blackshama's commentary on Philippine issues

I was in my fav ramen house eating what else?, all tables were taken, when two men in their early 50s asked if the can share the table with me. I said yes. I learned that they came from a meeting of their high school alumni Christmas reunion committee and were waiting for their wives to finish shopping. They were high school buddies. The men graduated from a well known Manila public high with a good CAT unit. Since Trililing was the staple of the evening news on the LED HD TV, talk of course was on the events of the last few days. The men were trying to recall how it was to grow up during the Martial Law years. One thing defined our years; Marcos taking off Voltes V from the air and replacing it with ugghhh "Candy Candy" and "Paul in Fantasyland"! It appeared that from our child's eye, this was a great folly of dictatorship. And we learned as we became young men, follies are what makes dictatorships fall. All three of us were at EDSA 1986, the two men on th...