Real Steel

Yesterday I went to the movies and saw a film called Real Steel.

The story takes place in the 2020, at that time human boxing is extinct.

It actually starts when a man called Charlie (Hugh Jackman) who used to be a boxer is told that his exgirlfriend has died and their son, Max will be under his control. Charlie hates the idea of it as the only things that matter to him are robots and money. He makes a deal with the husband of his son’s aunt to exchange the boy for money. They decided that the boy will just spend the summer with him and the rest of his life with his aunt.

Charlie wants Max to stay with Bailey, who after her father’s death owns the gym where he grew up, but Max insists in being with his dad.

Charlie had bought a once famous robot called Noisy Boy and in a fight it gets totally damaged, so he and Max go to a place where they could find robot parts to be able to build a new one.

There by chance Max finds a complete Generation 2 bot named Atom buried. He brings it back and in the gym Bailey lets them that it’s in good conditions. It is programmed to support a lot of They find out that it has a shadowing mode.

Max programs voice control for Atom. He teaches it to dance while Charlie teaches it box. Max was determined to make Atom a good fighting robot.

No one believes that Atom can win a fight but amazingly he does. Through words Atom becomes famous in the small leagues. It was innovative to see a small boy and a bot dancing and winning.

After some time they invite Charlie, Max and Atom for a fight against two cities in a preliminar fight of the world robot boxing league (mayor league).

Before the match, they are called to the Lamckova suite. There Farra, the owner of Zeus the most powerful robot on earth at that time, tells them her interest in buying Atom. Charlie wants to accept because of the amout of money they would receive but Max refuses.

The fight seemed to be to easy for Two Cities at first but then Charlie saw the weak point of his opponent and Atom seemed to work it out pretty well.

At the end of the fight Max challenges Farra for a fight against Zeus.

Summer was over and Charlie took Max back to his aunt’s house. Even though they had grown close Charlie decided that it was the best option for Max’s future.

He came to realize that he wanted to be part of his son’s life from that time on, so he went to apologize to him and tell him that their challenge had been accepted.

When the day had finally come, everyone was nervous, Zeus hadn’t ever been defeated. At the start everything seemed to go bad for Atom. It was being hurt awfully but it hanged on till the last round. The voice mode wasn’t working so they were practically lost. Max asked Charlie to box for Atom using the shadow mode. It was hard for Charlie to accept but he agreed.

Everything was going wonderful they almost won Zeus, the bell saved it. It was time then for the judges to decide the winner. Zeus “won” but the people had seen that extraordinary event and called Atom “the people’s champion”.

It’s a good movie. I really liked it and you should see it! I think it’s worth it.

Never give up, everything’s possible.. that’s clear!

time goes by...india 2011

This year on summer vacations we went to India .

We first went to Chennai with Janani akka, Varshini, Mishal, Shanti athai, Ganapathy mama, Shankar chitappa and Mini chiti.

After staying there for a couple of weeks, we went to Coimbatore to see Lalitha achi, Samy thatha, Aparna, Devi athai, Soori mama and Mani mama. We also saw perrito (Lalitha achi and Samy thatha's dog)! He's really big and cute.

Since we arrived at Chennai and in Coimbatore Balu thatha and Gomathi achi stayed with us.

We also saw many ammappa’s friend in both cities.

We went out to malls, temples, to have an ice cream, to go out for dinner, to see Harry Potter and many more things.

Before coming back Mani mama took both achi’s, amma and myself to Ooty (a hill town). I loved it! It is really cool: the climate, the scenaries, everything!

It was really nice to spend time with all of them after such a long time. I had such a wonderful time and even wish we could have stayed a bit longer!

I think India is changing, I saw a lot of difference between last time we came (2 years ago) and this time. It has become really Cosmopolitan and modern. But there is still the essence of Indian culture and I do think it’ll always remain there.

Something quite interesting is that I noticed a lot of difference between people from North India to the ones from the South (talking generally). The southern people are more conservative and in a way a more closed society, meanwhile in the north they’re more open, a more liberal society.

Sometimes, I wonder what will happen if I return there. What will I have to do, what will happen to my ways of life, even maybe my ideas will have to change, and in a certain point of view it’ll be really hard I guess. I hope and know that when that time comes, my family will be able to help me through it.

Maybe I have an mexican way of thinking, maybe not, maybe it’s a mix of both cultures. It’s the way I grew up not here nor there. Lets see what happens next….

Champions League! BARCA CAMPEON!

Hi eveyonee!

Yesterday took place the Champions League Final in Wembley 2011. I was really anxious about this match because I knew it would be a great match, with the best teams in the world. Both, Barcelona and Manchester United went for their 3^rd title.

Manchester United started playing well and controlling their opponent but after some minutes Barcelona began to play way far better than ManU.

After 27 minutes, the first goal was scored by Pedro with a pass from Xavi. The culés couldn’t celebrate for long as 6 minutes later Rooney gave the tie for the red devils.

But in the second half, Messi and David Villa gave the triumph for the Barcelona team. Now the team coached by Sir Alex Ferguson couldn´t even make a clear shot at the goal posts.

The man of the match was Lionel Messi, I do agree that he’s the best player in the world!

Here in Mexico, a lot of people supported Manchester United just because Chicharito is playing there while others supported Barcelona of Pep Guardiola. Many were comparing him to Messi, I think that even though he's a very good player we can't compare him to Messi who is a genius in football.

I support Manchester United not only because of Chicharito but because I like their way of playing, but even then I do accept that Barcelona is a fantastic team!

The Champions League is an annual tournament organized by the UEFA for the top football clubs in Europe; it was inaugurated in 1955 by the proposition of a French journalist who conceived the idea after seeing the Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones in 1948.

Since then, the Real Madrid is the team with the highest number of titles (7).

Let's see who wins next year! Hope its ManU or Real Madrid! jiji :D

Feliz Dia de las Madres

Most of all the beautiful things in life come in twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

Kate D. Wiggins

Happy Mothers Day!

127 hours

Que ondaa todos!

Just a couple of hours ago I saw a movie called 127 hours. I really liked because it had something that keeps you in it. It’s really interesting.

It’s directed by Danny Boyle (the one that directed Slumdog Millionaire) and its music director is A.R. Rahman. A quite interesting thing is that it's based on a real story so well you do end really impressed with the facts.

The plot is that Aron Ralston (James Franco) an engineer, mountain hiking lover gets trapped in the Blue John Canyon when he was trying to jump into a passage and when he does it a huge rock falls over his hand and he gets stuck there. He now had to find out a way to get help or to get his arm loose.

The problem was that until monday no one would now he was stuck there because he hadn’t told them where he was going just that he would be out for the weekend.

For five days he was stuck there. From saturday to wednesday.

He started thinking what to do, how to return back. As he had finished his water he started to drink his own pee just for the sake of not dehydrating.

He had also started imagining stuff. He tried to figure out the way to get out from there but he couldn’t even move out from there. At last after 127 hours, he just got out because he cut his arm with a cheap swiss kind knife.

As the time passed, he started to remember few important moments of his life. He started to appreciate his parents, his sister, his ex-girlfriend and a few of his friends. He realized how selfish and egoist he was.

At last when he was walking in the canyon he was a family and shouted for help. The movie ends when a helicopter comes and takes him.

This movie is really really good. You should really see it.

Guerra de Comida

¡Hola todos!

Last week on thursday we had a get together at school for St. Patrick’s Day. Each classroom had their own. In my class we just brought food (chips, cake and cokes), we didn’t even bring music so everyone was super bored. Then someone started throwing ice cubes and after sometime I just heard “¡Guerra de comida!” (food war) and everyone in our class started throwing chips, coke, lemons, and cake.

Like an hour later the principal came and scolded us. We had to clean up all the mess in just an hour before 2 o’clock with is the time when school finishes. I don’t know how but between all of us we cleaned it really fast, I think we did a good team work. Some cleaned the floors while others cleaned the tables and chairs and others went for the stuff that was missing so that we could clean the classroom completely. At the end the classroom smelled really strange. Before leaving, the principal told us that we had a week without recess and that we had to plant a tree. We were all surprised that the punishment was so hard on us.

The next day, we went to the movies from school. Here also someone started throwing popcorn and everyone ended up doing the same. Miss Rose got really angry and made us clean up the mess. When we reached school, they told us that our punishment was that each one of our class was to clean a classroom (sweep and mop it) for a week.

So now, we are all cleaning the classrooms after school!

I think it was like fun at the time but then when you think about it you say omg there’re so many people without food and we’re wasting it! I do think it was wrong and now we have to pay for our mistakes.

Bonne Apetite

Hey guys!

This time I'm posting some photos of different dishes I've prepared. Last summer holidays l started cooking and since then I've liked to cook from my own recipes. I prepare pastas, pies, and a lot of desserts. I've been told that they taste great jiji

Hope you at least like the look of some of the dishes and someday get to taste them.

Fin de año en Calgary

Hey guys!

After such a long time I’ve got myself sitting here and writing a new post.

This time I’ll tell you about my experience in Calgary, Canada. We went and stayed with Siva mama, Manju aunty and Nanda’s house. I loved it because I’ve always wanted to see snow and well this was it.

We arrived there the 29^th of December. The temperature was really cold, around -6°. Siva mama told us we had a great timing because just a day or 2 before there had been a snowfall, so when we reached town it was all white and snowy.

The next day we went to a small town nearby called Drumheller. First we saw world’s largest standing dinosaur. It’s really cool because you can go up to the dinosaur’s mouth and from there you get a wonderful view of the surrounding. The only thing that I didn’t like was that the air up there was freezing. From there we went to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. I learned a lot from the museum, first of all that we can find a lot of fossils in this region of Alberta. One thing that caught my attention was that the structure of the Royal Tyrrell Museum is very similar to the Museo del Desierto here in Saltillo.

The way to Drumheller and back is really great because the prairies are covered with snow, so sometimes all you could see was just white and white everywhere!

The 31^st, on New Year’s Eve, we went with some of Siva mama’s and Manju aunty’s indian friends (Dr. Marcus and his family and Mr. Saravana murthy and his family) to celebrate the New Year. We came back early according to Mexican timings (at 1:30) haha but we stayed up until 4 am just talking and talking and talking.

The next day Dr. Marcus and his family and another friend of Siva mama’s and appa’s called Bala and his family came to eat at Siva mama’s house. We ate indian dishes, byriani, parotha, vadai and other vegetable side dishes.

One day, we went to the University of Calgary. I really liked it, it’s so well organized. I think the idea of connecting all the building with tunnels is great, because then you wouldn’t need to go out in the cold to get something or go to the other building. We also saw the Olympic Oval. It’s really amazing how people coordinate while skating. I hope someday I will go I study there (:

A day before returning to Torreón, we went to Lake Louise and to a small town called Banff. I loved this day because it snowed and everything looked like from a movie. The snowfall started when we were on our way to the lake and when we reached Banff it had stopped. I totally loved the lake because apart from the fact that it was snowing, the lake was frozen! I had never seen anything like that so I loved it. They also had like a castle made from ice cubes over the lake so everything looked sooooooooo nice. It was really cool.

After taking a great deal of photos there, we went to Banff. There we first visited a big hotel which looked like a very tall castle. The sceneries were great as the small town is very close to the Canadian Rockies. We also visited a frozen falls. I liked the view of the mountains from there, more than the falls itself.

Well, finally I just have to say that I really loved Calgary. The city is really nice and I liked this trip very much.