CELEBRITIES!

I think that the press should be respectful with celebrities but I personally believe they don’t have the right to privacy.

Firstly, I have to say I am not especially interested in “heart’s press”, but it’s very difficult to stay away from prying eyes of the news. Nowadays, the media put on celebrity’s lives to us. It’s very easy to set out to know everything about them, although you don’t keen on it.

Moreover, it’s important to say that not all celebrities start off with the same fame. Everybody knows micro-celebrities, look-alike and wannabe starts that give up their right to privacy when the sell their lives to take on the appearance of being a big star or pretending to be a legend.

To finish, I would like to say that what I find most absurd is when I am listening about complains as Telma Ortiz did, some months ago. She is surely surrounded by an entourage of bodyguards at her side. The public has the right to know what happens to everybody who is in the public eye. So, it doesn’t sound as much terrible that she has lost her personal trial against the press.

Don’t you think so?

MORE ABOUT SHOPING!

Nowadays, it’s a real fact international goods have become an important part of our shopping list. In my opinion we should support local and national industries but we can’t overlook the international ones.

I am keen on shopping, which means I like going shopping to cheer myself up. I go shopping to have a breather once a while. Yesterday I bought some clothes. As a curious fact, reading the labels I realised the trousers are made in China and the shoes are made in Portugal. I wish my clothes were from Spain. However, I take advantage of this situation thinking I have paid a good price.

As an anecdote, I would like to tell you how there are people in Barcelona, the city where I live, who not only refuse to buy international products, but also Spanish products. Unless the products are labelled in Catalan they are not included in their shopping list. I find it amusing that these people pay crippling supermarkets bills. They entertain the idea of a backlash against goods produced abroad, even in Spain!

To conclude, and talking about food products, I would like to mention the idea of the slow food movement. This movement defends the philosophy that production has to be cultivated and produced respecting the environment. It encourages respect for animals which are in danger of disappearing. Concluding with this idea, I think we should support products that take care of the environment more than worrying about where these products come from.

Best wishes!