Times have certainly changed since Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was last seen on Ayala Avenue standing underneath a rainstorm of yellow confetti.
Not only did the yellow-clad housewife return to the familiar and historical business district crossroads under very different circumstances, the people that surrounded her and the world they now lived in had changed immensely. At the corner of Paseo de Roxas and Ayala Avenues still stood the Insular Life Building, but in the place of the Napoleon Abueva concrete-and-metal outdoor sculpture was an electronic billboard that flashed only positive news, yesterday, aptly, images of Cory and her messages of hope. Twenty-three years later, tens of thousands showed up for Cory in the spirit of pagkakaisa, hopefully not for the very last time. But this time, almost everyone in the throng held a cellphone or digital camera, capturing images of every moment, ready to be uploaded onto some medium of propagation for all the world to see.
