Dad Sings "Cherished Part of Me" to Andrea

Cherished Part of Me

You have a way about you
in the little things you do
You make me feel that I'm
especially dear to you
Oh when things go wrong
and there is no one to be found
It's so nice to know
You're always be around
There's something warm about your smile that comes so naturally
It is your charm, your thoughtful ways that move me constantly
Like a song, you will linger on and fill my memory
I know that you will always be,
A cherished part of me
You'll always be a cherished part of me.

(Words and music by Jose Mari Chan. Originally written for BPI. )

* This song is special for Andrea and I since when she was still a baby, everytime she cries loudly, or when she is about to sleep, I usually sing this song to her. This and "The Way You Look Tonight". She does not sleep immediately. She listens to my song. Just like me when I was young.

Nothing Much, Really

Happy Spring, People

whoa—things just got a lot more colorful around here—holy green grass.

Happy Spring ;)

XO, C.O.

Just what is over that hill?

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Flushing for world peace

Flushing for world peace!

Just watch the video, it says it all!Thanks to all of you who participatedAdditional footage at the end (not to be missed)

Author: rextangle
Keywords: flushing for world peace anti-war protest toilet rextangle rex tangle zipster nalts nutcheese eemma johnreagan hippyhill
Added: March 17, 2007

Featured video on youtube.

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Hungry Minds Kids' Speeches - Culminating Activity

Free


On the first day of school, I was very nervous. I don’t know what will happen to me here in Hungry Minds. What if my teachers and classmates do not like me? What if I am unable to do the things they tell me to do? Then, slowly but surely, I realized that HMS is here to help us. It’s been a year now. Now, I feel more confident to do the things I never thought I can do. Now, I feel more focused in my dreams. I can dream bigger things and make bigger goals, because HMS is there to help me. I am free. We all are.


Journey


My teachers always tell us that Hungry Minds is like a journey for all of us. And what a journey it has been. Several times in the year, I was reprimanded for not being the boy I should be. We cried a lot, and we laughed a lot. We know we are just at the beginning. But our destination is much clearer now. We can dream big. We can reach our goals. This is our journey together.


Sangandaan


As we pause for a while in this journey, we rejoice. We rejoice at all the things we have accomplished this year. We also look back in sadness for all the things we did not do well. But that is why we reflect. In order to move on. Be better next year. This is the crossroads, where decisions are made. We will make that decision – to be successful as Hungry Minds believe we can be.


Do I Make You Proud?


HMS taught us to be confident of ourselves, and to stand tall amidst all obstacles, not to give up trying, even if the task is hard. We have finished this school year. We know we have yet to conquer a lot of things. I know we did our best. We just hope that all these make all of you proud.


Heal the World


I learned in HMS that we have a connection with everything else in the universe. As a physicist said, “When we pick up a flower, we move the farthest star”. The world is not a perfect world. It need not be. What is left for us to do is to change ourselves, so that the whole world can change as well. We can do it. We can heal the world.



We Can Make it Happen

Before I came to HMS, I have but little dreams. I know that somehow, God will help me, and I will be able to reach them. But this seemed so far away. What I learned this year is not to give up reaching for my dream. I have to hold on to my dream. We are all in this together. We can make it happen.

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought... (contd.)

...When Lewis Caroll wanted to use the right language, he just invented them.

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Modern Heroes

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Originally uploaded by dreamshadow91.

In Corregidor, everybody becomes a hero. Well, most everyone. Some, become inflamed with a burning desire to be heroes in their own lives. Some, however, become like Andres Bonifacio. I mean, really. Like him. With his hat and gulok. The gulok is hidden because they might arrest me for carrying deadly weapons. The one beside me is Emilio Jacinto's reincarnation. He is wearing modern shades now. The stone in front of us represents Spanish oppression. And how we will trample on them again abd again. Like, it does not mean a thing really.

Boston singer found dead

Boston Singer Found Dead

The man who helped put Boston on the map has journeyed on.

Singer Brad Delp was found dead Friday in his New Hampshire home by police who were responding to a 911 call for help, made around 1:20 p.m. ET. Delp was 55.

While the cause of Delp's death is still under investigation, according to a statement from the Atkinson Police Department, the state medical examiner's office doesn't suspect foul play and the musician looked to have been alone in his house when he died.

Boston, which at the time included Delp, producer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Scholz, drummer Sib Hashian, guitarist Barry Goudreau and bassist Fran Sheehan, hit it big in 1976 with their multiplatinum self-titled debut album, which featured the signature tunes "MoreThan a Feeling" and "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" and has sold more than 17 million copies.

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Boston? Was this the group who sang "Amanda"?

Good luck, Brad.

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Heart broken

Love Story Ending -My Heart is Broken, No!!-

my secret love story ended...

Author: Lucymisser
Keywords: Lucymisser got her heart broken gaaa-
Added: March 13, 2007

Well, hearts are not broken.  It's just a matter of perspective.  Look to the brighter side.  It is but chance event that you meet someone and this someone breaks your heart.  Buddha was right.  Learn to let go of everybody. 

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300

300" racks up record body count at box office
Sunday March 11 1:41 PM ET

Heads rolled at the weekend box office in North America as the blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes in spectacular fashion.

The grim warrior tale sold an estimated $70 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release, setting a new record for a March release, the film's distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday.

Heading into the weekend, the most bullish oracles had forecast an opening in the $50 million range. The special-effects extravaganza, with a largely unknown cast, cost in the mid-$60 million range to produce, the Time Warner Inc-owned studio said.

Scottish actor Gerard Butler stars as Leonidas, the hunky king of the Spartans, who leads 300 of his warriors to glorious death at the Battle of Thermopylae against a massive Persian army commanded by the fey king Xerxes (Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro). Zack Snyder ("Dawn of the Dead") directed the adaptation of comic book writer Frank Miller's graphic novel.

"300" earned largely positive reviews, despite or because of its myriad decapitations and balletic battlefield carnage. The last few chart-toppers, incumbent champ "Wild Hogs," "Ghost Rider" and "Norbit" were slammed by the critics.

FEMALE APPEAL

Audiences were "hungry to go to something that looks this unique," said Mark Canton, one of the film's producers.

Even though "300" is tailor-made for male moviegoers, it also rated highly with women, because the filmmakers enlarged the role of Leonidas' queen (played by Lena Headey) to make her a "true partner" of the king, Canton said.

Its achievement was all the more noteworthy given that the previous record-holder for the month, 2006's "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown," with $68 million, was a family-oriented cartoon, while "300" is an unabashedly gruesome spectacle with an "R" rating that prevents viewers under 17 attending without adult supervision.

In fact, the opening for "300" ranks as the third-highest for an R-rated movie, behind "The Matrix Reloaded" ($91 million) and "The Passion of the Christ" ($83 million).

"300" also opened in a few small Asian markets, and reaches Britain in two weeks, said Canton. Action-packed period epics, such as 2004's "Troy," often do much better overseas.

Walt Disney Co.'s surprise hit "Wild Hogs," starring John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy and Tim Allen as unlikely road warriors, slipped to No. 2 with $28 million; its 10-day total rose to $77.4 million.

The next three movies were separated by less than $100,000, and rankings could change when final data are released on Monday. Disney's childhood saga "Bridge to Terabithia" rose one to No. 3 with $6.9 million, followed by Columbia Pictures' Nicolas Cage action movie "Ghost Rider" and Paramount Pictures' serial-killer thriller "Zodiac" with about $6.8 million each.

"Bridge to Terabithia" has earned $67.0 million after four weeks, and "Ghost Rider" $104.1 million, also after four weeks. "Ghost Rider" is the first 2007 release to cross the century mark; the "Ice Age" sequel took the honors last year in the second week of April. "Zodiac" has $23.7 million after two weeks. Columbia Pictures is a unit of Sony Corp . Paramount Pictures is a unit of Viacom Inc.

Field of Rainbows

Field of rainbows : The photographers shadow is cast on a field as a huge rainbow is seen over the countryside near Lehrte, northern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Berthold Statler)

Cats and protractors

90-degrees of perfection

Mathematically perfect, Sir Blanco here serves up the perfect 90-degree angles. He's available for math classes and architecture gigs.

Holy Protractors, Tomas R.!

It's 94.2 degrees.  Okay.  Nobody's perfect.

Let us watch this film

Let us watch this Pinoy film on the web. It's called QWERTY, and it is showing here. It is vying for the most viewed film. 7,000 views more! It's a nice short (5 minutes only) film.