Math, Literature, Spanish, Soccer, chess, movies, food, culture, outdoors, soccer, mayas, native american history, black history, poems, short story, novels, cars, did I say soccer? etc...my favorite spanish poem,
ODA I-VIDA RETIRADA
Qué descansada vida
la del que huye del mundanal ruïdo,
y sigue la escondida
senda, por donde han ido
los pocos sabios que en el mundo han sido;
Que no le enturbia el pecho
de los soberbios grandes el estado,
ni del dorado techo
se admira, fabricado
del sabio Moro, en jaspe sustentado!
No cura si la fama
canta con voz su nombre pregonera,
ni cura si encarama
la lengua lisonjera
lo que condena la verdad sincera.
¿Qué presta a mi contento
si soy del vano dedo señalado;
si, en busca deste viento,
ando desalentado
con ansias vivas, con mortal cuidado?
¡Oh monte, oh fuente, oh río,!
¡Oh secreto seguro, deleitoso!
Roto casi el navío,
a vuestro almo reposo
huyo de aqueste mar tempestuoso.
Un no rompido sueño,
un día puro, alegre, libre quiero;
no quiero ver el ceño
vanamente severo
de a quien la sangre ensalza o el dinero.
Despiértenme las aves
con su cantar sabroso no aprendido;
no los cuidados graves
de que es siempre seguido
el que al ajeno arbitrio está atenido.
Vivir quiero conmigo,
gozar quiero del bien que debo al cielo,
a solas, sin testigo,
libre de amor, de celo,
de odio, de esperanzas, de recelo.
Del monte en la ladera,
por mi mano plantado tengo un huerto,
que con la primavera
de bella flor cubierto
ya muestra en esperanza el fruto cierto.
Y como codiciosa
por ver y acrecentar su hermosura,
desde la cumbre airosa
una fontana pura
hasta llegar corriendo se apresura.
Y luego, sosegada,
el paso entre los árboles torciendo,
el suelo de pasada
de verdura vistiendo
y con diversas flores va esparciendo.
El aire del huerto orea
y ofrece mil olores al sentido;
los árboles menea
con un manso ruïdo
que del oro y del cetro pone olvido.
Téngase su tesoro
los que de un falso leño se confían;
no es mío ver el lloro
de los que desconfían
cuando el cierzo y el ábrego porfían.
La combatida antena
cruje, y en ciega noche el claro día
se torna, al cielo suena
confusa vocería,
y la mar enriquecen a porfía.
A mí una pobrecilla
mesa de amable paz bien abastada
me basta, y la vajilla,
de fino oro labrada
sea de quien la mar no teme airada.
Y mientras miserable-
mente se están los otros abrazando
con sed insacïable
del peligroso mando,
tendido yo a la sombra esté cantando.
A la sombra tendido,
de hiedra y lauro eterno coronado,
puesto el atento oído
al son dulce, acordado,
del plectro sabiamente meneado.
Music
country, salsa, hip-hop, latin rock, classic rock, jazz, blues, classical, electronica, trance, house, etc....it depends on my mood, this song reminds me of everyone I have met through my short journey in life.
MY OLD FRIEND by TIM MCGRAW,
My old friend, I recall
The times we had hanging on my wall
I wouldn't trade them for gold
Cause they laugh and they cry me
Somehow sanctify me
They're woven in the stories I have told
And tell again
My old friend, I apologize
For the years that have passed
Since the last time you and I
Dusted off those memories
But the running and the races
The people and the places
There's always somewhere else I had to be
Time gets thin, my old friend
Don't know why, don't know why
Don't know why, don't know why
My old friend, this song's for you
Cause a few simple verses
Was the least that I could do
To tell the world that you were here
Cause the love and the laughter
Will live on long after
All of the sadness and the tears
We'll meet again, my old friend
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
My old friend, my old friend
Goodbye, goodbye
Movies
A beautiful mind, Pan's Laberynth, BBM, Y tu mama tambien, transformers, Spiderman3, the door in the floor, the pianist, crash, freedom writers, the emperor's club, half nelson,apocalypto, finding forrester, searching for bobby fisher, volver, motorcycle's diaries, pursuit of happiness, liam, angela's ashes,cold mountain,blood in blood out,trade, into the wild, bella, No country for old man, WALL=E.
Television
News and soccer matches, from time to time History channel or TLC. Most of time any sport channel showing a soccer match.
Books
James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemminghway, Pablo Neruda, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Fernando de rojas, Richard Vazquez, John Keats, Jose Zorrilla, Einstein, Fermat, Lagrange, Newton, Feymann, National geography, Popular science, popular mechanics,etc. My list is incomplete.
Heroes
Mi familia, y la raza. La raza means anyone who believes that nothing is impossible with faith. If there exist a higher entity in the universe, then worries in this planet are nonsense. Here is something that keeps me going through the day.
DESIDERATA
-- "Found in Old St. Paul's Church"--
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
About me: I am currently working on a BS in mathematics at Portland State University. I play soccer, and hope to get a full-time job after graduation. some of my other interests are playing chess,pool,volleyball. I also enjoy the outdoors, and spring through summer times are the best. when not studying, I am enjoying a soccer match or making new friends. Here are some of my favorite quotes,
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"I only know that I know nothing"
here is what got me into poetry.
WHEN I HAVE FEARS by JOHN KEATS,
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink."
Who I'd like to meet: Rivaldo,Maldini,Enzo francescolli, el pibe valderrama, Marco Van Basten, George Weah, Michel Platini, Negrete, Roberto Baggio, etc. Now in reality, It will be great to meet anyone who remains positive after any tragic life situations. this poem is for a special teachers
Enseñarás a volar,
pero no volarán tu vuelo.
Enseñarás a soñar,
pero no soñarán tu sueño.
Enseñarás a vivir,
pero no vivirán tu vida.
Sin embargo…
en cada vuelo,
en cada vida,
en cada sueño,
perdurará siempre la huella
del camino enseñado.”
Madre Teresa De Calcuta
Kikin is absolutely washed up man, he needs to never go again. It sucks big time that Nery gets no playing time at Manchester City, but I think he's definitely due for a return to el tri. I would like to see Guille Franco not get hated on as much cuz he's the true 9 we need.
