Around The World In A Wheelchair

Alberto Casals is a local Spanish boy of 18. He is very intelligent, more than that, sage in it's true sense. His happy and gleaming eyes tell of someone who has achieved all that was predicted by epicures and the stoics together, also the cynics and the sceptics, the beggars, vagabonds and wanderers. He needs nothing.

He left his home in Esparreguera when he was 15, travelling for the past 4 years without a companion, and without as much as a Euro in his pocket. He had been to most parts of Europe, Asia and South America. Nothing ever perturbs him and everyone smiles at him because he always smiles at everybody. A captivating boy with a great and pure soul, he harbour nothing negative, only sense of peace, joy, fun and happiness. Just being by his side, talking to him, listening to him, or reading his book 'The world on wheels' makes you a better and happier person.

He had been in a wheelchair since he was eight years old, suffering from mononucleosis and leukaemia. The treatment saved his life but put him in the wheelchair for life. He says had he wanted to be a footballer ... he would have made it, as "There's nothing I can't to in a wheelchair." he said smiling.

In fact he was only 14 when he told his family he wanted to take off travelling. It was very hard for the parents to stand in his way of happiness so they put to him an condition, that he let his father accompany him for the 1st trip. They went to Belgium and this trip permitted him to learn quite a lot of things to do with travel. So the very next trip he took off totally on his own. 3 years ago he left home for South America with €20 and he came back with that intact in his pocket!

He also thinks his wheelchair is more of an advantage than a burden, as people immediately become friends, wanting to help him, listen to him and he has made many friends in all the countries he has been. HIs next trip is going to East Africa.

"How wonderful and simple is the world!" he says.

Tags:travel,wheelchair

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, by Ukelele Orchastra Of Britian

We are all familiar with this unforgettable and most haunting tune, but few of us knew how it's made. Here you are. The way the musicians put it together.

'Put Your Hand Here' - A Sex Journal

'I am 31 years old, single, not that I wish to be (or yes, so what) and I love to talk. That's why I am here. Protagonist of this odyssey of the constellation, psycho-sexual and feminine.' So has Romina presented herself, the protagonist of the book 'Put your hand here' What enthuses her most is sex and she guides the reader towards her sexuality, which is also a little of all the women, via Messenger with her girlfriends. The author & creator of Romina is Catalan authoress Sandra Uve. The story of the book, illustrated by herself, began when the Editorial Aguilar proposed that she did something totally new. Complicated matter, as Uve is also illustrator, script writer, columnist, director of television and X-films. "It was the right moment as I was looking for a space for the combination of text and graphic, between the prosaic (porno film) and the naif (of my graphic novel The Juncos - junks). The result has been splendid and gratifying as I found the exact right tone between tender and sexy, and because it has been a great pleasure mixing in the graphic with the text." At first glance one could say that Sandra is Ro (Romina), and that the book was an exercise of cut and paste from her own cyber messages. But it's not that according to Sandra. "In recent years I've told so many stories, there's material for 200 books. Besides, I have a bubbling imagination. Ro has nothing to do with me but yes with many women. I needed a character who moves in absolute liberty in all matters under whatever environment. I just added in her tenderness and sense of humour." Women would identify themselves with the characters of the book, the way their minds work (in matters of sex), how they discuss sex amongst themselves, and what appeals to them in the act of sex, and what doesn't; most of all, the what, when, how and why they get roused to the point of instant climax guaranteed, if the partner knows - here we go again -, when, how and where, to click the right button. Bet you guys are interested now! Some of her illustrations Tags:sexjournal

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Getting In Line

Great Britain has traditionally been a country not as bureaucratic as most other countries. There isn't an national document of any kind, no identity card, not even necessary for anyone to carry a driving license. If you break a traffic law while at the wheel - even a grave infraction, you only need to present yourself at the police station a few days later, almost at your convenience. In the era of Internet, formalities are made even simpler. Most procedures (permit for parking, municipal taxes, renewing passport, etc.) can all be done electronically, without the necessity of queuing in front of any office window. But the British are a nation of querers; they would automatically queue as soon as there is a second person at the same place, at the bus stop, any ticket window, banks, shops, with such stoicism and quiet patience that is remote in most Latinos. However, 12 years of Labour Government has bureaucratised the country somewhat, evident in Post Offices, renovation of driving permits, buying foreign currency, collecting unemployment pay or any state subsidies, car insurance, etc. To save money, the Labour Government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been eliminating small sub-post offices, diplomatic post-bags, couriers; leaving just one branch in each district. The result is that queues are often seen extended into the street, and people have to wait half an hour to carry out the simplest procedure. With the threat of terrorism, the authorities have also increased controls, although most of these are done with electronics (vigilance cameras, scanning of email ...) that doesn't implicate paper. It increases bureaucracy just the same. Especially for foreigners not of the European Economic Community. The Government, despite considerable public resistance, is set on making it progressively obligatory, to impose on a DNA with the iris of the eye, and the latest technology of personal identification. Seems like Big Brother is spreading his talons. Tags:bubreacracy,bigbrothers

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Rules Or Irony Of Life

** I can only please one person each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.

** Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

** Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.

** You can go anywhere you want if you look serious, wear a white coat and carry a clipboard.

** I love deadlines.

** I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

**Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?

** Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they aren't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing them again.

** I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.

** My reality check bounced.

** On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

** I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier.

** Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

** Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

** A pat on the back is only a few centimetres from a kick in the butt.

** After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.

** Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

** People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.

I** f it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

** When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

** When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

 

Tags:Rule,Irony,Life

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