dicen que su perfume es embriagador... y que su olor seria perfecto para un perfume...
la cosa es que la Bellina solo huele en las primeras horas de la tarde... y solo entre semana... jaja...
curiosita cierto??
bueno, en el fin de semana también huele pero sutilmente....
y.... el color me fascina... ademas que dicen que esa flor es todo un tesoro!!!he estado buscandola pero no la he conseguido...tengo una familiar en casa.... y mientras tanto me contento con esa "medio prima segunda" en la ventana de mi cocina...
Speaking of ... Bellina is an orchid that blooms all year, the flowers last for 2-3 months ... People say that their fragrance is fascinating ... and that its scent would be perfect for a perfume ... the thing is that the Orchid Bellina just smells in the early afternoon ... and only on weekdays ... he he ... interesting thing isn’t true? Well, on the weekends also smells but subtly.... and. ... I love the color ... also people considered that flower as a treasure! I've been searching it but I have not found it ... I have one orchid at home.... although it is not a pure Bellina, it is from the Bellina’s family and meanwhile I am happy with this "step cousin" in the window of my kitchen …
always.... I constantly thought that I don’t look as Chinese as they see me...
but in recent months I have learned that I am not the only from my family with this feature ...
There are some genes that have passed through us and have became visible from several generations ago ...
Such as the slant down of the mouth as if I hardly smile .... (well, almost ... almost ...), the smaller eye than the other ... fatty legs .... the marking on the forehead frown ....
So on, an endless list of features that have been always present on my physical appearance…
And during the last year have been very obvious ....
and many other characteristics that call my attention as blood type, tendency to physical weaknesses, ailment, diseases, vision problems, dental issues ... (from there this post started!)
Also, yesterday (weeell... ok ... I have to confess ... this early morning...), I was talking with Luis and Jorge Enrique about the similarities among father and siblings ... and today without going so deep in the subject, I think that some shared genes facilitate specific skills, preferences, ways to respond (character and temperament, eh?), likes and dislikes ... and other countless items, which from my point of view, their analysis would be more interesting because I have not received the same stimuli from the environment where my siblings grown up ... and still they have been present as features of our personalities, characters, predilections for certain activities, the way how we react to each situation in particular .... it would be a fascinating research project ...
If I go by the famous Mendel’s law ...
How much genetic information I share with my family?
50% with my mother and 50% with my father?
with my grandparents 25%?
with my brothers ... would be 50%? ..... but since they are brothers from just one parent ... then it would be only 25%? and if so, can not be assured that this 25% is necessarily the same 50% that I share with my father ...
so we can have this more or less shared percentage of genes ...
and all these thoughts without getting into the likeness between cousins ... with which I would share 25% ... and among my second cousins would be 12.5% and with my third cousins with the 6.25%... ?
but what happen with my half-cousins from dad? with them would be 6.25%?
uyyy ...
what a crazy number of branches from my genealogic tree .... Isn’t it?
And so on... leaving outside numbers ... only gestures ... looking at the photos of my kids and their cousins, ... no matter whether they are first cousins (children of their paternal side) and half first cousins (maternal side of my children meaning from my side) ... There share so many traits... and it is difficult to know which millimeter belongs to one family and which millimeter is shared with the other side of the family, like smiles, gestures, even guessed movements on the photos ...
... digging deeper ... looking at photos of the children of my cousins ... there are still shared traits with my children .... that would be with their second cousins .... still more complicate they are their half second cousins....
at long last ...
Inheritance is printed in the depths of our being, it is unconsciously transmitted from generation to generation, and it is a clear mark of our genes, like a book that have recorded all our family history ...
if it were possible to read it thoroughly and with great detail, I would be fascinated...
I repeat for one more time that having family contact experience is a complete delight!
Today has been a beautiful day in this part of the world….
Warmer temps, sunny day, a little bit of wind… it is one of those days when we can see contrasts... people wearing beach fashion and people (as me) wearing sweater and wool pantyhose… but not the winter coats I used few days ago…
….plus this is the time of the year that my work keeps me sooooo busy that sometime I cannot manage time to be away from my desk at least 5 minutes to take a lunch… therefore… today I was forced to go away and take my lunch time… also, there was a huge bowl of salad for which I couldn’t resist…
so… my lunchtime was awesome… although my favourite tree is still without leaves and the grass is still dry and crunchy and I couldn’t sit on it… I took my lunch outside as I want for the long and never lasting winter months….
Being away from my desk… I had the opportunity to think in sooooo many things…. Family… projects…. Recall many of the ideas that have been surrounding me during the last months… the not ending list of situations have learned and how my mind, my body and my heart have been adapting to each one of the surprised news I have received…
And in the middle of those thoughts…. I recall an email I received in this week….
Generally I don’t have time to look the “forwards” and they are always left in a folder waiting for the day I will have enough free time to go through them….
My routine is go for the important ones (family and friends personal messages)…when I have finished with them… read a couple from my subscription lists… look the graphics I received…put them in the right folder…
Aaaaaaaaaand if I have time, look as fast as possible for the titles and the senders of the rest of the emails… sometimes, the title... sometimes the sender… sometimes the combination of both (title and sender) makes me curious and I open the message….. these days I opened one that called my attention…but more impacting to me was not the content but the idea of my friend who sent it… is that my friends life is so bored that he/she has to filled out sending silly emails to her/his contacts… or is her/his life so busy, she/he is so exhausted that she/he is unable to use the common sense….
The email talked about the Chinese industry that sometimes is not as clean and regulated as should be.. and in this case, told us that Chinese people is using used condoms as raw materials for the ponytails rubber rings…
My first thought was….
How a person can give credibility to it??
I am wondering if the Chinese’s have recycled bins for used condoms, as the plastic recycle bins or the paper recycle bins or the batteries recycled bins…
Are those recipients in each household and they are disposed on the same scheduled garbage day?? Or there is recycle depots, like the ones for the Christmas trees on January or for the pumpkins after Halloween??
Or it is that each condom user kept them in a bag and when it is full of items, the bag is delivered in a special office where they pay back for it as appreciation for being nice with the environment??
So on…
Also I imagine the teenagers keeping their treasured used condoms in a different pocket from the one where the brand new condoms are… but having care of not been compromised for their parents who believe their children are still children and are not playing adult games….
Also I imagine the recyclermen at nights peeking on the neighborhoud garbage’s looking for the raw material needed on the family business….
So on… I have a not ending list of crazy ideas …. At the end I thought of my friend in a worried look not allowing her teen girl to use ponytail rubber rings…
Aaaaaaayayayayyay my lovely and old friend…. It is long time I have not see you that I truly believe I’m not longer recognize you from the emails you send to me….
Actually, yesterday after talking with me, an student was wondering where am I from... due to my accent... I answer very proudly to him, I am from Colombia!...
and he said to me... of course I knew it!!! your accent is different, the Colombians not only speak the best Spanish on the world, it is really pure Spanish what you talk, but also the Colombians have a very nice accent when they are speaking English...
I felt nice with that compliment and I blushed... it was so unexpected and specially coming from a Canadian student.
I cannot agree 100% with that statement, my own experience said that there is a trend in my country to study the Spanish language and to use the most of the grammatical rules in our daily life... nevertheless.. day by day, the language skills are deteriorating... you don't need to be an expert, just checking the written media, listening the radio and television, or even worst putting attention to the new communications way’s used nowadays for the younger ones... and you will realize that the expertise in Spanish is not as good as it was...
although being Colombian has so many negatives meanings, at least one positive note put a good taste on my mouth... and made me smile...
This positive incident overwrite the other two bad incidents I have had during the years I have live in this country...
The first one was loooooong time ago... a Canadian neighbour stated in front of me that I was growing marijuana on my garden... I was so upset that he had to listen my lecture about values, stereotypes and my thoughts about him and his family. That incident cause that he takes revenge against my son, blaming him to scratch his car with the bike. Unfortunately for him, at that moment there were some Colombians (with not good reputation, that also lived in the area... not my friends...) as witnesses and they stood for my son... at the end, I don't know the whole details but I know that before one month has gone, the neighbor was moved away....
The second time I was the target was last week; a courier guy from the lawyers firm Hicks Morley was delivering a package for one of the deans. Since he arrived to the office, he was complaining about the layout of the building and he enter to the private area of our offices... he asked for my name to put in the receipt and as soon as he write it down, he asked me if I am from Russia... I told him very proudly I am from Colombia... that statement trigger his aggressively response against me... I was willing to lecturer him, but we were in a very sensitive area of the faculty and I couldn't defense myself... just bite my tongue and try to calm down....
I have learnt that I should delete from my memory the ignorant ones that have made offenses to me and rather feel grateful since in so maaaany years living in this country I have received more nice compliments than ugly ones.
Hace días que no me sentaba a escribir pendejaditas en este espacio... y no es que no tuviera que contar... cada día me pasan cosas dignas de contarlas.... pero los días se me hacen taaaaaaaaaaan cortos que al final nunca lo logro...
por ejemplo hoy...
sonó el teléfono en la oficina....
conteste... y al otro lado de la linea escuche la voz de un señor diciéndome...
Sr. - ...estoy esperando
Yo - (como las llamadas que entran a mi linea son exclusivamente relacionadas con mi oficina, pensé que era una llamada dirigida a mi) Me puede decir en que le puedo ayudar?
Sr. - ...hace un rato llame y una de sus colegas me puso a esperar
Yo - ahh... ok... y en que le puedo ayudar??
Sr. - No se
Yo - Desea hablar con alguien en particular?
Sr. - No se
Yo - (tratando de no reírme ni de ponerme de mal humor)... su llamada es con la intención deeee...
Sr. - Mire... yo fui estudiante de leyes de la facultad y me gradué!
Yo - aja... y.... (yo esperaba que el me siguiera dando información acerca de lo que queria)
Sr. - ...ahora me he enterado de que puedo cambiar mi diploma de LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) por el de J.D (Juris Doctor)...
Yo - (pensaba... ahora si entendí... el esta por fin entrando en mi oficina y puedo darle las indicaciones pertinentes....)
Sr. - y resulta que antes de tomar esa decisión, quiero estar seguro...
Yo - por supuesto... mire resulta que J.D. es bla bla bla...
Sr. - eso ya lo se.... lo que no me queda claro son las dimensiones del diploma en si....
Yo - QUEEEE???
Sr. - .... si...lo que pasa es que yo invertí en un marco para colgar el diploma de LL.B y quiero saber si le puede servir para el diploma de J.D.
Yo - PLOP (en mis mas profundo asombro).... (tratando de no reírme)... (tratando de no decirle unas cuantas ideas que me pasaron por la mente)... (poniendo mi mejor tono de voz)....
bueno, pues mire... resulta que nosotros no tenemos ese tipo de información, pero puedo transferir su llamada a la oficina de...
en fin... transferí la llamada, y tuve la obligación de compartir la llamada del día con mi dúo de amigas...
cada día trae su sonrisa!!!
There have been so many days that I have no written “silly thoughts” in this space.... and I did have many things worthy to share with you, but my days are soooo short that I am never able to tell you...
for example... today...
my work phone rings...
I answered... and from the other side of the line I heard a man telling me....
Mr. - ... I’m waiting
Me - (as the incoming calls to my own line are usually related with my job, I thought was a call for me) How can I help you?
Mr. - ... one of your colleagues put me on hold for a while...
Me - ahh... ok... and how can I help you??
Mr. - I don’t know
Me - (and I should know it???) Do you want to talk with someone in particular?
Mr. - I don’t know
Me - (making an effort for not Laughing at him or show me angry to him)... your call is regaaaaaaardiiiing...
Mr. - happens that... I attended your law school and I graduate from there!
Me - aja... so.... (I was hoping that he continues talking and living me the information to know how I could help him)
Mr. - ...now I have learnt that I can switch my LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) diploma for the J.D (Juris Doctor)...
Me - (I was thinking... I got it... at the end the call was for me regarding the J.D online form....)
Mr. - and happens that I want to be sure before I took the decision...
Me -of course... regarding the J.D diploma blah blah blah...
Mr. - ok... I know.... but I really want to know about the size of the diploma....
Me - WHAAAAAAT???
Mr. - .... yes...the thing is that I spend Money in a frame to display my LL.B diploma and I want to be sure that the J.D diploma will fit in it
Me - PLOP (in my own deepest wonder).... (making huge efforts no to begin laughing)... (making efforts not to do any comment)... (putting the more serious tone of voice)....
well, the fact is ...that I don’t have that kind of information, but I going to transfer your call to the ... office....
and I transferred the call, and I HAD to chare THE CALL of the day with my two friends
en fin...
each day brings its own smiles!!!