About Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

OK so I accidentally got sucked into the Twilight vortex... I was in the airport, I had nothing to read, I saw the book, bought it and then... well I haven't been able to stop reading! It's like my drug, I can't help wanting to read more! It's funny that if I had known that so many people loved the books I would have never even consider picking it up. I usually hate what lots of people like... not in an effort to be different from everyone else, I swear, I just do. Things like Mana, Titanic, Metallica, Batman, 300, etc. just make me wanna hurl. So I am pretty sure that if I had known how many people were going crazy over this book series I would have hated it before even knowing what it was about, no wait... If I had known it was about freaking vampires I would have hated it even more. But things work in funny ways sometimes. This is not the first time this happens to me. I used to think people in developmental genetics were crazy. The thought of working with C. elegans or Drosophila was bizarre to me though I totally respected it. I just never thought of myself as someone that would enjoy working on something like that. And here I am now up to my elbows in zebrafish water.

Going back to Twilight, it is without a doubt in my list of books that I cannot put down. This list is no joke. Garcia Marquez's One Hunderd Years of Solitude, might be one of the best novels ever  written; also Of Love and Other Demons. I just couldn't get enough of it, a priest and a girl with rabies, just too good! Julio Cortazar's Rayuela, I loved this book 'cause I was always trying to see if I could understand what he would throw at you in this tangled story. I know what you must be thinking "give me a break Twilight it's some stupid story about teenage vampires" and it is true. BUT IT IS SO GOOD! I don't quite understand what it is. Maybe it wakens he teenager in me, or it is my geeky side overflowing, even worst my inner middle-aged woman craving some unreal love affair... I don't care. If you read it you will probably get sucked into the crazyness jut like me.

Oh and one last thing. I haven't seen the movie, but based on what people say, it is most likely bad. I WILL watch it though, like a Stars Wars fan! I just wanted to urge people not to judge the books by the movie. There's a whole lot of characters inner struggle that couldn't possibly be portrayed in a screen (like any other book I guess). So the end to this is just, READ THE BOOKS! and come talk to me about them 'cause I just can't get enough, maybe they put crack on the pages or something... You'll see what I mean if you pick it up ;)

Ale

Guinea Pig World Invasion... Awesome

About Halloween

Halloween is by far one of the most fun holidays there is. I'm not quite sure it's a holiday though. Ok I know it is the eve of the day of all saints, but you don't get the day off from work or class and no one is really sure about what is being celebrated. On the other hand people dress up and go out. Kids get candy, grown-ups get wasted, sounds like a pretty good holiday to me.
Disregarding its designation, Halloween is the day when you get to dress up and be someone or something else. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of that? I know I do. In the past I've gotten to be an 80's cartoon character who I loved as a kid, Strawberry Shortcake (aka Fresita o Frutillita). I was Eve, 'cause who wouldn't want to be the first woman alive? (FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, please do not mistake me with Sarah Palin!). I was a Playboy bunny too, this was a result of watching way too many episodes of Girls Next Door. This year I'm sticking to the decade when I was born and dressing up as a girl that lived in a material world, got it? (I know, I'm sorry, I can't help being cheesy).
One of the things that I love about Halloween is that in the end is all about the candy. Kids go door to door asking trick-or-treat. Thinking about it grown men do the same thing. It is a known fact that, at least in the US, Halloween is an excuse for girls to wear as little clothing as possible without feeling that they will be criticized by other girls. It is the holiday that gets girls to release their alter-ego's, or in this case, their alter-ho's. This combined with drinking works out beautifully for guys who not only get eye candy, but actually get to take home some.
So dress up, have fun and get your candy 'cause this year Halloween is on a Friday!!

Ale

Waiting for Pandemic 2

About South Park being more awesome than ever

South Park is probably one of the best shows on television today. If you factor out talking towels and turds, the writers of South Park always make excellent points about society today.

Everyone who knows me well enough knows that I am obsessed with South Park, I know it's a little bit 1997, but the quality has never gone down. Then, this week something awesome happened. Two things that I LOVE combined. This weeks episode of South Park was awesome!! Not only it was it very funny but it had GUINEA PIGS, giant guinea pigs.... You can't ask for better television. In any case, inspired by this week's episode I decided to make a list of my favorite South Park episodes, excluding the movie, which is probably the best South Park episode since it is bigger, longer and uncut (I couldn't help myself). I hope that if you have not seen any of these you get on it ASAP. Here it goes (in no particular order):

-TSST

-Pandemic

-Major Boobaje

-Rainforest Shmainforest

-Chinpokomon

-Canada on Strike

-Red Badge of Gayness

-Towelie

-The Entity

-Freak Strike

-The Simpsons Already Did it

-Christian Rock Hard

-All About Mormons?

-Cancelled

-Casa Bonita

-Good Times with Weapons

-You got F'd in the A

-Die Hippie Die

-Ginger Kids

-A Million Little Fibers

-Smug Alert

-Go God Go

-Go God Go XII

-D-Yikes

-Le Petit Tourette

-Miganinationland (1, 2 and 3)

Ale

About this blog

This blog is clear evidence of the effects of peer pressure. Everyone blogs so why shouldn't I?! Disregarding that fact, those who know me can say that I have way too many things to say. So I thought a good way of getting all these thoughts out of my head would be to write them so I don't annoy my friends or keep them to myself ;). Plus, I need a new hobby to keep me from being productive in lab and stalking people in facebook has become mundane lately.

A tiny bit about me, I am 23, live in NYC, originally Venezuelan, have 2 guinea pigs and go to grad school at NYU (Susan Schwab's lab). I am very particular about lots of stuff: examples include loving relish, science, air drying after showering and shoes; and hating butterflies, root beer and insufferable know-it-all's. 

Seriously though, I hope people read this and enjoy it. I will do it in english so that my friends from here as well as those from back home can read it. 

Enjoy!

Ale