En español & In English

Hoy escribo en español e en inglés.
Today I am writting in Spanish and in English.

ps. Still having problems with the pictures...

El único español que curra en Agosto

Que tal? Nada de especial por madrid, todo bastante aburrido por la oficina.este finde hemos estado por barcelona. no sabeis la que se lio con lo de la huelga de los de tierra de iberia. creo que se pusieron celosos por la que montaron los del SEPLA hace un par de semanas, y ademas de hacer huelga, no la convocaron! pequeña la que liaron. ejemplo: santi, mi primo, tenia que venir a la fiesta que le haciamos a mi tia por su 50 cumpleaños, y no llego ni volando con el Seat Leon por las carreteras de media Europa.

En cuanto a mi abuela, estuvimos un rato con ella el sabado y el domingo. el martes la llevan ya hacia casa, a Manresa, asi que espero que alli se pueda recuperar bien. Salu2 a todos,

xevi

I am the only Spaniard working on August!

How are you doing? It's working time. Nothing special today… This weekend we went to Barcelona. It is a long trip to do for just a weekend, but you get used to it. Many times we take the plane there, but on Friday morning the workers at Barcelona airport planned a strike, and no planes could take off or land in Barcelona. As long as they organize it and tell the government they are on strike, it is legal to do it. But these people didn't ask the government for permission and they are going to get in trouble for doing that! We got to Barcelona late at night on Friday. We had dinner with grandma, and we went to sleep. On Saturday we had a surprise party for my aunt, whose 50 th birthday is next week. She was so surprised that she couldn't talk for almost half an hour hahaha. Really really nice lunch. We spent the rest of the weekend with my grandma (the one who had the stroke). We hope she will recover!I hope you have a good start for the week.

Picture of the strike we had in El Prat Airport (BCN), in Barcelona:

crazy night in madrid

how are you all doing?
Last night was kind of crazy. Too much going on. Everything started in Paseo de La Habana 13, in a bar called Habana 13 (something really original). Jeff and I went to this bar were Caco works, and stayed there for a while. Then we realized we never had dinner, so we found a wonderful and cheap place to have tapas, and we ate as much as we could. Then we went back to Habana 13, and from that moment we started moving from one bar to another with Luis, Jaime, Carmen, Tere and both Raqueles. By the end of the night we were in Bar Capitan in Duque de Pastrana, but I was thinking about my next day (for today) at work. Finally we got in a car back home, and when I just got home, I realized I didn't have the keys with me!!! DIOS!!!! I tried calling some people (I didn't want to wake up my parents late at night) and I ended going to Luis house were I slept. The problem is that I sent a text message to my mom, but my dad didn't see it and this morning he called me asking where the f... I was. I thought it would be a really bad day today (after not having a lot of sleep), and it hasn't been that bad. We are taking the car to Barcelona this afternoon, my parents, my sister and miguel angel, and I. I will keep you updated. see you!

xevi

Tour para pereiro! (?)

hola! sí, parece confirmado lo que esta mañana avanzaba el periodico danés Ekstra Bladet. Landis dio positivo en en la etapa que ganó con final en Morzine. Esto es algo que en la oficina ya se hablaba esta mañana, y que avance al editor de El Blog de Jordi, y que parece que le ha faltado tiempo para usar la informacion privilegiada jaja. Ojala sea verdad,

xevi

Jeff is in Madrid

Hello!
how are you doing? Mr Fesser the professor is in Madrid. Last night we went to a friends house, and had some fun. during the afternoon we visited some nice places in madrid, had a wonderful dinner with jamoncito, chorizo, cecina, lomo, salsichon...
after the office i will meet them again. i will also try to post asap some of the pictures we took last night. take it ez,

xevi

Trabajar para Produban en el Banco Santander

Hoy en el trabajo he visto el blog de uno que curra por aqui, y me ha gustado la descripcion jajaja
Es probable que alguno de vosotros os preguntéis en qué trabajo... También es probable que la gran mayoría no os lo preguntéis, pero siempre me han gustado las minorías, así que a ellas va dedicada esta explicación de cómo me gano el pan.

Trabajo en un banco.

Not so bad (ITIL and Remedy)

Working today in Produban (the company I work for owned by Banco Santander) was better than yesterday. i think that the first day is hard for everybody. it is not just been an eagle fan and your boss been a redskin fan, but i have no boss right now! he is on vacations for 3 weeks, and the office is empty. anyway, i am trying to get into ITIL and Remedy. If any of you have a master on it, dont hesitate on contact me. i would be happy of getting some help hahaha. have a good night,

xevi

ps. i am having some trouble uploading pictures... you will have to wait :P

WORK, evil...

hello! how are you doing?
do you like working? today it was my first day at the office in Pozuelo de Alarcon for Banco Santander. I hope tomorrow will be better, because today it hasnt been the best day :P
i am going to sleep cause i am very tired after a long day. take it easy for the ones working haha,

xevi

MIguel Angel, ten un poco de menos abuela por favor

Os pongo en antecedentes. Mi hermana Núria (no se porque digo su nombre si es la única que tengo) se caso hara unos meses con Miguel Angel Izquierdo Elvira, de los Elvira de toda la vida. Ya ees sabido que son cristianos viejos (Charo nos ha hecho las investigaciones), pero lo que yo no sabia era de donde salian todos los jamones de navidades. y ahora me he dado cuenta. Pedazo la que tiene montada en Majadahonda. Las de San Pedro y San Pablo juntas no abultan mas que el nuevo hospital Puerta de Hierro en Majadahonda. Y es que Miguel Angel es el jefe de obra del hospital en construccion mas grande de europa!!

Os voy a dar unos cuantos datos:
- 794 camas de hospitalización y 84 de internamiento de día y la posibilidad de ampliarse en 120 camas
- Superficie construida de 162.055 metros cuadrados
- 4.000 plazas de aparcamiento
- Zonas verdes que representan el 68 por ciento de la superficie total

También dispondrá de salón de actos, zona de investigación médica, aulas de docencia, biblioteca, guardería, helipuerto. Unos 650.000 madrileños serán atendidos en este centro sanitario y prestará asistencia sanitaria a los distritos de Moncloa-Aravaca, Casa de Campo, Ciudad Universitaria y los municipios del noroeste de Madrid y la Sierra del Guadarrama.

Algunas fotillos incluyendo el proyecto original que parece ser que han cambiado...:

Cartel bien grande, para que se vea!

"¿Pero va a ser tan pequeño el hospital?".
Eso lo dijo alguien que no se dio cuenta de que era una maqueta...

Planos del arquitecto

Más planos (por culturilla puedo decir que se trata de una planta)

Esta habra que compararla con como quede de verdad para darle caña al cuñado :P

Mas proyecto básico

Ultimo dibujo del interior

Links:

- El link que más me ha gustado es el de Skyscrapercity.com jajaja. Un gran debate sobre el proyecto que Miguel Angel nos aclarara en el club la semana que viene :P
- Link del arquitecto Alberto Pineda.

FIB

FIB, or Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, is one of the best music festivals in the world. This year, the lucky people that got a pass for the festival, will be enjoying bands like Pixies, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Morrisey, Depeche Mode or Placebo. If you like music, you should come to Benicàssim (by the way, it is 5 hours away from madrid if you want to visit me :P)

Nothing new (but crazy americans on a picture :P)

Hello people,
how are you doing? here in spain nothing new. realxing this weekend before a week of work! tonight there is no going out, just posting some pictures. have a good night,

xevi

My crazy american friends... where are the midgets? hahaha


Me at a bar

Miguel and Lola

Francisco y Catalina

Gran leccion la de estos 10 tripulantes de un pesquero español que rescataron hace una semana a un grupo de 51 inmigrantes. Pero como son las cosas de la vida, que una buen accion se convierte en un rompecabezas. Desde el salvamento el gobierno de Malta (actualmente estan fondeados a 12 millas de La Valetta) se ha negado a la llegada a puerto del barco con los inmigrantes. Y ayer cuando parecia existir un acuerdo con otros paises (Andorra, Italia, Libia) para repartir a los inmigrantes, los libaneses se han tirado atras.
De momento la Cruz Roja Española ha concedido la Medalla de Oro a los miembros del barco, e incluso han sido propuestos para el Premio Principe de Asturias de la Cooperacion. Hablando de este premio, "mi gran amigo" Bill Gates ha donado 228 millones € (casi 300 millones de $$$) para la investigacion de vacunas contra el SIDA. Estamos hablando de una cifra astronomica cuando el dinero invertido el año pasado en esta vacuna fue de 542 millones de euros.

Problemas entre Israel y el Libano

Hola,
hoy nos vamos a poner un poco políticos. Y digo un poco porque ya me gustaria ponerme muy politico y solucionar los problemas del mundo, pero hay problemas que escapan a nuestras soluciones. y uno de ellos es el problema de Oriente Proximo.
Toda la escala de violencia empezo por el apresamiento de un soldado israelí por parte de Hamas el 25 de Junio. No voy a entrar en el conflicto israel-palestina, pero el hecho es que la emboscada del comando palestino ha abierto la caja de pandora israeli. y si por si estos estaban poco enfadados, van los de Hezbola y secuestran a otros dos soldados mas.
Muchas veces se habla de Israel como un pais terrorista. Es el unico pais civilizado donde la tortura esta legalizada (como lo llaman ellos "presion física moderada"). Pero ellos no son los unicos culpables en este conflicto. Los hechos de Hamas y Hezbola son tan aborrecibles tanto en cuanto estos dos grupos terroristas islamicos estan presentes en los gobiernos de Palestina y del Libano. Me gustaria saber si toda esa gente que antes hablaba de terrorismo de estado por parte de Israel, lo admiten para los estados de Palestina y del Libano. Por otro lado Olmert no parece contentar ni a unos ni a otros, ni a los pacifistas israelies (que no se cuantos son, pero que en los telediarios nos los sacan siempre) ni a los ultraortodoxos que han vuelto a reivindicar una ocupacion del Libano.
Y a todo esto la ONU pide paz. Pobrecito Annan, que no le hacen caso. Los dos paises, Israel y Libano, tienen resoluciones de la ONU por cumplir (como la 1559 que exige el desarme de Hezbola, o la 425 que Israel tardo en cumplir 22 años) y parece que no haran caso a nadie que les de lo que quieren, cuando lo que quieren los unos y los otros parece la desaparicion del vecino... Conflicto dificil de tratar. Esperemos que las cosas se solucionen por el bien de los habitantes de unos paises que a veces no tienen culpa de las guerras.

Venezuelan guy (i hope it is you jordi!)

somebody is checking on me from venezuela... i love keeping track of all you haha (sitemeter magic)

Where are the people

Hello everybody!
how are you doing? madrid is kind of boring right now. well, yesterday i went out with Carmen and Tere to a bar that has a very nice terrace for the summer. we were kind of cheerful and wanting to dance for a while, so we went downtown. the problem is that madrid is getting empty. all the young people are in the beaches... just the students with tests in september and the people working are in madrid.

This is an old picture where you can see Tere with sumglasses

Tonight we are going out again. i hope we will be more succesful tonight haha. besos,

xevi

A esto se llama competencia desleal?

Jordi, this piece of news is for you. yesterday i made some gazpacho with watermelon. not particulary good, but i just have to redefine it a little bit. have a nice day,

xevi

Weekend in Madrid

Hello!
How are you all doing? sorry for not updating this blog. too many things to do lately haha. I had a wonderful weekend. everything started last friday when i had the last interview with Banco Santander, and I got a job with them. It is a pretty big bank. The bank's market capitalisation was EUR 69,735 million at the end of 2005, making Santander the world's 10th largest financial group by market value. On friday night we had dinner out to celebrate it (me, my mom, my sister and miguel angel, and a friend of my parents). My dad was in Nice and then spent the weekend in Barcelona with my grandma so I couldnt see him until yesterday. After dinner I met Miguel to go out. First we went to have some beers, and then to Torre Europa. The feeling there wasnt very good (we didnt like the people) so when more people came we decided to go to Juan Bravo, a more classy area hahaha. we had a lot of fun, and here you have the pictures of that night.

Miguel and his little friend


The constructor!

With susana

With Miguel

With Teresa

On saturday we spent the day in La Sierra. La Sierra are the mountains north of madrid, were people ski in the winter and relax in the summer. miguel angel's family, my sisters husband, they have a house in Lozoyuela, in La Sierra. We had a wonderful day with sitting next to the swimming pool, relaxing, having good food... enjoy life!
Sunday wasnt that exciting. on the morning i watched the MotoGP racing, and had lunch watchin the F1 race. then in the afternoon i met miguel and other friends, and we went to the Prado Museum to see the exhibition about Picasso.
Hope you have a good week,

xevi

Xevi saying hi from BCN

Behave yourself,

Xevi

4th July

Buenos dias a todos,
how are you doing? Today is the 4th of July, the independence day for the USA. i wish all my friends back there to have a wonderful day, and i was so happy to get a phone call from the US this morning (sorry mike i wasnt paying any attention to you hahaha). well, i have to say that i have never seen this patriotism in a democratic country before. it is surprising. enjoy your BBQ and the fireworks

Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia

hello everbody!
how are you guys doing? here i am in barcelona. two friends from colombia, Marcela and Ana, are spending some time in barcelona with me. they got here yesterday, and we are all leaving tomorrow for madrid. i had to go back to madrid this week, and i am taking the same bus they are taking so that i dont have to travel alone.

This weekend i will go to valencia. we are leaving (me and my friends) from madrid, thats the reason for not going directly from barcelona to valencia. In valencia we will be participating in the 5th World Meeting of the Families with the presence of Benedict XVI.
Nothing new besides that. I will try to keep you updated with all my trips. have a good one,

xevi