Thirteen Years After High School

Some 13 years after our graduation from high school, this melody (please click the "play triangle" above left) was "on top of the charts," if only because it was forced on the Filipinos!.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - yeah, I know, somebody wrote that before I did! Also:

Brutus:
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224

And Lee Kuan Yew put Singapore on the map!

And the Philippines???