After all these years
After all these tears between us
Still I couldn’t find
Someone half as right as you

And each time I stop to think
What it is I really need

Heres what I conclude
All I really need is you

Just say what you want to say
You don’t have a chance in the world
Can I, knowing how I’ve tried
Still come close to losing you when you are my world

Have I spent so many nights
Trying but in vain to tell you
Don’t you know it’s true
All I really need is you

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Ah, this sucks. YOU have no idea.

For everyone who uses Gmail, they are probably aware of the little icon on the upper right linking to gmail labs, where one can see the add-on features developed by the Gmail peeps.  Some of the things found there are good, some are just not as useful.   However, with the time I spend on Twitter lately, I found one “tweet” about this Gmail feature that I thought was genius. I’m not sure how useful it’s gonna be, but when I found out about it I was impressed.

Have you ever found yourself sending an email only to find out it was the wrong address or there was some unforgivable error contained in the text? Gmail seemed to have found a solution to that. It’s the Undo Send feature. However, after sending, of course you don’t have forever to withdraw the email.  After about 5 seconds or so, that “Undo Send” link that appears after sending will disappear. So you better be quick.

Well, not when you’re stupid.

Find out why, after the jump.

Found this from another blog. Some guy who got offered a job posted this (tweeted) on Twitter:

But while he might have been smart enough to be offered a job by Cisco, some from the firm are just smarter than him.  Spot this: Both occurring 13 hours ago (from the writing of this post). Cisco peeps are indeed “versed in the web.”

I stumbled upon this article from the New York Times through someone in Twitter. I don’t know whether to think it as funny or ridiculous. How can it not be either if we’re talking about hiking in the nude? In the Alps… All they wear are their hiking boots and some sun screen. Location: Appenzell, Switzerland. Some are obviously bothered bumping into people who go all bare but the city cannot criminalize them because one, there is no law against hiking in the nude and two, “[s]imply being naked without any sexual connotation is no longer illegal,” say Daniel Kettiger, a legal expert who wrote a piece called: “The Bare Facts: On the Criminal Prosecution of Nude Hiking”.

But the city’s justice minister claimed he can draft something that would penalize these people and it could cost them up to $170.

The whole article HERE.

The strange thing is, while I feel like someone’s already badmouthing me, anger is still not there. I am letting go. Surprisingly easily. Maybe it’s because I find the need to draw the line between mere storytelling and badmouthing. Until I am able to do that, perhaps I do not have the right to feel any emotions. Relief or anger, it’s something for me to decide later on- IF i get the chance. Otherwise, it might be better to just let things pass and pretend nothing is up. True or not, I’ll leave it all to karma.

What would be most disappointing is to find out that a friend has turned into a complete jackass. Unfair as it may be, at least that’s how I see things at the moment.  Something like “guilty until proven innocent”.

This is a truly remarkable and satisfying find for the inner dork in me. Not that it took me thousands of clicks on Google to find this, no. I am just amazed at the simple but classy animation. The graphics too, sorta. Courtesy of The Financial Times, following are some tidbits on oil. The first relates to the politics that surround it and the protests that have happened in different part of the world in light of the continuous rise of crude oil prices. To find out more information about each country represented, click on the image to be directed to the FT site.

The next three show the flow of oil, and the biggest producers and consumers. Again for more information, just click the images.

I saw this report from my INQ email update by accident, because I usually don’t read what’s in it. I tried to remember who he is but no face I can recall. Apparently, he’s from the same batch and from the same school. SOM, ME, 2006.

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Ateneo teaching assistant found dead in schoolroom

Cops find signs victim killed himself

By Marlon Ramos
First Posted 03:29:00 07/01/2008

MANILA, Philippines – A teaching assistant of Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) was found dead on the campus Monday in what the police said was a case of suicide.

The body of Jose Lorenzo Tan, 24, was discovered by a utility worker in a room at the Department of Philosophy at around 6 a.m., according to a report from the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU).

AdMU watchmen told the police that Tan, a resident of Cubao, Quezon City, went inside the building at around 2 p.m. Sunday and told them he was working on an assignment. As a teaching assistant, Tan’s main task at the department was to conduct research.

The report said the victim, who was enrolled in AdMU’s Graduate School, could have died of suffocation following the discovery of burnt pieces of charcoal in his room.

QCPD-CIDU investigators said they found the room’s windows, door and other openings covered with plastic bags and cellophane, apparently to ensure that “the smoke coming from the charcoal would not escape.”

One of the policemen on the case said they found in Tan’s laptop several stories from the Internet about the harmful effects of charcoal smoke.

Probers said they were checking information that it was the victim’s third attempt to take his own life.

Relatives described Tan as “a loner but very intelligent.” Police added that Tan’s family also told them he was “obsessed” with philosophical readings that espoused suicide.

An official statement from AdMU said Tan, who graduated from the school in 2006 with a management engineering degree, “had been feeling depressed for some time and investigation showed that he took his own life. The family requests that their privacy be respected at this time.”

Sonia Araneta, head of the university’s Communication and Public Relations Office, declined to give more details on the incident.

An interesting section in the UEFA Euro 2008 website showed the previous victors of the Euro championships and with some classic, old look, I thought it looked good enough to be put on here. Starting from 1960, when Russia was still part of the USSR (and they won it) till the Spaniards had sweet victory over the Germans just a couple of days ago, once again we see how the Germans almost had it for the 4th time.

For being born. For breathing. For living. For aging. For dying.

For looking. For greeting. For speaking. For listening.

For touching. For holding. For feeling.

For cuddling. For spooning. For kissing. For making love.

For breaking up. For crying. For making up.

For thinking. For knowing. For wondering.

For confusing. For questioning.

For agreeing. For disagreeing.

For having. For losing. For winning. For defeating. For loving. For hating.

For becoming close. And for drifting apart.

This is awesome. I shall learn how to dance.

Hmm… my blog’s starting to turn into some sort of a video blog…