Tangerine's PoV

I have heard more than once theories that tried to interpret the words of a woman. Most of these things are funny, but in most of the cases these are not true.

When a woman says “We have to talk” she will not tell you that she is pregnant, she will not tell you that she wants to marry you or that she wants to break up with you. This is not a general thing, most of the times… surprisingly… she just wants to talk to you.

When a woman says “I need time” it doesn’t mean that she will go out with the first man that helps her cross the street nor with the last man she saw the night before. Generally, it’s because she made some efforts to talk to you about what worries her and didn’t find the desired response so she will look for it inside herself. She will go home, she will sleep and then, after some hours she will call you to talk to you about her concerns. Try to be more responsive and you’ll have her back, unless you are dead drunk with a woman under you whose name you don’t know and that tries to steal your phone shouting “Who is it baby?”.

When a woman buys new underwear it’s not because she found someone else, maybe you should think about playing PC games at work or on the street and paying her more attention at home. If you do and she rejects you, try again several times, if this persists maybe it’s time to find the man that likes pink underwear.

When a woman says she will go out with her friends on a trip to Turkey it’s not because she has met some turkish guy over the Internet, maybe she just needs to spend some time away from home, with her friends. Let her go without saying a word: she will call you every day and maybe she will come back sooner.

Some of the things that we say are true, some are just another face of the truth, the opposite one, but generally it’s better to trust carefully till the end that accuse all the way. It’s better to be a fool in the end and have good memories, than to be distrustful and have no memory of peace.

There are however some things that apply in 90% of the cases.

If a woman says she loves you, trust her, you’re the only one in the world. It takes a lot of experience to get to say I love you without feeling it. I never could…

If a woman says she misses you, believe it, there’s nobody in the world that will care more about you.

There’s no general rule that can apply to men or women, but there’s still common sense in the world. This works always.

When I was 5 years old I just wanted to be a game developer. I wanted to work at Nintendo and so on. And I was decided.

Anyway, my informatics career started in 1995 with my 486 DX4 120mhz and Windows 3.1. One or two years before, we already had our first PC (386 SX). I tried to make some freak stuff with BASIC, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, etc… but I never get into it. I mean, never programmed anything by myself. Later, when I had my 486 I installed an *original* (FGS…) Windows 95, later 98, but still never programmed anything by myself. I was playing with Adobe stuff and I began to be interested on demoscene stuff. Then an old friend came at home one day and showed me Linux, I liked it, so I decided to install it. It was something that I was looking for all that time: freedom. Do what I want with my computer. The first Linux distro I’ve installed on my computer was Red Hat 4.2 and I loved it. Then I tried Slackware, Debian, Corel Linux, SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, Ubuntu, lots of distros. Tried to build a LFS too, but finally I tried ArchLinux. I spent also tons of time playing on-line games: Quake (I, II and III), CS, RtCW, Enemy Territory, WOW… Actually I have dual boot WinXP / Archlinux.

All this is to put you on my shoes. Now, I want to quit informatics, quit computers, forget about linux-frankenstein-mod-devel stuff and start studying design. Yes, I will be point and clicking, drag and dropping, typing on a keyboard, but it will be a creative job (at least that’s what I expect). I can understand some actual programming languages like C, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, etc… and I worked as junior sysadmin of *BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD), freaked a lot with NetBSD at home, Linux and Win 2003 computers, etc… But still I’m stuck on “Technical Service”, answering phones, writing e-mails, work related and not work related.
I’m not saying that computers themselves, technical stuff, such as software developer, aren’t creative, but I draw better than I type. And I need to work and try myself in a platform that can give me the best of my creativity.

So, now we’re on that point, right now I’m working with Gimp and Inkscape and I’m going to make a portfolio, just for fun, nothing serious. Then I’m going to study something related to design and I will help Sim in her University practices and sow my poor creativity in order to get the best of my, by myself, by my thougths, by my ideas and my point of view about the world.

I have the tools, I have the spirit, I have *HER* and I have myself. Now I need time, and work with all of this.

So, the first step, I decided to install Mac OS X on my desktop AMD64 3200 (I always loved MAC, so, before buying one, at the moment we will see how it works, I come back with the news!

Laralilo, laralá. Me voy a diseñá.

Great job done by the design team:

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Here we go. I’m here and I have to deal with the people, unfortunately. I have been here 5 years ago and I rememeber that the only peolple that I could speak to were the tourists and we talked in English. I left with a pretty bad impression about Barcelona, but times have changed and also the circumstances have changed. When I came I had no problem. When you go into a bar or into a shop they start to talk to you in Catalan, but if you speak Spanish they continue in Spanish. Not at the university. I made my exams here and I will start my studies, Publicity and Public Relations, in October in the Pompeu Fabra University, here in Barcelona. So I went to make all the necessary about the registration, and here it started. I talked to everybody in Spanish but they all tried to explain me things in Catalan, although I told them that I do not understand anything of what they said. Anyway, finally I could make my registration, with some problems, like, writing my first and last name in reversed order, so we have tried for 20 minutes to find my file.

After one week I went again to Pompeu Fabra because it seems that they don’t want to speak to their students by phone. I needed a paper to say that I am a student of Pompeu Fabra, because I have already paid and I need it for the visa, otherwise I will have lost the money for the exams, registration and for the trips here. And surprise! The persons that could sign that for me are on holiday until September. This is at least amazing. I already have the ticket because when I went to register I told them that I would need the paper and they told me “No problem, on the Information Point they will give it to you”. So I bought the plane ticket for the 26th of August because I have to be here before the 26th of September when the course starts , as it takes two weeks at least to get the visa. Let’s see what happens. This time they talked to me in Spanish, although I would have preferred Catalan for this type of news, if I wouldn’t understand it wouldn’t hurt.

Let’s see what happens in the end. My advise: Stay away from Pompeu Fabra if you do not speak Catalan.

Pompeu Fabra es muy Pompeu Fabra.