The good, the bad, the ugly and the wild
It seems, fingers crossed, that end of the year/early next year the borders will be open. Hopefully we can travel and visit each other soon. Meanwhile I just wanted to drop few lines of the good, the bad, the ugly…
Dropping the ball
The new normal, a coined phrase we used a lot last year during or after lockdowns. By then we assumed life should have to be different after the pandemic. Topics like remote work, better transportation, supporting local businesses and many…
desencanto
Hace tiempo no escribo en Español, anoche no pude encontrar una palabra equivalente a “entitled” en mi idioma nativo – el uso actual pierde sentido con las traducciones literales, se usa para indicar el sentirse con derecho a algo, queriendo…
Hobbiton
Easter weekend I was going to stay home and work a bit, but last minute decided going on an adventure! Visited the Hobbiton Movie Set, near Hamilton (about 2 Hrs drive from home) I’m not a big fan of the…
Wanaka tree syndrome
From a random Friday’s informal conversation: someone was excited about one or two particular design patterns that are popular now but have been around for decades, that makes me think maybe in the tech industry we are also prone to…
Housing
New Zealand or Auckland is an awesome place to live, nothing to say about that, so where is the catch or where is the problem when thinking about moving here? Housing, housing and housing – there is plenty of land:…
Entrepreneurship – local style
Couple days ago I read in the news feed one of the local star entrepreneurs sold his company, a video/news/education? platform. That was a big thing in the news, today, however, it seems that instead of a successful exit this…
Goodbye 2020
Last night I didn’t made a special dinner or BBQ, just went for a walk, thinking about my parents, friends and relatives away, it has been a tough year specially for my parents and the only way we have had…
COVID – second wave
Couple days ago we went to lockdown again, not a surprise, given that couple cases of people flying from New Zealand tested positive COVID-19 on arrival to Korea and Australia. To be honest nobody was really taking much care here…
Pandemic
Today finally things start to look better for my home country, Chile. I stopped checking the news from there for a while, mainly because it was painful to watch how a big group of people don’t even care about social…
