Precious...

Its not a LOTR/Gollum reference for sure. Its more of the song from Depeche Mode's latest album "Playing The Angel". I just liked this song when I saw their music video which is basically a green-screen affair filled in with CGI. Pretty cool visual effects for sure.

The lyrics go like this:

"Precious"
By Depeche Mode

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to You?

We always try to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put You through...

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we managed
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you

If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we managed
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

I pray you learn to trust
Have faith in both of us
And keep room in your hearts for two

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we managed
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give


The beat of this song would harken back to their earlier days before things went slow after their "Violator" album. "Barrel of The Gun" album was just skimming past the edge of life support that time back in the 90's. Just wanted to share and post my interest with this song. Good lyrics, good beat and good synths with it too.

Another year for this Dog's Life 2005 update

The day is almost over. A memorable day. I've celebrated my 35th birthday for this year. It was a no-fanfare kinda of day, which I am pretty much accustomed too. Lunch here at the Ambrosio house was fine with New York style pizza from Brooklyn Pizza. The remains of it survived for dinner and then no more. Besides pizza, diet soda and my craving for coffee (or is it toffee) crunch cake from Red Ribbon comes to the fore. That's for the food portion of the day.

I went to Megamall to visit my friend Vinnie's shop to talk, get some advise and/or consultations with matters creative as well as the usual sitreps (situation reports)with our high school batch and circle of friends within high school. Picked up my latest fix of NewType USA. I also purchased the latest album of Depeche Mode, titled "Playing The Angel". Me and Vinnie popped it into the CD player to check out the tunes from their latest release. Common agreement is that the group needs more faster beat style or type songs as compared to the slower dragging kinds they've been on of late. The best track in the bunch is "Precious" which I adored from the getgo from watching their music video on late night TV weeks ago. Second best track in the album was Lilian. Lilian was more like a song about a girlfriend who is more trouble than her worth in some dysfunctional relationship.

Vinnie was able to tell me a few things to consider since I'm just entered 35 and since we both know that we're not young as we used to. I need to get focussed more now in order to get things moving on my end. I also have to go about making myself productive and useful after being on sabbatical after my recent departure from the call center job. I still have to play catch up to make the deadline for my Vinnie Dragonfic project. I have to get moving along by getting ideas out of my head and onto paper or data to keep it going and having it materialize by then to make it for the deadline. I would have to go cold turkey on some things I have been preoccupied or addicted with of late. I took his advise of that having plans after one's birthday is like an earlier jump of planning one intends after New Year's day for certain.

Creative consultation was pretty much some q & a on some matters draconic just to cement the ideas for sure while explaining to him a few details of what I have in mind with my dragon piece. Also tossed in some thoughts for some matters regarding the Twilight Empire project's backdrop as well as to characters matters for the sidestory project in the same setting.

I begin to realize that keep some creative spark going I have to act like an creative energy absorpting panel to absorb some of the creative enthusiasm to get me to go with creating things. Of course, in the long run, when things go well in the creative mill, the energy can be self-sustaining but right now its requires jump starting and occasional replenishment.

I'll start getting back on the blog wagon for sure, since I have lost ground in the blog posting front for the past few months. Creative things will pick up for certain along the way.

In absentia....

Another month has passed and this current month is now more than half-way done. Not much blog update activity of late. The usual culprits are my niece and her usual internet activities of Yahoo Messenger, forum board browsing, media clip downloads and tons of pictures she downloads. I am much worried that she would bloat the hard disk in no time, unless the downloaded stuff is burned into CD, though she lacks funding for buying CD blanks for me to put them into. On the personal culprit side is that I have succumbed to being vegetative at home, recently went back to being addicted to PS2 games, occasional rounds of chatting online with MIRC and the occasional trawl on the net.

As of this week, my current Internet provider is discontinued and my folks are opting to go for a DSL connection and disconnect one of the two phones we have currently in this house as part of a cost-cutting measure. DSL connection is not yet active since the DSL package involved is of the wireless variety and I sense a backlog of work orders involved for this. The usual DSL connection variety is pretty much full for our area.

Thanks to lack of regular Internet access, I have to go back to using prepaid Internet cards, though my niece is sure to burn out the load I have for it over the weekend easy. I would be more at ease when the DSL connection gets set up so that the download times are better and faster, which more shorter online time for her. For me, faster downloads, faster loading of pages, faster time with email to screen, delete or send.

Partly my physical health affects my lethargy aspect, especially my skin problem. When my skin problem flares up, I always stay more at home or more so sleep more. With the right urging or inspiration, some projects I have on my list of things to do would continue as intended or get me out of the rut I'm in.

That's my current thought of concern for the meantime. I apologize for the lack of new content of late.