Eighties Eruption 2003 Reflections
By Rafaelito V. Sy '85 b
It's
been nearly 20 years since I last signed my Kawayan yearbook, and the
further into the millennium I get, I think often of a comment a fellow
senior made: "The '80s is the best era to be young."
Man's first walk on the moon was boring history. Michael Jackson's moonwalk
was a spectacular feat of human dexterity.
A
T.V. with a channel dial was an antique. A touch-tone telephone was
a modern ingenuity... People Power was a bloodless revolution that
triumphed with the strength of our voices.
The
first question that arises in a high school reunion is if any of us
has succeeded in painting the wide canvass of the world with the brilliance
of our youthful ambitions. Then follow the questions of how dramatically
we have aged, how youthful we have remained, how many children we
have, who our spouses are. I'm not in the position to answer anything
-- you should have been at the Eighties Eruption reunion...
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EIGHTIES
ERUPTION III
August 13-15, 2010
San Diego, CA
ISM ALUMNI REUNION
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