Spain Scrabble Championship

During the days May 1st to 3rd. the Spain Scrabble Championship had take place.

A lot of great moments and adrenaline, just I´m afraid, as far as the Championship is in Spanish, has no sense to try to translate the posts I have done in the Spanish version of this blog and would be too much work. At least I´ll share some pics here.

Music is my life! (Final part)

And of course, I LOVE ROMANTIC BALADS! In this field I really don´t care about the style… but I should say that I´m afraid the best romantic music is done by rockers! Let´s see some examples:






(You have no idea how it feels when someone of the group sings you this song at your ear…) ;)


I can imagine how a philharmonic Orchestra should enjoy playing this kind of music! ;)









Ok, maybe next one is not exactly romantic… but… how can I not include it?


Actually I think that violin in the middle of the song, tells the most beautiful love poem ever known! (At least my heart feels that while I´m listening it).

Even the newest are so good!



But as I said: for daily normal life, I prefer to have radio music at the background. I do need the bum! bum! bum! of modern music to maintain the normal life speed. For going to dance: as far as it has rhythm, I dance it! Just that I prefer discos that offer a good variation of all styles and times... but that´s not so common to find, I´m afraid. In Madrid I use to go to “El Palacio de Gaviria” due they had 3 different rooms with different styles in each one, so, was just a matter of being moving from one to the other, but since a year ago it´s closed! :( So, now it depends on the mode I am before going out, but usually I go to New Garamond or Garamond (same chain but quite different music).

Hear some examples of what lately I like to dance:



My current hymn:



Yeap, I know! That´s not exactly rock! :D but… time goes by!

Music is my Life! (Second Part)

So, of course I was a fan of the typical Pop Stars: Madonna, Michel Jackson (with him I discovered that I can admire the art of a person no matters what I think about that person), The Police, Kylie Minogue, Eros Ramazzoti, Dido, Robbie Williams, Spandau Ballet… etc, etc, etc!

Actually other of my hymns was:



Other great one:



I always hear commercial music, I´m not anchored on 80´s or 90´s music just due my adolescence was then. While I was single I use to say: “in music, men and food, I´m veeeeeeeeery ooooopen mind!” ;) It doesn´t mean I like everything, but talking about music, for having as background sound or for dancing, I prefer last hits music. The radio stations I hear:

40 Principales is the one I usually hear. I don´t think it´s the greatest one I had ever hear, actually maybe I would take out of their program more than the half of what they have, but is the one I tolerate better.

Maxima F.M. is the one I prefer for taking a shower, for example… or before going out a Saturday night. You see? It´s interesting, but it´s quite easy to hear Dance music, there are a lot of “oldies” that someone just had ad a bit of speed and some “Dance music effects” and voila! A new hit had born! Here an example of that:



Europa F.M. is like the one nobody will complain to hear while travelling by car. Or sometimes just to remind good oldies, btw time to time they also play some lately hits.

Kiss F.M. should I explain this one? ;)

Otoh: I also appreciate other kind of music, like José Luis Perales, Mercedes Sosa or Serrat, for example... and there are moments when I do need to hear something from Enya or Yanni, that btw I would love to go to one of his concerts, but as far as it´s not possible right now, at least let´s enjoy him in youtube! ; )


Wow! What a nice voice he has! It´s a pity he doesn´t sing.

And yes, I also like some Tropical Music, just that here I usually like an specific song, not all the production of a group or singer, maybe the only one exception of this is Juan Luis Guerra, I even had been several times in his concerts and I just love his music…

Here my JLG favorite song:



I also love this one from Marc Anthony:



I should say I´m not exactly one of his fans (actually that´s his only one song that I know the name), but that song is great!

This is a song that I should dance every time I hear it!


(I swear I liked the song before watching the video!!) :D

(To be continued)

Music gives me life!

I love commercial music. Yes, I know, that´s not really something to be proud about, but that´s how it is. I really have no idea why, but everybody all over the world, once I say I love music and to dance, always think my very favorite music should be Tropical one. O.k. I had born in Guatemala, tropical music rhythm is somehow part of me… but actually on first place I´m a rocker! Even the song I have in my personal mobile is this one:



That btw already gave an embarrasing moment in 2007. I was in a meeting in Geneve, at the office of a client that was an important Swiss Bank. Some of my colleagues were late and my work mobile wasn´t working, so, while waiting them in front of the Bank, I was contacting them with my mobile, but we had to go inside first due they will take a bit more time (and nobody would like to be late with a Swiss Bank!) and I forgot to disable the sound of my mobile... So, after shaking the hands of 8 serious gentlemen and just one of them a bit younguer than me, sounds: "pum! pum! it´s my liiiffeeee it´s now or never"... my collegues calling me to ensure to which floor they should go... a big silence and 7 pair of eyes watching me like more or less killing me... just the one younguer than me laughing and laughing... gulp! But after that all was perfect in that meeting. :D

Here some of the rock songs I love:



Next one was for long time some kind of hymn for me... even now when I hear it, my whole body reacts! I need to "have my space" to hear it!



Some of the classics:


I had the chance to met him at the backstage in 2005! (That´s why the pic of the headline of this post).




Oh God! What great voice he has! I think his "uuuuoooooooo!!" is the one most shouted loud all over the Spanish speaking world! :D (Yes, I know, I could be exaggerating). ;)





A Guatemalan rock group:



My very best Guatemalan group is Alux Nahual that has done a very good denounce of daily problems in Latin America.:





I had the privilege of known them, I even had been learning how to play drums with Lenín, no, I´m afraid I haven´t learn a lot! That actually is so embarrasing when you think about the Def Leppard Drummer has just one arm! :$

That´s how some Alux Nahual members looked in 1988:



But I also like groups of the last decade:



Lately I haven´t hear rock I really like, I think the last ones were:





So, on second place, I love pop music. My very favorite of all is Phil Collins and his concert in Barcelona in 2004 was one of the betters I had been in my whole life! This DVD and the Bon Jovi´s concert one (where I also was, in 2008, Barcelona), are the ones I play and play at home time to time. Point is, ok, maybe I don´t play them so often, but when I do, it´s a matter of playing it no less than 3 times in a row! Yeap, I usually do it when I´m alone or in the Bon Jovi´s case, when I´m with my 21 y/o daughter! (I prefer to avoid taking conclusions of this fact!)

Here the song I liked more of Phil Collins concert (not my video, not in Barcelona, but it was exactly the same anyway):



(to be continued)

Girls´ weekend final part

Almost at midnight, we went to meet Segovia´s night life. I recommend the disco Movin´ just it starts to has ambient at 3 or 4 a.m.

Yeap! The waiter joined us! And yes, he succeeded with one of the group, not Kas btw!

We went early to Meyrem home, due the plans we had for that Sunday. Mario and Pal went to stay at Meyrem place as well, but when we told him to follow us, he said “oh! No needed! I have a good GPS!” As far as his car was very far away from us, we just said: it´s ok.

We arrived at Meyrem home, went to the bathroom, took out the make-up, put on the nightdress, made some tea and were already talking and laughing at the kitchen… and Mario and Pal still didn´t appear! Finally we received a call… was Mario, asking if we were already sleeping… ok, maybe better to tell the story from their point of view. The GPS give him a different route, that far we didn´t coincide at the road. They had troubles to find out a place to left the car, finally they did, but a bit far away. Seems some houses´ numbers were not well marked. They saw Meyrem´s one, but with all the lights off. They didn´t know what to do, so they try to knock the door, but when they did, it just opened. Pal had enter into the house saying “hi!” but no answer, seems everybody there was already sleeping, she thought we were so tired that we just went to bed and left them the door open, so she told Mario to go inside… but! Thanks of God he stopped her adducing that would be so strange and called Meryem to confirm! Of course they were in another house!!

On Sunday we came to Madrid, they were willing to visit El Rastro



After that Meyrem asked us to go with her to buy some Arabian adorns… and then we went to eat… to an Arabian place, of course! What else could it be? ;P



As good hosts, we took Kas to meet the Km.0 and to the FNAC, close there we had the privilege to finish the weekend with a marvelous street concert!