"Dont Wait" from Pau

Dashboard Confessional Lyrics
Don't Wait Lyrics

Its no Air without you...!!!

No Air

Tell me how I'm supposed 2 breathe with no air?

If I should die before I wake
It's cause you took my breath away
Losing you is like living in a world with no air
Oh

I'm here alone didn't wanna leave
My heart won't move it's incomplete
If there was a way that I could make you understand

But how do you expect me to live alone with just me? cause my

world revolves around you it's so hard for me to breathe

Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air?
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon breathe without me?
If you ain't here I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air

I walk, I ran, I jump, I flew
Right off the ground to float to you
WIth no gravity to hold me down for real

But somehow I'm still alive inside
You took my breathe but I survived
I don't how but I don't even care

So how do you expect me to live alone with just me? cause my

world revolves around you it's so hard for me to breathe

Tell me how I'm supposed 2 breathe with no air?
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon breathe without me?
If you ain't here I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air

No air, air
No more
It's no air, no air

Tell me how I'm supposed 2 breathe with no air?
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon breathe without me?
If you ain't here I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air

No air, no air

So how do you expect me to live alone with just me? cause my

world revolves around you it's so hard for me to breathe

Tell me how I'm supposed 2 breathe with no air?
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air

Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon breathe without me?
If you ain't here I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air

No air, air

right love+right person+wrong time = dead end..

i can say that today 08/18/08 i learned that i did fall in-love with someone unexpectedly.. but i learned too late... cause the one that i love give up already and decided to let go of me... now I'm wondering how much it will cause me to repair the damages in my heart.. T_T

gotta go on my own way... (by: cHaChA

I gotta say what's on my mind
Something about us
doesn't seem right these days
life keeps getting in the way
Whenever we try, somehow the plan
is always rearranged

It's so hard to say
But I've gotta do what's best for me
You'll be ok..

I've got to move on and be who I am
I just don't belong here
I hope you understand
We might find our place in this
world someday
But at least for now
I gotta go my own way

Don't wanna leave it all behind
But I get my hopes up
and I watch them fall everytime
Another colour turns to grey
and it's just too hard to watch it all
slowly fade away
I'm leaving today 'cause I've
gotta do what's best for me
you'll be ok..
I've got to move on and be who I am
I just don't belong here
I hope you understand
We might find our place in this
world someday
But at least for now
I gotta go my own way

MARKY

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2008 Beijing China Olympics XIIII

BEIJING (Reuters) - Famed for being a hotbed of hormones where brawny boxers can barely wait until the post Games party to hook up with leggy blonde pole vaulters, the Olympic Village may disappoint on the party front this year.

Boxes of free condoms had to be handed out at the 2004 Athens Olympics after contraception ran out at the previous Games in Sydney, where sparks first flew between Roger Federer and his longtime girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec.

In Beijing, not only are the condom gift-bags lacking, but the soulless hangar-like disco room -- complete with grey walls, grey carpet, sub-zero air conditioning and live Chinese folk music -- may well nip any sizzling romance in the bud.

"I suggest they won't find what they need in here, like crazy fun and the happy hour," admitted a member of a shaggy haired Chinese rock band, also performing at the venue, as he sipped a fizzy drink in the near-empty bar where booze is banned and the 90s pop disco ends at midnight.

"There's no alcohol here because it's forbidden in the Village. It's not the best nightlife of Beijing," the rocker said, declining to give his name.

The beautifully manicured Olympic Village, which is lodging some 10,000 athletes and their trainers in brand new apartments, is getting top marks for organization, facilities and food, but not for encouraging mingling.

"I haven't seen any bags of frangers," said world champion rower Amber Halliday, using a slang word for condoms from her native Australia. "But the Australian Olympic Committee has a big bowl out on the table and you can help yourself."

In the games room, two strapping Indonesian athletes avert their eyes discreetly as they stroll by two Eastern European girls in tiny shorts whacking the puck at the air hockey table.

"Until the competition is finished you tend to give people space," said Halliday, 28, of the lack of mingling. "But there'll be plenty of partying on the outside in the second week. Where there's an Aussie there's a way to get drunk."

China has pulled out all the stops for the 2008 Olympics, which it promises will be the best ever.

The 66-hectare Village has laid on everything from Peking Duck to Chinese massage and has armies of smiling volunteers on hand to help guests. Only the evening entertainment sucks.

Gambling in the games room is prohibited, a sign says, and the DVDs on offer are all strictly family movies.

"Is too many smiley and good behavior. No TV and no frozen," complained Kazakh canoeing trainer Alexandr Davydov in broken English, referring to the absence of a fridge in the apartments where one might have been able to keep a cold beer.

"Just sitting in the apartment each night," he sighed.

Still, the guys at least can console themselves that there are a record number of women athletes this year -- 45 percent of the total -- and that the fun factor has been worse

In the 1932 Los Angeles games, women weren't even allowed in the Olympic Village, and in the Lake Placid Winter Games of 1980 athletes were housed in a newly built medium-security prison.

Is the Philippines really hot with Call Centers?

Is the Philippines really hot with Call Centers?


I’m seeing a lot of reports, news and all raves about the Philippines being the center of attention for the call center industry (or is that contact center?). But, is the Philippines the primary destination? Statistics would show we’re not.

Last week, reports came out that Apple will be opening up a tech support facility in Bangalore, India with an initial manpower of 1,500 and to double by the end of the year. Why didn’t Apple went to the Philippines, I can only speculate.

The early this week, Dell formally launched its office at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City with an initial workforce of 700 to be doubled by end of the year. I saw in TV that GMA was also there to thank Michael Dell for choosing the Philippines as its location for the call center facility. She was all praises actually. Didn’t she know that Dell has an existing support center in India? With an existing 1,000 10,000 call center reps in Bangalore, Dell is also planning to add 50% more within the year as well.

So, by the end of the year, Dell will have 1,000% times more hired agents in India than the Philippines.

Basically, I think we’re just a backup plan and not really the prime destination. At the end of the day, it will still be about the economics of the industry and Indians are still way cheaper than Filipinos.

2008 Beijing China Olympics XIII

About 160,000 to be present at Olympic opening

Updated: 2008-08-04 12:45:25 From: Xinhuanet

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- About 160,000 people will attend the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday, said a Beijing city government official here on Monday.

About 70,000 will be guests, VIPs, athletes and actors performing at the ceremony and the remaining 90,000 will be the audience, staff and volunteers, said Zhou Zhengyu, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Committee of Communications, at a press conference.

The authorities have tested a plan to get this huge number of people in and out of the National Stadium, or Bird's Nest, he said.

The guests, athletes and artists will take chartered buses and the audiences will take public buses and the metro.

Staff and volunteers will begin working at the Bird's Nest on Friday morning. The stadium and whole Olympic core area will formally open to the public from 4 p.m. Friday.

"The rush hours will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and after the ceremony," Zhou said.

The two rehearsals on July 30 and Aug. 2 tested the plan and proved it to be effective, he said. "We will improve it according to real situations."

According to Zhou, 28 direct non-stop bus routes will link the Olympic core area to the rest of the city while 48 regular bus routes and three metro lines also connect the area with the city.

When the third rehearsal is held on Tuesday, the government plans to add 40 stops along the 28 direct bus routes and extend the operation time of metro lines, according to audience requests, Zhou said.

On Friday evening, all metro lines will operate round the clock, except that linking the airport.

"We are confident of providing good traffic service to the Olympic opening," Zhou said.

2008 Beijing China Olympics XII

Qingdao Olympic Village holds opening ceremony

Updated: 2008-07-27 From: Xinhuanet

The photo shows a statue with the theme of One World One Dream at the Olympic Village in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong Province. The Olympic Village in Qingdao, a co-host city of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, held its opening ceremony Sunday. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

The photo taken on July 27, 2008 shows a view of the Olympic Village in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong Province.

The photo shows a view of the Olympic Village in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong Province. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

The photo shows a view of the Olympic Village in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong Province. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

Village mayor Zang Aimin (3rd R, front), also executive vice president of sailing event organizing committee of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG), announces the opening of the Olympic Village in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong Province, July 27, 2008.(Photo credit: Xinhua)

Gilbert Felli, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Olympic Games executive director, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Village in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong Province, July 27, 2008. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

2008 Beijing China Olympics XI

Beijing uses high-tech to prevent rain from dampening Olympic opening

Updated: 2008-01-08 From: Xinhuanet

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Beijing has mobilized all its science and engineering capability, including satellite monitoring and cloud seeding, to prevent rain from spoiling the extensively expected Olympic opening ceremony on Aug. 8 as historical data indicate a 41 percent precipitation chance on that date.

The Beijing weather engineering office, under the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Bureau, takes the lead in the Olympic weather modification project.

The office doesn't bother to change a lot. It is asked to prevent rain from falling during the three and half hours -- from 8:08 p.m. to around 11:30 p.m. -- onto the Bird's Nest, the open-air National Stadium which will accommodate the opening ceremony.

A technology developed by American scientists, cloud seeding is achieved by shooting shells or rockets containing silver iodide particles into clouds. The icy particles freeze drops in the clouds, make the drops continue growing and eventually fall out of the clouds.

The weather engineering office is weaving a defensive web from adjacent provinces to the Beijing suburbs. Twenty-six control stations have been deployed to fend off clouds or delay their movement.

The office hires 32,000 people, and recruits light aircraft, rockets and shells to spread silver iodide crystals or dry ice in clouds 50 km upwind of Beijing. Result estimates can be reported from control stations to the headquarters within 10 minutes.

One silver iodide shell costs up to 88 yuan (12.75 U.S. dollars),one rocket is priced at 2,000 yuan (290 U.S. dollars), and one aircraft trip spends much more. About 100 shells or four rockets are used in each single action, according to experts.

The office claimed to have eliminated a cloud by airborne spread of infusorial earth on its top on June 2, 2005, which was not found documented in an academic journal.

Meteorologists need to capitalize on radars and weather satellites to monitor colossal storms, which are usually unpredictable, and set off early warnings for Olympic weather services.

One main strategy of the meteorologists is to engineer weather in order to keep the Olympics dry for at least the first three and half hours. Such research and experiments have been conducted since2001 when Beijing successfully bade for the Olympic host.

Many meteorologists agree that cloud seeding technology is only effective to small or mid-sized clouds and thus impossible to influence giant storm systems, which can cover up to a hundred square kilometers. The methodology is employed basically to speed up rain, delay rain, or change the place where rain falls, one Beijing-based expert said.

Some meteorologists, meanwhile, argue the study on cloud formation and large-scale weather conditions is insufficient to effective weather modification. Others dispute on the negative impact of spreading silver iodide in the sky on environment.

Yu Xinwen, a China Meteorological Administration (CMA) spokesman, said here Monday that the statistical probability of 41 percent, based on the meteorological data collected in the past 33 years, just offers a rough idea on a historical chance of precipitation.

An instant case is the 15th Asian Games in December 2006 in Doha, Qatar. In a country where rain has been rarely seen, a deluge soaked athletes and spectators during the expensive and breathtaking opening ceremony.

However, Yu said, "It's possible to predict the weather at the opening night one week in advance, and prediction accuracy will scale up leading to Aug. 8." He expected more precise predictions within two days before the Olympics.

As historical data indicate, early August is often warm and humid, and might not be an ideal timing for the Olympic opening. Many thought the Beijing Olympic organizers deliberately chose the auspicious eighth day of the eighth month. However, organizers said it was not the fact.

Fortune-conscious Chinese do care lucky numbers, among others 8 is the best to represent prosperity and wealth. But decision makers were briefed by meteorologists that the week beginning with August 8 usually falls in the wettest period each year in Beijing.

It was reported that the Beijing organizers proposed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to kick off the Games, ideally, on Aug. 15. The final decision of the Aug. 8 option from the IOC left Beijing the only choice to prevent rain, at least around the sky of the Bird's Nest.

The urgency on weather engineering for the Olympic opening is based on one assumption that the main sports venue has no roof. Architects did include a controlled full roof in their original design. The roofless version, which now stands in north of the city, allegedly saved taxpayers 300 million yuan (43 million U.S. dollars).

THE DARK KNIGHT

THE DARK KNIGHT
(2008)
* * * *
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Roberts, Anthony Michael Hall
Warner/Rated PG-13/Action, Fantasy/152 mins

Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker — discomforting as a school girl’s nervous laugh — is the most outstanding feature of Christopher Nolan’s mesmerizing “Batman” sequel. From his seat atop the pit of hell, the marvelously twisted Joker pursues his diabolical heart’s desire. He’s the ultimate terrorist, wreaking havoc for the sake of watching others sink to new lows. To achieve anarchy, The Joker happily burns a mountain of money, but to worm his way into Batman’s psyche, the Joker will burrow deep into the caped crusader’s emotional world.

“Dark Knight” aptly describes Christopher Nolan’s sordid second chapter. He, and his co-writing brother, Jonathan, depict one evil man’s efforts to infect the minds of ordinary people with hate. Director Nolan has not forsaken the major action set pieces, but he has unexpectedly put the carnage into frighteningly relevant context. If The Joker, an allegory for anyone that goes bump in the night, can bring a megalopolis to its knees, then we begin to appreciate our illusion of safety.

While The Joker seeks his Batman fix, Batman awakens to the harsh reality of operating outside the law. A vigilante easily cast in a harsh light, Christian Bale’s Batman does the right thing at great personal cost. In real life he is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire dedicating a chunk of his fortune to high tech weaponry needed for stopping and capturing bad guys. For his personal needs Wayne relies upon his ever faithful butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine). For for his arsenal of gadgets he depends upon business associate and inventor, Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman). The two men are father figures doling out more than expertise -- they provide moral support and guidance for Wayne’s alter-ego.

District attorney, Rachel Dawes, is the third and final person entrusted with the secret of Batman’s true identity. Played by Maggie Gyllenhaal whose big brown eyes mirror Batman’s regrets, she is the best new thing (after The Joker) to emerge from chapter two. Warner Brothers wisely identified that casting Katie Holmes’ in this pivotal role was the weak link in “Batman Begins.” Gyllenhaal completes the circle of emotional intensity occupied by her male costars. Aaron Eckhart, playing DA, Harvey Dent, and Gary Oldman, disappearing into the role of police commissioner, James Gordon, are powerful brush strokes in this portrait of a city in peril.

When soaring on his batwings, Batman cuts a mournful, lonely and breathtaking figure. In ways even more profound than those embodied by The Joker, the caped crusader is an emblem for loss, longing, and emptiness. Listen and you will hear a lament on the wind.