Friday, July 30, 2010

Back in 1989.....

Majority of IDs 106 and 107 as well as some of ID 108 were born in the year 1989, at the time when the Cold War was about to come to end and the Internet age was at its infancy. Of course, remember the bloodiest coup during the Cory Aquino administration? So much to remember about the year that wrapped up the 1980s.

Well, a lot of us nowadays think it was nothing but a distant memory. We grew up in the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter age and listened to our teen idols like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. Well, for us to remember what happened, here are some images that captured our imagination when we're still babies.

Remember the man in front of the tank during the Tiananmen Square protests? Of course, the dissident Chinese students who demand a change of reforms to the Chinese government. In the end, however, the government cracked down on the protesters. To this day, the matter remains unresolved. (Photo courtesy of AP)


The walls are crumbling. November 9 was the day the Cold War reached its turning point, as the Berlin Wall in Germany was dismantled. The East German government finally opened the border between East and West Berlin that has been closed for nearly three decades. In the days that followed, jubilant East Germans tore down the wall, as Ronald Reagan has asked Mikhail Gorbachev two years earlier, and finally crossed the West for the first time in three decades. Germany would later reunite into a single country a year later. (Photo courtesy of AP)

Events like these changed the world and eventually brought the world back to its stable self after so many years. Wonder what will happen in 2010 and in subsequent years? If the trend continues, then we may live in too many countries and in too many races.

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