Hawkeye=Frontier Hotness

The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis is one of my all-time favorite movies.

During a battle scene when Nathaniel "Hawkeye" ran through the battlefield to save Cora, my mom stepped out of her room to watch through the doorway. When Hawkeye obliterated the fool that tried to slit Cora's throat my mom exclaimed,

"That there is some frontier hotness!"

I totally agree...

The waterfall scene:

"Stay alive! No matter what occurs, I will find you...

No matter how long it takes, no matter how far.

I will find you..."

Sigh....

Thanks to youtube you can watch it too!

Mika-Big Girl

I'm Going to Dallas

I'm sitting in the Salt Lake airport right now. I'm going to Dallas for a research conference- I'll be presenting a poster on the research I did over the summer in Mario Capecchi's lab.

The last few days have been completely insane! I think I'm going insane. Don't ask me why but I waited until last night to re-format my poster. Could have been the midterm in advanced molecular biology and a midterm in physics that ate up my entire weekend. I thought it would take a few hours... HA! I was up until 3:00 messing around with it and frantically trying to print it out at Kinko's around 8:00 this morning.

It looks pretty good right?

I started throwing clothes into a suitcase around 3:00AM...hopefully I didn't forget anything important.

I'm excited to see the friends I made over the summer and to get away for a while.

I'm also curious to see if everything really is bigger in Texas.

In Loving Memory...

Sugar has been part of our family for nearly 11 years. She passed away tonight from pneumonia. I loved this cat. We all loved her- she was well taken care of.

Not many cats have traveled across the world and back. Everyone loved Sugar, you could tell they were amazed by her voluptuous size.

Every morning when I'd get up and start getting ready for the day Sugar would waddle over and "talk" to me. I would always talk back of course.

She's not going to be there tomorrow morning and that makes me really sad.

So I was watching the Russel Crowe, Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams movie- State of Play. Russel Crowe was a journalist, Rachel McAdams a blogger for the newspaper they worked for, and Ben Affleck was the politician they were investigating.

Russel Crowe didn't care for the story Rachel McAdams published on her blog- he said it was

"Upchuck online."

I laughed really hard. You know how some things strike you as really funny when it's really late at night and you are tired?

I decided it would be funny to make that the title of my blog. Maybe it's not funny to you but I'm kind of a dork and I'm still chuckling at it. But whatever.

Random

I haven't had official classes at BYU since last December. You could kind of count Argentina as school because I got some research credit but that's not the same.

Some times I feel like I'm ready to go back, and some times (like right now) I feel like I'm not. I'm taking 18 credit hours- the maximum amount BYU will allow you to register for. I'm working, and I'll be volunteering in a research lab- which I'm not allowed to talk about because it offends my younger sister's sensibilities. We work with mice and she is really into animal rights. That's a whole other story....

But can I just say, it's not like I'm not for animal torture (and it's certainly not what we do in the lab). Shoot, I buy free range. I've given up KFC because they are inhumane when slaughtering their chickens (even though I've been jonesing for a two-piece for like weeks now). Isn't it human nature to want what you can't have???? Not only does Colonel Sanders torture his chickens but Christina would flay my ass if she found out I went to KFC.

I haven't blogged in a while... nothing really "blog-worthy" has happened lately. I guess that's not true. We went to see Green Day a few weeks ago- it was one of the best concerts I've been to. And I've been to some good ones... Aerosmith, Kiss, AC/DC, Ozzy, Metallica... to name a few.

Say Shava Shava!

I love Indian food!  My friend and I had been talking about going to get Indian food throughout the whole program (she had never tried it before and I of course told her she MUST). 

 We sent around an email to the rest of the program to see if anyone wanted to go.  I was pleasantly surprised that so many came along.  We had a really good time (though the food wasn't as good as India Garden on Center Street in Provo).  No one really knew what to order or how much of it to get... this worked out good for me because I knew exactly what I wanted (and I got it because everyone let me take charge).

For many of my friends (from Puerto Rico, China and other various places in the U.S.), this was their first experience with Indian food- I think they liked it.

Maritza y Martha- two of my roommates I've had a great time with this summer.

Below is the FAMOUS Bollywood Actor Sharukh Khan

Click on the link above to see a special Bollywood clip- Shava Shava.  It was from the first Bollywood movie I ever saw- the first time I saw it I didn't know what to think.  Bollywoods grow on you and are a LOT of fun becuase they make you want to get up and dance.  You can picture me bouncing around my dorm room to Shava Shava.  Sharukh and Bollywood bring back memories of highschool and living in Malaysia (where there were fabulous Indian people with great food, clothes, festivals and Bollywoods with Sharukh in them).  Eating Indian food also makes me feel nostalgic for Malaysia and Penang's Little India.