Carole King & James Taylor - Up On the Roof (Live)

Moody Blues - What Child is This (original lost Xmas song!)

Peter, Paul and Mary : A 'soalin' -- Oh tidings of comfort and joy

Christmas 2010 Wishlist 3...

2011 JEEP Grand Cherokee

Compose

Wishlist 2...

2011 Ford Mustang

Wishlist 1...

Ricky Nelson - Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

Change the World - Eric Clapton

Do they know it's christmas Live aid 1985 london

Band Aid - Do They Know its Christmas 1984

Michael Jackson - Ben ( Live Destiny Tour)

Woodstock 1969 - Crosby Stills & Nash Live

The Beatles - All You Need is Love (HQ)

H & K - G36

Heckler & Koch - MP5 K

900 rounds per minute...

Hotel California

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Eric Clapton

The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends

Scribbling...

It’s really been quite a while since I’ve written something personal or political for this blog. And from the looks of it, that won’t change in the next couple of weeks or months, maybe years.

But still I hope to find time to scribble some thoughts – on politics or some good things passing my way. After all, I’m now a mere observer of the national body politic having shifted paradigm when the new dispensation took over.

There isn’t really that much to write when it comes to personal matters. Still very much the same except for some travels here and there with lots of driving. And I’m sure glad that 2 of my drives are automatics although I truly want my manual every now and then to feel the road and have full speed control. Also, my manual tranny is many times more fuel efficient than the invecs-sportronic and the automatic.

I would have wanted to write more but that’s all the time I have for now. So, until then...

Money For Nothing- Mark Knopfler, Sting, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins

London

Disneyland, Anaheim, California

Photos by LKirkGalanza

Most expensive cars...

1. Bugatti Veyron. $1,700,000. This is by far the most expensive street legal car available on the market today. It is the fastest accelerating car reaching 0-60 in 2.6 seconds.

2. Lamborghini Reventon $1,600,000. The most powerful and the most expensive Lamborghini ever built is the second on the list. It takes 3.3 seconds to reach 60 mph and it has a top speed of 211 mph.

3. McLaren F1 $970,000. In 1994, the McLaren F1 was the fastest and most expensive car. Even though it was built 15 years ago, it has an unbelievable top speed of 240 mph and reaching 60 mph in 3.2 seconds.

4. Ferrari Enzo $670,000. The most known supercar ever built. The Enzo has a top speed of 217 mph and reaching 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. Only 400 units were produced and it is currently being sold for over $1,000,000 at auctions.

5. Pagani Zonda C12 F $667,321. The 5th fastest car in the world. It promises to delivery a top speed of 215 mph+ and it can reach 0-60 in 3.5 seconds.

6. SSC Ultimate Aero $654,400. The 6th most expensive car is actually the fastest street legal car in the world with a top speed of 257 mph+ and reaching 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. It is estimated that only 25 of this exact model will ever be produced.

7. Saleen S7 Twin Turbo $555,000. The first true American production certified supercar, this cowboy is also rank 3rd for the fastest car in the world. It has a top speed of 248 mph+ and it can reach 0-60 in 3.2 seconds. If you are a true American patriot, you can be proud to show off this car.

8. Koenigsegg CCX $545,568. Swedish made and currently the 4th fastest car in the world with a top speed of 245 mph+, the car manufacturer Koenigsegg is not giving up and will continue to try and produce the fastest car.

9. Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren Roadster $495,000. A GT supercar, the SLR McLaren is the fastest automatic transmission car in the world with a top speed of 206 mph+ and reaching 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.

10. Porsche Carrera GT $440,000. A supercar with dynamic stability control and a top speed of 205 mph+ and it can reach 0-60 in 3.9 seconds.

Lakers Repeat as NBA Champs

W. H. Auden

As I Walked Out One Evening   I walked out one evening,    Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement    Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river    I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway:    'Love has no ending. 'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you    Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain    And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean    Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking    Like geese about the sky. 'The years shall run like rabbits,    For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages,    And the first love of the world.' But all the clocks in the city    Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you,    You cannot conquer Time. 'In the burrows of the Nightmare    Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow    And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry    Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy    To-morrow or to-day. 'Into many a green valley    Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances    And the diver's brilliant bow. 'O plunge your hands in water,    Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin    And wonder what you've missed. 'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,    The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens    A lane to the land of the dead. 'Where the beggars raffle the banknotes    And the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,    And Jill goes down on her back. 'O look, look in the mirror,    O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing    Although you cannot bless. 'O stand, stand at the window    As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour    With your crooked heart.' It was late, late in the evening,    The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming,    And the deep river ran on.

Gamma Epsilon in Zambales... between the sea and a river

Sa pagitan ng dagat at ilog; 

sa gitna ng alat at tabang, 
nililigiran ng daang-libong agoho
na animo'y mga pino.
Dito nagtatagisan
ang tubig at apoy,
ang hangin at lupa
sa puting buhanginang
tila pulbos na mga perlas.
lkig
annawangin cove
27-28 ng marso 2010

To the Last Whale - CSN&Y

Over the years you have been hunted
by the men who throw harpoons
And in the long run he will kill you
just to feed the pets we raise,
put the flowers in your vase
and make the lipstick for your face.

Over the years you swam the ocean
Following feelings of your own
Now you are washed up on the shoreline
I can see your body lie
It's a shame you have to die
to put the shadow on our eye

Maybe we'll go,
Maybe we'll disappear
It's not that we don't know,
It's just that we don't want to care.
Under the bridge
Over the foam
Wind on the water,
Carry me home.

March 27, Support Earth Hour!

The One I Love

by Mike McClellan

I don't care for dancing and I'm not much for talk
at least I've never been that way
I know it's not easy to understand my ways
and there's so much I oughta say

When I'm standing right before you, I feel like a fool
blinded by the light in his eyes
No the love light steals the dark night
of it's soul

And the one I love she shines like silver,
the one I love she glows like moonlight
The one I love is warm like sunshine,
the one I love

Yes, the one I love she shines like silver,
the one I love she glows like moonlight
The one I love is warm like sunshine,
the one I love

I don't care for parties and I like the quiet life
and I've never felt at ease in a crowd
I've never found it easy to live the way I do sometimes
the songs are the only time I think out loud

When I'm standing right before you I feel like a fool
who never finds the right words to say
No, this chance goes with the last dance
of the night

The one I love she shines like silver,
the one I love she glows like moonlight
The one I love is warm like sunshine,
the one I love

When I'm standing right before you I feel like a fool
who never finds the right words to say
No, this chance goes with the last dance
of the night

The one I love she shines like silver,
the one I love she glows like moonlight
The one I love is warm like sunshine,
the one I love

Yes, one I love she shines like silver,
the one I love she glows like moonlight
The one I love is warm like sunshine,
the one I love

Dakak

Stroke: How to avoid a brain attack

Written by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.

In the first minute of a stroke, your brain loses an estimated 1.9 million brain cells — what you’d lose in three weeks of normal aging. But the loss continues every minute the stroke is left untreated. If a stroke runs its usual 10-hour course, it can kill 1.2 billion nerve cells — what a normal brain loses over a course of 36 years. That doesn’t have to happen. “Stroke is a highly treatable disease, but unfortunately, the time in which physicians can effectively reverse a stroke is short,” says UCLA neurologist Jeffrey Saver. “Precious tissue is lost every second,” he explains. “Patients need to get to the hospital at the first sign a stroke is occurring.” If they get there within three hours, doctors can use a clot-busting drug like tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) to curb the damage. But many victims wait, hoping the symptoms will disappear. “Don’t try to tough it out, and don’t waste time trying to get in touch with your primary physician or neurologist,” says Dr. Saver, who calculated the brain cell losses. “You need emergency help.” Unfortunately, many people wait too long to call for help. An analysis of 48 reports done in the US showed that the median time from stroke onset to arrival in an emergency room (ER) is between three and six hours. Some people even dismiss or ignore symptoms. The result, quite often, is that the stroke produces significant impairment and disability. In the US, stroke is the third leading cause of death, right behind heart attack and cancer. In the Philippines, it is the number one cause of major, long-term disability in adults. The good news is, there are still many modifiable risk factors you can control today. Easy measures are available to help you gauge your risk — and doing so now can give you time to make some long-overdue lifestyle changes that may tip the stroke odds in your favor. A Brain Attack A stroke occurs when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot (ischemic stroke, which accounts for about 83 percent of all strokes) or ruptures (hemorrhagic stroke, which comprises the remaining 17 percent of cases). As a result, the affected part of the brain does not receive the blood and oxygen it needs and begins to die (see diagram on Page E-1). A study presented last year at the annual meeting of the American Stroke Association (ASA) in San Francisco, revealed that during a stroke — just as with heart attacks — people do not always have classic symptoms. This study, conducted by Michigan State University, looked at symptoms displayed by 1,724 patients treated for stroke in more than a dozen emergency rooms across the state. Many did not present with the five classic ASA warning signs: 1) sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm, or legs; 2) confusion, trouble walking, speaking, or understanding words; 3) sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes; 4) dizziness, loss of balance or coordination; and 5) sudden severe headache with no known cause. Women were 33 percent less likely than men to have these signs, and more alarming, 15 percent of the women and 10 percent of the men reported none of the classic warning stroke signs. Some patients instead complained of having fainted, developed trouble breathing, had fallen, experienced pain, or developed seizures. If a person’s symptoms seen in the ER don’t match classic stroke symptoms, it may be less likely that brain imaging, such as a CT scan or an MRI, will be done to confirm a stroke and miss the three-hour window of opportunity for clot-busting treatments. Further studies are needed to confirm the difference in symptoms and the possible reasons behind them. Two Kinds Of Risk Some risk factors are out of your control such as age and family history. Every 10 years after age 55, stroke risk doubles with two-thirds of all strokes occurring after age 65. Your risk also doubles if someone in your immediate family had a stroke. However, there are risk factors that you can change. The most important is smoking, which may predispose people to develop ruptured cerebral aneurysm, especially in women. “Both smoking and obesity are big risk factors,” notes Tobias Kurth, MD of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and lead author of a stroke and lifestyle change study in 2006. “The risk associated with obesity is underestimated. Preventing obesity leads to a substantial reduction of ischemic stroke.” High blood pressure is another significant risk factor that’s within your control. People with normal blood pressure (less than 120/80 mm Hg) have half the risk of those with hypertension (pressure above 140/90 mm Hg). Atrial fibrillation (AF), an abnormal heart rhythm, can lead to blood pooling and clotting, and increases risk about five-fold. Treating AF with heart rhythm drugs and blood thinners can halve the risk. Other factors are carotid or other artery disease, diabetes, high blood cholesterol, physical inactivity, hormone replacement therapy, and a history of transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or mini-strokes. About 30 percent of strokes are preceded by TIAs. A TIA may present as an abrupt but fleeting focal deficit (a problem in nerve function that affects specific location or a specific function), such as suddenly losing your sight, being unable to talk, or unforeseen paralysis of an arm or leg. A TIA usually clears up in a few minutes, leaving its victims puzzled over what took place and what to do about it. However, the treatment you receive immediately following a TIA can be critical to reducing your chances of suffering a major stroke. In many cases, TIA patients must undergo carotid endarterectomy, in which doctors surgically clean out the carotid artery and restore normal blood flow, sharply reducing — but not eliminating — the likelihood of a subsequent stroke. 8 Steps To Reduce Your Risk The study led by Dr. Kurth, published July 10, 2006 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, defined eight healthy behaviors that can help prevent stroke: 1. Abstinence from smoking. 2. Moderate alcohol consumption, between four and 10.5 drinks a week. 3. Regular exercise (30 minutes a day, four or more times a week). 4. Maintaining a healthy body mass index, if possible less than 22. 5. Eating a healthy diet high in cereal fiber, folate (vitamin B-9 found in green leafy vegetables, beans, and legumes). 6. Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids (found in salmon, tuna, and other oily fish) with a high ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fat. 7. Avoidance of trans fat. 8. Eating more foods with a low glycemic load (complex carbohydrates that do not raise blood glucose suddenly). You can also reduce your stroke risk by getting blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control. A new study by Dr. Kurth in the February 20, 2007 issue of Neurology found that otherwise healthy people with high cholesterol levels were at increased risk of a stroke. Prevention and Compliance Despite the abundance of modifiable risk factors, people are seldom motivated to take the steps necessary to reduce their stroke risks, says Anthony Furlan, MD, head of the Stroke and Neurologic Intensive Care at the Cleveland Clinic. “Often it takes an event. People tend to respond to a crisis. You have to have a stroke or a TIA. You literally get scared into lifestyle modification,” he explains. “Patients are often unaware of risk factors, are given medication, but don’t take it. For blood pressure control, compliance is often less than 50 percent because we’re treating patients who don’t feel sick, so it’s so easy to slack off.” Blood thinners such as aspirin, as well as clopidogrel (Plavix) and aspirin plus extended-release dipyridamole (Aggrenox; not available in RP), are often prescribed, as in warfarin (Coumadin), an anticoagulant prescribed for AF, one of the most common causes of stroke. Statin drugs, which reduce LDL cholesterol, also play a key role in stroke prevention. The most commonly prescribed statin is atorvastatin (Lipitor). “We’re using statins more aggressively, with higher dose,” Dr. Furlan says, noting two recent studies that utilize 80 mg of Lipitor, a dose far higher than had been commonly prescribed. The bottom line is assessing your stroke risk isn’t difficult. Your birth certificate provides the first clue. An honest look at your lifestyle, a few introspective minutes in front of a mirror, and measures such as your blood pressure, cholesterol, and abdominal girth, will clarify what you have to do to avoid a debilitating or even fatal cerebrovascular event! source: Philippine Star http://philstar.com/index.php?Health%20And%20Family&p=49&type=2&sec=41&aid=2008080488

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