On the blog's name

Mom saw that I've changed my blog's name and came to my room with the horror face and said " I just saw your blog's name and I think something's wrong... is it something going err not ok with you?" So we had this long talk and basically she misunderstood the sense of my blog's name and tought that idk I was thinking life was a disaster or something. So I thought I might write an explanation for the name, so other person won't panic as mom did. 

Well the idea of the name came from The Verve's song "Bittersweet Symphony" it's a line of that song. I give music a really important role in my life and like to listen to songs and truly get a meaning to the lyric or try to make sense of what the author might wanted to say when he/she wrote that lyric.

When I think about a bittersweet symphony I'm almost able to hear a majestic piece, one that for momments makes me feel joyous and for others makes me feel sad, almost like crying and it doesn't makes much sense but at the end I realize every single note and chord was there for a reason. Beacuse if every of the parts would be played separatly, true they'd still be beautiful but they wouldn't be great or inspiring. All of them make something like no other, they make a symphony worth the world's admiration.


I decided it to name the blog like that because for me that phrase encloses one of the best descriptions of life.  Because life is not perfect and has lots of bitter momments but also it is filled of happiness -sweet momments- and it's the combination of those two that makes it so amazing, that makes it, at least for me, a symphony.

Ahh Geek Fun

I'm such a fan of The Big Bang Theory -if you don't know what that is well don't even bother in reading this post cuz honesltly is just not your kind of stuff- I've loved that show since the very begining but the thing is I find it amusing not only cuz it's fun to watch for half an hour geeks doing umm geeks stuff I don't understand. I like it so much cuz I see a bunch of funny geeks doing dumb stuff with things I DO understand -most of them. One clear example is Seasons' 2 13th episode: The Friendship Algorithm. I was in love with Sheldon Cooper by that time but when I saw that episode I just went head over heels. I don't want to write a synopsis, instead will leave the famous FRIENDSHIP ALGORITHM. I think I might apply it to boys -yeah not}. The thing is you won't understand it unless you're geek, fact! NO EXCEPTIONS :) -that last thing if you didn't get the joke you just.. whatever. ENJOY IT :D

Valuable love-life lessons from Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

I’ve always loved Jane Austen novels; maybe it’s because she presents to the reader love scenarios that could possibly happen in “the real world”. However, the romance of Jane Austen’s books is actually too good to be true. Still, they could happen to anyone with just a little luck. There are no fairy godmothers to help the heroine through complex drama or problems that come up. The Characters are just plain, simple, and everyday people with complex personalities and lives.

Jane makes you believe in love and positive life experiences. While meditating on her work yesterday, I realized she wrote lessons inside her novels that I had not noticed before. I am sure I’m not the first in realizing this, but, I wanted to share my findings in hope that they may help someone going through a hard time.

I have decided to take life changing lessons from Jane Austen’s books one at a time.

The First Lesson:

The guy who resembles superman is not always the best pick. Even though evidence and fans of the character may point out he is.

Mr. John Willoughby Sense and Sensibility
Apparently, was the best choice from all the county of Devonshire. He was tall, strong, handsome, rich, intelligent, gallant, and romantic. Mr. Willoughby was the equivalent of a Shakespeare sonnet reciter Polo Ralph Lauren model.

Unless you live in a remote place filled with uneducated people, such as Devonshire used to be, you simply wouldn’t see a person like that everyday. Now Miss Marianne’s perspective. John was a stud, and she was pretty, but she had something that put her to be a disadvantage from other random London –even Devonshire- girls. She wasn’t rich, she didn’t have a dowry to offer, which put her in a hard situation.

To place this situation to our days we could state Marianne wasn’t quite popular, didn’t have an iPhone, or any other cool gadget, and that Banana Republic and Jimmy Choo weren’t precisely her brand of clothing. If a Polo Ralph Lauren model happened to cross your path, and you weren’t a popular girl like Marianne, and the guy behaved all charming and cute, you would totally fall for him wouldn’t you? Gee, I SURE WOULD!! And that was precisely what Miss Marianne did. She went head over heals for that intoxicating gentleman, and all Devonshire believed there was going to be a big wedding there. Miss Marianne’s family loved him and everything pointed out a “happily ever after”. Sadly that was not what happened.

For all of us who have read the book we know this story. For those who haven’t read it, well my advice is for you to read it because my following narration is pretty short.
What actually happened was that Mr. Willoughby was a jerk, he was in Devonshire hiding because he had left a girl –his apparently girlfriend- pregnant; and naturally he didn’t want to get married there. He did fell in love with Miss Marianne and was truly going to propose to her. But, sadly, his aunt –the money lady- discovered his attentions before he could ask the famous question to Miss Marianne.

Finding himself without a penny, Willoughby decided to neglect his love and go to London seeking for a rich girl to marry. He exchanged love for money and in the process, broke Marianne’s heart in pieces.

The lesson here is that the model tends to be the wrong choice when it comes to love. We fall for those guys for two reasons:

1. Because we are such day dreamers, we see a whole fairytale as soon as those guys flash a smile upon us. And to be honest, I’ve learned that fairytales don’t precisely require such guys. When you hear people say “It’s what is inside that counts”, they are right. What makes a happy ending in the end are feelings instead of looks. With this I am not saying you should date “the hunchback of Notre Dame” because let’s be realistic, it’s hard to see LOVE when you don’t even like the person in front of you.

What I try to state is that there may be a guy you feel attracted to. But that you’re crossing out by the simple fact he’s not as handsome as a magazine model. If you give him a chance, you may find that sweetness is way better than flashy smiles, bright eyes, or a good body build. If you give him a chance, I guarantee that you will fall in love with him. Not for his looks, but for his goodness. Which is much more important.

2. We’re really prideful girls. For real, girls are prideful. Tell me if you haven’t ever thought something along these lines. “All of the people –especially people who has been evil with me- would be so SO jealous if I dated a guy like him”

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I Have! We get lost if our pride and we seek for someone to show to the world rather than to be with us. As I said before what counts are the good intentions and feelings. Who cares if your friends say he’s not cute? If you like him and you feel like your heart skips a beat when you’re with him, then let the world disappear.

To be honest some the people you know want to be jealous because of how awesome and wonderful your love life is. Well, they will be jealous for a short time and then move on from you and will keep going with their lives –unless they’re some sort of pathetic obsessed in other people’s love life. In which case, you don’t give them the material they want. This is actually your life, your heart and your happiness what you’re betting just to be blindly prideful!

I could keep mentioning reasons, and scenarios about love, but I think I’ve made my point clear. Those flashy super model guys tend to be lost in their own beauty and pride that think that the world evolves around them. They have time to place something more important in front of them like feeding the hungry, caring about the environment, or even showing a little kindness to those around them. However, they don’t cause they just don’t care like they should. Their own self love is just as the Willoughby example starting with either money or social position.

Beauty and wealth mixed with and empty brain and soul tend to be really disastrous combinations so BE CAREFUL!!! I’m not saying all super hot guys are like that –lucky you if you find a model with feelings LET ME KNOW where those go. Ha-ha- but there are a few number out there. It is nothing new I’m presenting you here, it happened in Austen’s time –otherwise she wouldn’t have written about it- and still happens in our time. I’m pretty sure that in 50 years I will see my granddaughters struggling with such problems.

We don’t have the long dresses and don’t answer as Mr. or Mrs. to the guys but the attitudes and behaviors are exactly the same just in another context.

Thank You Miss Austen for showing us examples of good love, that sometimes frogs custom themselves as princes to fool us and that real princes do exist, they’re just hard to spot because they like to appear like normal people when they are remarkable men. Oh and they never have an advertising sing up in their heads with the words “Charming Prince”.