Updates

ok... So it's been a while since I actually posted.
What's new?
I moved to SF and I love it. It's so nice living in a city, and not just any city :)
I joined Deloitte as a fancy Business Analyst and it's been crazy.
I also took my GMAT, started to learn photography, and been an overall bum.
That's about it.
I'm also redesigning my website so expect changes sooon :)

Summer

Summer again.
Hibernating.
Learning.
Forgetting.
Falling in love.
Studying.
Becoming a fan.
Working.
Discovering.
Cooking.
Traveling.

New Addictions...

Fickr + my new Canon Xti = http://flickr.com/photos/mada299/

Indulgence

Sometimes, really late at night I miss you... It's almost like indulging in eating dark, decadent chocolate. Part of me wishes I never found it in Christina's cupboard... and part of me can't stop. So I close my eyes and allow myself to miss you for all those moments when I wanted to think about you: for the time I passed by your building and didn't look back, or the time I pushed a couch across my empty floor, or the time he asked for my number.

Haha this is too funny :)

Aries - Your Love Profile

Your positive traits: You're quite the charmer. You've got the wit and attitude to attract almost anyone you meet. Out spoken and honest, any date knows how they stand with you. Fearless, independent, and willing to try anything twice - your dates should expect the unexpected. Your negative traits: You tend to be vain, and you expect your partner to feed that vanity often with complements. Hot tempered and impulsive, you've occasionally ended things ... only to regret it later. You're obsessed with being the best, most loved girlfriend or boyfriend your sweetie's ever had. Your ideal partner: A risk taking, free spirit like yourself - who can keep up with your latest wild child antics. Someone stylish, attractive, and fit... who can keep you attracted for months. Is hard to get - and lets you pursue things. You prefer to be the chaser, not the one being chased. Your dating style: Wild, unpredictable, fun, and daring. Your ideal date may involve a couple motorcycles or naked skydiving. Your seduction style: Honest and direct - you have no need for romance or much foreplay. Show off. You like to show your lover how you're the best ever. Ambitious. You often like to go all night - or aim for multiple orgasms. Tips for the future: Start to believe in second and third chances. You don't have to dump them so fast. Savor the process. Sometimes the best part of falling in love is taking things in slow motion. Let go of comparisons. If someone's with you, then you've already one. Stop worrying about exes. Best color to attract mate: Red Best day for a date: Tuesday

What's Your Love Profile?

Use Marketing Tools to Get Gus a Date

This is a super funny video of some Stanford students trying to use marketing to get their team mate a date. The little rap positioning statement at the end cracks me up :)



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Irreversible....

It's almost over. The work, the party, the evening, my classes, my apartment, Stanford, you. I close my eyes and try to freeze this moment somewhere in my mind, like a memory I can go back to, over and over.
An instant suspended in time when I wish nothing but you mattered. A song that makes me understand who I am. A choice that discovers my strength. A dream torn to pieces.

Mi corazón se ha vuelto irreversible,
desde el momento
en que el destino lo marcó.

Aquella noche soñé
lo que luego escuché.
Y desde entonces ya sé
que yo quiero contigo.

La Oreja de Van Gogh :: Irreversible

Using Marketing Tools to Get Gus a Date

More on why Gus should get a date :-p (It involves us dancing :) )

Gus - the Guy that's Fly

This a post about my amazing friend Gus. He's currently looking for a date and I am writing this post to let everyone know how amazing this Guy is.
He's super smart, he can play the piano and above all he is ridiculously good looking!
Here are some pictures of Gus. If you're interested please e-mail Gus at
gustavob at stanford dot edu .

Stanford Design Thinking Process

So you wanna be a design thinker? Watch us come up with a product using design thinking :)

Happiness

..it's about doing what you love.
..it's about loving what you do and the people you do it with.
..it's about suddenly getting excited about the rest of your life.
..it's about amazing friends.

Magic

There's something about myths that has always fascinated me. It's maybe that, somewhere deep inside, I've always wanted to believe. I've learned to kill reason and accept that there are some things that we can still not explain. I opened my eyes to Borges, Eliade, Garcia Marquez and Hesse, and followed their trail of magic realism trying to believe, somewhere, at the back of my brain, that I could transform it into magic reality.

But what is really magic? Is it the way my middle left toe smiles when it sees you, even though you never notice it? Or maybe the morning singing me a lullaby. Or is it the way rain sounds different when you're happy or sad? Or maybe magic is hope, because it's there even when it's not.

It's late and I have no idea why I wrote this. Maybe it was for you, or for me, or for noone.

Perfection

Sometimes, in our endless search for perfection we forget who we are. We look for new dreams to follow and challenges to take upon and we fail to notice what we have until, well until we are about to lose it.

Someone reminded me who I was yesterday. It felt like waking up from a dream where I was fighting monsters. And when I opened my eyes I finally saw they were nothing else than harmless windmills.

Making Footballs that can save lives in Africa!

Lately I have been involved in a project promoting Global Giving, a site that promotes giving to smaller non profit projects. Since soccer has been to some level an important part of our team, we decided to become champions for a project that makes footballs that can save lives in Africa.

Our goal is to raise 1500 dollars, which means 100 balls.

Please help us reach our goal!
We are putting together a page to keep track of everyone helping out. You can either give on the website ( let me know if you do) or give us the money directly and we will give everything together!

Making footballs that can save lives in Africa 80 stitchers are making tough, repairable leather soccer balls & volleyballs in Africa for kids who hardly get to see a proper ball. Each ball carries a simple HIV/AIDS or Malaria awareness message. Theme: Education | Location: Kenya | Need: $500,000

Our Friendly Fox is on Slashdot!!!

Believe it or not... My Friendly Fox got on slashdot today:)
The result? Some controversy and a big spike in our number of visits!
We've then started a blog to tell users a little more about who we are... so go leave a comment!

The Perfect Embrace...

... when two become one.

It all started, as Plato says, long long ago, when men were round and powerful. To weaken them, the gods split them up into two parts.
And ever since, we look for that perfect embrace that makes us whole again....

So Exciting

Someone in Italy wrote a blog entry about us.
It's really cool, naming us "the case of the rival toolbar, but friend of the users" :) and especially acknowledging the script we included that shows all thumbnails images in searches, not just the ones of the sellers that paid for additional services.

Grazie per la tua visita e il articulo sulla nostra toolbar :)

14 Words I Wish I Knew Right Now...

Galen: "Ever technomage knows the fourteen words that will make someone fall in love with you forever, but she only needed one."
Gideon: "What word?"
Galen: "'Hello'."

How Far True Friendship Goes :)

This is too cool.
Gus, you shouldn't have... hahaha!!!

Access eBay in a flash with the eBay Toolbar

"Currently, eBay's own browser toolbar is an Internet Explorer-only product. This Firefox equivalent serves up just about every eBay-related tool you can imagine: search (including options to search eBay Motors and Half.com), favorites, and quick access to various buyer, seller and My eBay pages. The toolbar also offers a boatload of useful links."



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