Chicago !!

I so wanted to post my pics/review aout my trip to Chicago a couple of days ago bt I hadn't had time because of my hectic week at school and the detah of my grand mother however right now I have time to do it... :D

I must say it was the best trip I've ever made lol and this time I had no problems with the US officers at the airport, I loved everything besides the fact that I was fooled by a man who took me from the airport to my hotel and asked me to pay him 168 dlls. (the regular fare is 40 dlls.!!) didn't complain about it 'cos he seemed to be a "rude" man so I didn't want to get in troubles. Anyway besides that incident my trip was perfect, I loved every moment; going to the supermarket on my own, walking to the stores/malls to do some shopping, meeting new people like the couple tha were next to me in the concert or the ladies who were staying in my hotel and who were also going to see the Spice Girls live, I even met an online friend from the US and I also saw a friend from Russia (I regret about not metting him.. but I could lose my place in the queue to meet Victoria Beckham!). Everything was perfect, I even had the chance of meeting Victoria Beckham and even though I wasn't able to have a pic with her 'cos the cameras andthe flashes made her feel nervous she gve me her autograph and told me I've got nice teeth which is really flattering.

The concert was amazing as well, I was on my feet the whole way through and I screamed like a crazy man, lol my lungs and my throat still hurt haha but I dont' care, I danced like I had never daned before an even though I was on my own I had an amazing time, I sang every song and wlel I jumped like a little kid haha I can say it's one of the best moments in my life.

Chicago River..frozen

The Spice Girls singing "Mama" with their kids on stage and their mummies on the screens.

Outside of a Presbyterian Church that was next to my hotel.

LOL I couldn't help smiling haha.

The Magnificent Mile illuminated.

The end ofthe concert after 2 hours 20 min aprox.

After performing as a 4 piece band Geri returns to the stage with them :D

LOL I was really excited after I met Victoria, I had to take a picture of me holding her autograph.

My Girls Aloud PC game!!

During the last weeks I worked on the creation of a PC game for Computer class; the teacher taught us how to program all the buttons and everything we needed for the creation of this game and well after that we were asked to work on the desing and since I love Girls Aloud I decided to use them as the main topic of my game, it's not a really god or interesting game and sometimes the score doesn't work properly but well I'm just really happy 'cos I never thaught I would be able to do something like this, I hope you guys can enjoy it as much as I enjoy it, here's the fownload link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/23587812/der-izq.swf.html

It's a Macromedia Flash file but you can open it even if you don't have Flash installed, and don't worry ir't not a big file and it doesnn't have a virus.

I'm back and.. free!! haha

Hello everyone, as the title of this topic says I'm back lol before anything else I must say I had a nice time yesterday when I was reading the comments you left while I wasn't here, thatnks a lot I really appreciate them. I wanted to post about my trip yesterday but I didn't really had time, I had to unpack all the clothes I bought (I still need to put them in my closet :P) and well I felt tired and since I wanna post most of the things that happened to me I decided to wait until today; I decided to post all those things in different paragraphs so that it isn't that boring even though this will be a long post anyway. So here we go;





The flight/my arrival




When my parents left my in the airport I was really nervous and lol since my mum is just like me she kept telling me to be careful with the forms I had to fill in whenI arived and blah blah so she made me feel even more nervous but well at a certain point I decided to stop listening to her 'cos otherwise I'd die of a heart attack haha. Everything went right with my luggage so I didn't have any problems so we started to get into the air plane, I really enjoyed the flight but at a certain stage during the flight I felt a bit dizzy and went to the bathroom just to relax a bit anyway after 2 hours of flight we arrived to Houston and as the airplane was landing I really enjoyed the view from my window seat especially because the sun light was reflected in most of the pools that some houses have so it was nice. We arrived to the airport at 2:00 pm and I registered immediately so that I could pick up my luggage afterwards and finally meet my cousin but when I was registering I was asked loads of questions about my previous visits to the US and of course I answered with the truth but well there was something wrong (I didn't even know about that at that time) so I was "slowed down" and followed a police woman who took me to a room in which there were people from all over the world (Africa, UK, France, Mexico, China, Korea :S) so I started to guess there was something wrong but didn't have a clue about it anyway most of the people that were there when I arrived had already left the room after the first 3 hours!! and new people had arrived. I must admit I was scared at all because I had no idea about why was I there, at 5:00 pm a police woman asked me to go to the front and started to interview me, she asked the same questions I was asked b4 (When I arrived) and I answered the thruth again, after that she told me to sit again and I asked her what was going to happen now and she told me "You're going to have an interview with an officer about your previous trips to the US" so I asked her how long would that take (By that time I had been there like for 3hrs. 30 min and I had no clue about what was wrong so I was frustrated and nervous especially because my cousin called 2 times and I was never allowed to use the telephone because I was under arrest!! :S ) and she replied "A couple of hours" so I was scared and took seat again. Another hour, or something like that passed, and I was finally called by an Asian police man, I entered the interview room and he warned me about lying 'cos there was a camera and a microphone and again the same questions were asked and I replied the same and started to give my explanations, I told him it was the first time that I traveled alone and all that stuff but he didn't care he started to tell me he would send me to jail and that my Visa (Like the American passport for people who don't live in the US) was going to be cancelled, he also told me I was too young to lie and stuff like that, he made me feel like trash! he also asked me to show him all the stuff that was inside my pockets and stuff like that. I couldn't stop shaking and feeling just like punching him but of course I controlled my emotions and I always replied in a polite way after 40 min of questions he told me he was going to send me to Mexico and thatI would go to jail (By that time I didn't care about that, all I wanted was to get out of there, I didn't care about my money or my trip) he asked me to go and search for my luggage and he told me he would wait for me in a certain point, after 20 min I found my luggage but he wasn't there anymore! so I had to talk with another police man and he took me again to the interview room and the Asian officer opened my bag, he checke it in a rude way he throw all my clothe to se if there was soemthing wrong but once again everything was in order so he asked me the sae questionsonce again and then told me to get out of his office so I took a seat again and waited like for 40 min again, by that time I was so tired that sometimes I couldn't help falling asleep but I tried to be strong especially because I was starving and I also wanted to cry but I just couldn't do it.





After that happened an American officer started to interview me this time, he told me it was like a trial and he warned me again about not lying and blah blah so again I replied the same because it was the truth but the thing is that dutring one of our previous trips my parents forgot to return the permission papers they give you so that u can stay in the US for a certain time so when we returned to Mexico they relaised about it and they returned them 1 year and a half later whenone of my aunts traveled but I had no idea about that, I just remmebered something like that had happened and I metioned it everytime I was iterviewed but it was worthless. So they checked their systems and those said I had been living in the US for one year and a half (The time that passed until my aunt returned those permission papers) but of course I had no dam clue about it especially because my mum was in charge of all our documents during all our previous trips but well they said that I was lying, that my English level was really fluent and it showed I had been studying in the US for that time because of my level. I explained them I had never stayed in the US for more than 2 weeks and that I had never visted a school in the US but they said I was lying so well I was almost sure I'd retunr to Mexico that day and that I'd go to jail but since I was really desesperate by that time I really didn't care, all I wanted was to get out of that place. So after the interview the American officer called my cousin and she told him the same things I had said previously but they still didn't believe us, the officer told me he deals with Mexican people everyday and that he knew how was the level of English taught in Mexico so he said mine was almost perfect and that was because I had been living in the US for 1 year and a half, I denied it because of course it's not true but again he said his systems were telling him I was lying so then he told me we would call my parents but I didn't know how to dial and he didn't know either so we tried like 5 times and it didn't work soI told him we could call my cousin and she could tell us hot to dial to Mexico so we phoned her again and she told the officer the correct phone number and after some minutes my parents contacted the offcier but of course while they talked I stayed outisde of his office. When he finished talking with them he allowed me to talk with them so that I could prove I was ok but of coruse I was as scared as a chciken!. When I hanged up he told me to go outised again and wait for him until he finished checking my papers, after some minutes he called em again and told me I was free and it was not my mistake so he couldn't blame my parents nor me for that.... it was all a confusion!!





I couldn't believe it was all over when he told me I was free, I didn't feel excited 'cos I was exhausted I mean I spent there 7 hours without knowing what was wrong and I was starving and sleepy. The whole "tragedy" ended 7 hours after I had arrived to the airport, I was out at 9:00 pm and the husband of my cousin was waitng for me there, we arrived to their home and my nephews and cousin were waitng for me so we just had a quick dinner and then I went to bed but I wasn't able to sleep, I couldn't believe I had gone thorugh all that on my own, I felt in a certain way proud because I dealed with it without my parents being there so it felt like I was already an adult! anyway I finally got some sleep and I even dreamed about the officers!





Shopping

The next morning after I arrived I woke up and was all alnoe because the husband of my cousin had gone to his job and my cousing took her kids to school so I took a shower and then when she returned I had breakfast with her and after that she took me to the mall (At 11:00 am approximately) and told me she'd be back at 4:30 pm!! LOL but I loved it 'cos I was able to visit all the stores I wanted to visit and to try all the clothes I wanted to without any hurries. When she picked me up my arms were tired as hell because I had bought loads of things and I had to carry them as I visited every shop and whenever I used the fitting rooms but of course I didn't complain about that 'cos I was getting things I wanted LOL the rest of the week was the same way, She'd leave me in the mall around 11:00 am and picked me up at 4:30 pm or 5:00 approximately so I felt like I was in heaven 'cos I could get everything I wanted haha but of course my arms and feet were almost dead :P.

Some days while I was in the mall I'd take some "breaks" by sitting on a bench like for 20 min so that I could continue shopping again, but it was funny and nice especially because most of the employees from the stores I visted already knew me so everytime I entered I'd just tell them "Hello I'm back again" or they would stare at me like saying "Don't u get tired of doing this" haha. Of course I saw LOADS of hot men/teenagers who wroked in the shops and helped me to get what I was looking for but well none of them made a move to let me know they're gay so I didn't try either because I knew it would be worthless actually sometimes I think I was too nice when I talked with them that they just replied "Yes" or "No" but well I'm a nice guy by nature and well some of them were really cute so I did my best :P.

I also saw loads of cute guys who were also buying stuff or just wandering around but the problem is that most of them were with a girl which showed me they were str8 and from time to time I also saw nice men walking but after some seconds thier kids appeared so I knew they were married :P I don't think it's a bad thing 'cos well my intention wsnt really to find someone who's gay but of course it would've been nice, anyway even if I found someone it wouldn't had been that cool 'cos I stayed there for 1 week so by now it all would be over.

Here are some pics of the mall, I took them on Friday just after I bought the memory stick for the camera and unfortunately I don't appear in any of them because while I was there I was on my own so I could only take pics not appear in them, I thought about asking my nephews to take some but to make things even worse the battery was flat so whenever I took a pic I just turned it on quickly to shoot it and after is was saved it would turn off, anyway I hope u guys like them:






(The first 4 ones were taken outside the mall while I was waiting for my cousin to pick me up, the whole concept of the mall is really nice because it's as if you were in the wood, the last one was taken in the bedroom where I stayed while I was there u can see some of my acquisitions haha)

Music

Before traveling there I checked the webs of some stores which sell CD's and I did find some Steps albus as well as Spice Girls ones (US versions of course) but when I visted those store they didn't have them, the only thing I could do was to roder them but that would take like a week and a hlaf and I didn't do that 'cos can make it here on amazon.co.uk so I felt a bit sad and find it a bit weird especially because I found some A*Teens albums which are as old as Steps albums but anyway the only music acquisition I got was Natasha Bedingfield's DVD live in New York which is only sold in the US at the moment because of her success over there.

In other news I was on cloud nine the first day I went to the mall because the first store I visited was Abercrombie and they're always playing like a medley which comes on a CD which is distributed to all their stores and after some minutes I entered the store "Something Kinda Ooooh" by girls Aloud stared to sound and I couldn't help singing it haha, 100 minutes later "Red Dress" by the Sugababes was also played and I got excited once again, I returned 2 days later and that time they played "Feels so Good" by Atomic Kitten!! haha I was really happy but not that excited 'cos it had already happened to me a few years ago when I was in san Antonio Texas and I entered to GAP they played "Fool No More" and "Whereever Your Heart Beats" by S Club 8 so I already know how it goes, the DJ's in charge of the music for stores knows the artists but it's not that they're promoted in the US or something like that.

Movies



While I was there I saw loads of movies because after my cousin picked me up from the mall we took my nephews to their tennis classes (They have been practising for more than 5 years) and we would spend there the rest of the day. I only played with one of them the first day but of course I sucked haha, the rest of the days I stayed in their vehicle watching movies (They rented oone every day haha) and on Sauturday and Sunday I went to the movies with my cousin and her husband so here's a short review of the movies I saw:



"The employee of the month" - This one was really nice and unny, of course it's the typical American movi but it was nice, I enjoyed it a lot especially because one of the characters is gay and there is a scene in which he's alone in his office and his palying with 2 Ken dolls (Barbie's husband) dressed up as police afficers and he sayas "Have u ever thought about kissing a man?" and the reply of the other one is "Yes" and when he's about to make the Kens kiss someone enters to his office so he dropped them to the floor, this was nice for me because as a kid I also played with Kan dolls and that scene made me remember I also had some fantasies with thme!! but of course it wasn't anything erotic, u know just attraction 'cos at that age I didn't even know about sex.

"Elsa & Fred" - This Spanish movie is really really nice because it relates the story of an old widower man and an old widow woman who are neighbours and start to fall in love as the movie develops, I thnk it's nice because well one of my bigges doubts in life about real love is how does it happen with old people and well this movie shows me that no matter your age love is a feeling you can always feel as long as you're mature and wlel it just made me feel nice 'cos I've always been scared of not finding real love.

"The messenger" - I can't exactly remember the title of this one haha because in my opinion is crap! because it's the typicl "horror" movie which relates the story of a family that moves to a haunted house in the country, the teen girl sees the "ghosts" or spirits and their parents don't believe her until one day her mum sees one and in the end everyone is happy and they have a happy life, I really think it's a crap movie because I could guess each and every thing that happened of course I got scared because of the typical horror moments which include silent periods interrupted byt a scream and stuff like that, I do't have much to say about this one.

"Babel" - I really enjoyed watching this one because the strory is really original and even though at a ceratin point my ass was hurting because it lasts a lot I really enjoyed, a part of the movie happens in Mexico and when the fist scenes appeared I really started to laugh because of the way they show life here. Of course it's real but it's not as if the whole life is like that but in the end I undersood the dierctor focues in that aspect because it's somethng that helps you to understand the other events which happens in the "mini stories" that the movie talks about. I have to say I liked it, when it was over I had loads of questions in my head about what happened with some people but after all I got the commmn idea of the movie which is to focus in the different ways in which people can live a tragedy.

"In her shoes" - This movie was also a nice one, in the beginning I felt it wouldn't be a good one because it starts with one of the main characters (Cameron Diaz) having sexual relations with different partners but when the movie finished I realised those scenes helped me to understand the whole movie which talks about 2 sisters who have opposite personalities and don't have a close relation but in the end they end up as best friends 'cos they are "untied" by blood. This one made me think about my realtionship with my brother but well maybe right now we're still young to experience those things so our situation won't change that much.




For those of you who dared to read all my revire let me say thank you, believe me guys I didn't want to make it that boring but well I just wanted to post the things that were more important for me, of course I could type much more but nah.. that will only reamin in my mind.

Holiday... Celebrate !

So as I posted on my previous entry I'm going to travel to Houston ,Texas, to visit one of my cousins who lives there. She moved with her family a long time ago just like one of my aunts did as well and they're already American citizens, anyway my cousin has 4 kids LOL after having the first one they wanted a girl and tried it for the 2nd time but they had a boy again and then they decided to try it for the 3rd time and 2 boys were born (They're not twins, I dunno the exact term) so they gave up. I think I'm gonna have a great time 'cos well even though my nephews are younger than me (The oldest one is like 12 years old) it'll be interesting to get to know the American life for real especially since they're not having days off school like me, all of them are sports lovers and play tennis too so when my dad talked with my cousin he told her that I had started to take tennis classes but of course I'll tell her that I've only taken 2 or 3 lessons 'cos I'm not looking forward to playing tennis while I'm there. You might be a bit schocked at the fact that my cousin is already a mother but no, she's not one of those young mothers it's just that my dad's family is quite big. They're 7 siblings so of course the sons of the oldest ones are already married men/woomen.

I'm really excited about this trip 'cos it'll be the first time that I travel on my own so I'll have to pay attention to all the airport regulations and indications so that I don't get lost LOL but I think it's great 'cos it's a way of showing my parents I can do it on my own which might help me to grow up a little. I'm also quite excited about it because anytime I travel to the US with my family we always go on a shopping spree since we can find great cltohes and stuff over there so this time I'll do the same but without my parents hehe and if I'm lucky enough I'll receive the credit card that my dad requested for me before I go.

I'll go on February the 5th and I'll return on February the 12th and unfortunately during that time I won't be able to upload my blog nor to be on MSN because well I can't let my nephews know that I have a blog 'cos they'll visit it anytime and they can find out all the things I hide and if I delete the cookis they'll realize something is wrong so it's better not to give them any clues but anyway I primise I'll upload all the details as soon as I return and also I'll try to take pics so that you guys can see how it was like.

Here's a map where you guys can see Mexico city and Houston:

P.S. The title of this topic was inspired by Madonna's song "Holiday" :P

My latest music acquisitions

Last Sunday we went to a mall because my brother wanted to get his new wrist watch to be fixed and since I was really stressed because I spent last week studying for my exams I told my parents I would go to the CD store while they went with my siblings and my grand mother to get my brother's wrist watch fixed. I was getting a glimpse of theit new arrivals and as usualyl I only found National or American artists so I decided to search for any Emma Bunton albums but to my surprise I found a promo that Bananarama released last year of their album "Drama" , I was really excited 'cos as you might know they're not known over here (My parents used to know one or two songs by them but that was some years ago before they refromed as a duo) so I told my grand mother about it and she offered me to buy it and at first I said "No" but as usually she didn't accept that as a response so I ended up buying it, after that we had lunch at her house and my dad suggested me to play the cd she had just bought me. I wasn't sure about that 'cos well since most of the songs are remixes I thought they would get bored of them but surprisingly we all enjoyed the album which was kinda nice.

Also yesterday I received my copy of Atomic Kitten's DVD "Greatest Hits Live @ Wembley + 18 GH Videos" and I have to say it's absolutely amazing, as I was watching it I couldn't help feeling excited and I even danced and pretended to be singing with the remote control (As usually :P) it's an amazing concert but anyway not everything was perfect. When I started to watch it my sister was with me because she also likes Atomic Kitten (Not a fan though) and as soon as the second perfromance started they camera showed 2 male guys singing and moving to the beat of the song and I was tempted to tell her "Hey look they're my clones" ('Cos I was as excited as those guys) but just before I said that she stood up and said "It's not possible!! goodbye" talking about how horrible it was for her to watch those 2 guys doing that and I was just thankful about not opening my mouth 'cos I dunno what could've happened. Anyway she left while the concert was still starting so I was able to enjoy watching all their male dancers doing their amazing dance routines (They're HOT).

My bamboos

About 3 weeks ago my parents wanted us to this huge store where u can buy a lot of exotic and different furniture and home decoration because they were searching for some chair cushions for our dining room chairs so we went there and during our "trip" (The store has 3 floors) I saw some nice crystal flowerpots and I liked one which has a rare shape, as soon as we carried on with our "trip" I saw some nice bamboo's and thought they would look great on the crystal flowerpots I saw before so I asked my dad id I could buy 2 bamboos and a flowerpot and he said yes. I was a bit excited 'cos I have always wanted to have a bamboo plant in my bedroom since they look really nice and clean (according to my perception). When we arrived home I was still happy about it but felt a bit sad afterwards because I heard my parents talking about my acquisition, they thought it was strange just like my sister told me when I showed them to her. At first I was a bit sad because of this but after thinking it over I realized I shouldn't feel sad 'cos it's somehitng I have always wanted and I don't have to please them. Here are some pics I took this morning :