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Angels

Life, Music 21 June 2009 | 0 Comments

Angels

Angles

I sit and wait
Does an angel contemplate my fate ?
And do they know
The places where we go
When we’re grey and old ?
‘Cos I’ve been told
That salvation lets their wings unfold
So when I’m lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I’m loving angels instead

CHORUS:
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I’m right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life won’t break me
When I come to call
She won’t forsake me
I’m loving angels instead

When I’m feeling weak
And my pain walks down a one way street
I look above
And I know I’ll always be blessed with love
And as the feeling grows
She breathes flesh to my bones
And when love is dead
I’m loving angels instead

Sometime songs can express the feeling, and don’t know why the song above was become the greatest songs for recently week of mine, event this song was written by Robbie Williams and Gay Chambers in 2006.

By ignoring the controversy of the original songwritter, between Guy Chamber and ray haffernan, Robbie Williams says he wrote the song with Guy Chambers in 25 minutes and the song is about his aunt and uncle. Ray Heffernan says he wrote the lyrics, and the music, and the lyrics are about the death of his baby son Mathew who died in Paris. Heffernan has given a detailed television interview about the death of his son and how it brought the lyrics to him. In the earliest recording of the song in which Heffernan plays guitar and Williams sings, the lyrics of the chorus state ‘I’m loving AN angel instead’ clearly underlining that the song is about a single person and not a couple

Angels left the controversial as a words calls love itself.

Pictures taken from here.

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Telephone Answering

Behaviour, History, Joke 13 June 2009 | 0 Comments

Telephone Answering

Telephone answeringThis picture remind me a couples years ago, when I was as student at university and live in boardinghouse. The differences is the rule and the way they charges.

As a student of university and life away from parents, most of us have their freedom, it doesn’t a matter anymore when they got home late or go away outside of town with their friend for a few days, no one will ask, shortly, the way they live were in their hand.

It was fine for the others but nor for most of us who really miss the way they live like when they were live with their parents. A lot of discipline, have a rules, leave a message when they went outside of house, etc.

That’s why at a boardinghouse where I live, there is a whiteboard with the list of the member of the house, and when we were outside of the house we must write where we go. Just write it,  go to campus, have a date, or sometimes they write it with the funny words, “waiting a girls that really love me”, its mean they stay at their room for saturday night. Is the famous social network adopt the system from the simple cases like this one?. I don’t know actually.

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The View hotel

Tours & Travel 3 June 2009 | 0 Comments

The view of the View is nice, but the view from the View is absolutely stunning.

The soon-to-open View is the first hotel in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, and it’s a tribal effort. It was built with Navajo funding and the work crews were more than 90 percent Native American. Artsco, the company contracted by the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department to build and operate the hotel, is a family venture that is 100 percent Navajo owned, and most of the staff of 100 will be Navajo.

The first guests were scheduled to stay at the hotel last Saturday, and a grand opening is set for January. Ninety of the 96 rooms face east, so they look out at East and West Mitten buttes and Merrick Butte in the foreground. To the right, Elephant Butte stands as a giant keeper of the silence. To the left, an unnamed mesa rises to meet sky. These two formations create a gigantic gateway that funnels the vision and senses toward the iconic red sandstone monoliths.

The other six rooms face west toward vistas dominated by Mitchell Butte and Gray Whiskers, spectacular in the daytime, magnificent at sunset.

Each room has a private balcony. Those in east-facing rooms can gaze onto a seemingly endless stretch of red earth and azure sky.

If that gets boring, they can shift their view downward. The resort sits on a bluff overlooking the valley, where tourist vehicles resemble brightly colored insects crawling along Valley Drive, a gravel road that wends its way through the park.

Sunset in Monument Valley is such a magnificent occurrence that the View’s designers included “sunset balconies” on the west side of the building. These large viewing areas are built to take advantage of the last rays of the day, when the formations shift from red to ocher to purple. When the sun falls below the horizon, the buttes and the mesas seem like giant cutouts silhouetted against a flaming sky.

But back to the basics.

The hotel stands three stories high and stretches more than 100 yards. It was designed to be environmentally friendly and features a low contour that conforms to the mesa it sits on so it doesn’t disrupt the scenery. The hotel has low-flow water devices and energy-efficient windows and fluorescent lighting. Operable windows in all public spaces allow natural airflow for cooling, and the west side of the building has an extra inch of insulation and limited window and door openings to reduce the afternoon heat.

Sliding-glass doors to the balconies are protected from sun and rain by overhangs, and the roof is reflective to reduce heat absorption.

Room amenities include flat-screen TVs, Internet access, refrigerators, microwaves and coffeemakers. Rooms are named after prominent Navajos, including several Code Talkers who were instrumental in American victories in the South Pacific during World War II. The hotel is decorated with Native American art and weavings. There’s also an exercise room and three conference rooms.

The lobby rises two stories and features an oversize fireplace made of natural stone and intricate ironwork. The ironwork was designed and executed by Ben Smith, the brother-in-law of Art Ortega, who owns the hotel with his daughter Amanda.

An enclosed bridge takes guests from the lobby to the View Restaurant, where the scenery is a prelude to the meal. The restaurant seats 216 and serves traditional American fare with Native American flair. Eggs Begay, for example, is poached eggs and ham served on fry bread, covered with hollandaise sauce. A smaller express restaurant (capacity: 90) serves a limited menu.

Outside the restaurant is a winding pathway through terraced gardens. Visitors who take that route will pass a large blank wall that will serve as a screen for nightly showings of John Wayne movies. The beloved cowboy actor starred in several films made in Monument Valley, including Stagecoach, Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

The resort includes the Trading Post gift shop, which features jewelry made by area artisans, and a visitor center.

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