Sunday, May 01, 2005

When you love someone



When you love someone you'll do anything
You'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain
You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun
When you love someone
You'll deny the truth - believe a lie
There'll be times that you'll believe
You can really fly
But your lonely nights have just begun
When you love someone
When you love someone you'll feel it deep inside
And nothin' else can ever change your mind
When you want someone - when you need someone
When you love someone
When you love someone - you'll sacrifice
You'd give it everything you got and
you won't think twice
You'd risk it all - no matter what may come
When you love someone
You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun
When you love someone

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I like the sound of the oboe.

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Wednesday, October 06, 2004

The man with a hoe


L'homme la houe by Jean-Francois Millet

In 1899 an American schoolteacher, Charles Edward Anson Markham (1852-1940), who used the penname Edwin Markham, was inspired by an 1863 painting to write a poem. The painting was "L'homme la houe" by the French artist, Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875); the poem was "The Man with a Hoe".

The poem quickly became as famous as the painting. Both continue to be moving testimonies to what the too prevalent inhumanity of humanity can cause.

The Man with a Hoe
by Edwin Markham

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back, the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns
And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?
Down all the caverns of Hell to their last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this--
More tongued with cries against the world's blind greed--
More filled with signs and portents for the soul--
More packed with danger to the universe.

What gulfs between him and the seraphim!
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of the Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Powers that made the world,
A protest that is also prophecy.

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings--
With those who shaped him to the thing he is--
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world,
After the silence of the centuries?

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Saturday, September 25, 2004

Patindihan sa english

Galing sa isang email. Enjoy!!
  1. "Who did ordered?"
  2. "Well well well. Look do we have here!"
  3. "Let's give them a big hand of applause."
  4. "The more the manyer."
  5. "It's a no-win-win situation."
  6. "Burn the bridge when you get there."
  7. "Anulled and void."
  8. "Mute and academic."
  9. "C'mon let's join us!"
  10. "If worse comes to shove."
  11. "Are you joking my leg?"
  12. "It's not my problem anymore, it's your problem anymore."
  13. "What are friends are for?"
  14. "You can never can tell."
  15. "Been there, been that."
  16. "Forget it about it."
  17. "Give him the benefit of the daw."
  18. "It's a blessing in the sky."
  19. "Right there and right then."
  20. "Where'd you came from?"
  21. "Take things first at a time."
  22. "You're barking at the wrong dog."
  23. "You want to have your cake and bake it too."
  24. "First and for all."
  25. "Now and there."
  26. "I'm only human nature."
  27. "The sky's the langit."
  28. "That's what I'm talking about it."
  29. "One of these days is not like the other."
  30. "So far, so good, so far."
  31. "Time is of the elements."
  32. "In the wink of an eye."
  33. "The feeling is actual."
  34. "For all intense and purposes."
  35. "I ran into some errands."
  36. "Hi. I'm , what's yours?"
  37. "What is the world is coming to?"
  38. "What is the next that is?"
  39. "Get the most of both worlds."
  40. "Bahala na sila sa mga batman nila."
  41. "Whatever you say so."
  42. "Base-to-base casis."
  43. "My answers have been prayered."
  44. "Please me alone!"
  45. "It's as brand as new."
  46. "So... what's a beautiful girl like you?...."
  47. "I can't take it anymore of this!"
  48. "Are you sure ka na ba?"
  49. "Can't you just cut me some slacks?"
  50. I couldn't care a damn!
  51. What's your next class before this?
  52. Nothing in this world is perfect except the word "change"
  53. Can you repeat that again for the second time around once more from the top?(ulitin natin hanggang mamatay tayo!)
  54. My dad brought home a lot of hand-me-downs! (Translation: Daming pasalubong ng tatay ko.)
  55. Standard and Chartered Bank
  56. I'm very iterated!!! (transalation: galit sya! haha!)
  57. I'm sorry, my boss just passed away. (translation: kakadaan lang ng boss nya.)
  58. Hello, my boss is out of town. Would you like to wait?
  59. What happened after the erection of Mayon Volcano?
  60. Don't touch me not!
  61. Hello?... For a while, please hang yourself...
  62. Its spilled milk under the bridge.
  63. Don't change anything! Keep it at ease.
  64. Hello McDo? Mag-i-inquire lang ako kung magkano ang kidney meal? (yung pang-batang pagkain)
  65. You!!! You're not a boy anymore! You're a man anymore!
  66. Out of fit ako these days eh... (translation: di sya nakakapag-exercise)
  67. Bring down the house down!
  68. I'm the world champion of the World!!!
  69. Beneath the Belt!
  70. Rule of Hand... (thumb yata ibig sabihin...)
  71. Can you repeat it once again?
  72. Mukhang haggard-looking.
  73. Do you have more brighter ideas?
  74. I told you not to go to but you go to..now,look at?
  75. Halatang obvious naman yata.

And that is all it is ... folks (ha ha ha ha ha!)

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