Forever By My Side

I

You climb at the back porch

Knock at my window

Bringing your guitar

And tales of good night

Ref. 1

We gaze at the skies

I see your eyes shine

You look through me and

I worry no more...

Cho.

I've seen no stars tonight

But you are my only shining knight

I don't feel like being happy

But you give me the best smile

Oh when everything seems so wrong

You always make it feel alright

Can you stay with me that way?

'Cause I want you forever by my side

II

I'm getting lost alone

But you showed the way

I am about to fall

You're there ready to catch

Ref. 2

We gaze at the skies

I see your eyes shine

You held my hand and

Now is the time...

[Repeat Cho.]

Bridge:

I can't find my voice

But you sing my song..

I couldn't say the words

But you speak out my thoughts..

Cho. 2

I am a fearless princess

And you are my only shining knight

I fight for my sweetest dream

And you give me the best smile

You calm my heart, I will be fine

You always make me feel alright

Let's stay together this way

'Cause I want you forever by my side..

Coda:

..and I'll be forever by your side..

(It started with one starless..and boring..evening with a line "I've seen no stars tonight..." and the "but you are my only shining knight" was just added and sent as good evening text message to friends. Haha. And the following day, I didn't have so much to do at the office so I arranged a song. Uhm..a poem, rather. Will add the melody later. again. Lol!)

[photo courtesy of http://www.123rf.com/photo_7693797_two-teddy-bears-in-love-sitting-on-grass.html]

Happy Valentines 2013!

It's Happy Hearts' Day today!

Wishing everybody a sweet, meaningful, happy day of celebrating the hearts' day with loved ones. It's a day of love so spread the love in the world! ^_^

True love lies beyond words. It's the value of selflessness, trust, patience, and sacrifice. It's the compassion we feel towards another. It's that wonderful feeling of being loved first by God that we share to all. We don't love if we don't feel loved at all. Love begets love. So let's give love not only today on Valentines' day but always and forever!

♥♥♥

Hacking Attack on Philippine Government Agencies' Sites ~ An Eye Opener!

A featured news on Yahoo! called my attention - Hackers attack Philippine Vice President Site posted just recently by AFP News. I am not usually interested with matters concerning politics and the people in the government, but this 'hacking' thing caught me. Whoa, what a new year blast to the Philippine government cyberworld, the online portals of some small government agencies were defaced by this so-called PrivateX group.

Reports on hacking is not a very surprising thing. There are lots of intrusion here and there. What's overwhelming is that, these sites that are affected are online portals and/or web sites of Philippine government agencies..whether small or big, these agencies provide services to the people in the local and abroad. Modifying the interface (I have not actually learned what exactly the hackers have done to it), posting unmatched contents or anything that would cause disorder in the website contents surely disturbs the viewers. Worst thing would be disconnection to the source of very important details or information.

I have spent a little time viewing and inspecting government agencies' websites when I was still in the university. Of course, part of the objective was to check for user-friendliness and interactive contents, and look for a good basis for comparison in website projects. At that earlier time, we already noticed the effortless designs of the sites. Most are simple and not so complicated. This is quite understandable especially that most of the Philippine government sites just serve as communication centers. Most contents are static pages featuring the profiles and projects. There are some pages allotted for customer or client support like help lines where to address the concerns and grievances. This is what most sites are serving.

The fact that these websites are defaced posed one major warning - and that is what the PrivateX group has emphasized in their attack. The incident attested how the country's government agencies' sites are weak in terms of cyber security. The report hopefully has called immediate attention towards the concerned organizations. I just hope that future online portals should be dynamically not just appealing but interactive, should cater to a wide extent of services that can be put online, and at least, tolerant to attacks - not just created just for the sake of having a website, but should truly address its purpose, and should withstand tests of vulnerability. I guess every website creator should be alert on this.

The incident reported on the hackers' attack has both advantage and disadvantage. It was bad because we were attacked and our sites are affected but it also let us know that we have to improve our defense. It may be unethical to us but at least we know which things to target for betterment - cyber vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

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