Happy Holidays

Today in the U.S. is Christmas so Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Holidays. 2013 is going to be an eventful year, good and bad or indifferent. A lot has happen that past few months or so, the company I work for closed 23 campuses within 2 weeks and now they have to lay off 900 people by the new year... bummer  :( some unfortunately been laid-off and a lot of changes in my department will happen in January. I'm not looking forward to it because I don't know what's going to happen to me. In the past, I've worked at a company that was struggling because of the housing market, which is where their business thrived on. I was the last one to get hired and the first one to get fired, so I'm not too thrilled to hear the bad news before the holidays. I have faith and whatever happens, happen, it was meant to be.

On a better note, I started a little project that will grow into a bigger one later on, I will reveal much later in 2013. Some good movies will be coming out. I saw an official trailer of Man of Steel with Henry Cavill and I was in awe, I thought the first trailer was pretty awesome but this one was way BETTER. It looks like it will be better than the last Superman movie. Will Smith have a movie coming out called "After Earth" and that one looks good too. Will Smith son is in it too and he has to survive the much evolving earth. I think a new Mortal Kombat movie is coming out too but not sure. Brad Pitt has a movie called "World War Z" a zombie epidemic outbreak movie. I'm not so sure about this one yet. And more like; Iron Man, Captain America, prequel to 300?, wolverine and the list goes on.

A lot of people will be removed out of my life, meaning some people I don't talk to or shouldn't talk to will be removed out of my life. I need to surround myself with real people that have a positive outlook on life and want to do something with their lives. A lot of growth and changes will happen. All in all, 2013 will be my year!


Man of Steel Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS7iJu4

After Earth Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdBBROlUeM

World of War Z Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk

Connecticut Shooting

Another sad news today, hearing bad news about another shooting that took place this week. We already had the mall shooting in Oregon that took place like 3 days ago; right before the Christmas holiday. The Connecticut shooting took place today around 9:41 am at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The shooter, Adam Lanza is 20 years old, he has a brother that is being questioned by the police and he is 24 years old; he had nothing to do with the shooting.

He murdered 20 children ages 5 to 10 years old and 6 adults teachers and staff bringing the toll to 26 not including the gunman that killed his own self. Many sources said the gunman shot his mother in the face at home, then went to the school, walked into a classroom where his mother was once a teacher and opened fire, I believe most in the same classroom. He proceeded to another classroom killing 6 adults and killing himself.

Supposedly the gunman wore a bulletproof vest and carried 4 guns into the school. Sources also said Adam Lanza had some issues with other kids growing up. It's clear that this guy is sick and evil to go into a elementary school and open fire let alone killing his own mother as well. If you are tired of your own life or depressed get help, don't go murdering innocent people because you are mentally ill. What gives you the right to take someone else life? and notice all shooters in the world have one thing in common? mental issues!

Instead of celebrating the holidays with your kids, family and friends now you have to plan a damn funeral. It's heartbreaking and my heart goes out to the victims and victim's families that are mourning this tragic day. I'm sick to my stomach and very sad to hear bad news that mentally ill people in this world can go and just kill innocent people like it's a sport. What's the purpose of that? those 20 children didn't have a chance to live their lives and become something great. My prayers and thoughts are with the friends and family of the victims and the ones that lost their lives in this heinous crime.

This is one of the WORST mass shootings in U.S. history.




Sources:
http://gma.yahoo.com/breaking-conn-school-district-locked-down-shooting-report-151955384--abc-news-topstories.html

http://gma.yahoo.com/connecticut-shooter-adam-lanza-obviously-not-well-182011729--abc-news-topstories.html

The Man with the Iron Fists Review

When I saw the trailer for this movie I had to see it. This movie has a Quentin Tarantino spin on it but was directed by RZA from the Wu Tang Clan and written RZA and Eli Roth. The plot of the movie is a hunt to retrieve a treasure of gold. All the bad guys want their hands on this precious gold like the Golden warriors, assassins, the Gemini twins. It all started when a young man's father a Lion Clan Leader was murdered by the hands of a traitor. The young man Zen Yi - The X-Blade (Rick Yune) spark by vengeance runs into a blacksmith aka Blacksmith (RZA) which was forced to join forces with The X-Blade due to a unfortunately accident caused by the clan in which the Blacksmith making his arms into lethal weapons.

Jack Knife (Russell Crowe) a British solder joined them too, he helped in making those arms lethal weapons. The clan; Bronze Lion (Cung Le), Silver Lion (Byron Mann), Gold Lion, Copper Lion there was a lot of lions... haha! Poison Dagger (Daniel Wu). I can't forget about one of my wrestlers Brass Body (Dave Bautista) he did his thing in the movie as the powerhouse. A lot of the fighting took place in the brothel house ran by (Madame Blossom) Lucy Lu. The thing I want to point out that was funny to me, well a lot of things was funny to me about this movie was the fact that the clan loved their hair. Their hair was well done with a lot of volume, color and curl. Poison Dagger hair was all white with white eyebrows, he kept touching his eyebrow with his pinky finger that had a pointy jewel on it.

I liked the fighting scenes of course because it was bloody, crazy and funny. I can't say I liked RZA's acting, he's not a actor per se. It was so much crazy fighting with people flying in the air and doing some cool tricks with their weapons and blood shed all over the place. Bautista's character was a bad, motha trucka!!! Lucy Lu's character was really good too. Everyone that was fighting did a good job using their fighting abilities. Don't see this movie if you don't like violence, weird/crazy sense of humor or Quentin Tarantino style movies, it has his influences all over this movie. Also this movie story-line was a little different, not a typical good story. The acting was a little cheesy as well.

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Image: http://soultemplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-soundtrack

Sinister Review

I seen this movie over the weekend with my boyfriend and what can I say about this movie? well, this movie is about a true crime author (Ellison Oswalt) played by Ethan Hawke who wanted to write a best-selling book but came across some footage that was left in a house him and his family moved in to. The footage had 5 different family murders on them. Ethan Hawke's character is trying to write his book based off of these heinous crimes. As he watches each footage there is this creepy character that's in the background staring back. One of the murdered families was hung in the backyard of Ethan Hawke's new house. By watching each footage he opens a gateway for this supernatural entity to enter his home.

I couldn't really fully watch the movie myself only because there was a group of loud mouths in the theater, well one loud mouth guy mainly kept talking throughout the movie. Most of us was shhhing and telling that person to shut up, I remember one person kept saying "Shut the 'F' up". It was bad to the point where 3 people left. A patron that works at the theater came in and told the guy to be quiet or leave the theater, he was somewhat trying to argue with the patron but eventually shut up.

I thought this movie wasn't scary at all, even with the creepy character being in the background most of the time. I would say that the character was real ugly though, no mouth, black eyes and didn't speak at all. The scare factor didn't do it for me, I guess nothing scares me anymore as far as movies go. They really tried to make this movie scary with the background music and lighting. The music was kind of weird and fast. Would I see this movie again? probably not!


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Image: http://www.moviesonline.ca/2012/06/super-eerie-debut-trailer-sinister/sinister-movie-poster/

J. Alexander's Restaurant Review

I normally don't write reviews on restaurants but more on food items but I must say, I really like this restaurant. Me and my boyfriend usually go to our local restaurants to have a bite to eat but we decided to switch it up a little. He mentioned J. Alexander's prior to us going because he dined there before. The last time he was there was several months ago and he liked it. Since I never been there before I decided to look online for their menu because their website for some reason didn't have a menu. The only bugged me about the menu was that it was limited, too small. They only had a few items; 5 or 6 appetizers, a small list of entrees, wine list was limited as well.

I'm thinking maybe they'll have a better selection, so we arrive and the ambiance is beautiful and upscale, a classy restaurant for sure. We ordered drinks, I had a Pomegranate Martini which was to die for, it was sweet with very little alcohol taste to it. My boyfriend ordered the Espresso Martini and that was to die for as well, it had a couple of pieces of coffee beans for a bolder flavor. It was time to order, I ordered the Barbecue Danish Baby Back Ribs, fell off the bone goodness with Tequila Beans which I can't stop thinking about it, it was soooooo good, right along with 'not your ordinary' mac and cheese which was also a very delicious food item. I switched out the coleslaw for that and I was glad I did. My boyfriend ordered the Steak Maui with the smash potatoes, and let me tell you, the steak melted in my mouth. It was very good too. I wish I had my camera with me to take pictures because the food was outstanding.

I would definitely go back but not as a every weekend thing only because for one, it has a very limited menu and two, it's a little on the pricy side.

Bamboo Spoon Yogurt Review

I stumbled across this place when I was on lunch break with a co-worker about two weeks ago. We were eating at a restaurant a few doors down from Bamboo Spoon. As we were leaving the restaurant I notice there was a yogurt shop in the same shopping center. Everybody should know by now that I'm a huge fan of frozen yogurt. I love to try different frozen yogurt shops and usually stick with those if I like them a lot. I told myself "one of these days I'm going to try out this place."

The cool thing about this place is the fact that it's not too far from where I work, and the hours I work I can fit in time to go before I start my shift. On a Thursday, I decided I'm going to check out this place. I go inside and I was like, "WOW" the decor is nicely decorative, more like environmentally friendly and it was clean too. This is a self-serve yogurt shop which I like, I was given a sample cup to try some flavors before I buy. I sampled Chocolate Nut, Snicker Doodle, and Sugar Cookie; all three flavors were to die for. The flavors are flesh and flavorful without leaving that aftertaste. There were more but I was on time restraints as I had to be at work real soon.

All in all, I ended up mixing Creamy Chocolate and Sugar Cookie. They have a lot of toppings to choose from, I think they may have more toppings than Pinkberry. I got strawberries, pineapples, granola, Andes candies which made me have stars in my eyes, I LOVE Andes mints especially in my frozen yogurt. And at the last minute I couldn't believe my eyes, I saw that they have NERDS candy. NERDS candy!!! I LOVE nerds candy too... I'll have to definitely try that next time.

This frozen yogurt shop is a must try, I'm going to add this place on my favorite frozen yogurt shop list. I have a few favorites and this one is one of them, I'll be back Bamboo Spoon.


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Image: www.bamboospoonyogurt.com