Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:17 AM CST
a million dollar question. .
people talk about love. to love ... to be loved... being in love... falling in, falling out... wow.
the big question is 'what is love ?'
obviously there are many kinds of love - parental, filial, selfish. anyhow, personally i think 'love is never having to say you're sorry'. that i think encompasses everything. yet to err is so human. i know, to forgive is divine, but to apologise is humble, honorable and if genuine, gives a cleansing feeling. full circle.
but i think the million dollar question is:
which would you rather: to love and to lose, or never having loved at all ?
many times i think the former. many other times i feel it is best the latter.
your views are most welcome.
peace.
xx virgosign
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:29 PM CST
please ...
bear with me. I need to blog this. we buried my cousin Sonny yesterday. RIP mate. and i wrote a poem too, of course dedicated to Sonny. came out quite spontaniously too. the only thing is that when i finished it, i pressed the 'wrong button'. stupid i know, but there you are. poem's gone. and i could not just rewrite it. it was gone. erased from my pc screen. and gone from my mind.
i tried to compose it again and again, but the harder i tried, the worse it became. writer's block ? anyway i couldn't. pity.
it was a lovely poem, full of life, with a message to live for today. forget the yesterdays. forget the bad days. rememeber and thank the Lord for the good ones. and not to think too much about tomorrow. tomorrow would take care of itself, when it becomes a 'today'.
yes it was a lovely poem, and in reality i should take on my own advice. i have written a few others ofcourse, but this one i lost was a special dedication, spontaneous and from the heart. sorry Sonny. but, in your remembrance i'm writing this blog. no big deal i know, but under the circumstances, it's the best i can do. sorry to see you go. sad that you passed. know however that many many many shed tears yesterday. yes we'll miss you. rest in peace, my friend.
at least let me 'read you' one i had written some weeks ago.
with eyes closed wide, i now can be….
with eyes wide shut
i see you clearly,
traipsing on a wisp
calling me.
i do,
i follow you
into a land of fairies
with song, and joy, and rainbows.
but its not real.
t’is not my world.
it's really only
imagination.
beautiful creature
winged, light,
a sightly delight
opened my eyes.
in the midst
of the darkest night
with eyes closed wide
i now can see……
and be
me.
and you, who is reading this, and i hope it give you (even fleetingly) a good feeling. thanks 
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:54 AM CST
Pong in '69
From MSN Features 26.08.2009
Pong WAS the first video game
True hardcore gamers will know that Pong was not the first video game, simply the first to gain widespread fame.
This simple tennis title was revealed to the world on November 29, 1972, but a full year earlier the little known 'Computer Space' had become the first video game released.
That was, however, rock hard to play, and is the reason why most recognise the more playable, more popular Pong as the genesis of video gaming.
Not exactly true !
I remember specifically playing "pong" in the summer of '69. My father at the time was stationed in Mulheim an de Ruhr as part of the Malta 1st Regiment Royal Malta Artillery. My mother and 2 kid sisters went too, but my brother and myself were left in Malta with an aunt to finish the scholastic year and in my case take some GCE 'O' levels.
We did get to visit Germany that summer experiencing many wonderful things along the way - my first flight, Heathrow, a BAC 111 to Duesseldorf, drip dry nylon shirts, Bayern Munich FC, those adorable german garden gnomes - die mainzelmaennchen, the zoo, skyscrapers and BMW.
But I remember distinctly in the officers' mess, a sort of squarish coffee table, with an embedded TV screen together with a power switch and 2 knobs. Push the power switch and the screen comes on - a greyish background. Wait about half a minute and the perimiter lines, together with 2 x1" lines, one on each side of the screen (the bats), and a small cube (depicting the ball !) basically floating along the whole playing area of the screen appear. You didn't even need any money as there weren't any moneyslots. Pong it was, and it was playable for free.
That was 1969 and at least 3 years prior to it being acknowledged as the first computer game. How could I ever forget, I turned 15 that summer and Pong was there !