Babbling Point

EXCUSE ME, DO YOU HAVE SIZE 9 RUBY SLIPPERS? 11:29pm I'm still at the office. Having to deal with revisions that should've been dealt with earlier in the evening.... BUT NOOOOO!!! Client asking for something more HIP! More hip??? Oh, really now? AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!! I wish I was else where. Running on the rooftops... Feeling the evening breeze rush past my body as a jump from building to building... Swinging from lamp post to electrical pole... Catapulting myself to the top of some highrise... To be able to bring myself as far away from this... Far away... AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH AND SCREAM Nakakapagod na talaga ang buhay na ganito. I wonder if life gets easier after all of this. I pray that life gets easier after all of this.

SANS SPANDEX When I was a kid I wanted to be a super-hero.. a crime fighter! I'd read DAREDEVIL and BATMAN and dreamed that one day... one night, I'd prowl the rooftops of Manila and swing from building to... wait a minute! I realized, there were not much buildings to swing from and if I patrolled the rooftops I'd be mistaken for a member of the Akyat-Bahay Gang. Of course, there was also the problem of my weight and since I loved eating, I never really got into shape to be a superhero. Such things did not stop David Belle from developing the art of Le Parkour and run the rooftops of Paris. It is a relatively new urban sport in France, which means "obstacle-coursing". Described by adepts as an art-form or even a philosophy, Le Parkour consists of finding new and often dangerous ways through the city landscape - scaling walls, roof-running and leaping from building to building. "Le Parkour - or the Art of Movement - is a way of using the obstac

Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East. CUYAHOGA FALLS -- A member of Ohio's 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy. Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat. "On Sunday, we were awarded as the best firefighting unit in the Army National Guard in the entire country," said Prime. "That was a big moment for us." Prime took his name from the leader of the Autobots Transformers, which were popular toys and a children's cartoon in the 1980s. He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it's on everything from his driver's licence, to his military ID, to his uniform.

BLOGGING IN BAGHDAD (5:46am) air raid sirens in baghdad but the only sounds you can here are the anti-aircraft machine guns. will go now. (6:40am) there is still nothing happening im baghdad we can only hear distant expolsions and there still is no all clear siren. someone in the BBC said that the state radio has been overtaken by US broadcast, that didn't happen the 3 state broadcasters still operate. from the blog of SALAM PAX

San Diego Comic-Con will happen on July 17-20. Wonder if it will be safe to go to America by then. Talk about priorities.

I was in college when the Gulf War started. The first thing that popped in my head was, "Do we have classes tomorrow?" Talk about priorities.

- God bless us all Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Posted: 10:06 PM EST (0306 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The "opening stages" of military action against Iraq have begun, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer announced Wednesday night.

* “What is the difference between an elephant and an alligator?” the old man asked me. It wasn’t a question, it was the way he taught. The way his ancestors have taught since the beginning of his tribe. “One’s a mammal, one’s a reptile. One lives on land and visits water, one lives in water and visits land. One is a flesh-eater, the other a vegetarian. Neither have natural enemies. “But both are hunted, yes?” “Yes, I see. The elephant for their ivory, the alligator for their hides. They have the same enemy—man.” “You do not see. I asked you the difference, not the similarity.” “I told you many differences.” “Yet you missed the essential one. The difference that separates them forever.” “Is this a riddle?” “Not a riddle, not a mystery. A truth you can learn… if you listen.” “I’m listening.” “The baby alligator comes out of the egg a perfectly formed predator. It will not grow, it will only get larger, do you see? It learns nothing. From the moment o