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Lobita
28 June 2009 @ 02:07 pm

Today was my baby cousin's baptism. Here are Davidjosé and his sister Kamila.

My cousins and their cuteness, are the bane of my existence . . .


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Current Music: Relient K -- The Best Thing
 
 
Lobita
22 June 2009 @ 04:22 pm

TV and Movies:

I am now the proud owner of the first four seasons of Lost. Celebrate with me now: HUZZAAAAAAAAAAAH!! Show breaks my friggin brain, I EFFIN LOVE IT. 8DD I also finally saw the Wolverine origins movie. I was a little disappointed, but it was definitely an entertaining two hours. Started watching The Grudge 3, last night but my pc crapped out so I haven't finished. So far it seems very different from the first two. Will reserve judgement until finished.


Packing:

Moving to Florida on Saturday. I think I'll have a stomach ulcer before then. Also, new flying regulations regarding luggage fucking suck. There's my two cents on that. Buy a tootsie roll.

I am very excited about seeing everyone there though. HAPPYCOUSINFUNTIME -- HOMG YAY!!


Writing and Reading:


HOMG YAY. It is so nice to have my laptop back and to be inspired and be able to write things!! I keep on hearing a million songs that just make my brain explode with ideas. Woo hoo!! xDD Also, now that I'm back on the internet, I can finally RP again. Double woo hoo!! 8DD Fun stuff. I actually found some new Yumikka fic googling around. I  guess I have the pillar arc to thank for that, yay!! Not nearly enough though. *little tear* All the more reason to get back to working on Rem I guess. Also been checking out the updates over at Fallen Leaves. Jeez louis, it got busy over there while I was away! Currently the Ginta/Kakashi arc is pwning my soul. Ow.


Plans this week: 


1. Finish my trip log, then throw my camera in a lake so I'm never possessed to take so many pictures again.

2. Update Reminiscence and/or start new  yumikka fic

3. Goodbye visits to my NY buddies

4. Finish packing my crap.

5. Catecism

6. Avoid ulcers

Wish me luck.
 
 
Current Music: Relient K -- The Best Thing
 
 
Lobita
19 June 2009 @ 08:45 pm

Still uploading pics. Never go on vacation and take 6GB worth of photos, it's tiresome to organize. >.> In the meantime, have some memes!! 8DD


Interest Meme:
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

Interests . . . )
Interview Meme:


1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You post the answers & questions on your journal.
4. You include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else.
5. Add meme perpetuation line, etc.



Answers . . . )

 

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Current Music: Tito "El Bambino" - El Amor
 
 
Lobita
16 June 2009 @ 07:51 pm
I'M BACK!!!

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Pictures forthcoming. Lots of pictures. Lots, and lots, and lots, and lots . . .

*falls dead from jet lag*

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Lobita
25 May 2009 @ 12:00 am
Mi patria es una bella isla y Orocovis su corazón.
My home country is a beautiful isle and its heart is Orocovis.

The first lines of my town's hymn. Orocovis is called "el corazón de Puerto Rico" -- the heart of Puerto Rico, because we are smack dab in the middle of the island, completely landlocked. The little red dot on the map below is Orocovis.


Orocovis is deep in the mountains, completely surrounded by them, and ruled by them. In Puerto Rico, mountain and Orocovis are practically synonymous. There's really nothing to Orocovis but mountains. We're so small that everyone goes to the same elementary school, the same middle school, and the same high school. We don't have malls, we down have movie theaters, we don't have parks of any kind. We have tiny tiny tiny boutiques downtown, but the nearest shopping center that can be called a mall is a two hour drive away. The nearest movie theater is and hour and half away. The nearest park of any kind is nearly three hours away. All the metropolitan areas and beaches are two hours away or more . . . Have we detected a pattern yet?

However, despite all its obvious flaws, I ask you to sit back and take a long look at that photo in my header. That's the view from my aunt's front yard. She has an even more amazing view from her backyard. All my aunts and uncles do; in fact, everybody in the town of Orocovis has those kinds of views. In Orocovis, we don't have much of anything, except a perfectly peaceful mountain paradise. Though Orocovis' views are great all around, they are best from the highest point in town. From the tops of those mountains, if you look to the north you can see the San Juan -- our capital city, and the blue blue blue of the Atlantic ocean. If you look to the south, you can see the white sandy beaches hugging the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea. With views like that, no one really minds the glaring absence of metropolitan commodities.

Orocovis has many small town oddities, but it is truly amazing to witness exactly how little of a house has to be on solid earth for it to be a functional living space. I say this because many many many houses all over Orocovis are build with literally no more than five feet beyond the threshold on solid ground, while the rest of the house is supported on two pillars at each back corner that shoot all the way down a mountain side before disappearing into an outcropping. One of my aunt's houses is just like this. When I was seven and stupid, I used to be afraid of it. I thought that if anyone walked into the back part of the house, it would tip over and roll down the mountain. ^.^;;

But I have to admit that my favorite thing about Orocovis is how the stillness of its daylight hours becomes a joyful cacophony at night. All over the island, Puerto Rico's national symbol, the little tree frog we call Coquí, thrives and fills the nights with its song. However, Orocovis' isolation, allows their nocturnal chant to be heard in its full glory, unlike more heavily urbanized areas of the island where the Coquí have very little vegetation to inhabit.

A Coquí is called such because this is the sound it makes: ko-quee. Old legends of the Taíno people, the island's indigenous people, say that there was once a tribal prince, named Coquí, who liked to wander deep in the mountain forests. One day, he came across a goddess disguised in human form. Here the legend splits into three tellings. The first is that the goddess had a grudge against Prince Coquí's family. Another says that Coquí insulted the goddess. Still another says that the goddess fell in love with Coquí at first sight, but he rejected her. Whatever the case, the result was the same. The goddess was enraged and as punishment, she turned Coquí into a tiny tree frog, and cursed him to forever utter his name by night so that the world could never forget his grave crime. And so to this day, the night in Puerto Rico is filled with the song of the Coquí . . .

Cute legend, for a cute frog. These guys are tiny, and I mean tiny. The average Coquí is no bigger than a thumbnail. Yep, that small. BUT, loud as all heck. The last thing you want, is for one to be perched on your windowsill singing all night, because the little guy will be loud enough to give you a throbbing earache. I'm so not exaggerating.

Here's a Coquí perched on an Amapola, Puerto Rico's national flower. For the record, an Amapola is about three inches in diameter. So yea, that Coquí is tiny tiny. xD




Well, I'm packed and ready to go. My flight is early in the morning, so I should be on Puerto Rican soil around noon time. I'm signing out until June 16, so I hope everyone on my f-list has a great summer till then. Expect great pics when I get back!! Stay safe and stay cool, and wear sunblock everybody. TOODLES!! \(^o^)/

~Minumi out~
 
 
Current Music: Marc Anthony -- Viviendo
 
 
 
Lobita
21 May 2009 @ 11:12 am
New layout with a little peek at Orocovis, my hometown in PR; took this at sunset from my grandmother's porch.

5 days.

5 days!

5 DAYS!

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My muse! It has finally stopped being a BITCH!!! *skips around daintily*

 
 
Lobita
18 May 2009 @ 02:26 pm

That's an old saying meaning "to go in more circles than a snail".  These things never make much sense when translated, but basically its referring to the circular pattern of a snail's shell, and is used when someone is constantly moving running around about while doing something. Anyway, the purpose of all this dribble is becuase of a LAYOUT UPDATE!! ^_~

This is a pic I took after the a rainstorm. I went out into my Aunt's garden and there were snails eeeeeeeverywhere. I know they're supposed to be pests, but they're also hella cute. I managed to grab this little portrait of one trying to get away from my camera's annoying flash. Good for me they are slow buggers.

Well, today has been a day of unpacking and repacking, as I have to put away the things I had in Philly, while packing from there what I need to take with me to Puert Rico. Puerto Rico countdown is at 7 days. Wooooo!!!  Stayed tuned for my last two pics; they're gonna be of my hometown in PR, and I promise they are the prettiest ones yet. ^o^

Which reminds me . . . I AM HOME!!!  8DDDD I'm back in beautiful NY!! WOOOOO!! xDDD

And it was a hell of a trip to get here. My mother and friend got to Philly around 9am. We spent the next hour finishing up the packing of my impossible amount of things. I swear, that room of mine was like some kind of warped dimensional space, because it seriously should have been impossible that so many friggin things fit in there. They didn't fit in the car, even though Mami's friend brought her SUV. So of course I left a myriad of odds and ends behind, mostly thing's like storage drawers, and food, also I left a vacuum to my roomies.

We shoved everything else we could into the SUV, and by the end of it there was only about 4 inches of clearence between my junk and the top of the car. I was sitting in the back seat, with about two feet of space, none of which included any floor space, to squish myself into. Thank bob I'm skinny and flexible, that's all I gotta say.

So we took off, and its a two and half hour drive under perfect non-traffic conditions. Of course there's traffic though, there's always traffic, so it was closer to three and something hour drive. Well everything went pretty uneventful until we got to the Palisades parkway, which always has traffic jams like crazy due to accidents. Which we almost got into . . .

The car in front of us, for reasons unknown, hit the brakes suddenly, so Mami's friend had to slam the breaks to avoid crashing into the the guy. Well, we didn't crash, but all of the things in the back that were piled higher than the back of the carseat and not tied down came sliding forward and avalanched all on top of me. Lemme take a moment to say that cookware, among other things is very hard and heavy. Ow. I was sitting with my head resting directly on the headrest of the backseat, so everything either slid over that or hit it then slid around, saving me from an almost assured conscussion.

After that, we hit a nice fat jam on the Palisades. Why? As I said, Palisades is infamous for its accidents. What was this jam causing accident? A car that up and flipped over. Yep, pretty bad. Hopefully whoever was in there survived. Well, after we passed the accident zone, things cleared up and we were home free without further incident.

Still have lots a packing/unpacking to do, so I'm shoving off. Have a fun day F-list, err . . . what's left of it. ^.^;;
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Lobita
17 May 2009 @ 03:31 am

You know the song!!  Dun, dun, dun nuh nuh nuh! Dun, dun, dun nuh nuh nuh!! 

WOOOOO!!! In T-minus 9 hours!!!! I shaaaaaaaall be hoooooome in . . . NEW YORK!!!

START SPREADING THE NEEEEEEEEEEEWS!!! I'M LEAVING TODAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!! WOOOOOOO!!

Next time I update, it shall be from . . . NEW YORK!!

In case I haven't typed it out enough times. (NEW YORK!! x333)

Ciao mis amores!! Until we meet again! (In NEW YORK!!! . . . kay, I'll stop now . . . xDDD)

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Lobita
So LAYOUT CHANGE!! Again!! 

This time it features once of our national symbols, the Flamboyán-- a tree, which I'm sure you've noticed, has very very flamboyant blossoms.  They grow all over the island and are an absolute beauty that you can see dotting the mountains with its distinctly colored flowers. This one is just beginning to flower, when in full bloom, Flamboyán look like giant red umbrellas. Truly stunning. There's also a few much rarer mutant varities that sometimes pop up. That are yellow Flamboyán, and even rarer, so rare I've never seen with my own two eyes, blue Flamboyán.

So today is my last day in Philly!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!! Tomorrow I leave for NY with all my stuff . . . I have no idea how any of this is going to fit in the car, but we'll figure it out, plus duck tape and rope solve any moving dilemma. >.>  ANYWAY, HOME! I'll be there soon. In the meantime . . . I'ma die packing . . . right. 8Db

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Lobita
14 May 2009 @ 11:01 pm

*DIES*
 
 
Lobita
13 May 2009 @ 06:35 pm






I AM DONE.

Dance party starts now.
   

 
 
Lobita
13 May 2009 @ 12:26 am
Chinese History final exam tomorrow and I'm totally freaking out . . .

ljfngkrj;ha;hnbjhpgr . . . .mmmmrrrrrgghh.

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Lobita
Pero mi corazón se quedó frente al mar . . . En mi viejo San Juan . . .

But my heart stayed in front of the sea . . . in my Old San Juan . . .

Lines to a famous famous famous song, a Puerto Rican ode to the unforgettable capital of our little island which everyone who leaves cannot help but pine after.

The countdown to PR continues! And this time my layout features a picture taken at sunset of la muralla, the wall, surrounding all of El viejo San Juan, the historic district of the capital, built by the Spaniards in the 16th century. El Viejo San Juan was classified in the 1980s by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, and is a place that absolutely transports you several centuries back in time. It enchants and bewitches the senses, frozen forever in time among blue cobblestones, majestic fortresses, candy-colored colonials, and the ocean waves.

If you ever go to Puerto Rico, and you can only visit one place, go to El viejo San Juan. You will not regret it.

Pero un día volveré
A buscar mi querer
A soñar otra vez
En mi viejo San Juan . . .

But one day I shall return
To seek my love
To dream once again
In my Old San Juan . . .
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Lobita
10 May 2009 @ 05:34 pm



True story.

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Lobita
10 May 2009 @ 03:29 am
RAMBLE, RAMBLE, RAMBLE!! )

 

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Lobita
09 May 2009 @ 10:34 pm
I'm bored outta my mind studying for finals all day. Thought I'd find some memes to do, so here goes:

Meme one:
The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.


Meme two: (kinda similar, sue me XP)
Ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. I reserve the right to answer any way I please. Then post this on your own journal.

Meme three:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Post them here for everyone to guess (if you know them all, please don’t guess every one).
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. No Googling or IMDb-ing. That’s cheating, and that’s no fun!


I'm gonna bold instead a strike, because massive amounts of strikage gives me seizures.

1. Let me get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's okay with this?! -- Timon in The Lion King, solved by [info]sum_solus

2. Look, you seem like a sweet kid... actually you seem like a real pain in the ass...
3. I'm gonna stuff you in the blender, push "puree," then bake you into a pie and feed it to the social worker! And when he says, "Mmmm, this is great, what's your secret?" I'm gonna say... ...Love... and... nurturing... -- Nani in Lilo & Stitch, solved by [info]jamminbison

4. I remember the first time I saw a rattler curled up in my path. This one didn't look like a rattler, but I was still thinkin' 'snake'. -- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, solved by [info]jamminbison

5. Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid. -- Captain Jack Sparrow in POTC: Curse of the Black Pearl, solved by [info]drelfina

6. Why do you get so cold when you're old? I'm fatter than ever and yet the wind blows right through me! -- Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle, solved by [info]darksideofstorm

7. I'm stuck! Curse these bodacious hips of mine! Randall, run back to my place and get the butter!

8. The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves. Until one day there are none.

9. Certainty of death, *small* chance of success... What are we waiting for? -- Gimli in LOTR: Return Of The King, solved by [info]sum_solus

10. Without the map we're dead. If we try to leave we're dead. If we stay here...
"We're dead!" "We're dead", "we're dead", "we're dead"!
-- Jim Hawkins and Morph in Treasure Planet, solved by [info]darksideofstorm

Hrrrm, I wonder if half these quotes will be figured out at all without cheating . . . oh well, we'll see! xD


EDIT: So far so good guys!! I think I might have to give a prize to whoever figures out #7. If you've watched that and recognize that line, you own my brains.

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Lobita
08 May 2009 @ 11:32 am

LAYOUT CHANGE!! . . . Again. ^^;;

I can only take so many pastel colors after Easter Sunday, so . . . SOMETHING NEW!! And very different from my usual Jrock themed layouts. I wanted to use something that was simple and sleek, easy to read, and that at the same time gave me an opportunity to be show off my photography.

That's right!! That lovely little header is a photo I took last year when I spent the summer in my lovely Puerto Rico. It's a picture of El Condado Beach just outside el Viejo San Juan, the historic district of the capital. It's a very pricey high class area, something like Beverly Hills, CA. With a beachfront like this, it's obvious why that is. xD

The Atlantic never looks so pretty or blue blue blue from up north, anyplace higher than the South Carolina really. This is why the tropics PWN all, dudes. Move there. Anyway, this is really helping out with the homesickness, especially because I'm going back to PR in, count it, THREE WEEKS!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!! \(^o^)/

I'll be cycling through pics of PR as countdown until then. *Happy dances*

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Lobita
06 May 2009 @ 02:16 pm
Homesickness is killing me. The closer I get to leaving Philly and going home for good, the more upset and depressed and homesick I become, which is nothing short of retarded.

I. Do not. Want to be here. ANYMOARS, RAAAWR. 

*mopes in a corner while studying for finals*

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