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Quienes no saben, estoy por irme, sí, por fin. El lugar ya lo saben todos, al menos el que lee éste blog sabe, gracias a mi hermana quien va a ayudarme a salir de acá, pienso continuar los estudios allá (sinceramente quisiera comenzar de cero, pero bueeeh) por lo cual necesito ciertos papeles y realizar ciertos trámites, algo que me pone bastante nervioso ya que aunque sé cómo es el proceso, no sé realmente qué tan efectivo sea, para nadie es secreto la “eficiencia” de cualquier oficina del gobierno Venezolano.

Luego por acá iré contando cómo me va, espero que todo salga como lo he planeado.

Well, the last post on my blog was a long time ago, I know, it wasn’t even related to my life so I guess I should update it…

Oh bleh, my life has changed from being extremely monotone to extremely unpredictable, I guess it was because I began doing things that I shouldn’t have done before, those who actually know me, know what I’m talking about, I’m sorry but I can’t talk about it here, I wish I could though.

Hard work at uni, sometimes I have no time for myself, I swear it’s been eating me although it becomes fun at times, but weekends became the unpredictable part of my life when I get high and/or drunk because it’s always something different, it’s probably the only thing that keeps my life interesting as long as I have too much work.

What can I say? oh well, Venezuela’s politic&economic situations: it’s hard to keep it up at times, sometimes I wish I didn’t live here (as I said before) but I already assume I’m going to end up living here forever so I’m getting used to it, how? ignoring it, it’s quite impossible at times but it’s really something you have to do when you live in such an unstable place like this.

I’ve been having problems with my parents and sister which makes me thing that sometimes blood doesn’t relate to family, I have so many different points of view, plus some childish issues make thing we’re not even related so I guess I’m gonna ignore that thing now and assume I don’t even need to follow their rules or their stupid things, no way, whenever I have the chance to move to another place I will, it’s likely that I get disconnected when I do, but I don’t care and however, they don’t either so I see no reason why I should.

Also I don’t like posting this kind of things but I needed to take it out, whenever I feel I should post again I will, and yeah I know I said this like a lot of times, but hopefully this time is for real.

My first post in months, I don’t like writing about this but yeah this is what I feel right now.

How can you not see how is our country getting damaged every fucking day? how can you not see we’re going downfall?

How can you say “yeah as long it doesn’t affect me I don’t give a shit”? is it so hard to understand that socialism DOES NOT FUCKING WORK!?!?!?!?

Stop betraying your country, wake up!, we need to get rid of this shit, we want to live in a normal country where everything works as it should, where we can buy whatever we want, where we can say whatever we think.

YOU BRAINLESS CUNT, wake up, get a fucking clue and rescue your country, get up and realize that we’re not going anywhere with this goverment, WE NEED A CHANGE.

So yeah, I finally made a new post, to be honest I’ve been too lazy to write something here and I ran out of ideas

I spent the holidays in Santiago, Chile as many of you should know, I went to visit my sister and her kids also wanted to visit some nice people I met on the previous visit to the city (thanks to irc, of course :P).

Gotta admit this 3rd visit was a little bit more boring but I still enjoyed it a lot. I spent the first days at sister’s apartment, I went to lot of cool restaurants at the Suecia Street, the 2nd week I went to “cajón del maipo” for two days considering the winter season, a visit to the snow was better than the last time when I went to “Valle Nevado” (July 2006).

Some landscape views were quite impressive and totally beautiful

Well yeah, and then I got drunk with the guys from irc and shit, etc, I will continue this post someday

Al fin!, jaja, ya escribiré mucho más ahora que tendré tiempo

Erm… y sinceramente cual es la diferencia con VTV, ViVe, Telesur y otros? dónde está el pluralismo?, hasta ahora sólo se ven propagandas del gobierno y programas poco interesantes.

Realmente, era necesario tomar una señal y robar los equipos (aunque el terreno sea del gobierno, los equipos se los robaron), para montar semejante basura y así continuar haciendo “periodismo” de baja calidad como lo hacen los otros canales pagados por el gobierno?, es necesario seguir gastando dinero en semejantes tonterías?.

Vamos, acá hay más cosas que resolver antes de ocuparse de censurar canales, pero como podemos ver, las prioridades de este gobierno son otras. No dudo que pronto vayan por Globovisión, hasta poder secuestrar completamente los medios de comunicación venezolanos que tengan una línea editorial diferente a la del gobierno.

Reading the newspaper makes me sad, this country is falling in pieces

I need to run away from here, I can’t stand this shit anymore, I hate this place now.

Bah

Maldita sea, me quiero ir de aquí, argh.

I found a link to this survey on my email, so I decided to take it as I have nothing better to do right now xD

Basics:
Name:	Victor
Date of Birth:	December 31, 1988 (weee)
Birthplace:	Valencia, Venezuela
Current Location:	Same place, sadly
Eye Color:	Black
Hair Color:	Black too
Height:	Dunno, but I’m short
Heritage:	Spaniard?
Piercings:	no
Tattoos:	no
Favourite:
Band/Singer:	Alice in Chains
Song:	I Stay Away
Movie:	Tale of two sisters
Disney Movie:	Brother Bear (awwww)
TV show:	None
Color:	Electric Blue
Food:	Pizza
Pizza topping:	whatever, I like everything
Ice-Cream Flavor:	Strawberry
Drink (alcoholic):	Vodka
Soda:	Frescolita (bet you don’t know that one :P)
Store:	Pull and bear
Clothing Brand:	the one that pull and bear sells, can’t remember the name xD
Shoe Brand:	Globe
Season:	Wet season (yeah, we just have 2)
Month:	December
Holiday/Festival:	Holy week and christmas
Flower:	None
Make-Up Item:	eh..
Board game:	I hate board games D:
This or That
Sunny or rainy:	rainy
Chocolate or vanilla:	Vanilla
Fruit or veggie:	Fruit
Night or day:	Day
Sour or sweet:	Sour
Love or money:	Love
Phone or in person:	in person
Looks or personality:	Personality
Coffee or tea:	Coffee
Hot or cold:	Hot
Your:
Goal for this year:	Escape from this country and get rid of my fears
Most missed memory:	going out with my real group of friends (most of them went to spain)
Best physical feature:	my legs
First thought waking up:	I have to piss
Hypothetical personality disorder:	none
Preferred type of plastic surgery:	none :S
Sesame street alter ego:	Elmo
Fairytale alter ego:	none
Most stupid remark:	dunno
Worst crime:	Downloading music? xD
Greatest ambition:	Founding a big enterprise
Greatest fear:	Ending up alone
Darkest secret:	I have lots of phobias
Favorite subject:	Computers
Strangest received gift:	Toilet paper (it was a joke, though)
Worst habit:	Eating my nails
Do You:
Smoke:	hmm…
Drink:	a lot
Curse:	sometimes
Shower daily:	three times a day
Like thunderstorms:	yes, unless it comes with a power outage
Dance in the rain:	I did once
Sing:	yeah but wouldn’t do it in public
Play an instrument:	Cuatro a little little bit of guitar
Get along with your parents:	sometimes
Wish on stars:	Yes but just for giving it a try, I think someday it may work
Believe in fate:	no
Believe in love at first sight:	no
Can You:
Drive:	Yes
Sew:	nope
Cook:	basic things
Speak another language:	yes (like this one :>)
Dance:	only when I’m drunk
Sing:	yes but not in public
Touch your nose with your tongue:	nope
Whistle:	no
Curl your tongue:	yes
Have You Ever:
Been Drunk:	lots of times
Been Stoned/High:	yes
Eaten Sushi:	yes ewwwwww
Been in Love:	no
Skipped school:	yeah
Made prank calls:	yes but I suck
Sent someone a love letter:	no
Stolen something:	yes
Cried yourself to sleep:	yeah
Other Questions:
What annoys you most in a person?	that kind that never shuts the fuck up
Are you right or left handed?	left handed
What is your bedtime?	1-2 am, trying to make it 11pm
Name three things you can’t live without:	Music, family, internet
What is the color of your room?	White
Do you have any siblings?	yes
Do you have any pets?	yeah, a dog
Would you kill someone you hate for a million dollars?	no
What is you middle name?	Manuel
What are you nicknames?	TecnoVM64 on the internet
Are you for or against gay marriage?	I don’t care
What are your thoughts on abortion?	it’s a crime
Do you have a crush on anyone?	yes but she doesn’t notice it
Are you afraid of the dark?	yes
How do you want to die?	without knowing it :>
What is the largest amount of popsicles that you have eaten on one day?	2 or 3
Would you take a bullet for the one you love?	probably not
What is the last law you’ve broken?	driving too fast?
In a Member of the Opposite Sex:
Hair color:	Black
Eye color:	Don’t care about that
Height	Tall (I know I’m short, but I like tall women)
Weight	Not slim, but not extremely fat if you know what I mean
Most important physical feature:	Clean face
Biggest turn-off	Brainless sluts

 No es secreto para nadie el hecho de que Venezuela va de mal en peor, a lo cual ya iba mucho antes de Chávez (por supuesto siendo éste último quien terminó de regarla), pero la forma en la que ultimamente el venezolano vive me hace cuestionarme si realmente estamos disfrutando el hecho de vivr en “el mejor país de latinoamérica”como muchos venezolanos fuera y dentro del país, aún sabiendo la situación, se atreven a afirmar.

• Prender el televisor y no tener cable realmente representa calarte los problemas políticos que aún así quieras vivir ignorándolos vas a tener que entender, el venezolano no puede vivir despegado de la situación política actual, es totalmente imposible, esto por supuesto se trae consigo un nivel de estrés, y es sólo el comienzo.

• Si estás acostumbrado a hacer mercado y llevarte la marca del producto que prefieres, si prefieres una marca pero no otra, pues la vas a tener que comprar, es probable que no esté en el supermercado la marca que estabas buscando, o tal vez ni siquiera el producto que buscabas, por lo cual hay que resignarse con “lo que hay”.

• Para muchos, estar estancado en una cola (que por cierto, están cada vez peor en Valencia), con un carro sin aire acondicionado y un radio sin CD, puede ser totalmente molesto, las cadenas son cada vez más frecuentes y más molestas, estás obligado a oir lo que el presidente quiere decirte, estés o no de acuerdo.

• El servicio eléctrico nunca ha sido bueno, eso está claro, sin embargo, a partir del 2007 en la mayor parte de Valencia (he oido que en varios estados están igual) la luz se va unas dos o tres veces por semana, los semáforos casi nunca tienen luz y el caos que esto provoca y el daño al pequeño comerciante es totalmente anormal, todavía no se ha recibido respuesta y parece no importarle a nadie en el gobierno, probablemente las prioridades son otras (como regalarle plantas eléctricas a nicaragua).

• Crimen… eh… bueno… siempre ha habido crimen, pero… que se ha hecho para controlarlo?, claramente se puede notar que la seguridad cada vez es peor, gracias a la falta de atención a ésto por parte de los cuerpos de seguridad, los cuales en la mayor parte de los lugares brillan por su ausencia, aunque en ciertos casos son ellos peores que los propios criminales. Caminar en la calle es algo que requiere de bastante cuidado y atención, hay que estar pendiente de todo y todos, no puedes ir escuchando música en tu iPod ni mucho menos ir hablando por celular, es más, si es posible déjalo todo en casa, nada de lo que te compres puedes sacarlo a la calle, te lo pueden robar, que estresante es vivir así.

Solamente esas son pocas de las razones por las cuales se puede notar que la vida del venezolano ha cambiado y obviamente fue para mal, faltará poco para acostumbrarnos a vivir como tal y aceptar que sólo por el hecho de haber nacido acá no tendrás oportunidad de darte ciertas comodidades o lujos que bien pudieses tener en cualquier otro lugar del mundo.

Today I’ve got a new laptop (not really new, it was my dad’s and now is mine), and I was really happy because finally I’ve got a Compaq Presario V3000 laptop with a nvidia chipset (including a neat Geforce Go video card), something that for me, being a linux user is a great piece of hardware.

BUT, problems began when I installed ubuntu feisty, it all seemed to be good, but I didn’t notice that the soundcard wasn’t working at all, I tried using google to find a workaround or something but that didn’t help as nvidia decided to not develop their driver on linux anymore,  they’re giving opensource alternatives on their website and that… obviously doesn’t work.

Then I found that ubuntu feisty had problems with that soundcard so I tried ubuntu dapper and the soundcard was working flawlessly! except because OSS was dead. So I thought that it would be a good idea to download ArchLinux again and install it, but when I rebooted on ubuntu feisty, the soundcard was working just like it did on dapper ¬¬.

A few minutes ago, I installed archlinux and the sound apparently wasn’t working and just when I was going to give up on it… I found the solution!!!.

From here: http://mepislovers.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-3261.html

I decided to give it a try and compile that version of alsa-driver (good ol’ configure, make, make install, can it get any easier?).

And now I’m going to enjoy my new laptop with Linux, just how it was supossed to be