Five years from now.

Future....oh! future, that little word wich sometimes (very few times) make me feel worried and scaried. Definitly I don`t know what I`ll be doing the next year, even the next week, but I´m pretty sure I will be trying to be hapier each day. I know very few things about my future and what I want for me, but I know I will be helping my family. I don´t know about material things, I would like to buy a motorcicle and do some trips in Chile.

Future is a hard topic to write about to me, my life has changed so many times and in so many ways and I never had a special plan to do, I don´t have problems with the good or bad thing that could happen, it´s just life so I take it as it comes.Everything depends on the place where I will be working at. I hope find a good job where I could keep thinking and learning about design, and if there are any chance to keep studing,I would do it.
When I`m thinking on the future I always have the sensation of something really good will happen, or the bad things will change. I think it`s hope and it make me live in peace without stress or useless thoughts.

Best Web Site

Do you like to discover new sites? Do you like to spend your time going through the best web sites on the net? Go and visit stumbleupon. It isn`t a web page, it is a web tool bar you can install on your browser and once you install it and made your own session it let you go between pages that are related to the topics that you like such as arts, design, computer games, pets and a lot of other kind of webpage, and as the name says, you go stumbling in the web. If you like what it brings to you can give it a "thumbs up", and if you don`t like it, you can give it a "thumbs down" and this is the way how it works, using the opinion of millions of users (8,548,543 to be exact) so, if someone who see a page related to design likes it, may be another guy who likes the same topics likes it too.
It`s maybe the best plugging that I’ve ever used, but be careful.... it can be addictive...I`m serious.(If you click on the image you will see a little example about how addictive it can be.)

friends

I think I`m a very social person, I love to share an talk with people, I like to learn and teach to other guys, I love to have friends, but I don`t have a friend closer than mi nephew. His name is Emilio and is the only son of my sister Patricia, he`s 27 years old and we grew up together, as brothers. We have expend a lot of time together in our childhood playing "super Nintendo", and talking about anything, almost the 80% of the movies that I’ve seen was watching on his tv (I have to say his taste for movies it`s very broad, from excellent movies to others that you only can say "why am i watching this?!" but at least it`s very funny). When we were younger we looked very alike and always the people said we were brothers but now we have a lot of differences in our way to see the world and the things that are around us. He is engineering and he usually have a very rational way to think, but his mind seems to be the only way to him to see the world. By the other hand I`m very emotional to think so sometimes we have a very opposite perspective of life. But maybe this is what make us so very good friends, our differences make us think in other ways, and that make us grow up, and also make our friendship stronger

:)

Giorgetto Giugiaro

I think he is one of the best designers, `cause his designs are known almost in every place, in every country (but the most of people doesn`t know his name).
He was born in 1938, in Italy, he is a car designer who has worked in almost thirty enterprises , like FIAT, BMV, Alfa Romeo, Audi, Daewoo, Ferrari, Ford, Hyundai, Izuzu, Toyota, Volkswagen, Subaru, Seat, Renault and Lamborghini. His designs are bigger than him, that’s why I think he`s one of the most popular designers in the world. He even is the designer of the iconic car of “Back to the Future”, the De Lorean DMC-12. He introduced the highly angular "folded paper" era in 1970 with very straight lined design to make the cars stronger and lighter by using folds on the bodywork.
And if it`s not enough to believe he is a grat designer, he was the winner of the “Car designer of the Century” in 1999.

What makes Chileans Chileans?

It is an interesting question, because I`ve always felt we aren`t a patriotic country… until September. If you ask to the people about our history, our national heroes, our traditions, or about our native people, it`s very probably the don`t know anything, but they may feel very Chilean. And if you ask about what place they would like to know, it`s also very probably they answer places like Europe, Caribbean or U.S.A, but nothing in Chile (except Easter Island, but it is almost Caribbean). It`s a few people who can dance cueca in our national holydays, but everyone still feels a Chilean in every aspect.

Why?, What make us feel like a part of a nation named Chile, even if we don`t know about our country?. Maybe it`s the isolation of a place so far away of the world, where the foreign people is something strange. We are the southest country on earth, that`s why we`re always looking out, trying to be part of a world, but forgetting our roots. We are still trying to be “the English of South-america” instead to be the “Chileans of the world”. We are a very weird country, and maybe that´s why I like it, because when the name of our country is threaded in a soccer game, an Olympic game, or by another nation we fight for it, and support it, no matter if we know who is Carrera, O`higgins, o Godoy Alcayaga, because Chile is not history or traditions, Chile is our family, our friends, and everything we love.

And that make us Chileans.

O.k, That, and the immeasurable love for the barbeques and liquor in September.

Technology!

Maybe I have a tecnofilia, `cause I love almost every little thing that can be connected, plugged o used near my computer, I could expend a lot on technology, (if my wallet could cover it) I could buy thing like cell phones, iPods, laptops, gaming stuff, plasma monitors, but as I can´t now, I really enjoy my own stuff. From a few months ago I’m falling in love more and more with my laptop; it´s not pretty cool, and pretty stylish, but at least it let me work without crashes, and I like that. I think it´s a very good machine, it let me do the things when I want to, and where I want to.

The thing that I like most is the fact that I can go anywhere, any place (with an electrical connection) and I can work with my things, at my own way, listening my music and killing the time in the things I enjoy such as illustration, drawings, reading news, searching videos and that is a huge benefit of having a personal laptop. I bought my laptop on march with my own money and that felts very good. Maybe that makes me love it more, cause it is a product of my work, and when you pay the price of your things you know how it worth any cent you pay for it.

the bbc learning web!

As everything in our lifes, new things can be learned only when we put the new information in use, and learning a new language is not the exception and if you need tools to keep your language skills on the edge this one could be a very good resourse for those who are hungry of more and more practice.

The web site have a lot of sections like quizzes, games, articles and audio files that let us develop and improve our way to practice and learn english. One of the funniests part of th website is the flatmates, a quick short video series that let us know about four friends and their daily life routine. There´s also a section made by the comunity of readers, teachers an students who wants to share their knowledge with all the people..
Another good way to keep the english running on our head is "6 minute english" and as it name says is a short audio file with six minutes of full conversation.
So if you really want to get better on your skills don´t forget when we aren´t using our knowledge, we are losing it!.so take a seat, and enjoy the place.

:)

me, myself and i?

Hi everyone!

I´m Álvaro, i´m studing industrial design and this is my 4th year. Here is my english blog, wich i hope to help me, and help us all to learn and improve our language skills. What i hope abbout this subject?, well, I´d like to get a better pronunctuation and a bigger vocabulary to make my english more fluid than now. So I will be working reading and trying to speak more and more, and if you wanna talk, learn or teach me, well, we could talk....

So... That´s it!


Greetings!!


Álvaro