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July 16

Roger Sanchez - "Another chance" (Erotic Lounge)

 
 
 
 
If you've just had a break-up and are feeling down, you're not alone. Just about everyone experiences a break-up at sometime, and many then have to deal with heartbreak — a wave of grief, anger, confusion, low self-esteem, and maybe even jealousy all at once. Millions of poems and songs have been written about having a broken heart and wars have even been fought because of heartbreak.

What Exactly Is Heartbreak?
Lots of things can cause heartbreak. Some people might have had a romantic relationship that ended before they were ready. Others might have strong feelings for someone who doesn't feel the same way. Or maybe a person feels sad or angry when a close friend ends or abandons the friendship. Although the causes may be different, the feeling of loss is the same — whether it's the loss of something real or the loss of something you only hoped for. People describe heartbreak as a feeling of heaviness, emptiness, and sadness.

How Can I Deal With How I Feel?
Most people will tell you you'll get over it or you'll meet someone else, but when it's happening to you, it can feel like no one else in the world has ever felt the same way. If you're experiencing these feelings, there are things you can do to lessen the pain. Here are some tips that might help:
 
    * Share your feelings. Some people find that sharing their feelings with someone they trust — someone who recognizes what they're going through — helps them feel better. That could mean talking over all the things you feel, even having a good cry on the shoulder of a comforting friend or family member. Others find they heal better if they hang out and do the things they normally enjoy, like seeing a movie or going to a concert, to take their minds off the hurt. If you feel like someone can't relate to what you're going through or is dismissive of your feelings, find someone more sympathetic to talk to. (OK, we know that sharing feelings can be tough for guys, but you don't necessarily have to tell the football team or your wrestling coach what you're going through. Talk with a friend or family member, a teacher, or counselor. It might make you more comfortable if you find a female family member or friend, like an older sister or a neighbor, to talk to.)

    * Remember what's good about you. This one is really important. Sometimes people with broken hearts start to blame themselves for what's happened. They may be really down on themselves, exaggerating their faults as though they did something to deserve the unhappiness they're experiencing. If you find this happening to you, nip it in the bud! Remind yourself of your good qualities, and if you can't think of them because your broken heart is clouding your view, get your friends to remind you.

    * Take good care of yourself. A broken heart can be very stressful so don't let the rest of your body get broken too. Get lots of sleep, eat healthy foods, and exercise regularly to minimize stress and depression and give your self-esteem a boost.

    * Don't be afraid to cry. Going through a break-up can be really tough, and getting some of those raw emotions out can be a big help. We know this is another tough one for guys, but there's no shame in crying now and then. No one has to see you do it — you don't have to start blubbering in class or at soccer practice or anything. Just a find a place where you can be alone, like crying into your pillow at night or in the shower when you're getting ready for the day.

    * Do the things you normally enjoy. Whether it's seeing a movie or going to a concert, do something fun to take your mind off the negative feelings for a while.

    * Keep yourself busy. Sometimes this is difficult when you're coping with sadness and grief, but it really helps. This is a great time to redecorate your room or try a new hobby. That doesn't mean you shouldn't think about what happened — working things through in our minds is all part of the healing process — it just means you should focus on other things too.

    * Give yourself time. It takes time for sadness to go away. Almost everyone thinks they won't feel normal again, but the human spirit is amazing — and the heartbreak almost always heals after a while. But how long will that take? That depends on what caused your heartbreak, how you deal with loss, and how quickly you tend to bounce back from things. Getting over a break-up can take a couple of days to many weeks — and sometimes even months.
 
Some people feel that nothing will make them happy again and resort to alcohol or drugs. Others feel angry and want to hurt themselves or someone else. People who drink, do drugs, or cut themselves to escape from the reality of a loss may think they are numbing their pain, but the feeling is only temporary. They're not really dealing with the pain, only masking it, which makes all their feelings build up inside and prolongs the sadness.
 
Sometimes the sadness is so deep — or lasts so long — that a person may need some extra support. For someone who isn't starting to feel better after a few weeks or who continues to feel depressed, talking to a counselor or therapist can be very helpful.
So be patient with yourself, and let the healing begin.
 
Reviewed by: Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD
Date reviewed: November 2007
Originally reviewed by: Ken L. Cheyne, MD
 
July 12

Grandes!

 
 
 
June 28

Yo pienso en ti

 
Ella era extraña, conversaba con el viento
le tenia miedo al tiempo, se peinaba en madrugada,
para recibir al sol
se sentaba en la ventana y dibujaba en los cristales
con sus manos, una carcel
para atrapar al sol....
 
Y en su mirada, detenia la alborada
me decia "soy una hada volare hasta tu almohada
a pintarte el corazon"
me abrazaba y me pedia que soltara mis cometas
que en su vientre vivirian
por que sabia que yo
pienso en ti...

Yo pienso en ti...
.. en tu mirada
Yo pienso en ti...
.. en tus mañanas....
 
Ella era extraña
escribia unos poemas que mas bien eran teoremas
que rompian con los esquemas,
de cualquier verso de amor.
y de pronto una mañana, se trepo a su poesia
y me dejo en caligrafía,
un papel diciendo...
 
Yo pienso en ti...
yo, pienso en ti....
.. en tu mirada
yo pienso en ti...
... en tus mañanas...
 
Yo, pienso en ti...
 
*Leusemia
 
June 13

...y un "te amo"

 
Te llevo conmigo
me basta sacudir
un poco mi ropa
el olor de tu cuello
brota en el aire
como cuando te tuve
en brazos
anudado a tu cuello
 
Como aquella vez
que caí en la oscuridad
y supiste guiarme
al despertar
estabas tú junto a mi
y no me dejaste ir
 
¿Enamorados dónde quedaron esos días?
 
¿Cuál fue mi error?
 
¿El tuyo?
 
Un viaje a cuestas
una playa
y un mundo en común
 
Risas compartidas
Llantos provocados
Llantos consolados
Iras reprimidas
 
Me pregunto
si te habré enseñado algo
si habrás aprendido de mi
 
¿...Las gracias?
 
Agradecido
seguiré culpándome
cuando todo esto termine
 
¿Terminará?
 
Seré libre
o esclavizado
viviré del recuerdo
¿Para quién es la buena noticia?
 
¿Para mí?
 
¿Para tí?
 
¿Para él?
 
Te llevo conmigo
por dentro
por fuera
aquellas marcas
en mi rostro
esperan
 
June 07

Sin pausa

 
Salí a dar una vuelta
a exorcizar mis demonios
No hallé más que soledad
y abrazos prohibidos
No hallé consuelo
No hallé paz
 
Una vez más me encuentro
con la angustia en torno al cuello
tímido y con vergüenza
culpable caminé las calles
 
Del frío me burlé
y apretó con más fuerza
De la felicidad me reí
no pude encontrarla
 
Abrazos prohibidos
y una voz que calla
que busca
y que calla otra vez
 
Risas fingidas
y dedos que apuntan
que señalan
que incriminan
Y un peso tan grande
con el que he de cargar
 
Callar y esconderse
murmurar en la noche
a oscuras solo conmigo
Hablándole al cielo
contando estrellas
matando el tiempo 
 
Rezando porque amanezca
en mi cama tendido
Sin dolor 
Sin llanto
Sin pena
 
Sin pausa
 
May 24

Carta abierta de un perro a su dueño

 
Ahora, eres mi amo y solo te pido amor.
Has decidido hacerte responsable de mí y me siento agradecido por tu determinación.
Existirá entre ambos un secreto pacto de confianza que jamás será quebrantado de mi parte.
 
Deberás comprenderme por algún tiempo, acabo de separarme de mi madre y de mis hermanos. Me notarás desorientado, inquieto y algunas noches me verás llorar... Si, los extraño, compréndeme, yo te comprenderé luego por muchos años.
Seré tu mejor amigo, entenderé tus cambios de humor, tus alegrías, tus días buenos y tus días malos, estaré a tu lado acompañándote en tu soledad y en tu tristeza y te trataré siempre con el mismo amor, con la misma lealtad. Lameré la mano con que me castigas, porque mi capacidad de perdonar es infinita.

Pero por favor, no me castigues; enséñame. Desconozco los detalles que pueden irritarte y deseo complacerte en todo.
Deseo también que te sientas orgulloso de mí cuando me veas echado a tus pies, cuando camine a tu lado por la calle como tu sombra más fiel.
Quiero responder a ese ideal de perro que tanto anhelas, pero depende de ti: seré reflejo de tu modo de educarme y de tratarme. Ayúdame a no defraudarte. Si me tratas con violencia....seré agresivo. Háblame, entiendo cada una de tus palabras, aunque no te conteste con el mismo lenguaje. Aprende a leer mis ojos y comprenderás cuanto te entiendo; sé que eres una buena persona.

¿Qué piensas tú de aquellos que no aman a los animales? Estoy seguro que me cuidaras con amor. Eres mi amo.
Poco a poco nos haremos grandes amigos, nos conoceremos y nos respetaremos por igual.
Mira... cuando el primer hombre apareció en la tierra, el resto de los animales creían que era otro animal, sin embargo tenia “alma”. Medita sobre esto. El hombre manifiesta su alma a través del lenguaje, nosotros a través de nuestros actos.

No olvides nunca mi amo, que a te amo a mi manera.

Durante mas de 10 años estaré junto a ti, creceremos juntos, compartiremos tantas y tantas cosas, y el día en que me vaya a vivir a alguna estrella, mira el cielo con frecuencia porque siempre te estaré mirando.
Pero deseo decirte algo: no nunca dejes mi casita vacía, hay otro cachorro esperándote y al cual llegaras a amar tanto como a mí. No quiero dejar en mi testamento una casita vacía; ahora bien, no pensemos en ese día, hazme una caricia y juega un ratito conmigo. Tenemos muchos años por delante para hacernos felices.

Te acompaña, te cuida, te comprende y te ama...
 
- Tu perro
May 07

50 Reasons You might Be A Hardcore Graphic Designer

 
Totalmente cierto; transcrito tal cual lo leí en Bittbox.
A ver si encuentran algunas (por no decir TODAS) verdades que coincidan con uds. amigos diseñadores...
 
25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
 (In no particular order)
 
   1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
   2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
   3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
   4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
   5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
   6. You consider meals interruptions.
   7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
   8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
   9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
  10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
  11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
  12. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
  13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
  14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
  15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
  16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
  17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
  18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
  19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
  20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
  21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
  22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
  23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
  24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
  25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
 
 
 25 MORE Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
  
   1. You’ve had a client that thought they knew more about design than you.
   2. Your clients pay you for your professional expertise and skill, yet you’ve run into one of ‘those’ clients,
       that refuses to take the advice from the very person he/she is paying for advice (you).  
   3. You’ve had a client that insisted on using the font “Papyrus,” and you had to hold in your barf as you prepped it [the design] for printing.
   4. You’ve requested a vector logo from a client, and instead, they email you a 72 dpi image they grabbed from a website.
   5. You’ve used typography as a texture.
   6. You don’t have a favorite font because you love “Typography.” Not Fonts. Choosing a favorite font would be like choosing a favorite child, it’s just wrong.
   7. You collect as many free stuffs from the interwebs as you can on your hard drive, hoping that one day,
       that cool project will come along that you can actually use some cool shit on.
   8. You’d rather have a free font than a free gallon of gas.
   9. It’s hard to talk about frustrations at your job with a group of friends because they have no idea what “Vector” or “DPI” is, just to name a couple.
 10. You’ve had a client ask you to “Make the logo bigger.”
 11. You’ve had a client that insists on “filling up the space.”
 12. You’ve learned to over-price web design projects because most clients are more picky about their websites than a high school girl picking out a prom dress.
 13. You feel like you’re “On Call” half of the time because clients procrastinate so much.
 14. You know keyboard shortcuts that require 4 fingers.
 15. You’ve lost hours of work because an application crashed, and you had to start over from scratch because you were in the “zone” and forgot to save.
      Basically, you were having so much fun being creative that saving was the last thing on your mind at the time.
 16. You’ve “Live-Traced” something.
 17. You spend more hours per week looking at CSS showcase sites than you do at the gym.
 18. The only thing that would make you happier than the demise of IE6 is world peace.
 19. You’ve done everything but give up a body part to talk a client out of a “Flash Intro.” Yeah. I said it. Flash Intro. Sad, so so sad. (goes along with #2)
 20. You have enough fonts on your hard drive to last you for: 1 font per day for about a decade, give or take a year or two.
 21. You know, explicitly, what a “Flourish” is.
 22. You worry about negative space as much as the content area.
 23. You get phone calls from friends and family members on a regular, sometimes annoyingly-frequent basis,
      wanting your services for free or extremely cheap. (and the “portfolio” line makes you want to throw something across the room)
 24. You’ve had a client that wants a website they can “update” on their own, but doesn’t know shit about websites.
 25. You’re never more than 99% happy with your final product because you believe that EVERYTHING can be improved upon.
      (especially with those tight-deadline projects)
 
March 30

Alive

Después de 2 semanas, por fin el agua corrió por mi rostro... nunca antes me sentí tan vivo.
 
Muchísimas gracias por todo.
February 29

Back To The Future 2

 
January 29

Back To The Future

 

January 21

Cito:

 
"El infierno está lleno de buenas intenciones".
December 15

C'est Fini

 
Por fin...!! Ayer Viernes 14 de Diciembre del 2007, a las 2:14 pm oficialmente acabé la universidad
 
Por fin puedo realmente descansar.
November 25

1:8


No estoy acostumbrado a pelear con mi vida, me dejo llevar... Me gustaría ser más fuerte, menos ingenuo, más maduro; pero soy como soy. Trato de no conformarme con ello, intento cambiar todos los días, lo intento sí, pero en ese sentido soy lento... un hombre lento.

Dicen que no hay perdón verdaderamente cierto, lo sabré yo, tanto a los que me han querido como a los que me han ignorado, les he fallado. A los primeros porque les he mentido de alguna u otra forma y a los segundos les he demostrado que tendrían que odiarme en vez de ignorarme, que fácil.

Si ser culpable es fácil, perdonar es difícil... comprendo entonces. Comprendiendo cuál es la verdad, vale bien adaptarse a ella.
November 10

Un soplo en el corazón

 
Hacía tiempo que no escuchaba algo que me moviera el piso, o al menos, que me lo quite y me haga volar... Y escucharlo en mi idioma, es aún mejor.
 
El disco de Family, primer y único disco que este dúo sacó por allá en el año '93 (y del que un 3 de Noviembre del 2007 recién me vine a enterar que exístia) es un cántico melódico, dulce y tan cursi que te hace pensar que quien lo canta es un niño que nunca quiso madurar. Un niño-adulto o un adulto-niño que aún cree en el amor y la poesía, los sueños y mundos fantásticos, la esperanza y la amistad. Un niño que usa su imaginación en un juego y que ve con nostalgia y siente un apego especial por todos estos sentimientos. Una vida simple pero llena de detalles, que aunque efímeros y fugaces, son importantes si uno se permite sentir y sabe observar.
 
La música oscila entre Camera Obscura y Belle & Sebastian en algunos puntos, pero luego te topas con el inconfundible pop español (de España), con una melosa voz masculina y algunos compases electrónicos que añaden un detallito alegre y sentimental.
 
Sea que se escuche en orden o en desorden, el disco es un viaje fuera de este mundo... Es como estar flotando en una nube, por encima de todo, sin preocupación alguna, con el viento que acaricia tu cara y tus cabellos que se enredan en esa voz que te guía y te hace creer nuevamente. Cuando el disco acaba, la sensación es algo irreal, no sabes si lo que experimentaste fue real o no, como un sueño maravilloso, un viaje espléndido, fugaz y pacífico que tuvo lugar sin siquiera salir de tu cuarto.
 
Family definitivamente toca una fibra en nosotros que a veces parece que hemos olvidado y despierta todos esos sentimientos que nos hacen regresar a ser niño, para creer y soñar de nuevo.
 
PD: Gracias A.K.
 
FamilyCD 
 
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November 02

Algo se murió...

 
Desde que "Panorama de Ventana" y, anteriormente "Volante de aire" cerraran; los domingos (y feriados) en la noche no hay nada interesante que leer...