Stand up straight , it’s your funeral!

Having been to a Latin country I have seen a lot of weird funerals. Some had music others had people dressed in bright colors. But this particular funeral held in Puerto Rico broke the mold.

When Angel Pantoja Medina was found dead on Friday beneath a bridge his family set out to fulfill his last wish: To be held standing in his funeral.

A funeral home helped provide special embalming so that the corpse would be able to stand up straight during the three-day wake.

I don’t know if this is weird or just plain creepy. You imagine walking in and just casually passing that dude with the sunglasses. So yeah where’s the dead kid? Oh you just passed him, he would be that one right there in the corner with the glasses. Anyone just get a flash back of weekend at Bernie’s?
The three-day wake was held at his mom house. I would never be able to go to a house where they had a corpse just casually leaning against the wall. I mean if I were talking to anyone there I KNOW my sight would wonder off to the place where I saw the dude. Talk about haunted houses. Please ,please I hope the world doesn’t make a habit out of this. What ever happened to viewing people in the comfort of their coffins?


I wonder if they buried him standing too?

Too many e-mails

I have too many damn e-mails to check. I have hotmail,yahoo,aol, god knows what else. I wish I could check it in one place without using outlook. I hate outlook for some reason. I thought when hotmail let you send e-mail from another email I thought you could receive it too. Damn you Bill Gates.

Same thing with myspace,hi5, facebook. It’s TOO MUCH! arrghh my head hurts.

1,000 hits!

I’ve had this blog since July, 7,2008 and now I have reached my 1,000 visitor mark!

Thank you so much to everyone who takes the time to check my website out. To those who linked me , I really appreciate it. And double the thanks to those who take the time to comment on the entries. Thank you and I hope you keep enjoying my blog!

Movie Madness

I have so many thoughts right now on movies that none of them have to do with each other. I’ll try to organize this the best way I can.


I was watching The Notebook last night while simultaneously switching back to the Olympics to make sure I didn’t miss Michael Phelps swim. It was an ok movie I guess, it was too damn long. They spent half the movie crying and the other half trying to make the viewer guess if they stay together. I figured by half the movie the old people where them two anyways. I don’t appreciate Abc family making me sit through 3 hours of it.


With that said , I come to another second movie madness note: Is it me or am I the only person that Wikipedias a movie after seeing it? Like as soon as the credits started rolling there I was on Wikipedia searching the movie up. It’s not even movies ,Wikipedia is a disease. I can google anyone/anything and I’ll click on the wikipedia link first.While writing ,this I came up with at least 3 other things I’m gonna look up on Wikipedia.

Round three: In the morning yesturday I was at my cousin’s house and they were watching a thriller about crocodiles ,name of which I might wiki later. But what called my attention was that Bill Pullman was in it. No matter where I see this actor he reminds me of the President. Of course the President he played in Independence Day. I wish I could vote for him to be my President. I see that movie just to hear him say his speech before kicking some alien ass. None of the Presidents in my lifetime have moved me like his speech. What about it that was so moving? Was it the inevitable doom they were facing? No, we had 9/11. Was it the sort of marching band meets bagpipe music that was playing in the background? MMmMM maybe… Maybe it was the simultaneous cameras showing the spectators, staring off into hope? Hope , that word rhymes with Obama these days. I don’t know but Bill Pullman is the best fake President ever. Hell, If he was real I’d be the first one signing up for internship and I don’t even like politics.

My head hurts from thinking too much crap. But just one last thing before I go
Adam Baldwin , the guy who played Mayor Mitchell in Independence day was f— hot too. WOOOOOO talk about the underdog hottie. I need a cold glass of something.

Georgia the country . NOT the state

If you watch the news then you might be aware that there is a war between Russia and the East European nation of Georgia. Here you can see that the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili signed a cease-to fire agreement , hopefully Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (not a nickname for Vladimir Putin) will also sign a similar document.


With that little dose of information on you, I’d like to move onto something curious I stumbled upon the internet. I use yahoo answers. I love going on there and answering stupid questions, mostly of 13 year old girls who don’t know what to say to get the guy to date them. Every so often there will be a question like this of a young boy who asked the following:

My mom has a friend over when my dad goes off to work. She doesn’t let me open the door to her room when he’s in there.I can sometimes hear screaming , should I call the cops?

Poor kid, his mom is a slut and he doesn’t even know it yet. Yahoo answer people can be mean , they were saying things like wait till he’s there and then call your dad that there’s an emergency in the house. Murder waiting to happen.


So with the new events going on with Georgia (east european country) I understand how people can joke around saying it has to deal with Georgia state. Heck, I even sat there and thought what would happen if someone decided to invade just one state. Georgia of all states and Russia of all invading countries. But a young girl from Georgia State really thought they were invading her state. She posted the question that she hears over the news that Russia invaded Georgia but she hasn’t seen any tanks or heard any noise. And should she be worried.


First of all , who’s letting little kids on yahoo answers? Don’t parents have parental block or something? Poor kid , she must be seriously nervous. Someone told her to hide because they just blew up the Omni in Atlanta. I can only imagine when she finally asks an adult where are the Russians. They’ll laugh at her and think she’s cute. She’ll think they’re old and don’t mind dying in the arms of foreigners. Truth be told, I laughed at her too and thought she was cute. I’m sure she’ll eventually understand all those people in yahoo answers are only making fun of her.

Innocent mistakes like these can happen to anyone. I for one am a victim all the time. I remember one time when I went into a friend site looking for Portuguese friends to practice the language with. I started to scroll down and it was a sort of myspace thing. The picture and their names with their nicks. So I’m scrolling down and I thought I was in the “n” section of names. Because every guys name was NICK. I skipped a few pages and everyone’s name was NICK. Turns out that they had the Nick in bold and in normal letters was the actual name of the person. Not paying attention made me think that the Brazilian people had little creativity for names or that they really liked the name Nick.


Just in case. The conflict is in Georgia the country , not the state.
side note:
I know pay attention to search engines :p

Mail’s here ! You have a letter from Heaven…

I have been off on the news of the weird lately but oh do I have a good one for you.
Chet Fitch died 88 years of age last October. Fitch, a humorous fellow, gave his family a last little prank even after he died.

Come Christmas his family started to receive letters written in Fitch’s handwriting with the return address being “heaven”. He states in the letters that the “Big guy” (God) let him have a little moment to write his letters. He seals one letter saying “I’ll probably be seeing you (some of you sooner than you think)”.

Now this is no Ashton Kutcher , but I would have been freaked out. First off the guy is dead. Then you start getting letters two months later from Heaven ?! Kudos to this guy. He had been planning this for more than two decades alongside his barber. He had determination. I bet Ashton Kutcher was sitting around when he was 14 saying “I’m gonna get one of the N’sync kids , watch, they’ll be a group called N’sync and I’ll prank one watch..WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO….HHAAA! Punk!”


Instead of Christmas cards he should have written that he didn’t really die per say but traveled to the future. Suggested a few lottery numbers to play and drive his family a little crazy over the years. Randomly suggesting things like on July 24,2011 go outside , put one hand in your head and the other on your nose….wait for spaceship. Then send the other one the next day saying, you missed it ,you forgot your god damn peace fingers! Now they think we’re the enemy! Start building shelter as of now.

Wasn’t Blast from the past something like that?

Right side meet your left side

Last night I decided to start practicing on my driving. I know what you’re thinking “geez, kids learn to drive as soon as they’re 16″. Well no. I didn’t learn how to drive when I was 16. You know why? Because I didn’t have a car. Unless I had a car I didn’t see it necessary for me to learn to drive. I’d be the skilled driver without anything to drive. I thought I might walk down the streets looking at other cars,thinking about just hopping into them and drive it around the block.

So now the time has come. I still don’t have a car but I thought it was just about time to start learning. I went to the parking lot at the mall at night, low traffic. I did pretty good , I even drove home. But then my sister in law pointed something out to me. I use both feet to drive. My right foot to accelerate and the left to stop. I didn’t know you weren’t suppose to! I tried using just one foot and when I hit the break and wanted to go forward I kept hitting the break. I was using my go foot.

It’s really hard for me. I use my both hands to type.I never use my left hand to type the letter ‘p’. I used two hands for piano. Heck , I use two hands to handle a calculator.

I blame the computer. I’ve been using one since I was 3 or 4. It divided my body and my attention. I should have guessed something was wrong when I was cleaning the sink with my hands and had a brush tied to my feet to clean the floor at the same time.

Does this make me a geek? Who cares. I wonder if I go to the dmv will I flunk my test because of that. Why does it matter? Now that I know I’m so divided I’m starting to pick up on other things like how I’m typing this and seeing the end of a telenovela my mom watches. Now you know where my typos come from.

The adventures of Gigi

Ah, the weekend. Boring, boring weekend.We love them and can’t manage to do anything with them at the same time. Well, except errands. That’s exactly what I did on Sunday.
My first stop was Wal-mart.

Now take into consideration that I guess in Miami there aren’t many Wal-marts. At least not near by. This one is close to where I live the other one is really far. How far? I’m too lazy to count the miles, look it up on google. Because of the lack of stores ,wal-mart is always full. Ridiculously full. It’s like hurricane season and people stocking up on water. Only they’re taking everything off the shelves. I’ve never driven in New york but I’ve talked on the phone with people who are driving in New york and boy are they angry. Wal-mart shoppers, ’bout the same. You go with your cart trying to get past the other gazillion carts in the way but you try and be polite to the dad who’s dying to get home but who’s wife can’t decided whether to buy colgate or crest. You go on and then BAM! You crash, someone who popped out of nowhere. Wal-mart is stressful. Then there are the undecided people who just stand in front of the shelves , the same shelve you need to get something from but they’re in the way. Just staring at it ,like they’re expecting it to reveal some secret of life. I sometimes wait for them to say Open-sesame.With wal-mart out of the way there’s just one more stop I want to share.

Toys ‘r’ us.

It was the birthday of my sister in law’s little cousin. She wanted a doll. Not just any doll, Island Princess Barbie. So we go in , we find the Barbies and find the Island Princess Barbie. Quick right? Of course not. She wanted the one with the purple dress. There weren’t any. So we look at the Diamond Castle Barbie who looks EXACTLY the same but we of course we’re afraid to buy it. See, I remember when I was young and asked for something but never got exactly what I asked for, just something similar. I thought it was because my parents were old and didn’t understand the new stuff. When I said “let’s get her this one , it looks exactly the same” I remembered all that.Instead we got her a completely different doll. We go up to the cashier ,long line, but not the same crowd of nesty bargain buyers from wal-mart ( Thank god). So my sight wonders off and sees a tickle-me-elmo. I have a soft spot for any sesame street or muppets etc. I go and press his tummy. Now, I feel I must say I am a walking tickle-me-elmo. I’ll laugh BEFORE you start tickling. Still I pressed him. And yes I laughed, hard. A 21 year old in a Toy’s R’ Us laughing at a tickle-me-elmo. Laughing so hard I think tears fell out. I was so amused by it everyone else starting giggling too. The cashiers , the moms, there was even a lil kid who pressed him again just to keep me going ( my sister in law just ignored me fear of embarrassment, I understand).

I could of bought him and spend my days watching him laugh, but I had to buy shampoo and bobby pins , you know 21 year old stuff.

Just because…

American Gold Medal Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps

My new bestfriend

Sorry that I haven’t written anything in a few days but I have a really good reason for it.
I’ve downloaded a new toolbar from stumbleupon.com . I found this toolbar off another blog that said as a warning that it might be addicting and boy was it. I can spend all day clicking the stumble button. I call it the momentary cure for my ever lasting boredom. When you download the toolbar it asks what type of things interest you, I selected photography and humor among other things. After that you click on the button that says Stumble, and it will show you a random site from the pre-selected category. It’s the best thing since sliced bread. There are also thumbs up and thumbs down buttons so you can save the sites you like and never see the ones you didn’t. I gave a thumbs up for my own blog, hey you need to put yourself out there. Try it TRY IT TRY it. It’s definitely worth it. Bellow are some of the pictures I picked up that really amazed me. Enjoy!

Is it me or does he seem exceptional pissed off at Bush in this picture

This is a very smart way for the Americans to express their hate concern of Bush to the French

If you can’t see the bum sign well it says:
Help me - I am a disabled Clone war vet. Need $$$ to build Death Star.
Hell If I saw a bum like that on the streets I’d give him money for just being creative.

This is just plain creepy. CREEPY. I mean what executive pedophile approved this?!