Throwback Thursday | Alice in Wonderland

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If there's something most of all the people I know about me, is that I love 'Alice in Wonderland', but before you think "Oh look, another hipster/emo who likes Alice story.." let me stop you right there. I admit I didn't started liking the story because of the book, since when I was very little the very first contact I had with this tale was Disney's movie 'Alice in Wonderland' 1951 film, but right after that I knew I loved the idea of talking flowers, and animals and everything being nonsense and just fun and random. Few years later (I'm talking about when I turned 7 or 8 something like that) I got more interest and decided to research about this a little more, but my skills were pretty much useless so the only thing I learned about this story origin was that some man named Lewis Carroll wrote it.. cool huh? Then again a bit later in 2007 my dad came home with this incredibly beautiful book brought from UK (not originally) but printed signed by Mr. Lewis Carroll! I was so exited, (and I still am every time I take that book with my bare hands) so again with new search skills, decided to look more about Lewis, finding out that he wrote the story in the late 1800's, and did this story to call the attention of a quite young lady named Alice Liddell, who he also photographed and has been said he also fell in love with. So after that I realized some of the metaphors and the symbolism that the novel contained and liked it even more now! I placed this commentary with the title of 'Throwback Thursday' because the story has been present my entire life, either getting dressed up as Alice for school plays, Halloween parties or just for fun, to even getting different versions of the books in a large variety languages, playing video games such as 'Alice Madness Returns', or even deciding to get tattooed some of the book quotes. It really became part of me, it marked me.

"And I honestly don't understand why Alice left Wonderland."

Throwback Thursdays ~ Pokemon

Like most kids born in the 90's, I cached up the obsession with Pokemon. Those video games, cartoons and many other types of merchandise were part of my entire childhood, and still today they're part of me; that's why I chose them to be the first ones listed on my series of 'Throwback Thursdays' from today until I get to  be 18, or in other words ending this on October 11, 2012.

One of the greatest memories that I have since I was very young (about 5 years old) is that it was a long weekend, and that meant no school, only TV for 4 days! Lucky me, I had a TV in my room with cable and everything, so also getting lucky, there was this non-stop marathon for 48 hours and no commercials, which happen to be a Pokemon Marathon in Cartoon Network, where I remember they transmitted the entire season one, a.k.a. Indigo League; and I specifically remember this moment when it was about 3 or 4 in the morning and I desperately wanted to sleep but I couldn't let my laziness win, as I was trying to stay awake to see my favorite TV show back in those days!

Now, some may say, ugh come on, it's just some stupid cartoon, franchise, whatever. But well, for me it was way more, it mean loads of things, including many lessons that I still apply to this day. So I'm happy to say I was part of the Pokemon Generation and that also, they all still are in my heart.