May 23, 2008

American Idol 2008: David Cook

                                   

It was David’s night last night … David Cook won the title of American Idol 2008 with 56% of the audience votes.

The rocker/bartender from Missouri won over little David Archuleta in a finale show that was full of special appearances and entertaining performances.

Lots of viewers and critics thought that David Archuleta was going to be the winner, even Cook himself said that Archuleta was the Idol Champion! It was somewhat of a surprise for all! Even Cook himself!

As for the show, it saw performances from the Idol finalists and Top 10 and other music stars like Seal, ZZ Top, Graham Nash, Carrie Underwood, Jordan Sparks, Donna Summer, Bryan Adams and an impressive performance from the contestants of "So You Think You Can Dance".

Congratulations David Cook!

 

May 19, 2008

Touch My Body Lyrics

Filed under: Music Trip

I know that you’ve been waiting for me
And I’m waiting too
In my imagination I be all up on you
I know you got that fever for me
One-hundred and two.
And boy you know I feel the same
My temperatures through the roof

 

If there’s a camera up in here
Then its ___ ____ ___ when I do
If there’s a camera up in here
Then I best not catch this flick on YouTube
Cause if you run your mouth and brag about
This secret rendezvous
I will hunt you down
Cause they be all up in my business
Like a Wendy interview
But this is private
Between you and I

 

Touch my body
Put me on the floor
Wrestle me around
Play with me some more
Touch my body
Throw me on the bed
I just wanna make you feel like you never did
Touch my body
Let me wrap my thighs
All around your waist
Just a little taste
Touch my body
I know you like my curves
C’mon and give me what I deserve, and
Touch my body

 

You can put me on you like a brand new white tee
I’ll hug your body tighter than my favorite jeans
I want you to caress me like a tropical breeze
And float away with you in my Caribbean sea

 

If there’s a camera up in here
Then its gone ____ ___ when I do
If there’s a camera up in here
Then I best not catch this flick on YouTube
Cause if you run your mouth and brag about
This secret rendezvous
I will hunt you down
Cause they be all up in my business
Like a Wendy interview
But this is private
Between you and I

 

Touch my body
Put me on the floor
Wrestle me around
Play with me some more
Touch my body
Throw me on the bed
I just wanna make you feel like you never did
Touch my body
Let me wrap my thighs
All around your waist
Just a little taste
Touch my body
I know you like my curves
C’mon and give me what I deserve, and
Touch my body

 

I’ma treat you like a teddy bear
You won’t wanna go no where
In the life of luxury
You intertwine with me
You won’t long for nothing, boy
I will give you plenty joy

 

Touch my body
Put me on the floor
Wrestle me around
Play with me some more
Touch my body
Throw me on the bed
I just wanna make you feel like you never did
Touch my body
Let me wrap my thighs
All around your waist
Just a little taste
Touch my body
I know you like my curves
C’mon and give me what I deserve, and
Touch my body

 

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

 

Every little way you like to touch my body, baby…

 

Touch my body…

 

Love Quotations

Filed under: Uncategorized
  • I’m scared to fall in love, scared to fall fast, because every time I fall in love… it     never seems to last.
  • I’m so sad when you’re gone. Come back soon. Miss you!
  • In my dreams and in our love for 1 another there are no impossibilities.
  • Love is like quicksand - the deeper you fall in it the harder it is to get out.
  • You’re just my cup of tea.
  • Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
  • Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do.
  • Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was choice, but falling in love with you was completely out of my control.
  • My girlfriend told me, I should be more Affectionate, so i got two Girlfriends.
  • My heart is breaking since you went away
  • My love belongs to you.
  • My love is ever in your service.
  • One good thing about internet dating: you’re guaranteed to click with whomever you meet.
  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
  • To feel love gives pleasure to one; to express it gives pleasure to two.
  • To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world
  • True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
  • True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.
  • Trust, Love & Keep Moving (Growing)
  • We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
  • We must love one another or die
  • When you left, I stopped smiling
  • Where ever I go, whatever I do, I carry a little part of you with me right here in the center of me heart.
  • Who cares whether this is a poem or rhyme, I will love you until the end of time…
  • With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
  • You gotta learn to laugh, it’s the way to true love.
  • You need Money to call someone Honey.
  • You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
  • You touched my heart and changed my life for the better.
  • You’re the icing on my cake. What’s that? Chocolate, of course…
  • You’re the laughter in my life.
  • You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
  • Your love’s better than a cold beer on a warm day. Almost…OK then, definitely!
  • Your love’s better than a home run with the bases loaded.
  • Your love’s better than chocolate.

Big Girls Dont Cry

Filed under: Music Trip

La da da da

 

The smell of your skin lingers on me now

You’re probably on your flight back to your home town

I need some shelter for my own protection baby

To be with myself in center

Clarity, peace, serenity

 

[chorus:]

I hope you know, I hope you know

That this has nothing to do with you

It’s personal, myself and I

We’ve got some straightenin’ out to do

And I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket

But I’ve got to get a move on with my life

It’s time to be a big girl now

And big girls don’t cry

Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry

 

The path that I’m walking, I must go alone

I must take the baby steps till I’m full grown, full grown.

Fairytales don’t always have a happy ending, do they?

And I forsee the dark ahead if I stay

 

Repeat chorus…

 

Like the little school mate in the school yard

We’ll play jacks and uno cards

I’ll be your best friend and you’ll be my valentine

Yes you can hold my hand if you want to

‘Cause I want to hold yours too

We’ll be playmates and lovers and share our secret worlds

 

But it’s time for me to go home

It’s getting late, dark outside

I need to be with myself in center

Clarity, peace, serenity

Yeah

 

Repeat chorus…

 

La da da da da da

 

Benefits Of Soybean

Soybean is a species of legume that has been found to be native to East Asia. It is available in a wide variety of sizes as well as seed coat colors (black, brown, blue, yellow or mottled). The mature bean is covered with a hull that is hard and water resistant. Soybeans have a very high nutritional value, especially large amounts of protein. This makes them the perfect replacement for meat, which is rich in calories, fats and carbohydrates. In case you want to explore the health and nutrition benefits of eating soybean, make use of the information provided in the following lines.

 

Nutritional Value of Soybean

Given below is the amount of nutrients in 1 cup (172 gm) of soybean:

 

  • Calories - 297
  • Copper - 0.70 mg
  • Dietary Fiber - 10.32 g
  • Iron - 8.84 mg
  • Magnesium - 147.92 mg
  • Manganese - 1.42 mg d
  • Molybdenum - 129.00 mcg
  • Omega 3 Fatty Acids - 1.03 g
  • Phosphorus - 421.40 mg
  • Potassium - 885.80 mg
  • Protein - 28.62 g
  • Tryptophan - 0.37 g
  • Vitamin A - 189 IU
  • Vitamin B2 - 0.49 mg
  • Vitamin K - 33.02 mcg

 

Health & Nutrition Benefits of Eating Soybeans

 

  • Soybean has been found to be extremely beneficial for those suffering from diabetes.
  • Soybean gets digested very easily and is counted amongst the most nourishing and body building foods in the world.
  • When consumed by children, soybean helps in promoting their growth and development.
  • Being rich in lecithin, soybeans are said to be good for those having mental fatigue.
  • Regular consumption of soybean is associated with providing protection against cholesterol deposits.
  • Soybean is said to help lower cholesterol, through emulsification of fats in the body.
  • Soybeans provide protection against the development and hardening of the arteries and the resultant complications of heart, brain, kidneys and eyes.
  • Studies have shown that soybean helps a person stay lean, by causing his body to produce fewer and smaller fat cells.
  • Some studies have found soy protein to be associated with raising of the HDL cholesterol levels.
  • Soybeans are rich in fiber, making them good for those suffering from constipation.
  • Soybean reduces the stickiness of platelets and thus, helps in prevention of atherosclerosis.

Im Yours New Version

Filed under: Music Trip

Well, you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but your so hot that i melted
I fell right through the cracks, and i’m tryin to get back
before the cool done run out i’ll be givin it my best test
and nothin’s gonna stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some

I won’t hesitate no more,
no more, it cannot wait i’m yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you’re free
look into your heart and you’ll find love love love
listen to the music at the moment maybe sing with me
Ah, la peaceful melody
It’s your god forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved Loved

So, i won’t hesitate no more,
no more, it cannot wait i’m sure
there’s no need to complicate our time is short
this is our fate, i’m yours

*scat*

I’ve been spendin’ way too long checkin’ my tongue in the mirror
and bendin’ over backwards just to try to see it clearer
my breath fogged up the glass
and so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I’m a sayin’is there ain’t no better reason
to rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
it’s what we aim to do
our name is our virtue

I won’t hesitate no more, no more
it cannot wait, i’m sure
(there’s no need to complicate
our time is short
it cannot wait, i’m yours 2x

no please don’t complicate, our time is short
this is our fate, im yours.
no please don’t hesitate no more, no more
it cannot wait, the sky is yours!)

well open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you’re free
look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la one big family
it’s your god forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved, loved
open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you’re free
look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la happy family
it’s our god forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved
listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la peaceful melodies
it’s you god forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved…

Eggs is good for your health

Filed under: Health, Educational Info

Eggs are probably one of the most nutritious foods that easily find space on every supermarket shelf round the world. Apart from being inexpensive, they are delicious and packed with a wealth of essential components required by the body. In fact, they act as a nutritional powerhouse and can help the body to prevent as well as get rid of different ailments. Eating a raw egg is similar to consuming a good health tonic, whereas having boiled eggs is equally beneficent. Many people also love to poach or scramble eggs for breakfast, which too offers a wonderful nutritional package right in your plate. Read on to know more about eggs, including its nutritional value and health benefits.  

 

Nutritional Value of Eggs

Enumerated below is the amount of nutrients present in a medium-sized egg (without shell) 

  • Water - 38.8 g
  • Energy - 324 kJ/ 78 kcal
  • Protein - 6.5 g
  • Fat - 5.8 g
  • Inc saturated f.a  - 1.7 g
  • Monounsaturated f.a - 2.3 g
  • Sodium - 72 mg
  • Potassium - 67 mg
  • Calcium - 29 mg
  • Phosphorus - 103 mg
  • Magnesium - 6.2 mg
  • Iron - 1.0 mg
  • Zinc - 0.7 mg
  • Copper - 0.04 mg
  • Iodine - 27 μg
  • Chlorine - 83 mg
  • Sulphur - 93 mg
  • Selenium - 6 μg
  • Vitamin A - 98 μg
  • Vitamin D -  0.9 μ
  • Vitamin E - 0.57 mg
  • Thiamin (B1) - 0.05 mg
  • Riboflavin (B2) - 0.24 mg
  • Niacin - 0.05 mg
  • Vitamin B6 - 0.06 mg
  • Folate - 26 μg
  • Vitamin B12 - 1.3 μg
  • Biotin - 10 μg 

Health & Nutritional Benefits of Eating Eggs 

  • Eggs are rich source of high-quality protein and amino acids that are indispensable for a healthy body. 
  • Due to presence of carotenoids like lutein and zeaxanthin, eggs check macular degeneration caused by ageing.
  • Eggs also defend and improve eyesight by preventing diseases like cataract.
  • Due to high vitamin D content, consuming eggs gives rise to strong and healthy bones.
  • Eggs are also rich sources of vitamin E that is important for combating free radicals and ensuring cell protection.
  • Eggs also contain phosphorus that helps in the development of healthy teeth and bones.
  • Iron present in eggs helps in the formation of red blood corpuscles (RBC’s) in the body.
  • Zinc present in eggs aids in normal functioning of the immune system.
  • Consuming eggs prevents different types of cancers, including breast cancer.
  • According to various researches, eggs facilitate weight loss and thus help to stay in shape.
  • Due to high sulphur content and presence of many vitamins and minerals, eating eggs helps in the promotion of healthy hair and nails.
  • Chlorine that forms an essential component of eggs, boosts memory power and brain functioning.
  • An important antioxidant called selenium is also found in eggs that curbs damages caused by unrestrained oxidation in the body, and thus prevents blood clots, strokes and heart attacks.

Singapore

 

      Singapore (Mandarin: Xīnjiāpō; in Malay: Singapura; in Tamil Cingkappūr) is an island nation located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia’s Riau Islands. At 704.0 km² (272 sq mi), it is one of the few remaining city-states in the world and the smallest country in Southeast Asia.

    The British East India Company established a trading post on the island in 1819. The main settlement at that point was a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Singapore River. Several hundred indigenous Orang Laut people also lived around the coast, rivers and smaller islands. The British used Singapore as a strategic trading post along the spice route. It became one of the most important commercial and military centres of the British Empire. When it was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, Winston Churchill called it "Britain’s greatest defeat".Singapore reverted to British rule in 1945. In 1963, it merged with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia. Less than two years later it split from the federation and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. Singapore joined the United Nations on September 21 that same year.

    Since independence, Singapore’s standard of living has increased. Foreign direct investment and a state-led industrialization drive based on plans drawn up by the Dutch economist Albert Winsemius have created a modern economy based on electronics manufacturing, petrochemicals, tourism and financial services alongside the traditional entrepôt trade. Singapore is the 17th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita. This small nation has foreign exchange reserves of US$171.7353 billion.

    The population of Singapore is approximately 4.68 million. The Chinese form the majority of the population. English is the administrative language of the country.

    The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore established the nation’s political system as a representative democracy, while the country is recognized as a parliamentary republic. The People’s Action Party (PAP) dominates the political process and has won control of Parliament in every election since self-government in 1959.

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May 16, 2008

China quake death toll rises above 8,700

CHENGDU, China - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country’s worst quake in three decades.

 

The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing and could be felt as far away as Vietnam.

Snippets from state media and photos posted on the Internet underscored the immense scale of the devastation. In the town of Juyuan, south of the epicenter, a three-story high school collapsed, burying as many as 900 students and killing at least 50, the official Xinhua news agency said. Photos showed people using cranes, mechanical hoists and their hands to remove slabs of concrete and steel.

Buried teenagers struggled to break free from the rubble, "while others were crying out for help," Xinhua said. Families waited in the rain near the wreckage as rescuers wrote the names of the dead on a blackboard, Xinhua said.

Parents of the dead students built makeshift religious altars at the site, resting the corpses on any available piece of plywood or cardboard, and burning paper money and incense in a traditional honor for their child in the afterlife, according to NPR’s Melissa Block.

The earthquake hit one of the last homes of the giant panda at the Wolong Nature Reserve and panda breeding center, in Wenchuan county, which remained out of contact, Xinhua said.

In Chengdu, it crashed telephone networks and hours later left parts of the city of 10 million in darkness.

"We can’t get to sleep. We’re afraid of the earthquake. We’re afraid of all the shaking," said 52-year-old factory worker Huang Ju, who took her ailing, elderly mother out of the Jinjiang District People’s Hospital. Outside, Huang sat in a wheelchair wrapped in blankets while her mother, who was ill, slept in a hospital bed next to her.

Xinhua reported 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone and 216 others in three other provinces and the mega-city of Chongqing.

Worst affected were four counties including the quake’s epicenter in Wenchuan, 60 miles northwest of Chengdu. Landslides left roads impassable Tuesday, causing the government to order soldiers into the area on foot, state television said, and heavy rain prevented four military helicopters from landing.

Wenchuan’s Communist Party secretary appealed for air drops of tents, food and medicine. "We also need medical workers to save the injured people here," Xinhua quoted Wang Bin as telling other officials who reached him by phone.

To the east, in Beichuan county, 80 percent of the buildings fell, and 10,000 people were injured, aside from 3,000 to 5,000 dead, Xinhua said. State media said two chemical plants in an industrial zone of the city of Shifang collapsed, burying hundreds of people and spilling more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia.

Though slow to release information at first, the government and its state media ramped up quickly. Nearly 20,000 soldiers, police and reservists were sent to the disaster area.

Disasters always pose a test for the communist government, whose mandate rests heavily on maintaining order, delivering economic growth, and providing relief in emergencies.

Pressure for a rapid response was particularly intense this year, with the government already grappling with public discontent over high inflation and a widespread uprising among Tibetans in western China while trying to prepare for the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics.

"I am particularly saddened by the number of students and children affected by this tragedy," President Bush said in a statement.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge sent his condolences to President Hu Jintao, adding: "The Olympic Movement is at your side, especially during these difficult moments. Our thoughts are with you."

Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by training, called the quake "a major geological disaster," and traveled to the disaster area to oversee rescue and relief operations.

"Hang on a bit longer. The troops are rescuing you," Wen shouted to people buried in the Traditional Medicine Hospital in the city of Dujiangyan, on the road to Wenchuan, in comments broadcast by CCTV.

"As long as there was a slightest hope, we should make our effort a hundred times and we will never relax," he said outside the collapsed school in Juyuan.

The quake was the deadliest since one in 1976 in the city of Tangshan near Beijing that killed 240,000 — although some reports say as many as 655,000 perished — the most devastating in modern history. A 1933 quake near where Monday’s struck killed at least 9,000, according to geologists.

Monday’s quake occurred on a fault where South Asia pushes against the Eurasian land mass, smashing the Sichuan plain into mountains leading to the Tibetan highlands — near communities that held sometimes violent protests of Chinese rule in mid-March.

Much of the area has been closed to foreign media and travelers since then, compounding the difficulties of getting information. Roads north from Chengdu to the disaster area were sealed off early Tuesday to all but emergency convoys.

In Chengdu, the region’s commercial center, the airport closed for seven hours, reopening only for emergency and a few outbound flights. A major railway line to the northeast was ruptured, stranding about 10,000 passengers, Xinhua said. Although most of the power had been restored by nightfall, phone and Internet service was spotty and some neighborhoods remained without power and water.

Nervous residents spent the night outside, some playing cards or heading to the suburbs. State media, citing the Sichuan seismology bureau, reported 313 aftershocks.

"Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," said Ronen Medzini, an Israeli student in Chengdu, via text message.

When it hit shortly before 2:30 p.m., the quake rumbled for nearly three minutes, witnesses said, driving people into the streets in panic.

"It was really scary to be on the 26th floor in something like that," said Tom Weller, a 49-year-old American oil and gas consultant staying at the Holiday Inn. "You had to hold on to something like that or you’d fall over. It shook for so long and so violently, you wondered how long the building would be able to stand this."

While most buildings in the city held up, those in the countryside tumbled. On the outskirts of Chongqing, a school collapsed, killing at least five people. Residents said teachers kept the children inside, thinking it was safer.

The city of Mianyang ordered all able-bodied males under 50 to take water and tools and walk or drive to Beichuan, where most of the buildings had collapsed.

State TV broadcast tips for anyone trapped in the earthquake. "If you’re buried, keep calm and conserve your energy. Seek water and food, and wait patiently for rescue," CCTV said.

Although initially measured at 7.8 magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey later revised its assessment of the quake to 7.9. Its depth — about six miles below the surface, according to the USGS — gave the tremor such wide impact, geologists said.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, 930 miles to the north, causing evacuations of office towers. People ran screaming into the streets in other cities, where many residents said they had never felt an earthquake.

In Beijing, where hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors are expected for the Olympics, stadiums, arenas and other venues for the games were undamaged.

Li Jiulin, a top engineer on the 91,000-seat National Stadium — known as the Bird’s Nest and the jewel of the Olympics — was conducting a site inspection when the quake struck. He told reporters the building was designed to withstand a 8.0 quake.

"The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake," said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee. "We considered earthquakes when building those venues."

Some 660 miles to the east in Anhui province, chandeliers swayed in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel. "We’ve never felt anything like this our whole lives," said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.

The massive Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest about 350 miles to the east of the epicenter, was not affected, according to the information office of State Council Three Gorges Construction Committee. The area around the enormous dam remains increasingly precarious as rising waters in the reservoir have led to landslides.

Premier Wen, after arriving in Chengdu, traveled to Dujiangyan, near the collapsed high school. On his plane, he appealed for people to rally together.

"This is an especially challenging task," state TV showed Wen saying, reading from a statement. "In the face of the disaster, what’s most important is calmness, confidence, courage and powerful command."