tabasco sauce and chopped red onions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQqC7KoKsjA/Th08vpaw1vI/AAAAAAAAAGE/STR6Wgq-TNg/s1600/Breaded+Shrimps.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQqC7KoKsjA/Th08vpaw1vI/AAAAAAAAAGE/STR6Wgq-TNg/s400/Breaded+Shrimps.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;A Agustín le encanta este plato. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Pela 16 gambas y ábrelas por la mitad quitando las venas y suciedad.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Salpica un poco de sal por encima.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Cubre las gambas con harina de maíz, seguido por huevo y finalmente las migas de pan integro y salvia.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Fríe las gambas en aceite, pero no demasiado, fuego medio alto, cinco minutos cada lado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;La salsa está hecha con limón, tabasco y cebollas rojas picadas.&lt;/span&gt;&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/65800456313959011-5343733769313153533?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/5343733769313153533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/wholemeal-bread-crumbed-shrimp-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/5343733769313153533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/5343733769313153533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/wholemeal-bread-crumbed-shrimp-with.html' title='Wholemeal Bread Crumbed Shrimp with Sage'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQqC7KoKsjA/Th08vpaw1vI/AAAAAAAAAGE/STR6Wgq-TNg/s72-c/Breaded+Shrimps.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-2282899570501398381</id><published>2011-07-07T20:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-07T20:27:43.084-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Enjoy Yourself</title><content type='html'>I woke up today with this song in my head. Here we see the dead teaching the living a thing or two about living.&amp;nbsp; I have seen this movie five times I think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Me levanto hoy con esta canción.&amp;nbsp; Aquí vemos a los muertos enseñando a los vivos como vivir la vida.&amp;nbsp; Pienso que había&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;vista&lt;span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"&gt; esta&lt;/span&gt; peli cinco veces. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/Ka9OoZQGvQ4/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ka9OoZQGvQ4&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ka9OoZQGvQ4&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-2282899570501398381?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/2282899570501398381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/enjoy-yourself.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/2282899570501398381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/2282899570501398381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/07/enjoy-yourself.html' title='Enjoy Yourself'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-8624040552158732707</id><published>2011-05-28T02:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-29T00:47:07.698-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Universal Mindfulness and Madness</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WmAT3JIBmTg/TeC_1s29K4I/AAAAAAAAADQ/TyPTJMb8gzY/s1600/mindfulness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WmAT3JIBmTg/TeC_1s29K4I/AAAAAAAAADQ/TyPTJMb8gzY/s400/mindfulness.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mindfulness Personified - El Despertar Personificado&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;I don't think I have ever met or observed a person in my life that is sane, myself&amp;nbsp;included.&amp;nbsp; Everyone that has stepped into my life personifies madness to different degrees and with subtle nuances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The very birth of a thought or feeling in itself is a distorsion of neutrality and it will be tainted by the perceptions and experiences of each person.&amp;nbsp; This then gives rise to idiosyncracies of a people, a society, a nation, an excuse to formulate an "I" as opposed to a "YOU".&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But why is there a need to feel and be partial.&amp;nbsp; For the sole purpose of&amp;nbsp;distracting ourselves from the inevitable demise of our physical form, sooner or later.&amp;nbsp; The very birth of a concept and thought and feeling will convince most of us that we are "living life to the fullest".&amp;nbsp; Thus the incessant surge of life-affirming madness.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about the concept of embracing death to its fullest?&amp;nbsp; This is not suicidal in any way.&amp;nbsp; On the contrary, this is Mindfullness itself, of our thoughts and awareness of the countless births of all thoughts and emotions.&amp;nbsp; This Mindfulness will alert us to the hallucinations of our senses, which hopefully will help us in embracing the countless deaths of these thoughts and emotions.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-csQLDqA4Wxw/TeDACSyCygI/AAAAAAAAADU/a5I4ZAE21FA/s1600/bosch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-csQLDqA4Wxw/TeDACSyCygI/AAAAAAAAADU/a5I4ZAE21FA/s400/bosch.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Madness Personified - La Locura Personificado&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;em&gt;No creo que he conocido o observado a ninguna persona en mi vida que es mentalmente sano, yo mismo incluido.&amp;nbsp; Cada persona que ha pasado por mi vida, yo incluido, ha personificado la locura en diferentes grados y con matices sutiles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;El propio nacimiento de un pensamiento or sentimiento en sí es una distorsion de la neutralidad y estaría teñido por las percepciones y experiencias de cada persona.&amp;nbsp; Esto da lugar a las idiosincracias de un pueblo, una sociedad, una nacion, como una excusa para formularizar un ¨YO¨, opuesto a un ¨TU¨.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pero por qué existe esta necesidad de sentir y ser parcial.&amp;nbsp; Es para distraer a nosotros, de lo inevitable, que es&amp;nbsp;la caducidad de nuestra forma fisica or corporal, pronto o tarde.&amp;nbsp; El mismo nacimiento de un concepto y pensamiento y sentimiento convencerá a todos nosotros que estamos ¨aprovechando a tope en la vida¨.&amp;nbsp; Así surgirá la incessante continuacion de la locura que afirma a nuestras vidas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Qué hay sobre el concepto de abrazar a la muerte y aprovechandola?&amp;nbsp; Esto no es una recommendacion al suicidio.&amp;nbsp; Todo lo contrario.&amp;nbsp; Esto es el Despertar, de nuestros pensamientos y nuestros conocimientos de los incontables nacimientos de todos los pensamientos y emociones.&amp;nbsp; Este estado del Despertar nos avisará sobre las hallucinaciones de nuestros sentidos, que ojala nos ayudará en abrazar los incontables fallecimientos de todos estos pensamients y emociones.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-8624040552158732707?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/8624040552158732707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/universal-mindfulness-and-madness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8624040552158732707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8624040552158732707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/universal-mindfulness-and-madness.html' title='Universal Mindfulness and Madness'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WmAT3JIBmTg/TeC_1s29K4I/AAAAAAAAADQ/TyPTJMb8gzY/s72-c/mindfulness.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-1312768014168990287</id><published>2011-05-07T07:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T17:40:05.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DONNIE DARKO (2001) - Omnitemporality</title><content type='html'>﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kqy-GMW1g3M/TcVSnMuQ0CI/AAAAAAAAAC4/qlff5JgLNtw/s1600/DonnieDarko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kqy-GMW1g3M/TcVSnMuQ0CI/AAAAAAAAAC4/qlff5JgLNtw/s400/DonnieDarko.jpg" width="323" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Universal Oneness as shown in the picture! / Unidad Universal demostrado en el dibujo!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿When there is no "I', there is no independent observer.&amp;nbsp; But the confusion in the human mind arises when it actually (in rare instances) transcend the space-time continuum and can actually percieve the interaction between energy and matter in different points in time.&amp;nbsp; There is then an independent observer of events, with a distorted view via the observation of energy-matter interactions on different planes of the 4th dimension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cuando no existe un ¨Yo¨, entonces no hay un observador independiente.&amp;nbsp; Pero la confusíon surge cuando la mente humana, en pocas ocasiones, puede transcender el continuo de espacio-tiempo y actualmente percibe la interaccíon entre la energía y substancia en varios puntos en el tiempo.&amp;nbsp; Entonces hay un observador independiente de los eventos, con una vista distorsionada a través de la observacíon de la interacíon de energia-substancia en los diferentes planos de la cuarta dimension.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2c6ZqwnPUUA/TcVTSY7j4iI/AAAAAAAAAC8/buFcuk8nQI4/s1600/donnie-darko2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2c6ZqwnPUUA/TcVTSY7j4iI/AAAAAAAAAC8/buFcuk8nQI4/s400/donnie-darko2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Transcending space-time / Transcender al espacio-tiempo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;OK, what I am talking about?&amp;nbsp; Donnie Darko of course, and time travel according to the characters'&amp;nbsp;interpretation as they try to make sense of their heightened sense of perception of spacetime.&amp;nbsp; Apparently there are but a few who are actually receptors of this gift and can transcend the 4th dimension.&amp;nbsp; Where does it take them - either to the point of madness like Roberta Sparrows or martyrdom in Donnie Darko's case.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bueno, de qué estoy hablando?&amp;nbsp; Pues, sobre Donnie Darko desde luego, y viajar por el tiempo según la interpretacíon de los personajes, mientras que ellos están intentando dar una explicacíon a sus sentidos exaltados del espacio-tiempo.&amp;nbsp; Apparentemente, hay algunos pocos que son receptores de este don y pueden transcender la cuarta dimension.&amp;nbsp; A donde les llevan este don?&amp;nbsp; Que sea a la locura en caso de Roberta Sparrows&amp;nbsp;o al martirio como Donnie Darko.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fkSW5hOkqFQ/TcVTmieNbpI/AAAAAAAAADE/_lyeytlDpEA/s1600/donniedarko3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="253" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fkSW5hOkqFQ/TcVTmieNbpI/AAAAAAAAADE/_lyeytlDpEA/s400/donniedarko3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;On a date with a girl and the hideous bunny / Una cita con una chica y un conejo disfigurado&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g6hyh2ixGhQ/TcVTpCBRAgI/AAAAAAAAADI/HVF-RUPokCs/s1600/donnie_darko_368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="168" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g6hyh2ixGhQ/TcVTpCBRAgI/AAAAAAAAADI/HVF-RUPokCs/s400/donnie_darko_368.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Energy-matter within space-time / Energia-substancia en el continuo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;Well, unless talking to hideous rabbits appeal to these receptors, it is best to return 'home', which is where the central character will ultimately encounter true bliss, nirvana!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Al menos que uno disfrute hablar con conejos disfigurados, la mejor opcíon es volver al ´hogar´, que es donde el personaje principal va a encontrar el regocijo verdadero, nibbana!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-1312768014168990287?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/1312768014168990287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/donnie-darko-2001-omnitemporality.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1312768014168990287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1312768014168990287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/donnie-darko-2001-omnitemporality.html' title='DONNIE DARKO (2001) - Omnitemporality'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kqy-GMW1g3M/TcVSnMuQ0CI/AAAAAAAAAC4/qlff5JgLNtw/s72-c/DonnieDarko.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-1406894979170031151</id><published>2011-05-07T00:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T00:48:06.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Garbanzo Minestrone Soup</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-reNLdjQICfI/TcT4j2mclYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/JZINeHQnWmQ/s1600/Garbanzo+Minestrome.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-reNLdjQICfI/TcT4j2mclYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/JZINeHQnWmQ/s400/Garbanzo+Minestrome.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another one of those comfort food, easy to prepare and cheap as well.&amp;nbsp; Pour in the beef leftover from the Boeuf Bourgignon and add a can of Garbanzos, a few spoonfuls of canned tomatoes, oregano, nutmeg, cumin, turmeric and simmer for half an hour.&amp;nbsp; That's it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Este es uno más de estos platos que te hace sentir como si estuvieras en la casa de la abuela.&amp;nbsp; Mete lo que sobra de Boeuf Bourgignon y añade una lata de Garbanzos, un par de cucharadas de tomates enlatados, oregano, nuez moscada, comino, turmeric y cuece a fuego lento por media hora.&amp;nbsp; Ya está!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-1406894979170031151?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/1406894979170031151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/garbanzo-minestrone-soup.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1406894979170031151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1406894979170031151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/garbanzo-minestrone-soup.html' title='Garbanzo Minestrone Soup'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-reNLdjQICfI/TcT4j2mclYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/JZINeHQnWmQ/s72-c/Garbanzo+Minestrome.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-1686662849760703573</id><published>2011-05-04T23:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T00:45:44.378-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Boeuf Bourgignon Recipe</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PY-dV15qkps/TcJCsL2wYrI/AAAAAAAAACw/Yvnbx3cUMUw/s1600/Boeuf+Bourgignon2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PY-dV15qkps/TcJCsL2wYrI/AAAAAAAAACw/Yvnbx3cUMUw/s400/Boeuf+Bourgignon2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is so hearty and healthy, I absolutely love this.&amp;nbsp; Cut 500g gravy beef into cubes and fry in hot pan with paprika, black pepper and mustard power.&amp;nbsp; Once browned, put into pot.&amp;nbsp; The fry the carrots, potatoes, celery, garlic, onions until all browned with a bit of cornflour.&amp;nbsp; Pour it all into the pot and pour in 2 cups of red wine and water to cover most of the ingredients.&amp;nbsp; Simmer for 3 hours.&amp;nbsp; Look, how beautiful is this!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Este plato es tan robusto y sano.&amp;nbsp; Me encanta!&amp;nbsp; Corta 500g de&amp;nbsp;carne de ternera en tacos y frie en aceite caliente con paprika, pimienta negra y polvo de mostaza hasta que sea doradito, y luego metelo en una olla.&amp;nbsp; Frie la zanahoria, patatas, apio, ajo, cebolla hasta doradito con a poco de harina.&amp;nbsp; Viertelo todo en la olla y cubre con 2 tazas de vino tinto y agua para casi cubrir los ingredientes.&amp;nbsp; Cuece a fuego lento por 3 horas.&amp;nbsp; Mira, qúe maravilla!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-1686662849760703573?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/1686662849760703573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/boeuf-bourgignon-recipe.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1686662849760703573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/1686662849760703573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/boeuf-bourgignon-recipe.html' title='Boeuf Bourgignon Recipe'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PY-dV15qkps/TcJCsL2wYrI/AAAAAAAAACw/Yvnbx3cUMUw/s72-c/Boeuf+Bourgignon2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-3894756717206890487</id><published>2011-05-03T22:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T22:13:22.472-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anything Goes - Mandarin</title><content type='html'>Some people are looking for the Mandarin lyrics, so here goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Algunos están buscando las letras en Mandarin, aqui lo tienen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OpwjSTuXsLs/TcDd6MGFMoI/AAAAAAAAACo/3jbdm-JTt_s/s1600/AG%2540.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OpwjSTuXsLs/TcDd6MGFMoI/AAAAAAAAACo/3jbdm-JTt_s/s400/AG%2540.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Yi wang de si wa yi kan dao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Xing li bian yao la jing bao jin tian zhi dao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Zhen shi mei miao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Yi wang yi lu jiu cha zhen mei hao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Qing shu shu shua le feng ye ni dao yi dao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Zhen shi mei miao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Wan hua chen shi yi yi dao dao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Bian hua wei bao bian wei dao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Meng huan dong shi da du shi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Do shi wei ni fu shao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ze qi wo dui fei hua long qing liao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Dong hua dong&amp;nbsp;feng song dao shou yi ding hui bao&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Zhen shi mei miao&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-3894756717206890487?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/3894756717206890487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/anything-goes-mandarin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/3894756717206890487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/3894756717206890487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/anything-goes-mandarin.html' title='Anything Goes - Mandarin'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OpwjSTuXsLs/TcDd6MGFMoI/AAAAAAAAACo/3jbdm-JTt_s/s72-c/AG%2540.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-6642857503467693698</id><published>2011-05-02T22:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T18:05:26.916-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rise and Shine with Cole Porter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jksHFwfWrJ4/Tb-OcA98SmI/AAAAAAAAACg/mjJbg2acRXI/s1600/anythinggoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jksHFwfWrJ4/Tb-OcA98SmI/AAAAAAAAACg/mjJbg2acRXI/s400/anythinggoes.jpg" width="326" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I should really introduce this blog and talk about myself.&amp;nbsp; I started this blog with the purpose of raising awareness about life, health, death and&amp;nbsp;all possibilities in our spacetime continuum.&amp;nbsp; Most of all, it is a platform to share some thoughts on food, sex, meditation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Debería hacer una introducíon para este blog y hablar un poco sobre mi.&amp;nbsp; Empecé el blog con el proposito de aumentar la conciencia sobre la vida, salud, muerte y todas las possibilidades en nuestro continuo de espacio-tiempo.&amp;nbsp; Más que nada, es una plataforma para compartir ideas sobre la comida, sexo, meditacíon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRH2i8-jJVs/TcCmDpb05cI/AAAAAAAAACk/_49NAJ2kQ7s/s1600/AG1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRH2i8-jJVs/TcCmDpb05cI/AAAAAAAAACk/_49NAJ2kQ7s/s400/AG1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Why is this called Anything Goes?&amp;nbsp; I realise that I whistle very often involuntarily and the songs reflect my mood.&amp;nbsp; But I whistle Anything Goes more than 50% of the time, especially in the mornings, thus the reason for the title.&amp;nbsp; Rise and Shine with Cole Porter!&amp;nbsp; If you are still not happy, sing it in Mandarin!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Por qúe se llama Anything Goes?&amp;nbsp; Me da cuenta que involuntariamente silbo muy a menudo las canciones que refleja mi estado de animo.&amp;nbsp; Pero es que silbo Anything Goes más que 50% de los tiempos, por eso el titulo del blog.&amp;nbsp; Que despierte y brille el sol con Cole Porter!&amp;nbsp; Si todavia no está feliz, cantala en Mandarin!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-6642857503467693698?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/6642857503467693698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/rise-and-shine-with-cole-porter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6642857503467693698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6642857503467693698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/rise-and-shine-with-cole-porter.html' title='Rise and Shine with Cole Porter!'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jksHFwfWrJ4/Tb-OcA98SmI/AAAAAAAAACg/mjJbg2acRXI/s72-c/anythinggoes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-7713483825339080059</id><published>2011-05-02T21:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T21:56:23.642-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stir Fried Pork with Apple and Ginger</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Nv2J6Y_T1k/Tb-J6CEHmcI/AAAAAAAAACU/a0na-xMO4m4/s1600/Pork+Apple.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Nv2J6Y_T1k/Tb-J6CEHmcI/AAAAAAAAACU/a0na-xMO4m4/s400/Pork+Apple.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I can be creative if I try.&amp;nbsp; This is easy, marinade 300g of pork chop strips in cornflour, minced ginger and garlic and soya sauce.&amp;nbsp; Then fry it on high heat, then mix in apples, veges and black sesame seeds.&amp;nbsp; Tastes&amp;nbsp;better than it looks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Puedo ser creativo tambien.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Esto es facíl, aliña 300 g de chuleta de cerdo cortado en tiras en harina de maiz, gengibre and ajo rallado y salsa de soja.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Frie en aceite&amp;nbsp;muy caliente y mezcla con verduras y sesame negro.&amp;nbsp; Saborea mejor que lo que parecza.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-7713483825339080059?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/7713483825339080059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/stir-fried-pork-with-apple-and-ginger.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7713483825339080059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7713483825339080059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/stir-fried-pork-with-apple-and-ginger.html' title='Stir Fried Pork with Apple and Ginger'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Nv2J6Y_T1k/Tb-J6CEHmcI/AAAAAAAAACU/a0na-xMO4m4/s72-c/Pork+Apple.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-2625569438230411849</id><published>2011-05-01T22:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T02:30:14.681-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE NINES (2007) - Omnipresence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DEAfijORS5Y/Tb4lVTw35sI/AAAAAAAAACE/vs7iBQ-iw8A/s1600/nines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DEAfijORS5Y/Tb4lVTw35sI/AAAAAAAAACE/vs7iBQ-iw8A/s400/nines.jpg" width="397" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this another Buddhist film?&amp;nbsp; Yes, as it embodies the more 'worldly' elements of this philosophy, mainly omnipresence, omnipotence, worldly illusions, etc.&amp;nbsp; When I first read about the film, someone wrote that it is about Ryan Reynolds playing different characters in a computer game.&amp;nbsp; That is sooooo wrong!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Es esta peli otra sobre el budismo?&amp;nbsp; Sí, porque trata con los elementos más mundanos de esta filosofia, como la omnipresencia, omnipotencia, halucinacíones mundanas, etc.&amp;nbsp; La primera vez que leí algo sobre la peli, alguien escribío que se trata de Ryan Reynolds asumiendo los papeles de diferentes personajes en un videojuego.&amp;nbsp; Qúe equivocacíon!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So who does Ryan Reynolds play?&amp;nbsp; He plays the following 3 characters.&amp;nbsp; But they are one and the same because they are all GOD!&amp;nbsp; Yes, you read that right.&amp;nbsp; Ryan Reynolds is just but one of the celestial beings classified as NINE.&amp;nbsp; Humans are SEVEN and Koalas are EIGHT!&amp;nbsp; Christians will be fuming and screaming, Blasphemy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entonces, qúe papel hace Ryan Reynolds en la peli?&amp;nbsp; Hace 3 personajes, pero que son uno y de lo&amp;nbsp;mismo, porque todos son&amp;nbsp;el mismo DIOS!&amp;nbsp; Sí, lo habeis leido bien.&amp;nbsp; Ryan Reynolds es uno de los muchos criaturas celestiales classificados como NUEVE.&amp;nbsp; Humanos son SIETE y Koalas son OCHO!&amp;nbsp; Los Cristianos se&amp;nbsp;pondrán furiosos y gritarán, Blasfemia!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--MgJwBZoIpA/Tb4lXLDH8wI/AAAAAAAAACI/0ZUuBDKL7QA/s1600/Nines1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="340" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--MgJwBZoIpA/Tb4lXLDH8wI/AAAAAAAAACI/0ZUuBDKL7QA/s400/Nines1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;RR as a hot sexy TV actor - RR como un actor guapetón&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8h7y_q2qzSs/Tb4lY2kFFvI/AAAAAAAAACM/CM7wQcGt5XA/s1600/Nines2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8h7y_q2qzSs/Tb4lY2kFFvI/AAAAAAAAACM/CM7wQcGt5XA/s400/Nines2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;RR as a gay TV&amp;nbsp;writer - RR como un guionista gay de tele&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OZRvcEcqyYE/Tb4lbMfteeI/AAAAAAAAACQ/7uW2VMFBi2w/s1600/Nines3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OZRvcEcqyYE/Tb4lbMfteeI/AAAAAAAAACQ/7uW2VMFBi2w/s400/Nines3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;RR as a family man - RR como un hombre normal con familia&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;At the bottom of all this intrigue about omnipresence, it is really about the intricate and interdependent nature of all beings, the same message in the movie &lt;a href="http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/stay-what.html"&gt;Stay&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; God, as postulated in Christianity, is but another level of same consciousness in the multi-dimensional interactions between all sentient beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;En el fondo de esta intriga sobre la omnipresencia, el tema principal de la peli es la complicada e interdependiente naturaleza de todos los seres, el mismo mensaje de la peli &lt;a href="http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/stay-what.html"&gt;Stay&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Dios, tal como ha sido postulado en el Cristianismo, es solamente otro nivel de la misma conciencia en las interaccíones multi-dimensionales entre todos los seres sintientes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-2625569438230411849?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/2625569438230411849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/nines-2007-omnipresence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/2625569438230411849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/2625569438230411849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/nines-2007-omnipresence.html' title='THE NINES (2007) - Omnipresence'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DEAfijORS5Y/Tb4lVTw35sI/AAAAAAAAACE/vs7iBQ-iw8A/s72-c/nines.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-8088025482143918488</id><published>2011-05-01T18:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T18:55:41.635-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Healthy Tarakihi Recipe (prepared by Agustin)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2GqgV6tTRGI/Tb4J_Mw4YaI/AAAAAAAAACA/tIpmB0uynyM/s1600/Healthy+Tarakihi.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2GqgV6tTRGI/Tb4J_Mw4YaI/AAAAAAAAACA/tIpmB0uynyM/s400/Healthy+Tarakihi.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this dish, so simple and healthy!&amp;nbsp; The good thing is when fish is fresh, you can be lazy in your preparation, and it will still end up edible.&amp;nbsp; Agustin bought 1.2 kg tarakihi and the&amp;nbsp;guy&amp;nbsp;there was nice enough to fillet it.&amp;nbsp; Just cut&amp;nbsp;into pieces and fry with black pepper and salt until golden.&amp;nbsp; Serve with gailan and refried beans. Yum!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me encanta este plato, tan facíl y sano!&amp;nbsp; Lo bueno es cuando el pescado es muy fresco,&amp;nbsp;no hace falta esforzarse mucho en la coccíon, y aún así&amp;nbsp;saldrá comestible.&amp;nbsp; Agustin compró a tarakihi de 1.2 kilos y el chico en la pescaderia&amp;nbsp;fue&amp;nbsp;tan amable de hacer filete con el pescado.&amp;nbsp; Corta el pescado en trocitos y lo frie con sal y pimienta negra hasta que sea doradito.&amp;nbsp; Sirve con kale y alubias refritos.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Para chuparse los dedos!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-8088025482143918488?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/8088025482143918488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/healthy-tarakihi-recipe-prepared-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8088025482143918488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8088025482143918488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/healthy-tarakihi-recipe-prepared-by.html' title='Healthy Tarakihi Recipe (prepared by Agustin)'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2GqgV6tTRGI/Tb4J_Mw4YaI/AAAAAAAAACA/tIpmB0uynyM/s72-c/Healthy+Tarakihi.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-4538492572715779371</id><published>2011-05-01T03:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T22:40:02.525-07:00</updated><title type='text'>STAY (2005) - Omniconsciousness</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GYeTzQdwbBM/Tb4IlggVXII/AAAAAAAAAB8/g0TgXR4KDt8/s1600/stay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="331" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GYeTzQdwbBM/Tb4IlggVXII/AAAAAAAAAB8/g0TgXR4KDt8/s400/stay.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who have seen the movie Stay would probably be saying, "What was that about?"&amp;nbsp; Some will also be regretting that they have mispent 90 minutes of their life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Algunos que han visto la peli Stay probablemente dirían, Qué es esto?&amp;nbsp; Algunos se arrepentirán de los 90 minutos malgastados en sus vidas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT:&amp;nbsp; This movie was screened at the London International BUDDHIST Film Festival.&lt;br /&gt;Huh?&amp;nbsp; I hear you say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;HECHO - Esta peli fue presentado en la Festival Internacional del Cine Budista.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Qué?&amp;nbsp;- Os oigo exclamar.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, I'll get straight to the point (warning spoiler!), Henry Letham played by Ryan Gosling is also played by Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins&amp;nbsp;and all the actors in&amp;nbsp;99% of the film.&amp;nbsp; There is only one character, or in Buddhist-speak, one conscience!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bueno, voy al grano - Ojo! No leas más si vas a ver la peli.&amp;nbsp; Henry Letham, protagonizado por Ryan Gosling, ha sido encarnado por Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins and todos los actores en 99% de la peli.&amp;nbsp; Solamente hay un personaje, o en el lenguaje de Budismo, una conciencia.!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the Mind's Eye is opened (just like blind Bob Hoskin's eyes were opened), it is nothing short of a miracle.&amp;nbsp; It is the ultimate illumination and everything becomes clear that all things and events are but an illusion.&amp;nbsp; There is also no "I", there is only one all-encompassing consciousness.&amp;nbsp; Still confused?&amp;nbsp; The photos below will clear things up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Una vez que se abra la Ojo de la Gran Conciencia, tal como se abrieron los ojos del ciego Bob Hoskins, no queda nada menos que un milagro.&amp;nbsp; Es lo último iluminacíon cuando todos se esclarecen pero que no son más que una halucinacíon.&amp;nbsp; No existe un ´´Yo´´, solamente una sola conciencia.&amp;nbsp; Confundidos todavia?&amp;nbsp; Las fotos abajo&amp;nbsp;aclararán las cosas un poquito.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K6NzJOEeeHE/Tb0xtz_qg1I/AAAAAAAAABc/_Io5-2B7N9Q/s1600/HL1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K6NzJOEeeHE/Tb0xtz_qg1I/AAAAAAAAABc/_Io5-2B7N9Q/s320/HL1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Krp1zcILUvo/Tb0xvR5zyzI/AAAAAAAAABg/x7ffYpUZT1U/s1600/HL2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Krp1zcILUvo/Tb0xvR5zyzI/AAAAAAAAABg/x7ffYpUZT1U/s320/HL2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3T2Sgf5EOtQ/Tb0xw0legBI/AAAAAAAAABk/YQWPqXnFn-Y/s1600/HL3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="299" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3T2Sgf5EOtQ/Tb0xw0legBI/AAAAAAAAABk/YQWPqXnFn-Y/s320/HL3.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H-_lsU3cPcg/Tb0xzfisOmI/AAAAAAAAABo/q5XT4xNuokw/s1600/HL4.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H-_lsU3cPcg/Tb0xzfisOmI/AAAAAAAAABo/q5XT4xNuokw/s1600/HL4.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SibkTGSpwvM/Tb0x1-xwEMI/AAAAAAAAABs/WEyduLqYKnA/s1600/HL5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SibkTGSpwvM/Tb0x1-xwEMI/AAAAAAAAABs/WEyduLqYKnA/s1600/HL5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5Pgd1IgzTxU/Tb0x3b5CG_I/AAAAAAAAABw/VwFe1u9ZILQ/s1600/HL6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5Pgd1IgzTxU/Tb0x3b5CG_I/AAAAAAAAABw/VwFe1u9ZILQ/s1600/HL6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJJ9PdRlbKA/Tb0x4624mmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/tDWcth3Z8pw/s1600/HL8.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJJ9PdRlbKA/Tb0x4624mmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/tDWcth3Z8pw/s1600/HL8.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GL5PPd0gpOM/Tb0yCChTYUI/AAAAAAAAAB4/nlSTHd8d2xA/s1600/HL7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GL5PPd0gpOM/Tb0yCChTYUI/AAAAAAAAAB4/nlSTHd8d2xA/s320/HL7.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Letham!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-4538492572715779371?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/4538492572715779371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/stay-what.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/4538492572715779371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/4538492572715779371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/05/stay-what.html' title='STAY (2005) - Omniconsciousness'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GYeTzQdwbBM/Tb4IlggVXII/AAAAAAAAAB8/g0TgXR4KDt8/s72-c/stay.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-8717853262902104459</id><published>2011-04-26T22:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T22:19:40.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Karaage Chicken with Yogurt Sauce</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Preparé este plato esta noche y salío mejor que lo que pensaba.&amp;nbsp; Es un plato japones - pollo frito servido con una salsa de yogurt con perejil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Corta un filete de pollo de 350g en trozos pequeños.&amp;nbsp; Ralla gengibre y ajo y lo mezcla con el pollo con algo de pimienta negra, salsa de soja y limon.&amp;nbsp; Deja el pollo en el bol por media hora, mientras que absorbe los varios sabores.&amp;nbsp; Cubre cada trozo con harina de maiz y frie el pollo en aceite bien caliente hasta que se ponga doradito.&amp;nbsp; La salsa se hace con una mezcla de yogurt griego, jugo de limon, ajo rallado, perejil y un poco de polvo de curry.&amp;nbsp; Sirve el pollo por encima de un colchon de berza rallada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_lLRbUIGwJc/TbenRsvIgKI/AAAAAAAAABU/ZpejetbFi60/s1600/Karaage+Chicken.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_lLRbUIGwJc/TbenRsvIgKI/AAAAAAAAABU/ZpejetbFi60/s400/Karaage+Chicken.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LpLaqPy3Tn0/TbenY__fZxI/AAAAAAAAABY/SGRx7g5Z3NE/s1600/Karaage+Chicken+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LpLaqPy3Tn0/TbenY__fZxI/AAAAAAAAABY/SGRx7g5Z3NE/s400/Karaage+Chicken+1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;I prepared this dish tonight and it was better than I expected.&amp;nbsp; We enjoyed it.&amp;nbsp; It is a Japanese dish, essentially fried chicken with a yogurt-based sauce.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;Cut&amp;nbsp;a 350g&amp;nbsp;chicken fillet into bite&amp;nbsp;size pieces.&amp;nbsp; Marinade for half an hour in&amp;nbsp;minced ginger, garlic, soya sauce, black pepper and lemon.&amp;nbsp; Cover the pieces in cornflour and fry in hot oil until golden.&amp;nbsp; For the sauce, mix greek natural yogurt with parsley, lemon juice and minced garlic and a little curry powder.&amp;nbsp; Serve the chicken&amp;nbsp;on a bed of shredded cabbage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&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/65800456313959011-8717853262902104459?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/8717853262902104459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/karaage-chicken-with-yogurt-sauce.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8717853262902104459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/8717853262902104459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/karaage-chicken-with-yogurt-sauce.html' title='Karaage Chicken with Yogurt Sauce'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_lLRbUIGwJc/TbenRsvIgKI/AAAAAAAAABU/ZpejetbFi60/s72-c/Karaage+Chicken.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-4779304810558055797</id><published>2011-04-26T22:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T22:18:05.791-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Szechuan Mapo Tofu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Agustin preparó este plato tradicíonal de China anoche.&amp;nbsp; Es fantástico!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Corta en trocitos 250g de carne de cerdo, la parte que tiene algo de tocino.&amp;nbsp; Frie la carne hasta que&amp;nbsp;esté doradita, echa sal, pimienta negra, ajo y gengibre picado, luego algo de salsa de alubia fermentada y chile.&amp;nbsp; Por ultimo, echa un bloque de tofu blando o quesode, 300g.&amp;nbsp; Deja cocer fuego medio alto por 5 minutos, y echa una solucíon de agua y harina de maiz, pero poquito.&amp;nbsp; 2 minutos más en la sarten.&amp;nbsp; Sirve con arroz de jasmin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;No había efectos secundarios.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pmbw6x4QE-g/Tbem5z4N6QI/AAAAAAAAABM/1_IyoZrNSng/s1600/Mapo+Tofu.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pmbw6x4QE-g/Tbem5z4N6QI/AAAAAAAAABM/1_IyoZrNSng/s400/Mapo+Tofu.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hVRm6oeP2LM/TbenAzsOh4I/AAAAAAAAABQ/Odh2IytGlxU/s1600/Mapo+Tofu+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hVRm6oeP2LM/TbenAzsOh4I/AAAAAAAAABQ/Odh2IytGlxU/s400/Mapo+Tofu+1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;Agustin prepared this traditional Chinese dish last night, it is&amp;nbsp;fantastic!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;Cut in small pieces 250g of pork, the part which is a little fatty.&amp;nbsp; Fry the pork until brown, put in salt and black pepper, then minced garlic and ginger.&amp;nbsp; Then add the fermented chillied bean sauce.&amp;nbsp; And lastly a block of soft tofu, 300g.&amp;nbsp; Let it simmer on medium high for 5 mintues, then add a solution of water with cornflour, just a little.&amp;nbsp; Then 2 more minutes in the pan.&amp;nbsp; Serve with jasmine rice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;There were no side effects.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&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/65800456313959011-4779304810558055797?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/4779304810558055797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/szechuan-mapo-tofu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/4779304810558055797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/4779304810558055797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/szechuan-mapo-tofu.html' title='Szechuan Mapo Tofu'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pmbw6x4QE-g/Tbem5z4N6QI/AAAAAAAAABM/1_IyoZrNSng/s72-c/Mapo+Tofu.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-6822856627789390286</id><published>2011-04-26T22:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T22:16:32.628-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pan Fried Snapper with Garlic Butter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Compra un pescado de 1 kg y lo haga filete.&amp;nbsp; Rellena 2 filetes con un pesto de curry, mantequilla, ajo rallado, corteza de limon rallada, tomato paste.&amp;nbsp; Cubre con pimienta negra y paprika y sal y harina y pasa por la sarten, 5 minutos cada lado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;¿Tiene buen aspecto, que sí?&amp;nbsp; Lo unico es que tenemos hoy un poco de dolor de tripa.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ustedes mismos!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2SS4_-226f8/TbemiGwzbII/AAAAAAAAABE/yXcJsaLBNGg/s1600/Pan+Fried+Snapper.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2SS4_-226f8/TbemiGwzbII/AAAAAAAAABE/yXcJsaLBNGg/s400/Pan+Fried+Snapper.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5GHz0CR53OI/TbempqDK0pI/AAAAAAAAABI/13eeXqvMdaM/s1600/Pan+Fried+Snapper+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5GHz0CR53OI/TbempqDK0pI/AAAAAAAAABI/13eeXqvMdaM/s400/Pan+Fried+Snapper+1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Buy a 1kg snapper and fillete it.&amp;nbsp; Fill 2 filletes with a paste made of curry, butter, minced garlic, minced lemon peel, tomato paste.&amp;nbsp; Cover with black pepper and paprika and salt and a little flour, then fry&amp;nbsp;in the pan, 5 minutes each side.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Looks good, no?&amp;nbsp; The only catch is that we have stomach ache today.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Up to your discretion!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&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/65800456313959011-6822856627789390286?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/6822856627789390286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/pan-fried-snapper-with-garlic-butter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6822856627789390286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6822856627789390286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/pan-fried-snapper-with-garlic-butter.html' title='Pan Fried Snapper with Garlic Butter'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2SS4_-226f8/TbemiGwzbII/AAAAAAAAABE/yXcJsaLBNGg/s72-c/Pan+Fried+Snapper.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-6429703872992956598</id><published>2011-04-26T22:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T22:42:16.551-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Strange Tales - Snowy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;﻿&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt; &lt;span lang="ES"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Este cuento es la última parte de la trilogia de los Cuentos Extraños.&amp;nbsp; Despues de los raros acontecimientos con&amp;nbsp; Poppy y Monty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;, Agustin y yo teníamos uno de las experiencias más dulce y agradable con un gatito blanco.&amp;nbsp; Lo encontré paseando al lado de un parking en Panmure despues de llevar a Agustin a su colegio de ingles.&amp;nbsp; Esto era&amp;nbsp;el invierno de 2005.&amp;nbsp; Abrí la puerta de mi coche y el tontorron se metío sin pensar dos veces.&amp;nbsp; Y se pusó tan comodo en el coche, sin nervios para nada mientras que su choffer le transportó a su nuevo hogar en Stanhope Road.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;De todos los gatos que he tenido en el pasado, una docena en total, este es sin duda el más sosegado y dulce.&amp;nbsp; Ya desde el principio, este gato se portó como un niño bueno, uno que nunca ha matado a una mosca, un buenazo.&amp;nbsp; Le pusimos el nombre Pitufo pero nunca respondía a este nombre, y despues de una semana concluimos que Pitufo era sordo, claro muchos gatos blancos nacen sordos.&amp;nbsp; Habían tantos recuerdos bonitos con Pitufo durante los proximos 3 meses, por ejemplo su mania con la tele y pantalla del ordenador.&amp;nbsp; Podía pasar una hora jugando con las imagenes en las pantalla usando su patas.&amp;nbsp; Y debido a su sordera, una vez se pusó delante de un camion y pudimos salvarlo&amp;nbsp;de milagro.&amp;nbsp; Y como Poppy, le gustaba caminar con nosotros por 2 kilometros despues de la cena.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Pero en el fondo de nuestra felicidad con Pitufo había un asunto pendiente que era el famoso viaje a España otra vez para averiguar por qué no ha escrito el hermano de Agustin.&amp;nbsp; Hemos pagado con mucha antelacíon, dos billetes con Thai Airways, que eran de precios muy especiales, y que no te reembolsan el dinero si no los usan.&amp;nbsp; Decidí llamar a SPCA despues de los tres meses con Pitufo para ver si él&amp;nbsp;figuraba entre la lista de las mascotas&amp;nbsp;perdidas.&amp;nbsp; Y una chica amable en SPCA me dijó, por qué no prueba este número en Panmure.&amp;nbsp; ¿Que casualidad, no, Panmure?&amp;nbsp; Lo llamé en un domingo y la chica que cogío el teléfono me preguntó si el gato tiene una pequeña manchita en la espalda, que era resultado de&amp;nbsp;a una travesura con un charco de gasolina en su patio.&amp;nbsp; Y que si el gato es sordo, y si&amp;nbsp;tira arena por todos los sitios con sus patas despues de hacer sus necesidades.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kBu_Jby2ymI/Tbel7mwBLeI/AAAAAAAAAA8/fVZPxhbdV_M/s1600/Jun30132.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kBu_Jby2ymI/Tbel7mwBLeI/AAAAAAAAAA8/fVZPxhbdV_M/s400/Jun30132.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;﻿ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;﻿&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt; &lt;span lang="ES"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;En aquel momento, me daba cuenta que Snowy - su nombre verdadero,&amp;nbsp;como&amp;nbsp; Poppy y Monty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;era un huesped en nuestra casa, o más bien gato hotel.&amp;nbsp; Su estancia con nosotros le sirvío para reunirse con sus amos verdaderos.&amp;nbsp; La felicidad ha sido pasajera como todas las cosas y experiencias en nuestras vidas, pero&amp;nbsp;estoy más que agradecido por haber tenido estas vivencias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;This tale is the last part of the trilogy that forms Strange Tales.&amp;nbsp; After the strange events surrounding Poppy and Monty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;, Agustin and I had one of the most pleasant and sweetest experiences with a little white cat.&amp;nbsp; I found it wandering at the side of the car park at Panmure after sending Agustin to his english school.&amp;nbsp; It was during the winter of 2005.&amp;nbsp; I opened the door of my car and the silly little thing slipped into the car without thinking twice.&amp;nbsp; It laid there comfortably on the backseat, without any nerves,&amp;nbsp;while his chauffeur&amp;nbsp;brought him to his new home at Stanhope Road.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Of all the cats that I had in the past, 12 in total, this kitten is without doubt the calmest and sweetest.&amp;nbsp; Right from the start, this cat behaved like a good boy, one who would never harm a fly, a goody-two-shoes.&amp;nbsp; We called it Smurf but it never responded, and after a week or so we concluded that it was deaf.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Of course, white cats are sometimes born deaf!&amp;nbsp; There were so many beautiful memories with Smurf during the next 3 months, for example his obsession with the TV and the computer screen.&amp;nbsp; He could spend a whole hour playing with the moving images on the screens using his front paws.&amp;nbsp; And due to the fact that he was deaf, once he was right in front of a big truck and it was a miracle that we could save it.&amp;nbsp; And like Poppy, it liked to take long walks of about 2 km with us after dinner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-21TUlm7UJS4/TbemCAt32gI/AAAAAAAAABA/RU-DWRtTlpY/s1600/Jul01144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-21TUlm7UJS4/TbemCAt32gI/AAAAAAAAABA/RU-DWRtTlpY/s400/Jul01144.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;﻿ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;But at the bottom of this happiness with Smurf there was a pending matter, which was the famous travels to Spain to find out why Agustin's brother hadn't written.&amp;nbsp; We had already paid for the airfare, 2 non-refundable air tickets with Thai Airways, which was specially priced.&amp;nbsp; I decided to call the SPCA one day after 3 months and a pleasant girl there asked me to try this phone number in Panmure.&amp;nbsp; What a coincidence, Panmure?&amp;nbsp; I called on a Sunday and this girl answered the phone and asked if the cat had a small patch on its back, the result of its playfulness in a puddle of leaked petrol on her porch.&amp;nbsp; And that is the cat was deaf, and if it made a mess with the kitty litter after fulfilling nature's call.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;At that moment, I realised that Snowy - his real name, like Poppy and Monty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;, was only a guest at our home,&amp;nbsp;or cat hotel if you like.&amp;nbsp; His stay with us served as a temporary break so that he could be reunited with his true owners.&amp;nbsp; The happiness was fleeting like all things and experiences in all our lives, but I am more than grateful for having lived these moments.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&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/65800456313959011-6429703872992956598?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/6429703872992956598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-tales-snowy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6429703872992956598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6429703872992956598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-tales-snowy.html' title='Strange Tales - Snowy'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kBu_Jby2ymI/Tbel7mwBLeI/AAAAAAAAAA8/fVZPxhbdV_M/s72-c/Jun30132.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-6428977944168871557</id><published>2011-04-26T22:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T22:27:12.761-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Strange Tales - Monty</title><content type='html'>&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Esta experiencia con otro gato sí que me puso el pelo de punta.&amp;nbsp; Era realmente increíble y ocurrío un poco despues de la historia con Poppy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Habían pasado unos meses y como no tenía que cuidar a ningun gato y Agustin estaba otra vez con la historia de "Por qué no me ha escrito mi hermano? Si algo le ha pasado?" Asi que me veía obligado de comprar dos billetes de avion para ir a España.&amp;nbsp; Odio volar en avion más que 6 horas (menos para ir a España) y como tenía que hacer el viaje decidí planificar una vuelta al mundo para conocer lugares que realmente me apetecía conocer.&amp;nbsp; Duracíon del viaje, 38 dias en total desde el 4 Febrero 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Dos semanas antes del vuelo, ví este gato por la tarde en el complejo&amp;nbsp;en el mismo sitio donde ví a Poppy.&amp;nbsp; Pero este gato parecía delgado y silvestre.&amp;nbsp; No yo lo hacía caso.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Pero la misma noche cuando lo ví&amp;nbsp;desde mi balcon, lo llamaba&amp;nbsp;Kitty Kitty, y esta vez respondío.&amp;nbsp; Subío por la escalera al lado del complejo y se metío&amp;nbsp;en el piso.&amp;nbsp; Estaba con un aspecto de asustado y&amp;nbsp;un pellejo sucio, no paraba de llorar, o más bien lloriquear.&amp;nbsp; Era insorportable y todo el rato me seguía.&amp;nbsp; Quería comer pero más que nada quería mimo.&amp;nbsp; A Agustin no le gustaba este gato por su aspecto fiera y salvaje.&amp;nbsp; Parecia un Savannah pero callejero.&amp;nbsp; Me seguía&amp;nbsp;por todos los sitios y no me dejaba en paz.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Pero&amp;nbsp;él pasó de Agustin como si supiera que con Agustin no tenía quimica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Bueno, al grano, este gato no&amp;nbsp;nos dejaba dormir y decidímos llevarlo a SPCA por la mañana siguiente.&amp;nbsp; Pero toda la noche estaba por encima de mi regazo&amp;nbsp;'haciendo galletas' como hacen los gatos.&amp;nbsp; Y me hacía daños con su garras como estaba tan pasional.&amp;nbsp; Pues, nada, el dia siguiente, lo metí en una bolsa de viaje y fuimos conduciendo casí&amp;nbsp;20 kilometros a la zona del aeropuerto,&amp;nbsp;donde está SPCA y lo dejaba allí con la reccepcionista.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;En el coche&amp;nbsp;me sentía triste a no saber si lo van a sacrificar en el centro.&amp;nbsp; Pasaban otro 12 dias y cogimos el avion para conocer al mundo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;En el 14 de Marzo, despues de un penoso vuelo (no puedo con el jet lag), lleguemos a Auckland de nuevo al mediodia.&amp;nbsp; Estaba hecho polvo y la verdad sin ganas de hacer nada.&amp;nbsp; Fui a la cama&amp;nbsp;hasta las 8 de la noche.&amp;nbsp; Fue cuando oí el sonido de&amp;nbsp;algo rascando a la puerta principal.&amp;nbsp; Y sorpresa, allí en la entrada estaba el mismo gato.&amp;nbsp; Esta vez tenía un collar con el nombre Monty y un&amp;nbsp;número de mobil.&amp;nbsp; Llamé enseguida a esta persona y él me dijo que su gato se desaparecío solamente&amp;nbsp;hace&amp;nbsp;2 dias y que vive a unos 2 kilometros de nosotros.&amp;nbsp; Despues de 15 minutos con el lloron Monty, llegó su dueño en coche que si recuerdo bien se llama James.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Aunque James me explicaba que hace 2 meses perdío al Monty y volvío a encontrarlo en una jaula en SPCA, todo me parecía más que una coincidencia.&amp;nbsp; Fijense&amp;nbsp;en las coincidencias y la distancia que tenia que andar el gato dos veces desde Barrack Road al Stanhope Road, que son 2 kilometros, y por qué tan sincronizado todo con mi viaje de 38 dias.&amp;nbsp; No lo sé pero me suena de una intervencíon divina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zEdb9e-r9yY/TbekuXwH-AI/AAAAAAAAAA0/QJWxX7TEB7w/s1600/savannah_cat_standing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zEdb9e-r9yY/TbekuXwH-AI/AAAAAAAAAA0/QJWxX7TEB7w/s400/savannah_cat_standing.jpg" width="263" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Savannah Cat &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This experience with another cat really made my hair stand on end.&amp;nbsp; It was really incredible and it occured a little after Poppy.&amp;nbsp; Months after Poppy´s visit, since I did not have to care for any cats and Agustin was again obssessed with the same story of "What happened to my brother?&amp;nbsp; Why didn't he write?".&amp;nbsp; Thus I was obliged to buy two plane tickets to Spain.&amp;nbsp; I hate to fly more than six hours (less so to Spain) and since I had to travel, I decided to plan a round the world trip so I could visit places that I really wanted to know.&amp;nbsp;Duration of trip: 38 days from 4 February 2004.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two weeks before the flight, I saw this cat in the afternoon in our complex, at the same place where I saw Poppy.&amp;nbsp; But this cat looked thin and wild.&amp;nbsp; I ignored it.&amp;nbsp; But the same night I saw it again from my balcony.&amp;nbsp; I called out Kitty Kitty and this time it responded.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It came up the stairs at the side of the building and came into our apartment.&amp;nbsp; It looked frightened and its coat was dirty.&amp;nbsp; It didn´t stop crying, but it sounded more like whining.&amp;nbsp; It was insufferable and all the time it followed me.&amp;nbsp; It looked like a Savannah but stray.&amp;nbsp; Agustin did not like this cat at all because it looked wild and fierce.&amp;nbsp; The cat ignored Agustin as if by nature it knew that there was no chemistry between them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well,&amp;nbsp;to the point, this cat did not let us sleep and we decided to bring it to SPCA the next morning.&amp;nbsp; But the whole night it was on my lap, 'making biscuits', like cats do.&amp;nbsp; And it hurt me because it did not retract its claws and it was so passionate.&amp;nbsp; Well, the next day I put it in a big travelling bag and we drove 20 km to the area of the airport where SPCA is and I left it with the receptionist.&amp;nbsp; In the car I felt sad as I did not know if it wsa going to be euthanised.&amp;nbsp; Another 12 days passsed and we boarded our flight to visit the world.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;On 8 March 2004, after a painful flight (jet lag kills me), we reached Auckland during noontime.&amp;nbsp; I was wasted and had no energy to do anything.&amp;nbsp; I went straight to bed until 8 pm that night.&amp;nbsp; It was then that I heard a scratching sound on the front door.&amp;nbsp; And surprise, there at the front door was the same cat.&amp;nbsp; This time it had a collar with the name Monty and a mobile number.&amp;nbsp; I called the number at once and the person at the other end told me that he lost Monty only 2 days ago and he lives about 2 km from where I was.&amp;nbsp; After spending 15 minutes with Monty the whining cat, his owner arrived by car, I think his name is James.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Even though James explained that 2 months ago he lost Monty but found it again in a cage at SPCA, it was more than coincidence to me.&amp;nbsp; Think about it, the coincidences, the distance Monty had to walk twice from Barrack Road to Stanhope Road, 2 km, and synchronised, upon my return from a round the world trip after 38 days.&amp;nbsp; I don't know but it seems like divine intervention.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/65800456313959011-6428977944168871557?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/6428977944168871557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-tales-monty.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6428977944168871557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/6428977944168871557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-tales-monty.html' title='Strange Tales - Monty'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zEdb9e-r9yY/TbekuXwH-AI/AAAAAAAAAA0/QJWxX7TEB7w/s72-c/savannah_cat_standing.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65800456313959011.post-7162568783816567255</id><published>2011-04-26T22:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T22:28:44.517-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Strange Tales - Poppy</title><content type='html'>&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;A veces cuando estoy demasíado metido en lo rutinario y mundano, pienso en la historia de Poppy, que era una gata superintelligente que entró y salío de mi vida hace 8 años.&amp;nbsp; Este cuento siempre me sirve como un recuerdo de lo poco que sabemos de lo que está más alla de la vida.&amp;nbsp; Y del poco contacto que tenemos con asuntos paranormales.&amp;nbsp; Una vez empezaba a contar este cuento a mi vecina aqui en Auckland y ella se asustó despues de escuchar solamente 2 minutos de la historia y me pidío que parase, porque era escalofriante el tema.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Bueno, era una buena&amp;nbsp;tarde de primavera en Auckland y estaba asomado por mi balcon en el piso (en la foto deabajo) cuando&amp;nbsp;notaba un gatito gris deambulando por el recinto del complejo.&amp;nbsp; No lo reconocía y sabía que no pertenecía a ningunos de mis vecinos.&amp;nbsp; Como soy un amante de los gatos, lo llamaba y enseguida él vino corriendo hacía la escalera del edificio llorando.&amp;nbsp; En vez de ignorarme majestuosamente como la mayoria de gatos, él llegó a mi puerta y se quedó tan tranquilamente para cenar.&amp;nbsp; Desde el primer dia, ya se convirtío como un compañero fiel y cariñoso.&amp;nbsp; Mi amigo Agustin tambien se enamoró de ella y como es gata, la pusimos el nombre Poppy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlwgErvNwuQ/TXnzHFVztfI/AAAAAAAAAD0/PgCtL-gctD8/s1600/AgustinLin.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;&lt;shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"&gt;&lt;stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;&lt;/stroke&gt;&lt;formulas&gt;&lt;f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;/formulas&gt;&lt;path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"&gt;&lt;/path&gt;&lt;lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"&gt;&lt;/lock&gt;&lt;/shapetype&gt;&lt;shape alt="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlwgErvNwuQ/TXnzHFVztfI/AAAAAAAAAD0/PgCtL-gctD8/s320/AgustinLin.jpg" href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlwgErvNwuQ/TXnzHFVztfI/AAAAAAAAAD0/PgCtL-gctD8/s1600/AgustinLin.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_1" o:button="t" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" style="height: 240pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 163.5pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"&gt;&lt;imagedata o:title="AgustinLin" src="file:///C:\Users\Ed\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"&gt;&lt;/imagedata&gt;&lt;/shape&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;Pasaban los dias de primavera y cuando llegó el invierno Poppy ya formó una parte indispensable de nuestra familia.&amp;nbsp; Hay que admitir que Poppy no parecía muy diferente que otros gatos que había tenido en el pasado, pues le encantaba comer pescado, era distante a veces, pensativa (de esto no le gustaba Agustin tanto) y de vez en cuando traviesa.&amp;nbsp; No quiero repetir las mismas vivencias de otra gente con su mascota felina, así que voy al grano de lo extraño que era Poppy.&amp;nbsp; Ella le gustaba pasear con nosotros cada tarde sobre las 7 despues de la cena.&amp;nbsp; Y no se trató de un paseito por la esquina.&amp;nbsp; Andabamos unos 3 km por el suburbio y ella nos sigúío sin prisa, como si supiese de lo que se tratase.&amp;nbsp; Pero despues de vivir 4 meses con nosotros, descubrí el&amp;nbsp;propósito de los paseos para ella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;En una noche fria del invierno, emprendímos los 3 este largo camino.&amp;nbsp; Pero debido a unos atrasos, empecémos a las 8 de la noche.&amp;nbsp; Cuando eran las 9 menos cuarto, ya hemos llegado a Rutland Road que está a 50 metros del piso.&amp;nbsp; Fue allí que Poppy se detuvó debajo de un faró y negó a moverse.&amp;nbsp; Intentaba a cogerla en mis brazos pero me rehuyó.&amp;nbsp; Despues de 20 minutos nos dimos por vencidos y como está cerca del piso, la dejemos allí con la confianza que ella volviese dentro de poco.&amp;nbsp; Esta fue la última vez que vimos a Poppy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;La mañana siguiente a las 8, mi amigo decidío registrar todo el vecindario pero lo unico que encontró fue una carta en nuestro buzon de una señora agraciendonos por haber cuidado de su gata.&amp;nbsp; Ella habia visto nuestra direccíon escrito en el collar de Poppy y nos contó que hace 4 meses perdío a su gata pero no la dío por perdido.&amp;nbsp; Ella había&amp;nbsp;seguido con su busqueda por todo el suburbio, recorriendo cada semana una o dos veces el mismo camino.&amp;nbsp; Y esta noche, sus instintos (igual que los de Poppy) le llevó a Rutland Road para reunirse con ella, justo sobre las 9 y media de la noche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;¿Es este el destino, lo inevitable de todas nuestras vidas que preferimos ignorar?&amp;nbsp; ¿Existe el sexto sentido de los animales?&amp;nbsp; Ni idea, pero&amp;nbsp;entiendo porque Poppy se negó a volver a nuestra casa, simplemente porque ya tenía otro hogar y ella sabía con toda seguridad que iba a volver pronto allí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e9iNI7R-Fck/TbekTGEHYsI/AAAAAAAAAAw/neSdX4cFKD4/s1600/1247464399lfDpS3L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e9iNI7R-Fck/TbekTGEHYsI/AAAAAAAAAAw/neSdX4cFKD4/s400/1247464399lfDpS3L.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grey Tabby Cat&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes when I am too enclosed in my worldly routine, I think about&amp;nbsp;the story of Poppy, a super intelligent cat that entered my life 8 years ago.&amp;nbsp; This story always serves to remind me of the occult, and the little that we humans know of what lies beyond our worldly domain.&amp;nbsp; Once I tried to relate this tale to my neighbour here in Auckland and it scared her so much that she pleaded with me to stop because it gave her the chills just 2 minutes into the story.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, it was a beautiful spring afternoon in Auckland and I was leaning on the railings of my apartment´s balcony (as seen above in the photo) when I saw a grey cat wandering aimlessly in the complex grounds.&amp;nbsp; Since I am a cat lover, I called out to it and it came running towards the stairs and soon it was at my door, crying passionately.&amp;nbsp; Instead of ignoring me majestically, it stayed for dinner.&amp;nbsp; From the first day onwards, it was the most loyal and loving friend one could have.&amp;nbsp; My friend Agustin also fell in love with her and we named it Poppy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spring passed quickly and when winter arrived, Poppy was already an indispensable part of our family.&amp;nbsp; I have to admit that Poppy was no different from other cats that I had in the past, she loved fish, was distant at times, pensive (something that Agustin didn´t like) and even at times mischievious.&amp;nbsp; I don´t want to repeat the same things that other cat lovers would know by heart.&amp;nbsp; What really set Poppy apart was that she loved to take long long walks with us every night after dinner, at about 7.&amp;nbsp; This was not just a short walk by any means, we walked 3 km and Poppy followed, as if she knew exactly what she was doing by our side.&amp;nbsp; One morning, four months after staying with us, I discovered her purpose for taking the walks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was one of these chilly nights in winter and the 3 of us went on our walk.&amp;nbsp; That night we started late at 8 pm and at a quarter to 9 we were at Rutland Road, 50 metres from the apartment.&amp;nbsp; It was then and there that Poppy stopped walking and refused to budge, and sat there under a lamp post.&amp;nbsp; I tried to grab it and hold it in my arms but she just refused to be held.&amp;nbsp; After 20 mintues of trying we gave up and since we were close to home, we were sure that she would eventually return in a short while.&amp;nbsp; But this was the last time I saw Poppy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The next morning, at 8 am, my friend decided to search the area but the only thing he found was a letter in our mailbox.&amp;nbsp; It was from a lady, thanking us for having looked after her cat.&amp;nbsp; She had found our address written on Poppy´s collar and she told us that 4 months ago her cat went missing.&amp;nbsp; But she never gave up looking for her.&amp;nbsp; She continued her search once or twice a week, going round the same route that her cat used to take.&amp;nbsp; And that night, her instincts (same as that of Poppy´s) brought her to Rutland Road exactly at around 9.30 pm, so that she could be reunited with her dear cat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is this destiny, the inevitable part of our lives that we choose to ignore?&amp;nbsp; Do animals have a sixth sense?&amp;nbsp; I don´t know&amp;nbsp; but what I realise is that Poppy refused to come home with us because she already had a home and she knew with confidence that she was going to return back to her real home that night&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&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/65800456313959011-7162568783816567255?l=maskfighter23.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/feeds/7162568783816567255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-tales-poppy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7162568783816567255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/65800456313959011/posts/default/7162568783816567255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maskfighter23.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-tales-poppy.html' title='Strange Tales - Poppy'/><author><name>maskfighter23</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05483828763882538923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uzz-P0JTHis/Tsofmt82PPI/AAAAAAAAAI0/99m5ecK1oGw/s220/397472161.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e9iNI7R-Fck/TbekTGEHYsI/AAAAAAAAAAw/neSdX4cFKD4/s72-c/1247464399lfDpS3L.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
