El Estoque

Dead from work

Aafreen Mahmood • September 23, 2009

The murder at Yale could have happened anywhere When I heard that someone had been murdered at Yale, my mind had immediately placed blame on the notoriously bad neighborhood surrounding...

Chicken Ratatouille

Aafreen Mahmood • September 22, 2009

This week we try not to offend the French population as we have a go at Chicken Ratatouille Every two weeks, culinary noobs Julian (Laguisma) and Child (Minh Bui) get together...

Sex gets everyone's attention. See? Under normal conditions, the Martian is a completely unfathomable beast. This hasn't been the case for a few weeks now as Venusians have united with their masculine...

Eau de Rancid

Aafreen Mahmood • September 11, 2009

Wake up and smell the roses, boys. AXE doesn't cut it. In the beginning, Mars was created. This has displeased a good number of women and made many AXE executives very happy. As far as I know, the...

Why so socialist?

Aafreen Mahmood • August 25, 2009

Pictures of President Obama as a “socialist joker” have suddenly appeared on the Internet. In fact, whoever did the photo-shopping did quite a nice job on it; the picture really jars the viewer. However,...

Julian and Child’s cookbook

Aafreen Mahmood • August 25, 2009

Every two weeks, culinary noobs Julian (Laguisma) and Child (Minh Bui) get together to create some kind of perversion of a dish, and we make El Estoque eat it! This week, they made almond ice cream...

Milo & Me

Aafreen Mahmood • August 24, 2009

All my life I've been the youngest in my family. But that changed four years ago when we got a six-week old, half chihuahua, half dachshund puppy. Milo. I was finally an older sibling. Having a...

Stolen: badminton team member tells her story

Aafreen Mahmood • April 29, 2009

Sophomore Angela Gu gets her backpack stolen by CHS students during the MVHS vs CHS badminton team on April 9. Suspects in custody. At first, it seemed to be an ordinary after school badminton...