CNN Chile: It's Happening right now and you're seeing it right now

Everybody knows CNN. It's one of the most famous cable network of news that there is. But I´m going to talk about the chilean version. Mostly because it's the only news network channel in Chile that I actually trust right now.

Now I'm just going to say you that I don't visit the website very often. But I follow it through Facebook and always watch the channel every morning. But I'm going to do my best, and try to to talk you about the website.

Like all the news websites, the news section is divided in different categories. There's an economy section, an international news section, a section related to the elections if we're in that period. There's Even a sport section. But it's nothing but football,  it could be some news related to a different sport, but mostly it's just football news so don't pay attention to that.

And in the top of the page there are some links related with the most relevant news of the moment, that changes every time because there's always something happening in the country.

And also there are links to twitter, facebook and RSS. A search bar in the top, along with the title and the slogan. A weather section in the right part below the links. A program section in the bottom of the page with links of all the programs of the channel and a questionnaire section in the end of the page.

Here's the link of the page if you want to visit it. I know you're not going to do that, but here it is just in the remote case that you're actually interested in this kind of things. Take care.
http://www.cnnchile.com/

My Favorite Movie

My favorite movie is a 1975 crime drama called: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, and direct by Milos Forman.

In 1963, a raunchy, opportunistic and anti-autoritharian criminal called Randall Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), pretends to be mentally ill, so he can go to a mental institution instead of a jail, because he wants to avoid hard labors and stay in a more relaxing place.

Netherless, the mental hospital turns out to be a more opressive place than jail. The chief nurse, called Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher) has control over all the activities in the hospital. She humilliates the patients making them talk about their issues, even when they don't want that, makes them take medicines and keeps the place in order with a mind-numbling routine that suffocates them even more.

Randall becomes friends with the other patients and helps them to push out their boundaries and face the chief nurse, starting a power conflict between him and Ratched.

If I had to choose my favorite moment in the entire movie, I would choose the ending. I know that it sounds too cliché because a lot of people say that the ending is the most important moment in a movie, but it's so sad and so uplifting at the same time, that creates a touching moment that is really unforgettable. I don't want to ruin it for you with details, so lets just say that is a escape scene.

Setting in the early 60's, this movie represents the medical system of that decade very accurately. It shows how uncaring and uncompromising were the society with mentally ill people. Treating them like grown up kids instead of adults with real problems. And the fact that a man so selfish and opportunistic like Randall can understands them better that the most qualifed doctors and nurses of that time, have a meaningful social commentary, that still holds relevance in these days.

A Picture is worth a Thousand Words... Specially if you're covering an emigration controversy

The Photograph that I'm going to talk you about... it's very important and controversial due the context that is was taken. It's a picture that shows... how an international conflict cross the line between what it's ethical and what it's dangerous and wrong. I'm talking about: The Elián Gonzalez affair photograph.


It was taken by Alan Diaz, a cuban-american photographer who lived in Miami and took the photo in April of 2000. Around that time he was covering a case of deportation of a cuban kid called Elián Gonzalez. In the picture Elián and his mother appear hiding their house's closet while an american soldier was pointing them with a SMG.
All this happened because the mother of Elián took him and escape from Cuba to Miami. The problem was that the custody of the kid was from the father. The emigration is illegal in Cuba, but in United States there's a law called "wet feet, dry feet" who, according to Wikipedia says: "If a Cuban is picked up at sea or walking toward shore, he/she will be repatriated by force. If he/she can make it to shore ("dry feet"), he/she is permitted to make a case for political asylum.". So this was not only a custody battle between the parents, but also an international conflict between two countries who have a very hostile relationship.

The reason I like this picture is because it shows a thing that nobody in that time considered about this conflict. And that was Elián. The kids are innocent and pure. they don't know absolutely nothing about the cold war or controversies about emigration. The both sides of this conflict just acted according their political ideologies, and didn't think about how he felt or what was the best for him.



If the people in the world think about fix the problems instead of try to find the guilty... maybe things like the Elián Gonzalez Affair could it be avoided.

My Favorite TV show

My favorite TV series is a teen drama soap opera called Dawson's Creek

It's a show about four teenagers living in a small town called Capeside (It's a fictional place) and dealing with the issues of real life like romance, betrayal, mistrust and some ethical dilemmas that I don't going to describe you because it would spoil some important parts of the plot. Let's just say it has a lot reveals and everyone of those are shocker than the last one.

Characters:
Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), a young filmmaker who wants to become the next Steven Spielberg and is helped by his best friends.
Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), a girl who lives with his older sister because her mother dies and has some feelings for Dawson.
Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) a very talented and smart guy who is treated by everyone else except his friends like an idiot.
Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) a girl from New York that lives with her grandmother who is christian and tries to take her on the right way.

Oddly enough, I discovered this show, well... while I was watching another show. I saw a South Park episode called "Trapper Keeper" where one of the mayor plot points involved a computerized Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper who conquers the world in the future (Don't ask, It's South Park). And then I remember I saw a promo of reruns of the show on MTV and then I said to myself: "Well Dawson's Creek, hit me with your best shot, show me what's the best thing you can do" and literally I got attracted by the first episode because it was THAT good.

So... What I like about this show? the writing. This doesn't feel like any other teen show I saw in the past. The situations feel so real and the characters are very identifiable. And also is very unpredictable, you can love or hate a character for the things that he or she do but in the next episode you can completely change your thoughs. Overall it's a great show.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present"

I must confess am not the kind of person who thinks too much in the future. Mostly because I'm very pessimistic and don't have too much faith in humanity. But that doesn't mean that I don't going to try.

I was thinking to do journalism in other countries, I mean go to different parts of the world reporting what’s going on and learn about the different cultures around the world. But then I thought: Maybe I can be a documental director, a person who makes research about a certain subject matter and make a movie or a show about that.

The things that I study can help with that achievement. If I watch the news, make reports and more investigation through the internet I can develop that ability.

Now about my personal life: I’ve got no clue. Because certainly I care too little about myself and things like romance can spoil my objective. The problem is that I’m too systematic and the only things I care it’s what’s happen right now. The only expectations that I have about life are keeping comfortable with what I do and 

work in a stable place.

And that’s pretty much I have to say about my future.

Technology, when the future comes and kill the imagination

I'm not a big fan of modern technology, okay? I'm gonna make it clear right now: I don't know nothing about Ipads, Iphones, Whatsup, modern consoles and all those modern things that EVERYBODY uses to comunicate and share their photos and bla bla bla...

Now with that said... the closest thing to modern technology that I have is a notebook that I use to check my mails and facebook when I'm home. It's an Olidata colour black that I use with a mouse because I can't stand the touchpad. When I use my notebook I put a plank under it because it prevents the overheat of the system. Also I need to put something to hold up the screen because is broken and falls.
I use my notebook very often, mostly because I do everything on internet these days, check mails, read news, listen music, watch movies and TV shows, al a lot of other things. Everyday there's something new on the internet, always something relevant, always something to comment, and because of that, checking the internet is an 24/7 job and the only thing that I have to do that is my notebook.

I don't need to image how my life would it be without my notebook... because I've already lived that life. Before the notebook I used to have a Windows 98 without internet (When I was a kid) and a Windows XP (When I was 13) and thanks to that I' ve never get used to use the touchpad. When I used my Windows XP I used to watch videos and download music, nothing else.

Maybe in the future I'm going to give a chance to the "touch" technology but today I'm really comfortable using the mouse, It's one of those inventions that you can use and never let to need because their efficiency never ends.

Hello Everyone

*Just for the record... I want to point out that this is NOT a blog about religion... the title is just a little joke that I wanted to make because I ran out out of ideas for a name and the first thing that popped out of my head it was the South Park episode about atheism... just don't ask and keep reading.

Well, here I am, writing my first post, now I supposed to introduce myself and stuff and talk about my life, my family, my interests and all those things, but I don't want to boring you with details so I'm going to be careful to not write too much.

My full name is Tomás Ernesto Aranda Espina, and that's it, I don't have a nickame or something like that and that's because nicknames are for people that has a distinctive ability or characteristic that and I don't dave, the closest thing to a nickname that I had was "Tomak" because when I was younger I used to say in that way. I Was Born on the 5th of September of 1992 in Santiago de Chile, where I lived the first 5 years of my life and then I moved to Iquique where I lived 8 years and then returned to Santiago because my father quit his job in the mining of Collahuasi, around al that time I was in at least 7 different schools, before I graduate, and then I go to study laws in University of Talca before I decided to study Journalism in the University of Chile, and here I am trying to do the best.

I live with my mother Maria Cristina and my younger sister Martina Aranda. My father Rene live with my grandmother and my uncle, my mother is a Kindergarten Teacher temporally retired that works with my sister in home while my father works on a paper factory and helps us with the bills.

And that's pretty much it, that's all folks.