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ddablue · 7 years ago

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BESHIES

Marami ako friends at close friends pero when it comes to best friend, wala talaga pumapasok sa isip ko kasi alam ko wala akong ganon. Pero kanina, bigla kong naisip yung dalawang dating best friend ko. Meron nga pala. ALMYRA; Nagsimula friendship namin nung first year high school. Alam ko rin na tunay ko siyang best friend, bukod na we support & understand each other, nag-aaway kami. Pagdating ng second year, di ko na siya kaklase. Pero magkatabi pa rin kami ng room. Walang nagbago sa turingaun namin. Pumunta pa ko sa bahay nila pag bakasyon para magpaturo maggitara. Third year, lumipat sila sa Cavite. Bago siya lumipat, nagkita kami sa 7/11, binigyan ko siya ng singkwenta pesos hahahahahahaha barya pa yun. Sabi ko pandagdag niya sa pambili ng album ni Taylor Swift. Fan na fan kasi siya nun. Sabi ko sa kanya tutulungan ko siya mag-ipon pambili ng album. That time, ayun pa lang talaga ipon ko tapos nakalagay pa sa bote ng sprite, taena hahahahaha. Naghug kami bago magpart ways. Kahit nasa Cavite na sila nakatira, nakakapag-usap pa rin kami. Wala pa ring nagbago. Minsan loloadan ko pa siya para makapag-usap kami. Nung nauso yung Viber, lagi kaming magkausap don. As in buong araw pa. Di kami nagkakaumayan. Nagtatampo pa nga yon kapag di ko siya nakakausap or may araw na di kami nag-uusap. Kaya bumabawi ako sa kanya. Pagdating ng fourth year - first year college, di na kami nagkakausap. Bihira. Di ko na tanda ano nangyari bat nagkaganon pero di naman kami nag-away or what. Nawalan lang rin talaga ng connection. Di ko matandaan kung nung bakasyon ng first year college o nung nagstop ako nung binisita niya ko sa bahay. Biglaan, di ko alam. Kasama niya pa mama niya. Naligaw pa nga daw sila papunta samin kasi di niya na tanda. Nung time na yun, yung mama niya may kailangan asikasuhin. Kaming dalawa naman nag-gala. Masaya naman ako na nakasama ko siya uli pero I feel so distant at the same time. Pero di ganon kasaya. Yes, nakapagcatch up kami pero ang alienated at awkward sa feeling. Suddenly, di ko na siya kilala. After non, di na kami uli nagkakausap. Nakakapaglike pa rin naman ako sa post niya minsan. Ganun rin siya sakin. Pero ramdam ko na non na di na kami tulad ng dati. Nung lumipat na ko ng Mapua, nagkakausap na kami uli. Nalaman kong fan na rin siya ng kpop, tulad ko. And may bago na siyang best friend, si Nikka. Mahilig rin sa anime at kpop, tulad ko. Nagkausap rin kami ni Nikka at nagfofollowan sa ig. Di ako nakaramdam ng selos or what. Normal lang. KEITH ANNE; Itong babaeng 'to, isa talaga siya sa malapit sa puso ko (noon). Mas close kami kesa kay Almyra. First year high school rin nagsimula friendship namin. Naging friends kami agad nung first day of school. Wala pang sitting arrangement non, nakaupo siya sa likod ko. Punyeta believe me, ang daldal niya hahaha. Pinag-uusapan pa namin non Boys Over Flowers. Yung katabi ko si Jesselle, katabi naman ni Keith, si Ella. Naging friends kaming apat agad. Pero eto, segway muna. Pag uwian, si Jeselle at Mercedes lagi kasabay ko. Close friends ko sila. Same kasi kami ng dadaanan. Nakalagian na naming tatlo na tumambay don sa palamigan sa 23rd. Lagi kami kumakain don bago umuwi. Si Jeselle nauuna laging umuwi samin. Si Mercedes taga-Taguig pa yon. Yung sakayan papunta sa kanila baba lang namin. So inaantay ko siya makasakay lagi bago ako umuwi. May time na di kami sumabay ni Mercedes kay Jeselle dahil sa kalandian namin. Parehas kasi kami ni Mercedes ng crush, si Nikolai. Sinundan lang naman namin pauwi si Niko non hahahahaha pero di naman hanggang bahay. Hanggang Goldilocks lang, mga 10 mins away sa school namin. Nang dahil don, nagtampo si Jeselle samin. Back to original kwento, naging kaibigan ko rin tropa ni Keith, si Ella at Cheenee. Sa ibang section si Cheenee, pero nung elementary, tropa na talaga silang tatlo. Same kaming apat ng pinag-aralan nung elementary. Nakikita ko na sila non and yun naging magtotropa kaming apat nung high school. Galing di ba. Tapos nadagdag samin nun si Mika. FHX tanda kong pangalan ng group namin pero alam ko may isa pa eh, hayup di ko na tanda. Anim dapat kami pero saling kitkit lang talaga yung isa. Di siya real tropa. Sa aming lima, kami ni Keith pinakaclose. Wala kaming umayan non. Magkausap kami sa school, magdamag na magkatext pa kami pag-uwi. Madalas pa kaming tumambay sa school after class sa dalawang dahilan. Una, inaantay si Cheenee. Pangalawa, para masilayan mga crush namin. PS di na si Niko crush ko non, Si DJ na which kaklase ni Cheenee. Galing di ba. So may rason talaga ko tumambay. Either sa school kami or sa bahay nila Ella which 5 mins away lang sa school. Dahil sa patambay-tambay namin, di na ko nakakasabay umuwi kila Jeselle at Mercedes. Nagtampo sakin yung dalawa. Umabot sa point na pinapili nila ko kung kanino ko ba gustong sumabay lagi pauwi. Pinili ko sila Keith. Nagpatuloy kagagahan namin HAHAHAHA. Madami talaga kaming kagagahan nung babaeng yon. Suportado pa namin kalandian ng bawat isa. Lagi rin ako nasa bahay nila either sa 29th or sa 13th. At siya rin nasa bahay namin lagi. Lalo na pag bakasyon. Nagwawave board kami madalas. Nagpatuloy friendship namin hanggang second year.. hanggang sa may nangyari. Mid year ng third year, nag-away sila ni Cheenee, niloko niya at naloko rin kami. Tagal na pala kaming niloloko. Nagstop siya ng pag-aaral non, di na kami nag-uusap. Di ako nagkaroon ng chance na iconfront siya. Nung debut ni Ella, invited si Keith pero di pumunta. Napag-usapan namin ni Cheenee yung nangyari kay Keith pero wala, di pa rin naayos hanggang ngayon. Sa ngayon, nagfofollowan pa rin kami ni Keith sa ig. Nagbabatian pa rin pag birthday ng isa't-isa pero normal na lang. Pero gusto ko pa rin dumating yung time na makapag-usap kami at sabihin niya dahilan bakit niya nagawa samin yun. So kanina nga, narealized ko lang rin na di na pala ko nagkaroon uli ng best friend after nila. Wala na kong tinuturing na best friend, close friends lang. May mga kaibigan ako na nagsasabi na best friend daw nila ko, pero I don't feel the same way. And di naman sa masama ako, but di ko na rin pinaalam na one-sided best friend turingan lang yun sa nagtuturing saking best friend. Di naman ako malungkot na wala na ko best friend, pero kung magkakaroon uli, why not di ba? And sana, panghabambuhay.

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abager · 5 years ago

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No one likes to arrive too early at a party. There’s no one to talk to and nowhere to hide. You can’t leave without being conspicuously rude. In due course you find yourself talking about car insurance (or worse still, Brexit) with other new arrivals. Of course, there’s the decor to look at (paintings you don’t much like) and there’s the buffet, tempting but as yet untouchable.

As hosts, though, we’re always grateful to those who arrive early and get things going.

New social networks have a hard time too. What’s the point of joining if no one’s there?

In gigglemusic, our new social network for classical musicians, we try to solve that problem by offering new users content that doesn’t depend on the community being large. We’ve uploaded the schedules of major classical music venues around the world (for the moment mainly opera houses).

We’ve also entered the ‘diaries’ of the world’s greatest composers – well, the greatest composers writing within the Western tradition or having some significant influence on it. By their diaries I mean their dates and places of birth and death (though many are still alive and kicking) and the dates and places of the first performances of their major works. Almost all of this comes from Wikipedia.

It may be a bit like trainspotting, but I, for one, find it mildly interesting to know where this or that masterpiece was first performed, and when.

To review a composer’s diary, start with People, open a profile, tap Diary and then scroll up to go back in time. Tap on an individual work to find out more. There’s usually a Wikipedia article to link to.

But who are the world’s greatest composers?

There’s no ideology behind the selection I’ve made, and no conscious exclusions (I’ve even included Carl Orff). They’re just the first 292 composers who came to mind, and for whom there was also a Wikipedia entry. I’m sure the assiduous researcher will detect unconscious bias, but if you do, please tell me who I’ve missed. There’s room for nearly everyone in gigglemusic.

Adam (Adolphe) Adams (John) Adès (Thomas) Albeniz (Isaac) Albinoni (Tomaso) Alwyn (William) Arne (Thomas) Arnold (Malcolm) Auric (Georges) Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel) Bach (Johann Sebastian) Balakirev (Mily) Barber (Samuel) Bartok (Bela) Bax (Arnold) Beach (Amy) Beamish (Sally) Beethoven (Ludwig van) Bellini (Vincenzo) Bennett (Richard Rodney) Berg (Alban) Berio (Luciano) Berkeley (Lennox) Berkeley (Michael) Berlioz (Hector) Berners (Gerald (Lord)) Bernstein (Leonard) Berwald (Franz) Birtwistle (Harrison) Bizet (Georges) Bliss (Arthur) Blitzstein (Marc) Bloch (Ernst) Blow (John) Bologne (Joseph) Borodin (Alexander) Boulanger (Lili) Boulanger (Nadia) Boulez (Pierre) Bowen (York) Bozza (Eugene) Brahms (Johannes) Brian (Havergal) Bridgetower (George) Britten (Benjamin) Bruch (Max) Bruckner (Anton) Bush (Alan) Busoni (Ferrucio) Butterworth (George) Buxtehude (Dietrich) Cage (John) Canteloube (Joseph) Carter (Elliot) Chabrier (Emmanuel) Chagrin (Francis) Chaminade (Cécile) Charpentier (Gustave) Chausson (Ernest) Cherubini (Luigi) Chopin (Frédéric) Cilea (Francesco) Cimarosa (Domenico) Clarke (Rebecca) Clementi (Muzio) Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel) Copland (Aaron) Corelli (Arcangelo) Cornelius (Peter) Couperin (Francois) Cui (César) Czerny (Carl) Dallapiccola (Luigi) Debussy (Claude) Delibes (Léo) Delius (Frederick) Dittersdorf (Carl Ditters von) Dohnányi (Ernst von) Donizetti (Gaetano) Dorati (Antal) Dukas (Paul) Duruflé (Maurice) Dutilleux (Henri) Dvorak (Antonin) Einem (Gottfried von) Eisler (Hans) Elgar (Edward) Ellington (Duke) Enescu (George) Erkel (Ferenc) Falla (Manuel de) Fauré (Gabriel) Feldman (Morton) Ferguson (Howard) Ferneyhough (Brian) Field (John) Finzi (Gerald) Francaix (Jean) Franck (César) Gabrieli (Giovanni) Gershwin (George) Ginastera (Alberto) Giordano (Umberto) Glass (Philip) Glazunov (Alexander) Glière (Reinhold) Glinka (Mikhail) Gluck (Christoph Willibald) Górecki (Henryk) Gounod (Charles) Grainger (Percy) Granados (Enrique) Grieg (Edvard) Grovlez (Gabriel) Gubaidulina (Sofia) Gurney (Ivor) Haas (Pavel) Handel (George Frideric) Harty (Hamilton) Haydn (Joseph) Head (Michael) Hindemith (Paul) Hoddinott (Alun) Holliger (Heinz) Holst (Gustav) Honegger (Arthur) Howells (Herbert) Hummel (Johann Nepomuk) Humperdinck (Engelbert) Ibert (Jacques) Indy (Vincent d’) Ireland (John) Ives (Charles) Jacob (Gordon) Janacek (Leos) Jolivet (André ) Joplin (Scott) Kalivoda (Jan) Kálmán (Emmerich) Khachaturian (Aram) Knussen (Oliver) Kodaly (Zoltan) Koechlin (Charles) Korngold (Erich) Krenek (Ernst) Krommer (Franz) Kurtág (György) Lalo (Édouard) Lang (David) Lauridsen (Morten) Leclair (Jean-Marie) Lehár (Franz) Leifs (Jón) Leigh (Walter) Leoncavallo (Ruggero) Ligeti (Gyorgy) Liszt (Franz) Loeillet (Jean Baptiste) Lyadov (Anatoly) Mahler (Alma) Mahler (Gustav) Marcello (Alessandro) Martin (Frank) Martinu (Bohuslav) Mascagni (Pietro) Massenet (Jules) Maxwell Davies (Peter) Medtner (Nikolai) Mendelssohn (Felix) Menotti (Gian Carlo) Messiaen (Olivier) Meyerbeer (Giacomo) Milhaud (Darius) Moeran (Ernest) Monteverdi (Claudio) Morricone (Ennio) Moyzes (Alexander) Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mussorgsky (Modest) Nancarrow (Conlon) Nielsen (Carl) Nono (Luigi) Nyman (Michael) Offenbach (Jacques) Orff (Carl) Pachelbel (Johann) Paderewski (Ignacy Jan) Paganini (Niccolò) Paisiello (Giovanni) Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da) Panufnik (Andrzej) Parry (Hubert) Pärt (Arvo) Pasculli (Antonio) Penderecki (Krzysztof) Pepusch (Johann Christoph) Pergolesi (Giovanni) Piazzola (Astor) Poulenc (Francis) Previn (André) Price (Florence) Prokofiev (Sergei) Puccini (Giacomo) Purcell (Henry) Quantz (Johann Joachim) Quilter (Roger) Rachmaninoff (Sergei) Raff (Joachim) Rameau (Jean-Philippe) Ravel (Maurice) Reger (Max) Reich (Steve) Reinecke (Carl) Reizenstein (Franz) Respighi (Ottorino) Richardson (Alan) Riley (Terry) Rimsky-Korsakov (Nikolai) Rodrigo (Joaquín) Rossini (Giacomo) Rota (Nino) Rubbra (Edmund) Saint-Saëns (Camille) Salieri (Antonio) Sammartini (Giovanni Battista) Satie (Erik) Scarlatti (Domenico) Schnittke (Alfred) Schoeck (Othmar) Schoenberg (Arnold) Schubert (Franz) Schumann (Clara) Schumann (Robert) Scriabin (Alexander) Sessions (Roger) Shostakovich (Dmitri) Sibelius (Jean) Sinding (Christian) Skalkottas (Nikos) Smetana (Bedrich) Smyth (Ethel) Sondheim (Stephen) Sorabji (Kaikhosru Shapurji) Spohr (Louis) Stanford (Charles Villiers) Stenhammar (Wilhelm) Still (William Grant) Stockhausen (Karlheinz) Strauss (Johann) I Strauss (Johann) II Strauss (Richard) Stravinsky (Igor) Suk (Josef) Sullivan (Arthur) Sweelinck (Jan Pieterszoon) Szymanowski (Karol) Tailleferre (Germaine) Takemitsu (Toru) Tallis (Thomas) Tavener (John) Tchaikovsky (Pyotr) Tcherepnin (Alexander) Tcherepnin (Nikolai) Telemann (Georg Philipp) Thompson (Virgil) Tippett (Michael) Tubin (Edward) Turnage (Mark-Anthony) Varese (Edgard) Vaughan Williams (Ralph) Verdi (Giuseppe) Vierne (Louis) Villa-Lobos (Heitor) Vivaldi (Antonio) Wagner (Richard) Walker (George) Walton (William) Warlock (Peter) Weber (Carl Maria von) Webern (Anton) Weelkes (Thomas) Weill (Kurt) Weir (Judith) Widor (Charles-Marie) Williams (John) Williamson (Malcolm) Wolf (Hugo) Xenakis (Iannis) Ysaÿe (Eugène) Yun (Isang) Zelenka (Jan Dismas) Zemlinsky (Alexander von)

The Great Composers No one likes to arrive too early at a party. There's no one to talk to and nowhere to hide.

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todaynewsstories · 6 years ago

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Greece: Residents and refugees work together to rebuild Lesbos | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

It’s been three years since the picturesque Greek island of Lesbos was thrust into the world’s spotlight, when around 3,000 people arrived on its beaches every day during the height of the refugee crisis. But although the hotels have emptied of journalists and visitors are once again strolling around the pretty harbor, the crisis hasn’t disappeared. The notorious Moria camp, built to house 2,500 people but currently holding almost 8,000, has been declared “the worst refugee camp in the world” by aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres, with high levels of violence and children as young as 10 attempting suicide.

And it’s not just impacting those housed there. Tourist numbers on the island remain 50 percent of what they were at their peak, many local businesses have closed, and petty crime such as theft has stoked community tensions. Local villagers, who were often first responders at the height of the crisis, have grown to feel bitter and ignored. As Panos, who runs a local food wholesaler, says: “The EU and the Greek government have turned this island into a warehouse of lost souls.”

Locals like Panos feel like the island has been left alone

This is why, on the ground, focus is turning to projects that can benefit both refugees and the local Greek community and help revive this small island that has shouldered far more than its fair share of a global issue.

“Hundreds of volunteers from northern Europe and America came here, but none were listening to the local community and what they felt was needed,” says Adil Izemrane, co-founder of grassroots NGO Movement on the Ground (MOTG), which is supporting a number of such projects. He explains that, when he first asked Nikos Trakellis, the president of Moria village, what might benefit his community, he burst into tears because “no one had ever asked him such a question before.”

One of the most successful projects has been a football tournament for children from the camp and from Moria village. The forced ghettoization of camp residents, along with cultural differences and fears of crime and violence, means building trust between the communities is no easy task. The tournament aims to bring children together first — and, through this, their parents.

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“Kids don’t care about labels, they make friends with anyone,” says Tanja Matijevic, an environmental scientist now working as a soccer coach. “Moria village is not wealthy, most people are in day-to-day survival mode. If a family’s goat is stolen because people in the camp are so desperate, that has a big impact.

“Most parents here have just been thanking us for starting a sports league, as it’s not something they would always be able to afford to send their kids to.”

Greek and refugee kids are coming together over football

Spyros Lalos, whose 10-year-old son plays in the tournament, says: “I think a lot of people were nervous at the idea, both parents and the children. But my son enjoyed it and he made friends with some of the kids. Every time they play together, it gets a bit easier and people relax more.”

Digital learning for migrants and Greeks

Another Lesbos resident keen to build bridges is Adonis Zeivekis, 25, from the village of Thermi, a few kilometers north of Moria. “I’m from here and grew up here, so I understand both sides of the problem,” he explains. “I wanted to see if I could get involved and help both somehow.”

One solution Zeivekis and MOTG are working on is twin digital learning labs — one at Moria camp and another in the island’s main town of Mytilene, teaching IT skills to both migrants and Greeks. Two camp residents, Thierry Harbonimana and Kwizera Ahmed Aimable (photo at top), both from Burundi, are working as teachers alongside him. “We will have refugee teachers in the Greek class, then eventually we will mix the two groups,” he explains.

Read more: On the edge of the EU, refugee flows flood a river

Harbonimana says he believes that increasing the number of small, informal interactions between the two communities is the best way to break down barriers. “Anything that helps us grow accustomed to each other is good,” he explains. “Last week, we joined in with some religious festivities here — it’s small, but everyone liked it.” Zeivekis adds: “Yesterday we had a music event with refugee musicians playing, which was open to everyone. I don’t think the majority of villagers are against the refugees, the anger is because we don’t have the facilities here for them.”

A project is underway to repair olive groves damaged by migrants’ tents

However, Harbonimana explains that it can be hard for camp residents to get involved with projects when they are so focused on day-to-day survival: “Some people are just so worried about what will happen next, whether they will get their papers, they can’t think about anything else.”

Other projects include a food truck, in which refugee chefs cook with ingredients sourced from local farmers and invite residents to share meals. Panos, who helps supply the food, cites Lesbos’s large Albanian community as proof that integration on the island is possible. “There’s no reason people can’t stay on the island, get jobs, have families here,” he says.

Lesbos waits for government plan

Outside Moria, olive groves have been destroyed to build makeshift tents. “The situation was so bad that people just decided to leave the main camp,” Izemrane says. MOTG is now working with the community to rebuild the area and create communal gardens for both camp residents and villagers to grow produce. The project should be completed later this year.

But although people on the ground are moving forward with solutions that can help everyone, anger remains at the lack of any overall strategy from the authorities ultimately responsible.

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“At the start, everyone was just in crisis-response mode. But now it’s been three years, people are still arriving, and there’s still no long-term plan. And it will probably go on for many more years,” says Izemrane. “People don’t know what they’re doing here or what’s going to happen to them, which is where a lot of the frustrations come from.”

The Greek government, which is in charge of Moria camp, claims it does not have the funds to improve conditions. Meanwhile, those on the island continue to wait, desperate to know what the future holds.