The Kumkuat Korner

I have been dying to get my hands on a DVD of the movie MegaMind! Today, my nephew, a 9 year old genius, miraculously downloaded a copy of it on to his PS3 and allowed me to watch it with him. And I LOVED IT!! I think I loved it more than my nephew (of course he's seen it like 5 times already so for him its no biggie). I was laughing through the entire movie and it was a truly wonderful movie of the cliche "Good overcomes Evil." What I would have liked to see though, was what his parents wanted to tell him at the beginning of the movie. "You are destined to be..." to be what? Good (i.e. superhero)? Bad (i.e. supervillan)? Super genius? Normal? That ominous last words from his parents seemed to be the main point of the whole movie. Who we are vs. who we are supposed to be. Does this makes sense, because to me it does. Sort of. Small spoiler: MegaMind does not have any superpower. The only thing he really has is his blue tinted skin, (not to mention his lack of ha...

A buddy of mine were talking about stupid people claiming to be stalked. And that got me thinking back to my experience where I was stalked. No, where I thought I was being stalked. Many years ago, when I was in Middle School (7th grade), I was asked out by a fellow classmate (we will call him Max). I really didn't like him more than a classmate and perhaps it also had to do with the fact that Max was really overweight. However, I didn't want to say no to him since he had mustered all the courage a 7th grader could muster, and asked me out. So I agreed and we went out on a date. (Quite an embaressing one too, since his mom came with us to the date and insisted on meeting my parents. Then to my parents, Max's mom told them about the first date she went out with her husband and blah blah blah....).  I made the mistake of telling my friends everything, from Max's confession to the actual date. To my surprise, the blurted out that my "boyfriend" had turned to stal...

This week, several tornadoes went on a rampage across Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia.  Officials in Arab, Alabama six people there are dead in their town while the Tuscaloosa Mayor, says at least 15 people were killed there. If we add the death toll from Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia, nearly more than 209 people have died, and a local news for Alabama says that they are expecting the death toll to rise. They also mention that its the deadliest tornado outbreak in 40 years. According to Times Magazine webpage, there were over 139 reported tornadoes yesterday, clearly making it a record breaking of the month. Times questions the cause. I will post the news article here. The Hows and Whys of a Possibly Record-Breaking Tornado Month Posted by Bryan Walsh Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 10:43 am 1 Comment • Related Topics: Weather   , Alabama , climate change , disaster divide , global warming , Gulf of Mexico , natural di...

I came across this while sending an application for receptionist. It was a tidbit on a British woman who got into a heated argument with her boyfriend and SOMEHOW along the process decided that she didn't like the way the conversation was going and bit her boy friend. Not once, but twice! And swiped her boyfriend's testicles right off. As in one minute the man has balls, the next, he loses them. Of course the woman denies all the accusations and is currently in jail. Now let me tell you more about this woman. You'd think she was young and foolish right? Say maybe a early 20's type of gal maybe still living with her parents and going to college. But, no. She is a 43 year old woman AND mother of 4 kids. The man of course needed surgery to reattach his lost gems. I'll post the article I found on BBC News, below.

I took the bus to the Optometrist (also know as the eye doctor) and found a very interesting quote and lucky for me I had my camera with me and took a pic, well more than one pic of course. "History as whitewashed as abandoned walls." What the heck could it mean? Of course I was on the bus and the whole time it nagged me. Then I got home and Googled the definition of whitewashed to see if I got it correct. According to the definition that first pops up it means a little more than to paint over something. Whitewashed: To try to clear (someone or their name) by deliberately concealing their mistakes or faults. It all made sense then. History is funny with how events really happened by omitting or exaggerating the facts. So of course this quote is gonna be forever memorable in my book. Also along my trip I found a (nice?) place to grab 1 dollar Chinese food! Although I think they could use a new sign. And further along my hour and a half bus ride (don't judge, it was a nice...

I have this dog named Charlie. He drives me insane but really he's the sweetiest piece of pie (in my world) and well trained (thanks to me of course) and since I'm currently visitin my mother, he feels the need to ignore my the hard training I gave him. Actually it wasnt really that hard, just trick him with food. So yeah, he's actually pretty good. He just forgets his little training but other than that he's actually pretty good. My mother spoils him rotten. Everything I ask Charlie to do, she goes against it and sweet talks to him. Hellooo. What's the point of training him if he is not gonna listen to a word I say.  Of course since she is my mother I can't really tell her off (well I probably could but I'd risk getting smacked by an angry latina).

Now you probably all have acted a little bit rebellious to your parents when you were a teen. Maybe gave them a little sass, or told little "white lie" about going to your friend's house for a sleepover when there really is a wild party. Well this article by Judith Newman goes further into detail about new theories scientist have conjured up for our past ill mannered tempers when we were teens. What I want to know is how did scientists convince 145 kids to participate in a scientific study. Ah, no wait. Must be money. Here it is. Happy reading!

So here is the scoop. I've been dying to write a blog where I can write my thoughts on whatever, interesting things that happened, randoms jokes I heard (I won't make you guys suffer so don't worry!), or if anyone sends a request on a topic, I will write, write, write. Now like all good people (I think I qualify as good), there will be days when I will post pictures or polls, or fun facts if I am dry as a desert (for writing I mean), but I will promise I will write at least a piece everyday (or more)! That way, my fellow followers, you will never be tired of the reading my tidbits. My first order of business. I will post a very interesting read someone send me via email. (Thanks Gene!) More of that on the next post! Peace Out!