title: ORDER BY and LIMIT 2 different parameters
body: <p><br/>
  I have a table <code>events</code> which contains <code>timestamp</code>.
  I want to <code>SELECT</code>two events the next events coming out and the last 8 events in the past.<br/>
  With  two different queries it would be:<br/>
  1)</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM events WHERE timestamp &gt; timeNow ORDER BY timestamp LIMIT 0,2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2)</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM events WHERE timestamp &lt; timeNow ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 0,8
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is it possible to do only one query?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>