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"Where’d You Go?"

Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.

She said "Some days I feel like shit,
Some days I wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit,"
I don’t understand why you have to always be gone,
I get along but the trips always feel so long,
And, I find myself trying to stay by the phone,
‘Cause your voice always helps me to not feel so alone,
But I feel like an idiot, workin’ my day around the call,
But when I pick up I don’t have much to say,
So, I want you to know it’s a little fucked up,
That I’m stuck here waitin’, at times debatin’,
Tellin’ you that I’ve had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where’d you go?"

I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.
Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone,
Please come back home…

You know the place where you used to live,
Used to barbecue up burgers and ribs,
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile,
But now, you only stop by every once and a while,
Shit, I find myself just fillin’ my time,
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind,
I’m doin’ fine, I plan to keep it that way,
You can call me if you find that you have something to say,
And I’ll tell you, I want you to know it’s a little fucked up,
That I’m stuck here waitin’, at times debatin’,
Tellin’ you that I’ve had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where’d you go?"

I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.
Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone,
Please come back home…

I want you to know it’s a little fucked up,
That I’m stuck here waitin’, no longer debatin’,
Tired of sittin’ and hatin’ and makin’ these excuses,
For why you’re not around, and feeling so useless,
It seems one thing has been true all along,
You don’t really know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,
I guess I’ve had it with you and your career,
When you come back I won’t be here and you can sing it…

Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.
Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone,
Please come back home…
Please come back home…
Please come back home…
Please come back home…
Please come back home…

Broad availability of the Windows Vista client
operating system has been pushed back to next year, according to Jim
Allchin, Microsoft’s co-president of the Platform and Services Division.

Microsoft does, however, plan to release Vista
to business partners through its volume licensing program in November
2006, Allchin said in a conference call today. This will enable those
partners to begin deploying the OS throughout their businesses.

Microsoft also intends to release all six of
Vista’s core editions to manufacturing at the same time in November,
Allchin said. But PCs with the consumer versions preinstalled won’t go
on sale until January.

The consumer editions of Vista, which Allchin
said have not changed, are Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home
Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Ultimate. The
business editions–Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista
Enterprise–will be available through volume licensing in November.

Microsoft said that Vista’s delay won’t affect
the release of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP in the second half of
the year. IE 7 will ship as a feature of Vista, and Microsoft had
previously said that the version of IE 7 for XP would be released at
the same time as the new OS.

Allchin would not give specific reasons for
Vista’s delay, but he said that it involves a quality issue and that
partners had requested the delay. He said that the partners wanted
Microsoft to provide them with a clear date for release because
Microsoft seemed unlikely to have the OS ready in time for them to ship
it on hardware by late November. That is when the busy U.S. Christmas
holiday buying season begins; Microsoft had originally targeted that
time for the release of Vista PCs.

"We’re just trying to be responsive to their
concerns and also be forthright about where we are in terms of being a
few weeks late for quality," Allchin said.

But at least one analyst suggested that
Microsoft should be worried, since the delay will have a major affect
on Microsoft’s entire partner ecosystem.

"They will miss out on the lucrative holiday
season, and this move will definitely slow down growth in the PC
industry," said Sam Bhavnani, a principal analyst with Current
Analysis, via e-mail. "The impact is far reaching and will have a
significant impact on computer manufacturers, resellers and ingredient
players."

In an interview in January,
Allchin had said that he would delay releasing Vista if the OS did not
reach a standard of quality that he was comfortable with. In today’s
conference call, he said that Microsoft wanted to give customers a firm
date for when the company could deliver Vista broadly, and so the
company decided to push the release back to January of next year.

Microsoft said that it is not concerned about
rival Apple Computer capitalizing on Vista’s delay. The company thinks
that customers will still buy Vista simply because of the rich features
it will provide.

Wall Street reacted negatively to the news, as
shares of Microsoft and hardware partners Dell and Hewlett-Packard
slipped in after-hours trading Tuesday.

Financial analysts noted that the news will
force hardware partners that were expecting a holiday surge from Vista
PC sales to revise their financial expectations.

Microsoft is on target to release another Community Technology Preview
of Vista by the end of June, completing the Beta 2 process of the OS,
Allchin said. At this point, Vista is already feature-complete, and any
tweaks made to the OS before its final release will be for quality, he
said.

"It’s not new work that we’re adding," Allchin
said. "It’s simply…[work in] continuing to make this the most safe
and secure system that’s ever been."

I’m searching for some stuff when I came across this white envelope. It has my name on it. Upon opening , I saw the AGS logo with the heading "AGS Junior-Senior Sending Off Banquet". I said "wow, I never thought of seeing this card in here". The card looks brand new, it seems that it was handed to me yesterday. No sign of wear and tear, no scratches and bent edges. Seeing this once again made me reminisce the JS Prom during high school years.

I have some images of the invitational card, click the links to see them:

Front
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/282299/front_ags.jpg
Inside
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/282299/open_ags.jpg
Back
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/282299/back_ags.jpg

Nang minsan ay
Naranasan ko ang mag-isa
Pilit ko na limutin
Ang tulad niya
Na dati ay mahal na mahal
Nakita ka
At nasabi kong ikaw na nga
Ang hinahanap at
Dinarasal
Na makapiling ko

Ngayo’y naririto
Isang katulad mo
Na sa akin ay nagmamahal
Ng buong tapat
Nangakong akin lamang
Pag-ibig na wagas
Ang siyang naramdaman
Yan ay nagmumula sayo
Sa puso ko at kapwa ay
Hindi magbabago

Nakita ka
At nasabi kong ikaw na nga
Ang hinahanap at
Dinarasal
Na makapiling ko

Ngayo’y naririto
Isang katulad mo
Na sa akin ay nagmamahal
Ng buong tapat
Nangakong akin lamang
Pag-ibig na wagas
Ang siyang naramdaman
Yan ay nagmumula sayo
Sa puso ko at kapwa ay
Hindi magbabago

Ngayo’y naririto
Isang katulad mo
Na sa akin ay nagmamahal
Ng buong tapat
Nangakong akin lamang
Pag-ibig na wagas
Ang siyang naramdaman
Yan ay nagmumula sayo
Sa puso ko at kapwa ay
Hindi magbabago