1960 Medical batch, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

how-to-escape-from-a-car-window-thanks-to-physics

http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-how-to-escape-from-a-car-window-thanks-to-physics

Friday, November 13, 2015

Annie's Song

John Denver - Annie´s Song

https://youtu.be/HkGS263lGsQ

Annies Song with Lyrics John Denver 3d BEAUTIFUL :)

https://youtu.be/3091MHksLM4

Andre Rieu - Annie's Song 2009

https://youtu.be/HkGS263lGsQ

From Wikipaedia

Background[edit]

"Annie's Song" was written as an ode to Denver's wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver. Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.^[3]^[4] Annie Denver recalls the beginnings: "It was written after John and I had gone through a pretty intense time together and things were pretty good for us. He left to go skiing and he got on the Ajax chair on Aspen mountain and the song just came to him. He skied down and came home and wrote it down... Initially it was a love song and it was given to me through him, and yet for him it became a bit like a prayer."

"The first time I heard 'Annie's Song,' I told John it had the same melody as Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Second Movement," says Milt Okun. "He walked over to the piano, sat for an hour and came back, and the only thing remaining from Tchaikovsky was the first five notes. It was fantastic."^[5]

Lyrics

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Come, let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come, let me love you
Come love me again

Let me give my life to you
Come, let me love you
Come love me again

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Songwriters
DENVER, JOHN

Published by
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Stairway paintings

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

Abandoning the flat canvas of buildings, some street artists take to the stairs, transforming them into magnificent works of urban art. It doesn't matter whether it's with paint, plants, mosaics or wallpapers – the end goal is beauty, shared and enjoyed by all. This phenomenon is not a localized one and is happening all around the world. These are 20 of the world's most stunning stairs:

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