"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much..."Also,"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old!!"And as a conclusion (only assuming there),"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
First typhoon of the season hits*Twenty-two dead; more than 50 missing* Power out across metro Manila and surrounding provincesfrom ReutersAlertNet
MANILA, Philippines- Typhoon “Basyang” sent trees and billboards crashing down on power lines, plunging Metro Manila and surrounding provinces in darkness late Tuesday with full restoration of power expected only after three to four days.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said the powerful winds from Basyang (international name Conson) damaged all the power transmission lines of the Luzon grid that led to a total shutdown at 12:42 a.m.
Wide areas of Metro Manila and nearby provinces were plunged into darkness as Basyang howled across the metropolis late Tuesday as the NGCP declared a systems outage. Power in many areas was still not restored as of last night.
by Carlo Velasco for PhilippinesStar
People pushing a stalled passenger jeepney along a street in Paranaque suburban Manila yesterday after Typhoon Conson hit the country's capital late on Wednesday.
