January 28, 2013
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Report # 966
Well it’s basically 1:00 pm here and I just spent over an hour cleaning up the place. It was well overdue so I’m glad that it’s done. I was stupidly awake until almost 5:00 am this morning, so I didn’t get up until around 11:40 am, so tonight I will get back to my normal 2:00 am bed time. On Friday I went to Cinépolis in the Galerias mall and I saw Hansel & Gretel. It was basically an action movie where they slaughtered witches, so it was very interesting !
Afterwards I just read the paper and had lunch at Wok before heading home. I ran on Saturday morning and came home and went to Cinépolis again, this time seeing a Mexican movie, Siete Años de Matrimonio (Seven years of marriage) It was funny and probably very true for a lot of married people seeing as so many people have trouble staying faithful these days. I ordered lunch from Super Salads and walked to picked it up and just relaxed the rest of the day at home.
I ran again yesterday morning and came home and had a shower and got my camera ready to go out and take pictures, though I just ended up going downtown and having lunch at VIPS, receiving my 50 % discount. It was one of those days I just didn’t feel like going out somewhere and taking pictures… I suppose after you take over 16,000 of them some days you just don’t feel like doing it as much as others.
I had tortilla soup, a chicken burger and fries, along with the complimentary tortilla chips and salsa, and a piece of chocolate cheesecake. Obviously I was pretty stuffed after, though I was able to walk for almost an hour after to the metro station through Paseo Santa Lucía and Parque Fundidora, burning off at least a few of those calories. So as I said today I was sleeping way too late, I cleaned the place up, and after typing all this up and commenting everyone I will go for a run and who knows, probably see another movie.
About a month and a half ago a singer, Jenni Rivera, who was pretty popular in Mexico, had a concert here in Monterrey. After the concert she and some other people who were part of her tour got on a plane to head to another city, but the plane crashed outside of Monterrey and everyone aboard died. Obviously it was a complete tragedy, though I seem to be reading about these types of plane crashes time and time again. And these aren’t planes that are being crashed by airline companies, they are privately run smaller planes.
So I can safety say I have no plans on every getting on a smaller type of plane as to me it’s just too risky. I know that the airline companies have had some issues in the past throughout the years, but all in all, the safety records for them seem to be almost impeccable and it’s very rare to hear about a tragedy on a commercial airline. Some people might think I am being a little paranoid, but to me when there are many stories of these tragedies happening, it just seems to be a smarter move to avoid trying the same sort of thing.
Another thing, after Jenni died, within days there were already people with the face of Jenni on t-shirts saying things like “Jenni por siempre” (Jenni forever) I have to admit I think these people were not showing much respect for the loss of her life as literally days after she died people were out on the streets and in stores trying to profit off of this tragedy. I have to say though sometimes the sales pitch people are using here is a bit odd.
Just yesterday I was walking downtown and some guy who was selling things was on a microphone saying that the cold weather is coming back and that he was selling scarfs and gloves. It would be a good sales pitch, but when it’s the end of January and it’s 28 C (80 F) I can’t imagine too many people would be thinking about winter. Today actually says it will be 31 C (88 F) and 32 C (90 F) tomorrow, and then it shows the temperature will drop, but only to around 23 C (73 F), so still certainly not winter weather !
Anyways back to my point, I think there is a time and place for everything, and just like with trying to market winter clothes when it’s super hot, trying to sell t-shirts with the image of someone who just died just doesn’t seem to appropriate… though obviously for much different reasons than the winter clothes. Now the blame here does not just go to the people selling the clothes, but I have to say probably the families of the person who died.
I can imagine when a singer or a known personality passes on, in at least some of the cases there are people in their family who are not only ok with selling those types of merchandise, but practically encouraging it. Why ? Well royalties ! They could gain quite a bit of money selling those types of products after the well known personality has passed on. As everyone knows there always seems to be Elvis merchandise, and more recently things for Michael Jackson.
Obviously people can buy what they want, but I can’t say I really agree with the fact that people are getting paid off basically exploiting someone who has just died or continuing to exploit there memory to fatten their pockets for years and decades to come. Of course though as long as there will be the demand, the supply will be there as well, so maybe some people have to shake their heads and ask what they are really doing. For the next question:
Have you ever flown in a small plane ? Do you think there is greater danger than flying commercially ? What do you think of trying to sell/buy merchandise of a known personality who has passed away ?
I will leave you all with some photos that I took on Thursday from downtown Monterrey. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Thursday, bye for now.
Comments (4)
Neat pictures of Monterrey. Yes I have flown in a small plane several times.
A friend recently saw Hansel and Grettel. He said it was a little short, but still a good movie.
a 50% discount is pretty amazing. You definitely must have been stuffed. An hour long walk afterwards was a good thing. I’m sure it burned some of what you ate.
I’ve never been on a plane. I’m not really frightened by it, though. I just haven’t traveled so far to need one.
I think it’s sad what those people did. Trying to profit on a person’s death is kind of sick in my opinion.
I’ve been flying in little planes since childhood. We have a lot of pilots in the family and my grandpa even had his own 2 runways, planes and hangar. In college, we use to fly to the Bahamas every other month because one of my roommates was engaged to a pilot and liked to go home a lot. I think the little planes are more fragile and less regulated than the big commercial liners, but I feel very comfortable flying with people that I know and trust to do the required maintenance and follow the rules.
here in indonesia you may see people wearing jackets or sweaters when the sky turned gloomy and rainy, only because the temperature drops to 25 C. when one used to the tropic climate, even a slight drop sends chills to those who are not used to it. you coming from canada, i can only assume you find it hard to comprehend. i too, after living in the states for more than 10years, find it rather odd.