Spanish or english?

I've always handled myself with english pretty decently, although these few years living in Spain made me realize I feel more confident speaking in spanish, and that's not unusual at all, because for me, the environment makes the speaker, above everything. Putting yourself in a situation where you need to develope a language by any means makes you learn faster than going to spanish classes but living in U.K, per example.
I've always admired  spanish for its variety in literature and how poetic it can be, but don't misjudge me; I'm not saying english sounds like a dirty idiom but I hate the fact that there are so many meanings and less significants. In the other hand, I'd rather write in english for the rest of my life than  in spanish, but that's personal preferences but briefly:
For speaking: spanish
To writting: english.

Apple could reveal mini iPhone 5SE on March 21

Apple could reveal mini iPhone 5SE on March 21

March 10

NEW YORK

Set that calendar reminder: Apple is about to reveal some new gadgets on March 21. 

The company sent invitations to the media for a special event on Thursday, with the words "Let us loop you in."

Apple is widely expected to take the covers off a mini iPhone -- a four-inch "iPhone 5SE."The smaller phone will be about the same size as the existing iPhone 5S, according to leaked images. But it will also have some of the same features as the newer iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S models, including rounded edges, a Touch ID home button and an on/off button on the right-hand side of the device.

Some other products Apple could show off? There have been reports about a possible smaller iPad Pro, new Apple watch bands and software updates for its devices.

Releasing a smaller iPhone makes a good deal of sense for Apple.

The iPhone 7 is expected to be released in the fall, when Apple would typically be expected to retire the iPhone 5S. By that point, the 5S will be three years old.

Though Apple doesn't break out sales numbers for different versions of the iPhone, Wall Street analysts believe there has been a large amount of staying power for the iPhone 5S because of its smaller size.

The iPhone 5S is the last four-inch iPhone on the market.

Personal opinion

Apple must be really confident on their marketing if they're thinking that a mix of iphone6 and iphone 5 but smaller is going to pass by as a new model. They even state "including rounded edges" because that's the top of the innovation!! And they say it like having rounded edges is an achievement...

Vocabulary:

Edges: bordes

Devices: dispositivo

Dross

DrossRotZank is a very interesting youtube channel which I highly recomend to all those people who want to have fun, and learn at the same time. Ángel David Revilla, better known as dross used to upload a lot of different things to his channel, from gameplays to Q&A sessions called "Dross contesta preguntas estúpidas", but now he mainly uploads top 7's and horror stories.

I don't blame you if at first sight you think that this is a common and boring channel, but I invite you to find out his true talent, narration.

Dross is very talented when it comes to establish a scary/dismal atmosphere to his stories, and that makes him different from the others, apart from the inusual topics of his top 7 videos, like:

Top 7 most disturbing suicides

Top 7 most weird music genres

Top 7 most horrible death penalties

Top 7 scariest places on earth, etc...

 

Yuri & Jere podcast

Me and Jere discussing about a few important topics, and some weird questions...
https://audioboom.com/boos/4296906-jere-and-yuri-podcast

Resident Evil 4

General:
So, I thought it was a good idea to bring some videogame topic to this blog as a "your say", and getting it started with a childhood game wouldn't be bad. Resident Evil 4, first horror-survival game I played when I was young, and the one who introduced into the resident evil franchise as well. This game brings me back so many memories, and nightmares too! I can barely remember the day I finished it, but I felt so happy! The pain was over, because it was indeed a pain in the ass to finish it, considering that a eight-year-old boy shouldn't be playing this hehe. Jumpscares, horrifying enemies, scary atmosphere because of the soundtrack and the environment, charismatic characters and a nice plot  made this game a masterpiece.


Plot:
Leon is a US agent who received a mission to rescue the president's daughter, ashley, who was kidnapped by a weird spanish religious cult, who seem to worship a god, called Saddler, created by "Las plagas", which was the virus they used to infect people. Through his campaign, Leon will go through different sscenarios, 3 in total: The spanish village with peasant zombies ( a cool detail about this game is the fact that some of the people who got infected could still preserve human habits, like talk, use weapons, work, plan ambushes, etc...but they were really violent with strangers ), The spanish castle with religious zombies dressed like monks saying "morir es vivir" and  The Island with soldier zombies, to rescue Ashley and get her back home.

Most terrifying experience
1 word. REGENERATOR.

My very first encounter with him made me turn off my Ps2, because of how scared I was. Your first encounter  with him is in the Island, where you enter a hospital, more exactly, in a surgery room. When you get in, you see him through a window, lying on a bed, but the door is closed so you can't get near. Once you collect a key to progress to the next part of the game, you hear the noise of the jammed door, getting open. The music starts, and you hear his asthmatic breathing. He's an obnoxious enemy because you can only kill him shooting in 3-4 specific body locations, where the virus resides, if you shoot anywhere else (arms, legs, head, stomach), it will explode, but past a few minutes, he will recover from it, in other words, Regenerate it.

Trump: I 'should get credit, not be scorned' for tone of events

Donald Trump is pinning the blame for escalating violence and protests at his campaign events on Bernie Sanders.

The Republican presidential front-runner said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday that he "should get credit, not be scorned" for his handling of the tension at his events.

"You had professional disruptors, thousands of them, from Sanders and to a smaller extent, Hillary (Clinton)," he said of a Friday night event in Chicago that Trump canceled after chaos broke out there.

Trump was deflecting blame after a weekend of eruptions on the campaign trail. On Friday, his campaign canceled his appearance at an event in Chicago amid security concerns. On Saturday, a man rushed the stage during one of his speeches, and Trump closed out the day by calling for the arrest of protesters at his events.

Trump said of conservatives: "We are treated so unfairly, and I'm treated very unfairly."

He fired a warning shot at Sanders, suggesting that his supporters could disrupt the Vermont senator and Democratic hopeful's events after some of the Chicago protesters brought pro-Sanders signs.

"If conservative Republicans ever went into his rally, you would see things happen that would be unbelievable," Trump said, even as he denied that a tweet he'd posted Sunday morning saying that Sanders should "be careful" was a threat.

His comments come a week after a 78-year-old Trump supporter was arrested after video showed he sucker-punched a protester who was being escorted from a Trump event in North Carolina. (On NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump on Sunday told moderator Chuck Todd that he's "instructed my people to look into" whether he could pay the man's legal bills.)

Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, meanwhile, accused Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of grabbing her after a campaign event. Fields tweeted photos of her bruises and filed a criminal complaint alleging she'd been assaulted.

Sanders, in an interview with Tapper on "State of the Union," said his campaign "had nothing to do" with what happened in Chicago. He also called on his supporters to allow Trump's events to go forward.

"I would hope that my supporters would not disrupt meetings. To protest is one thing, to disrupt is something else," he said.

Still, Sanders said Trump carries the blame for the escalating tensions at his events.

"Even his Republican colleagues make this point: His language, his intonation, when he talks about carrying people out in stretchers ... this is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you seek," he said.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also criticized Trump on "State of the Union."

"He has turned the most important election in a generation into a circus, into a complete fiasco and a carnival," he said.

Rubio suggested he's considering backing off his pledge to support the Republican nominee if Trump wins the nomination.

"It's getting harder every day to justify that statement to myself, to my children, to my family, and to the people that support me," Rubio said.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on "State of the Union" that he, too, is tired of seeing Trump's comments designed to make people "depressed and down and angry."

"When I saw the violence in Chicago, I just had enough," Kasich said.

Personal Opinion:

Trump is really a failure of a candidate to be US's president, and he's trying so hard to convince people that he is quite the contrary. I don't support his ideology mainly because of his racist campaigns and his demagoguism, but it seems like he's getting really far in the competion thanks to all the blind people who vote him. In case he wins, let's see how much time it takes to his supporters to start complaining about him!

Vocabulary:

Bruises: Contusiones

Disrupt: interrumpir

Fiasco: fracaso

Blast in turkish capital of Ankara kills at least 27

An explosion ripped through a busy square in the Turkish capital Sunday evening, killing at least 27 people and wounding 75 others, the Ankara governor's office said.Scores of police cars, firefighters and medical personnel rushed to the scene. Security forces evacuated the area, the official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.

Authorities haven't released details about what caused the blast.February: Kurdish militants claim deadly Ankara blast

"It's too early to talk about who carried out this attack. The investigation is ongoing," a senior Turkish official said. "Our priority right now is the wounded."The explosion apparently targeted a transportation hub where bus stops and a metro station are located in the Kizilay neighborhood, Anadolu said.A bombing that targeted military vehicles in the capital in February killed at least 28 people.

Last week, the U.S. Embassy in Ankara warned of a possible terrorist plot to strike government buildings in the capital's Bahcelievler neighborhood, which is just a few minute's drive from the square where Sunday's explosion occurred.

Personal opinion:

Wounded are always the priority, but if those terrorists keep up like this, there will be no wounded, only dead people. I've seen already 2 terrorist attacks heppening today, and they all cause between 10 and 20, plus the wounded, just keep that in mind.

Vocabulary:

rushed: apresuraron

hub: cubo

embassy: embajada

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/world/ankara-park-blast/index.html

Gunmen attack 3 Ivory Coast hotels

Gunmen mounted deadly attacks at three hotels in the beach resort city of Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, shortly after noon on Sunday, according to the government.French President Francois Hollande, whose nation maintains a close relationship with Ivory Coast, said 12 civilians were killed, including at least one French citizen.

The Ivory Coast government had said 11 people -- including a child -- were victims of the attack, but did not say whether they had been injured or killed.Security forces "neutralized" six attackers, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said in a statement on state-run broadcaster RTI1.The statement said security sweeps were continuing.

Video from the scene -- about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the country's largest city, Abidjan -- appeared to show people fleeing from the hotel during the attack.Hollande condemned what he called a "cowardly attack" and pledged French support to find out who was responsible for the attack, which the Ivory Coast government had earlier said targeted two hotels.The U.S. Embassy in Abidjan reported that it had no evidence that U.S. citizens were targeted or harmed.

The French Embassy said it had set up a crisis unit, and asked people to limit travel in the area and stay clear of security forces. The British Foreign Office had similar advice.The identity of the gunmen was not immediately known, although jihadists have targeted hotels in West Africa before.

In the past year, two countries bordering Ivory Coast -- Mali and Burkina Faso -- have witnessed attacks on hotels popular with Westerners.

Ivory Coast itself has not been the target of terror attacks, but the threat of such an incident has risen since the country's support of France's 2013 military intervention targeting Islamic extremists in Mali, the U.S. State Department has said.

A terror group in Mali named Ivory Coast as a potential target for attacks in 2015, the State Department said.

Personal opinion:

Local police still sweeping the area trying to find the suspects who escaped, although they neutralized 6 attackers, including the terrorist who was in the mounted gun. Some people think this is a job made by jihadists because it is said that they usually attack hotels in Africa. Ivory Coast shouldn't be surprised at all, because it is known that they helped France to target some islam extremists in Mali, but for now, let's hope the security to increase, and keep those people away from harm.

Vocabulary:

fleeing: huyendo

support:  apoyo

witnessed: presenciado

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/africa/ivory-coast-attack/index.html

Can technology make a better world?

            Knowing that technology is utterly useful and it is a powerful tool at its prime, every single object/tool that can fit in this description can be used for good or bad. I always like to highlight the way social relations went from being good to poor and generical. Why would we ask someone for locations when we have a gps? Or online maps? Why would we meet someone when you can instant message them instead? Secodly, machines are stealing people's jobs, because why would we pay a month salary to someone when we can improve our industries machines to do a human's job?
            On the other hand, everything is not negative. I look forward to think that even with its flaws, it benefits us more than the harm it causes. Briefly, it makes life more easier and confortable, like using internet at home instead of going to the library to do a research, or renewable energies instead of using unrenewable ones which pollute our planet.
             Obviously, it is made to do positive things, but sometimes negative things can happen, but the only one to blame is the owner, the one who gave it usage, not the technology itself.

Informal conversation

                                       Characters: 1.Big Moris/ 2.Lil Mich/ 3. Dj Faron
3 old friends meet at the park...

3. Sup fellas. How ya'll doin'?
1. Doin' great. I'll have a lipo next week, because of my obesity and breathing probs.
2. WOW! Now you'll be able to pass through my house door.
1. Ha-Ha fucker. At least my gf is pleased with me
3. Hey guys! Be cool!
2. Dont worry bout that. It won't last too long.
1. What do you mean?
2. I'm gonna have a penis size enlargement.
3. You kiddin' ain't ya?
2. Nope man, I mean it.
1. My prob is serious business, I can't stand guys who do stuff...
3. That's stupid!
2. Do you guys realize how insecure I feel in the bed game?
1. I can imagine, don'cha Faron?
3. Don't be a dick with'im! Don't make fun of it.
2. Well I'll think about it.
1. Dont try so hard, will ya?

Can technology solve our problems?

Watching Jason Pontin's speech about technology really answered a lot of questions. Why have US been the first country to land in the moon? What happened to the future? How to solve big problems? Etc...

As him, I see JFK's iniciative of sending apollo 10 to the moon to prove that he had better rockets than the soviets a good thing because since then, for some reason we advanced a lot in technology, but as he says, these things won't solve humanity's biggest problems if we don't know how to use them, because most of the time our political system still fails, and some of these biggest problems are not even technological, like famine, which is caused by a bad food distribution.

Sometimes we can't solve them because we can't understand them, so, before trying to find the answer for something, political leaders and public must care to solve the problem, institutions must support the solution, it must really be a technological problem and we must understand it.

Podcast

Anyday, when I have the opportunity to go abroad, I would like to travel to Los Angeles. As you can see, I posted a picture of the Hollywood walk of fame because it's the first place I'm going to visit when I arrive in LA. In this picture we can see that there's a lot of traffic in the avenue. I guess that people are going home after job because sun's almost gone. As always, there's a couple of tourists taking photos of the celebrities names in the sidewalk. Lots of lights and stores because there's a lot of moviment in this part of the town. There's a couple of ads at the buildings in the front and far from the photo place, we can see some  high rise buildings.

Poetry

Sweet poetry. Since I was introduced to rap, I started to feel an interest about poetry. The idea of talking about your feelings, with strophes, verses, rhymes and beautiful words just amaze me, and it's even better if it is in english ( at least for me). Poetry requires control above the language, and an imagination with no limits. There's so much freedom to talk about whatever you want and feel confortable linking one word to another.

One day I hope to control all the elements, forms and genres of the poetry and start doing some real texts and professional poems and then, compare them to the ones I've made during my adolescence, just to see the lyrical change.

Homosexuality

Homosexuality...I don't know where should I start. Sharing your point of view about these "unstable" topics are like screaming: People, insult me because I hate/ I have nothing against them.

But yeah, I hate them. Since I was a kid, I was educated with a strong religion influence, and even though I'm not Thaaaat religious, I think homosexuality is wrong. There are two kind of genders, male and female. You beggin as one of these two, and you'll end up with someone of the opposite gender, so, why people try to change it?

It's gross, and see how people defend it's even worst. All they say is: If they love each other, why not? Yeah, WHY NOT? Talking about this make me sick, I just don't like it, that's it.

Social Networks

So this is one of the millions of tools that people make bad use of it.

I'm one of those who just use them to talk to others and that's it( this blog is obligatory, if not I wouldn't even been doing it).

When I see people uploading photos everyday, uploading quotes every hour, connected every time of day...Only if I could make them think about the interesting things the could been doing instead of sitting tight there looking to a screen chatting. These today's generations...Damn, what have we done to end up like this? It's like some sort of addiction to some, and it really bugs me out.

Exams

Exams are a way to qualify students through their educational period, apart from behaviour and homework.

Usually the most important way. Well, and if I tell you that the educational system is broken?

Your intelligence can't be measured by an exam's mark. Even dumb people could study to apply these things they "learnt" to put it in an exam to get a good mark and that's it. Cutting to the chase, the message I want to tell you, who's reading this is: don't feel bad for failing an exam. Not going to lie, they decide your future, but don't prove how smart you are. Don't study things to have a comfortable life, study them because you like it and it's interesting.

single-parent families

For some kind of reason, since I arrived in Europe, I noticed that a lot of friends of mine live with a single-parent family.

It's a shame to see that after having a kid, some couples break, mainly because of cheating, or drinking problems, matterfact, some of them are better being separated one from the other.

Another fact that I saw a lot, is that most of the kids live with their moms, or normally spends weekends with the father and the rest with their mother, but never stick only with their father.

Some kids never accept the fact of seeing their parents living separatly, and usually grow with a strange conduct.

The worst thing come when you get a step mother/ father and you don't like him. Yeah, that happens a lot.

But think about it. If the only parental member in your family for you is your dad or your mom, don't complain, just thank him/ her for making these 2 roles in your life.

8 Mile

8Mile was released in 2002. It's a really interesting movie starring Eminem. He interprets a guy whose nickname is "B-rabbit" who used to live with his girlfriend but when they got split, he had to go back to his mom's trailer house. Since that, his life has been a living hell. His mom hangs out with a guy who's a douchbag, beats her, etc... Economical problems.... He gets a job in a factory to earn some money so he can move to a new house. Even though people criticize him for being white and not belonging to rap, Rabbit  frequents a place called "The shelter" where mostly coloured people go to perform Rap battles to get respect in the ghetto of Detroit . Rabbit's goal is to win the shelter's champion, "Papa Doc" who pertains to a gang called "The free world" which wants to get him out of the rap game without killing him.

The movie itself is pretty good. I really enjoyed it because some points of the movie are related to Eminem's real life back in the day. Little mentions about Rakim, Notorious, 2pac and other big rappers were cool too. There's a really nice plot twist were Rabbit's mom gets a paper in the mail, which is an eviction order because she didn't pay the rent and they almost had nothing to eat, but a couple of days later, she wins at the bingo and earns 3200$.

I'm not a good movie reviwer but I think every technical material about the movie it's ok. The dialog, the camera positioning, etc...The only thing that got me a bit disappointed was the fact that they didn't improvised their bars in their rap battles, and I think rappers like Proof, Eminem or Xzibit, could've done it in the movie, instead of memorizing it from the script.

STAN

As my second "yoursay" about music, I'm going to talk about STAN.

Stan is a HipHop song made by Eminem, and it has two versions. One of them is featuring a british singer called Dido and the other one is with Elton John. It was released in the 99's, and even though it is old, the first time I heard it, I thought it was from the late 2000's.

 It is a really sad song.

STAN stands for stalker and fan. Why? Well, back in the day and still happens, some eminem fans take him to the extrem and EM tried to send a message to his fans: He was trying to say that he's just a normal person who produces music to people who like rap and hiphop, not much else.

Behind these words, the videoclip shows a guy called stan, who complains about his life, lives in a trailer and treats his girlfriend like trash, even knowing she's pregnant. The song has 4 verses, all of them are made by Eminem, but at the three first ones, he's interpreting Stan, writing mails to eminem and getting mad because he doesn't answer him. At the end of the third verse, he throws his car to drown himself in a river with his girlfriend in the trunk because Eminem didn't answer him.

At the fourth verse, Eminem's answering him while listening to the news. After writing a couple of lines he sees in the TV that a guy called STAN drowned himself in the river with his girlfriend and left a tape in the car, which said it was Eminem's fault.

Elton John's Chorus:

My tea's gone cold and I'm wondering why I...

Got out of  bed at all

The morning rain clouds up my window...

And I can't see at all

And even if I could it'll all be gray, but your picture on my wall...

It reminds me, that it's not so bad

Not so bad...

Some cool translated quotes from the song:

See, I'm just like you in a way...I never knew my father neither, he always used to cheat on my mom and beat her.

Ves, de un modo soy como tu...Nunca conocí a mi padre tampoco,él siempre solia engañar a mi madre y pegarla.
But I didn't slit her throat, I just tied her up, see? I ain't like you. Cause if she suffocates, then she'll suffer more and she'll die too...
Pero no le corté la garganta, solo la até, ves? No soy como tu. Porque si ella se ahoga, sufrirá más y de todas formas morirá...

I really think you and your girlfriend need each other, or maybe you just need to treat her better...

De verdad creo que tu y tu novia os necesitais el uno al otro, o tal vez solo has de tratarla mejor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMhN-hfMtY

Weasel photographed riding on a woodpecker's back

Martin Le-May caught the moment when the woodpecker took flight with a weasel on its back

Amateur photographer Martin Le-May, from Essex, has recorded the extraordinary image of a weasel riding on the back of a green woodpecker as it flies through the air.

The photograph was taken at Hornchurch Country Park in east London on Monday afternoon.

Speaking to BBC News, Mr Le-May said he had managed to capture the moment while he was out walking with his wife Ann.

He said: "I heard a distressed squawking noise and feared the worst.

"I soon realised it was a woodpecker with some kind of small mammal on its back.

"I think we may have distracted the weasel as when the woodpecker landed it managed to escape and the weasel ran into the grass."

Mr Le-May said he was astounded by the reaction to the picture on social media.

The wildlife shot has been retweeted several thousand times.

Martin Le-May: "It's almost a dream that you take a photograph that lots and lots of people not only look at but like"

He said; "I'm so proud so many people are getting to see my image. I'm totally taken aback by the response to it."

Wildlife expert Lucy Cooke told the BBC News Channel: "This is a truly extraordinary image.

"The green woodpecker is a ground-feeding bird, but weasels normally attack rabbits. The woodpecker is not its usual prey.

"But weasels are fearless.

"A female weasel weighs less than a Mars Bar but is as ferocious as a lion, so this is why the woodpecker would have been able to take off with it on its back."

Personal Opinion: It's all about capturing moments. Sounds easy, but it ain't. Be on the right place, at the right time with your camera, and take a photo of a lazy weasel taking a ride in the back of a woodpecker...Now it sounds hard huh? Think about how much time he has been searching for this moment and you'll see that he really likes his job.
Vocabulary:
Distressed: Angustiado
Wildlife: Fauna