And then came the end. Too sudden and mind-boggling to comprehend.To make a long story no shorter than an epitaph, here's the dispatch: "The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. The death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, and 18,645 were still buried in debris in the city of Mianyang, near the epicenter of Monday's massive, 7.9-magnitude quake."
It could happen as well to us, God forbid. What else do we know?
Here's one certainty, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing." God bless all the grief-struck in China. And for the rest of us who, under our fragile place under the bell, can't tell for whom it tolls next.
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Hi. Ive been a follower of your so to speak op column diri sa cebu and found out you're really into indie films and realized through one of your blogs you're basically a pinoy film geek :-). Thus I'm inviting you to support and watch some less than a minute purely bisaya short films and hopefully you could, like, post your comments re them. You've been watching too many hard sell stuff. Take a breath and leap into my sort of compost pit. :-)
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I doubt if this comment really gets read but if it really does then i wanna further suggest you watch among the films on the site the one entitled The Answer. Some guy people call here insoy said it sort of blew his mind. Thus WAtch. :-)
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