Remember them?

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a nice day! Life over here has gone quite well. Ok… lets get into matter, this post that you’re about to read is one that I’ve been having in mind ever since I started my little corner in the cyber world lol. They have always said that music and fashion are linked; I believe this theory, why? Well, they’re both a type of art, a medium of expression where you demonstrate your feeling and individuality through clothes and lyrics. That’s why this post is a tribute to all my favorite oldie music bands, especially from the 90’s (I’m sort of stuck in the 90’s, I miss it so much!), so sit back and… Enjoy!

I'll be there for you... or, You are the girl of my dreams
In my heart
I believe...

PLEASE tell me there is SOMEBODY out there that remembers these cute and AWESOME Canadian brothers (Scott, Dave, Bob and Clint Moffatt)! I fell in love with the four of them when I was 8. It was basically my sisters fault, I think we were the only ones in the whole island that had their CD, since my sister had to order it because it didn't came to stores in Puerto Rico. They were the only ''boy band'' I liked (I wasn't a fan of BSB or Nsync, don't hate me, I later started listening to them) since they didn't dance, I love the fact that they played their own instruments in a period where everybody loved bands that sing and dance. And for their age (14 the triplets Dave, Bob and Clint and 15 Scott) they were EXTREMELY talented! Everytime I listen to their music I keep repeating myself: '' I want them BACK!'' And they were cool, they liked Nirvana lol!

Favorite songs: Misery!!!, Wild at Heart, Bang Bang Boom and Spy!Upside down, bouncing off the ceiling
Inside out, stranger to this feeling
Got no clue what I should do
I'll go crazy if I can’t get next to you
To you...

And who remembers this sweet Swedish quartet? After listening to ABBA I have to say, these kids did an excellent work, I love their first CD and their second album was so pop and fun! Too bad they're not together anymore!

Favorite Songs: Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight), Mamma Mia, Floorfiller and Heartbreak Lullaby


Until youre back here baby
Miss you want you need you so
Until youre back here baby yeah
Theres a feeling inside I want you to know
You are the one and I cant let you go

BBmak was another band that called my attention back in the old days!

Favorite Song: Back Here

Don't say you love me
You don't even know me
If you really want me
Then give me some time

Hey,their song was on Pokemon! And then again Swedish match my list of favorites. M2M was a really talented duo, with their sweet melody their lyrics were the voice of any teenage girl! I simply loved them!

Favorite Songs: Don't say you love me and Miss Popular!
Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du

Brother Boy bands are really making it nowadays, so I couldn't exclude this group of brothers! They prove that country music can mix with pop! And personally, no offense, they're WAY better than the Jonas Bros!

Favorite Songs: Runaway Run, If Only and This Time Around.All the small things
True cares, truth brings
I'll take on lift
Your ride, best trip

Okay, these guys were the ones who got me into music, I hated all these boy bands (the ones that sing and dance) and ever since I saw these three guys making fun of them (All the Small Things music video is my all time favorite) I instantly fell in love with them! If I keep talking about how amazing they're for me I will never end this post, so I'll just stick to saying, they...are...AWESOME! They reunited a few months ago and recently they're on a Summer 2009 world tour, and I'll never forgive my self for not going to their concert in Florida! I hope I get to see them someday; they will always be my favorite band EVER!

Favorite Songs: From Dude Ranch Album to Blink 182, in other words, all their songs!

I have a lot of other bands that I still listen to and love their music like the first day! Unfortunately time and space inhibit me from posting them. Did you remember some of these and/or other music bands? Feel free to tell! I hope you liked the post! I wish you all an awesome week! Peace out! :)
Sincerely Louie, Ciao!

I'm not a Robot!

I’m sorry… so sorry for abandoning the cyber world for almost a month. Is that lately I’ve been tortured with homework, exams and other torturing student obligations, lol. A lot of things have occurred in this sunny little island, and a lot is about to happened (political issues) but I will not bore you with details. Despite all of this chaos, I found a new way of channelizing my emotions by… writing. And while I was about to take my second exam of this semester I stepped outside of the machine and observed society around me. Suddenly I realized how mechanized and systematic our education has turned.

How can you measure an individual’s ability to learn? I know you may think I’m crazy (don’t worry I believe it myself lol) but society nowadays is just a machine. And the educational system has developed our minds to think and act like they want us to. It’s not about learning it’s about earning. How can a game of words (a test) measure our knowledge, it’s impossible, it limits are capacity to develop our thoughts. You study to get a career (that lets you money) get a job, consume, consume, consume and you have no time left for nothing other than work and consume. No time to read, cultivate your mind, observe the world around you and appreciate the real value of life. While I was in the hallway observing everybody taking their last glance to their notebooks I realized that we weren’t really learning anything. We are just filling our brain with a bunch of information and subtracting our ability to think critically. We are becoming robots of a capitalist society. And as I was observing the world around me I realized that the system trains us to become what they want…consumers with no capacity to think or to posses an original and unique identity. I don’t want to fall into that cycle; I don’t want to be another unknown robot, a number. That’s why I’m determined to follow my calling (even though I still don’t know for sure what it is), I’m going to be no one but me. And while I was observing my surroundings, verses came to my mind and a poem I ended writing. I compared the educational system with a game, because that’s what it seems it is (over here, I know it’s not the same in other parts of the world). I must confess that I’m not an expert, these are one of the fewest poems I’ve written, sorry if it’s not that good, I tried my best and here it goes.

The game starts when the bell rings

It rang, it began
Here is what we are going to do
We’ll test your knowledge with a game
We’ll grade your gray matter with a game of charades
I’ll choose if you’re smart or dumb
If I like you, winner you’ll be
If I don’t, loser you're destined to be

Let’s play guess who or hide but don’t seek
Don’t worry if you don’t have a clue
I’ll give it to you
Monopoly will be our sociology
Your life will be the pawn in the chess set
Simon says… mimic me
But be careful and don’t break the rule
There’s only one, I’ll decide and lead
Think like me and I’ll give you the key
Say what I say and it will get you into the maze
When you find the way out, oh no! too late
My robot you are and there is no turning back
I have the on and off button
If you want to stop there’s only one way
Brake the puzzle and only then it will be… game over
Want to play?

The picture above is from Korean Vogue Girl

On the other hand one of my most awaited events of the year took place… New York and London Fashion Week!! Betsey Johnson, Luella and Anna Sui were the ones I’ve been waiting for. Betsey was awesome, Anna Sui was incredible but I have to admit I expected more of Luella. It’s not that it was bad, but it was totally different, I missed her girly, geeky, punk, schoolgirl style. But anyways I loved her collection! I also loved Milly’s collection, it so Upper Eastsider, real cute oh! And Moschino Cheap & Chic was another one of my fav! Here I leave you with one of my favorites, hope you like them! Enjoy!

There's more on Style.com they keep updating everyday with the latest on all designers from NYC to Milan!

Hope you all have an awesome weekend! Peace out!
Sincerely Louie! Ciao :)

Winter and Fall won’t come out and play with me!

Hey everyone, sorry for being such a bad blogger but I’ve been very busy with some interesting things like… homework! sarcasm* The past week was one that my Bff and I called the ‘’limbo week’’, since we were literally in a limbo mode. Our University went into a strike on Wednesday so we didn’t have uni that day, after that, a storm was arriving on Thursday night, Erika, which it transform into a depression and after the governor had suspended schools and work for Friday he later changed his mind and everything went back to ‘’normal’’.

Despite the ‘’enchantments’’ that occur in this sunny little island; I’ve been missing something I haven’t seen for a long time (16 years) and that is… FALL and WINTER!!! I moved to this tropical island when I was three and ever since I have never got use to the weather. I remember passing my elementary years wearing a sweater that my mom made for my older sister back then when we lived in Pennsylvania. I never left the house without it, everybody made fun of me because I was the only freak wearing a sweater on a 95F degree day even my teachers asked me if I was melting in it, but to be honest… I wasn’t . I think I programmed my brain to feel chilled and not hot. Living in a tropical island can be fun at first. Hey, you get to have sun, beaches, sand, palms and even coconuts whenever you want but what happens when you live in a never ending summer? You miss the snow, that fall breeze mixed with those gorgeous brown leaves and the chance to wear an incredible warm and cozy coat! The other day I was suffering at Old Navy; they brought these beautiful coats in red and green, I started complaining of the climate over here and why do they bring things like these to this place if you could never go out wearing a coat in this place not even in the coldest day of winter. But I surpassed the pain; comforting myself with the dream that someday I’ll move back to the north or to a place where all the four seasons visit me.

Here are some of the outfits I would love to wear someday! What better than the The Devil Wears Prada movie to receive inspiration. I just haven’t seen a movie that has so many fashion in it like this one. It’s one of my favorites, with an incredible cast and the most amazing city in the world as the setting!

Loved everything in this outfit but I absolutely want that Chanel necklace!

P.S: Here is the mural photo I promised; sorry if it looks a bit blurry, unfortunately my camera is dying so it really can’t take good defined pictures. Hope you like it and have an awesome day and week! :) Peace Out!

Sincerely Louie, Ciao! :)

Me, Myself and the Books...

Hola everyone! Lately I’ve been really busy with homework, homework and more homework, oh and lots of ideas that have been spinning in my mind for the last few of days. Thinking about life, especially. But yesterday I made the unconventional, I took a bit of my time and instead of hitting the books –well paper copies-I did something productive –other than watching some episodes of Skins on you tube, I got to say some scenes are really strong but I just fast forward the heavy parts- I made my first ever fashion inspirational mural –actually the second, because the first attempt was a Luella& Betsey Johnson mural shaped like the Eiffel tower, it didn’t last a day when all the pictures started to fall off- I was really proud of myself. So now this wall works as a compass for me; whenever I get lost in all this bizarre I look at my now favorite wall in the room and I receive a sense of direction. It’s like a voice that tells me ‘’hey look over here, this is where you want to go, and this is where you want to be!’’ . It comforts me a lot.

On the other hand I’m doing something I haven’t done in a while… write. I know what you may be thinking… this girl has gone nuts, she writes almost every week!? Yes and it’s true, but It’s been a long time since I’ve written artistically, with metaphors and symbolism and rhymes and games of words. I started writing a short story. It all came from a nightmare I had a few nights ago, it was so scary that I decided to turn it into a story. The tale is about a girl, pretty much like me, that presence a series of murders in her calm and friendly neighborhood of Glooming Town. She enhances on a series of investigations and discovers that she is the next one on the list… I know it sounds psycho, but I like those type of story. It has been taking me a lot of time to develop it because every time I sit to write muse hits me and a waterfall of ideas fall into my head forming a river of events that ends in words. I suddenly transform myself into an omniscient being where I see all these cold scenes right in front of me, It’s just like being inside a movie, and it makes me want to keep on writing and never stop. In my boring classes I just pick up my note pad and transport myself into this world, it helps a lot, it’s my new therapy. Okay I must stop talking about this because I may be freaking you out… sorry!

Now, on other daily basis issues I got my first prescript glasses. I need them to read and for working in front of the computer. They are actually guys’ glasses but they work as both, and they cost me an eye, almost literally but they’re Persol made in Italy and blah, blah, the thing is that I like them and I had some savings so if I was going to invest on something I’ll might as well invest on something good. And last but not least the coolest thing today was going to Borders after school and buying the September issue of Elle! I was looking for Vogue but I didn’t find it; that was until I saw it after I already paid for Elle mag and was heading my way to the exit door, but what the heck, I still liked Elle.

P.S: I promise to put pictures of the mural for the next post, sorry but right now I don’t have a camera. But here I leave you with some pictures that describe my wordy and bookworm mood right now, courtesy of Russian Elle Girl and Korean Vogue Girl. Enjoy!

The minute I saw this picture I had to share it with you people, the photo is gorgeous! She reminds me of the Swamp Pincess... Oh my gosh I love her shoes!


Books, books and more books! And have an incredibly awesome day! Peace out!
Sincerely Louie, Ciao!

So Little Time So Much to Do...

Hey guys! Sorry for the abandonment of these past weeks but as you all know I started school two weeks ago. And I have to say that the only qualified adjective that best describes these past weeks is… frustration. I’m going to confess (sorry if I use this post to spill out all my problems but here is the only place where I can tell the world what’s going on in my tormented days) I hate my university. I know education must be a right not a privilege –but come on… let’s face it, sometimes it’s a privilege rather than a right- I’m not regretting the fact that I have this opportunity, I’m just mad at the educational system over here. First of all the education is horrible the professors are mediocre, they don’t care a thing about your ideals (some people may not care, but at least show a little bit of respect) in your face and in front of the whole classroom you can be discussing a point and professors can tell you ‘’I don’t care what you think’’… ‘’You’re wrong, I’m right’’… ‘’ The A is for me, the B for the book, the C’s for the desk and the D’s and F’s, well, share them among the group’’ Literally, I’m quoting. This is not educational at all! This is just a give-me-your-money, sit on a desk for God-knows-how-long, listen to all the stupidity a professor has to say (they think they’re the best next thing after Coke just because they have a PhD and everything around them is worthless) stand all his or her greedy moods (and don’t you dare complain because the university has a law where professors can do and say whatever they want in their classroom, they put the rules, imagine I have professors that prohibits you from going to the bathroom in class), write all the junk that they want to hear in a piece of paper and if you stand all this humiliation for 4 years then congratulations, you get your diploma! This is a repression of ideals, a humiliation of one’s dignity and honesty! Where is my voice in this place… nowhere, I don’t have one, they don’t let you have one. They’re crushing my dreams, my thoughts, my ideals and I won’t permit that. Universities are supposed to be a universe of ideas a variety of thoughts where each idea is respected; well here it’s the total opposite. Even students disrespect your believes (they also say racist comments in a class discussion) instead of defending –civilized- a point of view they argue like animals. This place is a jungle (especially because everybody looks at me weird, as in everybody looks at me like if I were a freak or an alien of another planet)! My only motto is my dream, that’s my motivation.

While I was in a misery room (class room) sitting in a cold, hard and uncomfortable desk I was putting in practice my only source of escape from this nightmare… imagination. Since it’s invisible I can employ it anytime I want. This helps me transport my mind into a perfect world, for instance a fairy tale world like the ones I have in photos of a Korean Elle girl shooting. I dream of places I want to live in like NYC, London, Paris and Sydney. I fancy about all the clothes I want to design, the films I want to make, the photos I wish to take and the things I want to write while the Better Days song of the Goo Goo Dolls is running through my mind keeping me motivated for the rest of the day. And wishing for the time to go fast forward I spend my days wishing this was over. Sorry for using this post as a therapy session but I needed to get all of this anger out of my system. Sorry for being ascent for so long and return with a sack of complaints. I promise I will try to build up this puzzle; I must add that I never stop thinking about the importance of my blog , every day I knew I had to blog, but really, I didn’t had the time or strength to transform all this anger into words.
Here I leave you with the pictures I mentioned above, courtesy of Korean Elle Girl and these other pictures of my daily motivation… I call them my survival med's. Enjoy! And I hope you all have a wonderful and awesome day!

My Dream City!

P.S: Sorry for the long extension of complaints, I promise that my next posts will be about important issues. And I think someone tagged me but I don’t remember who, if you are that person please let me know... thanks! I’m going to try to catch up with the rest of you. Take care and Peace out!

Sincerely Louie, Ciao! :)

Back to School! Wish Vacations never end!

Sorry for being such a bad blogger. First of all I would like to apologize for not commenting on your blogs! I’ve been away for almost two weeks – doctors, labs, medicine, and blah, blah, blah- But I’m back. I’m getting ready for my ‘’Back to Hell... sorry, Back to School’’ lol. I don't want vacations to be over, I'll have to say farewell to my days of freedom and nothingness. But I had a nice summer (excluding the visits to the doctors and hospital... yuck!) I saw more movies than what I expected! And I opened a portal to the cyber world with my little corner of self expression (thanks readers for your comments you really motivate me to keep writing).
I hope this year gets to be better than the last one. It really didn’t go as I planned. Still I haven’t bought a single pencil and I’m thinking of what clothes am I going to buy. Obviously has to be cheap; I’m on a low budget like always lol. But something different, I want a style that nobody around me has. I don’t care if people look at me weird (which they usually do). So looking here and there for ideas and inspiration for my new ‘’back to school wardrobe’’ I bumped into these Forever 21 photos from their ‘’Heritage 1981 Back to School '09 Photoshoot’’ I fell in love with the outfits, even though I’m craving for something more Nancy Drew style lol. I loved the shooting, I found it really original it seemed like the scenery matched the outfits! Hope you like the pix! Enjoy!

I love her suitcase! I would love to have it as a book bag!

I want that Oxford U T- Shirt!!! (Confession: I had this obsession with oxford since sophmore year) :) And her boots are stunning!
This year my most desired clothing piece is a boyfriend blazer! I've been looking for one for so long but unfortunately the ones that I find don't fit me :( Love the socks, they rock!
I'm not really a skirt girl but since plaid is driving me mad I think I would wear one like this! With the glasses too!
The photo is simply pretty!Everything is adorable in this outfit!!! Too pretty for school! lol

Rock out! Hum I love the punk style!

Any suggestions feel free to share! Hope I can keep up with all your posts. Have an awesome weekend and peace out!

Sincerely Louie, Ciao!

Sun, sea and breeze in the Old Streets!

Wake Up Wake Up

On a saturday night
Could be New York
Maybe Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
Or Old San Juan.

Yesterday was GNO for me! My sis, BFF and me headed to sunny Old San Juan, my favorite city in whole island! Walking through the streets I realized why so many people come from all around the world to get a glimpse of this historical Caribbean spot. Their castles, murals, and Spanish colonial houses are unique. The colors are as bright as the Sun; and the palms, sea and sun merge into one picture creating the perfect scenery for a Saturday night (specially a GNO one). This 600 year old beauty keeps charming me every time I go. Hey, no wonder they decided to film Wizard of Waverly Place and Princess Protection Program here, not to mention the Selena Gomez cover shoot for Teen Vogue. Take a look at it and tell me what you think! Enjoy!
Fountain from El Paseo de la Pirncesa.
This photo was taken by my sis.
My BFF and sis.My BFFand me.
My sis and me.
I have an obsession with lampposts! :)
Garita del Diablo : here is where the Spanish soldiers used to guard the cost area. They observed through the window where they spotted enemy ships like pirates, once the ship was found the Fort San Felipe del Morro was ready to attack.
Sir Francis Drake, George Clifford and Boudewijn Hendriksz were three unsuccessful invaders of the XVI century.

Hope you had a great weekend and have an awesome week! Peace out! :) Sincerely Louie, Ciao!