Christmas message

Please help me spread an anti-consumerist, anti-capitalist message on this christmas.

Don't buy anything.

Recycle gifts.

We all have stuff at home we don't need.

Give them away as presents on christmas.

Bake a cake.

Write a letter.

Write a song.

Make your own gifts.

Your friends will appreciate them more because they were made by you instead of a 12 years old phillipino.

The reason why there are still poor people in the world is because you guys buy lots of stuff you don't need.

And you never seem to have enough, you always want more and more.

Thus contributing to the capitalist monetary system which fuels income inequality.

And makes sure the rich stay rich, the poor stays poor.

And the ones in the middle, like most people reading this, stay in the middle.

Being slaves of the system and working together with the rich to make sure the poor stays poor.

But, If for whatever reason you need to buy something.

Buy organic, so you wont get sick.

Buy locally, from the small family shop instead than the shopping mall or supermarket.

Buying locally produced products also reduces the carbon footprint caused by shipment.

It's also a great time to becoming vegan or vegetarian, in order to spare some pain to your fellow animal creatures as well.

And to the environment.


If we all stop using money the system will just collapse by itself.

Making way to something better.

Hopefully.

El ente ratonero

What does Bruno talks about?

He complains, a lot. Sometimes he talks about religions and complains because they are retarded, sometimes he talks about politics and politicians and complains because they are corrupted AND retarded.

Sometimes he blames the government for his misery. Actually he complains about many things as if he was an old cranky miserable lonely human being.

And sometimes, like today,  he takes some time to talk about the ente, ese ente mendocino, el ente trabajador.
Ese ente ratonero, lo habian visto comerse las palomas y los ratones, los ratones con caparazon.
El ente caravanero, lo han visto con sombrero Y cantando una cancion. Si se va de tiroteos nadie le llama la atencion.

Era un ente callejero, vive en la calle aragon, aragon y trapo viejo, a la vuelta del camaron.

Camaron canino, del camion con frio, leia la senial viajera del atardecer vacio, en una tarde fria, fria y calurosa, miraba la mariposa que aparecio en el camino del tercer desvio.

Una tarde de enero, de enero y abril, el ente se alborotaba, al haber perdido el alfil, en una partida de poker con su amigo don quijote mientras buscaban una particula, particula de higgs boson que se habia perdido en el casco vacio.

Mi experiencia con el ente de verano no ha sido una positiva, el ente de la cancion no ha tenido compasion en demostrar conocimiento para encontrar higgs boson.

El caso del ente, no es negativo, negativos son los exponentes que dictan la externalidad, de un problema muy conplejo que no tiene finalidad.

And that's because of the ente, who's story shall not be told, by any man or woman who's bishop has long been gone.

New year's resolutions

• Becoming the spokesman of an anti-tobacco campaign in taiwan.
• 30 pull ups in a row (I'm at 15 now).
• Bench press my own weight plus 30kg.
• Do some volunteer work for at least half of the year.
• Get down to 10% body fat. 
• Embracing dubstep, or maybe not.
• Moving to russia and earning a living there by doing something illegal.
• Becoming more self aware.
• Not teaching English.
• Keep practicing yoga every day.
• Reducing the use of public transport to the very minimum, relying on bicycles, hitchhiking, walking and any other non-polluting ways of transport.
• Keeping the consumption of resources to a very minimum by trying not to spend any money in goods or services.
• Becoming less secretive and sharing my thought and my life with others (like I'm doing now)
• Shaping my thoughts into something easy to understand and assimilate by the average person.
• Play less videogames if at all.
• Work less for money if at all.
• Care less about money and trying to live without it.
• Drink more wine, have more sex.
• Write less emails, talk to people more.
• Spend more time outdoors, less time indoors.
• Ditch technology and get back in touch with nature.
• Help fighting for a world without money, crime, religions or poverty.
• Understanding russian people.
• Learning more useful skills.
• Breaking all the unfair laws.
• Start using the japanese keyboard instead of always typing romanji.
• Learning more chinese characters and stop relying on pinyin.
• Typing in korean at least once a week.
• Getting back in touch with some old friends in germany and argentina.
• Being less logical more imaginative, less rational, more creative, less scientific, more artistic.
• Keeping things in balance, a bit of this and a bit of that
• Instead of worrying about why is the world so messed up, doing my part to change it.
• Stop saying "the" world, "the" planet, finding a better way.
• Kissing a guy at an anti-gay parade.
• Burning a flag at a politician's speech, government event or national holiday.
• Opposing the establishment, disobeying  questioning authority always and breaking as many laws as possible, without hurting anyone in the process of course.  
• Taking the stairs instead of the escalator, always.
• Acquiring regular sleep patterns.
• Organizing and taking part in some peaceful protests and demonstrations.
• Remaining peaceful, embracing non-violence always, even when violence is used against us.
• Becoming famous and using my fame to overthrow putin's government.

About ADAM.

Bruno: I have a problem.

Friend: Just one?

Bruno: People look at me weird.

Friend: Which people?

Bruno: On the streets.

Friend: Well, they must have found out about "My little pony: friendship is magic".

Bruno: How would they? I don't think is that.

Friend: Oh, they know.

Bruno: No, but really, why do they are always staring at me, am I that weird?

Friend: No, just a bit paranoid, we're all a little weird though.

Bruno: I wonder when did it all started?

Friend: *start. 

Bruno: Start.

Friend: You mean the weirdness?

Bruno: Yeah, was it in highschool?

Friend: Probably.

Bruno: Or was it because of /b/?


Friend: Yeah, that didn't help.

Bruno: Come to think of it, actually I know who to blame, there were the people from ADAM. Matias, ariel, damian, nestor, and others whose names i have chosen to forget. 

Friend: Remind me what ADAM stands for again.

Bruno: It's spanish for: Asociacion defensa de anime y manga, it was a very very strange place in argentina, were I used to hang out as a teenager. It was cool, except it was not.

Friend: Interesting, so you think that's were it all started. Tell me more about it, for example, how did you end up there in the first place?

Bruno: Alright you're sounding like a psychologist now, bit creepy.

Friend: Anyway..

Bruno: Anyway, it's a long story. It all started back when I was still in highschool, sick and tired of getting bullied at school decided to try and make some new friends with similar interests as me.

Friend: And what led you to break free from the bulling.

Bruno: Mostly it was the last scene of the last episode of evangelion, do you remember?

Friend: It's been more than 10 years, no, I don't remember.

Bruno: Yeah you remember, when Shinji stood up, chair falls backwards, glass shatters, tears in my eyes, I stood up too, tingly feeling, smile, cry. That episode stayed with me till now. Stayed with us until now.

Friend: Right, back to ADAM though.

Bruno: Yeah, so after I watched that I thought I had to find people similar to me, and thought, what are my interests? i wasn't good at anything, didn't like music or anything, just watched tv the whole day, japanese tv...


Friend: You mean, japanese cartoons.

Bruno: Yeah, that was all I had, that was my only interest, so I tried to look for people who like the same things, thought they would understand me.

Friend: Did they?

Bruno: Yeah, well no, sometimes, not really, well it was weird. Before going there I thought I had some  issues, once there i thought 'oh boy?' what did I get myself into? who are these people? 


Friend: What happened?

Bruno: Well before going there I thought I was socially awkward, but these people, ufff... they were the same as me, or worse, so i finally knew what it was like to hang out with myself and understood why i had no friends.

Friend: That's good you had finally found people like you, right?

Bruno: Yeah, so they took me under their wings and into into their basements, they nurtured me and taught me how to play pokemon cards, magic, d&d and many rol playing games and suddenly i found myself knee deep into this underground culture i had no idea it  even existed and suddenly, suddenly I had group of friends, a very weird one, but friends at last. I had people to hang out with, people who called me at home and i could call and talk to. And they broke all the molds.

Friend: How come?

Bruno: Well you know how usually most friends or groups of friends they get together for a few hours once or few times a week, well with this guys we would hang out for at least 2 days in a row, sometimes 3 or 4, no break 24/7, and we would do the craziest things, things you have never even heard of or dreamed of.

Friend: Like what?

Bruno: It's hard to explain, but it was intense. Spending one day with them was like spending a month of a normal person's life and we would usually get together on a friday after school and hang out until monday morning that we had to go back to school.

Friend: So that's when thing started to get weird?

Bruno: yeah, then I broke off that group and started getting into other groups of people even weirder, then i moved to other city and met even more weird people, it all added up.

Friend: And what  happened to those people?

Bruno: I've got no idea, probably they are still there.

Friend: Wouldn't you like to get back in touch with them?

Bruno: Well, it's been so many years and we have all changed so much I guess, have no idea what could happen, maybe they grew tentacles or something. But you know, that time in argentina it was just a stage of my life, like many others, usually every country is a different stage and I feel like I have to leave them behind in order to keep moving forward in life. I always remember what Robin said 'the future is scary, but you can't run back to the past just because it's familiar'.

Friend: So you wouldn't like to hang out with them again in like lets say 10 years from now?

Bruno: Why not? You know after that. I've played rol playing games and card games in other countries with other people, and it was very very different from my experiences in argentina. People I've played with in other countries were just normal people, with jobs, friends and families, no mental disorders and normal life outside the few hours we got together to play usually once a week, but people in argentina were unique in the sense the game was our lives, and those things stay with you forever, to this day I still remember the names of some of the characters we used to play as. We were even creating our own games and rules, the creativity levels in that group were way over 9000.

Friend: That sounds indeed quite intense. Are you ok?

Bruno: Yeah, just got a bit a excited.

Friend: You're not crying are you? 

Bruno: Not today no.

16 Reasons to pee in a bottle

When you need to go you need to go, that's a fact, so today I bring you a list of practical excuses for those times when heading all the way to the toilet is just not an option.

1_ It's too cold outside: 

Have you ever been to -45 degrees? No? Me neither. But I have a friend from Russia that has, and he told me it's too cold out there and he just can't be bothered to get off bed, so he always keeps a handy plastic bottle next to his bed for when nature calls. And so should you.

2_ The bathroom is just too far: 

Do you have a very big house? No? Well, doesn't matter, because you don't need to live in a castle to justify peeing in a bottle, a flight of stairs will do just fine, or long hallway. Remember, if it's not in your room it's too far, so you need the bottle.

3_ If you go then you will not be tired anymore: 

Because the act of getting up will put your whole body in motion and ready to rumble, the change of temperature between your bed and the outer world is enough to keep you up all night after you come back from the toilet and you can't afford that because you have that big meeting at work tomorrow, remember? Better not risking it, play it safe, use the bottle.

4 _ The bathroom floor is too cold: 

Because winter came, and you forgot to buy some slippers to wear in the bathroom and now it's too late, winter is half way gone already so you missed your chance to enjoy the sleepers. But don't worry it was a mistake, it can happen to anyone, you're only human remember? Next year you'll get some new sleepers at the beginning of winter like it should be, this year better stick to the bottle.

5 - There are guests in the house: 

It seems your flatmate has some some friends over, but you are just not feeling all that sociable today, you don't want to introduce yourself and meet new people, and answer all their stupid questions about work or study. Not tonight, tonight you just want to pee (In a bottle) and go to bed.

6_ Is not your house: 

OK, picture this, you've met a girl, she seems to like you for some reason, so she invited you over to meet her parents. You don't want to make a mess in her bathroom, what if you miss the toilet? You don't want to pee all over her floor. Better wait for the mother to go to the kitchen to bake some cookies, check there are no hidden cameras, find a dark corner, take the empty bottle you are always carrying in your backpack for an emergency like this one and do what it needs to be done for this relationship to work. Remember, your grandkids will thank you for this.

7- You are watching and interesting documentary on whale reproduction: 

Did you know that blue whales have the largest penises on Earth? When its aroused it can get as big as 12 inches in diameter and ten feet in length, you know what that means? No? Why not? Oh, yeah, you're not from the US so you're not familiar with the retarded imperial measurement system?
Don't despair! what I meant was that the whale's gonna need a really really big bottle, and so will you because tonight you're not getting off the couch.

8_ It's too late to flush the toilet: 

Unless you come from the future (or from the past), our toilets this days make this terrible noise when you flush them and It usually wakes everyone up, and pardon the pun when i say they could get pissed-off.

9_ You are very afraid: 

It's too dark and you have just watched and horror film, that one with the zombies and the serial killer, you don't want to go all the way to the toilet by yourself, at night. What if you get murdered? What if you get raped? What if you get murdered AND raped? Why taking the risk? Pee in the bottle

10_ There is someone using the bathroom: 

Why they always have to go at the same time you have to go, you guys should start taking turns for it, next time you can discuss the matter thoroughly, this time though better use the bottle

11_ The toilet is out of service

Not just out of service, I'm pretty sure I saw some plumber coming in to fix some stuff, you don't want to bother him while he's working, you don't want to be in his way. I know he probably doesn't even mind, but it's just polite to wait until he's done, and actually you are pretty lucky because there' happens to be an empty plastic container right here, you can use until the man finishes his work.

12_ The bathroom is haunted:

You know you've been hearing some weird noises lately, what are they? Ghosts, aliens, monster? It could be anything really. We don't know what's out there, what we do know is that he's hiding in the bathroom, waiting to do something really really bad to you, better using the bottle this time.

13_ Because of a medical problem:

Have you broken your ankle and its to painful to walk? No? Stepped on a Lego? Maybe you felt dizzy when you stand up, do you have asthma and don't want to get too excited? Headache, depression, broken nail? Anything will do, you know what to do.

14_ You are single: 

Because you know when you get a girl she may not like this little habit of yours, so this are actually your last years of freedom, might as well enjoy them because after this you'll probably be have to get up in the middle of the dark cold night and, half asleep, hike your way to the bathroom like an animal. Enjoy it while it lasts, bottle.

15_ It's too dangerous: 

The truth is there are a lot of dangerous objects on the way to the toilet. You don't want to hit your little toe with the sharp edge of a wall or furniture. You don't want hit your forehead with the frame of the door. You don't want to trip, break your spine and spent the rest of your life on a wheelchair.. For your safety and that of those around we strongly recommend you peeing in the bottle.

16_ Just can't be bothered, enough said.

Your government is bad and you should feel bad

Today I was sitting in the park enjoying a relaxing day when a guy comes and starts smoking his cigarette near me while blowing the smog in my direction of course.

It's not the first time, and it's not because I'm in asia. Of course in asia everything gets intensified because there are many more people, but I've been having that problem pretty much all my life everywhere.

Same happens when I ride my bicycle every day, you get all the motorbikes and cars in front of you blowing you their toxic fumes, and even though I try to be health conscious and live a healthy life I have to breath waste, because yeah, people have to drive cars, right? and people have to smoke in the park, right?

So i leave the park, start walking and again thinking who's fault is it that i have to breath toxic gases every day, is it the guy who smokes or drives the car? No, because they don't think for themselves, they are a no more than a product of their environment.

The guy would had probably been smoking a grasshopper, it had been properly advertised and introduced into his environment, as for the guy who was driving a fossil fuel powered car, he would would be definitely driving a solar or electric car if it it was readily and conveniently available to him.

Is it the people who had educated them or lead them to think that making the air dirty and causing cancer to others and to themselves was the right thing to do? was the person who sold them the car or tobacco? was the one who produced it and allowed for its promotion and distribution? Yes of course they were but only to some degree, as for most of them, they are, same as the final consumer, just a product of poorly designed, poorly managed system.



A system where if I feed the poor it's good, but if I ask why the poor has no food and how can we change that, they will call me a communist, or an anarchist, or tell me I'm against the government, well of course I'm against the government and so should you.

So should you if you care about any other person besides yourself, or if you care about the animals or the environment. because your government knows it's idiotic that the world still runs on fossil fuel while we have so many other clean energy sources, It's not like we have one or two, we have more than 10, hydrogen, solar, tidal, wave, nuclear fusion, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, radiant energy, biomass, etc. and your government knows it, yet they don't implement them.

I remember once while hitchhikinhg in finland some 5 years ago, got picked up by a driver who was driving a water powered car, he had been working on it for 20 years and showed me the whole mechanism and how it worked.

It was very strange for me as i had never seen anything like that, so i asked him of course why doesn't he share it with the world, so he told me the story about how they took his friend that had helped him develop it, and how all the people who develop renewable energy powered cars seem to just mysteriously vanish from the face of the earth, told me stories of some famous russians and north americans who had been taken together with their inventions.

Of course i didn't believe him, so when i got home i googled everything and it seemed he was right, everyone who tried to share it had disappeared.

Back to the park though, i keep walking and what do I see? The same thing i see every day, lots of office buildings, and construction sites (where they are always building new office buildings), the area is called Nangang, the city, Taipei.


Have you ever wanted to sit in an office for 10 hours a day? No? Me neither, but that seems to be the taiwanese dream right now, a business related job. If you have that job you are consider to be a successful person here.

Basically, most of the times, sitting in front of a computer, sending a few emails, making a few phone calls and doing some paper work, and that is in fact the idea that taiwanese have of a successful person.

It's just a trend of course, and it changes every decade, before it was engineer, before medicine and in 10 years it will be something different.

This people say they like money and they do it for the money, yet most of the times they barely make enough to survive. They don't really have much money but in their mind is all money money money.


Of course i tried to tell this people to ride a bicycle instead of car, to stop smoking, that money doesn't make people happy and that success is measured by how we interact and thrive within our environment,  instead of being measured by how we trash things up or by how much time we spend in a office causing  some trouble to others.

And what do I get for that? They look at me like I'm a lunatic and belong in a mental asylum or, like I come from mars and speak the tongue of my people. Others will say "you just don't understand the real world" or "that's how the world works".

"That's just how the world works" it is after all, just a phrase assholes use to justify doing awful things,  but what to say to this people who think they live in the "real world"? Well it's my world too, I also live in the real world and I'm tired of you and your government polluting the air I breath, the water I drink and poisoning the food i eat.

Air and water are like the very basic thing you should be trying to protect, if not for you at least for your descendants, instead of that you are a trashing machine. As soon as you wake up you make sure during the day you can cause as much pain and trouble to me and to your environment as possible.

First in your car when you go to work making my air dirty, then at work creating some sort of bureaucracy or paperwork to make my life more difficult while making sure you contribute to the waste of resources and the destruction of my planet in as many ways as you can.

Well, you know what people from nangang? I'm sick and tired of you, and your office buildings and your cars,  and your construction workers building more offices and your factories building more cars.

And even though nobody living in Nangang is reading this right now, and that person smoking in the park was probably not even aware he was polluting my air, this post will remain here, on the internet, as a silent protest from a person who always feels like he has no voice in this profoundly sick community.

One that, for the record, I feel very ashamed of belonging to.

Seba and TV

Seba joined a group of people that think TV will cease to exist.

No one said TV will not exist anymore, but no one denied it either and the group is based on a series of assumptions that say that TV will serve the same faith as the monocle.

Basically because it's a single function device, and we live in an era where everything has many functions, like the smart phone, the tablet, the computer, you can already watch TV and do a million other stuff on them.

That's why not many people wear wristwatches anymore, because they only do one thing.

So this group, what they do, they watch lots of TV every day, just in case they can't watch it anymore in the future.

That's like spending lots of time with the elevator man, because you know the elevator will be automated and you wont be seeing him anymore.

The other face of religion

Spending some time in taiwan has really changed my view on many many topics, society, politics, religion, etc

Religion here is some mixture of taoism and bushism with many gods and temples everywhere, and something like 90% of taiwanese people believe in some kind of something.

I had the chance to visit many of this temples and seeing people's faces while they pray usually makes me smile, not in a condescending way, but in a pure and humble one, like when seeing children playing, or cute puppies.

Usually when they have some trouble in their life they will go to the temple, offer some food or money, light some incense, and say their prayers.

Now there's nothing strange about that, most asian countries do something similar, and I'd seen the same countless times in india, thailand, etc. 

But the way they do it here is special.

There's such a peace and serenity while they pray, so much devotion and happiness.

In my case, and I assume is the same for most westerners, when we hear the word religion we think: terrorism, hate, war, pedophilia, child abuse, corruption, brainwashing, censorship, racism, homophobia, massacres, bigotry, fanaticism, ignorance, etc.

But when I see people's faces while praying here in taiwan, or the monks cleaning and taking care of the temples, I think to myself: this is what religion should be about, well, kind of.

About taiwan

Friend: Hey! How's life in Taiwan?

Bruno: Not bad, not bad at all, you know actually the main reason why I've always wanted to come here was that some of the best people I've met in my life were originally from here.

Friend: So people are nice there?

Bruno: As nice as they come

Friend: How about the weather?

Bruno: It's extremely hot of course, but I can adapt.

Friend: I thought you hated the heat.

Bruno: Well, it's just for a few months, I can manage.

Friend: You know I think I don't even know where Taiwan is.

Bruno: It's just some tiny island south east of china.

Friend: Is it part of china?

Bruno: Yes, of course, well..  no, not really, well, yes it is part of china, except because is not part of china.

Friend: What do you mean?

Bruno: It is part of china, except because they have their own language, their own culture, their own currency, their own government, chinese can't come here without a visa.

Friend: It sounds like it's not really part of china.

Bruno: Well, you know how politics work (they don't) so if you ask a chinese they will say taiwan is part of china, if you ask a taiwanese they will say it's not, it's a different country, and technically they are both right.

Friend: How is that possible?

Bruno: They made it in a way that it's part of china and it's also not part of china.

Friend: I'm getting confused now.

Bruno: Some countries accept it as a country some don't, so it just depends on who you ask, add some corruption, a few government conspiracies there and you got taiwan.

Friend: Fair enough, good to hear you like it there though.

Bruno: Yeah, it's nice to  be here.

Ready to die 2

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of death.

I learned that life is fragile, and unless you're a very basic form of life, for most of us advanced organism with many cells and organs, there's only one.

So we gotta make the most of it, right? Or does it even matter?

Life is so fragile that if a bus hits me while I'm crossing the street I will die and everything I did all this years will not matter at all.

Whether I build a space station or stay at home masturbating every day for 20 years will make no difference whatsoever, because I will close my eyes and will never open them again, pretty mind blowing right?

Now that's not a valid excuse to stay at home masturbating I know, if everyone thought like that we wouldn't get anywhere, but it's hard to know that all the things you've accumulated all this years will be gone.

I'm not talking about material things of course, but about knowledge and experience, all the things you've done and thing's you've learned, the people you've met, gone just like that, the bus hits you and that's it.

Maybe the bus doesn't hit you, maybe it's just a bicycle, it hits your chest and a rib punctures a lung, or you get some internal bleeding, or you step on something and break your neck. Our bodies are so fragile, that every day we could die in a million different ways.



In japan some people go to die at the Aokigahara forest, many others jump in front of the train, some jump from the window at work or at school.

Up to 30.000 japanese kill themselves every year, that's one every 15 minutes.

Around 15.000 a year in south korea, so like 1 every half an hour.

And that's just 2 countries.

Sociologists and psychologists say the causes of suicide are usually stress, competition, social pressure and emotional isolation, but i wonder is it really that, or those people realized it didn't really matter when they die.

That either now or in a few years or when they are old, but they will have to die, there's no way around it. So they chose to do it sooner.

In the animal kingdom there are only a few insects that can willingly take their own lives for no apparent reason. Most of them try to adapt to their environment, to the food they find, to the weather, to some stimuli.

But not us, some humans, specially some japanese humans will jump from the building, just like that.


That reminds me of once I did bungee jumping in china, I was so scared, and they had to push me.


How can some people do it without getting pushed I can't understand.

Plant a seed

Making a comment on facebook or some other website is like plating a seed, you put something there and maybe it will grow, maybe not, like auctioning something on ebay, maybe you get money, maybe not, you never know.

The wait is nice though, makes you hope for something, give you something to look forward to, specially if you have no life outside the internet.

And the best is planting the seeds before going to sleep and checking if they grew when you wake up.

Most times they don't grow of course, but it gives us something to keep ourselves busy with, us people with no life.

Find an excuse

Friend: Why do you travel?

Bruno: I don't travel, I'm always in taipei.

Friend: So why did you travel before, were you trying to find something?

Bruno: Not really, but you know sometimes you pretend you are looking for something, but actually you just want to have fun looking for it, if you find or not doesn't really make any difference.

Friend: How's that?

Bruno: Well it's like some people when you ask them while are they still single, they say they are searching or waiting for the right person, when actually they are having a great time looking for that person and trying different partners to see if some fits them, or another example are people who go to college or university, they don't do it to get a piece of paper like a diploma after many years, they go there for the parties, for the clubs, the environment, to be away from their parents, because they know they will make friends for life there and hook up with lots of people, you see in the end they had so much fun in college that the paper doesn't really matter at all, it was just an excuse to do something fun.

Same goes for me.

I don't want to achieve anything and not looking for anything, sometimes  just find excuses for doing what i want. for example when i went to germany i signed up for the language school there, just to tell people i do something, but the school was only 2 hours a day and i didn't learn much, life in berlin was, on the other hand, probably one of the best times of my life.

Friend: Got it, so first i have find an excuse to do what i want, and then i can do it.

Bruno: Yeah well, it has to be a socially accepted idea, for people with narrow minds, so should be either work, study or travel, you can not just say you're going to romania to find dracula or going to russia to build a time machine, people will look at you like "what?" it has to be something they can understand and relate to at the same time

Friend: Work, study or travel, got it.

Bruno: Anything else?

Friend: I think that's it for today.

Bruno: Alright then.

tide goes in

Tim will be coming to taipei next week, he's a really funny guy but doesn't know it.

He's funny because he always makes the "tide goes in tide goes out face".

Not many people would recognize that face though, Tim surely doesn't.

But it looks really funny when he does it.

Who am I?

Bruno: Almost 28 and still don't know who am I.

Friend: I know who you are.

Bruno: Tell me.

Friend: You're that guy who posts all the tentacle porn in 4chan.

Bruno: You mean hentai?

Friend: And you're the one who's afraid of relationships, afraid of police, afraid of governments and afraid of showing your feelings.

Bruno: You sure about that?

Friend: Yes, and you're that guy who goes to mc donalds and steals their toilet paper. Always looks for money on the street and have somehow found a way to refill your tiny bottle of shampoo at the supermarket.

Bruno: Sounds like I'm having a rough time.

Friend: Well you haven't had a stable source of income since 2006 because you have some kind of issue with authority that for some reason doesn't allow you to follow orders from people or doing stuff you don't want to do.

Bruno: No source of income means I'm poor?

Friend: Actually you're rich.

Bruno: How come?

Friend: You're very rich, but your wealth can not be found in any bank account. It comes in different ways. It's inside you. You're rich because you're smart, frugality has brought resourcefulness along,  you learned to read people, you have many talents, you can speak like, so many languages, you're young, you're free and handsome, and healthy, you have an exciting life ahead of you, and overall you're rich because you have so many people who care about you, you have family and friends in like what, 30 countries? And they all worry about you. You're rich and would be foolish to think otherwise.

Bruno: It sounds like I'm very rich indeed.

Friend: We are all rich in many ways. But some of us haven't yet learned to appreciate what we have, so sometimes we just need someone to remind us who we are, someone to remind us how rich we are.

Bruno: Thank you for reminding me today my friend.

Friend: My job here is done.

Have a nice day!

every day

     Exercise every day to have a good health

how to get good at writing

To get good at writing there's only one thing to do.

Write every day.

Doesn't matter if you write a best seller or a draft of the shopping list.

Just write, every day, 5 minutes or 5 hours.

With a glass of wine or milk.

At midnight or in the morning.

Write a poem or an email.

Write a book or a song.

Keep a diary, write your dreams, your ideas, your goals.

A bucket list, a top 10 list, anything.

Just write every day, and eventually you'll get good at it, probably, maybe.

job plus baby

The other day I was talking to Danielle, when she said that she couldn't talk because she had to go to the office.

It was a very weird moment, because she was one of the people I would have never expect to hear that from.

Not that they have have to go to the office, but that she didn't have time for me.

I sometimes feel like the only one left of my kind.

As my friends from Europe they all got jobs or babies. Or both.

Kamilla has baby, jenny will have baby, mary has baby, jurgen has baby, esteban has even a grandchild now, and they all got jobs and responsibilities, fede is even going to uni now, that's just insane, and I seem to be the only one still living in the 90's.

Stayed in time, enjoying freedom while avoiding responsibilities.

Have they submitted to the matrix or joined the so called "real world"?

It's just different lifestyles I know.

But still.

Refusing to get a job makes you feel like an alien sometimes.

Whatever 16

Girl: I think we need to talk.

Bruno: Sure what's up?

Girl: Well, you know, we've been dating for a few years already...

Bruno: And?

Girl: And it's time to take things a step further.

Bruno: What do you mean?

Girl: Well, you know.

Bruno: But, i told you already, I don't enjoy that as much as you do.

Girl: No, not that, I think we should get married.

Bruno: Really?

Girl: Yes, I think it's time.

Bruno: You know what? You're right, our relationship HAS been going great the last few years, it's time we get the government involved..

Girl: Is that sarcasm?

Bruno: No, I mean it, let's get the government involved in our relationship, and let's get some lawyers and judges as well.

Girl: Well, if you put it like this..

Bruno: I mean it, and lets waste all our savings in a one day ceremony for all those people we hate, for all those cousins you've never met, and all the people from work you so much enjoy spending time with.

Girl: You could have just said no.

Bruno: Why should I say no? It's a fantastic idea, and lets get the religions on it as well, let's bring a child molester catholic priest to lead our ceremony and then he can play with your little sister.

Girl: You're an ass, did you know that?

Bruno: whatever. 

How to get rid of dandruff

To get rid of all that white stuff scurf, all you have to do is stop wearing dark colors.

As simple as that.

The thought of having dandruff is what makes you worry about it.

That worry ends up causing more dandruff.

Getting you caught on some kind of a dandruff loop.

The thing is that, dandruff seems to disappear when you don't see it.

It's not there unless you see it, right?

Once you see it and have to deal with it, then it becomes a problem.

Until then, a white shirt instead of a black one will do juuust fine.

Learning languages

You know you're getting good at some language when you finally stop making up excuses as for why you're not good at it.

If you're studying chinese, your excuse is probably the tones, if it's spanish you may say it's too hard to conjugate the verbs, in german maybe the articles, accusative, nominative, and so on.

But sooner or latter will come a time when you can finally stop complaining about the language, can accept it as it is and just learn it.

About the dalai lama

Friend: What do you think about the dalai lama?

Bruno: Very compassionate person, we should all learn from him.

Friend: And what do you think about the fact that he's the spiritual leader of the buddhist religion.

Bruno: Well, buddhism is supposed to be the more peaceful religion, so I guess it's a great thing he's the leader.

Friend: Actually the reason why it's said that budhism is a peaceful religion is because they compare it with the other mainstream religions. 

Bruno: So by more peaceful they mean less violent?

Friend: Yes, buddhist dead toll comes at around 40.000, mostly thanks to burma, while other religions "casualties" can be estimated somewhere along the 800.000.000

Bruno: What's the point?

Friend: That you are saying he's a compassionate person, while he actually supports religions. 

Bruno: He wouldn't hurt a fly, just gives good advice to people, tells them to be kind to each other, and try to understand each other.

Friend: He uses buddhism to justify poor people's suffering, saying it's because of their "karma", because of their past lives, and tells them their future lives may be different. How can you even consider supporting someone who talks about reincarnation and future lives? That's like supporting a scammer who feeds on people's hopes and fears, who misleads them to believe in the supernatural in order to gain control over them and keeping from revolting against their oppressors, that's almost as bad as his child rapists friends from the vatican. He shakes hands with the pope while being aware of his crimes against humanity, he shakes hands with obama and other politicians that cause wars and kill like millions of people, he meets up with the chinese government despite all they did to his people in tibet.

Bruno: It's because he knows! He knows that love and forgiveness are the only way, he forgives and understands the chinese, the pope, and all the fascist governments and politicians. It's not nearly as bad the vatican, he just wants the best for everyone, he meets with politicians and world leaders and tries to talk them into stopping the wars, he talks about world peace, disarmament of governments and embracing the human race as a whole. I concede, he makes some supernatural claims every once in a while, but that's just because of his upbringing, because he was born in tibet in the 1930's, if he had been born in europe he would be christian instead, if he had been born in Iran he would be muslim, it's just geography, and it's not like he had any other options like we have now. Of course he believes silly things, he's just human, like the rest of us, he's not perfect and doesn't have all the answer, and he makes mistakes and assumes things that are not true, but his overall mission is the one that counts, he wants to unify the human race as a whole and make this world a better and more peaceful place for everyone.

Friend: So you are saying the end justifies the means.

Bruno: I'm just saying he does the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Friend: Like mother teresa?

Bruno: Exactly, she believed a bunch of nonsense, but at the end of the day she was doing the right thing, and that's what counts.

Friend: But you know she only helped all those poor people so they would convert to her faith.

Bruno: Who cares? As long as she helps them.

Friend: As long as she's doing the right thing, it doesn't really matter why is she doing it?

Bruno: Exactly, the opposite happens with lets say mandela or che guevara, instead of doing the right thing for the wrong reason, they were doing the wrong things for the right reason.

Friend: Yeah I've heard che guevara was a racist homophobe, but what's the wrong thing he did?

Bruno: Well his main objective was good, but in the process he caused like so much bloodshed.

Friend: And you don't justify killing for a cause?

Bruno: Of course not, there's no valid excuse for violence, for hurting someone or taking someone's life. And "killing for a cause" is still killing, the cause is just an excuse. 

Friend: No eye for an eye?

Bruno: Not in my world.

Friend: But it's not just your world, we share it and some people still want to kill and punish each other.

Bruno: I know, but they should stop, the idea of punishment is just retarded and only causes more violence.

Friend: So you say, are thing really that black and white though?

Bruno: Yes, they are.

Friend: And, are you always right about everything?

Bruno: Of course, if I were wrong I would know it.

Friend: Like sheldon, haha.

Hacemos una y una?

"Hacemos una y una?" es una de mis frases preferidas en argentina.

Por que? Por que refleja la camaraderia y el espiritu de una cultura, de la cultura argentina, en la que todos son amigos de todos, y la informalidad del dia a dia se aplica a cada una de tus relaciones.

Nada de forma de hablar de hombres o mujeres,  nada de posiciones socioeconomicas o jerarquias. En argentina hay un solo lenguage: el informal, el de los amigos.

Todos somos amigos, incluso si no nos conocemos, incluso si no sabemos el nombre, incluso si es la primera vez que nos vemos.

El primer contacto es siempre realizado con una sonrisa amigable y un brazo que te invita a entablar conversacion, te invita a hacerte de un nuevo amigo.

En argentina se comparten las cosas, se comparte la comida, se comparte la ropa, se comparten todo, y siempre hay lugar en el suelo para un amigo que se quede a dormir en tu casa.

Eso es lo que mas me gusta de argentina, que siempre hay lugar en el piso de todos para dormir, y siempre hay un lugar extra en la mesa para cualquiera que venga a comer.

Y sino tenes trabajo esperame que le digo a todos mis amigos que te ayuden a encontrar trabajo.

Y sino tenes novia te presento a mi amiga, y si tenes que ir a algun lado te presto la vici.

No hiciste la tarea, copiate la mia, no tenes para el colectivo, llevate mi tarjeta.

Y en el gimnasio pasa igual, por que para que esperar que el amigo termine de usar la maquina si podes compartirla y usarla mientras el descansa.


- Hacemos una y una?

- Dale.

To Jordan

What happened to those little chinese monkeys you were carrying around with you?

Did they ever made it back to china?

They were very colorful, and that's the magic of couchsurfing I guess.

Sometimes you meet people, and those people have some monkeys with them.

But most times you meet people and they have no monkeys, so you think, what happened to those other monkeys they had.

Whatever 15

Friend: Want to play a game?

Bruno: Always.

Friend: This game is called "greed".

Bruno: Is it like monopoly?

Friend: Something like that.

Bruno: How to play?

Friend: First you have to start something.

Bruno: Something like what?

Friend: You know, the usual: work, study, travel.

Bruno: Right, the only 3 things a person can do in this life.

Friend: Exactly, doesn't really matter though, you could start putting together some jigsaw puzzles for all I care, just start doing something.

Bruno: Then what?

Friend: Then you have to let the greed take over your mind, or your soul if that's what you believe in. If you have chosen to go for material greed, just keep working and working. If you have chosen to go for intellectual greed just keep studying and studying, go for a degree, then masters, phd, whatever, just make sure you are never happy with what you have, and always try to get more and more. If you chose the travel route, keep going to more and more countries, make it an addiction and never content yourself with the places you've already been to, seek new experiences, new adventures and try to always go somewhere new. And needless to say, if you went for the puzzles, just keep buying more and more and collecting them, frame them, never be happy with the ones you already have.

Bruno: Sounds fun! And when do I win?

Friend: That's the fun part, you will never win, the game keeps going on and on until you die. Because it's not possible to collect all the things, acquire all the knowledge , visit all the places or finish all the puzzles.

Bruno: Can't catch them all? So why playing in the first place?

Friend: Because it's the hip game to play and all the cool kids are playing it!

Bruno: Sounds  a bit lame though, sure you wanna play?

Friend: Yeah, It'll be fun, I'll go get some puzzles.

Bruno: Whatever then, lets play.

the book will wait

the book will wait for you, just laying there

doesn't say anything, doesn't complain, no nagging

just there waiting for you

to pick him up from that desk

and read it

because you know it's a good book and you've been neglecting it for a while now

you know you need a good read

it makes you calm, makes you feel safe

gives you peace

and he doesn't rush you, doesn't expect anything

it lies there

on the shelf, on the desk, on the drawer, under the bed, on the washroom

it's just there

waiting for you

For Ling Ling

Oh I'm having a terrible time finding a job, and thinking about going back into teaching.

But english teachers are a bit lame here. And I've had enough of it.

Maybe I should teach chess instead...

BTW, I wonder how are your chess skills going.

Did you find someone to practice with?

You know if you can beat me next time there will be a special prize for you.

For Naomi

A new season is coming. Time for a new start. Trees are changing, so are the people.

And so am I.

Maybe you don't notice it while living in the tropics, can't feel seasons changing, so you may not be so aware as to how time flows following some patterns.

If it's always summer there's no winter to expect.

If it's always winter, there's no coconut trees.

You know, I really admire you for putting so much effort into teaching the homeless children, and I wish you the best, really, I wish you the best, even though you are christian.

For YJ

YJ, are you alright?

I'm doing good.

You know, I'm renting a room from a very cute old taiwanese couple.

They really like me (I think), so they gave me a very good price, 3.000NT per month. It may be normal in kaoshiung, but for taipei is very cheap.

The old lady told me to call her "mama" and often brings me some sweets and things she makes, and bananas. Yes, bananas ;)

Her husband speaks some japanese also, because Taipei used to be japanese territory, some time ago.

If you get to visit me, you could talk to him.

Do you ever wonder what would it be like if the japanese had stayed?

I do.

Complaining about everything

Friend: I don't understand why you dislike the christians so much?

Bruno: Because for me being christian means taking the side of the oppressor.

Friend: You mean the side of the government?

Bruno: Yes, because the governments usually take side with the christians/catholics.

Friend: Yes, during the dark ages, now its different, kind of.

Bruno: How come it's different?

Friend: Lets just leave it there, so you just don't like anyone who takes sides or works for the government?

Bruno: I like some, I like the librarians, the ones who clean the parks, the ones who build the bridges and highway, some teachers, some social workers, few other people.

Friend: So why you always complain about the government?

Bruno: Because they make my life just too difficult with all their rules and regulations.

Friend: So you just don't like rules? If machines were making the rules instead of governments you'll probably complain about the machines.

Bruno: Probably.

Friend: What rule do you hate the most?

Bruno: Well, every day is different, today is the one that hinders my stay in taiwan. Because i want to stay in taiwan and live here, but the taiwanese government, same as most governments doesn't want me to live here. And its not like if i were in singapore and I can just take a bus to malaysia for 20 dolars and get the new visa, a visa run from taiwan is serious business.

Friend: So why do you live in taiwan, go back to europe, no one will kick you out, no visa, no passports, no borders.

Bruno: But the food in taiwan is just so good. Best food ever.

Friend: So enjoy the food and try to get around the government somehow, there are always so many loopholes everywhere, you know that very well.

Bruno: Fuck that, I'm tired of always having to hide in the loopholes, I would like to get medical insurance, to rent a room, to get a job, to go to school, to get an ID.

Friend: Why would you want that?

Bruno: Just to do something different for a change.

Friend: So you always want what you can't have, when you had all those papers and stuff in europe you grew sick and tired of them, remember?

Bruno: You know what, you're right, I'm better off in the loopholes.

Friend: There you go, see, problem solved.

Bruno: That was fast.

Lindblum

Friend: Lets go to Lindblum next week?

Bruno: Why next week?

Friend: I don't know.

Bruno: Why not today?

Friend: Because I can't be that spontaneous.

Bruno: Why not?

Friend: It's just not me.

Bruno: But how can I plan something for next week, that's scary.

Friend: So you are afraid of commitment.

Bruno: It's not that, but I can't think that far ahead, and if I say yes now, I'll probably forget or change my mind, or make other plans, or just start worrying, because it's like a burden having to think now that I have something to do next week.

Friend: But I live a miserable life so I need something to look forward to, and this trip may just be that one thing that will mike the rest of this week feel less miserable.

Bruno: I see, like putting a band aid on a scar that needs stitches.

Friend: Exactly, this trip will be the temporary solution to all my life problems and dilemmas.

Bruno: That's so very mature of you.

Friend: So, what do you say? Are you coming?

Bruno: I told you i can go today, but if you want me to go next week, you're gonna have to ask me next week. Preferably on the same day.

Friend: It looks like we're never gonna do anything together.

Bruno: Well, not with that attitude.

Fan mail

Dear Bruno:


I've been following your blog for some time now, and have to tell you that I'm very impressed by your writing.


I like the way you express your thoughts and feelings.


I like your sense of humor and sarcasm.


You have an outstanding command over the language, you know how to transmit emotions and the way you use punctuation marks, makes it very easy to read and follow, as most people including myself feel frightened by big blocks of text, they look so scary!


I like the topics you choose, very thought provoking, and often aimed to challenge our ideas as individuals, as members of this society, as inhabitants of this planet.


Your problems are the same we all have, so we can relate very easily to most things you write about. Some are a bit random though.


I like that you use different formats, sometimes as a dialogue or stories, sometimes poem or pictures, it makes it less predictable and more enjoyable.


Also I have to say that I've seen some of your pictures and I was surprised to see how good looking you are, because you know usually most people who spend long in front of the computer seem to look kind of creepy.

But you look like a super model, it's like you're photoshopped, you have a charming smile and the way you laugh, oh my god! So mesmerizing. Your short hair and that manly beard you always have, takes my breath away ;)

And your sunglasses make you look so cool and mischievous, for not saying hot and mysterious.

You look irresistible and I don't really believe all your stories about the friendzone.


I've been kind of following your posts since last year, and  had always had kind of a crush on you, like most of your readers I guess.


Can't really consider myself a fan though, I love your posts, and admire the way you are, but I'm not one for idolizing people, I know you're just a normal guy, like any other. And have many issues.


And I think it's very cool that you talk about your flaws and make fun of yourself quite often.


But you know, sometimes for some reason, I got jealous while reading some posts, when you talk about ex girlfriends or once that you put some pictures with a girl. It's crazy I know, because I don't know you. But following your writing for almost 9 months now made me feel like I know you and understand you.


Like you are a part of me.


And your posts are a part of me also. Because they have stayed with me after reading them, and sometimes when I take a shower or coming back home in the bus at night, I remember your words.


And sometimes when there's some conflict in my life, I remember your words of wisdom, and think "what would bruno do?"


I'm kind of a writer myself, so I know sometimes the stories shouldn't be taken literally, but many times they make me wonder if those things actually happened to you, or where you got those ideas from.


My favorite posts are: NEET, midnight humor, poligamy, living like a boss, and the ones you call "whatever" they always make me think and re-think my life and my ideas.


It seems you've had quite a hard life, and so exciting also! I wish I had those kind of experiences myself.
Its great to read that you were able to learn so much from them.

You don't need to feel guilty about playing videogames, maybe you haven't noticed it but they have drastically boosted your imagination and creativity over the years, and if it wasn't for them you probably wouldn't be able to create all this fantastic stories, and share them with us.



I enjoy visiting your blog every day, so felt a bit sad when I heard it was the end of season one, I understand of course that you have many other things to take care of, you have to learn chinese, you have to work on your scripts, you have to meet people, you have to keep away from the internet before you loose you mind, you have to play your games, etc, but I just wish you could keep posting every day.


Even though I know you write for yourself and you don't want to please anyone, I also know how many hours you spend every day coming up with new ideas, trying to express them in the simplest way possible, so that we can all understand them, writing, editing, proof reading, etc.


So last but not least, I want to tell you that I think you are a great person and I hope we get to meet in real life someday, before I die and (at least) have a cup of tea together.


Keep working hard, keep going for your dream and don't let this go to your head.


Thank you for your writing!

whatever 13

Friend: What do you want to do today?

Bruno: I want to move to taiwan.

Friend: Why taiwan?

Bruno: No special reason, just a feeling, I know I should move there but I don't know the reason.

Friend: Funny.

Bruno: Not funny.

Friend: So why don't you move there, if you know that's what you should be doing?

Bruno: well, you've never felt like you know that what you're doing is not the right thing for you to do right now, but you dont have the guts to do what you know you should be doing instead?

Friend: Yes, all the time.

Bruno: Ok, so you know how I feel.

Friend: But I thought you were the master of going for your dreams.

Bruno: Wrong, I may be the master of telling other people to go for their dreams, which is different.

Friend: Still, you're better at it than everyone else I know.

Bruno: you must know very few people then.

Friend: True, I should go out more.

Bruno: You should

Friend: well, you know what you have to do, there's no way around it

Bruno: Yeah, I know.

Friend: So just do it

Bruno: I'm on it. just Not yet, is not the right time yet.

Friend: So when?

Bruno: Soon, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week.

Friend: So it's in your plans already.

Bruno: Yes well, It's out there, that means people know about it, the more people know about your dream the harder it is for you not to go for it.

Friend: Because of the peer pressure and what you think they would think of  you if you didn't do what you want to do, they will see you as a weak person, a person without the courage to do what he wants to do

Bruno: Exactly

Friend: So that's why you're writing this here, so that's it's out there

Bruno: Yes, you could say that

Friend: So, you're just wasting the readers time here

Bruno: Pretty much

Friend: And you're proud of that

Bruno: Well, it's not like they have anything better to do

Friend: Maybe they do

Bruno: Probably not

Friend: So you think

Bruno: Well I'm not forcing them to read, they read because they want to

Friend: they could be out there enjoying life, playing with their dogs in the park, or spending time with their friends and families.

Bruno: well at least I give them something to read

Friend: so very considerate of you

Bruno: what can I say? that's what you get from a free blog without advertisement, from me to them, no catch, no small print, and tell you what, from now on I'll start answering the readers questions as well, so if you have a question or you want me to talk about some subject in particular just drop me an email or just post it in the comments and it will be answered as a new post, how cool is that?

Friend: not cool at all, i do have a question i've been wanting to ask you though.

Bruno: Shoot.

Friend: how do you go about choosing which country you're going to move to next? everyone else i know wouldn't even dream of doing something like that. it's pretty adventurous.

Bruno: as you said, you should start going out more, and about the country, first of all it has to be a place i hadn't been before, and it would help if there was a prospect of some kind or something waiting for me there, like a job, a special person, or an oportunity of some nature, if there's nothing of that, maybe i feel attracted by its language and feel the need of learning it, or i feel attracted by the culture and think i could learn something from it. and then, there's the money issue... nah just kidding, money is not an issue anymore, I'm confident I could make a living anywhere.

Friend: and by a special person, you mean there has to be a girl you like there.

Bruno: that would be a very nice prospect of course, unfortunately, most of the times that's not the case

Friend: is there a special person waiting for you in taiwan?

Bruno: actually I wish there was, because that would be just the extra push I need

Friend: why not trying www.taiwancupid.com? the number one dating site in taiwan

Bruno: are you advertising some dating site now?

Friend: just saying

Bruno: meh I don't want to meet a girl on a dating site, I'll save that card for when I'm like 40 or like really desperate

Friend: actually you're probably gonna be blind by the time you're 40, why not just using it now?

Bruno: because it's creepy

Friend: yeah, so you can find creepy people like yourself

Bruno: hey I'm not the one dressing up as a kigurumi, now that was creepy

Friend: again with that? i told you it's over, I'm not into it anymore, terminado amigo

Bruno: you crazy freak

Friend: whatever

Bruno: whatever? really??? is that the best comeback you've got?

Friend: ...

Bruno: come on, I know you've got it in you

Friend: whatever man

Bruno: much better