Carnival!

In Ecuador we celebrate "el carnaval" in many ways. In a lot of places throw water to people is a tradition. The wilder celebration is in Guarando y the center of the country. There they play throuwing any water, eggs, flour, or anything that is in the way.

In Ambato is prohibitedd to play with water, but they use "carioca", and in Ambato, they also celebrate "la fiesta de las Flores y de las Frutas", it is a very traditional celebration. They have a lot of very nice parades, they also choose the queen of the city and they have a lot of funny and interest activities to do.

Carnaval is also a very good time for tourism. People go the beach or out of the city. Is a very good time for those small industries all around the country that live of tourism.

The most importan thing is that anywhere you decide to go, you could be sure that you are going to have a lot of fun.

Leads!

Lead 1: Today, an Acme Engineers's pipe fitter suffered third degree burns at Desmoines Municipal Power Plant.

Lead 2: A non fatal car accident took place yesterday on West County Road C.

Lead 3: Glenn's returns to the space has inundated the NASA with presscredentials requests while NBC is having its own scandal with Anette Roque's inclusion for the launch.

Lead 4:

- A third woman was found death today in her apartment building.

-Sheyla Richards, a 45 years local woman, was found in her apartment with gun shots wounds by a neighboor. The official cause of death has not been released yet, but the police are investigating.

"Richards is the third victim founded in the same conditions in the last two days" Said the Police Spokesman. A speculation of a serial killer is been cosidered.

Breaking the record

The 2009 was one of the most important year of this decade for the music, because some records were broken. Some leaves us and other start to shine. Singers like: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Miley Cirus, and others. They put us to dance and sing with sticky melodies. Returns like: Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, Green Day, Britney Spears, etc, were wonderful.

In this top, we are going to start the recount for the song of the year: “Poker Face” of Lady Gaga, single of The Fame, the first album of Gaga; “The Climb”, by Miley Cirus single of the movie Hanna Montana; “Causa Y Efecto”, Paulina Rubio, the song was the first single of the album return of Paulina, Gran City Pop; “You belong with me”, Taylor Swift, country singer; “Single Ladies”, Beyoncé, video of the year for MTV; “One less lonely girl”, Justin Bieber, discovered by Usher is the promise for the 2010; "El Amor”, Tito El Bambino, the best latin song of 2009; “Looking for paradise”, the song of the return of Alejandro Sanz in this time featuring Alicia Keys; “Colgando en tus manos”, Carlos Baute with this song in the past haven’t fortune but Martha Sanchez gives to him the fame; “I gotta feeling”, The Black Eyed Peas, they broke the records, all the world dance with this song, the song of the year and the candidate for the song of the decade.

About X-mas!

The last weeks of december, people start feeling differents sensations in the environment, is like as if everybody were happier, more animated, and people want to be with family and friends. Christmas is in the air. For me, that weird sensations is the joy of Jesus' comming. But a lot of people has missunderstood the real meaning of Christmas, they have forgotten the reason of the celebration, and they just focus on buying presents for everybody, on having everything ready for a great dinner. They left behind Jesus and close their doors and their hearts to him.

I think Christmas is a real mistery of love, that all of us should unterstand to get ready for receaving Jesus in our lives and not only think about buying and presents!...

2012!!!!

Some New Age beliefs said that the year 2012 is destinated to be a year of big changes. There are some discussions between the belivers about what will happen, some say that it is going to be the end of the civilization, others say that the change is going to take place in a superior level. There is no scientific evidence to support this arguments. A lot of esoteric sources see this as the end of the 13th period of the Maya calendar.

This weekend I went to watch 2012, the last Sony Pictures movie. Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists and governments. "2012" is an epic adventure about a global catastrophe that brings an end to the world and tells the story of the heroics adventures of the survivors. All the special effects and the making of the film is really goodd, it is very well done.

Even when this film is the tipic Hollywood movie, with the heroe that never dies, the common family contrasted whith wealthy people; all the theory behind, that may or not be true, make us think what is happenig with our world, and what will we o if something like this happens.

LFC (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs)

LFC (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs) is an Argentinean ska band, it comes from Buenos Aires and was founded in 1985. This band is considered as one of the most important, influent and successful band of Argentina and all Latin America.

4 of their albums had been included in the list of the 250 most influents iberoamerican rock albums. This albums were: La marcha del golazo solitario, Rey azúcar, Fabulosos Calavera and Vasos vacíos that occupied the 7th position. Their album “El León” is also in the 21^st position in the ranking of the 100 better discs of the national rock. The song “Matador” of their album “Vasos Vacios” is considered as the best latin rock song in all the history, In 1994 the video of this song was awarded in the category “Video for People” by MTV, and later they have received a lot of very important awards for their songs and video among music world.

Now at days they are finishing their world tour called “Satánico Pop Tour” which is promoting their album “La luz del ritmo”, and in few weeks they will brand new their last album called "El arte de la elegancia de Los Fabulosos Cadillacs".

Fabulos Cadillacs were formed in 1985 when Mario Siperman, Anibal Rigozzi, Gabriel Fernández y Flavio Cianciarulo got toghether. None of them knew about music but they formed the band just because they wanted to play music been an underground band. After some time new integrants joined the band and completed eight integrants. Their first official presentation with the actual name, was in a Buenos Aires high school and it wasn’t well received by the public.

At the begining they used to play in bars and pubs. It was founded by Gabriel Fernandez Capello (known as Vicentico) and bassist Flavio Cianciarulo (known as Sr. Flavio). Vicentico and Sr. Flavio have done the majority of the songwriting and lyrics as well. Saxist Sergio Rotman, Drummer Fernando Ricciardi and keyboardist Mario Siperman have also been featured in all lineups of the band.

For a small period of time the group was called Cadillacs 57, in honor to the bassist’s car, and they did some presentations with that name but in one of those performances the owner of the bar presented them as “Los Fabulosos Cadillacs” and since then they adopted definitely that name.

This Is one of my favorites music bands, I like very very much their music and I feel excited when I listen to them, their songs, their rhythm and their lyrics. I would really like them to come to Quito for a concert again.

A tradition to remember!

The "Colada Morada" & "Guaguas de Pan"

In my country on November the 2nd we celebrate the death people's day. Where we remember all our beloved family and friends that had died.

The most traditional thing of this dates is the making of the "colada morada" that is a kind of drink made with fruits and purple flour, you drink it with "guaguas de pan", bread dolls that represent death people.

This two things more than be a very tasty meal, are part of one of the most important and representative traditions of my beloved Ecuador!!!