YES WE ANOOP!

i wasn't even thinking of him, during those last few moments of american idol tonight. and then they said it. anoop dog. and i screamed...
i think anoop is the cutest guy everrr! (totally overstated, as i say that about every cute guy i see on television) but i'm so glad that the judges picked him :) <-- yes that is a smile on my face. he's just so cute and there's something about him that makes me like him so much. i mean there are tons of other contestants with really good voices, probably even better voices than him, but i just love this guy. he's my guyyyyyy! i think i'm going to be rooting for anoop all season; depending on whether or not he gets through tomorrow, but... he'll always live a ma coeur!

i was supposed to be finishing off those cartoon faces of us for yearbook, but i got really sidetracked yesterday when i decided to update my myspace with pictures of patrick dempsey (because josephine and i were talking about how amazingly sexy he is, after school). and yeah, he's prettyy sexy. i don't know why my mom and my boyfriend just don't see it. he's a sex-god. which probably sounds really weird coming from me, but his attractiveness kinda reeeks from my mind, if i'm making myself clear. even though i truly did not like how his character ended up in "Can't Buy Me Love"-- which was my christmas gift from kristina (thanks ily :)-- i thought he was still really sexyy.




(his wife is really pretty too...):

my parents finally bought a wireless adapter for our new computer, which has probably been sitting unused for two months, and i'm having tons of fun on it. they also went all out and bought my little brother and sister their own nintendo ds'! so we have two, and i'm obsessed with the touchpad messaging. we started Pride & Prejudice today in literature, and i'm excited for it. and also today pavoua brought her baby turtles to school so that we could see them, and they were extremely adorable. i wish that i had had my camera with me. their names are hidey and traveler and they were sooo tiny. i imagined the scene in statistics today was somewhat like that new burger kings commercial for their mini burgers. "they're so aah-dooor-ablee." i want a baby turtle, but i'm scared that my big turtle just might eat it or kill it. plus i don't have a big enough tank for both turtles, and i would want toto to have a friend if i got another turtle, so i will just wait to see how the future turns out.

courtney's birthday was on sunday and i've been planning on making her some cupcakes all week, but every night i've been putting it off, because i've had so much crap to do this week. i think i will make her some this weekend. plus my momma's birthday is this weekend, so i'll make her something tooooo! i love bakerella.blogspot.com; it's amazing!

these are the cuppycakes i made marissca paaaablo. who got a really cute tattoo this past weekend on her foooot :D



i made some extra ones too :) pour ma mere and mon petit!

-PACHIAAA

its not me, its you.

I just watched the cutest movie ever! PENELOPE! It was a good movie. Not the most amazing but I did like it a lot. I love movies that have a whimsical air and the colors are amazing in the movie. I wish I could find more pictures of Penelope's clothing because the way they dressed her was so unique and cute. Christina Ricci is so pretty in this movie, even with the pig nose. I actually liked her with her pig nose better. James Mcavoy is of course a cutie in this movie. You can never hate him in any movie.




The other day I watched HSM 3 with my sisters. I liked it. It was not too much, although I could definitely feel if there was a song coming on but I think they did it very well. It was a nice ending to the trilogy (hopefully it is the END!). It also makes me think of the end of my senior year, which is surreal. I mean I can barely handle trying to find a date for senior ball, how can I handle the end of senior year? Barely, cannot. :(. I liked how they dressed Vanessa Ann Hudges very simply. Here are my favorite songs from the movie:

can i have this dance high school musical 3 - Google Video4537.WMA -

05 Just Wanna Be With You_30 - High School Musical Cast

---christina

inspired

In Photo, we are doing a new project that is going to be a collage of picture and things that inspire us, drive us, we love, etc. It is going to be a mixed media of photos, magazine cut-outs, etc. She wanted us to get inspired by Dan Eldon's work. She showed us a video of him and we had to look up facts about him.

His work is amazing. His story is amazing. He is amazing. At 23, you can change the world. He taught us that. He was a photographer and humanist who came from Kenya and traveled all over Africa taking pictures of famines and wars, only at 23! He gave aid to many people and opened the world to the poverty and crisis in Somalia and other places in Africa. He died being attacked by an angry mob during a U.N. bombing in Mogadishu.

He represents the kind of person I want to be when I grow up (and well I am kind of almost in that grown up period). I really do want to be a journalist because the reasons he was a photographer. Not just for the love of writing, but for the love of writing about people and observing people and talking about IMPORTANT issues that need to be discussed and open the world's curiosity a little wider. Man I wish I knew about him earlier or I would have totally written about him for my CMC app essay (dammmnnn, i hate realizing how i could have written better essays for my apps because i learn things now about life!!!). I was inspired by his photograhs and his journals.

At 14, he started keeping journals. They were not the typical writing journals. He wrote, kept pictures, drew and cut out amazing collages. They are what is left of him and his legacy. I wish I had kept journals at a young age, but I am not the type to keep a journal because it hurts my hand because I write too much. So I am much more of a satisfactory blogger but I do not think I could ever write as in depth things he did at 14 when I was 14. All I would have written about is complaining about family, school and boys. Perfectly ridiculous. His aspirations and creativity INSPIRE me to keep an inspiration journal now. I think I will start one. But I just hate cutting up my magazines. But I really think it would help me develop my creativity in writing and maybe drawing. And I always have a dream of some day being in Elle or Vogue as a designer/stylist so I think that would help me get some ideas. Hahah. But I also want to write down the ideas and the opinions I have now because I am at the stage of my growth where I have opinions that are actually about important issues.

If he could show the world his opinions, so can I.

So I watched the Oscars and I liked it this year. I definetly think Hugh Jackman is amazing and his singing was very wonderous. I like the musical number it was definetly cute. And Anne Hathaway NEEDS to do a musical sometime soon because her voice is AMAZIIING. I remember she sang in Ella Enchanted. I was so proud she was a nominee for Best Actress. I of course was looking at all the dresses. Everyone seemed to dress so safe this year. I wanted to talk about why Slumdog Millionaire deserved all those Oscars (8!!!). I watched it before the Oscars with my family. And we liked it a lot. I think it is more than just a love story. It really brings attention to the poverty in India and how those kids survived despite all their hardships, even though they had to survive through more criminal means. It was really compelling. And I do loooooove the cinetamography. It was freaking amazing. I could not believe the picture of the slums. It was horrifying and unbelievable.

Honestly I thought the children actors were the best actors in the movie. But I really did like Dev Patel in the movie. He was a great actor. I hope he continues to grow and get more good parts. I think the journey of the movie really captures the innocence of youth and the corruption of that innocence. I liked it a lot. The love story I was not as happy with but it was really beautiful. Frieda Pinto is freaking beautiful. Indians are really beautiful. People do not know that but some of them have the most beautiful complexions and eyes.

---christina.

UPDATE!

ASIAN ASSEMBLY 01-29-09
the asian assembly was amazing! i was so, so, so nervous, but it all turned out really good. i've been waiting to upload the video before i made a post about it.. but i havent been able to (because my computer is so slow) and so i've finally given up. nevertheless, i miss practicing and hanging out with my "dance crew." it was all lots of fun, and the asian assembly turned out so good! everyone loved it and everyone loved our couple dance :) i think its possibly the best asian assembly we've had in a looong time.

VALENTINE'S DAY BAKE SALE 02-13-09
The day before valentine's day turned out really good. i spent the entire night before baking like crazy, and fretting that i wouldn't make any income profit for my senior project benefit for the hungry, but i ended up making a lot of money! although there were a bunch of rude people who didnt want to buy anything, there were also a lot of supporters, so i was grateful and happy for that! i also got this really cute heart-shaped cake from josie, that was covered in chocolate, topped with a strawberry :) so i ended my hectic day with sweeeeet goodness.

HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU! 02-16-09
OMFGGG! BRADLEY COOPER IS SUCH A SLUT! and i still cannot get over it!!!! ahhhhh, he's such a cheeating-face scumbag, and i stilllll cannot get over that HORRIBLE office sex scene. ahhhhhhh. i dont like scarlett johansson anymore either, and i literally screamed in the theatres when that scene happened! i dont care, i really really really hate cheaters. but besides that craziness which i will try not to mention anymore, i thought the movie was really good. i feel like its a movie every single girl needs to watch. i love the little cliche moments at the end. cliche moments still get me, everytime. but i wont go into specifics, so i dont ruin it for anyone who might come across this. i want to read the book now :)

my favorite couple:

COOL STORY!
i was cleaning up my room last weekend, putting my clothes away, when i came across one of my old blazers from 8th grade, and discovered that it was yves saint laurent!!!! yeah, i was really excited and kind of disappointed that i had not even known about it for the last five years. but still, its nice, especially since i only got it for $1 at goodwill. i love thrifting :) too bad, the blazer doesnt fit me anymore (not that it fit me that well from the beginning)! but i'm not exactly sure if its authentic or not. still cool though.



MARISSA's BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARISSA!
I LA-LA-LA-LAAAVE you :D

- pachia chia