THE SECRET GARDEN

by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Registration code 813 b964s 2003 C 01

“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”  Is possible to be happy while losing all the things you used to know as part of your life? This book explains that even the most bitter and unlucky person in the world is able to reach happiness just by opening the eyes and seeing what the world has to offer. As a result of her own new experiences, Mary discovers that simple things in life are the ones that are going to make her feeling what a real life is, without the pressure of being somebody she is not.

Firstly, Mary is bitter and spoiled just for one reason, she had never had the opportunity to be in a different way; she just was what their parents forced her to be, a cold, selfish and indolent person. However, once she was taken out of her bubble, she started to uncover her own personality, not the one other people imposed in her, but the real one. Second, by meeting new people, like Colin and Dickon, she saw that life is better while having nice, tender and beloved persons next to you and by opening yourself towards other it is easier to find that slippery happiness. Finally, a simple garden showed her what freedom was, and I deeply think that such event was the one that marked her whole experience, only then she discovered a new feeling in her heart.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that without having clear what you are, or what you want, is quite difficult to reach that so-called happiness. People must be natural from the beginning, by being your self, not representing something others want you to be. I think that the bitterness that Mary showed during most of the book, was just a facet imposed by the way she was raised, at the very instant she discovered how she really was, she was able to open her heart, and be this reaching the happiness she needed so desperately.

Education, Parents, and Teachers…

After searching a bit on the web, I found a website that is not 100% dedicated to what’s education in terms of formal academic school but for parents also. The page is called Education.com, and it is a complete page committed to help and guide those teachers or parents that are a bit confused on some conflicts related to kids and teenagers. The page is divided in several topics to organize the information provided and to bring a bigger emphasis to some points that are more in the headlines nowadays. Some interesting topics that this webpage tackles are bullying, paying for college in today’s economy, obsessive compulsive disorders in children, or just how to know when an adolescent is lying. Besides it has an item called from “A to Z”, and there you can find any problem in alphabetic order, for instance if your kid has problems with his reading part, you just have to go to the letter “R” and find the word, then click on it and several option about reading are going to appear in order to make the your search easier. What mostly called my attention was the debate of the week, the name of the topic was “Should teachers have tenure?” (Tenure is like the right of a teacher of holding his/her position at his working place, a school for instance, not caring if he is no longer capable of giving proper classes anymore) and to debate the idea they put the opinions of two different experts in the education area arguing about the subject. In addition, the page gives you the possibility of commenting your own opinion, and by this opens the possibility of free expression among parents and teachers. Really interesting to read, quite similar to what’s going on in Chile nowadays, since it give us the perspective of what’s going on with the same subject in other countries, and by this getting different ideas of what a solution could be. If I were a parent, I would probably take a look of this page if a problem is presented in my child education’s life. Really helpful website, more for parents than for teachers but good anyway.

Websites....

Since I discovered the magic of internet, I’ve been searching for my soul mate there in the endless universe of possibilities. However, one day not trying to found anything more than a good movie, this incredible web page came to me as the greatest of the angels, it was called kick-ass torrents.

The page isn’t exactly the funniest or the prettiest, though it has a really good layout. What’s interesting about this page is that is not for everyone, let me explain myself. I’ve been always felt attracted to music and movies, those two are my passions, yet downloading them has always been an issue, not just for me but for everyone.  Some time ago, when a was used to utilize a method of download called direct, which is slow and hard to find, a friend of mine told me about torrents,  a downloading  way that is special for those big and complicated files. After like two hours searching in the web, I found the page I told you before (kick-ass torrents), that is better than any other one because of the simple fact that is well organized, has all the movies music or any other file you may want to find, and has this big amount of people using it which makes it faster than any other one (torrents work faster in so far as there are more and more people trying to download the same file).  The page has only one problem, files that are not in english, like South American movies or something that’s not really popular in the United States, are really hard to download. 

I try to see at least one or two movies per week, and I’m often downloading music, so I visit this page like three or four times a week. The coolest is that the movies you’re about to download here have their own comments in the page, so if the file is not so good or has a really good quality, the same users let you know in order to make your job easier. Well, there isn’t much I could say, besides use it, it is an excellent page ;)

http://www.kickasstorrents.com/ 

A GOOD SONG FOR ME!!

Tire Me

Rage Against The Machine

(Even if you are rich, famous, powerful you still aren’t immortal)

Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
Why don't you get from in front of me?
Oh she's got everyone's eyes
Yeah!
In every home there's a sickening distress
Yeah!
Of roll that film she's a precious, a precious one
But we're all gonna......nah we're already dead!
We're already dead!

And those colorful words for tha Laos frontiers-man
Who passed away with the truth
Amidst the eulogies of bliss
Who will know now what I know about you?
Now that history's a flowery cancerous mess
Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me
A mess!
Overbearing yes ya tryin' ta tire me
A mess!
Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
So get the fuck from in front of me
Nah let's see it broken, bloody and undressed!
We're already dead!

In a violent time

I wanna be Jackie Onassis
I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses
I wanna be Jackie O
Oh oh oh oh please don't die!
Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
Why don't you get from in front of me?
Ruh!
We're already dead!
We're already dead!
We're already dead!



I don’t even remember the first time I listened to this song, since I’ve been listening to this band since I was in seventh grade. But, what I can say about it is that has been stuck in my head since kind of three weeks ago. Well this Monday is RATM’s concert, so I’ve been listening to their songs a lot, specially this one. I think it must be for the energy it releases. It’s a powerful song, and every time I listen to it I imagine myself on Monday jumping, singing it (or screaming it), and of course enjoying it. Well like I said before, this song is by Rage Against the Machine, from the disc Evil Empire (1996), and actually, this song never had a video, never had a radio airplay, or any media format ,and anyway it won a Grammy on 1997 for best Metal Performance. Every time I listen to this song something starts to twist inside my stomach, maybe it is because I really like the song, or maybe just because I’m waiting to live it (the song) on Monday. By the way, the song’s meaning is a bit complicated, is about Jackie Kennedy (after that Onassis, she married one of the most powerful and rich man of the world, a Greek one) and the death of her first husband, John Kennedy.