Somewhere over the Bubble...

If I have almost dissapeared from this place in the last month, you can blame my job, RL and, at least! a good couple of weeks off job in which I barely did anything on Internet.

All right, it's time to come back from hiding. The last months have been a rollercoaster for me in many, many fronts, although basically my job and a course I've started on March are the main ones to blame.

Other that those, I've been fine. Family's doing pretty fine, I've met with some friends I hadn't seen in ages and so far, I'm slowly getting back to the clan (I never left the Capadocious Clan, but there were some times in which I was too busy to be too involved). I hope to get back to activity in the following weeks... there might be some news ahead!

BTW... Vacations coming... and this time, I'm going on a trip to Iquitos (an jungle city on Peru)! I'm excited!

How have you been? Say holla! if you can!

~ Daniel

After a couple weeks in job hell, I'm back!

Happy 2007!!! Other than some issues at the office, which had been already taken care of, these last weeks had been wonderful! Met great friends, had a wonderful New Year Party at the beach with some of them, went to the beach to get a little tan, slept till late, got to catch up with many messages I wanted to write and post and stuff... I've not only felt creative, but full of energy, I'm eager to get into some projects, eager to write more...  For those of you who didn't know, I have more than this journal and my Vampire blog, I look inside myself and see my heart is black. I also manage a weekly journal, a poetry blog, a personal Space & blog and a personal column-like blog, hosted at my University servers, all of them in Spanish. Some of them are updated more often than others, but I try to keep all of them not that forgotten, and in this late days I've been writing a lot.

Anyways, I'm feeling cheerful, filled with energy, and I plan to develop some new plans, projects and goals for me this year. One of them is regaining my activity levels in the game and in my clan. Others are related to my poetry writings, a couple courses I want to follow, maybe one trip and filling my applications. Ah, and maybe a business. Who knows? I want to do a LOT.

Hope you have had a great year start, too!!! See you around!

~ Daniel

Do you see that little devil teddy bear who now features in my bed? Well, it came this weekend, like a great summary to what my weekend was.

Remember I was feeling down? Well, that's over. My weekend was cute, was fiery red. It had mischievous moments, even a bit devilish , it had blue moments, a bit of rest, a lot of friends around me. That was the greatest thing: many friends around, even some I didn't think I was going to see them that soon.

This weekend just ROCKED!!!

Now... Daniel Reloaded is approaching...!!!


~ Daniel

This has not been a good week for me.

First of all, I got a cold. A strong one. So strong that it's making me feel pretty ill, and it made me feel down the whole weekend.

That was the second problem.

Feeling down made me not go to some friends' meetings. I lost the chance to talk with a friend I don't see since September because she now lives in another city. I lost the chance to do more than staying at home and read or write.

Or think. Then the third issue arised.

I recalled people I don't see anymore or I have lost contact with. Three faces popped up to my mind.

One of them, an old girlfriend from years afar, whom which I had this 10-year-long history. The second one, a girl who made my life to shine in the last years, only to become more and more a stranger in the current times. The third one, a nice girl and even nicer vampiress which had become more inactive, one who could talk to me for hours by MSN or just by email, and now it's more like a couple lines every now and then.

For the first one, I'm writing a post in my Spanish blog. For the second one, I have written an email. For the third one, I RP-ed an story in my vampire blog.

And writing those texts made me sad.

If it wasn't for my job, which had become more interesting with the new Manager, I would have been very depressed.

Definitely, it had not been a good week at all.

There are times in which I feel like an old, abandoned beer mug in a table with no people, no cigarettes, no bottles, no other thing than the half-filled mug pleading for someone to pick it up.


~ Daniel

Ahhh... it's good to be back.

Back to work, back to my projects, some of which had been sleeping for long... back with this energy that bursts out of me and makes me do tons of things in a matter of minutes... back from my apathy.

Back into the game, too... back into the COVE, now that the problems have been solved and things are peaceful again... back in the clan, back with my opinionated way to be. Back with projects for my House and my clan, too.

And myself? Yes, busy as ever, but now with a valid reason. Literature contests, blogs, a couple of trips, a visit... Scheduling some meetings with friends, being handled some very interesting projects at work.

Ahhh... it's so good to be back, to be myself, just me again, not a ghost, not a stone... again myself, again ready for anything and everything that life has in store for me.


~ Daniel

I know I haven’t been posting lately here. I’ve been pretty busy with myself, work, work, work, managing my schedule in order to work some stuff out, planning my next steps down the road… I’ve been a general planning of myself, finding things I didn’t like, finding things I had to fix ASAP. And I’ve been doing that.

As a result, I’ve been away from the Vampires! game, save for a verbal fight with Lady Toth. I won’t enter in details here, but it seems the COVE has become very biased and has broken its own RP-neutrality code. I don’t have a problem with more clans or more parties entering into city politics, but I didn’t like to find out that things done IC (attacks on some vampires, retaliation against some insults) could be turned into a forum-issue and focused like that, as if the clan I am a part of had something against the COVE. In the end it turned being like that, but because COVE owners started taking things personally, as if we were attacking them, and started being mean and attacking us. I know, at the end there were some acts that I really disapprove and I’m ashamed of, but that doesn’t take the main point away: COVE turned something that had NOTHING to do with them into a COVE issue and that, in turn, took us to the point we are now. I’m sorry for that, but if they are not longer neutral, I don’t want anything to do with them. That’s why I like FTA the most and have defended it in most disagreements that had been in its halls.

Anyways… as for me, I’m fine. I’m jumping from on-site inspection to on-site inspection. This is the third week in a row that I’m away from my desk, checking files, browsing through interest calculations and financial statements, meeting with bank officers and arguing about their disclosure policies and, in the meantime, learning a lot from other colleagues and breaking the usual routine. It’s really fun to be there, you know?

I’ve been re-discovering some projects I had, too. Writing, for example. I have been informed of two literature contests, a poetry one and a short story one, and I have signed in both. Now I’m preparing what it could be my entry there. I have time, thanks God, but I don’t want to do it at the last minute. Also, now it’s time to start checking for master and doctorate programs and applying for scholarships and stuff. I have found some interesting ones but they were closed at the time I checked. Now they should be opening, last week of November or first week of December. Time to check…

There are some other things, but I’m still ordering my thoughts. Stay tuned!

Anyway, about me and the game… I will try to re-activate my house but, if I fail, I’ll give the leadership to someone else. The city is getting very boring with my old friends gone and I don’t want to stay like a ghost in a place that is more a bunch of memories than a project to me. Yes, that also includes my current partner, which I think had decided to leave it for good too.

It’s time for more real-life stuff, I think. Probably I will start doing some trips around my city and my country. Check this pic of the Cathedral of Lima at night. Isn’t it beautiful?

It was taken at one o’clock in the morning, last Friday, after having like three bottles of red wine and a very nice Italian dinner with some friends. That’s life, the rest is just a tale!!!!


~ Daniel

I've had it! i don't know what's Life doing with me, but I had just reached my no-reaction limit! After having felt so bad because a sudden turn in the projects my area was taking and which of those were being assigned to me (either alone or as part of a team), I stayed till late at job and waited till my boss and me stayed alone. Once no one but us were around, I went to his office and told him a couple of things about how do I see our work and my feelings about it. At first he was impressed but then he said he thought more or less the same things and he would try to change the course of our area in the current events. He was impressed with the projects I'm handling, was interested in a couple of propositions I made to him and requested me to finish a particularly awful project I'm handling, so we could kick that out of us and forget it.

Nonetheless, I'm going to start looking for interesting jobs and/or postgraduate courses I want to take and, if some of those are available, I'm leaving.

Anyway, when I left the office, I was going home, thinking about what to do that night... when some really inept driver decided, after turning to the left in a crossroad, she wanted to go straight, so she passed the car that was in front of me (in order to pass before it and reach the other road), which forced that other car to stop in a second and do a maneuver to avoid her... which caused me to crash against this second car's back defenses.

DAMN! The other driver, thanks God, was a friend from my Master program, so we could deal with the problem (while cursing against that old lady) in a friendly manner. Anyway, I will have to take my car to the garage in order to repair its front light and the engine cover. *sobs*

I don't know but... one more of these things... and I'm going to.....

*evil glare*


~ Daniel

I got this in my horoscope today:

October 23, 2006
Mars, the planet of action, enters Scorpio this morning. Scorpio is the zodiac sign of intense feeling. When action and emotion are united like this, romance becomes overwhelmed with passion. Nothing is casual. Will you enjoy this transformation?

I'm going to start a new blog (in Spanish) and also I'm going to start posting a bit more in my other blogs. I want to recover my speed at writing columns, not only personal, but something more... opinion-like columns. My new blog is already up and running, but it still lacks material, so I'm going to see if I can figure something good for posting there now.

Also, I'm thinking about start using this account not only as a journal, but also as a column too. Sometimes, there are things I would like to write about, but they are not appropiate for my 360º account and I don't have another blog in English. So well... this will be. What do you think?

Guess I'm a bit with extra-time, right? WRONG! I don't have too much free time but, other than start dating someone who has brought many smiles to my face recently, there is not too much interesting going on in my life. Well, yes, the journalist writing style course, but it will end soon. In fact, from that course is where I got the idea for the new blog I talked at the beginning of this. I'm already looking for graduate courses to apply to, but I need to do something in the meantime. Write, write, write... that's what keeps me alive.

Things at work aren't going that much great... not only there is this stuff I don't like too much, but now there will be an organizational change: my area is being split in two, and my area manager is going with the other half of the area, so that means we will have a new boss since November. Things at home are fine, thanks God Dad is doing all right, just he needs to recover a bit of his left leg's movement, but I really hope he will be walking again soon.

Let's see how I'll do this week and then I'll be back to tell you, ok?

Have fun & take care!!! (yes, you can do both at the same time!)

~ Daniel

From now on, things are going to change.
But some things will never be forgotten.
Just wait.

And yes, you know what am I talking about.