Eiffel Tower

London!

Root Three

I heard this nice and lame poem in the movie "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay", it's kinda interesting: who knew mathematics could be this romantic after all!

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I fear that I will always be
A lonely number like root 3
A 3 is all that's good and right
Why must my 3 keep out of sight
Beneath a vicious square-root sign?
I wish instead I were a 9
For 9 could thwart this evil trick
With just some quick arithmetic
I know I'll never see the sun
As 1.7321


Such is my reality
A sad irrationality
When, hark, just what is this I see?
Another square root of a 3
Has quietly come waltzing by
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
And with a wave of magic wands
Our square-root signs become unglued
And love for me has been renewed

Fly...

Personally I'm not a Celine Dion's fan but there is something about this song, (fly) it just moves me.

I dedicate this song to a dear friend of mine:

Hope she finds joy and happiness outside this lonely world of mine!

Fly by Celine Dion >>> Listen

Here are the lyrics:

Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven's love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again

Fly, fly precious one
Your endless journey has begun
Take your gentle happiness
Far too beautiful for this
Cross over to the other shore
There is peace forevermore
But hold this mem'ry bittersweet
Until we meet

Fly, fly do not fear
Don't waste a breath, don't shed a tear
Your heart is pure, your soul is free
Be on your way, don't wait for me
Above the universe you'll climb
On beyond the hands of time
The moon will rise, the sun will set
But I won't forget

Fly, fly little wing
Fly where only angels sing
Fly away, the time is right
Go now, find the light

Download the song here

Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple)

"Liberty Leading the People" is probably Eugène Delacroix's best known painting.
It's painted on 28 July 1830, to commemorate the July Revolution that had just brought Louis-Philippe to the French throne.

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It is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty and freedom. Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty. The soldiers lying dead in the foreground offer poignant counterpoint to the symbolic female figure, who is illuminated triumphantly, as if in a spotlight.
It shows the allegorical figure of Liberty as a half-draped woman wearing the traditional Phrygian cap of liberty and holding a gun in one hand and the tricolor in the other. It is strikingly realistic; Delacroix, the young man in the painting wearing the opera hat, was present on the barricades in July 1830. Allegory helps achieve universality in the painting: Liberty is not a woman; she is an abstract force.

The French government bought the painting but officials deemed its glorification of liberty too inflammatory and removed it from public view.
The boy holding a gun up on the right is sometimes thought to be an inspiration of the Gavroche character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel.

It's said to be Delacroix's most influential work, which for choice of subject and technique highlights the differences between the romantic approach and the neoclassical style.
Well, it's definitely one of my favorites!

Carlos Santana

These are my 5 favorites of Carlos Santana's songs.
Hope you like them as well...
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1) Europa [Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile]
2) I love you too much
3) Into The Night [Ft. Chad Kroeger]
4) Maria Maria [Ft. Product G And B]
5) This Boy's Fire [Ft. Jennifer Lopez And Baby Bash]

enjoy!

SOME PEOPLE

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go... Some stay for a while and embrace our silent dreams.
They help us become aware of the delicate winds of hope... and we discover within every human spirit there are wings yearning to fly.
They help our hearts to see that the only stairway to the stars is woven with dreams... and we find ourselves unafraid to reach high.
They celebrate the true essence of who we are... and have faith in all that we may become.
Some people awaken us to new and deeper realizations... for we gain insight from the passing whisper of their wisdom
Throughout our lives we are sent precious souls... meant to share our journey however brief or lasting their stay they remind us why we are here.
To learn... to teach... to nurture... to love
Some people come into our lives to cast a steady light upon our path and guide our every step their shining belief in us helps us to believe in ourselves.
Some people come into our lives to teach us about love...The love that rests within ourselves.
Let us reach out to others and feel the bliss of giving for love is far richer in action that it ever is in words.
Some people come into our lives and they move our souls to sing and make our spirits dance.
They help us to see that everything on earth is part of the incredibility of life... and that it is always there for us to take of its joy.
Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

~~by Flavia Weedn~~