Me falta...

Safety Net

“When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?” Sex and the city

En el mes del amor y la amistad.

"We don't really want to go back to the past...that's not the point. The point is ... It's like when you look at a picture of yourself from ten years ago and you can't believe how much you've changed.

And you don't really want to go back there, because you like your life and everything and you certainly don't want the bad haircut back, but you look at yourself and your old friends in the picture and you realize you haven't spoken to that person in years, that person you used to speak to every day, EVERY DAY, and you suddenly, desperately miss that person and have no idea how you got to the point where you don't even know where they live." Grey's anatomy writer.

El amor de mi tierra...

Last friday I had one of the most emotional moment since I arrived to Belgium!. It was just the therapy I needed after a hard and demanding week full of challenges: I went to a Carlos vives' concert!!.

After it I just think It's amaizing the emotions music can facilitate, and the effect it has in me. It is for sure the best concert I have been in; and the fact that happened in Belgium (and in this particular week) was just perfect...The emotions? I felt like I travelled to my city for 2 hours, I felt proud of my culture, of Colombia, I felt happy, nostalgic, sad, excited, ALIVE!.

About me...

ESTJ - "Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population.

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New Chapter...

Time is flying! I have already 20 days in Belgium. So far I feel really excited about my new life, the people, the city, the job, the culture, the food :) and the challlenge. Really looking forward an awesome year!!!

The grey Character in me... :p

I don't like so much this kind of things but it's about Grey's. So, I took the Grey's Anatomy Personality Quiz and it turns out I'm most like Cristina.

Very few people have, or can understand, the sheer determination and drive that propels you, but you're just as fiercely protective of your friends as you are of your own hopes and dreams. If they're smart, your friends already know that. They also know that you're more vulnerable than you seem and are only glad to offer a shoulder to cry on.

About to close a great circle :)

Proud to be Electronic Engineer!!! :p

Remembering Electrical storms...

A change is going to come....

And in that moment I said:

"Nothing is going to be the same! not better, not worse; Just different!"

23

"All you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself." Reality Bites

my world has changed!

"it's funny how the world changes sometimes.. how the streets you've walked your entire life suddenly seem darker, colder. how the silence isn't so quiet anymore. how eyes you've barely even noticed, now look at nothing but you. how the walk home every night is no longer a routine, but a victory. and then you begin to wonder that maybe it's not the world that's changed, maybe it's just you." - Roswell

Scientists warn of Twitter dangers

(CNN) -- Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.

Scientists say updates on networking tools such as Twitter are often too quick for the brain to fully digest.

New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain's "moral compass" to process and could harm young people's emotional development.

Before the brain can fully digest the anguish and suffering of a story, it is being bombarded by the next news bulletin or the latest Twitter update, according to a University of Southern California study.

"If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality," said researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.

The report, published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, studied how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain. iReport.com: Growing pains for Twitter, Facebook?

Brain scans showed humans can process and respond very quickly to signs of physical pain in others, but took longer to show admiration of compassion.

"For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people's social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and refection," said Immordio-Yang.

She said the study raises questions about the emotional cost, particularly for young people, of heavy reliance on a torrent of news snippets delivered via TV and online feeds such as Twitter.

She said: "We need to understand how social experience shapes interactions between the body and mind, to produce citizens with a strong moral compass."

USC sociologist Manuel Castells said the study raised more concerns over fast-moving TV than the online environment.

"In a media culture in which violence and suffering becomes an endless show, be it in fiction or in infotainment, indifference to the vision of human suffering gradually sets in."

Research leader Antonio Damasio, director of USC's Brain and Creativity Institute, said the findings stressed the need for slower delivery of the news, and highlighted the importance of slow-burn emotions like admiration.

Damasio cited the example of U.S. President Barack Obama, who says he was inspired by his father, to show how admiration can be key to cultural success.

"We actually separate the good from the bad in great part thanks to the feeling of admiration. It's a deep physiological reaction that's very important to define our humanity."

Twitter, which allows users to swap messages and links of 140-characters or less, says on its Web site that it sees itself as a solution to information overload, rather than a cause of it.

This function, It says, "means you can step in and out of the flow of information as it suits you and it never queues up with increasing demand of your attention."


http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/04/14/twitter.study/index.html

Love actually is all around :)

Nothing cute is about to happen :) Just using Imagination :)

Fate...

"I got to thinking about fate. That crazy concept that we're not really responsible for the course our lives take. That it's all predestined, written in the stars. Maybe that explains why, if you live in a city, where you can't even see the stars, your love life tends to feel a little more random. And even if our every man, every kiss, every heartache, is pre-ordered from some cosmic catalogue, can we still take a wrong step and wander off our own personal milky way? I couldn't help but wonder, can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cites. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."

Sex and the city. I heart NY, season 4

Strangers on a train

In recent weeks I have been very involved in the world of electronic engineering, to be more specific I'm doing the final project to graduate, which is aimed at testing the application of a statistical method to predict losses in a network. Because of this, I have been reading about statistics and I've found it reaaally interesting and has amazing applications in daily life.

uncertainty is one of the most important concepts in the theory of information which is a really important one for communications (communication related to engineering); but just yesterday I was talking with my friends and one of my friends came out with a theory that he learned in his communications' classes (related to interpersonal comm) and I just found it very cool the theory is called as "stranger on a train theory", this theory is in fact related with uncertainty, with reduction of uncertainty, and it says that people have stated the need to reduce uncertainty about others gaining information about them. The information gained can then use to predict the behavior of another. So when you are in a bus, a supermarket or wherever the information you have of people is just provided by the senses, the way someone smells or looks like, so you feel the need to reduce uncertainty, and how cool is to reduce uncertainty :).

Luck...

One of the most excellent things I like to have is: control, so thinking about that, thinking about losing control on things; I got into the concept of luck, and I found a really interesting definition:

Luck (also called fortunity) is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's control. Luck can be good or bad (as in; Good fortune or misfortune)
references: http://www.answers.com/topic/luck

Then I thought about how it and It's really funny how we can justify everything that happens in our life with luck, but maybe we are not looking beyond, maybe it was not good or bad luck, maybe there is not something like luck, what if everything depends on the decisions you take or the things you do, in the path you chose...Anyway in a different point of view Woody Allen once said:

"People are afraid to acknowledge or to face what huge dependency they have on luck,". "There's a tendency to think we have great control over our lives or some control, but the truth of the matter is that we don't have the control that you think. You think you have control - you think if you get up in the morning, you exercise, you eat right and don't smoke, you will be healthy. But it doesn't work that way - you still get cancer and you still get hit by a bus. So much is luck. But if you face that, it's a very unpleasant feeling. You like to feel 'I have some control over events' ... You do have some control, but much less than you think, and that's why I wanted to make the movie."