Cheers!

Change is good, change is necessary and change is also extremely scary... but that doesn't mean that you'll stop welcoming new beginnings with open arms.

Cheers to finishing yet another chapter in the book of life; cheers to hoping that the plot twists in the next one are definitely better; cheers to The Beatles, too, because many decades later their amazing music still lives on and I, for my life, cannot stop singing their songs... and most importantly, cheers to making plans and looking forward to the future!

"The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you."

Because I love movies...

And because I'm crazy enough to think I'll actually have time to do it, I have decided to face a movie challenge this year.

This is pretty simple, actually. The goal is to watch 365 (new) movies in one year and since I don't have a list of everything I will watch, you are more than welcome to make suggestions!

I promise, I'll watch everything but horror movies.

Anyways, here's the list of the movies I have seen for this challenge (2013) and the ratings I have given them.

PS- I've also written a couple of reviews for some of them :)

Update: Here's the list for 2014 because I have decided to do it this year as well!

Someday...

I would love to visit:

The city that never sleeps.

Seriously.

I have been wanting to go to New York since forever (well, not really forever, because I didn't even know the correct name of that city when I was in Cuba. Then again, living there was like living in a completely different planet, so it was understandable). Anyways, ever since I started to watch TV series, movies and musicals... the magic that the city that never sleeps holds captivated me and made me fall in love, naturally, with everything that it can offer you when you know how to look for them in the right places.

And hopefully, it won't be long before I'm walking down Broadway and taking pictures of the Wicked banner and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll stumble upon a celebrity or two ;)

Meanwhile, though, here's a list of things I want to do once I get there:

• I want to do every single thing that a tourist would do on their first visit... like have breakfast at Tiffany's.
• Eat a bagel every single morning I'm there.
• Spend a whole afternoon lying down (it doesn't really matter if it is in grass, a bench, the floor or a fountain) just watching people walk by while I make up stories about them. It has to be somewhere in Central Park, though.
• Watch all the Broadway shows! (but having in mind that I'm not rich, one or two should be just fine.)
• Go to as many museums as possible.
• Give money to an amazing street performer.
• Visit Soho and believe for a second that I live there.
• Fall asleep on the subway.
• Go ice skating, just to fall on my butt, at the Rockefeller Center.
• Try to get some tickets for an SNL show.
• Eat in Chinatown and then buy a branded item at a ridiculous low price.
• See one of my favorite bands in concert.
• And see something (movie or TV show) being filmed on the streets.

For now, that's all I can come up at the top of my head... although I'm sure that much more ideas will come up the day I actually get there. Because no matter how long it takes, I will make it to New York one day.

That's a promise.

Drink all the coffee!

Coffee has been on my life since I was very little.

Back in Cuba, where I grew up, my grandmother had lots and lots of coffee plants on her backyard. I remember that I would usually just sit and watch her go through the whole process of making coffee -which is kind of amazing, by the way- until one day, she told me to join her.

We would get up early, recollect every mature coffee cherrie at our sight, take the seeds out, put them to dry under the sun and once they were ready, roast them on a huge and hand made charcoal oven. Then, we would take the roasted seeds and grind them -using a hand mill- until the only thing left was coffee powder. After that, my gram would make coffee for everyone in the family -I gotta say, her coffee was the absolute best- and sometimes, even our neighbors would stop by and ask for a small cup of the greatest nectar on earth.

Sadly for me, I stopped helping my abuela do the whole coffee thing the moment a frog jumped on me from one of the plants one afternoon. Honestly, I'm so terrified of those animals that I think it was because of that incident that I also stopped drinking coffee for a while. That didn't last long, though, because I couldn't stay away from it and now I drink coffee everyday and in every variation possible.

My absolute favorite is the mocha frappuccino, although the latte is just as amazing. What's your kind of coffee?

The Age of Aquarius!

Last night, I went to see a local revival of the Broadway musical: Hair.

The program.

And I have to say, the show was pretty amazing! The lights were spot on. The wardrobe was really cool and fun and colorful. The ensemble did a tremendous job. The band -with their long hair and all- was incredibly good. The choreography was complex and delightful (I mean, the kids danced really great). The acting was super amazing, and I laughed my butt off whenever Woof, Hud or Berger had a line. And the songs were just so, so, so good! Especially "Hair", "White Boys" and "Aquarius". 

One of the members of the Tribe gave me a flier! And I have to say, the Hare Krishna was dope!  

I can genuinely say that Hair was a great experience for me. I haven't really get used to seeing musicals live yet, in fact, I don't think I ever will. I'm always in awe of the talent I see in front of me and I honestly hope that's something that never changes, because I love the feeling of being amazed.

Anyways, my favorite part of the musical was when they sang "Let The Sunshine In", I could feel that song in my bones! Oh, and true to the broadway fashion, the cast invited the audience to sing and dance with them in the stage after the show was done.

That's the band!

Of course, lucky me (even though I'm kind of socially awkward and I don't dance, I am seriously not saying this in a sarcastic way) they pulled me onto the stage. And I say lucky, because I got to take a couple of pics with my favorites of the night!

Woof was definitely my favorite.

And Berger was pretty awesome too!

The peace sign was a must, it seems! No, but really, I had a tremendous time and I hope I get to see them again in another production in the future. 

Now, since I couldn't film anything because it wasn't allowed, I shall end this post with a video featuring the original Broadway cast of Hair singing my two favorite songs from the musical "Aquarius" and "Let The Sunshine In"

Be Happy

Have you smiled today? Because I certainly have, and a lot.

There's many reasons why you should be doing so right now, really, you just need to open your heart and let them find you. Even when it seems like a really crappy day or the end of the world, there's always something out there that will make you want to be strong, to keep going, to be happy.

A videogame+movies+pizza sleepover with your best friends, getting a very nice review from a stranger appreciating your work, awesome music, friends almost breaking your alarm clock because you forgot to turn it off (sorry, Bea and Gina!), a relative sending you messages to make you laugh, your OTP finally getting a chance to be together. Hell, maybe even an hilarious post in Tumblr... It doesn't matter if the reason is important or small and silly, what really should matter is that you're smiling and being happy.

So, go on, have a great night, go to bed smiling and have sweet dreams because people loves you and you are special. And awesome, too.

Rookie Post

Ok, so, this is me losing my V-blogging-card.

I have never done this, and I have no idea of what I'm doing. But it's seems to be fun so, I should give it a try, right?

I don't have a great topic to talk about, and I definitely don't have deep thoughts to discuss. So, if this seems like a boring thing, it's because it is boring.

I must confess, my memory sucks and I get easily distracted. So much, that my friend is having a 'panic attack' over the BDCE and I'm dying of laughter because of it. Therefore, I forgot what I was going to write about in the first place.

I'm so sorry for that.

Anyways, my friend hasn't calm down yet, and I'm kind of laughing at her and screaming at the same time because the Lakers are losing. Also, I just saw a sneak peak of Grey's Anatomy 7x06 and it reminded me why I love Shonda Rhimes so much. That woman is pure gold.

Ok, so, I will stop talking crap and I will actually talk about something really important to me.

Writing.

That is the main reason of why I did this blog in the first place. I love to write, even when I don't have anything to write about, the feeling of knowing that I am able to think about writing something is just priceless. For me, at least. Writing makes me feel... powerful, yes, powerful because I can create anything I want, I can do anything I want. I get to control situations and emotions. I get to kill a character at the same time that my mind is giving birth to another one. Kind of creepy, I know, but that's how I roll, so just go with it.

Lakers are still loosing and now my friends are mad because this day sucks. I should do something to make then feel better. Maybe I will post my new fic. Maybe I will make then read this. I don't know.

Sorry, I got sidetracked.

So... writing. Writing makes me feel free, because I get to say out loud what I think. Not that I don't speak my mind in real life, because I do it all the time; it's just that writing it down makes it so much easier.

I never thought that I was going to find myself falling in love with Mr. Pen & Mrs. Paper. But I guess that somehow, while I was in high school being a gamer freak (I'm still one, btw) and goofing around with my friends, I found the opportunity of doing something with all the crazy ideas that I always had in my mind, running wild and without a path. What started as a silly game and the main entertainment in a boring class of History or Science became one of the most important things in my life, and for that, I will always be thankful.

Lakers took the lead!!! I will not be happy tho, not until the game is done anyways. And my friends are kind of upset, and I get it, because a little bit of me feels like I'm going to freak out any moment now. (This is what happens when you love a TV show beyond words) Thanks, Grey's Anatomy! Anyways, even though I'm kind of dark and moody, I don't like my upset people... and having in mind that they are not around to make silly jokes, I shall post the fic, right? Now I just need to think about a summery.

And I shall stop talking/writing, because I'm talking/writing way too many crap. But this is what blogging is about, isn't it? I don't mean the talking/writing crap part, but the writing what's on your mind part.

Sadly, my mind can be full of crap.

Two minutes for the game to end... and I cannot watch this!

I just realized that you can leave comments in the post. Cool! and if you made it this far reading I will forgive you for not commenting... you were a brave person just for reading this.

I can't think about a summary, and it's mostly because I don't know where that story is headed, but nonetheless, I shall post it today.

THE LAKERS WON!!!

And now I will shut up and go think about that summary.

Maybe, I will blog some more tomorrow, because I most say that this was really cool.

Good night and thanks for reading!!