Tangerine's PoV

This is the end. One of these days you will decide to live on your own, you will decide you don’t need my belly to hide yourself anymore, you will decide I’m no longer a comfortable place for you. I’m scared, I don’t pretend to lie and seem strong, I’m not. I’m scared because I know it will hurt so much I won’t be able to think of you, I will only want you out. I’m scared because I know our lives will not be the same with you out. Your daddy is dying to see you, your grandparents also, as for me… I don’t know. I want to see you but I guess I enjoy having you inside, I am the one priviledged to have you inside, I have a special communication with you and you can only beat me. In a somewhat selfish way I’d like to enjoy a little bit more this special relationship because I know that we will never feel this connection again. It’s a quite strange feeling, I’d like to see you but I’d also like to keep you inside. Inside there you’re so innocent, so untouched, so pure… But you have to get out, it’s time now… Get ready and please push with mummy, I will surely be grateful for it all my life.

I’d like to tell you more things but it seems you are not very comfortable when I’m sitting on this chair and I have to take you to bed. I’ll tell you a story until you fall asleep now that I can still talk to you without saying a word.

I’ll wait for you to give me a sign. When you’re ready, I’m ready.

…and his only one. Martin Scorsese is a great director, this is something I know, you know, he knows, everybody knows. Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator are just some of the titles that impressed the public, the critics, but that didn’t get to be read during the best director section of the great ceremony. Despite that, Martin Scorsese always kept on directing movies and his movies were still very very good movies, movies that didn’t leave us indifferent until one day the title of one of his movies was read during the best director section: The Departed. But still, there is a but. After Titanic I swore I would not see again any movie in which Leonardo di Caprio appeared. It seemed to me a very bad actor. I don’t know why. Maybe because the movie was very bad, maybe because of all the advertising stuff he was involved in after Titanic, the sex symbol he turned into after dying in Titanic. I remember I was 15 when I saw Titanic and I remember that half of the girls in my city were like “Wow” every time they saw him on TV or whatever. Anyway, independently of the reasons, I refused to see any movie in which Di Caprio showed his face since then. I have seen Gangs of New York in the meantime in which Di Caprio appears and it was not bad, not bad at all, but still it did not convince me. So here comes the doubt: The Departed was the movie for which Scorsese finally got the Oscar. If his other movies were brilliant this one should be at least amazingly brilliant to get the Oscar, so I must see it. On the other hand, in The Departed Di Caprio shows his face almost during all the movie, and I’m talking about 2 hours and a half. Should I see the movie? I have asked myself this question in several occasions until we finally decided to give it a chance and see it. It couldn’t be bad. It actually proved to be more than amazingly brilliant in the end.

The Departed is a movie of endless action, a movie with a crazy rhythm that doesn’t let you even breath during the 2 hours and a half that it lasts. A movie that needs your total attention and that gets your total attention without you even noticing it (something we’ve got used to in Scorsese’s movies). A movie that surprises you with changes that no one would expect. A movie with very deep dialogs, with a quite strong vocabulary which is still not exaggerated, a movie with a very good soundtrack, very very appropriate music. Scorsese finally found perfection with this movie, but he did not find it alone. The cast was a very important ingredient of this success and without it the movie would not have been even half as good as it is: Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, Leonardo Di Caprio (who really really surprised me with his interpretation in this movie) they were all brilliant actors.

The Departed was the movie that taught me to never judge a movie I have not seen and always give a chance to a movie independently of the actors that appear in it, a lesson I have learned before with other movies but never applied. I promise I will apply it from now on.

Now I recommend you to go to the closest video club, or start a search in Emule or on your usual torrents page and get this movie. But take care: Demonoid is under maintenance. Good luck and enjoy the movie!

I have never been a fan of the circus. I remember I went once or twice in my life to a circus show and it dissapointed me a lot, I found it fake, I found it deceitful. I have heard of Cirque du Soleil in the past but I have never seen one of their shows as, as I said before, circus was not one of my interests. Last night I had nothing to watch on TV so I decided to see a circus show. It was Cirque de Soleil’s La Nouba, maybe one of their most impressive shows. I loved it, I loved it so much that now I just can’t wait for them to come to Barcelona to have the opportunity to see them.

In the meantime here you have one of the best moments of La Nouba show:

Nowadays we all tent to say (and think) that we have no time to read. I always have books that I’d love to read but they use to spend months on the waiting list because there’s always something that occupies all my time: work, school, etc. Now there is a solution: Dailylit!

Dailylit is a page which offers a small dose of literature daily directly to your e-mail. You can subscribe and receive your book at a certain hour, everyday or only on weekdays. You can read it when you use to take a small break when you are at work, or when you use to spend the 20 minutes in front of the PC when you get home. It doesn’t have a very big collection of books, most of them are old books with expired copyright, but still, very good books and they are adding new books every now and then.

I have started to read Dickens’ Hard Times, and I really enjoy it. When I use to take my coffee I receive my daily installment and I enjoy it while I relax a bit. I still have 129 installments to go, but we’re getting there.

Very recommended!

I’ve been tagged by Cris to write 8 random facts about me. So, this is how it works:

• We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
• Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.

All this being said, let’s start with the 8 facts:

1. I always wanted to be a young mother, but still, when I got pregnant the first thing I thought was: “Oh my God, I’m too young to be mother”. I still think I’m too young, but well…
2. I hate it when people don’t let you get off the metro/bus/train before they go in.
3. I have big issues with living in the present; I use to get lost somewhere in the past now and then.
4. I have problems finding what I really like: I have started three degrees (economisc, English and Spanish philology and finally advertising and public relations), and I still don’t know if what I study now is what I would like to do in the future. Maybe I have to be what they call the “eternal student”.
5. I read boring literature (everytime I lend a book to someone, a book that I enjoyed a lot they are not able to finish it, or if they can they declare it the most boring book they have read in their lives).
6. I like to watch contests like ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’ (not exaclty this as here in Spain the host of the show is disgusting).
7. I hate it when the company I work for is not organized and does not establish rules to be followed by everyone.
8. I am scared to death by the thought of giving birth. It’s been two or three weeks now since I dream about it every night.

Now I would tag Sabina, Cornelia and Cris but I would first have to convince them to start a blog. Tough task! So I tag anyone who is interested in sharing with us 8 little random things about theirselves.

We use to say that we are multitasking because we are able to do more than one activity at one time successfully. We can speak with a client by phone, write an e-mail and respond to colleague who is asking if we want coffee or not. But do we really do all these things at the same time and do we really concentrate on each one of these things? Cientists have different opinions and until they make up their minds and come to a conclusion we will not know if we can really be multitasking or not. I always considered myself able to do various tasks at the same time, but still, science might study this and discover if this is really possible and how can it be achieved.

For the moment I have found some very interesting videos which demonstrate that the most important skill that helps us realize more than one task at the same time, aka the short term visual memory, is limited. We can only concentrate on 4 things at the same time. False? See the videos on this page and see how long it takes to find the difference between the two pics in each video.