HEART STATION

I know I talk a whole lot about Utada Hikaru and how she’s amazing and etc, and don’t Christina Aguilera very much. I do that because Utada Hikaru is just so different and unique that it makes her my favorite singer automatically, because you see, I hate trends, and as much as I hate do admit it, Christina Aguilera is becoming kind of a trend like never before. Even though Utada Hikaru is my favorite singer, Christina Aguilera does manage to surprise me and kind of get to the top of my list for a while, and just today I was looking up some videos of her being compared to other singers. Between them, Mariah Carey.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Mariah Carey’s voice just as much as I love Christina Aguilera’s, but I hate it when other people put Christina down because they sing in different ways. Each singer has their own style, ups and downs and these things CANNOT be compared between one singer and the other… it’s just impossible. One of the people that commented on the video said that Mariah had outdone every female american singer when she was 26, and if Christina Aguilera is that good, why hasn’t she done anything like that? Well, I commented back… twice. I guess you can all check it out, but I mean, it doesn’t only depend on the singer’s talent… but also on other people’s talent, you can’t just challenge Christina’s talent like that, or any other singer’s, it just doesn’t make sense.

Well, since this post is all about Christina Aguilera (Not Utada Hikaru this time), I wanna say that I’m really eager to see her performance that’ll be released in DVD in the end of Januray! I’m always checking Wikipedia over and over again to see if they changed the release date to my favor. The tour seems great, the singer is perfect, she toured with The Pussycat Dolls and there are presentations of all sorts going on everywhere! I hope time flies so I can see it sooner! (Well, not so much, since that means vacation will only end faster)

A little more information on her is that her baby is very near to being born and she said she wanted to release another album before her baby’s born, and that it’ll be “short and sweet,” well, I’ll be surprised if it’s actually released before the baby’s birth! Even if you don’t like Christina Aguilera, y’all gotta understand that she’s not a reality show participant, she’s a singer, and you should appreciate her for her vocal abilities and her concerts, creativity, lyrics, and everything else, she’s a very interesting woman and if you gave her the chance to prove how awsome she is, I bet you’d be surprised!

I was very looking forward to my birthday for two reasons: because I wanted to order Utada Hikaru’s CDs and because I wanted to order Utada Hikaru’s DVDs. Today I spent some time researching for the prices since Christmas is here and I’m in the gifts-for-myself kind of mood. I went to “YesAsia” and took a look at the prices and I wasn’t very shocked, they’re not cheap, but they’re not expensive, but when they’re put together… they’re EXPENSIVE, if it were like 100 dollars, it’d be fine, but triple that and it isn’t. The problem isn’t the price of all the items, but how many items there are. i waited until now to order them and now she has like 5 or 6 albums and probably the same amount of DVDs. I’ll probably split it in half and ask for half of it for this year’s birthday and the other half for next year, but I bet she’s gonna release 6 more, so I’ll plan my sneaky purchase plans later.

I just discovered that I left y’all with no Christmas videos to watch for Christmas. But today STILL is Christmas, so, if any of you want to listen to a very nice song sung by Christina Aguilera, here it is:

Christmas eve is already here and soon we all are going to be opening presents (Well, not so much, since it’s like 10 in the morning right now and we’re only opening our presents at midnight), which really is the point of Christmas. So, anyways… I just wanted to wish y’all a very merry Christmas and that y’all get many, many gifts. Many of you have made me SO happy this year, even people I’ve never met personally and who have commented on my blog and have let me know what they thought about certain interests they have or more information on what I have written about. Thank you once again!

So, I have decorated our “Christmas area” of our living room and I’m really proud of it, so I decided to take a picture of it and show it to y’all. Oh, by the way, I ain’t no hillbilly/hayseed/bumpkin/yokel, I just like writing with these terms (Such as “y’all” and “ain’t”) because they’re words I don’t use often and I think they’re real weird so I use them because of that. Well, here’s the tree for my compact-sized Christmas:

I got really interested in other people’s blogs after I broke out of my shell and read this wonderful blog recently added to my blogroll by a girl who’s an excellent writer and I love the topics she writes about! her wordpress account is named “empressofdrac” and her blog is named EOD’s Other Side. I recommend anyone who enjoys reading my blog to read her blog, it’s pretty awesome.

So, I started to get carried away with my past and started to read my old posts back in “On Our Way.” It was like such a great experience, and “On Our Way” was such a wonderful time of my life that I’ll never forget. I saw how much I knew and didn’t know at the time… how my writing has evolved and how vivid my memories are from the sweet times of “On Our Way.” I started to envelop myself in my memories, and I laughed and frowned at the things we (Cary, Sofy and I) wrote together. I then decided to check how much people read my blog, so I went to google and looked up “alvycunha.” I was surprised, since I got my posts into sites like boxxet, and many hollywood gossip websites, some music websites, a few health websites and even gave some popularity to a few YouTube videos. I’m really proud of myself for writing posts that are good enough to gain a spot in official websites, fansites and worthy-of-our-attention websites! I even came across a website some time ago that had created my account to their site by I didn’t know the password, so I could never access it. They gave me an old man’s avatar. Evil people.

I also searched for my friend, Sofy’s popularity, and all I reached was an Alyson Hannigan website and a Pokémon fanclub. Bo, you need to explain yourself later. But still, she’s such a talented, amazing, wonderful writer and yet, I am the most stated. That really got me happy! It’s my blog’s Xmas gift for me! I hope I continue being appreciated for my writing, because it’s the best gift someone could ever give to a blog writer.

I have only bought one movie so far over here, and I want to watch many movies in Cary’s birthday party january 10th. So, Sofy and I were talking in MSN earlier, and she reminded me of “Darkness Falls,” a movie I’ve been wanting to watch since second grade when a very dear friend of mine (Patricia Machado) who left school already, was telling some people about the terror movie she had watched. It was about this tooth fairy that died and she killed anyone who looked at her at night. I didn’t get the movie when she explained it to me, it just didn’t make sense.

After Bo got interested in the Buffy series, she told me about “Darkness Falls” and how Emma Caulfield stars in it. (By the way, after Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emma Caulfield is my favorite actress, she’s my 2nd favorite actress) She told me a brief summary of the story and suddenly… DEJA VU! It reminded me of Patricia telling us about it, except I understood it much more now. Bo is planning this evil scheme which contains the movie, somehow. She doesn’t let me buy it over here and I’m really eager for her surprise, and yet scared, because it’s probably one of the scariest movies I’ll ever see. But still, I trust Bo, and I know she knows me, and if she says that I’m going to like it, it’s because I’m going to.

The other one I want to watch is one I bought named “I Know Who Killed Me” and it stars Lindsay Lohan as a stripper. I thought nothing too weird would happen in the movie, since it’s a terror movie, it wouldn’t show much of the stripper part. I was wrong. My sister and I wanted to watch it really bad, so we did, and the first scene, she was already in the “action” and my sister and I looked at each other with weird looks to explain to each other “Woah, already?” when suddenly this woman’s boobs pop into the screen (Not Lindsay Lohan’s, some sick woman’s) and I got scared for my sister watching it and turned it off. I wanted it to watch it in Cary’s birthday as well, but I’ll try to skip all the strip parts if there are more than one.

Now, the one I’ve always wanted to watch since I’ve watched the first two: “I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.” Cary is having her party just to have a nice lunch together with us and to watch the third movie to our favorite collection in the whole world! I’m really looking forward to her party, I have this feeling it’s going to be VERY fun.

I always knew I was sensitive, but not as much as I’m being now. Sometimes, this wave of sensitivity just crashes onto me and the foam of the wave still surrounds me even though there are waves no longer. Just now, my sister bought this “Chia Pet” thing, which if y’all don’t know, it’s this animal made out of dirt (Except for its head, which is made out of stone) that grows plants on its body if you plant seeds on it. My sister (As weird as she is) kept telling me how stupid the idea of having one of thoes is, and I agreed with her, and together we mocked it. Today she bought one. For yesterday and the day before I heard her talk about to my parents, trying to convince them to buy her one of thoes, and she thought I didn’t hear it… so she’d make fun of it to me, and when I said I heard her, she’d say she WANTED it, now she finds it stupid.

We can’t carry plants in our bags to Brazil (Or I guess to any other part of the world) so there was no point in buying this Chia thing if it’s going to die after a few days that it bloomed. I felt so bad for the poor thing. We come to Miami twice every year and I don’t want to come into the apartment and suddenly come across this dead, wilted plant on top of a stone-carved elephant. My sister, as heartless and unsensitive as she is, doesn’t care, the first thing she did was to follow the instructions on how to plant it. I feel so bad for the poor plants… I hope they survive through miraculous water that drips onto them through a great light of God.

My sister is also a tattle teller. She ruined EVERY surprise for this Christmas in which my father lovingly made up for my mother and I. First, she told me that he actually bought a white PSP for me, even though he fought with me whenever I asked for one. That ruined Christmas for me. The only bad thing about it is that he bought the Star Wars edition and it comes with a Darth Vader image at the back and a Star Wars game. At least it’s the villain’s imae and not some good guy’s, and it’s not ugly at all, it’s actually cool… it’s got this terror-y edge to it, i still LOVE my new PSP. I was wondering if I could remove the Darth Vader from it if I didn’t like it, so I looked it up on Google, then I discovered it’s possible with nail polish and cotton, but when I read that, I felt my heart gaining weight on it, like if I removed him, part of my father’s love and care for me would also be washed away with it, so I decided not to plan such a terrible thing. Now do y’all see how sensitive I’m turning out to be?

Another thing that my sister told on would be my father’s surprise for my mother. He had bought these two pearl necklaces for her, one black and the other milky white, he told my sister not to tell her. The first thing she did when she came into the apartment was to run up to my mother and tell her silently so my father wouldn’t hear. Not only did she do that, but brought the gifts to my mother so she could see it. I mean, what kind of a secret-spoiler is she? I mean, it’s Christmas, we’re supposed to be surprised and amazed by the wonderful mysteries it carries, not expecting gifts and ACT surprised when we get them.

Oh, my father also found a Wii for me and he bought it! He also brought 3 controllers home, one for each of us so we can all play together! This is defenitely going to be an awesome Christmas!

People might find it terrible what I’m going to say now, since “Oh, it’s your sister,” “You can’t say things like that about her” but I don’t care anymore, she’s ruining my perfect trip and I’m sick of it.

Just today, we were exiting a games store when my sister ran up to the car, opened the door and just sat there, I spent some time looking at her so she could move over, but she didn’t budge (I’m just doing what she makes me do ALL the frikin’ time) so I said “Move Over” she said “Fine, I’ll do it veeeery slowly” so she did, she got her stuff, threw it veeeery slowly to the other side, and moved veeeery slowly to the other side, I got furious at her for that. We drove to another store and then to a chinese restaraunt. We ate some good, yet weird food and I did the same thing to her that she did to me before, and while I was moving veeeery slowly to the other side, she got furious at me and sat on top of my arm. As most of y’all know, I ain’t exactly fat, and my arms as kind of thin, she SAT on them, it’s like fat 30-something kgs all resting on to of my arm. I took it off from under and gave her impulse enough from the force I did it with that she leaped to the roof of the car and hit her head. HA! HA! HA! who’s the slow one now? She started to cry and scream some time later, and my parents had to bear with her crying and screaming. Whenever any of us three tryed talking to her, she’d answer with some rude cry-y, scream-y response, or when I’d speak, she’d scream so she wouldn’t hear me because she’s too immature to face the fact that I’m always right, so, if she doesn’t wanna be wrong, then she shouldn’t challenge me and my ability to ruin a person when they’re wrong, Vanessa, a friend of mine, once told me how I massacre a person emotionally when I’m right (Which is always, by the way).

Just now I had to fight for the laptop and had to steal it from its usual place. I was looking for PSP colors to buy when my father wanted to use the computer, so I let him use it. Some time after he left it, my sister went in it to dress up the stupid dolls she likes so much, and my window from the PSP was still not minimized. I told her to leave because I was there first, but she started to complain and say she was there first. I showed her the window of the PSP website and she believed that I was there first and let me use the computer, but she remained on the chair. I told her to move but she didn’t, so I disconnected the laptop from the charger and she burst out screaming and crying to the kitchen where my parents were. She doesn’t know how to solve her problems, so she just runs to either our mother or father whenever something happens, that gets me in my nerves, and that’s also part of why they believe her and not me. When she told them the story, she cut off the part that I was there first and said I forced her out of the computer. My mother than told me I wouldn’t be getting a PSP now, first, because I have one (The first edition kind all scratched and missing a button which my maid ate, and worst of all, plain old black) and second because I was mistreating my sister too much and needed a “soul reformation” or whatever it is.

If I told y’all half the things she does to me daily, I’d be here forever. Let me summarize it for y’all: She does annoying dances which she knows I hate and sings when she’s next to me all the time, even though she knows I hate hearing her sing because she’s just plain terrible at it. She doesn’t care where her pants are when she’s wearing them. Half her butt is sticking out and she doesn’t even budge to cover it, so I have to tell her and she still doesn’t. She’s just annoying all over, and that’s annoying. Sometimes she does these faces that make her look so arrogant that I could just tear out her nose just to tear with it her expression of arrogance.

The good side of my trip is that I bought wonderful books! Here’s the list of books I bought so far:

Empress: a Novel - Shan Sa
Geisha, a Life - Mineko Iwasaki
Witch Child - Celia Rees
Dangerous Girls - RL Stine
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Joan of Arc: Personal Recollections - Marc Twain

All the books seem amazing! I can’t wait to read them all!

I just arrived in Miami after a pretty short trip inside an airplane (I slept the whole 8 hours and time just flew by) and a pretty tiring bag-stalking, airport-walking, bus-following, car-renting journey. Here I am, in my apartment, with our laptop! I’m so happy to have all the airplane and aiport parts over with and now I’m free to rest and spend money with gifts from me to me!

In the airplane, I was listening to my iPod mostly to Spice Girls, and I gotta tell y’all, their first songs like “Wannabe” and “Spice Up Your Life” are so bad that they’re even hard to listen to, but now, more recent (And by recent, I mean songs created in the year 2000) songs like “Holler,” or “Too Much” ROCK! They’re too good! And “Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)” is also great! Check out the video for “Holler” and see what I mean by expressing how good it is with the word “ROCK!” Here it is, straight from YouTube:

School is over for 2007, and while I thought it would be a very positive, happy day… it really wasn’t all that. It rained, I have this terrible feeling of emptiness and that I should have made a bigger presence at the last day of school and had fun, since, like Bo said, “Today’s the last time we’re seeing each other in 2007!” and it really is… I wanted it to be special.

In english class, since there were a few people only and it was the last day of school for 2007, Tooms decided we should do something fun… and since she was the drama teacher who directed plays and all some time ago, her idea of fun would be DRAMA. She put up three games on the board… one which we needed to act out what she told us to, the second one was one that we needed to get books and talk using quotes from the book and the other one was one that we had to answer questions with questions made up by the person in front of you.

I was so terrible with the play it wasn’t even funny. First, I had to be a foreign person and talk with an american cowboy (Which was Pam) at a fast food restaurant… and all I did was scream out loud… which was pretty weird… and then I had to be an uptight ring master… which DID go better than the first one, but still so bad it wasn’t even funny.

The second and the third games went okay… since they weren’t as humiliating as the first… and the humiliation from first game had to be comforted away with some serious iPod listening! But even though I got out of there very bothered and disturbed, Sofy ROCKED! She was like the star of the games! and got her team like a million points! I’m real proud of you, Bo! Keep rockin’!

So, here I am… passing The Spice Girls’ music videos into my iTunes library after I bought their “Greatest Hits” yesterday… This is supposed to fill in the blank of my incomplete day… I hope my friends are having fun at the mall.

Right after english class, Sofy and I were listening o my new iPod and when when heard Viva Forever, she really liked it! So I’m uploading the video here! (Don’t mind the excessive fairies, it’s just that Geri had left the group after recording that last song and when she left… they had no Geri for the video! And that’s how the fairies were born) Hope y’all like it:

We’re already almost at the middle of the last week of school until vacation. I don’t know what kind of c**p teachers have in their heads for giving us tests and HUGE projects for the last week of school! I mean, they should really think:

1st: It’s worse for them, they have to correct papers all crammed into the last day, HAHA for them, I hope they burn their brains trying.

2nd: They’re going to have a bunch of angry students protesting against their actions.

I have a bunch of items in my list already crossed for the week. Right now, the list is like this:

Reading Log
Reflection
Science Test
History Test
Portuguese Test
Math Test
Computers Photoshop visual ad
Geography Test
Reflection presentation to 8 different people at the same time
English grammar test

2/3 of the items above are all form english class. I understand Tooms is a funny and nice woman and a great teacher, but she’s just annoying me right now, I’m so angry at her. She left this field trip for the week after the last week of school and left the project for the last week. When Christina and I couldn’t find people to present to, she blamed US for not doing it before. She, herself, in her own words told us that we had to finish the reflection first, then rehearse a speech and present it to 8 different people at the SAME time, I have done my reflection on the weekend like everyone else who’s responsible, and she’s still accusing me of being irresponsible? If she complains of me ONE more time about anything, I’m going to choke her, she’s overloading me AGAIN, does she think we only have english class to study and work for? If she is, she’s insane, and I don’t mean insane, I mean INSANE.

I’m doing my best to go well on the last tests and projects, but I can’t keep up, it’s just too much for a week! thursday I’m having another test, and it’s with a teacher that’s really hard to learn from, so I really have to study hard tomorrow… but it’s my father’s birthday today and he’s traveling, returning tomorrow only, so now I’m having to study at his party and present my english project to anyone who’s there. ARRRGGGHHH it’s driving me MAD! It’s the last week of school for God’s sake! Get over it! I mean, C’mon!