Thursday, November 30, 2006

Johnny Mathis : Magic Lyrics

These lyrics are magic - do watch the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvwVZJIru1k

A Time for Us (Love theme from Romeo and Juliet)
- Artist: Johnny Mathis
- peak Billboard position # 96 in 1969
- competing instrumental version by Henry Mancini charted at # 1
- from the 1968 film produced by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey
- Words by Larry Kusik and Eddie Snyder and Music by Nino Rota


A time for us, some day there'll be
When chains are torn by courage born of a love that's free
A time when dreams so long denied can flourish
As we unveil the love we now must hide

A time for us, at last to see
A life worthwhile for you and me

And with our love, through tears and thorns
We will endure as we pass surely through every storm
A time for us, some day there'll be a new world
A world of shining hope for you and me

For you and me

And with our love, through tears and thorns
We will endure as we pass surely through every storm
A time for us, some day there'll be a new world
A world of shining hope for you and me

A world of shining hope for you and me



Wednesday, November 29, 2006

A Time for Us

I was just sighing, thinking about yet another day wasted billing at £150 an hour for 7 hours, when I came upon this most wondorous of violin masterpieces -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHOF7Av6Ks

The is adapted from the love theme for the enchanting 1969 film 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Youtube, yet another wonderful creation of mankind opened my eyes to this jewel of a video.

I suggest that anyone who feels that this world is rapidly degenerating into materialistic hedonism, should watch this refreshingly soulful video.

If your heart pines for more, then watch the piano arrangement by the genius Nino Rota -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpGNKVv2umA

Oh - Bless the soul who pines so
That his breath escapes and flies freely away
From his mortal body, leaving
But a trace of his mere wounded self behind

God bless

Project, Systems Development Methodology

I was working on a client requirement today and the question of the exact difference between project management methodology and systems development methodology came up. Be it for an advisory or an audit project, we normally tend to talk of both in the same breath, sometimes even blurring the lines between the two.

Will try during these ramblings to highlight a few differences and also de-mystify some new jargon in the process -

I had occassion to look at the MSF model for CMMI process improvement which does Agile development...

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

My rose pines for me

My lovely rose pines for me
As would a thrush for the evensong
Her smile so beautiful that I wish to see
But a reflection of her in the sun kissed clouds above

I am back in England again, as winter sets in and the migratory birds fly off to warmer climes, I am exiled to this bleak dreary land, where the sun rises at 8 and sets at 4. More painful to me this time, is this journey because of my heart I can feel no sign, having left it back to pine in my own land.