Honoring the minority leaders

Even though I don't like the word minority, I'm glad to see the Philadelphia Business Journal (PBJ) once again honor business leaders at the third annual Minority Business Leaders Awards at a breakfast ceremony in Center City on Aug. 4. For the first time ever as well the PBJ will include four companies in their awards ceremony.

Honorees include:

• Geoffrey Kent, Cognis IT.
• Alfredo Calderon, Aspira of Pennsylvania.
• Kerry Benson, PFM Group.
• Vicki Lee, Old Philadelphia Associates Inc.
• Cecilia Moy Yep, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp.
• Romona Riscoe Benson, African American Museum.
• Maria Quiñones-Sanchez, Philadelphia City Council.

Limited tickets are still available. To register, visit tinyurl/mblpbj2011.

Never forget where you came from

"Never forget where you came from." This is what I remember from the preview to the upcoming pelicula COLOMBIANA. And how can I not be excited?! Sure it's about a Colombian assassin but still. And yes Zoe Saldana is clearly not Colombian, more a "Navi" than anything but when you think about a strong Colombian woman you probably don't think of any movie...maybe I'm wrong. The premise is simple: Someone killed her family in front of her as a young child. She grows up and trains to kill them. Today she kills them. I'm surprised the name of the film is even named after the country. This could have been a remake to the Professional for all we knew but nope. Looking forward to witnessing all the death and murder from such an awesome actress.

Port-a-border

No description needed lol. Hilarious. Sad. True.

All inclusive destination?

When someone says "all inclusive" I expect that to mean I won't be spending a dime on anything during my trip. Last week I was in Cancun, MX for a destination wedding. The Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort was nice but not what I expected. There was this weird "point" system and if you didn't reserve it in advance you were basically screwed. Some people were saying you didn't have to tip the hotel workers but somehow I felt weird not tipping them at all.

I have to say the Mexican (I'm sure they all are) workers in the Moon Palace are the hardest working people I've ever seen. Working long hours in the sun and trying to make everyone happy is a difficult job to have. However, there were plenty of times that I noticed some customers were very unhappy. Not sure what was wrong but some things that were promised I'm sure were not fulfilled.

Although the pools were also nice, it would have been better if we enjoyed the beach. I saw red flags but no one mentioned why the beaches were closed. Jellyfish? Contaminated water? Egh. And there's no reason why we should have to take shuttles all across the resort. Although they were labeled, these shuttles seem to be confused at times on where they were headed to. Did I mention the 10 minute drive in and out of the resort?! Sheeesh.

Goodbye Philly. Hello Cancun.

So I'll be gone for a few days. And as much as I would love to document the trip, I probably won't. Unless there's WiFi which I'm sure they have. See you next week!

Colombia's Independence Day: July 20, 1810

The party starts tomorrow! Feliz dia parce!

True Blood's Jesus

I must admit beforehand I did not want to watch True Blood at all. All the vampire craze was getting annoying. However, about a year ago I started watching because I needed to see for myself. Plus I had nothing better to do on Netflix lol. Needless to say I'm on season three where we get introduced to Jesus...could you get any more Latino that Jesus? Anyways, Jesus is not only gay but he's also into witchcraft a.k.a. santeria.

Thanks HBO for adding yet another semi-stereotypical Latino on a huge TV show. Okay so I may be complaining a bit much, but can we get someone who is semi-normal. Maybe HBO could have made Jesus' name John Martinez and made him a vampire. But then what's the fun in that right? Jesus was the introduction to witchcraft which I believe is season 4's theme. I'd also like to add that I'm addicting to the entire series. Although I can't watch it on TV, I like catching up via Netflix.

Congrats Foursquare

Foursquare: It started as two people in March 2009 to 10,000,000 strong today. Imagine that in just two short years. Surprisingly enough I found out I was one of the first million members of the Foursquare community. To be exact, I'm member #354,148! So why do I like Fourquare? There are two main reasons:

1. I like video games. And just like any other video game I get points whenever I check-in to any venue. I get more points for checking into venues I'm the mayor of.
   
2. You can also unlock Foursquare only specials like the famous "free beer" at PYT.
   

So congrats to Foursquare. And I'm going to need more Latinos on there...it doesn't seem like there are that many. I could be wrong.