7.25.2010


I got an award!!, from the amazing Elizabeth Faraday, Thank you so much!, if you haven't had the chance of visiting her blog you should, she's got some really good things to say, and an amazing style to show, it's always one of the blogs I like visiting first!!

So I'm going with the system:
1. Thank the person who gave you the award
2. Copy the award and put it on the blog
3. Pass the award to other 15 blogs you've discovered
4. Let these 15 people know that you've given them an award

Okay: 15 blogs I've discovered you have to check them out
4. Sara at She is Sara
5. Marley at Marley Mumbles
8. Charlotte Elise Jay at you're the rag to my doll
9. Pablo y Bea at Violet Dreams
10. Just another Londoner at Crystalline Sunshine
11. Black Widow at La curiosidad mató al gato
12. Coco fan at Coco Rocha
14. my best friend at the "chili with rice" project
15. and let's face it.. she'll never even know but I think she deserves it: Coco Rocha at Oh so Coco


Song of the day: Whatever happened (the Strokes)


7.19.2010

SoCa



It's been some time now that I've been enjoying my summer vacation, and last week I had the chance to visit some relatives in California. I had a great time at Newport beach and the Santa Monica pier, riding the small roller coaster with my ten year old niece. By the time we found ourselves at 12:0o at night at a taco bell at Beverly Boulevard I had the chance to see some girls about my age coming in, I'll describe their dressing code as bohemian indie rock, I remember one of them was wearing de-colored shorts, black oxfords, a yellow sleeveless extra large shirt with a black tank top underneath, and a black hat.. as much normal as this may seem to some of you, I remember thinking to myself "I wish people in small cities, like the one where I live were as expressive in the way they dress as this", I'm not saying that they should be edgy when they're not, it's just that I've found a ton of girls that wouldn't wear something cause it wouldn't blend with the rest of the society. Even when I have my fair number of polo shirts, I get tired of seeing them everyday at my school.


On the other hand of having a great time, the news about mexican discrimination came to my mind more than once. My parents have had the privilege of being successful professionals in my country, the country that I love (despite all of the social problems we've suffered), that giving me the chance of receiving a good education, and having a comfortable life with no needs of emigrating to another country. But not all of us have the same "luck", it's an irony to think that one of my grandpas made a living by going over there to work, sending enough money for my mom and her sibling to go have a fair life too, and my other grandpa being son of a spanish immigrant. at the end we're all people, and I think those who discriminate anyone who's different from them, due to ignorance, have and will always have a poor life, and they're the ones who I feel sorry for.



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