News: Google Introduces Aurebesh

I found this new when I was trying to get a reliable translator. I felt rally shocked because I'm a huge fan of Star Wars saga. Soy may the force be with you to read this!

SUMMARY:
On November 23rd, the official twitter account of google posted a link. This brought you to google translate and it allowed you to write in Aurebesh, the language that the "Galactic Community speaks". This made some social networks get full of new characters that had never been seen on the internet. This was due to a tribute thay made to a boy who was terminal cancer ill, and could see the 7th film before dying.

Google has had more than 200 milion views and the 23rd it was the most translated language of the day, followed by chinese.

Vocabulary learned:
Tribute: An act done for remembering or giving honour to somebody.
Aurebesh: Name of the language used in "star wars saga"
Collapse: To be full and blocked (a network in this case).

I did a translation for you to see how it works:

 Opinion:
I think that this is very positive from google, doing a tribute like this to a simple man can say  a lot about a corporation. Personally I have to say that I have spent the whole morning translating the film plot! I've had a lot of fun. And I don't think there is anything else to say about this. Bye!

News: Putin gets Turkish advice "Don't play with fire"

I found this new on the Huffington post, It was posted a few days a go. It consists on a declaration that the Turkish prime minister did which refered to Russia.

SUMMARY:
Vladimir Putin has been warned not "to play with fire" by the Turkish army. This is due to the fact that both nations did several reivindicative acts against what happened last week. By one side, a russian warplane was destroyed by a turkish missile. By th other, Russia threatened Turkey stating that he would have his personal revenge.


The polemic is between to versions of what happened. Russia says that the plane was destroyed on Syria's territory (30 miles away from the frontier). Turkish says that they spent a lot of time warning that plane to abandon their jurisdiction and they finally destroyed it for the security of their citizens.

Turkey's politicians say that it's been a problem between these countries armys, they say that they wouldn't like to damage the relations between Russia and Turkey.

Vocabulary learned:
Stab in the back: Betrayal
To bomb sth: To do repetitive attacks with aerial explosives somewhere.
Airspace: Security jurisdiction that a country has. In this space they can destroy whatever it threats their security.

 Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish prime minister

Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister

My opinion:

I think that this conflict might not have been taken this way. It's true that both countries have problems with Syria so they should help each other instead of stabbing each other. Maybe what motivated Syria to attack Russia is the unstable history of the european giant. It wouldn't be the first time they commit betrayal so they had more than a reason to be afraid. In the other hand, there are more ways to stop a plane than destroying it, there are Russian ambassadors in Ankhara...but it's just a formal suggestment... Summarizing, it has been a wrong act from both sides, but specially from Turkey who might not destroy anymore planes that can cause their self destruction.

 Russian bomb with the message  "for ours" written on it

 Russian technician writing "for Paris" on a bomb

Source:http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/27/vladimir-putin-downed-jet-erdogan_n_8665200.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Review: Kingsman

About three months ago, I saw this film and I'd like to share my experience with you.

Kingsman talks about a kid who lives in a slum which is in London. His father died when he was a baby and he has been gettin' into trouble since then. When he grows up he is specially good at stealing, escaping and other delinquent acts. This causes him lots of problems. But a man who belongs to a secret agence tries to make him go another way. He tries to help him to be what his father was, a secret agent from the "Kingsman" agence. This is very attractive for him, and he begins working to get that status.

After a long time working to refine his abilities his superiors ask him to kill the dog that has belonged to him since the training process began, but he doesn't want so he doesn't get the job. Everything begins to change when he discovers that Kingsman is involved into the biggest massacre ever. A multimilionaire wants to create chaos in the world by making everyone crazy (they kill themselves ones to each others). So 3 people who were working in kingsman and himself decide to save the world. After having said thiss I don't think you want me to do spoiler of the end, go and check it yourselves.

When the film ended I really felt strange, I had the sensation of having seen the film before, and the fact is that I had. This film is an accumulation of spying films. The handsome boy ends up with the pretty girl, the villain dies, the world is saved 1 sec before it's destroyed, the mentor dies at the begining,... All those elements that appear in all the films of this genre. But I have to say that I had a lot of fun watching it and this is one of the best parodies that I have seen lately. I highly recommend it to all of you, get some crisps and a warm sofa, then spend a good afternoon watching Kingsman!

My experience working

This summer I had the chance to get a job. I worked in a restaurant as a waiter and I really learned a lot about how this world works. I applied for the job in may and they hired me before I ended school the 10th June I think. The first days I only did the night service because I had to be in the school during the day. The first days I felt a bit clumsy and everything was difficult, but day and day after I learned new things that helped me to have more control. My record of services was 240 people with only 2 waiters and 3 cooks. That really helps you to get your mood pumped, you feel very relaxed and useful! The thing that shocked me the most was having a salary, I really felt that I had earned it. I was so happy too with my workmates (we were already friends when I began working there), they behaved really well with me and taught me a lot of things.

Another thing I liked, that I didn't expect I would like, were grateful customers. I don't know why but you feel really good when somebody you don't know tells you things like "Nice english!" or "You're so good for being that young!". I didn't really felt proud about the message itself but for the comprehension. Sometimes is not easy to be always smiling when there are 7 tables waiting for menus.

What I also enjoyed a lot was a day specially, we organized a jam session in the restaurant and I was invited to play the guitar, I had a really great time showing how did I play to the customers! I leave some pics below, hope you like 'em!

Song analysis: One - Metallica

Metallica's song "one" is probably the most iconic song of this group, not just because of the moment when it was released, It has many aspects that might be considered to conclude that this is their best job until now.

This song talks about the agony of a man who has just come back from Vietnam's war. He has some fatal wounds that don't let him be alive in the sensorial meaning. In fact, the song says "Darkness is prisioning me, absolut horror, I cannot see, I cannot talk, I cannot live let me please lie in hell". This caused a lod of polemic because it was a critical song against government's on marine actions. Another sentence that shows desesperation would be the chorus: "Hold my breath as I wish for death, please God save me". These would be the lyrics meaning.

Then if we look at this song and we try to see how was it composed, we see many other aspects that are pretty relevant. The intro has 3 chords "B5", "G3" and "A5sus". This progression is very strange, but it's usually used in Vietnam for folklore songs. Then, if we study the 2nd part of the song, the guitars, and the drums try to make a sound which is similar to a machinegun shooting, this is for making people feel anxious, scared a little bit, this is sensitive emulation. The last part we can analize is the solo. Kirk Hammett (the composer of the solo and lead guitarist) said that this solo has 2 parts: The first one tries to emulate life going away from the body and the second one the last struggle against death.

Well, hope you learned a little bit from this song, and I encourage you to listen some more metallica stuff!

New year's purposes

This list might be a source of jokes  for some of the people who know me well but I think that it's necessary to have purposes because what sense would our lives have if we didn't have 'em, uh? So, let's go:
-I'd like to quit drinking Coca-cola.
-I will be more kind with the people I know, specially when I've just woken up.
-I'll be less annoying to my mate Alí in maths.
-I'll begin studying 3 days a week instead the day before the exam.
-I'll put all my effort on "selectivitat" exams and all that stuff.
-I'll try to be more severe with order patterns (ha, ha).
-I'll be cleaner on my handmade writings.
-I won't let my blog for the last week.
-I won't get my homework for the last day either.
-I will play the guitar 1 hour per day at least.
-I will listen to people who want to give me advice for not having to hear "I told you...blablabla".

-And I won't tell lies with the things I'm gonna do the year after.

So hope you learn a bit about my deffects as well, not just my silence in class. I have tons of deffects that may be improved next year, but as I said, I'll try to improve them the day before I have to use them :) .

My Christmas

This year, as it's been the first one I've worked, I'll do something that I've never done before in Christmas, which is making some presents to my family. What we do in the early ages is just recieving, and I think that it's nice to give as well, because I really have more moral debts than complaints. I'm very grateful for the life that I've been able to have until now, and I think that it would be nice to say "thank you" to my family in a special way.

First of all I have to be grateful to my parents, who will get a free dinner somewhere, because I can understand they are a bit tired of my brother and I sometimes, so they deserve it. After that I'll make a very special present to my mother's parents, who have allowed me to live with them. Their present will be a coffee maker because theirs is so old that  it produces venom instead of coffee, so I think they need and deserve it. My father's parents will have presents as well, I was thinking about inviting them to go to a SPA with those red boxes, I don't know its name now. And I'll make a present for myself because I've nailed it during the last year and I need some happiness too (hahahaha). I'll give myself a guitar for my personal collection, because it will help me to open the door to new music genres.

So I hope you all have a splendid Xmas and a happy new year (a bit early but it's OK though).

My home in Barcelona

In a few months, if everything goes as it's planned, I'll be living in Barcelona. I hope to study something there, because as everyone who is doing Batxillerat, I'd like to expand my knowledge someday.I'll live with my grandparents in l'Eixample. I'm so close to the university that I get there by walking. My home there is not so big. It's a small flat with a few rooms. It's last century's architecture, so it has wide corridors and narrow doors. I like being there because I have quite a strange feeling everytime I enter the door, I feel that is my home. I'm allowed to be responsible there, I cook, I take care of the dishwashing, clothes washing as well, electronics, bricolage and all that stuff. I feel very nice when I see the amount of things there that have been done with my effort there, I've learned a lot improving that house, and that's what makes it a big part of me. My room there is special because it's not shared with my brother anymore, so I can have intimacy for the first time in my life. What it's curious that my room only has a bed, a wardrobe and my guitars. But I don't need anymore than that. So as a conclusion I'll say that as I get closer I'm more excited to be living there as soon as posible.

My Idol: My grandmother

I would like to dedicate this entry to my grandmother who has been a source of inspiration for me since I can remember. She has always been the person who has understood me more than anyone. She has always been the one who has been there to encourage me to carry on on the difficult times. She has always been there for anything that I've need. So I'd like you to know how she is.

My grandmother has always been a survivor, she has adapted to everything that life has prepared for her. She was born in Ceuta the 31st July of 1931, her mother died when she was 3 years old. 2 years after that happened they had to run away from Ceuta because the war had started, and her family was well known for republican ideals so it was no good idea to stay in Franco's headquarters. They moved to Madrid with almost anything. They stayed on her grandmother's house. They suffered all the consequences of war, bombers passed over Madrid day and day after and they had to get hidden somewhere. When the war finished her father was in prison, where the winners (if we should call them like this) killed him. She went to Granada where she studied on the school that her aunt directed, it was a nun's school. And she spent her childhood and adolescence there. By the time she reached the 18 years old she ran away from there and moved to Barcelona where she studied and met my grandfather. After that the story is a stereotype of those times, a young couple, they both work and try to get the best for their family although it's difficult.

As you can see she has had no easy life, but, you know what? She has never said I can't or I surrend. She has been working and working to go ahead. And she has done it. She is the kind of person that gives more than she recieves, but she doesn't care. She has always been happy by helping others to have easy lives. She has had no parents since she was 7. How can a kid stand it? There's no easy way to do it. She had 8 brothers. There are only three of them alive (she included). She has had to see her family die, her friends too. So for me, she is a hero. She is THE HERO everyone should have, and I will always be grateful for having had the chance of having a person like her close to me.

My research project

On these days we're all very excited and this is because the research project ends up in a few weeks. A whole year of work finishes in December 21st. So I thought that it would be nice to explain you what is my project about. The thing is that as I think you may not be keen on Quantum mechanics it will be a bit difficult.

My project is based in a single thing, Schrödinger's equation. The mental effort that it would be necessary to solve it is no problem because I work with a program that solves it. As most of you won't know what it is I'll explain it in the easiest way I know. The Schrödingers equation is mathematical expression that gives information about a zone where there are a lot of possibilities of finding electrons. It's just no more than that. Why I say possibility? Because you can't know where it is with full precision. This would be the central topic of the project, but now I'll proceed to explain you how I've structured it.

First of all I begin by explaining where does it come from, I talk about the origins of athom's concept. It comes from Greek phylosophy. Then I carry on explaining the first athomic models by Ernst Rutherford. After that I dedicate a Whole chapter to talk about Einstein, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg and Schrödinger himself. This is probably what has costed me the most effort, because my level at the beggining was 0. In the last part I talk about the modern athom's concept and the digital methods that physicists use to work.

I think that this will be enough for you, I wouldn't like to do spoiler. You'll see my whole project in the 2nd term.

Oral Presentation: The Aesthetics in music.

I leave you here the two videos of our oral presentation, I put the videos of the songs below for if you want to check'em out.

And here is the playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqZ325xiW6GS6FEleKBZ0KBwNYBy6Qqu

Dorian Grey's exam composition.

When we grow older we lose some physical aspects that are involved in beauty but we should look further than that. We are a bit stupid if we just look at what we can see. Beauty is a deeper concept. Beauty can be reached by 3 different ways in my opinion:
-Externally: in fact this is what makes people attract others at first sight.
-Mood: A person could be extremely good looking and completely mental useless, so it's for me the most important fact involved in beauty.
-Magnetism: Some people have it. I would define it as the capability of attracting people by just existing, for no particular reason. It's not essential, but it makes people look quite more beautiful.
For this reason I state that: "Beauty resides in nothing but existence itself". Because beauty is in each of us. Maybe it is the way we smile, on the way we cry, it doesn't matter, we all have beauty in us.

In relation to the story I think that it can be seen as an attack to modern's beauty conception. The exageration in Dorian's case is a very effective tool in Wilde's criticism. The issue is that Dorian's obsession is what ends up killing him, so maybe this is the thing we can learn from Oscar Wilde's book.

Is humor necessary?

The question that has turned the world of psychology upside down is back now stronger than ever. This is a very important issue now that AI exists. The fact is that sense of humor is not reproducible yet. Why is this essential characteristic so difficult to duplicate? Is this exclusive to humans? Is there any kind of conscious human without sense of humor? The answer is that humor necessary and personal as well. It's one of  the most important features that distinguishes humans from animals.

Humor is a point of view It makes us face challenges and problems without collapsing, it's the positive part we all need. When we use it, we are able to produce pleasure in other people. Due to this fact scientists say that it's considered a very effective social weapon which is specific for each individual. This fact makes some of us more social than others. In fact, the sympathic system becomes more active instead of passive when we use humor.

Humor is also very useful for health.It triggers the production of endorphins in the hipotalamus. It allows us to get pleasure with ourselves. This pleasure relaxes muscles and relieves pressure from the brain liquids. For this reason we get a little sick when we laugh to much but it's just a benefit.

Changing of topic, we could say that humor works as a smoke curtain as well. Some psychologists have the conviction that it allows us to hide our deepest fears by just laughing at them. This is quite difficult to understand because it could be considered as a stopper, as an obstacle for our internal progress. But it  works as a window. We look through it.We see issues that we are not ready to face. More Benefits!

The last thing I'll mention is that it works according to the expression "the more the merrier" because the combination of differend types of humor helps group bonds to get  stronger.

As a conclusion, It could be said that humor is not necessary but essential, personal and not vulnerable. we can't reproduce it because it isn't a parameter with fixed patterns. It's different in each of us, and it's what makes us special and unique. No humor, no soul. No soul, no life!