Monday, December 23, 2013

Tessitura ~ Comfortable Vocal Range

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Jo
D above Middle-C to 1st C above Middle C

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Mine
A below Middle-C to the first C# (or Db) above Middle C

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

GIF ~ Just a Dog counting his Money ~ It ain't much

It ain't much...

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GIF
~ Just a Dog counting his Money
~ It ain't much


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Chemo Therapy Pills & Drips

Latest info at the top.
To read from bottom-up.

to read about my 3 months of recovery, click this LINK

So glad it's over.I normally have no problems at all swallow pills, 
BUT I found it so difficult to swallow these.. Chemo Pills (Capecitabine).

Sorry, I haven't updated Cycle 6 and Cycle 7. 
The info of the image below went haywire after delays totaling 
1 week and 1 month due to the Low White Blood counts.
This explains why it all ended at...
2014 Apr 04, Fri Morning at 07:17 hrs.

I was also due for the Chemo Therapy (Drips), but 
due to this same blood test, it is found that I was 
NOT Suitable for Chemo Therapy (Drips) as the 
Chemo Therapy (Pills) was already too strong for me.

to have a look at the Pills just click this LINK...

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Update
2014 Apr 08, Tuesday

Cycle 8
1,650g = [500mg x 3] + [150mg x 1]
~ Chemo Dosage [3 Big + 1 small]
~ starts [2014 Mar 21, Fri Night] to [2014 Apr 04, Fri Morning at 07:17 hrs].

Cycle 7
~ missing due to delay of 1 month.

Cycle 6
~ missing due to delay of 1 week.

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Update
2014 Jan 29, Thursday

Cycle 5
1,650g = [500mg x 3] + [150mg x 1]
~ Chemo Dosage [3 Big + 1 small]
~ starts [2014 Jan 13, Mon Night] to [2014 Jan 27, Mon Morning].
Chemo Holiday 5
~ starts [2014 Jan 27, Mon Night] to [2014 Feb 03, Mon Morning]

Cycle 4
~ 1,800g = [500mg x 3] + [150mg x 2]
~ starts [2013 Dec 09, Mon Night] to [2013 Dec 23, Mon Morning
Dosage was still too strong for me, and this time my Blood Pressure was to high to continue. So therefore, my 1 week Chemo Holiday was extended to 3 weeks. 
Chemo Holiday 4
~ starts [2014 Dec 23, Mon Night] to [2014 Jan 13, Mon Morning]. 
This was good from the perspective of enjoying my Christmas Holidays for 3 weeks.

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First Post
2013 Dec 19, Thursday

I've decided to map out my Chemo Therapy (Pills) now while I am in Cycle 4 as it looks stable.

I have to complete a total of 8 Cycles, where each Cycle is 3 Weeks = 2 Weeks of Pills + 1 Week of Chemo Holiday (NO Pills).

After Cycle 1, I had to wait 4 days before I resume Cycle 2. This is due to the dosage being too strong for me in Cycle 1 (4 big pills 2 times per day, which is 2,000g = 500mg x 4 of Capecitabine per dosage, 2 times per day). This was determine in my Blood Test where my White Blood Cells were too low. The White Blood Cells protects us from infection. My dosage in Cycle 2 was 3 big pills plus 2 small pills, 2 times per day, which is 1,800g = [500mg x 3] + [150mg x 2] of Capecitabine per dosage, 2 times per day.

I was also due for the Chemo Therapy (Drips), but due to this same blood test, it is found that I was NOT Suitable for it as the Chemo Therapy (Pills) was already too strong for me.

Click to enlarge.
(Note: 
this was the original plan, BUT 
this image is inaccurate due t
delays in Cycle 5 & Cycle 6, 
totaling 1 week and 1 month due 
to the Low White Blood counts.

Started Cycle 1 on 2014 Oct 02 (Wed)
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Photo Editing ~ How To Put Hair On Your Head

I like the colors of this Picture so much that I had to do some editing.

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After Editing using Paint Brush:

The closing of the Red Sea.
(in reference to the wide parting of baldness on my head)



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Original Photo Before Editing:

Hahah! My hair parting getting wider... 
like the parting of the Red Sea by Moses.


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Grow Old With Me ~ Poem (& Song) by John Lennon

To my lovely wife.
Merry Christmas!

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This song is
Originally by John Lennon
~ but these Cover Versions are better

Grow Old With Me
~ Cover Version by Glen Campbell


Grow Old With Me
~ Cover Version by Mary Chapin Carpenter


Can use this as Minus One
Grow Old With Me (John Lennon) ~ Piano Cover by Stephen Cu

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Grow Old With Me
~ Cover by Glen Campbell
~ Original by John Lennon

Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love

Grow old along with me
Two branches of one tree
Face the setting sun
When the day is done
God bless our love
God bless our love

Spending our lives together
Man and wife together
World without end
World without end

Grow old along with me
Whatever fate decrees
We will see it through
For our love is true
God bless our love
God bless our love

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"Grow Old with Me" is one of the final songs written by John Lennon. It was recorded by Lennon as a demo while in Bermuda in 1980, and later appeared on the posthumous album, Milk and Honey in 1984. It was also considered as a possible reunion single by his former bandmates during the making of The Beatles Anthology. Since its release, the song has become a staple at wedding ceremonies.

Origins and inspiration

The song was inspired from two different sources: from a poem penned by Robert Browning entitled "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and a song by Lennon's wife Yoko Ono called "Let Me Count the Ways" (which in turn had been inspired from a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning).

Lennon and Ono had for some time admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Browning, and the two songs were purposely written with the couple in mind.

Ono woke up one morning in the summer of 1980 with the music of "Let Me Count the Ways" in her head and promptly rang Lennon in Bermuda to play it for him. Lennon loved the song and Ono then suggested to him that he should write a Robert Browning piece to accompany it. That afternoon, John was watching TV when a film came on which had the poem "Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning in it. Inspired by this turn of events, Lennon wrote "Grow Old With Me" as an answer to Ono's song, and rang her back to play it to her over the phone.[1]

Recording

The two new songs, "Grow Old With Me" and "Let Me Count the Ways" were originally meant for inclusion on the Double Fantasy album. However, Lennon and Ono were working on a tight deadline to get the album finished and released before Christmas, and decided to postpone recording of the song until the following year (1981) for the follow-up album, Milk and Honey. This never happened due to Lennon's murder in December 1980.

Had the song been fully finished and recorded, Lennon and Ono had envisioned it as a "standard, the kind that they would play in church every time a couple gets married, with horns and other arrangements". A few different home recordings of it were made by Lennon and Ono and one of these versions was released on "Milk and Honey". Recorded in the couple's bedroom with a piano and rhythm box, it was the last recording ever made of the song by Lennon.

In 1998, at Ono's request, George Martin created an orchestrated version of the recording, which was released on the John Lennon Anthology box set.

In 2009, an acoustic version and an alternative piano arrangement came to light and now circulate among Lennon collectors.

Attempted Beatles version

In 1994, Yoko gave Paul McCartney some cassettes containing demo recordings of four of John Lennon's unfinished songs: "Grow Old With Me", "Free as a Bird", "Real Love" and "Now and Then". The three remaining Beatles (Paul McCartneyGeorge Harrison and Ringo Starr) did attempt to work on "Grow Old With Me" in a similar way that they had with the other Beatles "reunion" songs. "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" were the only ones completed. They were forced to abandon work on "Grow Old With Me" because Lennon's original demo required too much work to bring it up to the standard needed for an official release.[2] There do exist, however, recorded versions of "Grow Old With Me".

Cover versions

Peter Randall, a Canadian artist, was the first artist known to record a cover version of the song when he recorded and released it on his 1990 album, Better Times. The video received some airplay on Canadian music video channel, Much Music's love segment entitled Mush Music.

Mary Chapin Carpenter recorded a cover version of "Grow Old With Me" on the 1995 album Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon. This version mainly stays true to Lennon's original home recording, featuring just Chapin singing with a piano for most of the song.

Damian Wilson recorded a cover for his 2001 EP, which shares its title with the song and was eventually incorporated into his album Disciple.

In 2005, The Postal Service released an electronica-inspired cover of the song through the Amnesty International's "Make Some Noise" campaign. The song was later released on the 2007 benefit album, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.

In 2008, Glen Campbell released a country version on his album Meet Glen Campbell.

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Sunday, December 08, 2013

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Advice from a Tree

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Advice from a Tree
~ Short and Long Versions
~ To Attach in Email

 


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Advice from a Tree ~ Nice Short Version



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Advice from a Tree ~ Nice LONG Version



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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Owl in Flight

The Graceful Flight of the Owl.

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Owl in Flight

 


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Source Links of these GIFs.
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