RANDOM NOTHINGNESS

Come On, Get Higher

Matt Nathanson

I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in

If I could walk on water, If I could tell you what’s next
Make you believe, make you forget

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love

I miss the sound of your voice
The loudest thing in my head
And I ache to remember
All the violent, sweet,
perfect words that you said

If I could walk on water, if i could tell you what’s next,
make you believe, make you forget

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just to pull me down hard
And drown me in love

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just to pull me down hard
And drown me in love

I miss the pull of your heart
I can taste the sparks on your tongue
I see angels and devils
And God
when you come on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Singin' shalala la
Singin' shalala la
ooo
ooo
ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo

Come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just to pull me down hard
And drown me in love

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just to pull me down hard
And drown me, drown me in love

(come on get higher, loosen my lips)It's all wrong
(faith and desire at the swing of your hips)It's all wrong
(just to pull me down hard and drown me in love)It's all right

So, come on, get higher
Come on, get higher
'Cause everything works love
Everything works in your arms

A  kid after his visit to the dentist.

See the full story here.

Enjoy!

More decorations for the Holiday: Light arrangements and Signs

A conversation I had with a friend on a lazy weekday:

Me:  May narealize ako.

J   :   Ano yon? Na crush mo ako?

Me:  =| ulul!  Na gusto ko pala talaga ng babae at hindi lalake.  Tomboy pala ako!

J   :  Ay nako, napaka-imposible naman yan!

Me:  At baket naman??? =|

J  :  E ang KIKAY mo kaya! =))

Me: =|

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suddenly boss sends work one and a half hour before office hour ends...

and i've got a 6pm class at the University.

so much for plans of leaving the office early.

*grunt

another day.  UGHHHHHH =(

For the second time this month, I lost a phone.

Yes, yet again, I lost another phone.

Devastating.

Happy Christmas to me.

Apologies to my non-Filipino speaking followers.  I just have to post this.

Lalaki: Alam mo para kang drugs…

Babae: Che alam ko na yan! Kasi nababaliw ka na sa akin no?

Lalaki: Tanga hindi. Dahil sinira mo buhay ko!

NYAHAHAHHAA

My dysfunctional bathroom faucet (we've been using pliers to turn it on/off as the knob has broken off) has really taken its toll on me so yesterday, B and I bought a new set of faucet.  I was planning to ask our maintenance to replace the faucet for me but whilst doing my nightly ritual last night, I really felt enough is enough.   I decided to be a lady plumber for the moment.  I didn't bother to turn the main water switch off as it is already midnight and the main switch has been locked by the maintenance.  I  noticed that I can twist the faucet head using my bare hands so I proceeded on removing it.  Lo and behold!  A great fountain of water spurted out of the PVC pipe!  I didn't realize water pressure is that high even at the second floor level of my apartment.

I then proceeded with coating the new faucet screw with teflon tape. 

After this, the laborious task of fighting with water began.  Water really is a tough thing to fight with...  Screwing the faucet head into the PVC pipe was a nightmare!  I ended up taking a shower again, clothes on, with water coming from below, not above.  A great burst of water even entered my eyes and left me hurting.  I had to ask B to turn on all the other faucets at the first level of our apartment to relieve pressure so I can screw the faucet on. 

Finally, I succeeded!

New faucet installed!  But still leaking, this time at the faucet-PVC pipe junction.  I must have put an insufficient amount of teflon tape on the screw.  Uggghhh...  I really need to call maintenance.

On a brighter note, I don't get irritated using pliers to turn the faucet on now =) 

Fresh from the bookstore @ PhP25.00 (no, i don't lack a zero)

i want to love without drowning.  next time, i'll wear a life jacket. 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

These snowy decorations can be sent as gifts to Famville neighbors:

A lonely bull has been seen roaming FarmVille. 

Why not help him find a new home or adopt one should one of your neighbors find him?

=)

Most probably, most of us have watched the holywood movie "The Terminal" starring Tom Hanks.  It tells of the story of an easterner's life as he gets stranded at the John F. Kennedy Airport because war broke out in his country, thus leaving his nationality unrecognized by the US.  He was faced with the ordeal of taking up residence in the airport until his status is fixed.

This movie turns into reality at the Tokyo Narita Airport  Teminal 1, between the arrival gates and passport control, where Feng Zhenghu is currently stranded for more than 30 days now.  Feng Zheng is a prominent human rights defender who has been blocked from returning to his homeland, China. Although he has a valid Japanese visa, and is free to go out the airport, he chose to stay inside in hopes of persuading the Chinese government to let him go home.

Check out the full story at BBC News

Didn't like how your farm looked like after purchasing the Snow Blanket  (instructions on putting a snow blanket over your farms can be found here) upgrade in FarmVille?

Then, reupgrade to Green Pastures!

Go to the FramVille Market Upgrade tab and then purchase Green Pastures for 1,000 coins.

This upgrade brings back your fields to its greeny lushness.

What's Christmas without lights,

Boring, right?

So FarmVille presents the Festive Lights!

Yup, that's right, Christmas lights can now be purchased at the FarmVille Market to decorate farms.  They come in different forms:

The FarmVille Snow Blanket plus new wintery decorations

Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow!

The traditional green grass that covers unused parts of our farms can  now be upgraded into a blanket of snow!

Got these books today at El Solidaridad bookstore along Padre Faura, Malate for only PhP300!  That's right, three books for THREE HUNDRED PESOS only .  F. Sionil Jose was kind enough to offer huge discounts (Buy two books for 200 pesos and get 1 free!) on some of the books at his store.

Tsk, tsk... unread books on my nightstand are piling up!

Refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope has done wonders to its resolution...  The installation of the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has given the Hubble the capability to detect near infrared energy from the farthest galaxies/stars.  Why near-infrared?  Because light from distant galaxies get stretched as the universe expands (thus converting the ultraviolet to visible spectra into near-infrared).

Just take a look at this picture, which was released by the Hubble today:

The reddest and faintest objects in this picture are galaxies that were formed 600 million years after the Big Bang.  Most of the objects observed in this 173,000-second exposure photo were not detected when Hubble's Ultra Deep Field camera was in use.

Read the full story at the Hubble Site and here (Hubble digs deep to see baby galaxies).

Yesterday and today have been very busy days, I didn't even have time to blog and harvest my crops at FarmVille =(

Hmmmm... at least I can now say, I earned a really honest living for the past two days. hehehe

The special issue on arc-continent collision of Tectonophysics just got out...

Guess who the author of one of the articles is?

Meee!!!!

Attending the Conference of the Geological Society of the Philippines (GEOCON) has been an annual event that me and my other geologist friends take time to attend.  It has been a venue for us to update ourselves with the current issues, technologies and trends in the geologic community.  Of course, it is a valid (and legal) excuse not to go to work and meet with friends, without risking our salaries. *hehe

In line with the Christmas season, Zynga released new items to decorate farms:

Christmas presents can now be sent to friends from the gifts section of FarmVille.  There are five available presents at the moment:

Blue present

Pink present

Green present

Red present

Brown present

These presents should be placed under the FarmVille holiday tree, which is a free item that Zynga already provided in the giftbox.  The holiday tree can hold upto 60 presents.  Be sure to ask your friends to send gifts as the holiday tree grows as gifts are added under it.


We need to wait until December 25 midnight until the gifts can be opened... just like in real life!

First, the good news.  Salary just got in today....

Bad news:  I lost my love of my life phone: my Sony Ericsson K800i who's been with me for more than three years now... =,(  It's the first phone I ever bought using my own money (well, partly... 'rents gave me half of the money i need to buy it).  I've got lots of pictures stored in there.  Important phone numbers, messages worth keeping (i am sentimental), recorded phone calls.  Lots of memories.

I must have left it at the hotel at cocktails last night.  The last time I remember using it was when I checked my email for new messages whilst chatting with friends.   I do hope K800i is at the Lost and Found Department, although it seems hoping is a lost cause because phone has been turned off (by whoever found it). 

First order of business upon waking up:  Call EDSA Shangri-La.

Apart from the Reindeer, new Christmas-themed items are available at the FarmVille gifts section to be sent out as gifts to neighbors:

White Soldier

Red Soldier

Green Soldier

Elf Gnome