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featuring gregory and virginie.

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sakura (or an attempt to write in proper tagalog)

mahal kong sakura,

alam kong bago ka pa lang sa mundong ito. posibleng magkaedad lang tayo o mas nakakatanda ka sa akin ng ilang taon. pero alam ko rin na dati rati pa, mula nang tinayo ang pasyalang ito, lagi nang may nakatanim na sakura dito. pinapasapasa ba nang nakaraang henerasyon ang kanilang mga ala-ala sa inyo? kung ganon, nais ko sanang malaman - ilang beses mo bang nakita si jose rizal na dumaan sa ilalim ng iyong lilim? ilang beses ba syang tumingala at pumuna sa iyong ganda? talaga bang kasing-tapang at kasing-galing sya tulad nang sinasabi ng mga libro? ilang babae ba ang namasdan mong kasama nya, hawak-hawak ang kanyang braso? ilang gabi mo ba sya nakitang naglalakad pauwi kasama ang mga kaibigan? sabi ng mga libro hindi naman daw kagwapuhan si rizal, pero sa tingin mo kung nagkita kami, magugustuhan ko kaya sya? magustuhan nya kaya ako? :P mabuti ba syang tao? sa tingin mo, maging kasing-galing din kaya ako tulad nya? gusto ko sanang malaman kung paano mag-isip ang isang taong tulad nya. kung sana lang maka-usap mo ako.

(cherry blossoms near frans anneessens' commemorative statue a few meters from where jose rizal stayed while in brussels)

only you

Soundcloud: Only You

C                        C/B            Am
looking from the window of above
              Am/G     F      
its like a story of love
             C      G
can you hear me?
C                       C/B     Am
came back only yesterday
             Am/G   F
moving farther away
               C      G
want you near me


chorus
F                                  G
    all i needed was the love you gave
C         C/B             Am      Am/G
    all i needed for another day
F                   G    (single stroke)
and all i ever knew
              C
only you


C                          C/B              Am
sometimes when i think of her name
              Am/G  F
when its only a game
         C      G
and i need you
C                 C/B                   Am
listen to the words that you say
           Am/G      F
gettin' harder to stay
           C    G
when i see you


chorus

(instrumental)

chorus

C                   C/B            Am
this is gonna take a long time
         Am/G             F
and i wonder whats mine
               C   G
cant take no more
C                      C/B   Am
wonder if youll understand
                 Am/G             F
its just the touch of your hand
            C         G
behind closed door

chorus

death by GaAs

on friday afternoons from 1 to 5 i have a class under prof. vounckx on the physics of semiconductor technologies and devices. as you can well understand it's not quite the ideal time to have such an extremely long class - sunny friday afternoons spent in the basement of building k! gah! which is probably why the professor has been making an effort to make classes enjoyable on top of the fact that he has to make manufacturing of microchips sound interesting.

he's been making a lot of jokes in class but the one i found really funny by far was his idea on an agatha christie-ish murder plot by using gallium arsenide chips to execute a murder. the topic of that class was about how to make a doped layer on a GaAs substrate. one could grow layers by either of the three processes: buried layer diffusion, epitaxy, or ion implantation. of the three, you could only grow a layer on a GaAs substrate by epitaxy because the other two (both for diffusion and the annealing step of the ion implantation process) would require very high temperatures (about 1000 degree celcius). of course we don't want very high temperatures when processing GaAs since arsenic would out-diffuse at high temperatures and, as we all know, arsenic is a very poisonous substance.

soooo that's the joke, na-explain ko na. labyu. haha. of course to carry out your murder plan via a GaAs chip you'd need to have a way to heat it to more than 600 degrees to free the arsenic. but let's leave that bit for agatha christie to figure out haha.

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