Hot, hot, hot...

Yes, it's been a scorching summer so far. Not that we should complain I guess. In fact, it has been so nice and warm for the past weeks that the summer really feels like summer. I just got back from the pub after having lunch outside in the beer garden and felt the sun burning on my back. Absolutely fantastic.

We are about to go for a little holiday to Finland and our plan is to do a little hiking and perhaps some white water rafting as well. Eastern Finland is a naturally very beautiful place and my memories are so distant that I'm very excited about our little trip. Of course, there's also the compulsory family time etc to be included but hey, can't really avoid that altogether can you.

Another little treat for me will be meeting with my old football team again. We'll be getting together in my old hometown and then playing a friendly against another local team I think. After getting totally trashed by some 4th division fat club, we head towards the main event - sauna, drinks and a meal. Everybody's been asked to bring some old photos and videos of our games so I think this could be hilarious. I'm just hoping that everybody's still doing well.

Anyway, that's that about the holiday. It just needs to arrive now...

Workwise it's really been mad. Entire June was as busy as it gets here and it proved a challenge again. Now, I'm faced with a new kind of challenge, if I accept it that is. My boss has offered me to take one of our departments under my direct management and obviously this would come with a little pay rise too. Tempting but also very challenging as they are struggling a bit in this department under current management. Maybe this could be a chance to use some creativity and imagination to bail them out of the situation they've gotten into. We'll see about this later as I'll have to make my decision early next week.

So, long time that I've written and the usual blah blah about being lazy kind of applies. However, I'll just hold to these thoughts for now and get back to you once I've decided on my near future.

'til then...

La Lucha Libre

Have you ever come across Mexican free-style fighting (lucha libre)? For instance, with El Santo Enmascarado de Plata (The Silver Masked Saint)

If not, you could try in your spare time to learn about it, however i am not sure how much of reading could help you to understand what this is all about. In Mexico la lucha libre is a whole cult sport in which semi-fit and less-than-fit men fight against each other wearing customs. Over four decades ago, if i am not wrong, the cult for the luchadores (fighters) was so big that many films were made out of their adventures.



Yeah, fighters sci-fi films, such as El Santo Vs the Monsters, El Santo and Blue Demon agains the Vampire Women, El Santo Vs the Werewolf, etc. etc. I think that when I was a child, I spent the afternoons watching those films.

Ok, even if you haven't come across all this cheap sort of fun and nonsense, many other have. One of them seems to be Jack Black and the people who made 'Napoleon Dynamite' (which is a great film). They came with the idea of a Mexican-Scandinavian orphan who lives in a village or whatever marginal place in Mexico with some priests or monks. And in order to, perhaps, save their home, he becomes a fighter...'Nacho Libre', so I assume that it will be a kind of funny film with many touchy moments, in case it resembles the emotional style of 'Napoleon Dynamite'. Goodness me, will it bring memories from my childhood of watching luchadores films?



Ha, I don't think so, that is why i really want to see this.

Why bother if I am not there...

Hi, recently the presidential elections in Mexico took place. Right, who gives a peanut when it comes to Mexico either for football or elections. Well, for football I understand, you see, they played quite bad, shameless sad game they had. However there was some spark that made me recover from my frustration. In their last match, the Mexicans played very well, to a great level showing that they wanted to remain in the competition. Still they lost, but even then I didn't feel, like the English, that it was the end of the world, the end of humanity as such and that only barbarians will descend upon us. I actually felt that the Mexicans gave a good game.

Now, about the elections. Why to give a damn if I don't live over there? Why would anyone reading this would care? There are no reasons for anyone to care about Mexican politics, unless they intend to migrate from deep south america towards gringolandia or Canada. It would only matter to those who believe in some sort of fair trade, organic freelance farming, managing to keep with a simple way of life, enjoying freely of the natural scenarios, along with other of the positive things about that country. Anyway, what i wanted to communicate is that for once in a lifetime of elections, the results are way to tight between the two main candidates. The difference between them is of only and only one per cent. However that one per cent favours the candidate that I do not support, who surely will become the fucking president. What is surprising about this elections is not only the result, but that some ballots are being counted, from yesterday onwards. Would that really change anything? Me and the rest of the Mexicans will see.