Archive for August, 2009

I Will Miss Michael Crichton, But His Books in My Collection Will Live On

I have recently learned that Dr. Crichton has just passed away because of a heroic battle with cancer, and it came to me as a shock when, trying to verify this news that I just received from a fellow Crichton fan, I typed the key words in the search engine and found out that he really indeed passed away.

He had written a slew of great novels with the edginess that only a doctor and scientist can bring to hard science fiction: Congo, Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Jurassic Park. I have recently read Timeline and man, this is a mindblower of a novel, and his statements of multiverses would bother a skeptic even. And I am planning to buy his other novels as I hit the bookstores.

His style seems to talk to you, like a lecturer who is comfortable with his students, and whose tone speaks of a sureness of surgeon excising a tumor, and whose endings bring relief that somehow, his suspense has abated, although a certain panic remains with the great possibilities of his scientific, oftentimes, challenging theories about life and the world.

He will be sorely missed, a great man, writer, director, doctor, scientist. Heaven has now a splendid and great novelist among the ranks of the saints.

Farewell, Doc, Godspeed.

“I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany: I’m A Teenager Again!

VIDEO AND MUSIC/CLICK HERE ;) I’ve posted the lyrics below! Lol…

The song has a real upbeat mood to it, and it can dispel any bad tempers started early in the morning, for me, it can be the ultimate, ‘go out there and fall in love’ anthem.

The beat of the song is like an excited heartbeat of an infatuated teenager, while the crescendo of the synthesizers sonically describes the climax of the embrace both young lovers must have surely enjoyed and shared without any future gloom of separation and disillusionment. You can say it is the soundtrack of the purest feeling of attraction and physical excitement between kids thinking nothing except each other and the love only they themselves believe in and give life to.

I first heard it when I was in grade school but I swear I felt like a heart-struck adolescent at the time.

Tiffany’s was one of the most beautiful American voices I’ve heard in a pop song, so upbeat, so positive, it’s like she’s encouraging couples to fall in love, so much so that regrets seem like lifetimes away, and the recall of that moment upon hearing this song again, of that moment together alone, will bring a happy tear eclipsing all present melancholy.

Upon hearing it again, I’m a teenager again, and so I hope, so will you. Time to fall in love again with LIFE!

I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW

Children behave
That’s what they say when we’re together
And watch how you play
They don’t understand and so we’re

Runnin’ just as fast as we can
Holdin’ on to one another’s hand
Tryin’ to get away into the night
And then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground
And then you say

I think we’re alone now
There doesn’t seem to be anyone around
I think we’re alone now
The beating of our hearts
is the only sound

Look at the way
We gotta hide what we’re doing
‘Cause what would they say
If they ever knew and so we’re

Runnin’ just as fast as we can
Holdin’ on to one another’s hand
Tryin’ to get away into the night
And then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground
And then you say

I think we’re alone now
There doesn’t seem to be anyone around
I think we’re alone now
The beating of our hearts
is the only sound

I think we’re alone now
There doesn’t seem to be anyone around
I think we’re alone now
The beating of our hearts
is the only sound

Runnin’ just as fast as we can
Holdin’ on to one another’s hand
Tryin’ to get away into the night
And then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground
And then you say

I think we’re alone now
There doesn’t seem to be anyone around
I think we’re alone now
The beating of our hearts is the only sound