This Week’s Picks: March 17, 2013

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By: Gabriela Yareliz

Hello dear friends!

Tomorrow, the adventure begins. I have every minute of my time mapped out because Mondays are terrible. I am going to have a 4 a.m.-9p.m. day doing law school stuff because of oral arguments and the contracts make-up class (which makes me want to cry). Yesterday and today were great though. I spent time in Flushing for the Health Summit, ate Chinese with Kaidi and hung out with the OYiM group at the Sheraton.Sunday is my reality day. 😦 Hellish days of quarantine in my room reading and stuff. Anyway, enough explaining my predicament with the oral arguments. I just got off two sketchy trains from Flushing. People’s gazes bounce off each others in the train. This peruvian guy tried to give me a questionable book at the subway station… he said he was just handing them out to “pretty girls.” Nice try buddy.

Shout out to my Cricket buds who are hittin the beach this weekend in Panama City. I am so jealous.

All right… top picks time.

1] Abuela’s creations.
My grandmother is so talented. She made me this messenger bag and scarf. The bag is lined inside with green satin. It is gorgeous. I love the colors. So earthy, yet classy.

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2] Ines’ Little Diaries

So, I am a big fan of Ines de la Fressange. She has the cutest videos; they are hilarious. She takes you to different boutiques around New York. She is so funny.

If you speak French and love Ines de la Fressange or Paris, you will be amused.

They are on the Roger Vivier Channel. Here are some sample videos.


3] La Chanson
I got a fabulous gift from my grandparents: Vive la Chanson 4-disc collection. I am a huge fan of chanson. It has Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour (I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE HIM), Charles Trenent, Georges Brassens, etc. I am in love with it.

4]Flushing: Image from queensnyc.com

Ode to that feeling you get when you get off the subway in Flushing, and you don’t understand a thing on any billboard or sign. You just think, Where the heck am I?

5] Feelings about school at the moment.

6] I can’t believe MSNBC did this. It always makes me laugh. Poor Sarko (I love that man).

7] Song of the week

Douce France- I have always identified with this song. France has always been such a big part of me.

8] Verse of the week:
Psalm 23:3

He [God] restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

9] Les Guignols-Harlem Shake with the cardinals picking the next pope.

Stephen Colbert’s ineffableness….

By: Gabriela Yareliz

“I like that ineffable thing, cause I then get to say: I can’t explain it– I am right, though…I am ineffable about everything.” Stephen Colbert, aka: The Catholic, in conversation with John Sexton.

As oral arguments approach:

Daniel’s secret

“Daniel’s clearness of mind and firmness of purpose, his power in acquiring knowledge and in resisting temptation, were due in a great degree to the plainness of his diet, in connection with his life of prayer…” Youth’s Instructor, July 9, 1903, Ellen G. White

Bollywood reaction: To Ram Singh’s suicide


After the main accused of the gang-rape in India killed himself, some in Bollywood voiced their opinions.

I couldn’t agree with Sonam Kapoor.

Sonam Kapoor: Once a coward always a coward. Don’t celebrate Ram Singh’s suicide. The brute has earned himself an arduous, traumatic trial. Instead he gave himself the easy way out.

India gang rape

By: Gabriela Yareliz
I just heard on NPR that the ring leader of the gang rape was found dead, he hung himself, in his jail cell.
This is infuriating. Weak. So weak. Way to take the easy way out.
India’s justice system needs to get it together.
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/world/asia/suspect-in-india-gang-rape-found-dead-in-jail.html?_r=0

This Week’s Picks: March 10, 2013

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Hey guys,
Here are fabulous thoughts to inspire your week.

1] Jueves, Thursday March 11, 2004
In Madrid 192 people died in the terrorist attacks.
This song was dedicated to those victims and it is one of my favorite songs by La Oreja de Van Gogh.

Remembering the victims of this tragedy in our hearts. It is a song that explains our humanity and what is most important to us. It personifies those on the train whose lives were ended.

Translation of lyrics:
If I were more beautiful
and a little more smart
if I were special,
if I were on a magazine
I would have the bravery
“to cross the coach”*
and ask you who you are

you sit in front of me
and you cannot imagine
that I wore my best skirt for you
and when I see you
giving a yawn to the glass
my pupils inundate

suddenly you look at me
I look at you and you sigh
I close my eyes and you avert my gaze
when I breathe I become so little
and I start to tremble

and this way days go by from Mondays to Fridays
as the swallows in the poem by Becquer
from station to station
when we are in front of each other
the silence comes between us
suddenly you look at me
I look at you and you sigh
I close my eyes and you avert my gaze
when I breathe I become so little
and I start to tremble

and this is what happens
my lips wake up
they pronounce your name stuttering
I guess you think “what a stupid girl”
and I would like to die

but time stops and you come closer
saying “I don’t know you yet
but I already miss you”
each morning I refuse
to get on the nonstop train
and I choose this train

and we are already arriving
my life has changed
this 11th march is a day so special
you take my hand
we arrive to a tunnel
that turn the light off
I caress your face with my hands
I become brave and kiss your lips
you say you love me and
I give to you the last puff of my heart

DEDICATED TO THE VICTIMS OF MARCH 11, 2004.

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“It is time we recognize and embrace the supernatural power that Christ provides to equip us to live triumphant, victorious, valiant lives–lives that literally shock this world around us.” Leslie Ludy

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YOLO

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Have a fabulous week!