urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ekevoo Omar "Ekevoo" Balbuena Omar "Ekevoo" Balbuena Omar "Ekevoo" Balbuena 2009-06-20T03:15:57Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ekevoo:227185 World Politics 2009-06-20T03:15:57Z 2009-06-20T03:15:57Z I'm waiting for the bus back home, and there's this guy; he's slightly younger than me. We start talking. As soon as I mention I'm Brazilian he brings up this little new block that's all over the news: BRIC; Brazil, Russia, India, China.<br /><br />Now, I'm just the average Brazilian who's mostly indifferent and completely skeptical about the thing. He is from (British) Guyana (the first person from there I ever heard about); he's not as skeptical as me about BRIC, and clearly anything but indifferent.<br /><br />In most of the timespan of 20 minutes that we interacted, he went on about all the growth China and India are going through, all the influence Brazil has on the rest of LatAm, all the resources that Russia claims and already outright owns. He mentioned a few country ranks, a few other treaties such as NATO, some companies of these countries that are part of the scenario, including Petrobras and Embraer.<br /><br />He just loves the whole geopolitical thing. I have never seen anyone show so much passion about world powers. After a while, I can picture him becoming an actual man of power among all these ominous acronyms and contribute to such disputes; entirely impervious to any suggestion about peace and mutual help and stuff.<br /><br />I guess this means whoever wants the opposite of war should jump in and fight too? Maybe, but there's also the problem that the idea of fighting for peace has always been an excuse rather than a goal. What now? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ekevoo:227053 Re-launch 2009-06-20T02:31:00Z 2009-06-20T02:31:45Z Hi all,<br /><br />Due to recent trouble, I decided to turn all past public entries friends only. It's very likely that I may do that again in the relatively distant future; however, I don't intend to ever turn them private or delete them. Memories are memories.<br /><br />As a few of you noticed I became quite an active Twitter user - also with a friends-only account. <a href="http://twitter.com/Ekevoo">Feel free to follow me there</a>. Twitter's restriciton of 140 characters, as odd as it sounds, gave me freedom to not have to overthink what I publish. I just do whatever I can do on the 140 I'm entitled to, and that's ok. Life goes on.<br /><br />The one best think I like about Twitter is the ability to share links. They say the Internet turned the world into a small town, but only after that Twitter thing I found that to be true. So there's a lot of links that I receive and pass forth; often giving quick &le;140 opinions about them. It turns out that sometimes 140 feels too tight to express what I want to express and multiple &quot;pages&quot; is cheating. So I guess proper blogging comes back to a necessity.<br /><br />I will not be back to posting to LJ as actively as I did. I will now use it as a tool to elaborate on things that don't fit a tweet. This will mean that for you that choose to keep following me on LJ only, you'll get the cr&eacute;me of my thoughts. :) They will also tend to be a lot more impersonal too; you know, Google is watching.<br /><br />Reading my own friends list? I try, friends, I try. But I have systematically failed. I haven't given up yet though!