Time Challenge – Meet my Partners

So this month I decided to finally go back to the Time Challenge and some brave people decided to do it with me!

Together we are going against our old ways, our old habits and everything that steals time from us.

Together we are challenging ourselves… We are challenging our own limitations… We are challenging time itself.

It’s hard but it can be done. It’s difficult but we will do it together!

Here are some of my beautiful Partners doing their first task ;)

Bruna Araujo

Jazmin Cazares

           

Julissa Rojas

Leslie Ntoya

Sarah N

Triana Saucedo

Selene Vital

       































If you’d like to join us in the next phase starting in March, just click here.

The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part II

It’s over people! After 4 years, the Twilight Saga is over.

But hey, we can still talk about it ;) Do you know how?

Through the Twilight Series I started here on the blog sometime ago but never got to finish.

Here’s what I wrote so far:

So the lion fell in love with the lamb

Mind over Matter

You are my life now

I’m nothing if not traditional

Here’s what’s still to come starting next Thursday:

You are only human

Edward X Jacob

Do I dazzle you?

Twilight - The conclusion

But going back to Breaking Dawn – Part II, here are my thoughts on the last movie of the saga:

I think it ended well. Of course there’s no comparison between the movie and the book but I thought they still did a good job.

I’d like to have seen a little bit more of acting though. It seemed to me that there were more demonstrations of what kind of super powers people had than actually people having conversations.

I didn’t like the fact that Jacob is almost nowhere to be seen in this movie. I say this because, well if you read the book you know that good part of this story was told through Jacob’s perspective and not Bella’s. I was really looking forward to hearing him saying all the funny things he says in the book, but no… they didn’t include that. Pity.

I loved the twist at the end though. Very clever!

What else can I say?

It was good. I liked how it ended and I’m happy that it did…

It was time :) 

* The crazy twilight fans probably don’t agree with this last statement… but what can I do? It’s true hehehe

Flight

I’ve never really been in between two opinions when it comes to a movie. I either liked it or I didn’t. It was either good or bad.

But the movie “Flight” managed to put me there… I’m not yet sure if I recommend it or not hahaha…

So, let’s do something here, shall we?

I’ll list the things I liked about it and the ones I didn’t like and then you decide for yourself whether it’s worth watching or not ok? That’s right… Based on the information I’ll give, YOU will be the movie critic today ;)

Let me start by what I didn’t like:

* A scene of nudity. I mean, why do they do that? You know those scenes where it makes no sense to show someone naked? Not that it ever makes sense, but sometimes it’s just ridiculous! And such is the case in this movie. There is the guy talking on the phone and them bam, there goes someone naked. GIVE ME A BREAK! I DON’T WANT TO SEE THAT!

* Cursing. Oh my! They curse quite a few times in this movie. It’s becoming rare when you see a movie when they don’t curse at all, but I still don’t like it.

* Drug use and drinking. Again, very common in movies nowadays. Unfortunately.

* For a good while, you think you are going to hate the movie. I was like ‘No, I can’t believe that that’s the message they are giving! I can’t believe that this will be the story’. But no, something changes and you see where they are getting at.

And here’s what I really liked:

* It gives a very powerful message, a life lesson really. It shows the reality of many people and how many people are living/destroying their lives.

* To me, among many other things, it speaks specifically about temptation, how you should not play with it… You should flee from it instead. Not consider it, not give it a second thought, but flee, run for your life, otherwise it WILL destroy you.

So, what’s your conclusion?

Is it worth seeing all the bad stuff so you can see the good? I don’t know…

You decide ;) 

Ready, set…

So we are starting the Time Challenge this week, but I’m making a few changes to the way we go about it.

1.     I will no longer be posting the weekly tasks here on the blog. Only those who subscribed to the Challenge will receive it by email. 

2.     After this Thursday no one will be able to subscribe to the Challenge. So, if you haven’t yet but would like to, please fill out the form on this link: Click here for the form.

3.     If you are new to this blog and have no idea of what I’m talking about, please click on the links below to know more and if you would like to be part of it, just subscribe. You have until this Thursday ;)

 One of my major Flaws

Are you ready to start Again?

May the Challenge begin!

Time Challenge - Are you ready to start again?

Yeah… I know you thought this was over and that I had given up.

But I have not and will not until I achieve what I purposed myself right about this time last year.

So, here’s what I propose:

FORGET THE PAST!

Forget what you failed or didn’t fail to do. 

Forget if you joined me in this Challenge and have long ago forgotten about it.

Forget if you gave up half of the way.

And please, forget the fact that in the past 7 months I haven’t posted anything about it hehehe…

Let’s focus on now and on the future.

So those of you who started this Challenge with me back in January and would like to continue start again, please fill out the form below and will be receiving more instructions this week.

If you weren’t very interested before, but would like to join us now, please fill out the form.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, check this post - Time Challenge - and then if after that you decide to join us, fill out the form.

Let’s start afresh. Let’s start again. The first step?

Fill out the form lol

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Argo

Answer fast: What’s the one thing that happens to all big blockbuster movies right before they premiere?  

Promotion.

There’s usually a lot of buzz around the movie. They create websites, teasers, trailers. They send the main actors on talk shows and international tours, hold premieres in different countries, etc, etc. And all with one single objective: Get the public interested in watching the movie. But I don’t remember a lot of promotion being made about ‘Argo’, which immediately made me think that it was probably not a good movie.

Besides, what kind of movie is titled “Argo”?

I watched the trailer and it seemed interesting, but the question was, was it interesting enough? But I went to watch it anyway.

VERY GOOD MOVIE!!!

The story happens in Tehran, Iran. People were working normally and going about their day on the US Embassy in Tehran, until lots and lots of protesters invade the Embassy and take everyone hostage, except six Americans who escaped through a back door and hid in the Canadian Ambassador’s house.

Now the CIA must devise a plan to rescue the six Americans and bring them back safely to the United States. But how can they do that without anyone in Iran finding out? How can they even pass through immigration without being recognized as Americans? It was quite an impossible mission. 

Lots of agents present their ideas, some good, others ridiculous, until one agent, Tony Mendez (played by Ben Affleck) has the idea of using a movie to rescue them.

That’s right. They were going to produce a fake movie, use the excuse that the best place to shoot the movie was Tehran, go there and come back with the six Americans with the pretense that they were part of the movie crew.

I don’t want to tell you anymore otherwise I will end up spoiling it for you. But let me tell you what I like about the whole movie:

·     It’s a very intelligent plot. It makes you think, ponder, pay attention.

·      It gives a nice message about responsibility, commitment and honoring your word.

·      The outfits and glasses are hilarious.

·      And my favorite: It gives you the idea of how everything in Hollywood is a big lie. They show what they want you to see and they make you believe in whatever they want you to believe.

That’s why I think it’s so important for us to choose carefully the movies we watch and most importantly, understand the message behind it and separate the good things from the bad.

I recommend Argo because it is quite a nice movie, except for all the cursing (well, it’s Hollywood after all, what do you expect?).  It has a message, it has something we can take from it and it’s very entertaining.

I tell you, if I had the habit of biting my nails, I’d probably have left the theaters with no fingers… it makes you really tense hehehe…