Your Future Job...

5th Entry - Your Future Job...

My dream was always being a neurosurgeon or forensic medical examiner, but as I am studying Biochemistry, it's not possible (I can't become a surgeon) so my choice would be a clinical neurologist researcher. But it's not a definitive choice, because I'm most likely becoming a teacher in some point of my life. I picture myself teaching, as I said, or trying to find some way to cure neurodegenerative diseases, working in labs with neurons and brains (but I ain't another doctor Frankestein, no way), and attending patients in a hospital.

My future laboratory? I hope not.

I would like to travel a lot, but it's not likely to happen, because it's kind of a static job -but I'm not hopeless- and if I could choose (because working in laboratories doesn't let much to choose), I prefer indoors, but in a quiet and greenish place (with a lot of gardens/plants, like the old Juan José hospital). The salary doesn't bother me, if it's enough to pay my taxes and some personal and familiar expenses.

My kind of a dream lab.

I'm thinking of studying a neuroscience major, and then another of clinical biochemistry too, but I didn't decide if here (in this faculty) or in another country (it could be in Spain, United States, England or Canada), because they cover all the field that I want to investigate. And then, do some little workshops or similar activities...

My plan was to explore If I could cure neurodegenerative diseases by implanting tissues cultivated in laboratories and promoting the union of them with our bodies, by the action of gold nano-particles and lasers, or at least discover the basis of future investigation in the field.

Some explanation of why I thought of using gold nano-particles. These nano-particles can change by triggering them with lasers once they're already into the cell.

Our Amazing Human Body: ... Our Smart Brain et al.

3rd Entry - Our Amazing Human Body: ... Our Smart Brain et al.

The nervous system is my favorite part of the body, because it's the most complex system and it's like the electronic circuit of the technology, and definitely, the part of our body where we can find our soul, if it finally exists.

A cyborg made with rat brain cells

The nervous system coordinates all the body and transmits signals and responses, to almost everything which happens in our bodies. If you’re hungry or sad, if you want to move your legs, if you’re reading this, thinking “inside” your head, etcetera, you’re using your brain and your nervous system. Even the simplest action, like smiling, involves a lot of muscles which have to be coordinated by our brain.

The nervous system is located among all our bodies, and it has very large cells (for example, the ones which start at the head finish at our toes) and others who are smaller. If one of them gets damaged, the damage gets reflected from intense pain to paralysis or dementia. But you can develop another illnesses, by genetic factors or by random, like Alzheimer, Multiple Sclerosis or maybe Parkinson.

To keep our nervous system healthy, we should (obviously) eat healthier, exercise our brain with some work like writing, doing math problems or similar, and avoid (and abandon if possible) unhealthy habits like smoking, alcohol intake or another drugs consumption.

Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films...

4th Entry - Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films...

As far as I can tell, I like almost every kind of music, so it's easier to me to tell which ones I don't: rancheras and reggaeton... But as I said, I listen to latin music, blues, gipsy jazz, from classical to metal, indie rock, hip hop, electronic, etc. I even like vaporwave, which is a music genre born in 2010. Vaporwave uses 60's, 70's and 80's music as base, slows it, and adds some tipical effects of electronic music (it's a really strange music).

I started to play the guitar this summer, but now, I don't have time because I'm always doing stuff for the university. I started playing some songs from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, like Scar Tissue, or Hey There Delilah, by Plain White T's. Anyway, now I use my brother's ukulele sometimes, and play classic songs like La Vie En Rose by Louis Armstrong, Those songs are quiet, and make me feel really relaxed.

The bands that I like most are Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Beatles, Coldplay and Daft Punk. The singers are Luis Armstrong, Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole (a famous ukulele player), Jason Mraz and Eddie Vedder. I couldn't choose one or two between all those bands and singers... because my musical taste changes with my mood.

When I was younger, I really liked Daft Punk music. All started because of my father music taste, because he always listened this band (among others) and when he gifted me my first MP3, he loaded it with his music.

There is an album of Daft Punk called Discovery, which all of its music videos, put together, make a film called Interstella 5555. Also, I really like a movie called Into the Wild, where a young man gets lost in Alaska and tries to survive his fate. The original soundtrack of the movie was made by Eddie Vedder, and it truly transmits protagonist's feelings and mood.

The Best Holidays!

2nd Entry - The Best Holidays Ever

My best memories about holidays come from the summer two years ago. I didn't went to a spectacular or fancy place, I just went to the south of Chile.

I travelled with my brother, mom and dad to an office that my aunt had there. Next to the offices, there were some rooms, bathrooms with showers and a lot of space. I can't remember how much time we spend there, but it was fantastic; since a long time ago we don't spend time as a family and those holidays made me feel like I was a child again.

Futrono, where we came, was next to Lago Ranco, one of all the lakes there. It fullfilled my expectations, because the place was quiet, relaxing, small, away from tourists and very beautiful too.

We went to the lake, travelled to places near there, and tasted a few coffeeshops around the unique and central plaza of Futrono. One of the days, we tried to travel near Argentina, but unexpectedly the road became broken half the way and we had to come back.

Those days, I played my guitar, wrote and painted a lot of things on a little notebook (that I've always with me), and I took a lot of photos. Before those holidays I was very stressed, but Futrono was very relaxing and I truly took a rest.

The sign has written "Bienvenido a la comuna de Futrono"

and it's at the entrance road of the village.

This photography was taken by me from the garden of outside the office.

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Here's a timelapse of the place, Futrono is magical.