Go Camilo Go!

Today I wanna share something very very important with you.
His name is Camilo!
He is the cutest baby I've ever seen. He's a special baby, you can see it in his beautiful eyes.
Every day I fall in love more with him. He keeps his smile against all odds, the thing touches me more is that in all the situations he has nothing but smiles... smiles all the time!
Here's his story:

On January 30, 2013, Camilo was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) also referred to as "half a heart". At just 6 days old Camilo had his first open heart surgery and went on to have his 2nd and 3rd open heart surgeries at the age of 8 months. His recovery for all his surgeries had it's ups and downs and resulted in longer than normal hospital stays. We are so happy that to this day Camilo is thriving! He continues to meet his milestones through continued physical and occupational therapies. He is continuing to gain weight and strength for his next open heart surgery. Through this process we have been covered with lots of love and prayers and have been blessed with an amazing support system. Caring for a child with special needs and continuing to give him the best care can be a financial struggle. With hospital bills, medications, therapies and co-pays things can add up. We have been contacted many times on how you can help. If you like to donate and help with the extra medical expenses, any amount counts! Thank you Heart family for being there with us on this journey! We couldn't do it without you! 

If you need more information on the HLHS check:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002096/

1 out of 10,000 babies are born with HLHS (half a heart).

We can help him and his sweet family by clicking 

here: http://www.gofundme.com/camilosstory

#gocamilogo #hlhs #halfaheart #love #heartfamily 

God bless you sweet baby boy.. you're a miracle!

Nude Make Up

A me non piace!
Questo finto Nude Make up non mi piace proprio! Soprattutto la zona labbra... che non sono naturali ma color cadavere quasi, si mimetizzano con il colorito della carnagione... anche perché vengono passate con fondotinta e cipria... orroreeeeeee!
Va bene il viso acqua e sapone, ma al finto nude preferisco il nulla proprio.
L'unica cosa di cui non potrei fare a meno? Il mascara!

E a voi piace questo trend del momento?

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I don't like it!
I don't like that kind of fake Nude Make up!
Above all the lips, they're not natural (how they pretend to be), but they're a kind of corpse color, they're the same color of the sking, because makeup artists use to cover them with foundation and powder............. terrible!
Ok for fresh and natural faces, but to that fake nude makeup look I'd rather prefer no make up indeed!

What is the only one thing I can't do without? The mascara!

How about you? Do you like that trend?

The Journey

Ma i veri viaggiatori partono per partire e basta: cuori lievi, simili a palloncini che solo il caso muove eternamente, dicono sempre "Andiamo", e non sanno perché. I loro desideri hanno le forme delle nuvole.

Et qui rêvent, ainsi qu’un conscrit le canon,

De vastes voluptés, changeantes, inconnues,

Et dont l’esprit humain n’a jamais su le nom!

Charles Baudelaire

But the true travellers are they who depart
For departing's sake; with hearts light as balloons,
They never swerve from their destinies,
Saying continuously, without knowing why: 'Let us go on!'

These have passions formed like clouds;
As a recruit of his gun, they dream
Of spacious pleasures, transient, little understood,
Whose name no human spirit knows.

Charles Baudelaire

Turn Back Time... ♥

Se potessi far tornare indietro il mondo farei tornare poi senz'altro te........ 

Il tempo passa troppo in fretta...
E' già un anno che non ci sei più.....
esattamente un anno fa, quella maledetta sera, quella maledetta pioggia, quel maledetto incidente...
Voglio ricordarti così, sorridente...
Miss u cugi 
♥ ♥ ♥ Today more than ever ♥ ♥ ♥ 




You'll be forever in my heart 

Friend or foe ?

"Amici" (non quelli di Maria!)
Gli amici sono una "bella invenzione"..... quando tutto va bene.........
Non sono una che ha un milione di amici... quelli sono conoscenti per me...
gli amici, quelli veri sono pochi, ma sono quelli con cui ti senti a casa e con i quali bastano 4 parole per capire un discorso.
Purtroppo nella vita di ognuno di noi capitano delle cose non sempre belle, anzi proprio brutte... e ti aspetti che gli amici ti facciano sentire la loro presenza in qualsiasi modo..... e invece rimani tristemente spiazzato!
Ovviamente eccezione fatta per chi c'è attualmente...
ma per chi non c'è... rimanga pure dov'è.... sto meglio così.
Sono solo stanca di esserci per tutti.... ma da ora si cambia! Mi dispiace!

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"Friends" (no the one from the famous show)
Friends are a "good invention"..... when everything is ok...
I am not that one with a million of friends, they are acquaitances for me...
true friends are not many, but with them you feel at home and with whom just few words are enough to undestand the whole speech.
Unfortunately in every one life bad things happen, and what do you expect is that your friends make you feel their presence in any way they know... and on the other hand you are sadly upset!
Sure, an exception made for who currently is by my side...
but for who isn't there....stay where you are.... it's better for me, I feel better that way.
I'm tired of being present everytime and for everybody.... it's time to change now! Sorry!

There's no place like London!

London: always worth a visit!
I'm unconditionally and irrevocably in love with that city!
I feel I'm on the top of the world when I'm there. Love every single place, Covent Garden is my special one.
I cannot really express what my feelings are, but happiness is the closer.

Love London as a part of my life 
(the best of it!)

Love xxx

Carmen

Happiness is.......

La felicità è quella che canta Pharrell... quella che ti fa venir voglia di ballare.

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Happiness is what Pharrell sings.... that puts you in the mood for dancing.

'Morning!!!

Good morning and Happy Friday ;)


Wish you a nice weekend !!

Saving Mr Banks

E' da Dicembre che aspettavo questo momento... e finalmente è arrivato!
Ho visto Saving Mr Banks e ne sono rimasta completamente affascinata.
Una magnifica Emma Thompson nel ruolo di Mrs P.L. Travers, e un brillante Tom Hanks nel ruolo di Walt Disney.
Ovviamente non immaginavo cosa ci fosse dietro la storia di Mary Poppins. Il film l'avrò visto milioni di volte da bambina, ricordo che pensavo a quel "basta un poco di zucchero e la pillola va giù..." quando dovevo prendere qualche medicina. Mary Poppins ha accompagnato la mia infanzia e quella di molti altri bambini, dobbiamo ringraziare tutti Walt Disney per essere stato così umano ed essere riuscito ad avere i diritti.
Mi è piaciuto davvero tanto. Vi consiglio di vederlo!
Imparerete anche a fare un buon tè! ;)

Ecco i suggerimenti:

1. Scegliere il tè.
2. Far bollire l'acqua.
3. Mettere l'acqua calda nella teiera.
4. Lasciare il tè in infusione (nella teiera)
5. Aggiungere il latte che si desidera.
6. Versare il tè.
7. Zuccherare a piacere.
8. Sorseggiare e goderselo lentamente.

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I was waiting for it from December... and the moment has arrived!
I've watched Saving Mr Banks and I've been completely enchanted.
A magnificent Emma Thompson, playing the role of Mrs P.L. Travers, and a brilliant Tom Hanks, playing the role of Walt Disney.
I couldn't imagine what was behind the scenes of Mary Poppins' Story. I've watched the movie/musical thousand times when I was a child, it's funny as I thought of "that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down..." when I had to get some medicine. Mary Poppins has been a companion in my childhood as in other children's childhood, we must say thank you to Mr Walt Disney for doing that, for being so human getting the copyright.
I liked it so much. I recommend you to watch it!
You will learn how to make a proper cup of tea as well! ;)

Here's the steps to follow:

1. Choose the tea.
2. Boil the water.
3. Run warm water over the tea pot.
4. Steep the tea in the pot.
5. Add desired milk. 
6. Pour the tea.
7. Add sugar to taste.
8. Sip and enjoy slowly.

The Great Beauty

Non voglio ergermi a critico cinematografico, come sta facendo un po' tutta l'Italia, ma solo dare un mio personale parere al film come ho fatto per The Wolf of Wall Street.

Sullo sfondo la nostra bellissima Roma, che chiaramente non necessita di nessun film per essere decantata, ma trovo che sia una cornice meravigliosa.
Non perché il film ha vinto l'Oscar deve piacere, questo è chiaro.
A me personalmente è piaciuto, perché ho trovato che fosse la rappresentazione della nostra società attuale, vuota, alla ricerca della "grande bellezza"... che in realtà non è molto lontana da noi. Noi come italiani abbiamo la "grande bellezza" nell'arte, nella cultura, e perché no anche nella cucina. E se uno scrittore, Jep Gambardella in questo caso, non riesce a scrivere o semplicemente decide di non scrivere più è perché non ha ispirazione secondo me, vive una vita vuota, fatta di feste, amicizie non si sa quanto vere, votata all'apparenza e alla mondanità insomma.

Le scene memorabili sono due secondo me:
- quella in cui Jep parlando con la sua governante, durante una festa a casa sua, in cui lei gli chiede perché non avesse più scritto, lui le dice una frase che suona così: "ma la vedi cos'è la mia vita? è nulla! Posso mai scrivere del nulla? Non c'è riuscito Flaubert..." mentre davanti a lui scorre un trenino allegretto dei suoi amici.
- quella del funerale, o meglio quella in cui Ramona sta scegliendo l'abito da indossare al funerale del figlio di Viola, Jep considera il funerale l' "appuntamento mondano per eccellenza", e c'è tutta una sua filosofia sui funerali qui.

Jep incarna l'uomo disilluso di oggi, che ha un po' sprecato la sua vita e il ritorno alle radici dell'ultima scena ne è l'emblema.

Chi di noi non si è mai sentito come Jep Gambardella?

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I don't wanna be a kind of movie critic, as the whole Italy is doing, but I just wanna give my own opinion on the film like I did for The Wolf of Wall Street.

Our beautiful Rome on the background, that does not need any film for being gush over obviously, but I think it is a wonderful framework.
It's clear, not because the movie won the Oscar as best foreign language film you have to like it.
I liked it, because I found it as the right representation of our current society, empty, that is looking for the "great beauty"... that is not that far from us. We, as Italians get the "great beauty" in Art, Culture and why not? In our food as well. And if a former writer, in that case Jep Gambardella, cannot write again or maybe he decides to stop writing that's exactly why he hasn't the inspiration anymore, he's living an empty life, a life full of parties, friends we cannot judge how they're honest, a life for the appearence and wordliness.
In my humble opinion, the best scenes are two:
- the one in which Jep is talking with his governess, during one of the party at his home, and she asks him why he has stopped writing, and he says something like that: "do you see what my life is? It's nothing! I cannot write about nothing, nor even Flaubert managed to it..." in the meantime before him, his friend are doing a funny conga.
- the one of the funeral, or better sayin' the one in which Ramona is chosing the dress for Viola's son funeral, Jep considers the funeral the main wordliness event, and there's his own philosophy about the funerals.

Jep embodies the nowadays disenchanted man, who has wasted his life a little bit and the climax is represented by the coming back to his roots in the final scene.

Who,  among us,  hasn't ever feel the same as Jep Gambardella?

And the winners are.....................

E così un'altra notte degli Oscar se ne va.

Cosa abbiamo visto in questa notte?
La selfie più bella della storia delle selfie :), il momento pizza per tutti, Brad che mangia senza pudore >.<

Sorrentino che ringrazia anche Maradona (-.-'), Leo che bacia Matthew (miglior momento per me), anche se tifavo Leo... :( un articolo interessante su Vanity Fair spiega perchè gli attori "cool" non vincono l'Oscar... è la teoria per cui Leo non l'avrebbe vinto... qui.

Comunque.... Complimenti a tutti!

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And another Oscar Night goes by.

What have we seen during that night? 

The most beautiful Selfie of the selfie's story :), the pizza time, Brand eating pizza with no shame >.<

Sorrentino saying thanks to Maradona (-.-'), Leo kissing Matthew (best moment for me), even if I was a Leo's supporter... :( there's an interesting article on Vanity Fair, that claims why don't the cool actors win the Oscar.... that is the theory why Leo wouldn't win it. here

Anyway... Congrats everyone!

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

Directing 
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

Best actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best actor in a leading role
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best actress in a supporting role
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

Best actor in a supporting role
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

Best Writing Original Screenplay
Spike Jonze - Her

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity

Best Production Design
Catherine Martin e Beverly Dunn (Il Grande Gatsby)

Best Foreing Language Film
La grande bellezza - Paolo Sorrentino (Italia)

Best Animated Feature Film
Frozen -  Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho

Best Visual Effects
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould - Gravity

Best Film Editing
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger - Gravity

Best Sound Editing
Glenn Freemantle - Gravity

Best Sound Mixing
Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro - Gravity

Best Original Score
Steven Price - Gravity

Best Original Song
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez - Let It go (Frozen)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Costume Design
Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn - Il Grande Gatsby   

Best Documentary - Feature
20 Feet from Stardom - Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed

Best Live Action Short Film
Helium - Anders Walterand Kim Magnusson

Best Animated Short Film
Mr. Hublot di Laurent Witz e Alexandre Espigares 

Waiting for the... Oscar 2014

Aspettare la notte degli Oscar è un must per qualsiasi cinefilo. E ogni anno si vive questa suspence, un tifare per il preferito.
Il tappeto rosso, gli ospiti tirati a lucido, l'emozione... quest'anno abbiamo anche la nomination per "La Grande Bellezza" di Sorrentino, un orgoglio per noi italiani e napoletani, viste le origini del regista. 

Quest'anno faccio il tifo per Leo di Caprio. Lo trovo straordinario. Spero vinca come miglior attore protagonista. Il premio per miglior attore non protagonista lo darei a Jonah Hill, che mi è piaciuto in The Wolf of Wall Street, invece miglior attrice protagonista lo darei a Judi Dench. 

Ma ora basta parlare, voglio aspettare questa notte e vedere cosa succede.

Vai Leo! ;)

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Waiting for the Oscar night is a must for everyone who loves the motion picture industry. And every year you're into that suspence, supporting your favourite.
The red carpet, the sleek guests, the excitement.... this year the Italian "The Great Beauty" by Sorrentino has a got a nominee, we as Italian and Neapolitan (because of Sorrentino's origins) are proud of that.

This year I am supporting Leo Di Caprio. I think he is amazing. Hope he's gonna win as best actor in a leading role. About the award for actor in a supporting role I'd like to give it to Jonah Hill, I liked him a lot in "The Wolf of Wall Street", instead the best actress award Judi Dench should win it.

Stop talking for now, I want wait for that night and let's see what happens.

Go Leo! ;)

Here's the nominees: 

• BEST PICTURE

• American Hustle
  Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
  
  
• Captain Phillips
  Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
  
  
• Dallas Buyers Club
  Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
  
  
• Gravity
  Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
  
  
• Her
  Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
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• 
  
• 
  
• ACTOR___ in a Leading Role

• • Christian Bale
    American Hustle
    
    
  • Bruce Dern
    Nebraska
    
    
  • Leonardo DiCaprio
    The Wolf of Wall Street
    
    
• • Chiwetel Ejiofor
    12 Years a Slave
    
    
  • Matthew McConaughey
    Dallas Buyers Club
    
    

ACTRESS

__________in a Leading Role

Amy Adams

American Hustle

Cate Blanchett

Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock

Gravity

Judi Dench

Philomena

Meryl Streep

August: Osage County

ACTOR

in A Supporting Role

Barkhad Abdi

Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper

American Hustle

Michael Fassbender

12 years a Slave

Jonah Hill

The Wolf of Wall Street

Jared Leto

Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS

in a Supporting Role

Sally Hawkins
Blue Jasmine

Jennifer Lawrence
American Hustle

Lupita Nyong'o
12 Years a Slave

Julia Roberts

August: Osage County

June Squibb
Nebraska

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Croods
Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson

Despicable Me 2

Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri

Ernest & Celestine

Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner

Frozen

Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho

The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

FOREIGN
LANGUAGE FILM

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Belgium

The Great Beauty

Italy

The Hunt

Denmark

The Missing Picture

Cambodia

Omar

Palestine

DIRECTING

American Hustle
David O. Russell

Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón

Nebraska
Alexander Payne

12 years a Slave

Steve McQueen

The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese

MUSIC

Original Score

The Book Thief
John Williams

Gravity
Steven Price

Her
William Butler and Owen Pallett

Philomena
Alexandre Desplat

Saving Mr. Banks
Thomas Newman

MUSIC

Original Song

"Happy" from 
DESPICABLE ME 2
Music and Lyric by Pharrell
Williams

"Let It Go" from FROZEN
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

"The Moon Song" from HER

Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze

"Ordinary Love" from MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson

And many others...
What's your pick?
Any idea of the winners?