Uhm...right...

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Geez...and I thought I'd be Heathers or something.

Shrug.

Well my supposedly last lesson ob for the year for English ain't. It bombed and there's a redo. Maybe I'm not cut out for this sh*t.
This blows. I'm so tired and I'm completely drained.
Tired tired tired.
Drained drained drained.
And totally unmotivated to do any better. I think I've reached the end of my tether.

She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree...

Frank Miller's Sin City trailer is online...Wow. The first 3 minutes of it is worth the download. Drool.
Noir at it's best.

Be still my Soul (Paul Shwartz, Vocals by Lisbeth Scott)

Be still my soul
The Lord is on thy side
Stand calm within the storm of grief and pain
Trust in thy God to order and provide
Through every change His faithful light remains
Be still my soul
The restful peace within
Through trying times leads to a joyful end

Be still my soul
The wind and waves shall know
The voice who ruled them while He dwelt below
Torment and doubt have slipped into the past
All darkened mysteries shall shine at last
His burning sun shall melt the ice of fear
Lift up your heart
His soothing voice to hear

Be still my soul
When light you cannot see
And trembling stars speak to the fear in thee
The face of God illuminates the night
Unending peace and trusting perfect light
Be still my soul
When tears fall from above
You are divine
Eternally in love

From the episode "Reckoning" from the first season of Alias.

This would be one of the funniest things I've read this week.

This comes from the IGN review of Fable. It's an RPG that's relatively broad in terms of things that you can do, one of which is the option to get married. (multiple times if that's your fancy...)

"Again, there are some real problems with the character interaction, just because it does become pedantic quickly, but you can also get some really fantastic responses when you aren't expecting them. My wife caught me hitting on some girls in town and she began cussing them out. I proceeded to give the girls some gifts, which flipped my wife off to no end. I found her later at the bar, drinking herself to the point that she could barely stand, cursing at me in the bar, wondering why she ever married me. A perfect re-creation of my own life. See, your character becomes a true representation of yourself."

Nyuk nyuk...I think that's worth the price of an Xbox and game...

Consuming.

A student that I taught is in hospital today getting chemotherapy for lymphoma. He's going to be in there for 5-6 hours and it's going to be quite a shitty experience to say the least. There are going to be side effects.

So I'm here doing buggerall...

...despite having some catch up work to do. But here I am...the great procrastinator...
The week's been crazy. Mad. Insane. Yet at the same time calming in a real surreal kind of way. I've got it down to September break blues. See, the 1 week break in September was never nor ever will be a break. It's a small floodgate, a thin wall in a dam that's struggling to hold back the tide of insanity. The tide's been building for about 3 terms by now and the week in September is just to let it ebb a little before the madness that is term 4 truly begins.
In the September break, it's a whole week of 'suppose to's. It's supposed to be a week of rest. I didn't rest because I was worried about work. It's supposed to be a week of work. I didn't really work because I wasn't rested. It was like a whirlpool that swirls around and around until it sucks you kicking and screaming into a brand new term...and then your eyeballs fall out of your head.
There's a tension in me and also an inertia...it's weird, like a coiled spring that's so rusted over that when it's released, it just lets out a sigh and creaks before it gives up the ghost.
O well.
I was listening to the commentary track for Hellboy and wow. It's amazing how enthusiastic Del Toro and Mignola (sounds like mignon) are in this DVD. They just about gush over the work and they sound like they're still having fun with this film. Amazing. It's tempting to actually get the DVD and also the director's cut when it's released in November. (Which comes with a new commentary track... coolness...) If any of you haven't realised by this point, I LOVE DVDs.
What prompted this sudden update of my recently neglected blog? Well it's simple really:
I'm sitting here doing buggerall.

Monkees monkees everywhere.

http://www.monkeehub.com

So, I'm a sheep...Baaaa...

Readability report for http://www.empty-vessels.blogspot.com
readability grades:
Kincaid: 7.6
ARI: 8.1
Coleman-Liau: 8.9
Flesch Index: 75.5
Fog Index: 11.0
Lix: 36.7 = school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 9.8
sentence info:
34726 characters
8292 words, average length 4.19 characters = 1.32 syllables
424 sentences, average length 19.6 words
54% (233) short sentences (at most 15 words)
15% (65) long sentences (at least 30 words)
20 paragraphs, average length 21.2 sentences
8% (34) questions
43% (186) passive sentences
longest sent 532 wds at sent 68; shortest sent 1 wds at sent 64
word usage:
verb types:
to be (260) auxiliary (108)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5(412) pronouns 12(1020) prepositions 11(891)
nominalizations 1(75)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (117) interrogative pronoun (14) article (37)
subordinating conjunction (16) conjunction (20) preposition (22)

By the way, this function is available to all offline users through a very simple use of the Microsoft Word Grammar check function. The reason I know this? Setting examination papers.

A Case of Terminal Stupidity.

Well we just got back from watching The Terminal. For a movie that was 2++ hours long, it wasn't a chore to sit through, as some idiot movie reviewer in the Life section of the Straits Times would have you believe.
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. In vintage Spielberg fashion, the story follows the footsteps of an alien, someone who doesn't belong. It works and it works well largely because Tom "good guy" Hanks plays the role perfectly. The premise is simple. A man loses his country because of civil war and is unable to enter America because he neither has a valid visa / passport and cannot return home. The movie follows his life in the terminal as he finds a way to fit in, makes a whole load of friends and falls in love...among many, many things.
The movie's been criticised because people felt that it had great potential to be an allegory for the post 9/11 America and that it should have been more scathing about homeland security and all that schlock. Others say that it was trying to be too many things at once. What was it supposed to be? A romance? A political commentary?
How about this: It was a movie. A well made one...and if certain idiot reviewers could just take the blinders off their eyes for one moment, they'd see that The Terminal was indeed sufficiently allegorical to be an effective political commentary while being a movie that was ultimately about a nice guy. We don't need allegory thrown in our faces. There's a thing called subtlety. Say it with me people...especially Ms Ong at the back, SUBTLETY.
I thought that the Dixon character was quite a good representation of the whole "Homeland Security Act" that's turned the "poor huddled masses" into the security threat that they are today in the dear US of A. One of the most telling lines was the one that basically said that "America was closed". How's that for allegory?
Tucci was superbly casted as Dixon (he seems to thrive in all these roles). CZJones wasn't overexposed in her role and she seemed to fall into place instead of dominating the screen, a fault of her amazonian good looks and overwhelming star presence. She seemed to downplay herself quite well and for a few moments in the movie, we almost forgot that she was Zeta. :) Tom Hanks, a good everyman as always. The first 20 minutes with him running from television set to television set desperate for news of Krakozhia is a tear jerker...very believable and downright heartwrenching. Chi Mcbride, Diego Luna and Kumar Pallana are hilarious as the trio of goofballs who become part of Navorski's life in the terminal.
The story is character driven and because of the great cast, works well. If you want to take it one step further, consider this: The characters in the movie are all representative of one part of America or another. If you try applying that to CZJ's character, you'll see the movie in a rather interesting and whole new light. Think about the phrase she constantly uses over and over...and then see the movie for the beautiful allegory it is.
It would definately earn a "movie to catch" tag in my book for this season. And despite the two plus hour screen time, will not put you to sleep.

Complete Waste of Thyme.

Well, the school holidays are upon us again...and I've completed absolutely nothing in terms of fruitful work. I have, however, managed to receive some rest that has been interrupted by the guilt of not having done anything. I hate term 3.
On to another interesting (read: Pathetic) National Education attempt on the part of the baby desperate Singapore government. It's a nauseatingly bad propaganda video called "Let's make time for our family..."
For those of you who haven't seen it, it's a video that's being shown on channel 5. We caught it on video worming its way in between Witchblade and Gilmore Girls. (A fair choice, considering the family orientedness of the aforementioned GG) It opens with a montage that features families...
"Awwww..." some may say.
"KkkkrrrrPui..." says I.
I haven't seen this much propaganda since National Day...and even then it wasn't as pukeworthy as this. Everybody's playing happy families...PAP rules of course:

There's dad who's taking time to play with his kids even when he's got no paternity leave...It's cool...because dad couldn't possibly be that important to the kids. He's just there to fly a kite with the kid, plus he's the one who donated the sperm...unless it was the newspaper guy who boned his wife while he was at work trying to keep up the living expenses.
There's mom, who's there as a supportive complement to dad. She's happy because she just got one more month to spend with her newborn baby. That's 2 months and 27 days more than dad so she's pretty grateful. She's there because she didn't get rostered to work Saturdays. Good for her. She's also got all these kids because there's a pretty good monetary reward because Junior's the reason why she's got heavy tax relief off a paycheck that doesn't come up to as much as dad's cos she doesn't have a p*n*s.
There's junior...and junior and junior and junior. They seem to be playing happily with a dad they don't see much in the week. They're actually whiling away a weekend trying to forget that there's school on Monday and homework owing. They should have finished it before this to clear the weekend for family day...which they hate anyway, because mom and dad can't make enough time in the week for every one of their needs. They'd rather be with auntie Lisa who they see more every day of the week anyway but she's not in the picture because she's in Lucky Plaza with her real friends.
There's the grandparents who are wondering why the hell they got dragged in to take care of brats who are disrespectful and complete knuckleheads who wouldn't know a top if it walked up to them and smacked them down a bit. They're also wondering why they aren't on vacation in the Bahamas since their own brats have been cursed by the universal mothers' curse. (Just wait till you have your own kids...)

I felt unclean after watching that drivel. Ugh...
Anyways, this post can be chalked up to something I remember from a far side comic: It was late and I was tired.

A Case for Paternity Leave.

Cats In The Cradle
( Harry Chapin )

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, Dad"
"You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon
"When you comin' home, Dad?"
"I don't know when, but we'll get together then"
"You know we'll have a good time then"

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play"
"Can you teach me to throw?"
I said, "Not today, I got a lot to do"
He said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah"
"You know I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon
"When you comin' home, Dad?"
"I don't know when, but we'll get together then"
"You know we'll have a good time then"

Well, he came home from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and then said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys"
"See you later, can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon
"When you comin' home, Son?"
"I don't know when, but we'll get together then"
"You know we'll have a good time then"

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time"
"You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu"
"But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad"
"It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
Yeah, my boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon
"When you comin' home, Son?"
"I don't know when, but we'll get together then"
"You know we'll have a good time then"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon
"When you comin' home, Son?"
"I don't know when, but we'll get together then"
"You know we'll have a good time then"

News in Briefs.

Tidy whities to be precise.

Susan Long hit the nail on the head today in the commentary section of the Straits Times today, managing to bring up an issue that our dear minister of labour (O, the irony) didn't. Paternity leave. Why the hell, if the government is so concerned about family values, is there a lack of support for dads? Are we just the sperm donors who pull out (all pun intended) after the baby's conceived? Are we so secure in the nation of @$$holes that we've created that we're fine with bringing up children without a strong paternal figure in the foreground? There's a reason why the kids that we're churning out in Singapore are mindless, feckless thugs and thugettes and that's because the parents are taken out of the equation too quickly. Dads have been cut completely out (aside from the 3 days that we get to play with the infant for a while...) and damn it, I'm pissed off.
So even the most egalitarian western societies don't have the majority of men taking the paternity leave that's provided for them. But 40% of us (Long, 2004
) would still take it just so that we can enjoy our children or give our wives the support that they need. That's the thing about being "progressive", you leave the choice to us.
I held my colleague's baby the other day for the first time (tentatively and very carefully without feeling the urge to punt it like an American football, a nightmare that I had once...) and I know that if I had a child of my own, I wouldn't want to let it go. 3 days? *Verb* that.
Sue Long provides a whole load of good reasons to actually allow us dads to have paternity leave, but I say this. I want to be a father to my child, not just the dude that delivers the swimmers.

Nepotism.
To this, I'll just quote from politics 101 for Packrats.

"
BARTLET
Never...You bought a new car?

MRS. LANDINGHAM
Yes, sir.

BARTLET
And you paid sticker price.

MRS. LANDINGHAM
Section 2635...

BARTLET
You need to look at the next page - subsection B, paragraph four, Mamie Yokum.

...

BARTLET
[reading] "The definition of 'gift' excludes opportunities and benefits including favorable rates and commercial discounts available to the public at large."

MRS. LANDINGHAM
I did look at the next page.

BARTLET
And?

MRS. LANDINGHAM
[wagging her finger] I work next door to the Oval Office, sir.

Mrs. Landingham walks back behind her desk.

MRS. LANDINGHAM
Caesar's wife must be above reproach.
"
And that's all I have to say about that.

Meanwhile, there are calls on the forum to continue CCAs through Saturdays. Citing the sad lack of time for CCA commitments and all that crap. Meanwhile neither letter addresses the concept of more family time. Are we really ready to sacrifice the kids' family time so that they can spend their Saturdays undergoing facist training programmes? If the kids really don't mind, I don't mind. That's because I'm going to be at home snuggling up to my wife while they're playing mindless automaton. As far as I know, I'm not really required to be there. So to that bloody stupid idea, "*Verb* you!"

And for those who got to the links too late: The following will explain all that.

"Bringing up baby: Why dads can't be left out
By Susan Long

THE men don't get it. This no longer refers only to the new United Overseas Bank Lady's Card; it applies also to the Government's latest basket of baby goodies.

Women, who have been plied with 50 per cent more maternity leave, infant-care subsidies and tax rebates, are cooing over the bells and whistles while many men are up in arms over getting squat. Their loudest cries are over being denied more paternity leave, which stays at the current three days for civil servants.

Mr Peter Lim, 37, has exhausted his annual leave through caring for his month-old newborn son. 'Where's the man in the equation?' he rails.

Since cutting his 3.24kg son's umbilical cord on Aug 10, he has spent his waking hours 'fathering two babies' - pink-cheeked Linus Mark and his ashen-faced wife, who is battling post-natal blues.

The associate director of an accounting firm, and author of Little Miracles - The Journey To Parenthood, is not alone in making his paternity leave plea.

Given half a chance, he says, Singapore fathers would jump at being more involved, judging from the fact that every expectant mother he saw at antenatal classes was accompanied by an eager husband.

But yet to be persuaded to his point of view is the Singapore Government, which sees him as a model, modern - but minority - dad. The Government bases its own point of view on nature, nurture, societal set-up and cultural norms which, it maintains, are not easily changed.

Unfortunately for Mr Lim, reams of statistics support the Government's stance. These show that even in the most egalitarian Western countries, most men don't take paternity leave.

Across Europe, only an average of 40 per cent of new fathers stay at home, despite paternity leave being enshrined as a right. In Britain, according to official Inland Revenue figures released earlier this month, only one in five working fathers exercised his entitlement to two weeks of paid paternity leave, which was instituted last year.

Initial forecasts were that 80 per cent of the 400,000 British workers who become fathers every year would take it up, but estimates showed that only 79,000 did.

That led Mr Malcolm Bruce of the Liberal Democrats to remark sardonically: 'The low take-up of paid paternity leave indicates that some men are still influenced by our macho culture; 1950s Britain is still alive and well. The cultural revolution of the 1960s, which the prime minister recently derided, seems to have passed many by.'

Apparently, what worries men most about taking time off to bond with baby is what their male colleagues will think of them. Or worse, whether their bosses will hold it against them.

Yet, roping in fathers has become the new frontier in the worldwide fight against sliding fertility rates. Despite the lukewarm male response, industrialised countries are increasingly extending paternity leave to fathers; or parental leave, which can be taken by either the mother or father, to couples.

Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Italy, for example, have extended their paid parental leave periods, mandating that at least one month be reserved for fathers on a 'use it or lose it' basis.

Austria, desperate to improve on its total fertility rate of 1.35 children per woman, now offers three years' extended childcare leave - on condition that dad consumes at least six months of it before the child turns three.

At least another 21 countries offer supplementary parental leave during junior's teething years, for use by either parent. And the numbers are growing.

These moves are in spite of the fact that European Commission figures show parental leave take-up rates of near zero for men, compared to over 90 per cent for women. The few exceptions are progressive Nordic countries like Iceland, Sweden and Norway.

Why do many countries persevere in pushing for dad's involvement? Could form perhaps be more important than function in this exercise? When is something with limited use not completely useless?

Most of all, could the Singapore Government be missing something here? Must it pay more heed to the flurry of suggestions to mandate at least two weeks of paternity leave, as is fast becoming the Western norm?

Here are four convincing reasons why it should:

Signalling the way forward


THE first reason is symbolic. As a statement issued by the People's Action Party Women's Wing in February this year put it, mandating a decent length of paternity leave would help 'eradicate all stereotypes' and establish that children are a 'shared responsibility between husband and wife'.

It would also cement a culture that supports an active fathering role, as well as dispel the ingrained notions that taking time off for children is 'women's business' and that men who take paternity leave are 'not serious about their careers'.

It is already the way forward


EMPLOYERS are beginning to cotton on to the fact that offering new dads time off keeps their companies competitive. US companies like American Express and Deloitte and Touche have started offering two weeks' fully-paid paternity leave. It is also reaching the upper echelons, with well-heeled fathers supplementing it with vacation time, sick days or unpaid leave to nurse newborns.

Last October, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, a well-known workaholic, stunned the country by taking a month's paternity leave to care for his newborn son.

Shortly after his son's birth, he beamed: 'I am a father and nothing else matters more than that. Nothing... The only growth figures that I'll be thinking about is the rising weight and rising height of the baby.'

Rise of house-husbands?

EXISTING policy weighs all pro-natal tax rebates, leave entitlements and subsidies in favour of working mothers. But is this wise?

It is not impossible that over a few years, such a gender-slanted policy may alter couple dynamics.

Some savvy young Singaporean parents are now doing their sums, totting up the tax breaks and concluding that, in a household where both parties earn about the same, it may make more cents for mum to work and for dad to stay at home. Mr Lim notes that several of his dual-income friends have latched on to the formula that 'WM + NBB = SAHD (working mother + newborn baby = stay at home dad)' and are making plans in that direction. After all, there are few perks for stay-at-home mums but plenty for working ones.

Of course, the rise of house-husbands here faces its largest impediment in the form of the notably fragile Singaporean male ego. But the crunch issue, as is often the case here, tends to be economic.

Prescription for non-prescription


THE fourth and final case for paternity leave is to be consistent with the Government's newly-declared, non-prescriptive stance on parenthood.

At the National Day Rally on Aug 22, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged that parenthood is 'an intensely personal business'. The tone of the new baby measures indeed succeeds in doing away with many of the old, niggling discriminations based on a child's birth order, the mother's education, or her age.

But some work remains in its quest to be less pedantic about parenting. Instead of promoting the erstwhile ideal of working mums, the Government should make it easier for parents to choose according to their own circumstances and preferences. For starters, it could start substituting 'parental leave' for 'maternity leave' options, allowing either parent to utilise it.

Also, it should bump up paternity leave. This would immediately level the playing field for women at work and, at the same time, give men a break."


"Magazine says sorry to PM Lee for nepotism allegation
THE Economist magazine has apologised unreservedly to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for making false allegations that he was instrumental in appointing his wife Ho Ching to head Temasek Holdings.

The London-based weekly also apologised to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for suggesting in an Aug 14 article about Temasek Holdings that he supported and condoned her appointment.

The Economist is paying damages along with its apology - S$210,000 for PM Lee and S$180,000 for MM Lee.

The Lees are donating the money to charity.

The apology, dated Sept 1, was published in the print and online edition of the magazine.

It referred to the article, 'Temasek, First Singapore, next the world', which was published in the magazine's Aug 14-20 print edition this year.

The Economist said in its apology that it recognised that the article meant or was understood to mean that 'Mr Lee Hsien Loong had appointed, or was instrumental in appointing, his wife, Mdm Ho Ching to Temasek Holdings, not on merit, but for corrupt nepotist motives for the advancement of the Lee family's interests' and that 'Mr Lee Kuan Yew supported or condoned Mdm Ho's appointment' for such motives.

The magazine admitted and acknowledged that these allegations were 'false and completely without foundation'.

'We unreservedly apologise to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for the distress and embarrassment caused to them by these allegations.

'We undertake not to make further allegations to the same or similar effect,' said news weekly."



"Let CCAs continue on Saturdays
I REFER to the recent move to implement a five-day work week in the civil service, which would affect schools too.

I am a secondary student studying in an independent school, and I feel that this plan should not be extended to schools.

Right now, most of the students in my school have heavy co-curricular activities (CCA) commitments, alongside other responsibilities, such as school work and projects.

Most, if not all, of our weekdays are already taken up by numerous lessons and classes, leaving only weekends for CCA.

Like most of my friends, I stay back after school to attend to my commitments, which include twice-weekly Third Language classes, as well as thrice-weekly CCA training. Saturdays are also taken up by additional training.

I am a member of the school band, which is in the midst of preparing for the Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging Competition early next year. While these training sessions are numerous, I feel that every single one of them is necessary for us to prepare ourselves sufficiently.

Imposing a five-day week and prohibiting school activities on weekends will mean that those CCA training sessions or lessons originally scheduled on weekends will have to be crammed into the weekdays for us to achieve the same level of competency, usually at the expense of other commit-ments.

While it is uncertain that we will be able to manage with such a denser schedule, it is certain that standards will decline across the board.

While I understand the ration-ale behind the move for a shorter work week, I feel that its implementation will be extremely difficult, and will almost certainly compromise the quality of our CCAs and other commitments.

I am sure that most of us would be unwilling to accept such a compromise. Therefore I would urge the Government to give more thought and consideration to all parties that would be affected by this policy before deciding whether to implement it.



MICHAEL WARREN LIM

I REFER to the call by Mr Kesavan Sam Prasad to ban weekend homework and CCAs (ST, Aug 27) so that civil servants and others in the private sector can enjoy the weekend with their families. Many CCAs, especially the uniformed groups, hold their training on Saturdays. These uniformed groups usually have only one training session.

If we cancel CCAs on Saturdays, a separate time slot would have to be found which will mean a much later dismissal time during weekdays for students, as the training sessions usually last five to six hours, and parents will definitely be worried if the children get home too late.

I would also like to point out that it is detrimental to the students' health if they have to stand under the afternoon sun for long periods of time, as we in the uniformed groups have to go for parades occasionally.

This would not be a problem on Saturday as the training sessions are conducted mostly in the morning.

Despite the fact that the Government has announced a five-day week, I believe that CCAs should be allowed to continue on Saturdays.


LIM WEI YANG"

Raison D'Être

The Reason, By Hoobastank

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you

Song du jour and a dedication to my wife.