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.