Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Piña! Piña! Piña!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Oh Cervantes!
descriminados – discriminados
dever – deber
invacion – invasión
haci – así
asaroso – azaroso
higual – igual
jediondo –hediondo
diferiencia – diferencia
hubieron – hubo
cituacion – situación
en cima – encima
extrangero – extranjero
imvadieron – invadieron
disque – dizque
estubieron – estuvieron
paresca – parezca
descriminacion – discriminación
imigrantes - inmigrantes
pobresa – pobreza
niegen – nieguen
vendicion – bendición
ocaciones – ocasiones
rasismo – racismo
cienten – sienten
yorar – llorar
quisas - quizás
repetar – respetar
ahy – hay
agorpiado – golpeado
destroso – destrozó
ves – vez
govierno – gobierno
explisito – explícito
matal – matar
an – han
extrangero - extranjero
pobresa – pobreza
cervesa – cerveza
crusar – cruzar
propursores - propulsores
biben – viven
Monday, November 28, 2005
Una viga!
El Sabado mis compañeros de oficina y yo fuimos a la boda de Jonathan, otro compañero que se casaba. La boda fue sencilla pero muy muy linda, pasamos un momento muy agradable, pero sobre todo feliz, porque Johnnie estaba que no cabía en sí de contento.
Salimos temprano de la recepción y como era Sabado, el ánimo estaba en calle (el de ellos, no el mío). Para no desentonar, accedí a salir (no obstante mi alergia últimamente a los sitios públicos). Para colmo de males todos querían ir a (Ugh!) Praia (Ugh!) (todos menos yo), pero no puse (más) pretextos y accedí a ir.
La verdad es que como que ya estoy cansada de lo mismo. Creo que de verdad me estoy poniendo vieja. Todo el tiempo que estuve ahí sólo pensaba en mi cama y mi televisión.
Pobre yo! Me voy a poner viejita en mi casa viendo TV y bloggueando!
To my friend in the woods...
Los lazos de Roberto
Friday, November 25, 2005
Ya se acabaron las de terreno!
Mr. Miyagi-san has gone to karate heaven...
Man who catch fly with chopstick, accomplish anything!
"Right circle. Left circle. Right circle, left circle. Breathe in, breathe out. Right circle, left circle. Right circle, left circle. Breathe in, breathe out. Whole floor. Right circle, left circle. Right circle. Left circle. Breathe in, breathe out.
Wrist up. Wrist down. All in wrist. Up, down, long stroke.
In, out. Up... down. Up, down. Up... ...down. Up...down. Very good, Daniel-san. Up, down. Up... ...down. Small board, left hand.Big board, right hand.
Up... ...down. Up... ...down.
- Not everything is as seems.
- Bullshit! I'm going home, man.
Daniel-san!
- What?
- Come here.
- Show me sand the floor.
- I can't move my arm, all right?
- What are you doing?
- What are you doing?
- Now show me sand the floor.
- How did you do that?
-Show! Sand the floor? Stand up. Show me sand the floor. Sand the floor. Sand the floor. Big circle. Sand the floor. Sand the floor. Now show me wax on, wax off.
- Wax on, wax off.
- Wax on, wax off! Wax on... ...wax off. Concentrate. Look in my eyes. Lock your hand, thumb inside. Wax on... ...wax off. Wax on... ...wax off. Wax on. Wax off. Show me paint the fence. Up, down. Up. Down. Up. Down. Other side. Look eye. Always look eye! Show me paint the house. Side, side. Lock wrist. Side, side. Side, side. Show me wax on, wax off. Show me paint the fence. Show me side, side. Show me sand the floor. Look eye! Always look eye.
Come back tomorrow. Learn balance. Go water, kick. Learn balance."
Not everything is as seems.
Hasta pronto, Gómez...
Cuando doña Chacha murió estando yo muy pequeña, Isabel definitivamente se quedó trabajando en mi casa full time.
Con el paso de los años, Isabel se convirtió en algo más que una persona que trabajaba en mi casa. Como había una diferencia de edad tan marcada entre mis hermanos y yo, a veces yo no tenía con quien jugar en mi casa (claro, yo tenía mi grupito de la zona: Alvin Ortega, Onelia Ramírez, Linnette Pérez, Fafico Aybar, Pituka (no recuerdo el apellido) y demás), pero yo les llevaba par de años casi a todos). También entró en la ecuación que mi mamá comenzó a estudiar 2 carreras nuevas cuando yo tenía apenas 5 años, y muchas veces yo no la veía porque cuando llegaba de la universidad ya yo estaba durmiendo hace rato.
A veces cuando me iba al colegio mami todavía estaba durmiendo porque había amanecido estudiando e Isabel era quien me peinaba (generalmente 2 colitas) y me ponía el uniforme. Cuando llegaba al medio día ella era la que estaba ahí porque papi y mami estaban trabajando. Después de hacer tareas y jugar con mis amigos, jugaba con ella. Ibamos caminando a Los Praditos donde ella tenía amigas (en aquella época la ciudad era mucho más segura). A veces en la noche nos sentábamos en un banquito que estaba frente al Colegio Claret, en la autopista Duarte, y nos poníamos a contar carros y adivinar las placas y los colores. Cuando no salíamos, escuchábamos música de Radio Guarachita en su radio (doña Chacha era hermana del dueño). Todos mis antojos ella me los daba; por ella soy la persona que soy hoy.
Mi mamá siempre decía que Isabel era la única India que quedaba en el país. Isa era alta, pelo negro lacio y largo, con facciones que de verdad parecían de esos indígenas que veía en los libros de historia.
Yo era la ñoñería de Isabel. Ella me mimaba. En una época (que duró muuuuuuuuuuchos años) me cogió con sólo comer papas fritas con huevos fritos de comida y cena, y era ella quien me los hacía. Nunca voy a olvidar los "jondones" (hot dogs), las "pocalecas" (cocalecas), el "aisí" del "icee" (si, yo se que se llama slurpee, pero a veces las maquinitas de expendio decían iceee) que hacen en los 7Eleven, que no era más que coca cola batida con azúcar y hielo en la licuadora), los yaniqueques (torticas de harina frita)….
Isabel me enseñó a cocinar. Me enseñó a "hacer oficios" (arreglar la cama, trapear, fregar, limpiar los baños, etc...); me enseñó a coser y me apuntó en cursos de tejido y manualidades en las tardes en la Iglesia Claret (si, yo sé coser, tejer y hacer punto de cruz, si me canso del derecho puedo dedicarme a eso). Hacíamos muñequitas, jugábamos con mariquitas, me llevaba a misa, me llamaba la atención cuando me portaba mal, pero todo siempre con mucho amor.
Todos los años Isabel celebraba una misa para conmemorar la muerte de doña Chacha, que por casualidad había muerto el día de mi cumpleaños. A las 6 de la mañana de todos los 18 de enero de cada año Isabel se levantaba temprano para ir a misa y poder estar en casa temprano para levantarme y felicitarme.
No había una ocasión que dejara pasar. Siempre me regalaba algo para mi cumpleaños, Navidad y el día de mi santo (Tatica). Generalmente eran panties de colores, pero para mí lo importante era que ella siempre me tenía presente.
A medida que pasaron los años, mis hermanos fueron casándose y teniendo hijos. Ahí seguía Isabel. Mi primera sobrina era su "ñiña", su "comadre". A Mariu y a Jose los cuidó como si fueran sus hijos. Cuando mi hermana estaba recién parida, Isabel iba todos los días a su casa a "hacer oficios" y a atender a Jose. Para cualquier cosa que necesitáramos, Isabel siempre estaba ahí.
Mis hermanos y yo le hacíamos muchísimas maldades. Le tenía un miedo horrible a las jeringuillas. Si veía una salía corriendo. Y ni hablar de los lagartos, o "pájaros" como ella les decía. Tanto la fuñíamos que una vez compramos un lagarto de plástico y a cada rato se lo escondíamos en lugares que sabíamos que lo iba a encontrar, nada más para reirnos cuando se asustaba. Yo sufría de esconderme detrás de las puertas y esperar que se acercara para brincarle alante y asustarla. Ella siempre nos perdonaba, ya que para ella éramos sus hijos.
En mi casa trabajaron sus hij@s, sus herman@s, sus sobrin@s, sus prim@s. Todo el que venía de la Loma de Castañuela, de Villa Vásquez en Monte Cristi (de donde era Isabel), pasó por un momento de su vida por mi casa. Todos eran parte de nuestra familia.
Con los años, Isabel se fue enfermando. Primero comenzó con dolores en el cuerpo. Luego de mucho insistir, decidió ir al médico y le diagnosticaron artritis deformante. Desde ese momento comenzó su viacrusis. Se bebía toda la medicina que cualquier le dijera que se bebiera. Fue como a 500 médicos y se hizo todos los tratamientos del mundo. Casi a diario la inyectaban (ya se imaginan con el terror que les tenía a las jeringuillas lo que eso significaba para ella). Iba donde brujos, bebía "tomas", pero seguía deteriorándose. Se quedaba dormida caminando. Cuando se mudó a Herrera para cuidar la casa de su hija y venía a mi casa en carro público o en guagua, siempre se pasaba de la parada porque se había quedado dormida o cuando llegaba a casa se daba cuenta de que alguien le había abierto la cartera y le había robado "los chelitos".
Hace unos años mi mamá decidió pensionarla. Sus achaques constantes nos daban demasiada pena, y aunque ella insistía en seguir trabajando (trabajadora como ella sola), mami le dio un ultimátum y le dijo que prefería tenerla viva en su casa que muerta en un carro público. Luego de mucho pelear, por fin accedió a quedarse en su casa.
Al principio seguía visitando mi casa. Para cualquier cosa que necesitáramos siempre estaba ahí, aunque poco a poco quisimos dejar de molestarle y permitirle descansar (aunque ella se molestaba porque no quería dejarnos solos).
Hacía ya par de años que no la veía. Ella casi no podía salir de su casa y por complicaciones de la vida yo no podía ir a la de ella. A veces tomaba el teléfono cuando llamaba a casa y me ponía a relajarla. Hacía ya unos años que mi hermano mayor le había puesto el apodo de "Isabel Peña Gómez" (su verdadero nombre era Isabel Peña), y yo de copiona comencé a decirle
"Gómez".
Ayer cuando salía para la oficina luego de mi hora de almuerzo, abrí la puerta del pasillo que da a las habitaciones y vi a mi mamá abrazada de Antonia (una de las señoras que trabaja en casa y que también era familia de ella), hablando con un hombre a quien no pude distinguir porque estaba de espaldas. Pregunté qué pasaba y el hombre se volteó: era Nicolás, uno de los hijos de Isabel. Volvía a preguntar qué pasaba y mi mamá me dijo que Isabel se había muerto en la mañana. Me quede tiesa; no pude reaccionar. Mi mamá no pudo contenerse y comenzó a llorar. Antonia la tuvo que sostener, yo no me podía mover. No sé cuánto tiempo pasó, pero de pronto vi que mi camisa estaba mojada de mis propias lágrimas. Creo que le dije a mi mamá que me tenía que ir a la oficina y que me llamara cualquier cosa. No recuerdo nada del camino a la oficina, sólo que estuve llorando. Lloré, lloré en la oficina, lloré en el carro, lloré en el baño. Lloré.
Anoche fuimos a la funeraria. Me encontré con gente que tenía años que no veía. "¿Tú te acuerdas cuando yo trabajaba en tu casa?" "¿Tú te acuerdas cuando me pedías que te hiciera papitas fritas" "¿Todavía tienes gatos?" "¡Muchacha, tú si has crecido!" Las caras las recuerdo borrosamente, no se qué les respondí. Tenía mi vista fija en el ataúd. Todo el presente iba donde mi mamá. "¿Usted es doña Enedina?" "Isabel siempre la vivía mentando." "¿Usted es la doña de Isabel?" De mí decían "esa que está ahí la crió Isabel." "Isabel quería a los hijos de la doña como si hubiesen sido sus hijos, y ellos la querían igual."
No pude acercarme. No pude verla. Quería recordarla de otra forma, como esa Isabel que en mi niñez me "picaba" el hielo como a mi me gustaba. Aquella que me defendía y la que me consolaba cuando me daba un golpe. A la que brincaba del susto cuando yo le salía detrás de una puerta de repente.
Ve con Dios, Gómez. Por lo menos allá arriba ya no estás sufriendo más. Espero que Dios te de todos los materiales para que puedas hacer muchas muñequitas y que pasen muchos carros de colores para que los puedas contar. Vela por mí, y si vez que hago algo mal estás en todo el derecho de echarme mi boche, ¡pero no me hales los pies por la noche!
Te quiero mucho Gómez. Nos vemos pronto…
"Ay yo tengo una mujer, que me da la vida entera; cerveza, cigarrillo, dinero cuando yo quiera…"
(Este es el estribillo de una de las canciones que escuchábamos en Radio Guarachita)
Curso de Fotografía Básica
Thursday, November 24, 2005
San Gibin!!!
You Are Mashed Potatoes |
Oridnary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You're the glue that holds everyone together. |
Your Thanksgiving Costume Is |
Ya están a la venta las taquillas del concierto Orange de Juan Luis Guerra!
RD$600.00 terreno, RD$400.00 gradas.
Taquillas a la venta YA en la oficina principal de Orange Dominicana.
ACLARACION: NO ME LLAMO BRACUTA ORANGE. NO ME REGALARON LA MIA, LA TUVE QUE COMPRAR. NO TENGO FORMA DE CONSEGUIR TAQUILLAS VIP. NO SOY HIJA NI FAMILIA DEL PRESIDENTE DE LA EMPRESA. NO SOY VP, DIRECTORA O ALTA EJECUTIVA DE LA EMPRESA, SOY UNA SIMPLE EMPLEADA COMO MUCHOS OTROS (por si acaso).
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Yo se que es por mi bien, pero....
First Ammendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Tengan cuidado...
Damn, they're getting good!
From: Barrister Mark Boma
Date: Nov.23rd, 2005
Subject: Please Urgent(Pereyra)
Private Email:markboma03@hotmail.com
Dear Pereyra,
I am Barrister Mark Boma(ESQ) Barrister and solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Late Engr.Richard Pereyra, a national of your country ,who worked with an Oil Servicing and Exploration Company, here in Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 2000, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a ghastly auto accident along Sagbama Express Road, and unfortunately, all occupants of the vehicle lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to do a reasearch, to locate any member of his family or any close name to his,hence I contacted you. I am contacting you to assist in repatrating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged, particularly the ACCESS BANK where the deceased had his account valued at about US$9.5 million dollars.
The bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next twentyone official working days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$9.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money according to any agreed ratio.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Hence, If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of the trust, I hope to bestow on you. Then kindly get back to me immediately, strictly via my private email address only: barrmarkboma1@walla.com to enable me enlighten you on how we are to proceed. I will not contact any person or company until I hear from you, so as to enable me decide on what to do next.
Awaiting your prompt kind response.
Thanks.
Barrister Mark Boma
NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER WETHER YOU ARE RELATED TO MY LATE CLIENT OR NOT, SINCE I AM PRESENTING YOU AS HIS NEXT OF KIN THE FUND WILL BE PAID TO YOU, BASED ON THE FACT THAT I WAS HIS PERSONAL ATTORNEY, SO WHOEVER I PRESENT WILL BE PAID.
UPDATE: If you want to know more about this, click here
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The joke's on you...
This is so funny!
In regards to the article in the NY Times... Rox speaks out
I have many things to say about this article, but right now I haven't got the time to write a post about it. Nevertheless, Rox (yes, my buddy Rox), has written something about it and I wish to share it with you:
While it is true that a large number of the Haitians that labor in the Dominican Rep., live in infrahuman conditions in reference to the rest of the Western World, you have to also consider the fact that these conditions are better than the ones they have in Haiti and that is the real shame of the situation. While man has been on this planet, he has always taken advantage of the less fortunate ones throughout history, and that is the case of the Dominican Rep., where there are over 1.5 Million Haitians currently laboring, both legally and illegally and accounting for roughly 15% of the population inhabiting the Dominican side of the island.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
2da. Reunión de Bloggers Dominicanos
Ahí se bebió, se bailó en el medio de la calle, se habló, se tiraron más fotos que'l diañe... cuánta gente chula! La verdad es que no me arrepiento de haber ido!
A continuación un listado de los bloggers que fueron (si alguno de ustedes fue y no se apuntó en la lista, por favor deje un mensaje aquí para poder anotarlos):
Bracuta
Libélula
Mysterious Existence
Así es este mundo
I'm OnLy HeRe 2 AnNoY!!!
Here i am...
Yomimosoy
The way of the samurai....soks
*Un poco de mi otro lado*
El Rincon del Mega
Las cosas que solo me pasan a mi...
MaK Xideralis
Detras Del Carropublico - Coast to Coast
Incidencias de una chica de 22
Sex and the City ::
Perla
a little bit of me...
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Lauronga
Bigotez
Un Poco De Mí
Oh la la! Life's like this...
doctorzeuss punto com
Un poco de cada dia
Lo Pluscoimperfecto de la Vida
The Wonderful World of Teacher Yorch
Diary of a Broken Heart
Erotism Is Real
ツ BoRn FoR tHe PaRtY
Las Cosas de Hipólito
My Dashboard Confessional
Coman Mierda!!!! © 2005
La sorpresa de la noche: Edwin vino directo de los países para conocernos y compartir con nosotros!
Me dijeron que Blogworkorange fue, pero yo no lo ví.
Rosa Linda Silver: No entendí la dirección de tu blog. Please, ponla aquí!
Claudinne Cuervo: Me pusiste tu email, pero no la dirección de tu blog. Ponla aquí!
I can't wait for the next one!!!!
Chequéense las fotos aquí.
Se buscan!
Así mismo, si alguien conoce a Hamilton Collins de la promoción St. George School '91, díganle que sus compañeros de colegio queremos saber de él.
Si tienen alguna info de ellos, por favor dejen un mensaje aquí.
Gracias!
Friday, November 18, 2005
10 Things I Hate About You
- The way you treated me in the end. You made me feel worse the crap. In every sense.
- The way you made me doubt myself, on a personal and professional level. The way that hurt me so much that still today I haven’t completely recovered from it.
- Your “Energizer’ complex. You never learned to let things go. You always kept on going and going and going whenever we had a fight or a difference of opinion. It was your way or the highway.
- The way you got violent some times.
- The way you disrespected me.
- The way you stalked me.
- Hoy you made yourself the center of my world and pushed everybody away, leaving me completely alone.
- The way you want to know every little detail about my life, even the personal and private ones, when you don’t have the right nor the privilege to, and then you want to make me feel guilty when I don’t let you know what you want to know. I guess you still think you have control over me.
- The way you want to try to be a player with me, when you should really know I don’t have those types of feelings for you anymore. You just don’t “do it” to me no more. Not in the slightest. And then you want to say things that you think will hurt me but which really have no impact on me because I DON'T CARE.
- The way you’re so selfish regarding our friendship. The way you call and try to make it seem like you’re being nice and attentive, yet you only want to talk about yourself, yourself, yourself. You drain my energy. When you don’t need my help you’re never around. When you want to throw in my face how good you’re doing with no regards whatsoever about me.
Am I too old for this?
Como buena multitasker (y porque no me gusta quedar mal con nadie) hice todos los esfuerzos posibles para poder cumplir con todos mis compromisos de ayer. Fui a mi curso, llegué a mi casa, me bañé y me cambié, crucé donde mi hermano y fui al bonche de los grupos de los 90. Desgraciadamente no pude ir a la cena con mis tíos, pero no fue por falta de intenciones.
Temprano en la mañana Libélula me había llamado para preguntarme si iba al bonche en Baccarat. Había pensado en ir desde hace par de días, más por coro que por otra cosa, así que le dije que si. Todos mis amigos cercanos se asombraron cuando les dije que iba. Honestamente, la música de los grupos locales no es mi fuerte, sobre todo cuando es en español (cuestión de gustos, no me critiquen), pero estaba muy animada a ir porque entre los grupos que iban a tocar estaba Regata (mi primo Tony es el vocalista). Los demás grupos que estaban pautados para tocar eran Etiqueta Negra, Empiphis y Razón Vital (el baterista de Razón Vital, Rhaudy, estudió conmigo en el colegio).
El asunto es que llego y me parqueo en la plaza. No entiendo por qué ese sitio no tiene acceso al interior de la plaza. Tuve que meterme por Outback para poder llegar. Llamo a Libélula (ella tenía mi taquilla) y entro.
El sitio estaba packed. O sea, no cabía un alma. Un caloraso que parecía el infierno. Ningún lugar donde sentarse o estar cómodo. Me encontré con muchas caras conocidas (sobre todos de músicos de la época como Tony Almont), pero ciertamente la opinión era unánime: el lugar no era el más idóneo para celebrar ese tipo de eventos.
Algo sí me dio mucha risa. Todas las personas de mi generación que saludé me decían lo mismo: estamos muy viejos para esto tipo de cosas. El tumulto, la sudadera, la lucha para que un mozo atendiera a uno, la empujadera, el calor... eso como que nos pegaba cuando muchachitos, pero a esta altura del juego ya no nos luce.
Otra cosa fue que el concierto comenzó demasiado tarde. Entiendo lo de la hora dominicana, pero si haces una convocatoria para las 9 de la noche, sobre todo un día de semana, se conciente y no comiences después de las 11. Sobre todo porque estás llamando a un público adulto joven, que tiene responsabilidades de trabajo y que no puede darse el lujo de acostarse a las 2 de la mañana un día de semana.
Anyways, aparte de todo lo negativo que acabo de mencionar, el concierto (por lo menos la parte que escuché, porque no pude ver nada por la cantidad de gente que había) se dio muy bueno. Pena que yo no conociera la mayoría de las canciones, pero por la aceptación y algarabía del público presente pude notar que eran canciones famosas. A eso de las 12 decidí irme (el cansancio y el calor me estaba matando), pero justamente cuando iba camino a la puerta (me tomó 15 minutos llegar), Tony (mi primo el de Regata) comenzó a cantar "Dos". Escuché la canción y me fui para mi casa a dormir.
Muy buen bonche, muy nice el ambiente, pero para la próxima por favor háganlo en un sitio con mejores condiciones.
Chequeen par de fotos aquí
The long awaited Trip to Miami post!
The short version:
We got to Miami. We went out and had lots of fun. We went shopping. I bought my iPod Video and my iBook. We went to the concert. Winch proposed, Loli said yes. We got on a plane and came back.
The long version:
Warning: This is the long, detailed version, so it’s going to be long and detailed.
Our plane was supposed to leave at 3:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon, so I went to the salon in the morning and after that did my packing. Winch went and picked me up at home, gave me the ring (he was scared the machines would beep at airport security, so I put it in my purse) and then we went to pick up Loli. She was all tired and not in the best of moods. On our way to the airport Winch played some of the songs from "Festival de los Robots" on his iPod, so that got me in a better mood.
When we got to the airline counter we bumped into a co-worker of Winch’s who was also flying to the concert. Winch was nice enough to upgrade our tickets to Business class, so we flied in style! When we got to Fort Lauderdale’s International Airport we though going thru Migration was going to be a breeze. Oh how wrong we were! Apparently the airport was just recently upgraded to International but the facilities are still in local version. A very small airport, which was good in a sense ‘cause we didn’t have to walk that much, but Migration was a nightmare. There were only like 10 booths and only 6 Migration Officers on shift. 4 were for aliens and 2 for Americans for 4 flights. We spent almost 2 hours standing in line! After going thru customs we went straight to get our rental car at Dollar. There’s a huge building in front of the terminal that houses all the car rental agencies, so it was a breeze getting there. We decided to rent a GPS unit (which we called "Uhura" in honor of the Enterprise’s Communications Officer). While at Dollar’s counter, Gertrudis, Winch’s best friend who lives in Fort Lauderdale, met up with us. We said our hellos and finished with the rental transactions. We rented a Jeep Laredo (we like SUVs), and with Gertrudis as our guide, headed straight to Sawgrass Mills since one of Princess Loli’s requests was that she had to go shopping.
The first thing we bought, or rather, the first thing that Winch bought was a "Magic 8 Ball" at KB Toy Store. He didn’t say it in front of her, but I bet the first question he asked was "will she say yes?" After much shopping on Loli’s part, we met up with Jerry and Annie, who had been nice enough to give us shelter in Miami. Annie is Winch’s cousin, and with Gertrudis, they were best friends in school.
They went shopping (or rather tagged along) with us until we were too tired to keep on going. Then we decided to head up to "The Cheesecake Factory" for dinner. I wasn’t really very hungry, so I ordered some nachos, but it came out that the plates were huge so I couldn’t even eat half of it, but they were sooooo good! We topped dinner with a huge piece of Godiva cheesecake (it was so big that we only ordered one serving and all 6 of us had some). After that we headed back to Miami (we were given a bola to our jeep in Jerry’s brother’s Audi A6. All 6 of us in that car! I couldn’t feel my legs! 4 caderas Latinas en la parte de atrás. ¡Ya se imaginan!).
We got to the house at Miami and it was so nice! It smelled like Christmas! We hung out on their backyard for a while. There I found out that Jerry was also a Mac user (he had recently bought a Powerbook G4) AND he worked at Discovery! Discovery! My favorite channel in the whole wide world! O sea! I had met someone who worked at Discovery!
At around 1 a.m. we decided to drive around the city. It was, after all, Saturday night! All 6 of us got into our Jeep (otra vez las caderas Latinas). We were concerned that the cops we going to pull us over, but our alibi was that we were giving Gertrudis a ride to her car (we were on South Beach and her car was all the way back in Doral, but the cops didn’t know that!). We drove up Ocean Drive and saw all the nice people at the clubs and cafes. It really shocked me to find a bunch of people on motorcycles parked in the street (igualito a la Lincoln). There was a guy in front of us on an Escalade who had this huge TV screen in the SUV and he was watching hip hop videos. We had a laugh with that! We went by "Miami Ink", saw a bunch of other clubs and headed back home at around 3 a.m. At that hour, Gertrudis got on her jeep and headed back to Fort Lauderdale against our wishes (we asked her to stay over but she decided to go back home).
Do you guys know that people in Miami are now listening to reguetón? UGH!
Jerry got out an inflatable bed and inflated it on the living room. This was where Winch was going to sleep. Loli and I were going to sleep in the study on a sofa bed. When I tried it my back started talking to me: "if you sleep here I won’t let you get up tomorrow and you won’t be able to go shopping nor go to the concert and you’ll miss the special moment", so we took the mattress down and slept on the floor.
As you can imagine, Loli and I started chatting up. A few minutes later, after going to bed, Winch started snoring like a train and we had a giggle attack. We even took some pictures and recorded him! We couldn’t stop laughing or talking. I figure we finally went to sleep at around 6.
We had made plans to have breakfast at 9 am the following morning...
My phone alarm went off at 8 am. We hit snooze a couple of times and finally got out of bed at around 9 am, when Gertrudis rang the doorbell.
We had a great breakfast. Croissants, different types turquitos, croquetas, bagels, coffee, milk, juice… the works. YUMMY! After chatting some more, we went out shopping.
I had brought my walkie-talkies with me, so both cars we were riding in were connected.
Our first stop was at this mini shopping center were we went to buy some perfumes at a shop tended to by an old lady (this information will come in handy now). Loli was looking into buying a perfume ‘cause she said Winch didn’t like the way her perfumes smelled. When we asked her why she asked Winch:
Loli – "¿Winton, a tí te gusta cómo huelen mis perfumes?"
Winton – "No."
L – "¿Por qué?"
W – "Porque huelen a vieja."
I guess I was kinda slow in the morning, but I saw a look on Gertrudis’ face that stroke me weird.
Eny – "¿Qué fué?"
Gertrudis – "O sea, yo quiero que ahora mismo se abra la tierra bajo mis pies y me trague."
E – "¿Y por qué?"
G – "¿Tú no oiste lo que dijo Winton?"
E – "Si, ¿y?"
G – "¿Y quién es que lo está atendiendo? ¿Una muchachita jovencita?"
We started laughing and Annie and Gertrudis vowed to never again go to that shop!
After that we went next door because I had to buy some... Ummmmm... personal garments. Enough said!
When we were done, we headed to The Falls. Now, this was my only request of the trip: The Apple Store. We got there, we parked and split up. The guys went with me while the girls went someplace else to shop for clothes and girl things.
My heart was beating harder and harder as we were getting closer to the shop. Finally, we were there. Oh, I could hear a choir of angels singing! I could die right then and there! Screw the concert, screw the proposal, I wanted to live there! You can imagine how bonkers I went when we went in the shop. I went around walking like crazy, my head started spinning around. I didn’t know what to do! I took pictures of everything, checked everything out! This was Heaven! After a while it was time to go, so I ordered my iBook (I’m writing this post on it now) and my 60 Gb iPod Video (I even talked Winch into buying a 30Gb one himself), shed a few tears of emotion and left the store with tears in my eyes.
They did a little shopping after that (I sat down every once in a while and stared at my new toys in their boxes). It was after 2 pm, so we headed to PF Chang’s for lunch. Man, that place is great! Food is awesome! I had some beef broccoli that made me even forget for a while about my new gadgets (NEVER!). In the middle of the restaurant there’s a statue of a Chinese warrior and it struck that the way he was standing looked like this thing that Winch says Annie does with her arms when she’s talking (he says she wiggles them around, but I never noticed it). We had some fortune cookies and Gertrudis proposed we play a game while reading our fortunes. We had to read the fortune out loud and end it with the phrase "on the bed." Incredibly, Loli’s and Winch’s fortunes said something about your luck changing tonight and stuff related to what we had planned. Too bad Loli didn’t know it at the time, but everyone else did.
After leaving (much to my sorrow) The Falls, we headed back home, with a quick stop at a Walgreens (I had to buy some chocolates and some pedialyte esquimalitos for my niece) and Publix (Winch wanted to buy some Materva). While at Walgreens, I suddenly began feeling nervous. The big moment was getting closer and I started feeling butterflies in my stomach. They were flying around so hard we split up again and left the guys at the Publix while we headed back home.
I went to the bathroom twice. I was so nervous! I had sort asked Loli what would happen if Winch were to pop the question earlier, but I wasn’t completely sure she was going to say yes. The second time I came out of the bathroom Loli asked me if I wanted something for my stomach. "Do you want some Imodium?" I looked her straight in the eyes and wanted to bitch-slap her. "You bitch! There’s nothing "wrong" with my stomach! I’m just damned nervous because Winch is going to propose tonight and I don’t know what your reaction will be!"
Of course I didn’t tell her that. I dryly said "no", turned around and went out to hang with Winch. Loli and Gertrudis wanted some ice cream, so they went to get some with Annie and Jerry while Winch and I stayed behind. The pressure was building up! Winch was nervous as hell, I was nervous as hell. We had planned things over and over again, but we didn’t know what was going to happen. We got ready, I gave him the ring and he put in his jeans’ pocket. "¡Loca, esta caja se ve! ¡Ella se va a dar cuenta!" "No, no se ve, no te apures, ella no se va a dar cuenta de nada."
They came back and we headed out, while Gertrudis left to Fort Lauderdale. We had decided we didn’t want to see the opening act so that we could have some more shopping time (little did we know that the band’s (Institue) leader was no other than Gavin Rossdale, a.k.a. Mr. Gwen Stefani.) We had just driven a couple of blocks when we noticed that in our nervousness we had left our binoculars back home, so Jerry turned around. It was for the best because Winch’s came in a big pouch and he put the ring inside it.
When we got to the arena one of the security people told me I couldn’t take the camera in with me (sorry guys, no good pics of the concert, though I did take some with my cell phone), so I had to go back to the car to give it to Jerry and Annie, who were hanging around just in case this would happen. Meanwhile, Winch told Loli he was going inside to look at some t-shirts. Loli got pissed at him. "How inconsiderate of him leaving us outside!" Little did she know he wanted to get past security before us just in case he had to take the box with the ring out. Anyways, I gave the camera to Jerry and Annie and we headed in. We got some t-shirts and headed to our seats.
My seat was in a section next to Loli and Winch’s. When I got there, there was a guy sitting on my seat. He asked me if I didn’t mind trading places with him since his whole group was sitting there. Since I was going to be sitting alone, I didn’t mind, so I took his ticket and headed to his seat. It turned out to be very good, since my row was just 3 rows up from Loli and Winch’s, so I had them in plain view.
It embarrasses me to say this, but I’m not a huge U2 fan as I should be. When I got to my seat, a nice girl sitting beside me introduced herself and asked if I was a big fan. A lied and said yes, but I was sure that I wouldn’t know half the lyrics to the songs. The lights dimmed and the show started.
I can just say that U2 rocked! Oh my God! I was amazed at the setting (nice stadium), the band, the music, the special effects. The works! ¡Diañe! ¡El pipo! ¡Adió vea! ¡Que campuna me sentí! ¡Qué ápero! The nice girl that had introduced herself to me earlier turned out to be a HUGE FAN. She kept on dancing, shouting, telling me to get up and shout. I was just there enjoying the music and waiting for my cue to step in.
Did you guys know that The Edge was from outer space and from the future? Bonoc told us his story. They were hanging out one day in their city (I think he said it was Dublin, but I don’t recall). Suddenly, out of nowhere this spaceship lands and out comes The Edge. Bono asked him who he was and he said his name was The Edge and that he came from outer space. Not only that, but he was also from the future. Bono asked him what the future was like and The Edge told him that a gallon of gas was worth $10 bucks but that it was much better. ¡Te la comiste Bono!
So anyways, almost 2 hours later I hear the opening to "With Or Without You". I hurried over to where Loli and Winch were and stood right behind them. I saw everything! I was part of it! I won’t tell you what Winch told her (I must respect their privacy), but I can tell you that he got on one knee right then and there and asked her to marry him. I was just holding my breath, waiting for her to do something (I couldn’t hear a thing, but I knew what he had planned to say). She had her head down and I could see tears flowing down her cheeks. She must’ve said something because he slipped the ring on and then they embraced and kissed. She had said yes! After some PDA (yo aguantando gorro con mi sombrero de Mexicana) he finally got up, I gave him a hug and kissed her on her head and went back to my seat.
As I said before, the concert was great. Bono made his statement about war and coexistence (very nice, I really do wish we could all co-exist). At one moment (I think they were singing "Sunday Bloody Sunday"), he got a kid on the stage and the both started singing “no more”). When they sang "One" they did this thing were you sent an MMS for a donation and after the concert your name would come out on the big display on top of the stage (Loli said she did it with Winch’s name but it didn’t come out).
After the concert we were all talking about how hard it had been for us to keep the secret from her for so long, especially for Annie during the weekend ‘cause apparently she’s not good at keeping secrets. Loli called her parents (at was 1 am Santo Domingo time), they thanked Winch for taking her off their hands. We chatted some more with Jerry and Annie at home and then went to bed at around 3 am.
Monday morning we woke up at 6 am. We got ready and left at around 7:15 am. We caught a bit of rush hour traffic, but were at Fort Lauderdale at around 8:20 am. Apparently Uhura was pissed that we were leaving her, because we missed an exit and then she drove us to the airport on a not so good road, full of trucks and scary things. We said by to her and the SUV, and headed for the airline counter. Winch weighed his luggage and it was overweight (claro, it was full of Dr. Pepper, Cherry Coke and Materva cans!) so he went and bought a carry-on bag. We bumped into a cousin of mine (high profile jevito, pero no de la Lincoln, jevito de verdad). He coldly said hi to me (I was amazed because he usually doesn’t even say hi at home), but after a while he came to me and asked how many bags I was carrying. Apparently Spirit does not permit more than 2 bags per person (they don't even let you pay extra for it), and he was carrying 3 huge ones, so he asked me to register one of his’ under my name. Thank God I’m a nice girl, because he’s always been a big asshole and he didn’t deserve any favors from me, but I still did it.
The flight back home was uneventful (aside from Loli staring at her ring all the time). She wanted to go to the office as soon as we got back, but I told her that if she wanted she could go, but I wouldn’t. Winch’s parents picked us up at the airport and drove us home.
Needless to say, when I got home I opened up my new toys and started playing with them…
Our new names: The Lord of the Ring (Winch), Gollum (Loli), Froda Baggins (me), Precious (the ring).
And such was our weekend?
Any questions?
If you want to see the pics of the trip, click here.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Sometimes I wish I could clone myself...
Justicia!
El Site de Jack Veneno!
El Hijo de doña Tatica! Jefe de la Cuadra Técnica! Mi ídolo! Ya tiene un site!
Aunque todavía está en construcción, hagan click aquí para visitarlo.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Cuánto cobrar por tus servicios?
Servicios prestados:
Happy Turkey Day!
Hagan click aquí para que ven que cosa más chula!
Aquí está la canción!
Ya lo saben, si quieren la canción la pueden descargar de este link. Recuerden hacer click derecho y "save as" o "guardar como".
No me he olvidado de ustedes
The Flat
So much for my blogging plans...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Back on track
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Hellos from Miami!
Just a minute to tell you guys I've had so much fun at Miami! I'm just about to go to the concert and we're all psyched, specially 'cause my friend Winch is going to pop "The Question" to Loli in the middle of "With or Without You" at the concert! All of us who know are so nervous! Will she say yes or no?
I'll tell you guys all about it (and post all the pics) tomorrow when I get home.
BTW, I got my new iPod Video and iBook today!
So much to tell, so little time!
Gotta run, Bono and a ring are waiting for me!
Thursday, November 10, 2005
My plans for the weekend
Planning this trip has been very complicated. First and foremost, Winch and I had to convince ML to go, and what a task that was! She kept on changing her mind and finding excuses, but we finally managed to convince her. Can you imagine trying to convince someone to have fun??? Ugh!
Then there was the plane ticket issue. We are leaving on Saturday and coming back on Monday (we do have to work), and the ticket on American Airlines came out to be RD$17,326.00. RD$17,326.00! That's a fortune for my cheap ass! Aside from the fact that I intend to do a little shopping at certain store in Miami, this would leave me broke-er if possible. We found out that tickets on Spirit came out at half price, so we decided we wouldn't mind the drive from Fort Lauderdale to Miami if that meant saving us some cash.
Then there were the hurricanes: first there was Katrina and then there was Wilma. So far, I hear the concert is still on, but if anyone knows any different please DON'T TELL ME. I will not throw all that money down the drain just because there's no lights, shelter, food or water in the city. I'm going, whether Mother Nature wants it or not!
So, if any of you guys that live there or plan to be there for the weekend want to, you can look me up. I'll be staying someplace (I don't know where, but it's at Winch's cousin's place), but you'll find me. If there's any cool places to visit at night (though I've been there hundreds of times, I've never partied in Miami), please tell me before Saturday so I can be where the cool crowd hangs out. If you see me around, holler at me. If you have gifts for me, call me on my cell phone and I'll go by to pick them up. If you want to drive me around the city, I'll be available.
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No les parecen simpáticas las letras al azar que tiene blogger en su word verification thingie? Este de ahorita me pareció muy simpático. Como que dice "óyeme" o "meoyo"....
El Reguetón de Pepito
"Bueno niños hoy vamos a tener una prueba diferente, les voy a escribir un número en la pizarra y ustedes, a través de una canción, harán una suma y me darán el resultado escrito en la pizarra. ¿Estamos claros?" pregunta la maestra.
"Sííííííí" - contestan todos.
Pepito piensa: - "se me'ssstá poniendo difííícil esta situación".
A ver Luisito, pase usted." - y la maestra escribe el número 16 en la pizarra. "Tienes 10 segundos para contestar, comienza el tiempo."
Maestra lo tengo: 2 y 2 son 4, 4 y 2 son 6, 6 y 2 son 8 y 8, 16".
"Muy bien!" "A ver Juanito.."
"Mande maestra."
Y la maestra escribe el número "60" Nuevamente comienza el tic tac... Y a los 7 segundos dice Juanito:
Maestra lo tengo" - y Juanito comienza a cantar la canción de José José. "40 y 20 ... 40 y 20"
Muy bien!" dice la maestra.
A los 9 segundos Pepito dice: maestra, ¿puedo rapear?"
"¿Rapear?" - pregunta la maestra.
Y los demas niños empiezan: "que rapeé!!, que rapeé!!, que rapeé!!!"
"Bien" - dice la maestra.
Y comienza Pepito su melodía "La fucking profesora me vino a joder ... con una sumatoria que debo resolver. Los dedos de mis manos, los dedos de mis pies, la pinga y mis dos huevos ¡¡¡ Suman veintitrés !!!"
Ahora también en Remolacha...
Gracias a Remo por la invitación y espero llenar sus espectativas.
Carta a Santa
Comenzamos temprano! Gracias a Kika por el mail:
Estimado "Santa":
Te extrañará que te escriba con tanta anticipación, pero quiero que tengas tiempo de irte preparando.
En esta ocasión no tengo la menor intención de ser humilde, pensar en los demás y tener caridad. Voy a pedir sin medida pues ya estoy hasta la madre de ser cautelosa en mis peticiones y recibir miserias. Ahí te va mi lista y te aseguro que miles de mujeres como yo pedirán lo mismo, así es que puedes hacer producción al mayoreo.
- Deseo que no haya límite en las tarjetas de crédito, que exista un código especial que cuando se refiera a hacer compras, siempre pase.
- Quiero un verdadero hombre, pero en serio Santa, no me traigas imitaciones, ¡Di NO a la piratería!
- Quiero un dispositivo en el ombligo que, al momento de engordar, automáticamente me desinfle los ”chichos.”
- Regálame una aspiradora humana que al momento en el que algún canalla se quiera pasar de listo, lo aspire sin problemas.
- NO QUIERO VOLVER A DEPILARME! o pones de moda los vellos en las piernas, axilas, bigote, área de bikini y demás, o me los quitas todos de una vez.
- Quiero hacerme por última vez un manicure y pedicure y que dure para siempre como recién hecho.
- Mi marido, novio, pareja o lo que sea, tiene que adivinar lo que deseo que diga, y lo que me gusta que haga; que sepa lo que me pasa, y lo que quiero que me regale, quiero también que sea capaz de imaginarse cómo quiero que se comporte con mi familia, cuando estoy sensible y cuando no quiero que se aparezca.
- Un regalo ideal sería que el embarazo durara dos días y no doliera.
- El ciclo menstrual te doy chance que dure 2 horas; y me gustaría tener un botón en la mano para ser fértil solo en el momento que uno quiera y sea propicio.
- Que la ropa sufra de metamorfosis según la temporada, las playeras se vuelvan abrigos, los pantalones, bermudas y así.
- Si un hombre se atreve a andar de chistosito cabrón, ser infiel o esta mintiendo, insértale un chip que haga que se les encienda la nariz como a tu reno, y les crezca como a Pinocho, y además que se les caiga el asunto.
- Si se le ocurre serme infiel, haz que no pueda tener una erección en el tiempo que yo decida (porque quizás no me conviene mucho).
- Nalgas, pechos, piernas, todo con botón inflable, según la ocasión.
- Que las abdominales las pueda comprar ya hechas y para llevar.
AAAY!...GRAAAACIAS PRECIOOOOSO SAAAANTA, espero no te sea muy complicado.
Nos vemos en diciembre (si todo esta listo antes no importa).
Con cariño,
Una Mujer como todas...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
La Nueva Biagara
Only in the DR...
Las Chicas de la Tiradentes
As soon as I sat down Annina mentioned she’d met me before at John Digweed’s party at Guácara Taína a couple of years ago via a mutual friend. She striked me as a cool person as well, so we immediately started having fun. One of us was having boy trouble (I won’t say who), so we gave her moral support and bonded together in an anti-boy song (Alanis Morisette’s "You Oughta Know">). After that, it was all fun and games.
It had been a while since I’d had so much fun talking bs. We covered themes I didn’t think I would ever talk about with strangers (I had only met Libélula once before and had just met Annina), but it felt good to talk without reserve and have people understand what you were saying. We drank, we smoked, we ate, we sang, we planned trips, we bitched about boys… the ultimate girl’s night out!
Among the things we spoke about we mentioned Tomas’ blog. Apparently Libélula had become friends with him and had his phone number, so we decided we should call him and give him the surprise. The dude was in class when I called and he was all kinds of surprised: "Aló, si buenas con Tomás por favor." "Si, quién habla?" "You are not going to believe who this is… it’s Bracuta, your girlfriend!" I wish I would’ve been there to see the look on his face! We all said hi to him and after hanging up laughed about our craziness.
Around 11 pm the girls were kinda cold (the ac was very good last night at Steak), so we asked for the check and headed back home. I had driven 2 blocks when Annush got a call from Libélula telling us that Annina had, not one, but 2 flat tires, so we headed back to where they were (Tiradentes con Gustavo, in front of where Dunkin Donuts used to be), and there the fun really started.
Annina called her best friend (Jose something) for help. He came by and immediately changed the tires. He was going to go get them fixed at those gomeros that are open 24/7 over at Avenida Independencia. As soon as he got there we started having fun. One of the girls said out loud that he was cute (thank God he didn’t hear that), but we were disappointed to learn he had a girlfriend. As soon as he left we were stranded by ourselves close to midnight on the street. As you can imagine, it was a very dangerous situation (taken that crime these days in the city is at an all-time high), so I took out my stun gun (yes, I do have a stun gun, so don’t even think about messing with me). We turned the radio on in my SUV, with Annush’s iPod, and started singing and dancing. LITERALLY SINGING AND DANCING (I wasn’t though, I was on the lookout for trouble). Just picture this: 4 hot girls dancing and singing like crazy on the street at that hour on a Tuesday night! These girls were bouncing all over the place! It was hilarious! At one moment, Annina took out a drum she had in the backseat and we started playing as if we were professional drummers! Too bad Jose’s girlfriend’s grandma lived nearby and we had to keep the noise down...
We discovered that all 30 gentlemen are still at Santiago because cars went by and no one asked if we needed help. Well, some guys driving an X5 BMW stopped and then other guys on a Mercedes Benz tried to as well, but we brushed them off. No one was going to stop our fun!
Finally, at around 1 am Jose came back with the tires and put them back on. With that, we said our goodbyes and headed home for some rest.
I had so much fun I didn’t even mind today there was going to be hell to pay for going to bed at 2 in the morning! We should do this more often (aside from the flats thingie).
Living in the wild wild west, or as we now call it, Monte Cristy
El Lunes estaba muy tranquila en mi oficina, preparándome para salir a hacer una diligencia, cuando veo que en el Messenger se conecta Annush. Para aquellos que no se conocen la historia, después de un comienzo medio conflictivo, Annush y yo hemos logrado entablar una amistad de un tiempo para acá, más aún desde que vino al país hace poco más de un mes. Su estadía aquí, tal y como ella lo expresa, tiene 2 motivos: para tomarse unas vacaciones y para apoyar a su madre en sus actividades políticas.
Al ser hija de una madre muy involucrada en política, conozco muy bien por lo que Annush está pasando, sobre todo porque yo también estuve involucrada directamente en estos menesteres, pero en mi caso mi participación fue mucho más activa que la de Annush. Empeorando el caso, ella está acostumbrada a vivir en un país donde la política se maneja de manera organizada (la mayoría de las veces), y donde cosas como las suceden aquí no suceden allá desde la época del Viejo Oeste.
Para nadie es secreto que aquí el pueblo vota con el estómago y que el fraude es la regla y no la excepción. Fui testigo de casos en que personas vendían sus cédulas por RD$100.00, conocí casos de votantes inexistentes, de casos en que los muertos votaron y de lugares dónde había sólo 500 habitantes y aparecían 3 mil votos. Por esto, y por muchas otras cosas más, hay poco que me sorprenda cuando se trata de política.
Resulta ser que la mamá de Annush estaba postulándose para ganar la candidatura a Senadora por la Provincia de Monte Cristy por el partido político al que pertenece. Desde hace un tiempo este señora, a quien tuve el gusto de conocer cuando yo estaba activa en política (aunque probablemente ella no me recuerde), ha estado trabajando sin descanso para tratar de ayudar a su comunidad. A diferencia de otros candidatos, su trabajo no es sólo promesa de campaña; su espíritu de ayuda no es promesa de políticos, es parte de su naturaleza. Este fin de semana, como todo el mundo sabe, eran las elecciones primarias del PRD para elegir quién sería el candidato que estaría participando en la boleta electoral de las próximas elecciones Congresionales y Municipales del 2006. No puedo dar muchos detalles de lo que pasó ya que no estuve presente, pero por lo que Annush me comentó aparentemente las cosas no siguieron el rumbo que deberían haber seguido. Típicos salvajes, porque no hay forma más decente de decirlo, cuando a una parte no le gusta como están saliendo las cosas, decide tomar las riendas de la situación a como de lugar, sin importar los medios ni las formas y sin respetar la moral o las leyes.
Desgraciadamente en este caso ocurrió lo que siempre ocurre: robo de urnas, quema de boletas, delegados con cañones de pistolas en la sien, saltos mortales, hombres por los aires…..
Entre casos y cosas, la pobre Annush tuvo que tomar una escopeta para poder defender su vida. Y ni hablar del resto de su familia.
Cuando ella me comentó lo que había pasado se notaba muy ansiosa. No podía creer que esto hubiese sucedido. Nunca pasó por su cabeza que nuestra gente podía llegar a un grado de barbarie tal. Tristemente, para mí lo que ella me contaba no era nada nuevo. Para ella eso había sido el fin del mundo, para mí era otro día más en la política.
Sé que muchas personas van a decir que esto es típico entre perredeístas, pero la verdad es que no es sólo en ese partido. Es un caso común entre todos, y eso es lo más triste. Peor aún fue mi reacción cuando Annush me estaba contando lo que había pasado, y que yo lo tomara como algo normal. Y no sólo me pasa a mí. Ellos prepararon un comunicado a la prensa, pero nadie lo publicó. No ha sido mencionado nada de esto en los periódicos. Annush está molesta porque para ella esto debió haber sido noticia de primera plana, pero creo que a los periodistas les pasó lo mismo que a mí y se dijeron a si mismos "esto no es nada nuevo, no es una noticia de ultimo minuto, no vale la pena que comentemos sobre esto."
Que pena que nos hayamos vuelto indolentes frente a cosas que no tienen razón de ser. Que pena que casos como estos no llamen la atención de la prensa. Que pena que nos hayamos acostumbrado a lo malo y seamos indolentes frente al fraude y al crimen. Que pena que todavía aquí las cosas se hagan a fuerza de balas y papeletas.
Que pena.
Para saber los detalles de lo que pasó, visiten el blog de Annush.