Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Nov 19, 2011, 12:56 am
Hello my peeps, it’s been a while. I’ve been meaning to check-in and write more but lately I’ve been a little social butterfly. Even when I’m home, I don’t get around to writing because I’m too busy relaxing on my hammock and enjoying being alive. If I get too pensive, my mind tends to s...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 6:36 pm
I will admit it, I have gone off the deep end. Though I mean this figuratively, I can’t help but imagine myself standing at the edge of a diving board at an Olympic sized pool. Before I could even finish mentally preparing to dive in head first, I was already swimming half-way down to touch
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Oct 8, 2011, 9:58 pm
I once heard that the harder we try to conceal something from people, the more obvious it becomes. I generally agree with that statement and to see it in myself and in other people is actually quite comical. We become extremely self-conscious of that “thing” and it slowly turns into an obsession...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Oct 7, 2011, 7:24 pm
From a very young age, I can remember my mom teaching me that I must always place toilet paper on the toilet seat before taking care of business. It is a golden rule that I take seriously even at my own house. I don’t care if it is a brand-new and straight out of the
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Oct 6, 2011, 11:32 am
If you show up on time you will have more to lose than if you show up late like everyone else. The early bird does not get the worm, it gets the shaft. The stereotype about Mexicans (in Mexico) showing up late is true and I don’t mean that in a negative way. It is
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 30, 2011, 5:36 pm
I like how people get in fights in front of my house like it’s nothing
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 29, 2011, 3:03 pm
If you don’t think body language is important, consider yourself a fool. What comes out of your mouth may be dismissed and your intentions will not matter, but your demonic gaze and dragon nostrils will be felt. Last night during a city league basketball game, a dude from the opposing team wa...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 21, 2011, 11:43 am
I thought dinosaurs were extinct. Apparently they’re alive and they’re thirsty for human blood. One snuck into my house and its chupacabra eyes glared at me before its obese frame plummeted onto my desk. I never thought I would see this but I actually saw a mosquito walk. It was so engorged with...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 20, 2011, 1:01 pm
If you’re a girl and you have manly hands, there is no need to panic. You probably have the manly feet to go along with those hands and that’s OK. You can keep your feet unexposed with cute girly shoes even during a hellish summer, but you will look pretty ridiculous walking around with sweaty
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 19, 2011, 12:35 pm
It’s been a while since I’ve been at home in the morning more than two days in a row. This Mexico Independence 3-day holiday weekend was very refreshing and very much needed. Even though I did sleep in, I was still up relatively early. The sun was barely rising, the birds were chirping, butterfl...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 18, 2011, 5:22 pm
As Latino males (but more specifically, Mexican males), it’s a little awkward and too cheesy to express our love, affection, and even appreciation to family and friends while sober. Yes it’s an overgeneralization, but an overgeneralization that makes cultural sense (for example: machismo) and on...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 17, 2011, 2:25 pm
One of the first TV shows I ever watched in the US was In Living Color. Classic sketch comedy with comedians before they hit their prime (Jim Carrey, Tommy Davidson, Damon Wayans, Jamie Foxx, even Jennifer Lopez with the Fly Girls). In Living Color wasn’t necessarily a kids show, but even a kid co...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 13, 2011, 11:58 am
Monday through Saturday in order to get to work, I get on a public bus that drops me off at the company bus pick-up location that is 10 minutes down the road. In that short 10 minute ride, I get to see all kinds of people hop on; students, mothers, businessmen, etc. I pay the
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 12, 2011, 11:40 am
I have no problem lending both of my big ears so that you can complain about how your diet is not working and how your ass is genetically predisposed to attaching itself to comfy couches the moment you set foot in your house. After a while though, there’s only so much moping my ears can
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 9, 2011, 3:37 pm
There is no denying that I’m an extrovert. Like most extroverts, I was always too busy being in the spotlight to pay attention to the small details in the environment and the people around me. However, over time I have developed an uncanny ability to isolate my attention to one particular thing in...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 9, 2011, 12:58 am
You know you’ve lived alone too long that when you see your reflection in the mirror you salute yourself and sort of expect a response. I highly recommend it though, not the saluting yourself part, but living alone. Taking the time to live alone can be difficult at first, but it is one of the...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 7, 2011, 11:11 pm
I’ve seen many types and kinds of mosquitoes, but I’ve never had one try to flirt with me as it did today. It was carefully gliding in the air as if it were scoping out the landscape in my work area. I didn’t make anything of it because I thought it was a fruit fly.
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 7, 2011, 2:28 am
When I was a young lad back in the camping days in good ol’ Washington, I never had a problem with mosquitoes. Maybe my blood was too spicy for them. Whatever the case, mosquitoes were never that annoying to me because I only went camping like once every twenty-some moons. In Manzanillo, however...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 6, 2011, 11:32 am
Before I was born, my mother took extra vitamins of R-E-S-P-E-C-T. As a newborn, you could see the abundance of respect overflowing from my eyes. I was never that greedy baby trying to hoard any breasts in sight. If you were a girl I liked in elementary school, I never pulled your hair. Instead, I
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 5, 2011, 12:09 pm
For all my bilingual people out there, what is it about the brain that prefers one language over the other? Or is it just me? Spanish is my native language and I didn’t learn conversational English until I was 9. I still remember learning English by sounding the words out in Spanish. The vocabular...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Sep 2, 2011, 10:33 am
Everyone has a tick or a jitter when they’re stressed out. I used to think I was in control of mine, but it has become very obvious in the office. “Stop eating your face” they tell me. Say what? I have the bad habit of biting the inside of my cheek. In a weird way, I’m
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Aug 29, 2011, 11:33 pm
I remember the first time I was able to flex my boobs. Well, it’s technically the “pectoral muscles” but boobs sound better. I was taking a weight training class and my scrawny high school frame had grown enough boob muscle to flex on command. It was one of many events where I believed I had
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Aug 26, 2011, 12:03 am
Hmmm, what the hell is happening to younger generations?! “The best thing about school is when it’s over” was the facebook status update I saw written by a cousin of mine who is only in the 4th grade. 4th GRADE!! I believe you’re still coloring pictures in the 4th grade. What can you hate ab...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Aug 23, 2011, 8:58 pm
Apparently, Koreans can hold their liquor. Rumor has it, even more so than Mexicans. I was shocked to hear that from a fellow Mexican coworker who previously worked and studied in Korea. According to her, it is customary in Korea to go out drinking after a long day of work…all week. Makes sense. B...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Aug 22, 2011, 12:19 am
There comes a point where no matter how logical, rational and convincing you are, you just gotta give in to the demands of family. They gave me lemons and now I see I was squeezing lemon juice into their eyes all along (metaphorically speaking of course). “You don’t come over enough”, “You d...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jul 23, 2011, 7:34 pm
Every morning when I show up to work, the office is filled with Korean employees. Several of them are “on the job trainees” (known in the office as OJTs). Two OJTs happen to sit right across from me and because we don’t have cubicles, everything and everybody is out in the open. There is ...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jul 10, 2011, 11:26 pm
There’s always a hot new video in each country that everybody talks about with their family and friends. With the spread of technology and easier access to the internet, Mexicans can now not only talk smack behind your back, osea chismear, but we can now humiliate you in video with your brilliant ...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jul 7, 2011, 9:22 pm
So the last 3+ months I’ve been working as a translator for Samsung Engineering. The job is not as exciting as it sounds and I quickly learned that I picked the wrong career (for now). I don’t make anything near what the lowest paid engineer gets paid. How do I know this? In Mexico there
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jul 7, 2011, 8:21 pm
I guess it does work. We really do have more power than we think to make things happen. I miss writing goofy wonderings on my blog and that may explain my recent serious state of mind. So instead of diving into my fridge like I always do when I get home from work, I decided
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - May 10, 2011, 8:58 pm
Today at work, all the women were allowed to go home early for Mother’s Day. That made one women in particular go bananas! She pranced, skipped, leaped and frolicked throughout the halls. I had never seen her smile until today since she is THE señorita cara de fuchi of the office. To her, today i...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - May 10, 2011, 4:11 pm
May 10th, el día de las madres. A special day for all of Mexico. Today we celebrate the important women that impacted our lives for the better. If you had a mami like mine growing up, she rubbed your tummy when you got sick and if you ever fell and hurt yourself she would say
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - May 9, 2011, 8:44 pm
I find it kind of ironic that after writing about “Why I Write”, I go on a one-and-a-half month dry spell before I write my next blog post. I’ve always been a believer of practicing what I preach and I intend to do just that. In the last couple of months I’ve transitioned into a
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 24, 2011, 12:40 pm
If you’ve never taken the time to sit down and write, I highly recommend it. Even if you don’t publish it and leave it hidden in a notebook for nobody but yourself to see, do it. The rewards are endless. If writing for you means drawing pictures to portray your thoughts (like a comic book)
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 14, 2011, 7:16 pm
It’s official. I have met too many people named Jose and Maria. I bumped into an acquaintance I met long ago and just to mess around I said, “What’s up Jose.” His response, “I didn’t think you would remember my name, how are you?” You gotta be kidding me, I didn’t know that was his
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 13, 2011, 6:46 am
So being the random, but polite, social butterfly that I am, I went up to this girl at a barrio rendezvous and said, “excuse me, you have a little cupcake frosting under your lip.” She looked at me surprised and says, “cupcake?” She then took a quick swipe with her tongue, moves it around he...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 12, 2011, 5:52 pm
I made a bet with a friend back in high school. A one thousand dollar bet. We had agreed that whoever was the fattest in ten years (or most overweight compared to our high school body proportions) would have to pay up. We would appoint neutral judges to confirm the winner. I still remember the ...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 11, 2011, 4:32 am
I have a compassionate heart. I care for people and their well-being. Over the course of my years in Mexico, I have loaned some family members money knowing I would not get it back. Sometimes employers don’t pay their workers on time and so that leaves their families without money for food, diaper...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 10, 2011, 4:41 pm
I was talking with an uncle and he was asking when was the last time I had deparasited (I don’t even know if that’s a word). He wanted to know if I had taken any medication to get rid of the parasites we develop over time. Never heard of it until I came to Mexico.
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 9, 2011, 3:53 am
Unfortunately for me, we live in a chocolate biased world. From an early age, I can remember family stuffing my face with chocolate cake, candy, shakes, ice-cream and any other chocolate goody that I could possibly imagine. For me though, it never hit the spot. Yes, my taste buds appreciated the swe...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 8, 2011, 4:34 pm
I used to think checklists were overrated. They’re not. Maybe my memory is not as efficient as it once was when I was still in school. I never needed them and I made fun of you if you had one. I must say that I underestimated the power of a checklist. When you have time
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 8, 2011, 3:35 pm
Do you take pictures of yourself in the bathroom? Seriously? how conceited! Do you not have any friends to take a picture of you? Or do you play dress up, get yourself all dolled-up, take a picture of yourself and then get back into your jammies? Maybe you were so marveled by that figure of
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 3, 2011, 4:24 pm
Is your house dirty? Do you have your crap scattered everywhere? Has you dinner table become your work-desk? Are there floor stains from last week’s rendezvous? Are you using empty fast-food containers as your dishes? Is your room Mary Poppins’ ultimate nemesis? Then you must be suffering from a...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Mar 1, 2011, 6:50 pm
Family is such a conditional word for some members of the family tree. They will only come to you when they need you. Even if you legally separate yourself and you no longer share the same last name, you still have the same aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. It’s inevitable, you will bump in...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Feb 14, 2011, 8:31 pm
So if you don’t know what words to use for your Valentine, please read my post on “te quiero or te amo?” I think people underestimate the power of words, especially on a day like today. It can mean the difference between making an impact or getting your face smacked, getting teased or getting ...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jan 28, 2011, 5:57 pm
Lay a prepared dish before me and you will have given me on of life’s greatest joys–a happy stomach. I try not to judge a book by its cover and like to give the cook the benefit of the doubt before I take the first bite. Once my taste buds give the green light for
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jan 27, 2011, 5:28 pm
I hate washing dishes. And I’m not talking about the process of rinsing and placing them in the dishwasher. If that were the case, then I’d hate doing laundry as well. Oh no, my whole life I’ve had to wash them by hand, each plate, cup, spoon and fork. Every day, its the same thing.
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jan 25, 2011, 4:15 pm
It’s that time of year where I must complete my tour of family visits in the state of Colima. It was expected that I do one at least every month but after I regulated my family  for giving me a hard time, I’ve limited it to 3 a year. That’s my quota and I’m sticking
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jan 19, 2011, 4:43 am
Don’t ever let anybody punk you. If they push you, push back. I don’t mean that literally. We’re no longer primitive cavemen that are only capable of throwing rocks. Lets use our intelligence. For some, that requires a little…a lot more effort than others. It’s OK if you’re slow, as long...
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jan 13, 2011, 2:56 am
Before you look down at the picture below, be prepared to see your childhood superhero one or two more pounds heavier than usual. The reason I took this picture is not to make fun of people who are overweight. On the contrary, I applaud this man’s effort to put the costume on and entertain away.
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Payazaro Gomez posted an article on Payazaro's Blog - Jan 13, 2011, 2:32 am
On one of my many adventures, I came across a bookstore with an interesting name: You Are What You Read I especially liked the little iconic touch of a red moose or deer reading. But this bookstore really got me thinking about the sad reality of m...
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