https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv Engineer, marathon runner, kayaker, baker, swimmer, gamer. en-us 2020-01-23 19:32:09 UTC 2025-04-11 15:34:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f604.png cdelgado87 https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435363593 Uncertain of which cake to bake for my 30^th birthday party I decided to combine two of my favorite cakes, which are the world famous America’s Red Velvet  and the Latins favorite Tres Leches. Despite it seem a difficult task to achieve, I worked up within my knowledge to successfully come up with an excellent red velvet tres leches recipe. This creation of mine was pretty well received by my Birthday’s party guests regardless of it being baked for the first time, they didn’t even believe that this sort of delicious dessert could  ever be made by me. Moreover on further special occasions, in which I were invited or witch I hosted, the people would spect that I would show up with this cake. Although for a long time I thought It was my signature dessert, further research demonstrated that I was not the first one coming up with the idea of baking a Red Velvet Tres Leches.]]> 2020-01-23 20:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435363593 cdelgado87 https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435366925 Ever since I started my professional career as a chemical engineer, I been blessed with the opportunity of working on multidisciplinary fields of engineering. Not only I had work as an environmental, corrosion or process engineer on an international iron refinery plant located in Venezuela and which export steel to the overseas, but I also had work as the project manager assistant on the settlement and startup of a hormone pharmaceutical plant in Chile. Despite having multiple roles on different fields of engineering I would say that in every single one of them I had to know how to handle and even lead projects or processes within then, so having this opportunity became an in handy and desirable skill to have. In the view of the fact that employers are prompted to choose candidates with project management backgrounds, altogether with the adaptation process that all companies are undergoing because of the rapid changes happening across the globe,  one’s resume should highlight the project managing skills. ]]> 2020-01-23 20:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435366925 cdelgado87 https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435374800 There was a time in witch not every person knew about the formats and the differences between each type of running races, despite of being obvious for a runner, a regular person would not mind asking to a 10km racer about how well one did on the “marathon”. According with my personal experience and with my interaction with other runners everyone agrees that was common that non runners, regardless of the competition distance, would refer to any race as a marathon race; even I as a beginner believed that I competed on several 10km marathons even though a marathon is a long-distance race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres, and usually run on a road race format.
Did you ever refereed to any race with a distance different than 42.195km as a marathon?]]> 2020-01-23 20:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435374800 cdelgado87 https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435376221 One day while in childhood I was with my mother while she was doing some daily errands, and by chance we went into to the towns club in which I realized from the inside of the glass wall panoramic soundproof room we were in that on the outside there were lots of kids at the pool and adults cheering them, at the  moment that made me feel not only full of joy but also lots curiosity about it, And I wanted to be there as well. Needless to say that every childish attempt to get me to the pool were futile, my mom was pretty busy and in a hurry so she promised to take me there any other day but today. 
The image that I had overlook through the soundproof panoramic office were printed into my mind. 
Several days later, as my mom promised, I got myself into swimming clases for kids, but the happiness didn’t last long, as it was expected parents also have to attend or stand by the class for security reasons. So she couldn’t keep on taking me to the swimming lessons. 
Even though a lot of years passed by and many other reasons such as constant movings, living too far away of a pool or a busy college life kept me away from getting into practicing swimming, I did never ever forgot about my childhood unfulfilled desire, and even as and adult I had determined myself to get into swimming.
Then as soon as I got my degree and stablished myself on a good company I started to attend to swimming lessons everyday after work and I even mastered all the styles but back-stroke. Having achieved my unfulfilled desire I realized that it was worthy to wait for the moment to come, that is why now I’m looking forward to get established again before going back to swimming. 
Did you ever accomplished in adulthood something that you could have not fulfill as a child? 

]]> 2020-01-23 20:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435376221 cdelgado87 https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435381527 While preparing myself to compete with my swimming team in a sort of Olympic Games, a local competition in which every 2 years all the big companies from the city gather to contend with each other, I had the opportunity of meeting some of the kayaking team members because some of then swam on the team as well.
kayaking was an unexplored sport for me so I made them to take me to the training camp,  and as soon as I got myself on the kayak I made the resolution of joining the kayaking team and to master the discipline. Despite of being my first time paddling on a boat, I performed as good as the current best rookie of the training camp, and Due to my endurance and the trainer subjection I specialized on regattas, a sort of long distant kayak boat race.
While not in competition season the kayak team used to arrange long distance recreational sessions of kayaking on the vast rivers and lakes that were all over the city surroundings. Such activity  provided us the opportunity to spent a day in deep connection with nature, relaxation and disconnection from the technology. 

Did you ever tried by chance a new activity and discovered that you were good at?

]]> 2020-01-23 20:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/435381527 cdelgado87 https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/436203666 Once upon a time a Venezuelan mischievous child, enlighten with lots of curiosity and with a never ending energy, got as a Christmas’s gift a video game console. Who would expect that? He just deserved to recibe a piece of charcoal from Santa Claus. At first the child didn’t even know what that gift was. Sooner than later he just got use to the complexity of controls and the in game graphics. Even when the kid would not understand English, he just got deeply involved with the histories of the games and sometimes he could not simple wait to get help from his parents when they return from work. As a result, he determined himself of learning English and made his dad to enroll him in extracurricular English clases. The frustration of not understanding English fueled this child motivation, and in no time he was able to understand most of games histories on his own. Furthermore, on primary school as much as on high school, he took all the English lessons seriously and more importantly he even stop being mischievous Child because his determination and energy were focused on something else: playing video games and a better understanding of its English content.
As for today the child, now as a young adult, enjoy playing video games every once in a while and he would never forget that he learned English thanks to his childhood resolution. ]]> 2020-01-26 23:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cdelgado87/5jdt3ceawkiv/wish/436203666