the new year

Found this picture on NDesign, pretty cool and full of life?

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Happy new year! AKA the new birth year
every year you are one year older, so why not take it as a new year?
Well my last hour of being 18, so far so good I am stocked up on homemade-salsa and corn chips and watching classic Indy movies.
Besides that, I read an article about the 'life list' in last months Flare, where Hannah Sung talked about peoples' life lists and what they want to accomplish, well in thier lives.
I don't think I have time for a life one, maybe some other time, but here is the cheaper version of the year list (being 19)

-Save money for school, grad trip, travelling, aborad internships, clothes
-clean up my diet
-continue working out and not getting lazy
-watch a new show and get into it
-get my first medi and pedi
-cut le hair with something new
-water water water daily
-start learning how to cook everything but Indian food
-paint my room
-buy new shoes
-buy and MP3 player finally
-new phone plan
-smile =]

later!

cheetahs in the homeland

The Disney Channel took a spicy spin as they just announced the release of the third Cheetah Girls movie, "Cheetah Girls: One World," in India.
Whoa, wait a minute, the girls in India? Exciting right? Well why shouldn't I be, finally 14-year-old girls can see what India is all about. Pretty skinny girls dancing to Indian music while wearing long pink Sarees. Colourful markets of food and jewelry while everyone else lives in huge palaces with 40 maids.
That last part probably gave away the sarcasm but here we have young kids who think of paki-dots and smelly curry when they probably think about 'Indian' and now get to see first hand what India is "all about."
The movie apparently is taking a Bollywood musical aspect, because that is what we do in India all day--sing. The girls all try out for a Bollywood movie (in real life this might happen since most of Bollywood thinks they are Western anyways,) and dun-dun-dun the girls find out the have to fight each other for the role! Oh no! I can already see the entire plot and ending to that one.
It doesn't bother me that much yet since I have never seen the movie, but I guess when I finally see the exploitation of Indian culture, I might just build this argument further.
India is not like that, we once were, but sadly we are not like what we see in Bollywood movies.
But big-ups for choosing India we got money in the end anyways!
P.S the blogging dictionary doesn't have the word 'Bollywood' ...thanks.
P.S.S they don't have Raven in it this time!

27 failed attempts

It almost seems that way, the times you liked someone, stalked someone, loved someone, pretending you loved everything they did, all in the same period of time before getting dumped and eating a tub of chocolate-chip ice cream alone on a Friday night.
We see it on TV, on movie screens, with celebrities, how the average Joe, or should I say Jane should be living their love lives. The romantic proposals, make out sessions, extravagant weddings, you name it, a place to be is on TV.
I just finished watching 27 dresses, for the second time, and usually I am not a fan of the romantic comedies or anything with lovey-dovey plots.
But I fell for it. The charming/good looking male characters, the flowers on random occasions, the wedding dresses, the proposals, the gifts, the sexy journalist, even the apartment's decor! (The last one was lame but I have a hidden passion).
Can this all be true? Is Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now really in his Toronto Star office writing stories about weddings and stalking me while I attend my one wedding every two and a half years? No, probably not.
Love stories like those happen only once a year while all us women and some men are told to believe it can happen to us. We will find our knights in shining armor one day as he lifts us off our feet. Or when our princess comes and saves us from the ugly twin sisters? Why does it always end up that way for the ladies?
Doesn't everyone just wait for that Hollywood moment when they innocently walk to the grocery store and see that one person that blows the away. Everything around you freezes, a wind machine appears out of no where, blowing your way, your dress moves around, the sun comes out, flowers bloom, doves fly and breathing just got a bit harder. You stand there, eyes connect, eyes blink, eyelashes look five times longer, was that it? Was that love?
You rush up to him, palms and face sweating, slow motion of course, you need to feel like you are running, grab his face and kiss him so passionately, that the bystanders around you feel it, was that it? Was that love?
Ten years down the road, you are married, have 12 children, a farm, a pond, a house and a minivan. That must be it right, love?
Well the truth is, from my perspective is, snap out of it! Reality check we all feel love, one way or another, to that sexy celebrity who plays a prisoner and wants to escape, or even the first glass of freshly-squeezed juice in the morning, I guess we can love all that too right?
I will still wait however. Maybe I am one out of the million women who will be swept off their feet and stalked by a crazy man who you end up loving? And since when was stalking even counted as romantic?
But like I said, just maybe.

I wish my life was this exciting

As much as people believe The Hills is fake and somehow I seem to agree...I can't stay away from the drama drama drama!
Oh their lives, watching it is so exciting. It becomes a lunch topic, an e-mail discussion, a Facebook obsession and not to mention the reason you stay up Monday night.
From season one till now (and shortly season four) the girls and boys have seem to grab our time and minds to tune into the g-l-a-m-o-r-o-u-s.
So yesterday night was season 3.5's season finale and this time around I was shocked. What Spencer are you kidding me? Go find a job you homeless man. Get off your sisters couch and do something with your life. So he finds out Hiedi is in Vegas with her bosses doing work related stuff, and what does this man do? He drives his ass to Vegas to stalk her and bring her home!
Buddy please, this isn't some movie where you will win the girl's heart over. Wait, reality check, he did. Sad...so sad.
So then there is the Lo, LC, Audrina drama. (and just to mention I ma very pro-Audrina).
So the girls buy a huge mansion looking house that they can probably afford and end up being roommates. However LC and Audrina begin to drift apart as Lo comes into the picture. Okay first of all, LC is blind as hell because it is CLEAR Lo is doing it on purpose. She acts dumb around Audrina conversations, always gets hungry when she's there, picks on Justin, (YES Justin, F you Lo) and always finds a way to tell LC how Audrina really shouldn't be there. Well I hate Lo and yeah well that is all I can say.
Well there was no point to this, I just love love LOVE The Hills, the fashion, the drama, their lives...if only I had rich parents and the chance to be famous over my love life!
Oh by the way, horray for us Canadians and our after show! We rock some U.S socks!
Oh and yeah, you go Whitney, you are too cool to talk about.

time tells stories right?

Cut-out butterflies on green and pink construction paper travel their way down the sidewalks of 10-year-old Holly Jones last steps.
Family, friends and community members gather around the young girls home, waiting for Jones's mother to come out.
It has been five years since Jones's disappearance form her west-end neighbourhood in Toronto, and yet the community does not seem to forget.
A parent's worst nightmare came true when the 10-year-old was kidnapped and murdered by 35-year-old Michael Briere, after he watched child pornography and snatched her off the streets in daylight.
Today, we should not only remember the outcomes of Holly's story, but to see how this story can influence and change the outlines of our laws and protection for children in the future.
I hope this story can encourage our government to put strict rules against child porn and the release of it on the Internet. I never want to see this happen again.
R.I.P.

watching other people is so much more fun

I don't know what it is, or why it happens but I am such a movie buff lately. Alright let's say past three years now, high school years, Arti Patel needs to watch movies to survive.
More of the horror than the comedy, more of suspense thrillers than watching someone fall in love, the fake and never believable stories and documentaries all have that same feeling.
Feeling of love, attachment and addiction.
Kind of freaky? Maybe.
Ever get that feeling when you just had something to eat that was SO good, like a great meal at your favourite restaurant? And then you wait and wait for the next time you go back, just to eat that meal all over again? That is how I feel when I hear of a sequel coming out.
Maybe because I like stories I am addicted to the fact that something is being told, a problem that needs solving, a joke that needs more laughing, a murderer that needs to be caught, for some odd reason I feel like I am the one.
This connection, with characters, what they wear, their houses, how skinny they might be, their lives and situations...all seems so fun when you are far away.
And horror, oh how I adore it. Killing, knifes, blood, guts I am talking about the whole deal. I usually don't get too scared, so yay me.
I don't know what the point of this post is, maybe it was a cheat-scape way of listing some upcoming movies, somehow I find myself doing that often.
Well to break it all down, I love movies, I love downloading them and going to the theater for the in-your-face experience.
It's pleasure and excitement baked into a sexy chocolate cake.
enjoy.

COMING SOON: (in order of release dates)
The Fall (I have no idea how good it will be but the trailer/visuals will blow you away)
Dark Knight (Do I even need to talk about this one? Bat fucking Man period.)
X-Files movie (yeah cool I know brings me back to grade five and being scared of Agent Scully's alien baby.)
The Mummy 3 (I think I just peed my pants, sucks they don't have Rachel Weisz though.)
Saw 5 (because watching guts and blood can be fun, even for the 5th time.)
and dun dun dun
Transformers 2 (OH YES BABY, the first one just blew me away I think I watched it 100 times by now, hope this one has less car ads, no U.S army values and more transforming! [hahaha].)