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How could I have forgotten Louie Y and Culture Club? Syempre! Those were some of the "in" places. Unfortunately, can't afford to get in when we were still students and by the time I was working and earning my own money, these places were already shut down.

 

Teka! Bakit ako lang yata dito ang nakaka-alala nung Eagle's Nest at Breakwater?

Sa Antipolo yung Eagle's Nest. Dumadayo rin kami jan. Ganda ng view pag gabi.

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The 1980s were the Ronald Reagan Era.

 

Former President Ronald Reagan Dies at 93

 

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By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

 

WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan (news - web sites), the cheerful crusader who devoted his presidency to winning the Cold War, trying to scale back government and making people believe it was "morning again in America," died Saturday after a long twilight struggle with Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites). He was 93.

 

 

He died at his home in California, according to a family friend, who initially disclosed the death on condition of anonymity. The friend said the family has turned to making funeral arrangements. A formal statement from the family was expected later.

 

 

In Paris, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said President Bush (news - web sites) was notified of Reagan's death in Paris at about 4:10 p.m., EDT, by White House chief of staff Andy Card.

 

 

The United States flag over the White House was lowered to half staff within an hour.

 

 

Card learned of the death from Fred Ryan, Reagan's former California chief of staff, Buchan said.

 

 

The White House was told his health had taken a turn for the worse in the last several days.

 

 

Buchan said that Bush would issue a written statement later Saturday. The president planned to participate in D-Day ceremonies in Normandy on Sunday and then fly back to the United States for an international economic summit in Georgia.

 

 

She said it was not known at this point whether Bush would change his travel plans because of Reagan's death.

 

 

Five years after leaving office, the nation's 40th president told the world in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer's, an incurable illness that destroys brain cells. He said he had begun "the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life."

 

 

Reagan's body was expected to be taken to his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, Calif., and then flown to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. His funeral was expected to be at the National Cathedral, an event likely to draw world leaders. The body was to be returned to California for a sunset burial at his library.

 

 

Reagan lived longer than any U.S. president, spending his last decade in the shrouded seclusion wrought by his disease, tended by his wife, Nancy, whom he called Mommy, and the select few closest to him. Now, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton (news - web sites) are the surviving ex-presidents.

 

 

Although fiercely protective of Reagan's privacy, the former first lady let people know his mental condition had deteriorated terribly. Last month, she said: "Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him."

 

 

Reagan's oldest daughter, Maureen, from his first marriage, died in August 2001 at age 60 from cancer. Three other children survive: Michael, from his first marriage, and Patti Davis and Ron from his second.

 

 

Over two terms, from 1981 to 1989, Reagan reshaped the Republican Party in his conservative image, fixed his eye on the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communism and tripled the national debt to $3 trillion in his singleminded competition with the other superpower.

 

 

Taking office at age 69, Reagan had already lived a career outside Washington, one that spanned work as a radio sports announcer, an actor, a television performer, a spokesman for the General Electric Co., and a two-term governor of California.

 

 

At the time of his retirement, his very name suggested a populist brand of conservative politics that still inspires the Republican Party.

 

 

He declared at the outset, "Government is not the solution, it's the problem," although reducing that government proved harder to do in reality than in his rhetoric.

 

 

 

 

 

Even so, he challenged the status quo on welfare and other programs that had put government on a growth spurt ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal strengthened the federal presence in the lives of average Americans.

 

In foreign affairs, he built the arsenals of war while seeking and achieving arms control agreements with the Soviet Union.

 

In his second term, Reagan was dogged by revelations that he authorized secret arms sales to Iran while seeking Iranian aid to gain release of American hostages held in Lebanon. Some of the money was used to aid rebels fighting the leftist government of Nicaragua.

 

Despite the ensuing investigations, he left office in 1989 with the highest popularity rating of any retiring president in the history of modern-day public opinion polls.

 

That reflected, in part, his uncommon ability as a communicator and his way of connecting with ordinary Americans, even as his policies infuriated the left and as his simple verities made him the butt of jokes. "Morning again in America" became his re-election campaign mantra in 1984, but typified his appeal to patriotrism through both terms.

 

At 69, Reagan was the oldest man ever elected president when he was chosen on Nov. 4, 1980, by an unexpectedly large margin over incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter.

 

Near-tragedy struck on his 70th day as president. On March 30, 1981, Reagan was leaving a Washington hotel after addressing labor leaders when a young drifter, John Hinckley, fired six shots at him. A bullet lodged an inch from Reagan's heart, but he recovered.

 

Four years later he was re-elected by an even greater margin, carrying 49 of the 50 states in defeating Democrat Walter F. Mondale, Carter's vice president.

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eat bulaga channel 9

student canteen

todas

superstar (with kuya germs and ate guy)

penthouse live

dance fever

hapi house

flying house

saturday fun machine

balatac

grandizer

mekanda

star rangers

watari the wonder boy

sawakas

1 day isang araw

kalatog pinggan

 

babae magazine

tiktik

funny comics

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Favorite movies:

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Phoebe Cates at her sexiest.

 

Flashdance - Maniac, strut and breakdance

 

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - bata pa si Drew

 

Footloose

 

Porky's

 

Stripes

 

Ghostbusters

 

Ferris Bueler's Day Off

 

The Karate Kid

 

Airplane

 

Indiana Jones Series

 

Back to the Future Series

 

Rambo Series

 

Top Gun

 

Die Hard

 

Batman

 

Crocodile Dundee

 

Eddie Murphy Movies

Beverly Hills Cop 1&2

Trading Places

Coming to America

 

The Untouchables

 

Tootsie

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Favorite movies:

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Phoebe Cates at her sexiest.

 

Flashdance - Maniac, strut and breakdance

 

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - bata pa si Drew

 

Footloose

 

Porky's

 

Stripes

 

Ghostbusters

 

Ferris Bueler's Day Off

 

The Karate Kid

 

Airplane

 

Indiana Jones Series

 

Back to the Future Series

 

Rambo Series

 

Top Gun

 

Die Hard

 

Batman

 

Crocodile Dundee

 

Eddie Murphy Movies

Beverly Hills Cop 1&2

Trading Places

Coming to America

 

The Untouchables

 

Tootsie

seen the real 80's peepz... :)

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you mean

top gun - the series

rambo - the series

etc. :)

 

reagan's economic policy changed from "voodoo economics" at the start of his term to "reaganomics", a fitting tribute to the man who helped america shake off the inflation infested 70's ending

Nope :D

 

First Blood 1 & 2

 

Wala namang Top Gun - the series

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Ahh the 80's...i still remember watching the LIVE AID concerts where two of my fave bands then, Style Council and Spandau Ballet performed..it blew my mind away. .also saw Simon Lebon made "piyok" singing Wild Boys in that concert. And would you believe, the pop group "Dream Academy" visited the Philippines and performed "Life in a Northern Town" at Eat Bulaga...Ahh those were the days..we were still a darling of international media because of the "people power" phenomenon. Nowadays, when you mention the Phils, foreigners will instantly think of s**t

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student canteen VS eat bulaga

gma 7 vs rpn 9

IQ7 vs gilette battle of champions

eddie ilarde/bobby ledesma vs tito/vic/joey

coney reyes/helen vela vs chiqui hollmann

 

talagang noon pa lang magkalaban na

 

interesting to note that TVJ started on DISCORAMA in channel 7 hosted by Bobby Ledesma. the trio would read jokes mostly on a news setting

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Penthouse Live with Archie Lacson - Martin Nievera and Pops Fernandez love team

Borderline , Like a Virgin by Madonna

Rock Hudson AIDS

We Are the World

Culture Club

Laura Brannigan's Self-Control

Annie Lennox's Sweet Dreams

EDSA People Power

CNN first broadcast 1986 - televised the live people power at EDSA

Menudo - with young Ricky Martin, Robby Rosa, Charlie Rivera "We give a lot of hug and a lot of love"

Kwarta O Kahon with Pepe Pimentel

Kaluskos Musmos

Goin' Bananas - Christopher de Leon, Johnny Delgado, Edgar Mortiz and Jay Ilagan

Champoy - Subas Herrero and Noel Trinidad with Joel Torre as assistant

Tessie Tomas - Amanda Pineda's weather broadcast

Flordeluna vs. Annaliza

Dindo Fernando

Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon movies

Batch 81 movie by Mike de Leon

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The dances from the 80's are coming back like the Break Dance and Strut with movies like You Got Served and Honey. The Mike Hammer 'Hammertime' dance step was shown in Charlie's Angels 2.

 

You're from the 80's if you know how to dance the:

 

Body Language

Cycling punk

Bagets

Lock

Break Dance

The Scissor ala Tigers

Moonwalk ala Michael Jackson

 

and many other New Wave Dances

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The 80s - the Reagan "Reaganomics" years. On March 30, 1981, an unstable drifter named John W. Hinckley shot Reagan in the chest during an assassination attempt.

 

Have you read about the Zero factor? It was a predicted curse that any U.S. presidentiables who have been elected in the years ending in ZERO. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and was assasinated. JFK was elected to office in 1960 and was assasinated. Reagan was elected in 1980 and he was shot in the chest.

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