Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Own your friends! on My Space

It's the daybefore Xmas, and I'm not happy.

It is NOT because in 2008:  
my retirement plan lost over half of its value; 
not even because there are six people I know died in the second half of the year (including three relatives, two very close friends, and a business partner) all out of the blue.  

It is because I can not buy my friend on My Space.  

Or, more precisely, buying him will not allow me to stop what he's going: Bagdad.  
 
According to My Space: 
"Using Own Your Friends you can:
  • Buy and sell your friends as 'pets'.
  • Make your 'pets' hug, punch, and poke each other.
  • Change your pets' status messages to whatever you want.
  • Find out how much your friends think you are worth!
What I want is for him to stay at home.  

What would he want?  

"the dumbass volunteered,"  another friend told me. 

This is him, who always does what he believes in.  From college to the Army, to Kuwait, to Bosnia, and back to teach high school, he made his own plans.  

May be we should celebrate that instead of buying him.  

Hopefully there will be one day that we can "Buy a soldier" and ask them to teach instead of fight, for whatever reason. 

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Thursday, January 06, 2005

Tears in heaven

I've been paged at 10:30PM Tuesday night to go to work. Anyway, I've got a deadline to meet on Wednesday, so I just stayed.

It's not that bad during the day since I managed to meet the deadline. The worse part of the day is that my best friend D told me that his father passed away. I felt very sorry for him. I met his father only once or twice when we were roommates in collage. His parents were visiting them last month but his father was doing very well. They saw that coming but didn't realized it would be so soon. I told him that I think the most important thing is that they spent some quality time together in the last month of his father's life, and it's important to him and his fater. I was very sad.


Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven


Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven
I'll find my way, through night and day
Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven

Time can bring you down
Time can bend your knee
Time can break your heart
Have you begging please
Begging please

Beyond the door
There's peace I'm sure.
And I know there'll be no more...
Tears in heaven

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