Patchwork for everyone

Hi all! Today's word is patchwork and therefore I want to present you a new webpage that's shaking the market: La cabaña de troncos.

Their secret: High quality handmade products where you can choose both fabrics and models and make it completely personalized!

You can find them in street markets in Alicante city or through their blog. Have a look and choose between a finished product or a new one. It's up to you!

What do we love to do?

Hi all!  I've been quite busy these past days and the quantity of publications in the blog has decreased, but here I am again!

Yesterday the spanish football league finished and therefore, some teams stay one more year in the first division, some go to european competitions next year and of course, some of them go into the abyss of the silver category.

Happiness and pain, two curious feelings both present in players' and coaches' hearts these days.

I can't imagine these football coaches and players spending all their lives working hard, training everyday, studying strategies, watching matches and so on without a complete devotion to the sports' world.

So, why there's some people that work on what they love and so many people working on what they hate. Why these people complain continously because they dislike their jobs? Why they don't choose any other job?

For sure, we all are good in some fields due to our education and experience.
I've just read in  Expansión.com a really interesting article. One of those articles that make us think twice about our role in the game of life. What do we love to do?
Maybe the answer to this question will lead us to establish a new path in our life and try to work in the same field we're good at, and make our passions our way of life.

A buyer's choice

Crisis, time to change, time to evolve, time to buy a new car. Yep! That's what my father's doing right now, visiting all the car dealers in Alicante region in order to find a suitable car.

And now comes the choice: diesel or gasoline?

Diesel engines costs around 1200 € more than their equivalent in gasoline, so the question is, how many kilometers should I do till I cover the investment?

If you want to know it: it's around 40.000 km. So diesel is the best choice if you want to save money on fuel. On the other hand, repairs are more expensive on diesel engines than in gasoline ones. But anyway, you'll be saving much more money on fuel than on repairs, God willing.

Repsol YPF - The final solution

Yesterday, April 16th, the president of Argentina announced the expropiation of Repsol oil subsidiary YPF, with a estimated value of 8,000 million Euro.

The spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has developed a new plan to force Argentina's government to come back to the dialogue table.

As far as I can see, that's the best solution to the YPF crisis.

Inert matter, living matter and intelligent matter

Matter, as the Oxford English Dictionary says, is a physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit. We can separate the matter in three different kinds: inert matter, living matter and intelligent matter.

What's the significant difference between living matter and intelligent matter? Maybe there's just a slight difference. Maybe some of the animals and plants we see as just living matter are also intelligent. Maybe viruses and bacterias are intelligent. And maybe not everybody is intelligent.

The General Strike (2012) by P. Almodóvar

7 years ago I was given a collection of  9 silent films as a birthday present. One of them is called "Stachka" (trans. Strike) and was made 87 years ago, in 1925,  by Sergei M. Eisenstein.

The film shows a strike in a russian factory in 1903 and their fatale end.

I ask myself if any spanish film director is planning to make a new film about the spanish general strike of 2012...

Can you imagine Mr. Toxo and Mr. Méndez in an Almodóvar film?