Bubblelicious

i watched this touching Colombian tale last night and in the process fell in love with Catalina Sandino Moreno. for those in the dark (especially a certain piggie), no this is not a colombian porn. the story is about maria, a poor (as in poverty poor, not sympathy poor) 17-year-old who got pregnant and dumped by her bf, decided to become a drug "mule" in order to provide a better life for her baby. maria is promised lots of cash and a round trip to new york if she is able to carry the heroin across US border, in her stomach . the drugs were carefully sealed inside rubber pellets...slightly larger than a big grape...and maria had to swallow 62 pellets! if you think you can't stomach this, be warned that there's more gross scenes coming up. as much as i'm tempted to continue the story, i really should not spoil the movie experience for you. watch it and fall in love with maria like i did. this movie is en espanol, con subtitulos en ingles by the way.

*Update: I've tried the macadamia nut mooncake that i bought for my mom, OMG!! it tasted 10 times better than cookies 'n' cream. in a tiny moment of weakness, i've gained back whatever weight that i lost and lost whatever money that i attempted to saved on sunday. it's all nadirah's fault actually. she kept tempting me with mental images of chocolate-coated ice cream mooncake from Haagen Dazs. i am only human afterall. i was practically drooling the whole day because we kept discussing about which flavour is the best and how fast we can race to 1 Utama after work. there are 3 kinds of flavour- macadamia nut, cookies 'n' cream and chocolate. the supposed "egg yolk" is made from mango sorbet. yummy! after much agonizing, we both decided to go for cookies n cream flavour. and it tastes heavenly... who needs orgasm when we can have Haagen Dazs? this ice cream mooncake is well-worth the 25 bucks because i was so stuffed after eating that it became m...