Sonic Team

Nope, not the developers of the Sonic games, but the main team from the genesis era carved in pumpkins!!!

That is right, I finally got into the tradition of pumpkin carving thanks to the lovely guidance and geeky encouragement from the girl.
She actually found this sonic, tails and knuckles patterns and by her mom's wise advise: An entire MASTER CARVING KIT.

Now we were quite aware that with our lack of experience, it was going to be quite a challenge, so we just bought one pumpkin and decided to get Sonic in it.
After a surprise messy start, we managed to clear a nice top, and tape the pattern into the pumpkin. With the help of the pounce wheel from the kit, we managed to pass a pretty clear image of Sonic, into the pumpkin's skin.

I know its barely visible, but trust me. There is a sonic face in that pumpkin.

After quite some work, and surprisingly ZERO CUTS (hello kitty band aid of mine was a prior misadventure) we managed to make quite an amazing job.
Our supervisor was so proud of our work, that we had to test it immediately. Problem was with such a bright day the only dark place we thought on testing it was...



I was so excited and motivated by this amazing first attempt, that decided on getting two extra pumpkins. One for Tails, one for knuckles. And so I went and bought... THREE pumpkins (It was decided she will now carve Hello Kitty).

This other two required quite a great deal of work, maybe cause of exchaustion, maybe cause of the need to finish before desperate housewives, maybe cause it was just not meant to be, the other two don't look as bright as the first one. However I think it was a very VERY good job, and thus I will displayed them proudly.



While I was carving these two new ones, and begging for her help on the peeling parts, she managed to carve an amazing Hello Kitty without any patterns, follow by cooking of pumpkin seeds, chicken soup, and watch entire episodes of scandalous TV.
Don't ask me how, she just manages to multi-task like no one I know, or will ever know.

I'm feeling lucky.

They saw death, I saw love

And I thought I was the one that had lost faith in human nature.

Anyways, we went to our Wedensday International movie night. This time I was so busy, I didn't had any chance to read anything about the movie before hand. But at the very beginning I knew it was going to be on my top list.

The movie was REPRISE. A movie about two upcoming writers in Norway.
I knew from the very beginning I would love it, as the narrator interrupted the flow of the movie to tell us what would've happen if...
The "what if" was so crazy exaggerated and unpredictable that remind me of Amelie's imagination. I loved it and the "what if" was a recurring theme, which at the end of the movie when people discussed it, it seem a common understanding to everyone that every happy "what if" was never real, and the sad darker ones were.

What bother me the most was a special scene where one of the protagonists comes up with a way to make sure his love interest will finally fall in love with him.
Later on in the movie he uses the same trick (at kind of bad times with not so happy conclusions) yet, it was always a reminder of me that THEY were in love, and that THEY always had this little secret to make sure the other person would fall in love for one and other.
But noooooooo, for everyone it meant death wish and suicide just because things were not working as flawlessly as we wish love was.
WHY? OH why was that the general understanding of it.
I was apparently the only one that exit that movie wishing to use that same trick, and tell my grandchildren how after all this time the trick kept working.

Am I the only one that still believes in Truth, Beauty but above all Love?

Go see the movie please, and tell me.

P.S. yeah, yeah, I took freedom off the Mouling Rouge reference, cause... well... Freedom doesn't come for free ;) (Bonus points for catching that last reference)

WTF?

I still have no idea whats the purpose of the above sticker. I just found it near a bus stop.
Reminiscent of our "Juan Valdez logo" but... what is it mocking? how? why?
Give me answers people.

Chocolo regains sight

I'm a terrible parent.
I grew accustom to Chocolo's condition, and carry one as usual not noticing his gloomy perspective on life:


However an amazing research scientist develop a synthetic eye, fully functional for him, and care for his surgery:














His recovery was a success:


and now with his sight back, he has thank the kind scientist that made it all possible, and started a new life with new friends:



LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER KNOW.

SC II will be released over 3 years >.>

Starcraft II will be three games released hypothetically one/year. (read on IGN)
Advertise as following the dream of giving players choice, I know they just want to squeeze as much money from me as possible.
Well sorry Blizzard, I guess my RTS needs will be fulfilled by RA 3 until the last Protoss campaing of SC II comes out.

ITS COMING BACK!!!!!!

How come there is no official webstite?!?!
Another game to be added to the list of "If I had a Wii".

If you have an extra 30mins to remember the good old punch out days, here is an amazing youtube video: