IN TRANSITION:#7: New Year New Life. (2010 Recap.)
That’s it for 2010. The year is pretty much over.
Bye 2010 you taught me so much.
2010 started out with me unemployed. It’s crazy to think I was broke, and jobless 3/4 of the year. I didn’t start working til September. I remember the ups and downs so much. The inner turmoil, self loathing, the uncertainty, embarrassment and impatience for progress. And then, one day just changed it all for me.
I never really thought that I could do so much for myself and for others in such little time and I think that was my problem. My perspective was all messed up and I’ve never really been the type to give myself much credit. Call it being too humble or a self esteem problem, that’s the truth. The other truth that only few of you know is that I’ve been pretty sheltered all my life in an environment that has created in me an anxious person. Letting myself be contained in the cage of anxiety for too long as opposed to really stepping out into the world, 2009, the year I graduated, was the year that I decided I wanted to try to move on and get passed my fears. But nothing happened. I wasn’t working. I interpret the majority of the year as God saying “Nope, I ain’t going to make it that easy for you.I’m going to make you want to free yourself at all costs.”
By my cage, I’m not saying my home. I’ve kept myself locked away in just about every sense of the word because I’m always overthinking. I can be very anxious and uncertain about what the best course of action is. There’s this overwhelming fear of failure that has controlled my life…….for way too long…and I’ve enabled that to happen.
My parents, God bless them, in their attempts to help me have also instilled this feeling of being overly cautious that I must get rid of in order to live the life I know now that I’m truly meant to live. This year I’ve been able to think about my life, sort it out and start to change it.
The fact that I’ve made some pretty big progress has made me realize that I can be in control of my life and that I can rely on my ideas and the way I want to go about things. I learned ,once and for all, that responsibility is a great thing and I’m jumping in to do more for myself. This past month, I think I’ve finally learned to be more focused and I’ve narrowed down all of my interests and desires to four basic things. I’ve been trying to figure that out my entire life and I finally got it.
My life has purpose now. I don’t think I’m lost anymore. I’m not all over the place anymore. This is the gift of 2010.
I’m 25 years old. I haven’t done things that many of my friends are already doing. In many ways I’m so behind on growing up. But like I’ve said in previous posts, I’m really good at playing catch up.
To all of my amazing friends and family, Thank you for always seeing in me what I could never see in myself.
For the longest time, I used to wonder why people would react so positively towards me, why I’ve been told that people stop and stare at me, why people are always so willing to help me in life. Now I think I’m starting to understand what it is.
I’m a good person. I am ok. And I guess for those reasons there are so many people in my life rooting for me.
Not only will I break free, I will shine in 2011 and you’re all coming with me.
Happy New Year Everybody. 
I’m a sick chick so I’m staying home…..But I LOVE YA!!
- You can check out my journey in the “In transition” section of my blog. I’ve enjoyed every moment of letting everyone “see me sweat”.
It’s not just any post…It’s a LATIN post!!: TV: Desafio
Desafio: La Lucha De Las Regiones.
I have been hooked on this show since I saw it last year. It’s on the Colombian channel Caracol. The best way to describe it is to say it’s the Colombian Survivor.
There is one that is on the American Spanish Channel (Univision Sundays at 8pm) but I don’t feel it does it justice(they edit it to fit a week’s worth of challenges in 2 hours. You don’t get to know the characters as well as the Colombian one.) but you could watch it I guess.
The season starts with about 10 teams each representing a region of the country ( if it was done here in the U.S. there would be the North team, South, East, West, Midwest…etc.) and they play challenges.
Cycle of Challenges
It’s a cycle of challenges. There are 4 challenges.
Challenge for the Living space.
1st place in this challenge goes to Playa Alta (High beach) where there’s a beach house with plenty of food and a chef who cooks the team dinner. You get to shower and everything. 2nd place goes to a beach that has some food and a hut with hammocks. 3rd place goes to the lower level beach where there’s nothing but coconuts. In the beginning of the game when there are many teams there’s also the last spot where everyone’s crowded in an iron deck….something like that. There’s no food whatsoever and the deck or platform is surrounded by water. Winning this challenge does not mean they are safe from elimination.
Challenge for Safety
This is like the “Survivor” challenges in that the losing team is now in danger and has to get rid of one of its members. There’s still a chance for immunity for one player in the losing team.
Challenge for Immunity
The losing team now competes against each other. The winner gets an immunity bracelet and has the opportunity to say which of his/ her teammates challenge each other in the final challenge.
Final Challenge
Before it officially begins, the immunity winner (he’s from the losing team) and a representative of the winning team stand before the host. The immunity winner must choose a teammate who will definitely be in the challenge as well as suggest another for the Representative to pick. The Representative for the winning team can choose to respect the Immunity winner’s suggestion or pick any other player to put in danger. They compete. The Loser leaves the game.
Then, it starts all over again. When there are not enough people in a team they merge. When one team is left they automatically live in the beach house. Everything else becomes an individual competition until there is one winner.
WHY I RECOMMEND IT
What I love about the show is that they usually play fair, there’s no real backstabbing and its still really cool to watch. Most even show good sportsmanship. Plus as a girl with Colombian parents, you get to root for your region.
But the best thing to watch are their challenges. They are no joke. (see video below.) “Survivor” has nothing on them. You don’t need to understand Spanish to understand what’s going on. Another great thing is that they give a new episode EVERY NIGHT! (except saturdays) That means no waiting around a week like we do here.
If you’re interested you should watch the original Colombian one. Last season’s episodes are online in its entirety on youtube.
If you are REALLY interested in this season then you can watch new episodes every weeknight around 10pm Eastern time here.
They repeat the episode again around 3pm the next day (I don’t know why but they can be a little off by like 10 minutes.)
Clip Time
And now a taste of the difficulty of the challenges. Here’s a clip from Last season. This is the challenge for the living space.
This is day ONE…..
Just in case you got into it….haha….
The World Cup is here!
The games begin this Friday but there will be an Opening Concert tomorrow at 2pm with a few artists.
ESPN and Univision will be airing it.
And now…this World Cup’s Anthem….
We are approaching the 90′s
Since we just finished the first two weeks of the new year/decade do you wonder what the culture is going to be like? We had a pretty crazy schizo decade that loved extravagance and drama in entertainment. The 80′s were beloved in the first decade of the century and rarely was anything ever deemed too much.
History repeats itself therefore I predict the fashion and music sensibilities that ruled the last decade are about to end with this new one we are entering.
In other words, the 90′s are going to be back.
The 90′s for me seemed to be the decade of going “back to the basics” but I don’t think this is going to be completely the case with the ’010 decade since the 21st century has so far proven to be what I will call the Hybrid era or Postmodern era where everything was mixed up and people put a new twist on the things of the past for better or worse. Youtube video commentary on events at times tend to be a great example like the merging of Kanye West VMA stunt/Obama’s healthcare address.
So here’s what I predict for the coming decade in entertainment.
2010-back to basics (sort of )
In music right now, things seem to be light and heavily dance oriented where lots of synthesizers dominate the mainstream, like the late eighties.
If we take a look at the music shift during the 90′s , the synths either started to get darker, or if we look the other way, there were barely any synths at all. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, and R.E.M. came up to the mainstream during this time as well as Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. I think that switch will happen again eventually settling in mainstream in about a year or two so I can’t help but wonder….
Will there be a 21st century grunge movement?
I think Indie could be seen as 21st century grunge. This century mixes everything so I really don’t think the synths are going anywhere, just used less. Indie is really light compared to grunge but It reminds me of the whole “wear -whatever -be -yourself type of attitude grunge had.” To compensate for this softness, like the Nineties however, it will co-exist with Goth/Metal
Now of course I use this phrase very lightly. It’s not the Goth music that people necessarily think. This is the Millenium we are talking about so it may not be Goth music per Se, eh just more like Metal. Whatever kind of rock rises up, it will have some kind of dark, perhaps industrial, sound or influences with Goth sensibility thrown in.
I think if this does happen it will have a longer mainstream lifespan than grunge did in the nineties because indie and “gothic-ish” music lends itself to any instrument acoustic or electrical. The genres can also get away with creating dance music for the clubs.
R&B was also big during the ’90s with people like Sade, Brian McKnight, Mary J. Blige,Jon B and the Brand New Heavies so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some sort of R&B influence in this music as well. I can definitely imagine that happening and it actually sounds better than one would think.
Since it’s said that Fashion and music go hand in hand, there’s a few indicators that this may really happen.
Fashion has already gone dark this year. There’s almost nothing but black in the fashion shows of some of the most famous designers. Also, Dsquared has went the way of grunge with models in flannel shirts walking down the runway, Starbucks in hand.
Dsquared
Alexander McQueen
In music there are also some bands that resemble other ones in the past. Those videos I will put in another post.
Here’s one for now.
Ra Ra Riot ( am I the only one who kind of gets an R.E.M. like vibe w/this song?)
