Monday, February 28, 2011

WWII Post War Pictures Of Manila

WARNING

GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW
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Aduana Bldg. - 1945

Wrecked View of Manila City Hall

American Red Cross - 1945 (Roman Santos Bldg. today, picture taken from what was formally plaza goiti) Also known as Plaza Lacson.

Bayoneted Baby

Binondo Church - 1945

Bomb Falling Towards Manila - 1945

Burning Manila - Feb. 27, 1945

Center Intendencia Bldg., Aduana to the right Ayuntmiento Marble Palace to the left. Bldgs. unidentified on Soriano St.

Manila City Hall - 1945

Manila City Hall Clock Tower - 1945

Commerce Agriculture Bldg. - 1945

Finance Bldg. - 1945

Insular Life, Uy-Chaco Bldg., PLaza Moraga - 1945

Manila Wreck

Legislative Bldg. - 1945

Letran College - 1945

Lourdes Church - 1945

Manila Hotel - 1945

Manila Post Office (Pasig River View) - 1945

Manila Post Office (Taft. Ave. View) - 1945

Manila Ruins (Picture taken inside Manila Hotel)

Quezon Bridge, temporary rebuild, was destroyed by the Japanese in the battle for manila in February 1945

Quiapo Dist. - 1945

San Luis Terrace Manila - 1945

Sto. Domingo Church on Beaterio St., Intramuros.





The Jesuit Manila Observatory - 1945

Burning Manila 1945
 

Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Story Of A Blind Boy

email by lalaine competente.

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet.
He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help."
There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by.
He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat.
He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words.
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind.
 But the first sign simply said the boy was blind.
The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
 
 
Moral of the Story:

Be thankful for what you have.
Be creative.
Be innovative.
Think differently and positively.
Invite others towards good with wisdom.
Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets.
When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry,
show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile.
Face your past without regret.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
Keep the faith and drop the fear.

Great men say,
"Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction,
of discarding evil and developing goodness?.
 In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear,
you must have the ticket of a good conscience."
The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling.
And even more beautiful, Is knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!
He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up.
A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.
That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

What he had written was:

"Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it."

A Heart

email by simran chaney.

A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.

If I want my dreams to come true, i mustn't oversleep.

Off all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.

The best vitamins for making friends.... B1.

The  happiness of my life depends on the quality of my  thoughts.

The  heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
   One thing i can give and still keep... is my word.

I lie the loudest when i lie to myself.

If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.
One thing I cant recycle is wasted time.

Ideas won't work unless 'I' do.

My mind is like a parachute.. it functions only when open.

 

The 10 commandments are not multiple choice.

The pursuit of happiness is a chase of a lifetime! Its never too late to become what I might have been.



Life  is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who  treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe  everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance,  grab it with both hands.  If it changes your life, let  it.  Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised  it would be worth it.


Friends  are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not
 
get  them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and  problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly  away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's  wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just  don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late.  I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my  heart so I never lose you. Send this to all your friends  including me and see how many you get back. Even send it to  your balloons that you think have flown away forever. You may  be surprised to see it return. Send this heart to everybody  you like. You may also return it to  me.