These songs were initially recorded for personal pleasure and enjoyment. However, I am inspired and was encouraged to share these songs with all of you. These songs are sung according to the musical scores, albeit not profesionally sung. i hope these recordings will benefit those who wish to learn old and new songs alike :) thank you God and Christ for giving us these songs. Victor helped to check for mistakes (ya ... many ...). Let's glorify God with these songs!
Leaning against my Bose Soundock.
(Sunglasses sold separately.)
You've helped me design websites and produce lots of music. You've never died on me.
It was on you that I started chatting to Ramblinglibrarian about forming the Gahmen Bloggers.
Only now, due to some OS10.5 upgrade glitch, are you unable to communicate with the rest of the world. And due to some 3rd-party incompatibilities, I can't produce music the way we used to. And I know you're out of disk space.
But deep inside, you're still beautiful. I know, because I looked inside you this morning just to make sure everything was connected properly. You were less dusty than I thought you'd be. I wiped you, anyway.
I'm going to keep you going strong. I'm ordering you a whopping new hard drive and another 2GB of RAM. I just bought a new 500GB backup disk to replace the one that died, so we won't lose important files again.
And if necessary I'll reformat you too, if you still can't connect with your server friends.
Hang in there, baby. Help is on the way.
After hearing so much about Amy Winehouse, how she won 5 Grammys yet was unable to attend the ceremony due to her her drug problems, I decided to check her out. A quick scan through her music told me I liked her style.
Natalie Cole attacked Amy's wins, saying Beyonce and Rihanna were more deserving and that drug addicts shouldn't be getting away with it. At first I thought it was a case of sour grapes but then, learning that Cole herself had fought her addiction, she probably understood things better. [There is something bloody wrong with Vox + Firefox 3 beta preventing me from hyperlinking, so here's the URL: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23203698-5012974,00.html]
I also picked up the Mary J Blige album, Growing Pains, and the Grammy Nominees 2008 album.
I and another colleague stayed back late to complete our respective projects last night. Eventually I packed up my bags and prepared to go home.
On my way out, I turned back and said, "I know people like to say 'Don't stay back so late' but it's a useless comment, seeing how we have to finish the work on time. So I won't say it!"
I actually like staying back late because most people have gone home, I'm finally not stuck in meetings or answering phone calls, so I can actually concentrate on getting my work done. Of course, that only applies because I like my work, most of the time.
We shouldn't be as extreme as the HP employee who died of overwork last year. She felt she had 'no choice'. We CAN make the choice go home and leave the work for tomorrow. But when we know we have something else tomorrow (like another full day of meetings), there's no other time to finish the existing work, except at night. Or else the workload accumulates mercilessly.
Anyway, I have to get all my work done before I leave for SXSW, which consistently clashes with our financial year closure which pressurises us to complete all our projects in time. Last year, I fell very ill as I tried to do full-time work every night after coming back from SXSW. I hardly had any sleep. In the end it was counterproductive as I fell ill and took a few weeks to recuperate. So I'm going to do minimal office work while I'm in Austin, just (b)logging all my notes for the day.
To all 150+ of you: Thank you for subscribing and giving me a morale boost for the past few years.
I've repointed my Feedburner link to my alternative blog on Vox as it may take a while to restore the vantan.org blog. You don't have to change your subscriptions at all. Cheers!
I'm still trying to fix my main blog. I think it's a question of not enough time and expertise. I wrote in to Six Apart for help. They gave some advice (basically to re-upload everything properly) but added I had to pay for MT4 support for subsequent advice.
I half wanted to switch to Wordpress, but I don't like the fact that Wordpress doesn't support multiple blogs.
I'm still trying to re-upload the relevant folders in ASCII format, but WS_FTP on my Dell seems to be timing out a lot. If my G5 Mac didn't have post-Leopard Internet connection problems, I'd have uploaded everything on Fetch and upgraded MT without a hitch. I've done that a number of times before. Seems each technical problem is impacting future ones.
So I'm here on Vox, blogging until I get my Movable Type main blog fixed. Anyway I like how it's so easy to add stuff. Makes me feel like writing more book and album reviews.
If you're a sports fan, and are particularly into UK sports, play BBC Sportdaq. You'll be hooked. We should have something like this for other kinds of industries.
My main blog, www.vantan.org, has been buggy of late. So I decided to upgrade to MT4.1 and hope that will resolve the problems.
However, as my Mac is no longer able to connect to the Internet due to some cock-up with the upgrade to OS10.5, and the family PC crashed after I installed Sim Societies which caused a serious graphics problem. I restored the PC but it has trouble connecting to the Internet (sounds like a habit).
The only machine left is my oft-mentioned Dell laptop which has WS_FTP but seems to keep timing out when I do bulk folder uploads. So yes, I'm doing uploads ONE BY ONE.
In the meantime, tune in to my Vox Blog for the latest updates!
