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On the political front, I remember taking part in the noise barrage of 1978 in support of Ninoy Aquino and the opposition candidates for the Batasan. Maingay sa neighborhood namin and inspite of that, according to Leonardo Perez's Comelec, the opposition got 0 (ZERO) votes in our area! :thumbsdownsmiley: What a bunch of crooks!

 

Pero the following are things I enjoyed doing then:

1. Playing at the Rizal Park's playground

2. Going to some not-so-fancy beaches in Cavite and Batangas (kahit na maraming dikya sa tubig)

3. Upon the start of the school year (after the end of summer vacation), making fun of classmates na hindi pa nag-patuli. :D

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Welcome to the thread willow boy.

 

Noong 70s sikat ang mga beaches like Tali Beach, White Sands and Matabungkay. The best para sa akin noon ang Hundred Islands. :thumbsupsmiley:

 

Uso rin noon ang Makiling, Pansol and Pagsanjan. Kapag Mayo oks din ang Hinulugang Taktak sa Antipolo. :cool:

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I got this from an email. Nostagia of the late 60's but most of the things mentioned remained icons of the 70s.

 

 

The year was 1968. The population of the country was 35 million.

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>Pres. Marcos was into his third year in office. The vice president was

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>Fernando Lopez. The senate president was Gil Puyat and the speaker was

>Cornelio Villareal.

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>Among the senators then were Benigno Aquino, Raul Manglapus,

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>Gerardo Roxas and Arturo Tolentino. The mayor of Manila was Antonio

>Villegas.

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>Its archbishop was Cardinal Rufino Santos. The civil service commisioner

>was

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>Abelardo Subido. the AFP chief of staff was Gen. Ernesto Mata.

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>Hollywood stars Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn had long been gone and a

>younger

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>set has taken their place, in the likes of Rock Hudson and Paul Newman, and

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>lately then, Steve McQueen. Among recording stars, Paul Anka and Neil

>Sedaka

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>were still around, and Elvis Presley, the King, as he was known as, had

>been

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>virtually dethroned with the invasion by the Beatles. The Beatles, by the

>way

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>had just been chased away at the MIA by angry fans in Manila for allegedly

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>snubbing the First Lady with their impolite refusal to perform in

>Malacanang.

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>The newest theaters in Manila then were Odeon, Roxanne and Cinerama -

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>they joined the older ones, namely, State, Avenue, Ideal, Times, Lyric and

>Capitol.

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>Still around were the Clover theater and the Manila Grand Opera House which

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>offered live shows and featuring such talent singers as Pat Salem and Dinky

>Doo,

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>and the Reycard Duet.

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>With the newest dance craze, discos had begun to mushroom in metropolitan

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>areas, discoteque having captured the country by storm. Nora Aunor had just

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>recently won the championship in the famous Tawag ng Tanghalan. Among the

>most

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>popular TV comedy shows then were Oras ng Ligaya with Sylvia La Torre and

>Oscar Obligacion,

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>Tang tarang Tang with Bentot, and the game and talent shows, Darigold

>Jamboree hosted

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>by Pepe Pimentel and Student Canteen hosted by Leila Benitez and

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>Eddie Ilarde. Popular TV announcers included Bong Lapira, Lito Gorospe and

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>Vic Pacia. Radio personalities included announcers Johnny de Leon and

>Rafael Yabut,

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>and daytime soap opera king, Ben David. Glittering in popularity on the

>silver

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>screen were the feuding Susan Roces and Amalia Fuentes, Charito Solis, Rita

>Gomez,

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>Josephine Estrada, Jean Lopez, Gloria Romero, Helen Gamboa, Shirley

>Gorospe,

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>Cynthia Ugalde, Marlene Dauden, Daisy Romualdez, oh there were so many and

>the

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>list could go on and on. The leading male stars were Luis Gonzales, Ric

>Rodrigo,

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>Joseph Estrada, Fernando Poe Jr., Zaldy Zhornack, Tony Ferrer. They were

>with

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>the new generation that took the places of Rosa del Rosario, Mila del Sol,

>Rosa Rosal,

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>Rogelio dela Rosa , Leopoldo Salcedo, Jose Padilla, Eddie del Mar and Oscar

>Moreno.

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>The villains or contra-vidas were Max Alvarado, Rocco Montalban, Nort

>Nepomuceno,

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>Rod Navarro, Paquito Diaz, Bino Garcia. The top action star was stuntman,

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>Jess Lapid. The sex goddesses were Divina Valencia and Stella Suarez,

>though like

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>Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and Brigitte Bardot, were nowhere compared to

>the

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>bold stars of today when it comes to skin exposure. The new leading

>recording star

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>then was Eddie Peregrina with his hit, "What Am I Living For." We had many

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>comedians too such as Apeng Daldal, Chiquito, Pugak and Patsy. And oh yes,

>the

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>Maggie dela Riva case was then hitting the headlines.

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>The leading newspapers then were the Manila Times, Manila Chronicle, Manila

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>Daily Bulletin, The Daily Mirror and the Evening News. The leading weeklies

>were

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>the Philippines Free Press, the Nation and Kislap-Graphic. The top

>columnists

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>and journalists were Teodoro Valencia, Teodoro Locsin, Jose Guevarra,

>Maximo

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>Soliven, Amando Doronila, J.V. Cruz, Filemon V. Tutay, Jose Luna Castro,

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>Jose Quirino and Napoleon G. Rama.

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>The literary circle was dominated by Nick Joaquin, N.V.M. Gonzales,

>Bienvenido

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>Santos, Wilfrido Nolledo and Kerima Polotan.

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>The largest university in point of enrollment was the F.E.U., and among the

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>high schools, it was Torres High.

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>Rodolfo Reyes of San Beda emerged as bar topnotcher in that year.

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>Polo, Bulacan was not yet Valenzuela City . Azcarraga had just been

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>renamed Recto Boulevard .

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>To combat traffic congestion, the Quiapo Underpass had been built.

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>The ball-pen and the transistor radio which came out about the same time,

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>had been around for some eight years. And so had been the tilapia culture.

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>The Ambuklao had been supplying our place with electricity for 4 years

>then.

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>Bungalows were then becoming ubiquitous, and TV antennas on rooftops

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>were then a status symbol.

>

>Boys still greased their hair then with pomade or solidified brillantine

>using

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>such products as Tancho and Three Flowers.

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>Anti-perspirant was just newly invented and introduced in the market, and

>the

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>first brands to come out were Mum and Arrid.

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>People wore Ang Tibay, kids wore Elpo and Marcelo rubber shoes, and

>basketball

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>players wore white Chuck Taylor converse shoes.

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>Tricycles had become a popular means of local transportation in local areas

>in

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>addition to calesas that were still around.

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>Only a few had cars which were mostly stick shift, but new cars with

>automatic

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>transmissions just came out and were called "hydra-matics".

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>One gasoline company was then carrying the slogan "Put a tiger in your

>tank,

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>with ESSO".

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>The most popular brands of cigarettes in addition to the classic ones were

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>Golden Key and Old Gold. Also, Salem (which was then pronounced

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>over there as Sah-lem) and with its ad, "You can take Salem out of the

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>country But, you can't make the country out of Salem."

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>Vegetable oil was not yet in use. People used lard or animal oil, the most

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>popular of which were Purico, and Cenvoco, "the mantekang pantahanan".

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>Among the magarines, the most popular was Star Margarine (mispronounced

>there as mar-ga-rin).

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>There were no Xerox copy machines; photostats were made instead and were

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>costly. Mimeograph machines were still very much in use. There were hardly

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>any color pictures; most were still in black and white.

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>There were no cassettes yet; tape recorders had reel-to-reel.

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>In addition to the 78 rpm records and long playing albums for phonographs,

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>we had the 45 rpm and the 8-track. Jukeboxes were having their last picture

>show

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>and were no longer as common as during the 50's.

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>Influenced by such movies as "Westside Story" in the past, street gangs

>proliferated

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>in Manila especially Tondo, the biggest of which were perhaps the OXO, the

>Sigue-sigue, and the Apaches.

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>The transportation from one point to another in the city had just been

>raised to

>

>20 centavos; for 25 years before that, it was just 10 centavos.

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>Teachers pay on the top of the scale was 286 pesos a month.

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>The exchange rate had just been raised: 3.85 pesos to the dollar. For 30

>long

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>years prior to that, it had been 2 pesos to the dollar.

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>Naalaala Mo Pa Ba ? ? ?

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>Naaalala mo pa ba noon na:

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>1. diyes lang ang pamasahe, kandong libre pa

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>2. ang babae lang ang may hikaw

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>3. ang preso lang ang may tattoo

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>4. si Erap at FPJ ay sa showbiz section lang ng dyaryo nababasa

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>5. ang intindi mo ng LOL ay ULOL imbes na Laughing Out Loud

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>6. ARCEGAS at ESCOLTA ang shoppingan sa bansa

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>7. diyes lang ang isang basong taho

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>8. at kailangan mong magdala ng sarili mong baso, kasi wala pang plastic

>cups noon si manong na magtataho

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>9. chocnut, bukayo at kending vicks ang pinag-gagastusan mo ng sinko mo

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>10. Sarsi with egg, star margarine, at matamis na bao sa umaga ang

>pampataba

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>11. nagkaka-kalyo ka dahil sa manual typewriter pa ang ginagamit mo para sa

>school paper mo

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>12. kaya uso pa noon ang carbon paper

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>13. at tancho o superman ang pang-ayos mo ng buhok

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>14. KLIM ang tinitimpla ng nanay mo para sa'yo para inumin mo bago matulog

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>15. nakakapag-grocery ka na 20 piso lang ang dala

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>16. anim na numero lang ang kailangan mong tandaan para tawagan ang

>kaibigan mo

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>17. computer cards ang iyung tinutupi para maging barilbarilan

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>18. singkwenta sentimos lang ang songhits

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>19. pango pa si Vilma

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>20. kay paeng yabut ka lang naniniwala pag-ukol sa panahon ang balita

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>21. sinkwenta sentimos lang ang pa-gupit

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>22. pinagtatawanan ang kalbo

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>23. hindi uso ang gusot na buhok at damit

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>24. nakakahiya kung nakalitaw ang halfslip ng babae, ngayon nakadisplay pa

>ang pusod

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>25. lalaki pa noon si ernie maceda at senator sonny osmena

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>26. hostess pa ang tawag, ngayon GRO na

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>27. sa escolta ka namimili ng pamasko mo

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>28. payat na payat ka pa noon

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>29. highway 54 pa noon at wala pang EDSA.

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>30. malago pa ang buhok mo

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>31. Jingle lang at Songhits nakakanta na.. ngayon naka Kareoke pa.

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>32. $1.00 = 4 pesos

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>33. Si Dolphy matanda na, hanggang ngayon buhay pa at nag aanak pa.

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>34. Sa Quiapo dati "praise the lord", ngayon "salaam alekum" na.

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On the political front, I remember taking part in the noise barrage of 1978 in support of Ninoy Aquino and the opposition candidates for the Batasan.  Maingay sa neighborhood namin and inspite of that, according to Leonardo Perez's Comelec, the opposition got 0 (ZERO) votes in our area!  :thumbsdownsmiley:  What a bunch of crooks!

 

Naka relate ako dito bro... :P LEONARDO PEREZ....the man we all loved to hate then. :thumbsdownsmiley:

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I can't remember much from the 70's... all i know is 5 or 10 cents binibli me ng lolo ko ng candy or sampaloc... imagine how Peso is worth that much before... I think I can remember I can use my 1 cent to buy candies or plastic toys sa tindahan... ah, well of course, I think late 70s na ang Voltes V, mga 4pm or 5pm yata nun.. lahat ng bata uwian at akyatan sa mga bahay nila pag Voltes V

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mababaw lang kaligayahan namin nun. imagine walang malls, walang fastfood. luneta ant manila bay lang pasyalan ok na. minsan sang linggo kumakain kami sa ma-mon-luk o sa aristocrat hapi na kami.

 

cartoons sa tv at konting larong kalye in between studies. 25c na coke at 30c na chippy o lobster chips sa sari-sari store ni manang staple ko nun. oto ni erpat nun parang oto ni batman fairlane 500 kasi mura pa gas nun at kasya kaming mag-anak dun. at ang bonus may discount kami sa bus o jeep nun pakita mo lang school i.d. mo.

 

ganun kasarap nun, walang class-consciousness mga tao at magagalang mga bata. lahat kasi takot ke makoy. :thumbsupsmiley:

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mababaw lang kaligayahan namin nun. imagine walang malls, walang fastfood. luneta ant manila bay lang pasyalan ok na. minsan sang linggo kumakain kami sa ma-mon-luk o sa aristocrat hapi na kami.

 

cartoons sa tv at konting larong kalye in between studies. 25c na coke at 30c na chippy o lobster chips sa sari-sari store ni manang staple ko nun. oto ni erpat nun parang oto ni batman fairlane 500 kasi mura pa gas nun at kasya kaming mag-anak dun. at ang bonus may discount kami sa bus o jeep nun pakita mo lang school i.d. mo.

 

ganun kasarap nun, walang class-consciousness mga tao at magagalang mga bata. lahat kasi takot ke makoy. :thumbsupsmiley:

 

sinabi mo

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Bang Bang & Faded Glory jeans ang pumalit sa double knit pants at wet-look polo shirts.

 

Super flair ang laylayan ng pantalon na hindi na makita ang paa kahit suot na sapatos ay clogs sa kapal ng swelas at takong. Tapos long hair. This style is best seen if one sees old posters of the Boyfriends or VST & Co.

 

So ubiquitous pa sa lansangan ng manila ang mga red wooden bus ng JD Transit. Kung dilaw naman eh De Dios Transit.

 

DMG ang local assembler ng VW Beetles at ang assembly plant nila ay ang naging violago complex sa E. Rodriques next to de los santos hospital.

 

Malawak at open lawn pa ang harap ng Stella Maris college along Aurora Blvd. sa cubao.

 

Along with New Frontier Cinema ay meron ding New Frontier supermarket sa Araneta Center. Tapos ng mawala, biglang sikat naman ang Queens supermarket chain of stores.

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