デビルマン

Un relámpago
y el grito de la garza
hondo en lo obscuro...
Matsuo Basho

El cielo
abrasado por el sol
llora
fecundas lágrimas.
Pero bosque
herido por el viento
llora
hojas muertas.
James Clawell

Poema 14
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos
Pablo Neruda

Ella qui sap on és,
ella qui sap on para.
La vaig perdre i mai més
no he tornat a trobar-la.
Joan Manuel Serrat

Nostalgia
Esta tristeza que me dejaste
escondida entre los pliegues de mis manos
no se parece a la caída de la nieve.
Aquella dulzura que traías
impregnando tus ojos de paisaje
no se quedó en mi vida como un recuerdo.
Esa música abandonada
en los rincones de la noche
ya no alienta la nostalgia ni tu ausencia.
Andrés Casanova

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ガボルさま

Black or white, the one that can catch mice is a good cat (Den Xiaoping)

  • «Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love... John Le Carre»

  • «Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never... Charles Caleb Colton»

  • «The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end... Benjamin Disraeli»

  • «Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so... David Grayson»

  • «...les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent... Guy de Maupassant»

  • «A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her... Oscar Wilde»

  • «First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time... Honoré de Balzac»

  • «Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic... Anaïs Nin»

  • «When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough... Maurice Maeterlinck»

  • «True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked... Erich Segal»

  • «We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them... Anaïs Nin»

  • «Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects... Oscar Wilde»

  • «Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual... Octavio Paz»

  • «...metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love... Milan Kundera»

  • «Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves... Milan Kundera»

  • «When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object... Milan Kundera»

  • «A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary... Ingrid Bergman»

  • «Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire... La Rochefoucald»

  • «Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm»

  • «Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction... Antoine de Saint-Exupery»

  • «Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more... Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman»

  • «Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it... Michel de Montaigne»

  • «Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember... Oscar Levant»

  • «A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her... Oscar Wilde»
  • «Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement... Anonymous»

  • «La religión existe desde que el primer hipócrita encontró al primer imbécil... Voltaire»

  • «Anything too stupid to be said is sung... Voltaire»

  • «Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim... Bertrand Russell»

  • «What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left... Oscar Levant»

  • «An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations... Charles de Montesquieu»

  • «I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself... Marlene Dietrich»

  • «The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way... Bertrand Russell»

  • «Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards... Soren Kierkegaard»

  • «We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones... La Rochefoucauld»

  • «With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion... Steven Weinberg»

  • «The secret of being a bore is to tell everything... Voltaire»

  • «I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions... Augusten Burroughs»

  • «It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious... Oscar Wilde»

  • «It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative... John Burroughs»

  • «The future is much like the present, only longer... Dan Quisenberry»

  • «The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised... George F. Will»

  • «We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems... John W. Gardner»

  • «The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously... Henry Kissinger»

  • «The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously... Henry Kissinger»

  • «You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you... Eric Hoffer»

  • «When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it... Anatole France»

  • «Facts are the enemy of truth... Miguel de Cervantes»

  • «A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body... Someone»

  • «Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome... Isaac Asimov»

  • «Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand... Kurt Vonnegut»

Milan Kundera

«El hombre atraviesa el presente con los ojos vendados. Sólo puede intuir y adivinar lo que de verdad está viviendo. Y después, cuando le quitan la venda de los ojos, puede mirar al pasado y comprobar qué es lo que ha vivido y cuál era su sentido.»

«El sentido de la vida consiste en divertirse viviendo y que, si la vida es demasiado holgazana para que eso sea posible, no hay más remedio que darle un empujoncito. Uno debe cabalgar permanentemente a lomos de las historias, esos potros raudos sin los cuales se arrastraría uno por el polvo como un peón aburrido.»

«Es inútil pretender atacar con razonamientos el firme muro de sentimientos irracionales con los que, al parecer, está modelada el alma de la mujer.»

«..la vida individual de los seres humanos imita la historia de los seres humanos; al comienzo está sumergida en una inmóvil lentitud y luego, poco a poco, se va acelerando cada vez más.»

«Cuando crees en algo al pie de la letra, terminas por exagerar las cosas ad absurdum. El verdadero partidario de determinada política nunca se toma en serio sus sofismas, sino tan sólo los objetivos prácticos que se ocultan tras estos sofismas.»

«...no es tan difícil seducir a una chica como, si tenemos unas elevadas exigencias cuantitativas en este sentido, conocer siempre a una cantidad suficiente de chicas a las que hasta ahora no hemos seducido. Por eso es necesario siempre, en cualquier sitio y en cualquier situación, llevar a cabo un amplio registro, es decir apuntar, en un libro de notas o en la memoria, los nombres de las mujeres que han llamado nuestra atención y con las que alguna vez podríamos contactar. El contacto ya es un nivel más elevado de actividad e implica que establecemos con determinada mujer una relación, que la conocemos, que logramos tener acceso a ella. Si uno disfruta mirando hacia atrás para vanagloriarse, pone el acento en los nombres de las mujeres amadas; pero si mira hacia delante, hacia el futuro, debe preocuparse, sobre todo, de tener a suficientes mujeres registradas y contactadas.»

«Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.»

«Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.»

«No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.»

«There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.»

«Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.»

«Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.»

«Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.»

«Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.»

«Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.»

«When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.»

«Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.»

«The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. Yes, the right to kill a deer or a cow is the only thing all of mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars.»

«Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.»

«Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?»

«The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?»


Thursday, August 31, 2006

Good-bye to IUJ and some Tokyo moments

After graduation, the sad moment of good-bye finally arrived.... My idea was to hang out in Tokyo for almost 2 weeks before returning to Ecuador, or the lees likely event to happen, to get a job in Japan...

Good-bye to Jamal and Tuna, and their Japanese friend Masako-san. Guys, thanks for the big pack of my favorite Bangladeshi tea!!!!In the Yamasaki, met with Kasu. Good luck my friend, please remember how to work!
(Leo-san, as you can notice I inherited your Yebizu bambu cup, I will take care of her!)My dearestest Emiko, pre-good-bye pics... Wish you the best, my dear! Hope to see you again somewhere...I went to submit my room key, so good bye to the Housekeeper-chans too!Kien, the Watermelon Boy. Hope your wife will have a smooth e-Business experience! Mojo-jojo and the Powerpuff Girls...Good-bye, Rochita, good luck in Switzerland (get a Suiss husband!)....Do svedanya, Sevkita, thank you for everything! Please let me know where in the world you will settle down, if you get married, etc...Emily, may our love-hate relationship last forever! I already miss you...In the bus stop, we met some more friends (actually I traveled to Tokyo with Selva and Debi-chan)
Matt, you are a good man (despite you not understanding that Bush is evil).. Take care, and take care of our car...
Kaushal, the Sri-Lankan P.I.M.P., hope your business goes up in Japan...
In Kamisato I woke up for a genki-cha shot with Takeshi and Debi-chan. Guys, you are too good. Hope you'll be able to return in Japan soon...Last good-bye to Takeshi in Tokyo...
I came straight home (to Jessie's), and my last days in Tokyo officially started...
Yuko-san took me to a magnificent Japanese dinner. It included an atonishing variety of tofu...It looked small, but there were so many portions one after another that I couldn't finish... Yuko-chan introduced me his friend Eiichi, who had lived in Guayaquil for 2 years and speaks perfect spanish...Later we hung out down the barrio with Yuko-chan.
Small shrine in Gaiemmae...It was some kind of festival going on in Omote-sandou...There were thousands of people, I think...Thanks Yuko-sama, we must meet again before my departure!

That night, Korean Yakiniku with Jess and Andrea... The service was not good, but the greasy pork ribs meant to me a reconciliation with life...Jessie ashamed for what she did...
The next day I had an interview at LB... Lets see what happens...
After that had to go to the Japanese Ministery of Foreign Affairs, to certificate my diploma... And I finally met in person Wendy, aka Sugoi-chan, an Ecuadorian (and Guayaquilean) girl studying in Tokyo... We went to the Ecuadorian Embassy, and also for Jess to eat something...Then with Wendy we headed to Akihabara (finally I could find present for my fatha)... We ended really tired, it was a very very hot day...
Next day, Jess, Yoshita and me went to the pool... It was full of children learning to swim, so the water was warm despite of not being a sunny day (because of so much children pee)...For some reason I dont understand, girls didnt allow me to make pictures of them in bikini.... so lets put some pictures of the also beautiful surroundings...After pool, we had a big, tasty and surprisingly inexpensive fish set....Yoshita enjoying her food...After meal we felt so sleepy that we needed a siesta (only Yoshi had to go to work)...

That afternoon I went with Wendy to Shibuya...
In KiddyLand.. Wendy hugging Ecuadorian main export product after oil...Gremmlins!!!!!!!!Wendy's university...We made some shots of the Shibuya Crossing.. It was weekday, but in weekend is even more crowded...That nite, we went to a chinese restaurant for David's and Mani's b-day... The LB maffia!Decoration was quite interesting...Later, those who lived at walking distance from Roppongi went to Friday's, to celebrate Jessie's "birthday". Tomorrow Jessie returns to the US, so this was a sort of good-bye thing...
Happy B-Day Good-bye!!!!!Amiga, te deseo lo mejor. Estoy convencido de que luego de tu pasantia en OEA te ofreceran trabajo ahi! Disculpame por los malos entendidos, pero nuestra amistad overcame todo eso... Ha sido grato ser roommates estos dias, ya te extranio!!!!!!!Next day, Jessie flew back home....

Some oddities of these last days:
Fubu...The Japan's Most Wanted, and me...Winged deity...Crowded shopping mall...I still have 5 days left in Japan...
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