That falling feeling

Was it on Mellow Touch or LiteRock (now EasyRock) this song got massive airplay when it was released on the same year when I first had that same kind of special feeling?


"Falling"
By Ant & Dec
The Cult Of... Ant & Dec AKA PJ & Duncan

Every little piece of love, of love
I'll give you everything

You make me weak, girl you stand out from the crowd
You are so strong never let life get you down
I can't go on, pretending I don't see
Just how good I'd be for you and how good you'd be for me
And it doesn't matter how hard I try
I can't suppress this feeling, this feeling inside
I think I'm falling girl

(Chorus)
I'm falling for you
I'm falling for you
It doesn't matter what you say
Doesn't matter what you do
Baby it's true
I'm falling for you
I'm falling for you
You know how much I care for you
There's nothing that I would, I would not do

Sometimes in life, you can search forever more
Searching for love, never able to be sure
Be sure your heart, won't be broken up inside
Cause inside the realm of love, there's no place to run or hide
And it doesn't matter how hard you try
You can't suppress this feeling, this feeling inside
I think I'm falling girl

(Chorus)
I'm falling for you
I'm falling for you
It doesn't matter what you say
Doesn't matter what you do
Baby it's true
I'm falling for you
I'm falling for you
You know how much I care for you
There's nothing that I would, I would not do

And it doesn't matter how hard I try
I can't suppress this feeling, this feeling inside
I think I'm falling girl

(Chorus)
I'm falling for you
I'm falling for you
It doesn't matter what you say
Doesn't matter what you do
Baby it's true
I'm falling for you
I'm falling for you
You know how much I care for you
There's nothing that I would, I would not do

Wikipedia: "Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, known collectively as Ant & Dec, are a comedy and presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. They are regular presenters on many high-profile ITV1 shows, including I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain's Got Talent. The duo rose to fame as actors in the children's television show Byker Grove (1989) during which and in their subsequent pop career they were respectively known as PJ & Duncan - the names of the characters they had played."

Reporter's-reporter

Pulitzer Prize-winning Seattle Post-Intelligencer was about to cease its print run early this year when I faced a situation similar to that of its laid off employees. One of its former reporters, Kery Murakami, in an article by the Columbia Journalism Review gives a gleaming example on how to deal with the changing times.

Passion is one's salvation. I agree he's a reporter's-reporter. Here's the full article...

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/man_about_town.php?page=all

Visit the Online paper at http://www.seattlepostglobe.org/

Of beers and closing doors

CLOSING TIME
By Semisonic

Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world.
Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from.
Closing time - this room won't be open 'til your brothers or you sisters
come.
So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits - I hope you have found
a
friend.
Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning'send.

Yeah, I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from...

I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning'send...


Music video by Semisonic performing Closing Time: Letterbox Version
with Chris Applebaum [Video Director], Danielle Lovett [Video Producer]
(C) 1999 Geffen Records

Wikipedia: ""Closing Time" is a song by Semisonic from their album Feeling Strangely Fine. The band's most popular song, it was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999.

The music video was directed by Chris Applebaum. It features two continuous shots, running side by side on the screen. One side shows the band playing the song in a rehearsal space. The other side features a woman (played by Denise Franco), who is playing the part of the singer Dan Wilson’s girlfriend. As the video progresses, Dan and the waitress switch sides of screen, as they attempt to meet up. At the end of the video, they both wind up at the same nightclub, but just as they are about to see one another, their view is obscured by a waitress walking through their line of sight, and Dan leaves the club alone.

The “trick” of the video is that each shot was done as one long, continuous shot, with no cuts or editing, and therefore relies on proper timing during the filming to get the two sides of the video lined up properly."

RockEd Philippines presents "RockMed Philippines: A Medicine Drive for Typhoon Survivors"

Start:	Oct 25, '09
Location:	CCP Tanghalang Pambansa Main Ramp

A free gig hosted to cheer the volunteer on and to collect medicine and medical supplies. Unilab will match our donations (for every Biogesic medicine donation - they will donate a corresponding one). If you have no time to buy - Unilab will sell a first-aid pack/ cold/cough packet for PhP100 - to be sold at the gate.

with:

Sandwich
Imago
Pedicab
Chillitees
Markus Highway
Noel Cabangon
Paolo Santos
Itchyworms
Rivermaya
Kjwan
Sleepwalk Circus
Radioactive Sago Project
Peryodiko
Juan Pablo Dream
Mozzie
Malay

Gig starts at sunset.

For more info, you can email info@rockedphilippines.org or text 09177346742

Valenzuela set to expand city hall

A P90million structure is set to rise on the new government center of the City of Valenzuela as Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian, Vice Mayor Eric Martinez together with City Councilors, key city officials and construction partners groundbreak the People’s Center and Legislative Building, Oct. 14.

Construction will start next month and is expected to be finished within a 180-day timeframe.

The three-storey building boasts of 4,200 square meters of footprint space and will be integrated with the existing Executive Building adjacent to the proposed site. Once fully operational, several key offices of frontline services will be conveniently housed under one modern and more convenient home.

Expected to relocate are the offices of the Vice Mayor, City Councilors of First and Second Districts, Sangguniang Panlunsod Secretariat, Liga ng mga Barangay, Sangguniang Kabataan, City Health, City Social Welfare and Development, Public Employment Service, Department of Local and Interior, Bureau of Internal Revenue, City Accounting, City Finance, City Internal Audit and City Legal Office.

“We are building this center so that people will have greater and better access to city government services,” Mayor WIN said.

“This is for them and that is why we will call it the People’s Center.”

The city chief executive also bared plans of acquiring adjacent properties to further expand the city government center now conveniently located along McArthur Highway in Bgy. Karuhatan, the main thoroughfare cutting across Valenzuela. Mayor WIN proposes a park for the people once implemented.

Architect Glen Encarnacion, Head of Planning and Projects Evaluation of the City Engineering Office, said part of the Mediterranean-inspired structure also is a museum dedicated to the city’s heritage at the ground floor level.

The old City Hall, now under major renovation, will house the Hall of Justice and the Regional Trial Court. This will be connected to the new City Hall by an overpass bridge.


Mark Lester S. Cayabyab
Valenzuela City Public Information Office
http://www.valenzuela.gov.ph/

What more can you be than the things they say you've been?

Say You Love Me
by Simply Red

Being one of those grains of sand
I get blown all around the world
And what I make of it
Oh I dont know
Whats the meaning of it
Oh I dont know

Ive been around so many times
That the worlds turning in my mind
What do I think of it
Oh its so so

What more can you be than the things they say you've been

Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Just say you love me
Just say you love me

I never ever realised
Its so easy to make you cry
But did I break a bit
Oh I hope no
Have you forgot about it
Oh I hope so

But you never ever wonder why
In every single pair of eyes
There is a hunger in it
Or its soul dies

What more can you be than the things they say youve been

Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl

Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Just say you love me

Come on now darling say you love me
Oh yeah please please say you love me
Come on say you love me

365 Days, back in 1997

"365 Days"
Lutricia McNeal

Sabog!

Monsterbot
"Explosive"
Director : Quark Henares
Record Label : MCA Universal

Si Becky at mga antipara

Sa murang edad, naitanim sa aking isipan na ang pera ay pwedeng walis-walisin sa loob ng bahay gaya ng panwakas na eksena sa pelikulang "Ibalik ang Swerte."

Pero watch muna tayo kay Ate Guy sa kanyang dance number sa naturang pelikula na dinirenhe ni Maryo J delos Reyes noong 1981.

Luv it! :p


http://nostalgiamanila.blogspot.com/2007/10/sine-nostalgia-ibalik-ang-swerte-1981.html

Back Here, twice

Back Here
BY BBMak

Baby set me free
from this misery
I can't take it no more
since you ran away
nothings been the same
don't know what I'm livin for
Here I am
so alone
and there's nothing in this world I can do

Chorus:
Until you're back here baby
miss you want you need you so
until you're back here baby
there's a feeling inside I want you to know
you are the one and I can't...let you go

So I told you lies
even made you cry
baby I was so wrong
girl, I promise you
now my love is true
this is where my heart belongs

Repeat Chorus:

And i wonder....
are you thinking of me cause I'm thinking of you
and i wonder....
are you ever coming back in my life

Repeat Chorus:

Until you're back here baby (til your back here baby)
til you're back here baby (til you're back, you're back)
until you're back here baby (til you're back here baby)
there's a feeling inside
I want you to know
you are the one and I can't

Until you're back here baby(til you're back here baby)
til you're back here baby(til you're back, you're back)
until you're back here baby(til you're back here baby)
til you're back here baby(til you're back, you're back)
until you're back here baby(til you're back here baby)

Wikipedia: "BBMak (Barry, Burns, McNally) were an English pop group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold nearly three million albums and spawned six Top 10 and Top 40 singles worldwide between 1999 when the group was formed and 2003 when they eventually disbanded. The band also guest starred on Disney's television show, Even Stevens in 2001."

This is video was made before they made it big in the US. An alternative video was made as this single was re-released the following year.

Here's the more familiar video to the kids of late 90s... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95MMbls0GQ&feature=related

Stubborn chick

Say What You Want
By Texas

Twenty seconds on the back time
I feel youre on the run
Never lived too long to make right
I see youre doing fine

And when I get that feeling
I can no longer slide
I can no longer run
Ah no no
And when I get that feeling
I can no longer hide
For its no longer fun
Ah no no

Well, you can say what you want
But it wont change my mind
Ill feel the same
About you
And you can tell me your reasons
But it wont change my feelings
Ill feel the same
About you

What I am is what you want of me
Yeh, now that Im not there
I took the tables away from you
Its turned that I dont care

And when I get that feeling
I can no longer slide
I can no longer run
Ah no no
And when I get that feeling
I can no longer hide
For its no longer fun
Ah no no

Well, you can say what you want
But it wont change my mind
Ill feel the same
About you
And you can tell me your reasons
But it wont change my feelings
Ill feel the same
About you

Well, you can say what you want
But that wont change my mind
Ill feel the same
About you
And you can tell me your reasons
But that wont change my feelings
Ill feel the same
About you

Ive said goodnight
Try to sleep tight
Ah just dream of me
Go close your eyes
Cause Ive closed mine
The sun will shine from time to time
Oh, when you dream of me, yeh

Well, you can say what you want
But it wont change my mind
Ill feel the same
About you
And you can tell me your reasons
But it wont change my feelings
Ill feel the same
About you

For the love of Robyn

Show Me Love
By Robyn

Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Always been told that I've got too much pride
Too independant to have you by my side
But my heart said all of you will see
Just won't live for someone until he'll live for me
Never thought I would find love so sweet
Never thought I would meet someone like you
Well now I've found you and I'll tell you no lie
This love I've got for you
Could take me 'round the world
Now show me love
Show me love, show me life
Baby show me what it's all about
You're the one that I ever needed
Show me love and what it's all about, alright
Don't waste this love I wanna give it to you
Tell me what you got, show me what you can do
Show me love, show me everything
I know you've got potential
So baby let me in and show me love
Show me love, show me life (alright)
Baby show me that it's all about
You're the only one that I ever needed (show me love)
Show me love and what it's all about, alright
Show me love, show me life
Baby show me what it's all about
You're the one that I ever needed
Show me love and what it's all about, alright
Show me love baby
Show me everything you've got and show me life
Show me love baby
Show me everything and what it's all about
You're the one, the only one I ever needed
Show me love and what it's all about, alright
I'll love you
I'll miss you
I'll make sure
Everything will be alright
I'll give you my heart if you just give me love
Every day and every night
Show me love, show me life (alright)
Baby show me what it's all about
You're the one that I ever needed
Show me love and what it's all about, alright
Show me love, show me life (alright)
Baby show me what it's all about
You're the one that I ever needed
Show me love and what it's all about, alright

Wikipedia: "Show Me Love" is the fourth Swedish, third UK and second U.S. single from Swedish pop singer Robyn's debut album Robyn is Here. The song is sometimes confused with Robin S's 1993 hit "Show Me Love", because of identical song titles and similar first names. The two songs are not related, however.

In her home country, "Show Me Love" became Robyn's fourth hit, peaking at number fourteen, lower than "Do You Know (What it Takes)" and "Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect)", which both went top ten.

In the U.S., the single peaked at number seven, her second consecutive top ten hit there. Similar success occurred in Australia where the single peaked at number two. In the UK, "Show Me Love" became Robyn's first of two top twenty hits from Robyn is here and her first top ten hit, peaking at number eight. In December 1997 the single received a Gold certification from the RIAA in recognition of 500,000 copies sold in the U.S.[1]

The song features at the very end of the Swedish movie Show Me Love. The film was originally titled Fucking Åmål but following controversy over the use of a profanity it was retitled for distribution in the English-speaking world after the name of the song."

Label: RCA Records
Writers: Robyn, Max Martin

Winning the fight vs child mortality

Amidst relief operations to the victims of tropical storm “Ondoy,” the City Government of Valenzuela under the leadership of Mayor WIN Gatchalian, has intensified its health drive with the launching of “Garantisadong Pambata,” Oct. 5, 2009.

Some 200 parents and their children aged five years and below from Karuhatan and San Jeremias daycare centers attended the kick-off. They received a package of services such as free vaccinations, booster shots, deworming tablets and Vitamin A supplements. They were also given a guidebook that underscores proper healthcare.

Punong Barangay Nicomedes Caco of Karuhatan, together with other city health officials, also provided treats at the simple ceremony in SM Valenzuela Supercenter activity area.

City Health officer-in-charge Dr. Jaime M. Exconde Jr., said the Valenzuela public could avail the services until Oct. 17 from 47 government health centers around the city.

Now on its ninth year, the bi- annual Garantisadong Pambata was institutionalized throughout the country as part of the Philippines’ commitment to the UN Millennium Development Goals to reduce child mortality by two-thirds in 2015.

Records of Dr. Manny Mapue II, Chief City Epidemiologist, showed the city has successfully sustained this thrust. Statistics revealed significant decrease in mortality rate in 2008 among children one year to five years of age placing at 17.1 per 1,000 live births compared to 19.15 of the previous year. Furthermore, mortality rate among infants dipped to 13.82 as to 13.93 per 1,000 live births for the same period.

Dr. Exconde encouraged everyone to make Garantisadong Pambata work everyday for our children.

-Mark Lester Cayabyab/Valenzuela City PIO
http://www.valenzuela.gov.ph/

Double-double

Start:	Oct 1, '09
Location:	Valenzuela City Hall

As Redmark ushers in his 27th year, he will be writing for the Valenzuela city government thru its Public Information Office.

The former newsboy of Lores, student scribe of The Leader and The CoC Forum, newsmagazine contributor, and copywriter of M2.0 will be writing articles again that begin with its slug and end with a 30-mark.

The mighty pen is back bleeding inkblots for bread while photography will still be unspooled on weekends for wanton play.

Double the work, double the play.