i've had my new-new phone for about two months now. its a sony ericsson k310i. it came free with a low-cost (relatively) pre-post-paid cellphone line account. "pre-post-paid" you ask?
its like a pre-paid cellphone credit system, except that you pay at the end of a billing period; and instead of a line system of certain minutes free calls and a number of free texts, it has a fully consumable amount for either voice or sms. only after you exhaust that pre-paid amount do you get charged as a line would be for going over the limits.
...seems like a good deal so far.
now on to the "little things" bit.
this is my first sony ericsson phone, coming from a long line of nokias of various "trim levels". the k310i, is, unless i'm mistaken, based on the symbian series-60 platform (just like my late lamented 3230). however, somehow or other the s-e developers have been able to get a good deal of performace out of the platform - the interface is downright zippy compared to the nokia (even to 6030 i initially replaced the 3230 with).
its taken some getting used to, but thus far its been a pleasant experience.
little things i'm appreciating:
- the "return" key - the function of which is to basically exit a given menu level (e.g.: menu -> messaging -> inbox -> sms. each '->' is a level deeper.) the nokia phones have two ways out of a menu level: the "exit" soft key, or the "end call" key. the "exit" key has to be pressed once per level, the "end call" boots you out completely. on the k310i, the "return" key works both ways: you can press once per level or you can press and hold and are out completely. much more convenient, methinks.
- the shortcut for silent mode. on the keypad, its the "#" key. press and hold. et viola! silent mode. better than menu -> settings -> profiles -> silent -> activate (on the nokia).
still and all, its the early days with the phone.
i'm sure i'll get to the niggling bits in due course.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
rain+street=river
after a bout of table tennis with the guys, head to the office, then off to apartment to sleep.
dropped of one of the officemates at a local bus station across 7-eleven, make a u-turn and went for the alternate route into the village; dropped off another two officemates at the tricycle line.
now, all through this homeward trip, the rain had begun to fall - cleared off the windshield by the rather loud wipers (have to get that looked at). and the rain got harder.
i think i noted in a previous post that the street the aparment is on floods at the merest hint of rain (okay, i'm exaggerating). but this was no mere hint of rain. it drummed quite loudly on the car's roof. make the final turn - flooded street. um.
okay, 3-point turn, tires making that sloshing sound through a few inches of water. am now positioned with driver's side close to the gate. ...get out?
looking through the windshield, at the neighbor's house; there's a little flat roof extension (for a purpose i can't divine at the moment) -- what caught my eye was how the rain reacted upon hitting this piece of corrugated metal: it flashed into spray, effectively lit up by the amber street light of the corner lamp post.
oh boy. getting out now would be an invitation to an instant drenching. backed the car up a few meters to clear the gate, and decided to stay put till the rain slackened.
...that took about 30-odd minutes of thumb-twiddling, watching the water level rise to almost the top of the curb.
rain ease, get out, into apartment. after a while, check on the water level. remember the point on the wheel to where the water rose.
earlier today, took a measuring tape to the wheel. six-odd inches. another two inches, and the car would have been on its floorboards in the water.
food for thought.
dropped of one of the officemates at a local bus station across 7-eleven, make a u-turn and went for the alternate route into the village; dropped off another two officemates at the tricycle line.
now, all through this homeward trip, the rain had begun to fall - cleared off the windshield by the rather loud wipers (have to get that looked at). and the rain got harder.
i think i noted in a previous post that the street the aparment is on floods at the merest hint of rain (okay, i'm exaggerating). but this was no mere hint of rain. it drummed quite loudly on the car's roof. make the final turn - flooded street. um.
okay, 3-point turn, tires making that sloshing sound through a few inches of water. am now positioned with driver's side close to the gate. ...get out?
looking through the windshield, at the neighbor's house; there's a little flat roof extension (for a purpose i can't divine at the moment) -- what caught my eye was how the rain reacted upon hitting this piece of corrugated metal: it flashed into spray, effectively lit up by the amber street light of the corner lamp post.
oh boy. getting out now would be an invitation to an instant drenching. backed the car up a few meters to clear the gate, and decided to stay put till the rain slackened.
...that took about 30-odd minutes of thumb-twiddling, watching the water level rise to almost the top of the curb.
rain ease, get out, into apartment. after a while, check on the water level. remember the point on the wheel to where the water rose.
earlier today, took a measuring tape to the wheel. six-odd inches. another two inches, and the car would have been on its floorboards in the water.
food for thought.
Monday, May 28, 2007
shrek the t[hi|u]rd
ah. what can one say?
to their credit, a hell of a lot of work went into doing this film. the amount of detail is amazing.
story-wise, though, it's likely best to have an [open|uncritical|deactivated] mind when going to see this one.
to their credit, a hell of a lot of work went into doing this film. the amount of detail is amazing.
story-wise, though, it's likely best to have an [open|uncritical|deactivated] mind when going to see this one.
Friday, May 25, 2007
under pressure
interestingly enough, i was just going over my older posts and something caught my eye -- particularly the march 12, 2005 entry on plumbing.
now, i'm not sure if i've ever blogged on the rearrangement of the office; but if i have, bear with me -- it sets the stage for the current, well, situation.
imagine a shoebox kind of layout. 1 unit wide by 3 long, say. lengthwise, divide into two areas, 2/5 and 3/5, with the smaller division (marked by building pillars) on the left side (consider this from a viewpoint directly above). the left side is further divided into four: 1/4th as office, 2/4ths as workspace, and the last 1/4th as a pantry/restroom space.
the video group got the undivided 3/5ths of the floor on the right side, 3D got the 2/4ths on the left (with space taken out by the stairwell/landing/elevator).
it was ... cozy.
well, in the fullness of time, the 3D group got a chance to expand, manpower-wise, so the groups shifted around and we got the bigger space.
somehow, in line with my multifarious dabblings, i ended up with a row of my own for the meantime -- seeing as i have essentially two workstations to deal with: a pc for stuff, and a mac for editing. this row, for the purposes of the layout, is one shy of the western wall.
above me is an aircon unit.
which, whenever there's a power interruption/trip/surge/whatever, trips its breaker. somehow, this being alabang, these energy transients happen frequently enough for the aircon to be not working longer than working.
recently, after some discussions and a long wait, the aircon had been fixed (though i don't really use it unless it gets really hot in the row -- my dowell round box fan suffices most days).
one day in the last week or so, though, i came in early and decided to activate the aircon for a change. the daily peak temperatures had been in the region of 36C or so, and i felt that some cooling would be nice.
...imagine my surprise to see the aircon control panel and the power outlet hanging on their wires outside their wall receptacles. the aircon control hole in the wall had a black garbage bag arrangement to a 5-gallon plastic jug; the power outlet hole had a blue pvc tube leading to another 5-gallon jug. the jugs had water in them, and the carpet was wet.
which brings us back to plumbing.
seems that the pressure tank (which may have been installed with the building's refurbishing) had overcome some of the 20-year old piping in the structure. water had now managed to make it's way into the electrical pipe runs.
not fun.
how are the apartment and building incidents connected? other than the plumbing issues, not really.
maybe its just the mind seeing patterns where none exist.
now, i'm not sure if i've ever blogged on the rearrangement of the office; but if i have, bear with me -- it sets the stage for the current, well, situation.
imagine a shoebox kind of layout. 1 unit wide by 3 long, say. lengthwise, divide into two areas, 2/5 and 3/5, with the smaller division (marked by building pillars) on the left side (consider this from a viewpoint directly above). the left side is further divided into four: 1/4th as office, 2/4ths as workspace, and the last 1/4th as a pantry/restroom space.
the video group got the undivided 3/5ths of the floor on the right side, 3D got the 2/4ths on the left (with space taken out by the stairwell/landing/elevator).
it was ... cozy.
well, in the fullness of time, the 3D group got a chance to expand, manpower-wise, so the groups shifted around and we got the bigger space.
somehow, in line with my multifarious dabblings, i ended up with a row of my own for the meantime -- seeing as i have essentially two workstations to deal with: a pc for stuff, and a mac for editing. this row, for the purposes of the layout, is one shy of the western wall.
above me is an aircon unit.
which, whenever there's a power interruption/trip/surge/whatever, trips its breaker. somehow, this being alabang, these energy transients happen frequently enough for the aircon to be not working longer than working.
recently, after some discussions and a long wait, the aircon had been fixed (though i don't really use it unless it gets really hot in the row -- my dowell round box fan suffices most days).
one day in the last week or so, though, i came in early and decided to activate the aircon for a change. the daily peak temperatures had been in the region of 36C or so, and i felt that some cooling would be nice.
...imagine my surprise to see the aircon control panel and the power outlet hanging on their wires outside their wall receptacles. the aircon control hole in the wall had a black garbage bag arrangement to a 5-gallon plastic jug; the power outlet hole had a blue pvc tube leading to another 5-gallon jug. the jugs had water in them, and the carpet was wet.
which brings us back to plumbing.
seems that the pressure tank (which may have been installed with the building's refurbishing) had overcome some of the 20-year old piping in the structure. water had now managed to make it's way into the electrical pipe runs.
not fun.
how are the apartment and building incidents connected? other than the plumbing issues, not really.
maybe its just the mind seeing patterns where none exist.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
ear plugs
interesting. i had seen them before, going around greenbelt, at the abenson avant place.
of late, have been looking for a fairly good set of earphones as the somic sm002 headset/mic that i use at work is showing signs of age (a distinct rattling when playing higher frequencies). granted, the somic was chosen primarily for the low price; but it's been a pretty decent performer all the same.
the best earphones i've ever used (not owned) were a pair of sennheiser's at the old studio -- but they cost a bundle, and not affordable at the present. i did, once, get a low-ish-end sennheiser with enhanced bass response (meant for dj's), but that selfsame characteristic made for ear fatigue over long durations. i ended up passing it on to my youngest brother, whose younger ears i figure could appreciate the booming performance.
recently -- and another addition to the unaffordable column of things-i'd-like-to-get -- i'd been looking at the bose quietcomfort line of noise-cancelling earphones. other than the breath-taking near-30k price point, the other detail that gives me additional pause about the matter is the fact that they are powered earphones. after some thought, of course they would be. something has to drive the noise-cancellation circuitry after all. so they have, i think, detachable lithium battery packs that give about 15 or so hours of, well, quiet, to enjoy music by.
so that'll be another rechargable thing to stick into a socket somewhere sometime. man, these things can add up.
but then again, not like i'm getting those things anytime.
which brings me to the ear plugs. bose has some in-ear earbuds, priced in the 5k range. um. a4tech has a similar pair (naturally without patented bose technology etc), for 499 pesos.
hmm. go with the low low price.
i tried 'em yesterday, here at work. amazing. you actually stick them in your ear and they stay put by virtue of a rubber doohickey that seals and suspends the thing in your ear canal. and that seal also manages to remove most of the ambient sound around you.
now, you may ask, why go for the in-ear design? well, i've used other earbuds before, but there's something about the structure of my left ear -- no matter the design (or even size) of the "bud," it keeps falling out.
the performance is quite good, and the noise isolation too.
...but for all that, the selfsame isolation would make it a dangerous thing to be using in the great outdoors with your mp3 player while, say, jogging -- you won't hear anything coming.
so: here in the office -- or at home, good. outdoors, the isolation is both a boon, and in the wrong circumstances, well, you can likely extrapolate...
of late, have been looking for a fairly good set of earphones as the somic sm002 headset/mic that i use at work is showing signs of age (a distinct rattling when playing higher frequencies). granted, the somic was chosen primarily for the low price; but it's been a pretty decent performer all the same.
the best earphones i've ever used (not owned) were a pair of sennheiser's at the old studio -- but they cost a bundle, and not affordable at the present. i did, once, get a low-ish-end sennheiser with enhanced bass response (meant for dj's), but that selfsame characteristic made for ear fatigue over long durations. i ended up passing it on to my youngest brother, whose younger ears i figure could appreciate the booming performance.
recently -- and another addition to the unaffordable column of things-i'd-like-to-get -- i'd been looking at the bose quietcomfort line of noise-cancelling earphones. other than the breath-taking near-30k price point, the other detail that gives me additional pause about the matter is the fact that they are powered earphones. after some thought, of course they would be. something has to drive the noise-cancellation circuitry after all. so they have, i think, detachable lithium battery packs that give about 15 or so hours of, well, quiet, to enjoy music by.
so that'll be another rechargable thing to stick into a socket somewhere sometime. man, these things can add up.
but then again, not like i'm getting those things anytime.
which brings me to the ear plugs. bose has some in-ear earbuds, priced in the 5k range. um. a4tech has a similar pair (naturally without patented bose technology etc), for 499 pesos.
hmm. go with the low low price.
i tried 'em yesterday, here at work. amazing. you actually stick them in your ear and they stay put by virtue of a rubber doohickey that seals and suspends the thing in your ear canal. and that seal also manages to remove most of the ambient sound around you.
now, you may ask, why go for the in-ear design? well, i've used other earbuds before, but there's something about the structure of my left ear -- no matter the design (or even size) of the "bud," it keeps falling out.
the performance is quite good, and the noise isolation too.
...but for all that, the selfsame isolation would make it a dangerous thing to be using in the great outdoors with your mp3 player while, say, jogging -- you won't hear anything coming.
so: here in the office -- or at home, good. outdoors, the isolation is both a boon, and in the wrong circumstances, well, you can likely extrapolate...
Monday, May 21, 2007
last tale from the place of the winged horse
...i promise.
if there were a sour note to the entire evening - literally - it would have to be the in-house tri-weekly entertainment group called - strangely enough - the music wisdom. (finally got the name off the invitation to our sponsor-officemate.)
they were a trio: one man and two women, one of the latter serving as the musical accompaniment on a programmable keyboard. to the keyboardist's credit, she was able to adequately simulate the music of the songs they were covering, late 70's early 80's stuff.
the lead female singer was also passable, with decent lung power when called for, never mind the mispronounced lyrics every now and again. the lead male, the less said the better, although here's a highlight i recall: "wish to thank the employees and the mungement..."
good thing that arriba took over. these folks were good.
and so that's it.
if there were a sour note to the entire evening - literally - it would have to be the in-house tri-weekly entertainment group called - strangely enough - the music wisdom. (finally got the name off the invitation to our sponsor-officemate.)
they were a trio: one man and two women, one of the latter serving as the musical accompaniment on a programmable keyboard. to the keyboardist's credit, she was able to adequately simulate the music of the songs they were covering, late 70's early 80's stuff.
the lead female singer was also passable, with decent lung power when called for, never mind the mispronounced lyrics every now and again. the lead male, the less said the better, although here's a highlight i recall: "wish to thank the employees and the mungement..."
good thing that arriba took over. these folks were good.
and so that's it.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
lakes of the sun
...at least that's how babelfish.altavista.com translates lagos del sol from spanish to english.
yes, the oft-delayed and relocated company finally came to pass. and it was ultimately held at the lagos del sol resort on the shores of lake caliraya in laguna.
incidentally, lake caliraya is artificial, constructed in 1937 by an american. by damming the cavinti valley of the sierra madre range, this resulted in the creation of the lake, allowing hydroelectric power generation. the lake is at an elevation of about 1,200 feet above sea level (or about 700 feet lower than the altitude of tagaytay city). (information in this paragraph courtesy wikipedia).
...now, after some googling about that eventually led to wikipedia and then some handy-dandy calculator work, i learned that temperature goes down by about 3C per 1000 feet altitude gained. which means that in the lowlands, if the peak temperature is the recent average of 36C at 2pm, it would therefore be 32.4C at the elevation of lake caliraya. which is still quite hot, actually. its a good thing that the winds never let up when we were there.
anyway, trip assembly time was 5:30am with a 6:00am departure. lack of sleep notwithstanding, make it to the office, and after a quick side trip to the local mcdo for a takeout breakfast (idea of j, and a good one) board the bus...
...and are expectedly delayed, by the order of 50 minutes, as we await one notable straggler; and the impossible man decides to just then accomplish his royal morning duties -- is almost left behind but for the quick thinking (darn! oh well.) of his seatmate.
9:11am sees us at the gate of the resort. interestingly, close to a decade ago, i and three others drove to the shores of this lake (with outdated instructions, missing the road up, finding a restaurant that served sizzling snake, backtracked, found the lake, rented a boat, fished and caught nothing, drove back to the metro) -- and the route the bus took held nothing familiar at all. wow, my memory is really full of holes. hence the blog. hehehe.
i mean, i should have remembered the circuitous and snakelike road up to the lake, but even that didn't register any recollection.
anyway, the resort: nestled among the mountaintops (which is what they really are) surrounding the lake, a bunch of low buildings (which appeared to be made of wood) with the main activity centers (reception, gift shop, swimming pool, gym, ping pong and billiards) clustered together near the entrance parking. the main dining hall, though, was separate; reached by a long-ish stairway at what might be the uppermost extent of the property, the balconies afforded a good overview of the entire resort.
overall, a good place to revisit (though i don't have an idea of costs at the moment).
now, it has to be admitted, that i approached the whole office outing thing with more than a little trepidation. for one, it was never made explicitly clear just what went into a company outing (seeing as in our entire almost-three year existence this would be the first ever). previous get-togethers had been team building exercises (attended the first and second, missed the third) and i wasn't looking forward to more of that.
it didn't help that the second reschedule of the trip included a rigid schedule for the day's activities. eat, swim, lunch, group games, swim, pack up and go.
so, though the day didn't turn out that way, i have to say that it was hardly relaxing to wait for the shoe to drop; to hear the announcement of forced socialization...
at any rate, the day was spent mostly in the shade of one of the shoreline trees, in partly alcohol-fueled conversations, with an hour's break of ping pong when the table was freed up (there being only one table).
boy, did my knees hurt after that impromptu exertion.
upshot of it was that the next day was announced as a holiday, too.
all in all, a good day.
interesting, too: the sexbomb dancers were there, shooting for some tv series of theirs. wonder if anyone caught it on the tube...
yes, the oft-delayed and relocated company finally came to pass. and it was ultimately held at the lagos del sol resort on the shores of lake caliraya in laguna.
incidentally, lake caliraya is artificial, constructed in 1937 by an american. by damming the cavinti valley of the sierra madre range, this resulted in the creation of the lake, allowing hydroelectric power generation. the lake is at an elevation of about 1,200 feet above sea level (or about 700 feet lower than the altitude of tagaytay city). (information in this paragraph courtesy wikipedia).
...now, after some googling about that eventually led to wikipedia and then some handy-dandy calculator work, i learned that temperature goes down by about 3C per 1000 feet altitude gained. which means that in the lowlands, if the peak temperature is the recent average of 36C at 2pm, it would therefore be 32.4C at the elevation of lake caliraya. which is still quite hot, actually. its a good thing that the winds never let up when we were there.
anyway, trip assembly time was 5:30am with a 6:00am departure. lack of sleep notwithstanding, make it to the office, and after a quick side trip to the local mcdo for a takeout breakfast (idea of j, and a good one) board the bus...
...and are expectedly delayed, by the order of 50 minutes, as we await one notable straggler; and the impossible man decides to just then accomplish his royal morning duties -- is almost left behind but for the quick thinking (darn! oh well.) of his seatmate.
9:11am sees us at the gate of the resort. interestingly, close to a decade ago, i and three others drove to the shores of this lake (with outdated instructions, missing the road up, finding a restaurant that served sizzling snake, backtracked, found the lake, rented a boat, fished and caught nothing, drove back to the metro) -- and the route the bus took held nothing familiar at all. wow, my memory is really full of holes. hence the blog. hehehe.
i mean, i should have remembered the circuitous and snakelike road up to the lake, but even that didn't register any recollection.
anyway, the resort: nestled among the mountaintops (which is what they really are) surrounding the lake, a bunch of low buildings (which appeared to be made of wood) with the main activity centers (reception, gift shop, swimming pool, gym, ping pong and billiards) clustered together near the entrance parking. the main dining hall, though, was separate; reached by a long-ish stairway at what might be the uppermost extent of the property, the balconies afforded a good overview of the entire resort.
overall, a good place to revisit (though i don't have an idea of costs at the moment).
now, it has to be admitted, that i approached the whole office outing thing with more than a little trepidation. for one, it was never made explicitly clear just what went into a company outing (seeing as in our entire almost-three year existence this would be the first ever). previous get-togethers had been team building exercises (attended the first and second, missed the third) and i wasn't looking forward to more of that.
it didn't help that the second reschedule of the trip included a rigid schedule for the day's activities. eat, swim, lunch, group games, swim, pack up and go.
so, though the day didn't turn out that way, i have to say that it was hardly relaxing to wait for the shoe to drop; to hear the announcement of forced socialization...
at any rate, the day was spent mostly in the shade of one of the shoreline trees, in partly alcohol-fueled conversations, with an hour's break of ping pong when the table was freed up (there being only one table).
boy, did my knees hurt after that impromptu exertion.
upshot of it was that the next day was announced as a holiday, too.
all in all, a good day.
interesting, too: the sexbomb dancers were there, shooting for some tv series of theirs. wonder if anyone caught it on the tube...
Monday, May 07, 2007
music from... tales of a winged horse
i'd heard this song before. i was never quite sure where at first. it seemed that it was on the tv, perhaps one of the commercials of the earth communication office, but, finding their website and watching their psa's, the music wasn't there.
i'd also tried amazon searches, but with no idea who sung it, or the title, you can imagine how much like the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack search it was. a lyric search was equally fruitless, as the song had lyrics that were in some foreign language, and a phonetic rendition certainly couldn't find any matches on google (and i tried).
today, whimsically, while the mac was busy moving 24-odd gigs of edit data to the server, i launched itunes to see what kind of music there was on the network. interesting choices here and there. among which was a playlist entirely composed of sound effects.
and then, one of the shared libraries had a list of enya's songs, and there was an entry there that i'd never seen before (and i've a collection of most of her music).
adiemus - enya.
hmm. hit play. wow! found it!
after some googling, it turns out that it's not actually by enya: it was sung by miriam stockley and the adiemus singers; just that the song itself was included in an album called 'pure moods' together with some other new age music (enya inclusive).
...and this cd, apparently, is in the possession of the spinner of the place of the winged horse...
at any rate, that's the connection.
and here's the music itself, with lyrics following (see if you can sing along). hehehe.
enjoy!
Ariadiamus late ariadiamus da
ari a natus late adua
A-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te la-te-a
Ariadiamus late ariadiamus da
ari a natus late adua
A-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te la-te-a
A-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la...
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la........
ah-ya-doo-ah-eh
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la.....
a-ya-doo-ah-eh...
a-ya doo a-ye
a-ya doo a-ye
****
A-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la...
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la........
ah-ya-doo-ah-eh
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la.....
a-ya-doo-ah-eh...
a-ya doo a-ye
a-ya doo a-ye
---
a-ri-a-di-a-mus la-te
a-ri-a-di-a-mus da
a-i-a na-tus la-te a-du-a.
A-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te la-te-a.
A-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la...
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la........
ah-ya-doo-ah-eh
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la.....
a-ya-doo-ah-eh...
a-ya doo a-ye
a-ya doo a-ye
ya-ka-ma ya-ma-ya-ka-ya me-ma
a-ya-coo-ah-eh mena
ya-ka-ma ya-ma-ya-ka-ya me-ma
a-ya-coo-ah-eh mena
ya----ka--ma me--ah
a-ya-coo-ah-eh mena
ya----ka--ma me--ah
i'd also tried amazon searches, but with no idea who sung it, or the title, you can imagine how much like the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack search it was. a lyric search was equally fruitless, as the song had lyrics that were in some foreign language, and a phonetic rendition certainly couldn't find any matches on google (and i tried).
today, whimsically, while the mac was busy moving 24-odd gigs of edit data to the server, i launched itunes to see what kind of music there was on the network. interesting choices here and there. among which was a playlist entirely composed of sound effects.
and then, one of the shared libraries had a list of enya's songs, and there was an entry there that i'd never seen before (and i've a collection of most of her music).
adiemus - enya.
hmm. hit play. wow! found it!
after some googling, it turns out that it's not actually by enya: it was sung by miriam stockley and the adiemus singers; just that the song itself was included in an album called 'pure moods' together with some other new age music (enya inclusive).
...and this cd, apparently, is in the possession of the spinner of the place of the winged horse...
at any rate, that's the connection.
and here's the music itself, with lyrics following (see if you can sing along). hehehe.
enjoy!
Ariadiamus late ariadiamus da
ari a natus late adua
A-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te la-te-a
Ariadiamus late ariadiamus da
ari a natus late adua
A-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te la-te-a
A-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la...
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la........
ah-ya-doo-ah-eh
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la.....
a-ya-doo-ah-eh...
a-ya doo a-ye
a-ya doo a-ye
****
A-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la...
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la........
ah-ya-doo-ah-eh
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la.....
a-ya-doo-ah-eh...
a-ya doo a-ye
a-ya doo a-ye
---
a-ri-a-di-a-mus la-te
a-ri-a-di-a-mus da
a-i-a na-tus la-te a-du-a.
A-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te
a-ra-va-re tu-e va-te la-te-a.
A-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la...
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la........
ah-ya-doo-ah-eh
a-na-ma-na coo-le ra-we a-ka-la.....
a-ya-doo-ah-eh...
a-ya doo a-ye
a-ya doo a-ye
ya-ka-ma ya-ma-ya-ka-ya me-ma
a-ya-coo-ah-eh mena
ya-ka-ma ya-ma-ya-ka-ya me-ma
a-ya-coo-ah-eh mena
ya----ka--ma me--ah
a-ya-coo-ah-eh mena
ya----ka--ma me--ah
Thursday, May 03, 2007
trip or not to trip
...there was supposed to be a company outing tomorrow, which in itself was already rescheduled from a previous set date.
it was meant to be a day trip, with a departure hours before sunrise, to a province about four to six hours away north. black sand (or volcanic ash) beaches, fronting the south china sea...
oh, and scheduled events. hour for breakfast, hour and a half swimming, hour and a half lunch, hour and a half group games!?, hour and a half swimming, an hour for afternoon snack / pack up, then home back to here in the south of the metro.
i do wonder why it can't be just a free-form activity: bring people there, mingle or not, eat (definitely), swim maybe, sunburn always a possibility.
the structured activity bit, perhaps works for some; not really for me (and, i suspect, most of us on the, shall we say, artistic, side of things).
at any rate, email came in just a while ago: trip rescheduled, but no specific date (initially was supposed to be thursday to friday next week).
anyway, and so the suspense continues.
it was meant to be a day trip, with a departure hours before sunrise, to a province about four to six hours away north. black sand (or volcanic ash) beaches, fronting the south china sea...
oh, and scheduled events. hour for breakfast, hour and a half swimming, hour and a half lunch, hour and a half group games!?, hour and a half swimming, an hour for afternoon snack / pack up, then home back to here in the south of the metro.
i do wonder why it can't be just a free-form activity: bring people there, mingle or not, eat (definitely), swim maybe, sunburn always a possibility.
the structured activity bit, perhaps works for some; not really for me (and, i suspect, most of us on the, shall we say, artistic, side of things).
at any rate, email came in just a while ago: trip rescheduled, but no specific date (initially was supposed to be thursday to friday next week).
anyway, and so the suspense continues.
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