The world is a bunch of mad men...

...isn't it? We, girls, are all so different from men, we all have different thoughts, different personalities...how can we even have a normal talk? Right? I mean... how?! This kind of thoughts often cross my mind, but I never have the guts to talk about it...that's why I chose to discuss it today, in a “light” perspective...take a look at “The 7 ages of men”, by...ME!

- the “what am I gonna do today?” age

This age, when boys are so little they need to pee in a diaper, is the age we all envy...If they thought about it, they would easily answer to their inner question “what am I gonna do today?”...”well, today, I'm gonna sleep, eat, play”... “and tomorrow?”... “well, I'll probably play, eat and...sleep”. What a life!

- the “I'm so friendly” age

After they start walking and eventually, when their parents put them in the kindergarten, they are in the peak of their sociability! The girl eating a fruit pot is his friend, the guy with the new toy-truck is his friend, the girl sleeping is his friend, the boy with curly hair his is friend, the girl who slapped him in the face yesterday...hum...HIS FRIEND ALSO!

- the “I have 10 girlfriends” age

When they go to school, boys do not lose their socializing skills, but they also start taking their love life more seriously...way too seriously! They do not have one, or two girlfriends...They have many! This is the age when boys reveal their REAL nature! They like feeling they are the best love conquerors of the entire school!

- the “I have a girly voice, and you better not make fun of it” age

Boys around 15 years old start noticing big changes, especially physically speaking...about their voice, well...that's like a tabu when they're in puberty. They get like a high, girly voice which leads them to be quiet all the time. Here, we, girls, think, “oh, they are more mature, they don't say that stupid jokes anymore, they are calmer...” but then, when they open their mouth and say something, we get why they were so quiet...and we better hold our strident laugh down!

- the “I like going to parties but...I need to study and get a job” age

When guys go to college, they start dating more seriously, they start going to parties more often...but, like everything, that's not a perfect scenario, 'cause they need to work, make their own money, buy a car and, most of them, to study! Oh poor boys...that's a problem we all face, do not worry, you're not alone in this mad world!

- the “This one is to marry” age

This is THE age, when guys make (most) girl's fantasy true: getting married! The white dress, the music...boys just need to have a solid relationship and ask their friends' opinion about marriage...of course most of them will say “OMG , are you crazy?! That's going to be the biggest mistake of your life!” (well, maybe without the “OMG” part...)

- the “Oh, my back, my knees, my arms, my legs,...hurt!”

When men start getting old, they start having pains...pretty much everywhere! And that's not only though to them, it's though for us too, that listen them complaining all the time! Mercy, please! If you had a child or PMS all your life you would see how pain in your whole body (even in your brain) looks like!

Girls of this mad, mad world full of mad, mad men, don't you agree with me? Show me some support by leaving a comment! (;

XOXO, Oh My Gossip!

Filipa

The world is unpredictable...

... Why? 'Cause until we die, we're always changing. That's why I've chosen to talk about “The 8 ages of men”. I guess you will see you or your friends (ooor eventually your BOYfriend!) in some of this ages, and hope you can laugh a bit about it...

- The “Mummy, I like spitting up” age

This age is characterized by a huge patience of the parents, many badly slept nights, and...well, less time to do, let's say...the things that we, human beings, like to do...(you know what I'm talking about...deep down, you know it!)

The baby has several teeth pain, and all the kind of pain (even the psychological ones, when they annoyingly do not stop crying for no reason.)..well, this is a tough age...good luck for the ones who think about having children.

- The “I'm always tumbling” age

This age, as we know, is characterized like “school time”, known as time that parents, specially grandparents always said: “oh no, I don't wanna see my pumpkins grown up”, is the time that children have their space to join with the other kids and constitute their circle of friends. And yes, they tumble a lot.

- The “Everything that comes to the grid is fish” age

In this age love hormones start their (hooot) job. The teens, specially guys, begin looking to all the girls and really interact with them: most of the guys start they love life (with one or two or moree girls)...resuming, in this age, almost all the guys are philanders and have a particular taste to flirt with the girls that awaken their interests.

- The “I'm love&academically successful” age

When guys go to the university, they meet new girls that make them nervous..new peple, new climate, new stage of live. At this point, most people begin their sexual behavior and their sexual life, define their sexual orientation ( I love you, fairy guuys!) and most of the initial relationships come to an end. At the same time, some guys try to conciliate their love&academic life, others prefer to start working and quit studying.

- The “OMG now my parents don't pay my bills. I gotta work!” age

This is the age when they realize that life is no that easy. They can't just sit on the coach watching tv and eating french fries and hope that their parents pay them everything they don't make an effort to get. Usually, this is when they get a job, which has another good side actually...their (financial) independence may impress some girls (;

- The “I'm 30. I guess I should get married” age

When they are in their 30's, guys start thinking about constituting a family, they normally have a long date girlfriend who gives them the stability they look for and so they start wondering what would be the best way to propose. They probably get a home, start to divide their own goods and share their personal lives.

- The “I'm feeding two, but I only see one.”

After getting married, begins the phase when people start wanting to have a child. For this to happen, the couple has to known that have not only love stability but also economic one. So, if that happens it's easy: let's feed this baby and have a healthy child!! (which is good, bearing in mind the population aging)

- The “specs, mustache and beer belly or i'm a baby again” age

This ultimate phase is characterized by “ oh, my back ( or any other my body part) hurts!”. At this point, we take care of our grandchildren and expect that all the good things we desire to our son(s), happen to them also.

Liked it? Leave a comment (:

XOXO, Oh My Gossip,

Sara

A yummy, yummy, movie! ;)

Oh my...oh my fun-tastic readers! This is definetly the moment to say: "oh my movie"! This week, I've chosen to share with you the movie of my life...it may sound too childish but, honestly?! I don't care a bit! U absolutely MUST have seen Charlie and the chocolate factory, by Tim Burton! If you haven't (big, huge, fail!), I will give you the pleasure of getting to know a little more about the story, the characters, the colors...but there's no way I'm telling you every detail! Otherwise, you won't feel the magic when you see it...'cause you will. I'm sure you will. I demand you to watch it!

Charlie is a poor, young boy who lives in a small house with his parents and grandparents. One day, Willy Wonka's chocolate factory announces that the five children who find a golden ticket in his chocolates can visit the factory. Charlie is offered some chocolate in is b-day but there's no golden ticket in it and the news aren't encouraging: in the newspaper start appearing the winning children...the first one...the second...the third...the fourth...aaaand then, in a snowing day, Charlie finds some money on the street and goes to a store which sells Wonka's chocolates...now, guess what? Yes, in that day, Charlie becomes the fifth winning child! 


The visit day arrives and the kid and his grandpa are super excited about it. They meet Willy Wonka (a bizarre character), who, btw, is awsomely interpreted by Jonnhy Depp! All the children, apart from Charlie, are super annoying, irritating...and the funny part is that Wonka knows how to "fix" that! As the time goes by (and, as I already said, I won't discuss every scene in the movie, just to leave the magic when you see it...), we can watch the awsome, captivating colours, the weird (but genious) characters (as the sweet Oompa Loompas)...well, as it was expected from Tim Burton, every scenario, every color, every character, every quote, fits perfectly! Oh boy, you gotta see Wonka's perfect humour and sarcasm! (OMG OMG OMG, I love his character sooooo bad!). Let me give you a clue of it:

Willy Wonka: Do you like my meadow? Try some of my grass! Please have a blade, please do, it's so delectable and so darn good looking!
Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass?

Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Well, I leave you with this brilliant quote, hoping that you are now anxious of hearing some more!

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All we wanted: aging backwards!

Hi my dear followers, today I'm going to talk about the movie of my life, better, a movie which I enjoyed and which made me think about one theme which will always be actual: life.

The film I've chosen was The curious case of Benjamin Button, in a way, a documentary where it is explicit the life of a man (Brad Pitt, oh I love you!) who's born old, and, as the years pass, he gets younger, dying the way he should have been born: a baby. This way, the character is born with many diseases and he is given a minimum life expectancy. Despite all this, he survives (good, 'cause we NEED to see Braaaad <3), going against every rule in Nature.

 "Our" Brad's biological mum dies when he is born, and he is abandoned by his father and rescued by a black woman, Queenie, who has always cared about him and loved him despite his BIG particularity. Button was raised at the seniors home where Queenie worked.

Psichologically, his character had the mentality of a normal child in his age. This "man-kid" has never had a regular childhood, or even treated normally, exceptionally by Queenie and the people who really knew him. In the seniors home, he found Daisy's grandmother. And now you ask: who the hell is Daisy?! Well, she was Benjamin's future passion, someone he played a lot while a child, but also someone he was apart for a long, but never stopped having contact with.

This is a super moving story, 'cause we see two people that love each other, wanting to be together and this "strange case of Benjamin Button" doesn't allow it. The desire of any couple is getting old together and, apparently, in this movie, that's something impossible.


The colors in this film are mainly obscure, dark. We have the example of Benjamin, a new born, wrapped in a sheet, abandoned in front of the seniors home. This scene happens in the night, which may be a metaphor for the fact that he wasn't supposed to be born, that his birth and condition aren't seen as "normal", but as something tenebrous, depressing, dim...it can also be a bad augury for the life in front of him. However, he has the luck of being rescued by people who accept him and, most important of all, love him.

The final of the movie is one of the most outstading parts of it, when Button's (literally) old love, carries him in her arms, and he dies...well, just watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4y_JtMj-8

XOXO, Oh My Gossip,

Sara

“I too can command the wind, sir!”

Does this quote sound familiar to you? No?! Well, if it doesn’t I will recommend you to see the movie Elizabeth I - The Golden Age. This week, our blog will focus on this movie. We’re going to discuss some scenes of it and you better leave a comment or…you shall «Go back to your rathole!» (Elizabeth I).

I’ve chosen one specific scene to talk about. In my eyes, it shows Elizabeth’s strength, determination, courage, BUT, at the same time, shows fear, insecurity. Well, we can’t ask total courage when you are the queen of England, in eminence of being assassinated by your enemies, right? With all this talking I haven’t told you yet what is the scene I will read into…curious? I will leave you a clue…

Do you already know what it is?! I hope so!!!

In this scene, Elizabeth confronts the Spanish Ambassador and the message he brings from the king of Spain, Filipe II, her major enemy. The virgin wears a sumptuous yellow dress and a sophisticated hairstyle. Both this visual characteristics of her will spoil as the time goes by and as her strength is threatened by the heaviness of the power. Also in this part of the movie, all the other characters are dressed in black our mainly with dark colors, which calls our attention to the importance and authority of the Queen. 

About the soundtrack, we can say that in this particular moment and in the majority of the movie, it is slow, powerful, heavy, deep and tenebrous, which confirms the relevance of this specific scene, that will end up being a turning point in the movie, once it is mainly from this stage that the queen starts revealing stress, madness and BRAIN SICKNESS (yes, she was a crazy women…In the good way, of course!). We can check this decline not only in her quotes but also in the colors she wears. 

Finally, the interesting part. Now, the puritan frees the devil inside of her and shows us a big attitude and braveness…OMG, I wanna be like her! Now I leave you with this brief part of her discussion with the Ambassador:

Queen Elizabeth I: Go back to your rathole! Tell Philip I fear neither him, nor his priests, nor his armies. Tell him if he wants to shake his little fist at us, we're ready to give him such a bite he'll wish he'd kept his hands in his pockets! 
           Don Guerau De Spes: You see a leaf fall, and you think you know which way the wind blows. Well, there is a wind coming, Madame, that will sweep away your pride. 
[turns to leave with his ministers] 
           Queen Elizabeth I: I, too, can command the wind, sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me! 

For more information, try this:

http://www.anyclip.com/movies/elizabeth-the-golden-age/elizabeth-confronts-the-spanish-ambassador/#!cast/ 

                                                                                                                 

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                                                                                               Sara

Have you seen Elizabeth - The Golden Age ?

My brilliant, sweet, awsome readers...I've chosen to write this article, based on one scene captured from the absolutly genious and interesting movie Elizabeth - The Golden Age (if you haven't seen it yet, you better go buy some popcorn and watch it!).

In my last article, I've already introduced you to queen Elizabeth I's troubled love life . In this movie, it is pretty clear everything i have told you, and it is so, so, so, so catchy! <3

The scene I am going to discuss with you happens when the queen finds out that Raleigh, the man she was in love with, had secretly married Bess (that b*tch!), the queen's beloved ward and confidant.

The wacky scene happens due to previous events:

* basically, Walter Raleigh had arrived from the New World and had been presented to the virgin, (who was stunning in a yellow dress, btw) offering her some potatoes (how romantic is that?!) and gold (getting better...), which she refused.

* Elizabeth I was immediatly attracted to Raleigh and all his exploration stories in the New World. Delighted, the queen asks Bess to watch him. What Elizabeth didn't know was that she also felt attracted to him.

* Raleigh begun having a close relationship with the queen and she has misunderstood his feelings for her - while Elizabeth actually loved Raleigh, he loved her as his queen, I mean, he admired her with all his heart. How harsh was it to be a queen, han?! Poor Elizabeth...

* after a secret, funny night with Raleigh, Bess gets pregnant and the only way to minimize the "damage" is to get married (in secret, of course!).

And now comes the part I will discuss and which I would like you to comment on, giving me your opinion:

             The queen finds out Bess's pregnancy and confronts her. The scene is violent, and happens in a huuuuuge room, which makes an echo that increases it's depth. Bess is dreesed in white and the virgin wears a heavy-blue dress, contrasting with the vivid colors she wore in the beginnin' of the movie. Bess confesses her pregnancy and secret marriage with «HIM» . Btw, this was one aspect that I found interesting in this scene: the tension was so harsh, that Raleighs's name hasn't been said - the queen asked Bess if the baby was «his» and Beth confirmed that it was her «husband's»...
              Now, my question is: who the hell is the "friend" thas betrays someone (which only happened to be the queen of England) like that? I was completely shocked, and you? What would you do if one of your bff betrayed you like that?!

Plz, do not be gentle in your answers!

I leave you with this brief video that shows the evolution of Elizabeth and Bess's relationship.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHRaymAwNo&feature=related
Ps - watch the end carefully - after everything that has happened, Elizabeth forgives Bess and gives her child her blessing...what a woman!

XOXO, Oh My Gossip!

Filipa