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