Friday, November 14, 2014

Why I'm Studying...

I will talk about my decision of study the subject I chose.

When I was at high school, I didn't know what subject or career to study. I decided to study Electronic Engineering because I though to work with robots and automatic systems, but when I was studying  undergraduate at university in Peru, I started to take interest to study networking. Network Communications is a subject related to my proffesion, but I need to study so much about it, so when I finished my career at university in Peru, and I got the degree, I started to study courses related to networking and I got the networking certification called CCNA (Cisco Certified Neworks Associate) given by Cisco.

Then I started to work in jobs where I could apply some of   knowledge about networking, but I understanded it is not enought so I decided to study some most specific about I like. I heard about scholarships given by Peruvian govermment and I decided to apply for a scholarship to study for be a master in networks communications at Universidad de Chile. I got this scholarship and currently, I am studying for be master in Santiago city.

I can say I like of the world of communications networks and I am learning new things about it. Personally, I dislike some matters for master of interest for me don't start, but I will continue to get my target.

I only know I never finished to learn because this subject is broad, but I want to continue studying it day to day. It's my life.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Something I am proud of

I will talk about something I am proud of. It is about I got a scholarship to study for be a Master at Universidad de Chile.

When I was a child, I never though about to study for be an engineer. I remember I want to be firefighter so I didn't though to study at university. When I was 13 years old, I started thinking about to study a degree in engineering so I studied Electronic engineering when I lived in Peru.

I studied in a public university. In Peru the public universities are very cheap so I only was paying some basic cost. When I finished a degree of engineer, my mother said to me about scholarships to do postgraduate studies, but I said to her: It is difficut to get. My mind is focused to get a job.

I was working for three years in Peru. Then I watched on TV an advertisement about scholarships to study for be master in different countries. I coment to my parents about it, and they said to me that I could get it.



I decided to aply for a scholarship. It was difficult because I had to prove that I reached some requirements.
I was working when I was aplying for a scholarship. I had to get some permission to go out during work hours because I needed to do some tramits.
When I got a scholarship, I left my job and I had to do much work before. I remember I left my job 4 days before I traveled to Santiago. Those days were stressful.

Now, I am studying for be Master, but I believe that I will be more proud when I got the Master degree.


Donnie Darko




I watched the movie called  Donnie Darko two weeks ago. I was fascinated when I was watching this movie because it is a supernatural drama film, which is about two parallel universes and travel times.
When I watched the end of this film, I was amazed and confused because I had watched some impressive facts, which were not understood by me.

I started saying a short summary of this film. On October 2, 1998, Donnie Darko, know to a big rabbit called Frank, who say to him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During these 28 days, Donnie know to Gretchen and he falls in love with her. Also,  Donnie continues talking with Frank, who says to Donnie the things that he have to do. A Donnie's teacher appears in the film, who give him  a book called The Philosophy of Travel Time. When the supposed world end is close, Gretchen is hit by a car driven by the Donnie's sister boyfriend named Frank, who is disguised as a rabbit. Then, Gretchen dies and Donnie kill to the his sister's boyfriend.
When the 28 days have passed, a hold appears in the sky. Then, the film returns to October 2, and Donnie dies because a plane engine falls on the roof of his room.

When I was watching the film end, I asked myself: What happened? After I watched Donnie Darko film, I was finding some explanation about this film in the web.

In my opinion, the film is about two universes: the primary universe and the tangent universe. The primary universe is where the people exist now and the tangent universe is a parallel reality. The most of the film is set in the tangent universe.


On October 2, the primary universe stops, and Donnie enter to a tangent universe. This universe tangent is created because Donnie should die but he refuses to die. The spiritual force of Donnie was altering the reality. A guy dressed as a rabbit called Frank appear to achieve that Donnie accepts his destination.  The 28 days happen in the tangent universe. It is what would happen if Donnie don't die.
The rabbit that talk with Donnie is a ghost that travel from the future. Frank kills to the girl loved by Donnie and he is killed by Donnie in the tangent universe.

Finally, Donnie accept that he should die. In the tangent universe, he opens a portal in the sky and he achieve that a plane engine to pass through the portal and it travels to the primary universe. Then it falls on the roof of Donnie's room and Donnie dies. In the primary universe, Donnie never knows to Gretchen and she don't die.

Donnie Darko is a fascinating movie so I recommend to watch it.



A Concert or Exhibition

Now, I will talk about an exhibition I went to. It was this year when I return to Peru for two weeks.
It was a particular exhibition because there were a concert, peruvian typical dance and disco night.

I remember that this exhibition was at 28th July. This day, peruvian people celebrated Fiestas Patrias Peruanas, so there were many events and exhibitions in Peru, where national and international artists sing in different cities of Peru.

Mi girlfriend and me went to a exhibition in a popular disco called Premium in Chiclayo. Chiclayo is a city located in the north of Peru to 763 kilometers from Lima, capital city of Peru. Also, Chiclayo is a place where I was borned. In this exhibition, there were presentations of Peruvian dances as marinera, festejo and jungle dance. Also, William Luna, a popular singer in Peru, sang folk music with sounds of Andean instruments.
I remember William Luna sang his popular songs as "Niñachay", "Vienes y te vas", "Vuelve" among others.

Then, the night disco continued with different musical genders as pop, rock, salsa and merengue.
I remember that I enjoyed that day. I was very happy because I like to listen different music styles and I was with my girlfriend. Also, I danced some musical tracks and I drank some beer.

I would like to go to a peruvian exhibition  again. I was fascinated with it. I believe that when a person return to country, he/she feel very happy. In my opinion, the most of people love the place where they were borned.




Friday, October 17, 2014

Something I am reading: Smart Cities

Currently, I have readed academic articles about technology and telecommunications. There are different articles, books with many topics about technology. Now, Iwill talk about Smart Cities.
About Smart Cities, I have readed "Estrategia de Ciudad Inteligente para el Transporte Chile 2020". It is a government document.
It will talk about the plan to do smart cities in Chile. It started talking about the tendency of smart cities in the world. Then, it  explain about the definition. Smart city is an "intelligent city" where there are different technologies to improve the life quality of people. "Ministerio de Transporte y Telecomunicaciones (MTT)" of Chile want to implement technological solutions to have the best transport in Chile. It is possible if many deparments of government work together.

To convert Chile cities in smart cities, MTT will implement Intelligent Transport system (ITS) using video control system, security system, intelligent trafic light, monitoring system and others technologycal tools.

I also am reading about smart cities in other countries as UK. In UK there is  a plan to convert england cities in smart cities implementing intelligent enregy systems and water management.
Also, Spain is implementing smart cities.



Currently, I am reading about this topic beacuse  I am doing an academic documment to explain the smart cities situation in Chile, and compare this situation with other countries.

I can say that in Chile there is a smart city in Huechuraba. Currently, the government plan to convert 15 cities in smart cities.

This topic is fascinating. There are many things to talking about smart cities.

Friday, October 10, 2014

A special talent

If you ask me what is my special talent, I will said that I don't have a special talent, but my friends and my family say that I am talented with maths. I can say that this talent is not memorizing formules and replace in a problem. It is aplying the correct formules with ability. For example, when I didn't know some topics about financial maths, I found the formule and I aplyed it and I got the correct result, but I didn't memorize the formule. I remember that when I was at school, I also could resolve problems with a base formule and I got a complex formule. Then I got a solucion.

Also, when I was at high school, I could resolve some geometry problems at least 1 minut but I did it very fast and my writing was terrible so I only understood my numbers and graphics.
I consider that this ability is useful because I can aply it daily. When I was 22 years old, I used this ability to analyze and compare the interest rates and financial conditions offered by different banks because I wanted to get a loan. I didn't know about finances but I found the formules and financial concepts in internet and I aplyed those. Then I got a banking loan with a low interest rate.

My family thing that my ability is a talent. I consider that I started to develop my ability when I was a child, because I resolved many mathematical problems.

I am some lazy but when there is a challenging situation with maths, I use my ability.

Friday, October 3, 2014

A group activity

Hello everybody.

Today, I will tall about a group activity that I did when I was younger. It was going to ride bike with my brothers or my cousins.
When I lived in Peru, I remember when I was 9 years old, I started to ride bike. I can say that my first intention was failled, but I continued trying to ride bike. When I reached it, I started going to ride bike with my cousins. They are older than me, but I wanted to be more expert than their in riding bike.
I remember when  we was riding about many hours and my cousin got fatigue, and she couldn't continue. In that moment we stoped and then we returned to home on bus.

In my memory also is when I was teeneger and I taught to ride bike to my brother. I consider that he learned to ride bike faster than me. When he knew to ride bike, we did competition with his friends. It was very funny because some times there were amusing falls, but we never had an accident.

The competitions of cycling at high school  also were very funny. When I participed in a competetion at school, I remember it was exciting. Althought I didn't win it, I got fun and relax.

Personally, I prefer going to ride bike with friends or brothers. It is better than I go to ride bike along. I would like go to ride bike with my brothers and my cousins when I return to Peru.