these days

i was walking around, just a face in the crowd
trying to keep myself out of the rain
saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown
wondered if i might end up the same
there's a man out on the corner
singing old songs about change
everybody got their cross to bare, these days

she came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of dreams
to a motel room on the boulevard
guess she's trying to be James Dean
she's seen all the disciples and all the "wanna be's"
no one wants to be themselves these days
still there's nothing to hold on to but these days

these days - the stars seem out of reach
these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
these days - are fast, love don't last in this graceless age
there ain't nobody left but us these days

Jimmy Shoes busted both his legs, trying to learn to fly
from a second story window, he just jumped and closed his eyes
his momma said he was crazy - he said momma "i've got to try"
don't you know that all my heroes died
and i guess i'd rather die than fade away

these days - the stars seem out of reach
but these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
these days are fast, love don't lasts-in this graceless age
even innocence has caught the morning train
and there ain't nobody left but us these days

i know Rome's still burning
though the times have changed
this world keeped turning round and round and round and round
these days

these days - the stars seem out of reach
but these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
these days are fast, love don't lasts-in this graceless age
even innocence has caught the morning train
and there ain't nobody left but us these days

these days - the stars seem out of reach
these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
these days - are fast, nothing lasts
there ain't no time to waste
there ain't nobody left to take the blame
there ain't nobody left but us these days
-Jon Bon Jovi

stars seem out of reach..

sledge hammer

the stress involve in this job peaks suddenly like a sledge hammer to the cranium. not that i know about the hammmer..but well..

stuck here waiting for someone to send a fax to save me from endless waiting.

exchanging mental health for money. yay.

Thank God for good family and friends.

woah..

the problem with the big bang is that we know nothing about it. we don't know when it banged, why it banged, how it banged, what exactly was being banged..
(www.overheardinnewyork.com)

TO Mr. Lame Ducky Bush

Please shut up and get lost. STOP your bullshit and nonsense!

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn15105-bush-rushes-harmful-environment-laws.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn15105

if everyone cared

from underneath the trees, we watch the sky
confusing stars for satellites
i never dreamed that you'd be mine
but here we are, we're here tonight

singing Amen, i, i'm alive
singing Amen, i, i'm alive

if everyone cared and nobody cried
if everyone loved and nobody lied
if everyone shared and swallowed their pride
then we'd see the day when nobody died

and i'm singing amen

amen i, Amen i, i'm alive
amen i, Amen i, Amen i, i'm alive

and in the air the fireflies
our only light in paradise
we'll show the world they were wrong
and teach them all to sing along

singing Amen, i, i'm alive
singing Amen, i, i'm alive
(i'm alive)

and as we lie beneath the stars
we realize how small we are
if they could love like you and me
imagine what the world could be

if everyone cared and nobody cried
if everyone loved and nobody lied
if everyone shared and swallowed their pride
then we'd see the day when nobody died
when nobody died..

we'd see the day, we'd see the day
when nobody died
we'd see the day, we'd see the day
when nobody died
we'd see the day when nobody died
-Nickleback

IF.

WTF! WTF!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

College senior Kyla Berry was looking forward to voting in her first presidential election, even carrying her voter registration card in her wallet. "Vote suppression is real. It does sometimes happen," said Daniel P. Tokaji, a law professor at Ohio State University. But about two weeks ago, Berry got disturbing news from local election officials. "This office has received notification from the state of Georgia indicating that you are not a citizen of the United States and therefore, not eligible to vote," a letter from the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections said. But Berry is a U.S. citizen, born in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a passport and a birth certificate to prove it. Watch some of the concerns of voting experts » The letter, which was dated October 2, gave her a week from the time it was dated to prove her citizenship. There was a problem, though -- the letter was postmarked October 9. "It was the most bizarre thing. I immediately called my mother and asked her to send me my birth certificate, and then I was like, 'It's too late, apparently,' " Berry said.

Berry is one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people are having their citizenship questioned and the burden is on them to prove eligibility to vote. Experts say lists of people with mismatches are often systematically cut, or "purged," from voter rolls. It's a scenario that's being repeated all across the country, with cases like Berry's raising fears of potential vote suppression in crucial swing states.

Ed.note: Here we are again. Every four years the Republicans come up with the same 'October surprise' of removing from the voter rolls as many as possible of the people likely to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. Because a majority of the federal judges are Republican appointees, the Republican election officials tend to get away with this illegal activity.
(from www.techamok.com)

kite runner

one of the best i read this year. i really must recommend it. i am not really a fan of fiction like this. i prefer sci-fi or fantasy. but i am glad i bought this book. it's been a while since a book evoked so many types of emotions.

we all have demons, do we dare to face them?

for you, a thousand times over.

who i am

and you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
or the moment of truth in your lies
when everything seems like the movies
yeah you bleed just to know your alive

and i don't want the world to see me
cause i don't think that they'd understand
when everything's made to be broken
i just want you to know who i am
-Goo Goo Dolls

something's wrong.

mixed

after pesta i just felt abit lost. i tried and did ok, but not enough for myself.

it feels like i have had enough. things are not going to get better. i am not getting anywhere. i am tired.

i don't know what's next..just getting by.

angel

spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day

i need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memories seep from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
i'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear

you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
the storm keeps on twisting
keep on building the lies
that you make up for all that you lack

it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe
in this sweet madness
oh this glorious sadness
that brings me to my knees

in the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear

you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
-Sarah McLachlan

love

if you judge people, you don't have time to love them.

if you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

i have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

-Mother Teresa

for whom the bell tolls

blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
he hears the silence so loud
crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
now they will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
-Metallica

keeping the..

you're a falling star, you're the get away car.
you're the line in the sand when i go too far.
you're the swimming pool, on an august day.
and you're the perfect thing to say.

and you play your card, but it's kinda cute.
when you smile at me you know exactly what you do.
baby don't pretend, that you don't know it's true.
cause you can see it when i look at you.

faith

and i feel just like i'm living
someone else's life
it's like i just stepped outside
when everything was going right
and i know just why you could not come along with me
this was not your dream
but you always believed in me..

bzzt!

and i don´t want the world to see me
cause i don´t think that they´d understand
when everything´s made to be broken
i just want you to know who i am

and you can´t fight the tears that ain´t coming
or the moments of truth in your lies
when everything feels like the movies
and you bleed just to know you´re alive.

scared..but keeping faith.

wishing..

wishing you were somehow here again..
wishing you were somehow near..
sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed,
somehow you would be here..

for the moment

we're nothin' to you but we're the fuckin' shit in they eyes
that's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and
hold it
cause we consider these minutes golden
and maybe they'll admit it when we're gone
just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that you hear in our
songs and we can...

{c'mon}, sing with me, {sing}, sing for the years
{sing it}, sing for the laughter, sing for the tears, {c'mon)
sing it with me, just for today, maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you
away...
-Eminem

seriously

germany is lucky it's not more than 1 - 0.

the defence is like shit..run after striker half way then slow down or stop..wtm.

always make mistakes and leave players unmarked at all..then still don'w run to chase..leave it up to strikers to come back and help..

suck la.

euro2008

i like and support germany. but after watching the past few games..i don't really see how germany can stop spanish attacks.

it'll be tough for germany to win..unless there's some sudden improvement on german defence.

wonderwall

today is gonna be the day
that they're gonna throw it back to you
by now you should've somehow
realized what you gotta do
i don't believe that anybody
feels the way i do about you now

backbeat the word was on the street
that the fire in your heart is out
i'm sure you've heard it all before
but you never really had a doubt
i don't believe that anybody feels
the way i do about you now

and all the roads we have to walk along are winding
and all the lights that lead us there are blinding
there are many things that i would
like to say to you
i don't know how

because maybe
you're gonna be the one who saves me ?
and after all
you're my wonderwall

today was gonna be the day?
but they'll never throw it back to you
by now you should've somehow
realized what you're not to do
i don't believe that anybody
feels the way i do
about you now

and all the roads that lead to you were winding
and all the lights that light the way are blinding
there are many things that i would like to say to you
i don't know how

i said maybe
you're gonna be the one who saves me ?
and after all
you're my wonderwall

i said maybe
you're gonna be the one who saves me ?
and after an
you're my wonderwall

said maybe
you're gonna be the one that saves me
you're gonna be the one that saves me
you're gonna be the one that saves me
-Oasis