What National baseball meant and means to me.
     When I was a little kid, I do not remember having any kind of attraction about baseball. This changed when I was about eleven. I started to observe my father watching national baseball games on TV. I remember about how much he enjoyed the games. The entire neighborhood -almost at the same time- cheered when Los Tigres del Licey did a hit (most of the people in Santo Domingo city were Liceistas at that time). At first, their behavior because of a simple game seemed funny to me. I did not understand why those people felt so excited about simple games. I really started to like watching the games, specially those matches between Las Aguilas y Los Tigres. My passion lasted some years but on the heels of some other teams were emerging, my enthusiasm decreased. I guess baseball team´s owners were most interested about lucrative aspects than the feelings of the audience. Recently, I watched the baseball world series and I could not hide my emotion when the dominican team won the 9 games consecutive. I am not the best national baseball fan, but I feel very happy to see how dominican baseball players are revered worldwide because of defeating their rivals. Dominican baseball players are among the best!!!!!!!!

Mastering the Law of Gravity

The Master is Yuen Woo-Ping the eldest of twelve children born in China. Choreographer and director who mastered lot of martial marts and choreography in his movies and some famous movies as Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Snake in the Eagle´s Shadow starring Jackie Chan and Kill Bill sequels. He mastered wire work where actors seem like flying in movies, swordsmanship and other climbing and surreal fighting scenes. He worked with Ang Lee.

Ang Lee is the director of the Life of Pi film in 2012 a movie that won the academic awards for the best special effects. It says Yuen and Ang Lee´s combination make a mastership of masters in films area the creators of a lot of films that win prizes and awards around the world.

More Info about the master of special effects movie click there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)

The Name Game

The company of my dreams is a beauty center. I´ll like to call it Renna´s AIO Beauty Center. The name´s meaning is Renewing Anyone and it´s a nice name (Renna) All in One (AIO) Beauty Center.

I´ll be the owner.

It shall have a complete beauty Salon with Spa including Manicure, Pedicure, Gym, Massage Center, Maybe a Mini-Bar, Exercises for unstressing, a Mini-Market with products to maintain women beauty always at top. It´ll include healthy food and also creams and all products we use in the Beauty Center if our costumers want to open their new company to help us to be more beautiful. Maybe it can be a Beauty Mall, women heaven where we can find ourselves and happiness overflow us

Urban Legend

I think that Urban Legends are secondhand story told as true and just plausible enough to be believed, about some horrific, embarrassing, ironic, or exasperating series of events that supposedly happened to a real person.

The Galipote ~ The Lugaru ~ The Drone

The magical tradition that realize the power of men who can turn into animals, is embodied in our legends in the figure of Galipote. However, Galipote also called the man who becomes inanimate objects such as tree trunks and stones, the one who transfers his consciousness to an animal, and that magical powers have become an animal for various purposes. 

According to the belief the galipotes are cruel and violent, tremendous strength and incredible immunity to weapon. Other legends say that these creatures just like people do bad things, such as prevent passage nightwalkers, or scare them in dark areas. There are few places in the country as places galipotes taken, and when the traveler must cross them uses spells and amulets to ward off these creatures. The galipote which becomes Lugaru called dog. This word comes from the French loup-garou, which means the legendary werewolf or werewolf of universal lycanthropic legend. Our Lugaru is a legacy of European magical tradition with African elements, and as there are no wolves in the Caribbean, is the dog that embodies it. Moreover, the walking stride galipote high rise or become night bird flies, drone or zancu called. It is said that this creature sucks the blood of children in the evenings and is linked to alleged sexual activities with children. They say they also can become invisible. People who know of these beings, argue that they are immune to the branch of a tree popularly called "cross stick", which has to be cut on Holy Friday. Others say it is necessary to use a knife that has been blessed with water and salt. 

Bibligraphy

http://www.quisqueyavirtual.edu.do/wiki/Galipote

J-Ball

Ichiro Suzuki, actual Japanese MLB Player

Baseball is not my favorite sport because I don’t like any sport, but I can say that j-ball had a long journey in the history and it´s part of a miracle that the sport is still alive after being born in north America and continued traveling a lot of countries until being one of the most watched sports over the world and also in Japan!

I´m really impressed because people still play j-ball after the devastation caused by World War 2 and i´m proud because Japan and all its culture including j-ball still appears in history and can be announced around the world.

Actual Japanese MLB Players are:

·                     Ichiro Suzuki

·                     Yu Darvish

·                     Norichika Aoki

·                     Hisashi Iwakuma

·                     Munenori Kawasaki

·                     Hiroki Kuroda

·                     Daisuke Matsuzaka

·                     Hisanori Takahashi

·                     Yoshinori Tateyama

·                     Junichi Tazawa

·                     Koji Uehara

·                     Tsuyoshi Wada

·                     Kurt Suzuki

·                     Hideki Okajima

·                     Hiroyuki Nakajima

                                   PASSION FOR BASEBALL

    In our country, Baseball is a serious thing! Dominicans are very passionate for this sport, which is one of the most famous worldwide. Dominican baseball players are very good hence all Dominicans are crazy about baseball. What makes a sport interesting and exciting is when players give everything to win, and also, when they let fans feel part of the game. In our Country, the Tournament of baseball has taken root since every year the energy and adrenaline can be felt during that time. The stadiums get crowded and the ratings on TV are a scandal! I love this sport!

Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore  consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true. As with all folklore and mythology, the designation suggests nothing about the story's veracity, but merely that it is in circulation, exhibits variation over time, and carries some significance that motivates the community in preserving and propagating it.

Despite its name, an urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban. Rather, the term is used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in pre-industrial times. For this reason sociologist and folklorists prefer the term contemporary legend.

Here it is I think the most popular urban legend  in the Dominican republic:

EL CUCO 

El cuco is a mythical monster whose origins can be traced to Spain. The legend of El Cuco is used through out Spain and Latin America as a fright tool to make children go to sleep. It is very similar to the Boogy Man in USA. There is no real description of this mythical being. It is as if he has no form or shape. It is just a being that is more felt than seen. Parents and grandparents alike tell the children if they do not go to sleep and fast that El Cuco will come and take them.

So be careful if you can't sleep and you see a shadow passing near your bed. It could be El Cuco....

*A few artists have used the name. Cuco Valoy, a Dominican salsa and merengue singer makes many references to El Cuco. Tonio Rosario has an album named "La Magia de El Cuco". There is a trip music festival in Puerto Rico that uses the name of this nocturnal faceless creature.