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Have you seen a white elephant?

Have you encountered a paper tiger?

Have you participated in a (the) rat race?

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White elephant noun [C]

Meaning: something that is completely useless, although it may have cost a lot of money

Ex: When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.

- LDCE, pg 2198

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Paper tiger noun [C]

Meaning: an enemy or opponent who seems powerful but actually is not

- LDCE, pg 1390

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Rat race noun the rat race

Meaning: the unpleasant situation experienced by people working in big cities, when they continuously compete for success and have a lot of stress in their lives

Ex: get out of/quit the rat race the story of a couple who quit the rat race

- LDCE, pg 1586

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Songs Are Forever

Editing on going....

So you're hearing old and new songs over the radio, huh?
Songs are forever.  Walang lumang kanta.
If you're not a music lover leave this post.

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Legend:        - Song Title

                     - Artist/s

Songs are arranged in alphabetical order.

• Africa - Toto and Fight For You - Jason Derulo
• And I Love You So - Perry Como/Regine Velasquez/Don McLean/Richard Poon
• A Very Special Love  Maureen McGovern/Sarah Geronimo
• Down Town - Petula Clark/Emma Bunton
• Getting To Know Each Other - Gerard Kenny/Ariel Rivera
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones/Britney Spears
• I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith/Regine Velasquez/Jessica Sanchez
• I'll Never Go - NexxusEric Santos/David Archuleta
• Just When I needed You Most - Randy Van Warmer/Dolly Parton/Alison Kraus
• Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney/Guns 'N Roses
• Perhaps Love - John Denver/Jose Mari Chan and Liza Chan
• Photograph - --- /Ariel Rivera
• Someday We'll Know - New Radicals/Mandy Moore and 
• Time Of My Life - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes and The Time (Dirty Bit) - Black Eyed Peas
• When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Kraus/Ronan Keating
• Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley/The Lizards Convention
• You Changed My Life In A Moment - --- /Sarah Geronimo
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Ang Mga Babaeng May Crush Sa 'kin

You need an enormous amount of sense of humor to understand what I mean when I say
"Ang mga babaeng may crush sa 'kin."
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Liv Tyler

(Images from the movies The Lord of the Rings and Armagedon)
  

                                     - wallpaperno.com                          - movies.about.com            - cineplex.com                                                                

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Leelee Sobieski

(Images from the movie Joy Ride)
 
- kootation.com                                   - teenidols4you.com


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Keira Knightly

(Image from the movie Pride and Prejudice; Google Images)
 

                                  - footnotesfromhistory.blogspot.com                   - kootation.com

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Shu Qi

(Images from the movie So Close)
 
 - hkcinemagic.com 

 

                    - allmovie.com                                 - shuqi.org

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Maja Salvador

 

                                                  - healthtoday.net       - orangemagazinetv.com

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Gwen zamora

 

                                                   - showbiz-portal.com    - banderablogs.wordpress.com

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Chanel Morales

 
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Apl.de.ap & Jessica Sanchez, will.i.am & Britney Spears, Pitbull & Christina Aguilera

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The Favourite Poems

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Some of my favorite poems.

O Captain! My Captain

Walt Whitman

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;

The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;

Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills; 10

For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;

The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;

From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

- PoemHunter.com

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove

That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,

Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon rocks,

Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow rivers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant poises,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,

With coral clasps and amber studs;

And if these pleasures may thee move,

Come live with me, and be my love.

The shepherds's swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my love.

- PoemHunter.com

The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd

Sir Walter Raleigh

If all the world and love were young,

And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue,

These pretty pleasures might me move,

To live with thee, and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold,

When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold,

And Philomel becometh dumb,

The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,

To wayward winter reckoning yields,

A honey tongue, a heart of gall,

Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of Roses,

Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies

Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten:

In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds,

The Coral clasps and amber studs,

All these in me no means can move

To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last, and love still breed,

Had joys no date, nor age no need,

Then these delights my mind might move

To live with thee, and be thy love.

- PoemHunter.com

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

- PoemHunter.com

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