*SEMIFINALS*

Can't feeeeel happpieeeeeeer!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday Netherlands won! :):)

And today, after I'd been listening all telling me Germany is going to win, while all the people just didn't believe in Spain and had given up on a possible victory for the country I was born in, SPAIN WON. Yes, it seems a bit weird and unexpected, but these makes it even a more tasty and felt victory. Ok, maybe the match wasn't amazing: all the chances that mainly Spain, but also Germany, lost of scoring goal... and the referee weird way of beeping faults... and many other things... but you could feel the strength of a team that feel a real team and plays like a team ( although Torres and Ramos kept a bit the ball to themselves at the end), both teams played together, helped each other and believed in themselves until the last minute. And this is what I believe football is all about and I think C.Puyol is the personification of a football team, smily, energetic and faithful until the last second. I guess this is what makes him my favorite football player in my favorite team: Barça.

So know....we'll have to wait till the FINAL: Netherlands - Spain on Sunday!!

London Summer Days

Summer is here.

Even Londons weather is amazing!! And the evenings are incredible.

I am sitting in my living room, having a glass of white chilled wine, and smoking one of my many daily cigarettes, but this one is the best one of today. This one tastes different. Its not anxiety, its not addiction, its damn pleasure.

Wondering.

Thoughts and thoughs all pop in and out of my mind as the gentle wind comes and goes into the room.

Smiling.

Thinking about how upset and disappointed I was 2 days ago when some idiot just fucked up my account, and commited fraud, which luckily was discovered on time! Which made me feel so insecure. How can it be so damn easy?! How can somebody just sneak into your bank account and empty it, without you actually realizing! Maybe due to my ingenuity, I just thought ut was seriously complicated! Anyways, its over now.

Following day, spent the morning at the bank, and all was over. The sun was shining. And I hald 1 hour before going into and solving the situation. So I just walked around London Bridge, and discovered this beautiful, unbelieavble quiet and surrealistic little bar, with a peaceful terrace overlooking the church's garden. I sat down and started reading. It was lovely.

Then yesterday came along... terribly disappointed by Italy. How upsetting! When they scored the second gol, 5 min. before the end of the match, I was just overexited and happy!! Anyways, I feel lucky, I have more than one team, and somehow ' i feel i have the right to it' ahahah...it sounds pretentious, but its true! I mean everyone can follow more than one team, it's really up to self-choice.

My real real team has always been Bcn, but in the World Cup I follow at least 2 teams!Without feeling guilty about it! Ahaha... anyways...just writing down a couple of thoughts!

Today Spain wooon!! :):) Which made me quite happy!! Hoping the situation starts to look a bit better...fingers crossed for England too!

Anyways, today has been such a tiring day... but pleasent, damn pleasent, walking in Londons summer sunshine... a little breeze here and there... smily faces... happy music... Oxford Circus as usually was crowded... always a lot of people, always a lot of different people! It never seems the same place! I just feel and see it differently each time I go, I guess it happens with all the places you go.

I also walked around uni, looked quite quiet and empty...so somehow different...back to my walk...I popped into the library to get some books, love reading in summer weather, summer parks... its just so much more relaxing, and you can read as much as you want, no need to stop cause there is something with somehow 'higher priority' to be done...

And the sunset came along...yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue....lighter, darker, brighter, duller...but always amazing!!!!!!

...quiero vivir, quiero sentir...
...vivo,siento...

power of life, power of word

' I've commited the worst of sins

that a man can ever do.

I've never been happy'

JORGE LUIS BORGES

' What I like of your body

is the sex,

What I like of your sex

is the mouth,

What I like of your mouth

is the tongue,

What I like of your tongue,

is the word'

JULIO CORTàZAR

...To Be Continued...

I can't believe this first year of uni has gone by so fast! Its incredible, it feel like I landed in London yesterday, and instead its been almost 10 months!

The difference now, is that when I leave London, once I come back ''I know my way home''. Which is a bit of a metaphor, with this I mean that now I know a little bit the city, the people, different places, now I have a sort of family here, made out from good friends, whom I really want to thank for being there, classmates that are always able to make you laugh, flatmates ready to look after you, teachers ready to 'crit' you and teach you...

If when I arrived to London I was scared of having put up to high my expectations, my dreams about this city too much, now I can tell for sure, I hadn't because it has overcome all my expectations, and trust me, there where high up!!!

See you soon everybody, have a lovely summer, and this story, which has just begun, is ought TO BE CONTINUED!!!

In Medio Stat Virtus, In Medio Stat Veritas

I believe in balance, but not the balance made out of 50% black and 50% white. I think balance is more personal, deeper, relative and subjective.

What I mean with balance is taking the best from both sides, what you prefer from both or more parts, and making them your ones, personalizing them.

There are some things, which I think are very few, that are completely one way or the other one, and usually there is no doubt about them. Maybe one day there will be, but at the present moment, that is the way there are and it is not yet changeable or discussable.

But most things in life, I believe have different levels, opinions, options, choices.

I believe variety and the capability of changing are among the nicest and most fascinating things of human beings.

‘ISMS’: Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim New York

Journal, Art. 8

Definitely it seems like a building, which has put into second place functionality as a museum, and in first place esthetic, shape and eye-catching clean elements.

If you have ever had the chance to visit it, it isn’t maybe the most comfortable museum to go around, it is not as clear as maybe the architect thought it would.

But I would also like to say that maybe we don’t understand his concept very well, maybe he did think about functionality, but he didn’t realize that the way he interpreted functionality maybe was just to personal and not applicable enough for the rest of society.

And seriously, I do believe an architect must have his ‘foot print’, his personality and thoughts, but has also to think about the clients: the private client, that is going to finance the construction, and in this case Guggenheim, but also, ‘cause it is somehow a sort of public building or at least is meant to be for other people too, the architect in this case has to think about who is going to be using this spaces.

I believe architecture is not only about ‘you’ but also, and mainly, about others.

And I think that it is a pity somehow, that Lloyds Masterpiece, amazingly felt, nit, pure and cleaver, which I personally really like, seems not to have worked out as they imagined it would.

But still, I am going to attach a Piece about it I have read, that might change a bit our minds, or at least, make us be a little less drastic about judging him and his work, because he did think about us, people and society, just maybe had to many expectation about human being.

‘’To the question of why did he prefer a ramp to conventional floors, Wright answered that for a museum visitor is nicer to enter a building, go up with the elevator until the highest floor, and slowly descend – having always the chance to go up and down with the elevator again- to, finally, find the end of the exhibition in the ground floor, next to the exit. Wright added that in the majority of conventional museums, people had to cross large exhibition spaces, to go through them again and again when ending their visit, just to get to the exit.

Guggenheim was enthusiastic about the upward spiral and supported the project until his death in 1949.

When Lloyd died in April 1959, the construction was almost complete, and only some last remaining details had to be finished. The 21^st October, the museum opened its doors to the public.

During the construction process, the director and the administrators of the museum, received a letter signed from a long list of artists, in which they exposed that the slightly bent walls and the ramp weren’t appropriate for a painting exposition. ‘ Why do you think the walls of the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum are slightly bent towards the exterior? Because its founder and architect thought that paintings located on a slightly bent wall can be looked at with a better perspective and receive lighting better than if they were absolutely vertically hanged up.

This is the main principal of our building, the hypothesis on which the project was based on. It is a new idea, but it can become a very important precedent in and for the future’. “