pump it up

I found this video while innocently looking for vids to show a friend the game pump it up, the Korean equivalent of DDR.

This "workout" video has roughly the same cast as the people from the original call on me music video by Eric Prydz. I'm using the term workout very loosely here, because I'm sure most of the people buying this video will not be following along for the aerobic workout... at least not in the intended way...
But if aerobics classes were attended by people like those in the vid, I'd actually be tempted to go.

Every day.

All the time.

[Eric Prydz - Call on me]
[amused]

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perdido en translation

Work
Originally uploaded by -djb-

Coming to Spain I expected to speak Castellano (Spanish) most of the time. Since I've been hanging out with Tylor and met a lot of fellow Americans, I've ended up speaking far more English than I thought I would. On top of that, and to my surprise, most of my co-workers speak pretty decent English (for not having lived in an English speaking country) and some, like my tutor, speak it rather well. Granted, I'm working on the business side of things and English is the de-facto standard and Telefónica is a rather big multi-national enterprise so it shouldn't come as a total surprise, but the quality and quantity surprised me nonetheless.

Anyhow, since I've been reading up on papers and reports to get familiar with what's going on in the bigger picture, I've been doing all of my reading in English. I don't mind it at all and it makes sense because the papers are written in English. I like listening to music while I work, so thankfully I brought along most of my tunes in my external drive and load what I like best to my laptop at work.

This multilingual environment has become a bit more complex than I first imagined: I was reading English, listening to people's conversations in Spanish around me, listening to my music which switches randomly between English and Spanish (featuring a small selection of French, German, Italian, and Japanese), while trying to write down notes and emails in English and Spanish...

Just dealing with one language is tough enough and at times like these I understand and appreciate why multi-core is an awesome concept for computing... but then you have to worry about making sure everything else keeps up with the cpus - the bus, ram, hdd... haha, I can be such a geek.

Anyway, since Mozart's my homie, today I decided to eliminate a layer of complexity and listen to music without words. After all, my job is to optimize methods, reduce waste, and increase efficiency, haha.

I'll have to load Beethoven, Rach & Tchaikowsky for tomorrow, but at least I have Prokofiev, Chopin, and Daft Punk to accompany Mozart for today.

For now, some T-Pain will do, though.

[Currently playing: T-Pain - Bartender ft. A-kon]

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Classic

The song may have been out for a while, but it's new to me... it's also one of the best songs I've heard in a while. The original one's ok, but this mix is great... it could be because I'm a sucker for good strings, but it's still good.

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I want those flashing lights

As it is, the video's not really impressive. But as far as I can tell it's supposed to be a multi-part video (Remember R-Kelly's "Trapped in the closet" Parts 1 through 500,000?), but we'll see. These people are assuming a multi-part video as well, but they don't list sources or anything else to back it up :-?

Man, I've been up for a long time already, but there's still plenty to do today. I guess I'll nap at some point.

Official video (can't embed it, though).

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