I am back... this time to share with you my brackets results thus far - click on the images- (I am competing against other maniac bracketdologist around the nation on my beloved ESPN Insider LOL)...

I am not doing so badly on the boys' side but WHAT IN THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH THE GIRLS??? I knew it... that's why I really can't spend a lot of time and picking up my brain with the women's bracket because it is very unpredictable... just like women are (ouch that was a very sexist comment Yoshi!).

It was a very scary night Thursday night… Although I rule for the underdogs and would have love to see the Vols beat the Buckeyes (did I mention Buckeyes don’t have my love? I can’t stand them since they beat Miami on the Fiesta Bowl some years ago – yes I am talking about college football LOL) that would have screwed my bracket way too much, so sorry Tennessee but I am glad you lost! Plus being a Gator fan won’t do it with you on the guys’ side… So as you can see my final four can still be possible…

The girls? Who? Bah! Yes I am bitter about them!!!! Although my final four can still be possible I won’t hold my breath! I think I would have a better chance to meet Madonna backstage then correctly pick the final four on the girls’ side… and Ahhhh Ladies Vols you better make it this year grrrhhhh Mmm…

Gosh my stomach already hurts and we still have several games to go Ayyy yaaaa yayyyyy, but I can’t help it!!! Please, please college basketball Gods let tonight be a good night for Yoshi and my teams, yes? The ladies? Ahhh bah… LOL ok ok yes also let my final four on the ladies’ side be… this is going to be a crazy weekend… ayyyyy

Is it college football season yet? How about the NBA playoff (although I said I was going to be good I can't help it but to say that I am very dissapointed about the Magic... ok ok let it out THE MAGIC SUCKS but I am still a fan... ok? and because I am a true Magic fan I am allowed to say that they suck LOL)? NFL???? Yeeeeeaaaaayieeeeee =0)


It is lunch time and time to give the latest updates in Yoshi’s life… Life is being good, I can’t complaint… I mean I could complaint just for the fact of complaining but that would be based on nothing and a waste of time, right? I am feeling really good about life in general… there are things that concern me at times and make me a little uneasy, but that’s part of this roller coaster called life. Ah, I just got a call that has made my day from “can’t complaint” to superb!


And with the good mood/happy camper thought, I am very excited about March Madness… Me, being the sport junky I am, goes thru the painful routine of filling up the famous “brackets” just to come to the conclusion that doesn’t matter how many hours I can take studying each team, watching them play, getting the insiders scoop, it is always just the same MADNESS… nevertheless, I must say that I’ve been good in prior years and being able to pick the team the won it all… well except on the ladies side because the VOLS screwed everything up last year LOL (thanks Pat Summit… but I still like you… so you better redeem this year!).


Would it be lovely to have a final between Kansas and Florida? Can that be possible… sadly no… LOL, Florida and Kansas will meet on the semi-finals thanks to the screwy NCAA bracket system… So who do you think would be on the final four? Ahhh well, if Christmas comes early for me this would be my wish:
- Florida vs. Kansas: me being a Gator fan (yes! Go Gator Nation) would like to strongly believe/wish that that Gators beat the crap out of Kansas, especially after loosing to them this season (I believe I am correct on this statement and because no one really reads my blog, I am sure I won’t have any objections LOL). My heart goes with the Gators but Kansas is playing some good basketball… so the rational side says Kansas… ahh grrr… ok I’ll go Gators all the way baby!!!
- This one I am not sure there are possible combinations: G’town vs. Texas A&M or Memphis, or Texas vs. Texas A&M or Memphis. And where is Ohio State? Buckeyes don’t have my love… and they are going to be out on the Sweet 16 or final 8… I am sure! LOL


And who will win it all?? Ahhh well Gator or Kansas, but because I am staying true to my heart (something is hard to do for me because I am very rational) I’ll go with the Gators!


And the ladies? Ah gosh I am not sure… I filled my bracket and I am sure it will get screwed up the first day of games LOL… I am not doing too much thinking/analysis for this one so here: Tennessee vs. Whomever but Duke! LOL LOL, that is not much to ask for right? Can the Lady Vols please me this year? Pretty please? LOL LOL


This is scary even to a non-sport junky but did you notice that my winners are Florida and Tennessee???!!! That is freaky!!! LOL that shows how much of a “love and peace” person I am (although I am not a tree hugger/lover). Talking about that… I can’t wait to go to Knoxville and watch the Gators beat the Vols badly on football… but that will be another story…

Volver...

I finally got to go and watch Volver. I’ve been trying to see this movie for months and I thought I wouldn’t get the chance to see it before stop showing at the Fine Arts Center in Downtown AVL.


I loved it!

Pedro Almodovar rocks; as usual… he is one of my favorite film makers/producer/directors. Gracias Pedro!

Even though the movie is placed in a town in Spain (close to Madrid), it showed a lot of the same traditions we have in the mother land = Costa Rica, and taking into consideration that my family’s roots are from Spain even more…
In a strange sense I have forgotten or tried to forget some of the traditions that make me somewhat the person I am today… perhaps because pain-time-distance makes us forget about things, maybe because I am in a place where traditions are not too important, where family at times becomes second (and I don’t really have a family here anymore), where being “old fashion” is sort of weird and un-cool thing… not sure… all I can say that this movie touched me in a way I haven’t been touched in a while and it took me back to times/places when I was with my mother, my family, back in Costa Rica.

So many memories, some good, some not too good, some great, some bad… When I thought I have forgotten… they all came back to me… or I returned to them...

The part in the movie that really got me was when Penelope Cruz sang a song her mom thought her when she was a kid… Volver by Carlos Gardel. It was a shock to me… I don’t remember a lot of things of when I was a kid, but this scene took me back to the time when my mother was teaching me that song because Carlitos Gardel is like an institution in the Spanish speaking culture and Volver was one of my mother’s favorite songs… and now I feel all these years have been a lost between my mother and I between my family and I between my traditions/roots and I… maybe it is time to Volver not so much return home or return to things that are already lost, but time to volver to the person I really am (volver = return). And in honor to this feeling here it is Volver by Carlos Gardel and its translation:

Yo adivino el parpadeode las luces que a lo lejos van marcando mi retorno... Son las mismas que alumbraron con sus pálidos reflejos hondas horas de dolor...Y aunque no quise el regreso, siempre se vuelve al primer amor... La quieta [vieja] calle donde el eco dijo tuya es su vida, tuyo es su querer, bajo el burlón mirar de las estrellas que con indiferencia hoy me ven volver...
Volver... con la frente marchita, las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien...
Sentir... que es un soplo la vida, que veinte años no es nada, que febril la mirada, errante en las sombras, te busca y te nombra...
Vivir... con el alma aferradaa un dulce recuerdo que lloro otra vez...
Tengo miedo del encuentro con el pasado que vuelvea enfrentarse con mi vida...Tengo miedo de las noches que pobladas de recuerdos encadenan mi soñar... Pero el viajero que huyetarde o temprano detiene su andar... Y aunque el olvido, que todo destruye,haya matado mi vieja ilusión, guardo escondida una esperanza humildeque es toda la fortuna de mi corazón

Volver... con la frente marchita, las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien...
Sentir... que es un soplo la vida, que veinte años no es nada, que febril la mirada, errante en las sombras, te busca y te nombra...
Vivir... con el alma aferradaa un dulce recuerdo que lloro otra vez...

I can almost see the flicker of the lights that in the distance mark the way of my returning…They’re the very ones that lit up, their reflections pale and misted, many hours of deep pain. Though it was not what I wanted, first love makes one always come back again. The quiet [age-old] street where once the echo told me: Her life is yours, her love is yours to earn, under the stars that mockingly look on me, and now in their indifference see me return...
Return… with my forehead all wrinkled, my temples turned silver by time’s falling snow…
To feel… that one’s life is a twinkle, twenty years hardly reckon, and two fevered eyes beckon, in shadows forestall you and seek you and call you...
To live… with the soul firmly clinging to one sweet remembrance that makes me weep so...
I am frightened of the meeting with the past that is returning to confront my life all over. I am frightened of the nighttimes when my dreams are linked and fleeting and old memories come to stay. And yet the traveler who’s fleeing sooner or later must stop on the way…And though oblivion, which destroys all being, has killed my old hopes, ripping them apart, yet I keep hidden a humble hopeful glimmer that is the only fortune there is in my heart.

Return… with my forehead all wrinkled, my temples turned silver by time’s falling snow…
To feel… that one’s life is a twinkle, twenty years hardly reckon, and two fevered eyes beckon, in shadows forestall you and seek you and call you...
To live… with the soul firmly clinging to one sweet remembrance that makes me weep so...

This is my church

This is where I heal my hurts
It's a natural grace
Of watching young life shape
It's in minor keys
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends

This is my church
This is my church
This is my church

This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
It's in the world I become
Contained in the hum
Between voice and drum
It's in the change...

The poetic justice of cause and effect
Respect, love, compassion
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts

For tonight...

God is a DJ
God is a DJ!

Mass Destruction

Whether long range weapon or suicide bomber
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction

Whether you're Soaraway Sun or BBC 1
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruct

You coulda Caucasian or a poor Asian
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction

Whether inflation or globalization
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction

Whether Halliburton, Enron or anyone
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction

We need to find courage, overcome
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction!!!



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