Simple Exposures

I realise I only just posted yesterday, and never post this frequently but writing is the only way I seem to get anything off my mind lately. I have also realised how much I admire someone who knows what they are doing with their lives... I'm twenty one and have no clue what I actually want to do. How do you know? How can you choose one thing to dedicate yourself to for the rest of your life? When does it become clear what your 'calling' is? I have been told I don't know how many times that it's never too late for anything, but maybe it is. The thought of actually getting to where you want at the age of thirty terrifies me. As you know, it's finals time and everyone is at the library cramming as much in as possible. I was there the other day thinking how many of you are studying what you really want to study? How many of you are doing because your parents or someone else has made you? How many of you are actually going to give 100% to that future jo...

I took a little trip last week to Barcelona for a few days, made the most of it and celebrated my 21st watching Chris Martin, Johnny, Guy and Will blow just under 55.000 people away at the Coldplay Head Full of Dreams concert.  Took a plane up their with my friend Adriana, mum and dad come too. Adriana and I stayed in a little hostel on a side street from Las Ramblas,  we were expecting the worse but incredibly happy with the place once we got there. It was a few days of lots of walking, very little eating and copious amounts of alcohol (after all, I did turn 21).  As you probably know by now, whenever I sit down and take a look at what's going on around me, it gets me thinking, so this wasn't any different. At first I noticed how expensive the city is compared to Málaga, but definitely worth it.  We decided to go out Wednesday night when we arrived and ended up catching in Pacha club Migos perform...pretty impressive I must say. We noticed how...

There is one Starbucks in Malaga Centre, inside the El Corte Ingles mega store. It has been there since August 2014 and although a lot of the Spanish public didn't think it would do too well, they are opening a new one in Calle Nueva, I believe it will be open later this summer.  Starbucks may be a massive brand worldwide but in a place where coffee is drunk up to five times a day and that it usually costs around €1.20, the future of Starbucks in Málaga was uncertain at the least. I am actually quite surprised by its success.  I am actually writing this post sitting here in Starbucks with my Venti Mocca and white chocolate cookie, listening to the gentle music hoping to get some stuff done for uni but instead I started thinking, Why do people come here to work on their computers if they have a table and probably a coffee machine at home? What are the people in here working on? Most of them are on their computers or phones so I decided to get up and ask....

Measurements refer to grammes of sugar of full fat versions of beverage We generally associate junk food  to most fast foods such as Mcdonalds, Burger King or KFC, but in fact it is technically referring to any food that has a high content of fat, little nutritional value and an extreme amount of calories. The ingestion of junk food is becoming a worldwide problem, causing many health scares and even irreversible diseases. An over ingestion can lead to heart failure, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and even depression, it's no wonder it tastes so good. However the biggest health scare of all is probably obesity - a problem that isn't being given the importance it requires. It probably won't be any time soon that junk food intake is reduced, this is mainly due to the multi million dollar campaigns that the food industry produce. Like I mentioned before, many relate junk food to fast food, thinking that it isn't that bad for you, and well i think we...

All week I had been dreading the arrival of Friday the 22nd, not for me but for the poor man who had to attend hospital, lets call him Peter.   Peter is a 70 something year old man who had recently received a kidney transplant, he is not a little poorly, this may be to due to a medication he is taking or a swelling in the brain that resulted from Swine Flu.  On Friday, Peter was picked up in an ambulance to go to hospital, as he can’t walk and needs assistance with everything. I accompanied Peter to the hospital in my own car, Peter was supposed to be taken to the external extractions building for a blood test, but the ambulance didn't know this. I called the ambulance and said I was waiting at the General Lab as the bed he is in will not fit in the external extractions doorway, a fact the doctor who asked for bloods to be taken there should have considered given his situation.  I moved from place to place waiting for his arrival, which was 45 minutes...

It's that time of year again, Easter or patch as some call it, a week where some celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead, a few days after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary. Easter time, as we all know, isn't a fixed holiday. This is due to the fact it follows the Julian calendar, which depends entirely on the cycle of the sun. It is determined by a lunisolar calendar similar the Hebrew one. This post is mainly focused on the Spanish Easter week, or as they call it ' Semana Santa '. Depending on what area you are in, it is celebrated one way or another, but the main attraction is the massive holy parades taken place. I will speak from now on solemnly of the city of Málaga, where I have seen them first hand.  The parades start on 'Domingo de Ramos' or Palm Sunday in English and end on the following Sunday, resurrection Sunday. There are around 6 to 8 parades taken place daily walking many streets of the city. Each parade cons...

Freedom   Equality Justice Fairness Firstly, I would like to point out the difference between racism and xenophobia as many people treat these as synonyms when in fact they are very different.  Xenophobia refers to those who have a fear or dislike for something or someone that is different to them or unknown. Racism refers to the disrespect one person has towards another of a different race.  What is a race? The word technically only has a social meaning, although many relate to it a biological one.  In a social sense, a race is a group of people who are bound together by their morphology or ancestry with common inherited features that distinguish them from other groups. There are four major race divisions: Caucasians - white Mongolian - Asian Negroid - black Australoid -  Australian aborigines  It amazes me how many people are racist in their own way, it may not be verbally but it is expressed in other ways, I enco...