My Experience as a "Blogger"

I must acknowledge that was fun, being more specific, the posts about my likings was the funniest, because it was too easy to tell you something I am used to do in my daily life (like hear or play music, comment about my favorite series and favorite books, etc.) and sometimes I get into the theme too much.

I think that my writing skills have increased, but no only the writing in English but that also the writing in general, I mean, now is easier for me to write any work that I must do in the university, like reports or homework’s.

It was very interesting the “Blog session” when I must do something different that write, like include a picture, or a video, or a link, and things like that. So rather than an include something, i prefer have variety, have something to innovate. An example would be having four types of “blog session” (with different theme of course): 

1) Only write.

2) Include a picture.

3) Include a link.

4) Include a video. 

intercalating them, and make some variety.

Like I said at the start I really enjoy posting about my likings, so consequently I really like the “What’s your favorite…” blog session. So, I would to write about, I don’t know, favorite food, favorite hobby, favorite season of the year, etc.

Guns n' Roses

As you can see in the title, my favorite band of all time since I have memory is the nineties rock band: Guns and Roses. A very polemic band in their times, for trouble in the hotels where they stayed, and many other things.

I can't quite remember when I started to listen this band, but I remember when I knew this band. It was when I was a kid, in the shopping center. In one of these public tenders in the center of the shopping center, the competition it was of the videogame: Guitar Hero II and I don't remember if I won or if I lost, I only remember one specific song: Sweet Child O' Mine. Since I ear that song I couldn't take it out of my head for a long time, and even in that long period of time I couldn't remember the name of the song, until I hear it in the radio station Futuro 88.9, it was at that moment that I listen this band.


My music preferences started with the rock in general, because in the travel to San Antonio (where my grandparents live) my dad always put the Pink Floyd's disc, and Los Prisioneros. But I like this band for other reason too, something inexplicable. It's just a thing that I can't describe when I hear every song of this band.

Advanced and Multivariated Calculus

I always liked math. Since my childhood, i was (and i am) "good with the numbers", i found it more funnier than memorize important dates of history, or write short stories, or memorize the bones of the body. That is the reason of why i choose this subject as my favorite, and the discard, because unlike to the others (Statistics, Laboratory, and different Chemistry subjects) is the best... (for me).

The subject is "Advanced and Multivariated Calculus", and basically we calculate area, volume and points in space (usually in planes). These values are calculated using "the next step" of derivative and integrals: partial derivatives and double integrals. Also, the classic variable "x", is not alone, now is accompanied with other variables ("y" and "z", sometimes "t", or sometimes we change the variables to "u" and "v").
The main contents we have seen in the subject are:
1) Vectors and vector functions.
2) Partial derivatives.
3) Double integrals.
4) How to applicate these tools to calculate the volume or area of a surface.

Well, i'm not sure if these are the contents, because i don't remember the program. But this is the essential.

Like i said in the start, since my childhood i liked the math. I guess because the answer is just a one, or two, i mean, the answer is objective. They are many ways to do the operations but always are the same result.

The Japanese Website...

To tell the truth, I don't know many websites related to my career, just one and a lot of chemistry books in PDF. But that one is the best until now, because helps in the organic chemistry laboratory, specifically with the spectra. The link is: http://sdbs.db.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/direct_frame_top.cgi .

Well, this link isn't the home page. In general, the website is of a "National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology" (AIST) and is focus in all scientific relevant topics, like energy, environment, biotechnology, etc. This page originally is in Japanese, so I suppose that is from Japan. But the link that i provided is a spectral database for organic compounds, where you can seek by the name of the compound or another specific "thing" of the compound (molecular formula, molecular weight, atoms, etc.).

I visit this page weekly, to complete the report of the compound synthesized in the organic chemistry laboratory. And sometimes I visit the page because I'm bored and I seek typical compounds (TNT, urea, toluene, etc.).
I like this page because I found it interesting the spectra of the compounds and because helps me in the laboratory.

"Travesuras de la niña mala"

The title of my favourite book is "Travesuras de la niña mala" as you can see in the title of the post.

Well, the book start with a boy called Ricardo Somocurcio that he dreams live in Paris, but in a wonderful summer, according to the protagonist, he meet a pair of chilean girls, Lily and Lucy. The first, Lily, will be very important in his life, because is the girl and, subsequently, the woman who has the protagonist in love with her.
The first encounter between them is in Peru, when both are kids. He tried many times to have a relationship with her, but she refused always. The second encounter is in Paris, where he live poorly there and he offer a place to a revolutionaries recruits, and one of them is the girl, he call her "bad girl". The third encounter is in Paris again, but now she is the wife of an important political. The fourth encounter is in London, and she is the wife of a multimillionaire. The fifth encounter is in Tokyo, and she is working for Fukuda (fetish things). In the sixth encounter she seeked help in him, but finally she left him. And finally in the seventh encounter she want to spend the rest of his life with him. It in a very summarised form.

The main character is Ricardo Somocurcio and the "bad girl". The other characters are not frequently in the story, because they have protagonism in different chapters. The story is, primarily, in Europe, and sometimes in Perú. The autor of this novel is Mario Vargas Llosa.

A Beautiful Memory...

To be quite honest, I don't like the photography too much, just like a amateur, or not even that. So don't expect too much from this post.

V.Z.; C.A.; J.G.; F.B.; J.C.

Well, this picture it was taken by my friend on the right with the style of "selfie", his name is Jose Castillo. The people on the picture are my group of friends, the first ones that i made in the university, and there we are in a beach day. This picture it was taken in the last summer vacation, between January and February, i guess... i can't quite remember. And it was taken in the "El Quisco" beach.

I like this photo because makes me remember the nice week i spent with my friends in the beach, those long nights playing cards and board games, waking up late, eating too much junk food and playing in the slot machines, ...it was a nice week.

Breaking Bad

Well, this series is about a chemistry teacher with great achievements, but with a bad lifestyle. He has two jobs (besides to be a teacher), works with disrespectful students and he has two kids, the eldest son with a cerebral palsy and the youngest daughter in the womb of his wife. His life, for the moment, was boring, but everything changed when he was diagnosed with pulmonar cáncer, in that moment he decided to make money with another thing: Crystal meth.
At this point i guess you already know who i'm talking about...  yes, i'm talking about Walter White, also known as Heisenberg, in the series. For not to extend the explanation of the series, in short the series is about the fortunes and the misfortunes of Walter White and also his "assistant" Jesse Pinkman.

Walter & Jesse

I really like the series, not because Chemistry is the basis of the series, i like it because has drama, action, and a lot of strategy, whether of Walter White or his enemies. Also i wanted to see the spin-off series called "Better Call Saul", but for now i don't have time.

I'm a Console Gamer

Well, my favourite piece of technology is the console PlayStation®, all of them (except PS4 :'c). I know the PS system is worst than the PC gamer, Xbox, etc. but i really don't care about the potential of the console, or graphics, or whatever because i grew up in my chilhood with the PSone and that brings me the best childhood in my opinion, playing videogames with my sister like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc.

My first approach to the console it was in my childhood, (i don't remember when exactly) but i remember the many hours i lost because that console. One unexpected day burglarizing my home and the thieves stole me the PSone. But in christmas Santa Claus gave me the PS2, it was the best console for me because the variety of the videogames, and the variety of the kind of the videogames, shooter game's like "BLACK", music games like "Guitar Hero", etc. Then time passed and the generation of the PS3 and the Xbox360 was the fury, so i sold my PS2 (the worst decision of my life) and i bought the PS3, my actually console.

When recently bought the PS3 i used it to play (obviously) in singleplayer and multiplayer, for an extended period of time. But for now i use the PS3 to see series, movies, videos from youtbe and occasionally play videogames.

Today, i use the PS3 when i have free time in my home, what is almost nothing. I like the PS3 because is an "entretaiment" in my life, and for the nostalgic memories.

If the console's PlayStation® never existed, i believed, would have been an Xbox gamer, because is like the most similar console with the PlayStation® console's (Netflix, Youtube, etc)

 

 

Why Chemistry...

When i was a child, i had all the typical job expectations for a child (police officer, firefighter, astronaut, etc.), but the most important job was to be a doctor, because this dream led me to the scientific area (i also wanted do it for free).

During my high school, i really liked the scientific subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Physics), but more Chemistry and Biology. And when i had to decided a university career i had 3 in mind: Medicine (from my childhood dream), Biochemistry (because i thought it was: [Chemistry + Biology]) and Chemistry. Finally i put my faith in Biochemistry...  but i entered Chemistry and in the first semester i realized it was the career i want.

In the first semester i realize that biology is more memory than application so it made me changed my mind, also i have made some good friends. In short, my first year in the univesity was "soft", like a 5th grade of high school (a little bit more difficult, of course).
I really want to work in the investigation area, more especific, in theorical concepts in general.

Who I am?

My name is Javier Ignacio Gómez Pérez, i live in Santiago de Chile and actually i study chemistry in the Universtity of Chile. This time i'm going to talk about me.

I was born in the "Clínica Santa María" in the country Chile, in April 20th, 1998. My father is a contractor, he has a technical drafts man title, he works occasionally in construction, my mom is a candy seller near a school, and my sister is studying psychology at the University Andres Bello.

The guitar i wish

About me, i start my studies in the Santiago La Florida School, but during my elementary studies my parents switched me of school, to the "Siglo XXI" School. I did my high schooling in the same school, and finally i'm studying in the University of Chile. My hobby is playing instruments, read, listen music (all of the music) and play video games.