Sunday, 9 May 2010

Primera y Ultima Vez

Esa es la primera vez (y espero sea la ultima, aunque quien sabe) que escribo sobre politica en este blog. Sin embargo, durante la semana sucedieron algunos eventos que me pusieron algo de malas.

Resulta que en el Tec hubo un congreso de derecho y se invito a varios personajes de la vida politica en el pais. Quien cerro “con broche de oro” fue nada mas y nada menos que el H. Senador Manlio Fabio Beltrones (H de honorable o de Hijo de … dependiendo de con quien este hablando). Y algo que reitero y dejo bien claro fue que lo que el busca es trabajar por el bien del pais (err…).

Saben que a discusion en el Senado entraron solo una minuscula parte de las iniciativas propuestas y las que se discutieron fueron frenadas, modificadas, despedazadas (you name it), hasta ahi todo esta bien. El Congreso debe buscar lo mejor para el pais y no necesariamente lo que propone el Ejecutivo (o alguien mas) es lo mejor.

Pues lo que me puso de malas es que este H. Señor del que hablo arriba, luego de decir que se debia de trabajar y cabildear y buscar las reformas que permitieran la gobernabilidad sale y a los pocos dias evita que el Congreso vaya a sesion extraordinaria!! Estos pelados viven de nosotros (y se burlan en nuestra cara por ser tan huev…s) y claro esta que prefiere (Manlio Fabio) irse de vacaciones que quedarse a discutir. Claro! pues sabe muy bien que va a rechazar, frenar, tropezar CUALQUIER iniciativa (venga de quien venga), cual es el punto de una sesion extraordinaria si la decision ya esta tomada, NO a cualquier cambio!. Esto de tener elecciones a cada rato es un problema, nadie quiere tomar decisiones importantes no vayan a molestar a los que les pagan sus tan jugosos sobornos, como si su sueldo no fuera ya lo suficientemente grande.

Yo se que esta discusion es algo simplista, pero quiero recalcar que la hago desde un punto de vista apartidista. Luego de estar fuera del pais por varios años y regresar a ver lo que sucede en el es en verdad indignante. Y lo peor es que hay gente que aplaude el que le esten pisando la cola, total mientras el Congreso haga que el presidente parezca el idiota que tal vez es es suficiente…

Nomas ponganse buzos…

P.D. se me olvido comentar que el H.S.MFB mencionaba el presidencialismo de EU como ejemplo cuando le convenia (como si fueramos unos tarados) y se referia a “el gobierno en turno” como algo despectivo. Señores, no nos hagamos, el Congreso ES el gobierno en turno en una democracia como la de Mexico…


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Monday, 22 March 2010

Update: Extra! Extra!

I’ve been too busy for the last two weeks. As you can imagine, these were full of emotions: leaving Manchester and coming back to Mexico; the wedding of my youngest sister; going back to work (waking up early again, yikes!); meeting lots of friends and acquaintances; and buying stuff for the new house (oh I forgot to mention finding a house). In sum it’s been real crazy…

Before coming back I met with my closest friends from the Photo Group. I met them all through Flickr and honestly it was great to share with them so many experiences. I’m sure we will be able to keep in touch regardless of the ocean between us (promise to get on Twitter this year).  Thanks guys! it was great to meet you all. Here a photo of the night taken by Paul:

Goodbye Valdo!

Immediately after arriving was party time and I had to get a smoking/tux for my sister’s wedding, no need to say that we had a blast. I’m still waiting for the Tog to upload his pictures of the night, I will post a pic of me looking like a penguin then. In the meantime, V was having a great time being a princess:

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I will leave my first week at work and house finding efforts for another post so…                      stay tuned ;¬)

 

mtk


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Monday, 8 March 2010

I’m feeling fine

The first thing I get asked lately is how I’m feeling about going back to Mexico, honestly?

… Fine. I’m  fine, fine…

Fine, but as in an “Italian Job” kinda fine which you know means: Fu’ed up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional.

Yeah, I’m certainly feeling Insecure and Emotional right now.

Good Bye Manchester and Friends!!!! The world is smaller than I thought when I first came here so I’m sure we’ll clash again somewhere…

                                                       …sometime.

                                                    The Valdo


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Thursday, 4 March 2010

New Doctor

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Yes, on 1st March 2010 I received my PhD Certificate.

This was a very happy day indeed! this is for my family that supported me all these years. Now I can sign as Dr. Valdo ^_^

I have to say though, that the certificate is quite disappointing in itself. We all had a laugh about how one could get a better looking one in the err black market ;¬) well all the efforts end in this, a plain looking piece of paper. Now a different life begins!!


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Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Been Busy Lately

I haven’t been writing in this blog for a while now. It is not that I don’t want to. No, scratch that: I really didn’t want to write anything else after finishing the thesis!!

However, now I am feeling in a much better mood and I want to tell you how it all went…

I submitted the thesis back in November, after that we spent some nice holidays in Paris. It was a well deserved holiday for all the family and a great opportunity to take some pictures in that beautiful city.

While in Paris I got an email saying that my Viva (the Thesis defence) was going to be on 28th Jan! Obviously January was a blur full of excitement and finally the Viva date arrived.

The week previous to the Viva was the worst ever, I was really scared but the examiners were actually very nice on the day and after two hours I ran away with only minor scratches. After a week or so I submitted the minor corrections, these were approved, I printed the final copies, submitted them in beautiful black covers and Bob’s your uncle! wait for the certificate to be made…

… and yesterday…

 

… To be continued.


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Saturday, 19 December 2009

Merry Christmas!!!! Feliz Navidad!!!

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2010. May health, love and prosperity follow you all year round.

I haven't posted anything in a while and I haven't been in the mood to write since I submitted the thesis but the next year will bring lots of new things to write about.

Take care and hope to see you soon!!!

Feliz Navidad!!!


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Monday, 30 November 2009

Submission

The last few months have been really crazy. Finishing the thesis (dissertation, as my supervisor prefers) took a bigger chunk out of me than I expected. However, it's done! I submitted my thesis on Nov 19th 2009. I'm still waiting for my Viva date but at least the monster is out there, hopefully it won't come back to bite me.

At the moment, I'm writing this post from an Ipod and wondering why we didn't have these back in the day! ethics lessons would have been far more exciting. But I digress. I just wanted to tell you that me dad came to visit and we are having an excellent time!

I also have to say that the PSP Go (my thesis submission present) is great, not perfect by any means but at least it is a nice piece of gear.

Back to the submission topic I have to say the myth is true! You look forward to this moment so much that when it actually comes you can't really enjoy it. Weird feeling. More than happy you just feel relieved and more than freedom you feel that something is missing.

The Ipod is going all funny so I'll continue with this story some other time.
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