can I do this one next then - it usually goes down pretty well at parties
The Beatles - Revolution
You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out Don't you know it's gonna be all right all right, all right
You say you got a real solution Well, you know We'd all love to see the plan You ask me for a contribution Well, you know We're doing what we can But when you want money for people with minds that hate All I can tell is brother you have to wait Don't you know it's gonna be all right all right, all right Ah
ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
You say you'll change the constitution Well, you know We all want to change your head You tell me it's the institution Well, you know You better free you mind instead But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow Don't you know it's gonna be all right all right, all right all right, all right, all right all right, all right, all right
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps Lyrics print version
I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold you love I don't know how someone controlled you they bought and sold you
I look at the world and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted you were perverted too I don't know how you were inverted no one alerted you
I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at you all Still my guitar gently weeps
No idea Gilly but I hope China will put pressure on them - the Chinese want good publicity cos of the Olympics next year and China do lots of trade with that counrty - i just dont know but last time they massacred 3000 or so people
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations expressed ``revulsion'' at the violence in Myanmar and told the junta ``to exercise utmost restraint and seek a political solution.'' Demonstrations against the junta were seen in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and elsewhere.
Southeast Asian envoys were told by Myanmar authorities Friday that a no-go zone had been declared around five key Buddhist monasteries, one diplomat said, raising fears of a repeat of 1988, when troops gunned down thousands of peaceful demonstrators and imprisoned the survivors.
Gates were locked and key intersections near monasteries in Yangon and the second-largest city of Mandalay were sealed off with barbed wire, and there was no sign of monks in the streets.
``We were told security forces had the monks under control'' and will now turn their attention to civilian protesters, the Asian diplomat said on condition of anonymity, citing protocol.
The government's apparent decision to cut public Internet access - which has played a crucial role in getting news and images of the pro-democracy protests to the outside world - also raised concerns.
Thursday was the most violent day in more than a month of protests - which at their height have brought an estimated 70,000 demonstrators to the streets. Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting ``Give us freedom, give us freedom!''
Truckloads of troops in riot gear raided Buddhist monasteries on the outskirts of Yangon, beating and arresting dozens of monks, witnesses and Western diplomats said.
``I really hate the government. They arrest the monks while they are sleeping,'' said a 30-year-old service worker who saw some of the confrontations from his workplace. ``These monks haven't done anything except meditating and praying and helping people.''
The United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, was heading to the country to promote a political solution and could arrive as early as Saturday, one Western diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
Though some analysts said negotiations were unlikely, the diplomat said the decision to let Gambari in ``means they may see a role for him and the United Nations in mediating dialogue with the opposition and its leaders.''
The protesters won support from countrymen abroad as more than 2,000 Myanmar immigrants rallied peacefully in Malaysia and smaller demonstrations against the junta took place in Thailand, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.
China, Myanmar's largest trading partner, for months quietly counseled the regime to speed up long-stalled political reforms. Some analysts say Beijing would hate to be viewed as party to a bloodbath as it prepares for the 2008 Olympics.
``China hopes that all parties in Myanmar exercise restraint and properly handle the current issue so as to ensure the situation there does not escalate and get complicated,'' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in Beijing Thursday.
But every other time the regime has been challenged, it has responded with force.
``Judging from the nature and habit of the Myanmar military, they will not allow the monks or activists to topple them,'' said Chaiyachoke Julsiriwong, a Myanmar scholar at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's generals appeared to have cut public Internet access on Friday to prevent more videos, photographs and information getting out about their crackdown on the biggest protests against military rule in nearly 20 years.
Internet cafes were closed and the help desk at the main Internet service provider did not answer its telephones to explain why there was no access.
Citizen reporters have been at the forefront in informing the world of the protests against 45 years of military rule and declining living standards in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
They have even used the social networking site Facebook or hidden news in e-greetings cards. Networks of reporters for dissident news organisations have used the Internet to get stories and pictures out.
Correspondents who covered the last major uprising in Myanmar, in 1988, when the army killed an estimated 3,000 people, said a communications blackout was to be expected but would not stop the information flow.
"It may very well happen. It will just be a sudden shutdown," said British journalist Dominic Faulder who was based in Bangkok during the 1988 uprising.
The widespread use of modern technology by protesters and dissident news networks is in stark contrast to 19 years ago, when reports of massive casualties from soldiers shooting into the crowds took days to leak out.
"They're going to delay the message, but they're not going to stop it. This time, there will be more pictures and they will come out," Faulder said.
Dramatic footage and pictures of a Japanese photographer being shot dead and soldiers marching through the streets, rifles at the ready, have been a major factor in the current worldwide outrage and desperate diplomatic clamour for restraint.
Dusty, I so feel for you but know you will bounce back in no time and will have learned a very valuable lesson
Reading this reminded me of a woman I chatted to on another site a couple of years back, she was from the states, met a guy from england, they mailed and chatted on the fone for about 4 months - she sold her house and flew over here to meet him at the airport and start a wonderful new life together - the so and so didnt show up !!!!
trish123 Forum Posts (13,724)
is ok though cos we can keep hold of our bottles - are you in Lorraine ? 
What are you having to drink ? Good to meet you 
RE: it's party time
coming up - here i will leave you this bottle