This song is titled My Love is Here by Erik Santos and Jim Brickman.  It was a request that I should post this song for Music Monday.  So here it is.

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I know this post is a bit late but I just want to share this experience.  Celebrating an event is always different from any other part of the world just like how Guatemala celebrates their All Saints Day.  What they do on this day is that they make gorgeous, enormous kites to honor their dead.  See the article All Saints Day kites in Guatemala by Johan Ordonez.

Here in the Philippines, we celebrate it by going to the cemetery and visiting our love one’s tomb.  For those people who are far from cemeteries usually just lit a candle and put it on their gates or in front of their doors.  In this gesture, they are showing their dead love ones that they are remembered and still love.  But yet others are saying that if you do not do these, dead love ones would think they have forgotten them and they would visit your home and scare you.  And this would be followed by countless ghost stories that even if you have heard before would still scare and make your hair stand.

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Home landscaping is a very interesting thing to do for anyone who has interest in making their homes look beautiful. Unfortunately, sometimes we do not achieve the desired effects because of overlooking one or two things here and there. As such, we need to have a guideline on what to do in order to avoid those mistakes that spoil the outlook once in a while. This will help you achieve both physical and psychological satisfaction.

If you decide to do home landscaping for yourself, look into the following pitfalls and avoid them along the way. Firstly, avoid doing your activities in a helter-skelter manner. In other words, have a plan to guide you through. As you put plans for the now in place, consider the future as well. Think of how you might like to develop your home in future. For example, you could choose a spot to plant a tree today and ten years down the line you realize that you could put up another permanent structure in that right spot. This will mean that you will have to tamper with your home landscape.

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There’s the first kiss. The sloppy kiss. The peck. The sympathy kiss. The backseat smooch. The we shouldn’t be doing this kiss. The but your lips taste so good kiss. The bury me in an avalanche of tingles kiss. The I wish you’d quit smoking kiss.  The I accept your apology, but you make me really mad sometimes kiss. The I know your tongue like the back of my hand kiss.

As you get older, kisses become scarce. You’ll be driving home and see a damaged kiss on the side of the road, with its purple thumb out. If you were younger, you’d pull over, slide open the mouth’s red door just to see how it fits. Oh where does one find love? If you rub two glances, you get a smile.  Rub two smiles, you get a warm feeling.  Rub two warm feelings and presto-you have a kiss.

Now what? Don’t invite the kiss over and answer the door in your underwear. It’ll get suspicious and stare at your toes. Don’t water the kiss with whiskey.  It’ll turn bright pink and explode into a thousand luscious splinters, but in the morning it’ll be ashamed and sneak out of your body without saying good-bye, and you’ll remember that kiss forever by all the little cuts it left on the inside of your mouth.

You must nurture the kiss. Turn out the lights. Notice how it illuminates the room. Hold it to your chest and wonder if the sand inside hourglasses comes from a special beach. Place it on the tongue’s pillow, then look up the first recorded kiss in an encyclopedia: beneath a Babylonian olive tree in 1200 B.C.

But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss. Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

by : Jeffrey McDaniel

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I miss the days when the NU Rock Awards is still new not that my favored bands are listed but because most of the talents are there.. the guys who bring back rock n roll to life here in the Philippines.  Underground bands who only wants to share their talents whether no prize or money involve.  I guess knowing this 2009 NU Rock Awards winners through Tumblr which  is a calling (what?… LOL) for me to hear this new generation of great Pinoy Rock Bands and maybe, just maybe my love for music would return.

Ohhh by they way I hear Razorback played… whooaa they rule.. I got to have their new album which I still do not have… without any more delay, here are the list of the 2009 NU Rock Awards:

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It is Music Monday once again and I want to share this song by MYMP titled NOW..  A friend here a the shop wanted to hear this song and requested if I could find it over youtube so when we found it there, I saw I got a copy of this file here in my Laptop.   This song is one of the songs I like from MYMP.  Below is the lyrics.. Enjoy.  Happy Music Monday.

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This is the Triangulum Galaxy, a member of our local group residing about 3 million light years away.  Below is the Io, one of Jupeter’s moon and as of January 2009, Jupiter has 49 official, named moons and 14 more unofficial ones still under consideration.

How do you photograph something that’s 3 million light years away? Why doesn’t it take the light from over there 3 million years to travel to whatever supercamera we have?  Well, I got thisquestion from fuckyeahspace and below is his answer to the question.

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“British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.

Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes.  He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.” – quoted from design boom

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Amazon.com Review

True to the sense of bounty and calm that the California wine regions convey, Diane Dorrans Saeks writes, “Wine Country life is private, peaceful, undisturbed. Rural bliss soothes the mind. The Wine Country encourages simple wonder and gratitude.” The inhabitants of the idyllic properties presented in California Wine Country must feel grateful indeed. This unbelievably seductive book of heavenly hideaways is divided into five sections: “Classic,” “Poetic,” “Rustic,” “Collectors,” and “Weekends.” The Santa Ynez, Russian River, and Alexander Valley regions are explored, as well as the more well-known Napa and Sonoma areas. Saeks sought out creative people–artists and art dealers, designers, restaurateurs–whose houses range from a splendid Venetian villa near Calistoga to a 12-by-16-foot tent (furnished with antiques) on the edge of a peaceful Sonoma lake. The interiors are magazine-perfect (not a cell phone or fax machine in sight) (more…)

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