The Coolest Random Cool Posts in Ang Peregrino

It’s been almost two years since I started this blog (my first post was on May 1, 2006) and I think it is but right to go back to all the cool Ran­dom Cool posts posted here (whew! how many times did I say cool and post there?). There are a lot to choose from. And the ones men­tioned here are from way way back.

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1. Torn

Funny video. And Natalie Imbruglia even makes a (not so) sur­prise appear­ance, which tran­si­tions the video from just being funny to being really COOL.

2. Don’t Believe Your Report Card

One of the best grad­u­a­tion speeches given. No, so far, I think the best speech ever given to a grad­u­at­ing class. Very real­is­tic. Very funny. Very cool. No preachy lessons. Noth­ing about fly­ing high and being excel­lent. Just plain old friend­ship and rela­tion­ship. Because as a very wise Jesuit used to tell us, “In the end, it’s all about rela­tion­ships.”

3. Who Would Make a Great WonderWoman

I’ve updated it since the last time I wrote it two or some­thing years ago. The title is self-explanatory. So go there and check out the babes, I mean, the girls.

4. Gui­ness World Record??!!

Around 1,500 inmates/prisoners of the Cebu Provin­cial Deten­tion and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter, Cebu City, philip­pines, danc­ing Michael Jackson’s thriller. Eter­nal rest grant unto him. May he rest in peace.

5. 17 Ways to Find Your Passion

There’s a big myth in our cul­ture: that pas­sion can only be spon­ta­neous. You either love your job or you don’t. You either enjoy exer­cis­ing or hate it. You are inter­ested in read­ing books or you find them bor­ing. That pas­sion can’t be forced or created.

But this arti­cle proves that you can find your pas­sion. You just have to find a way to look.

6. Work­place Eti­quette (And Gov­ern­ment Offices)

It’s sad that here in the Philip­pines, when you talk about gov­ern­ment or “pub­lic” offices, insti­tu­tions and sys­tems, it’s usu­ally described as hav­ing lower class stan­dards com­pared to pri­vate insti­tu­tions. Our image of the Gov­ern­ment office is that dinghy, paint-running-off the wall, water marks run­ning from the ceil­ing, cramped, make-shift office in a run­down building.

Read this arti­cle and maybe you can also help rant.

7. World’s Best Presentation

I got this from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. These are the win­ners of the World’s Best Pre­sen­ta­tion Con­test. They’re really worth check­ing out if only to see how near or far your own pow­er­point or keynote pre­sen­ta­tions are from these win­ners. Part of the arti­cle are a series of tips on how to improve your presentations.

8. Don’t Vote

This is the DON’T VOTE Cam­paign in the US dur­ing the last Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions. You have to see the video. It had celebri­ties talk­ing about issues. I hope we have some­thing like this in our coun­try for the 2010 elections.

Our own celebri­ties would talk about the right to health care, and poverty alle­vi­a­tion, and infra­struc­ture improve­ments, peace and order, taxes, for­eign debt, the envi­ron­ment, edu­ca­tion, graft and cor­rup­tion. For a change, they’d be talk­ing about issues and not per­son­al­i­ties. Funny how it would take celebri­ties and per­son­al­i­ties to talk about issues.

Because if we want some change to hap­pen in this coun­try, we have to con­tinue hop­ing that change will hap­pen, and that free­dom is at hand; and that change begins with each one of us.

And if there is to be real change, the youth has to stand up and be counted in 2010.

Because the future begins now.

9. Why We Love Kids So Much

Kids just say the darnedest things! Here is proof of that.

10. Bas­ket­ball is a Brotherhood

Not every­body can be great in bas­ket­ball. Only very few can play at the high­est level, and every year, some­body else comes along from col­lege to take over the pre­cious spots of those play­ing in the pros.

But the rest of us become part of it still. Whether in cheer­ing our­selves hoarse dur­ing games, or in giv­ing moral sup­port to play­ers out­side the court or buy­ing team mer­chan­dise. We cry when they lose and we get that warm fuzzy feel­ing when they win. We take a leave from our work just to watch them dur­ing cham­pi­onship games. And every­time they play, we cheer our hearts out and our throat hoarse. And we will be here no mat­ter what. Win or lose.

Because bas­ket­ball?

It’s a brotherhood.

11. Man Tries to Pay Over­due Bill with a Spi­der Drawing

Found this story, and thought it’s really funny.

David Thorne’s alleged con­ver­sa­tion with an account clerk in which she refused to accept the child­ish paint­ing as pay­ment but agreed to email it back to him has been for­warded around the world. See for your­self what the fuss is all about.

12. 20 Sim­ple and Free Ways to Be Happy

I got this from Reader’s Digest. I think it’s a must read for every­one. Some­times, we com­pli­cate our lives too much that we fail to see that it really takes so lit­tle to be really happy.

13. 10 Traits of a Suc­ces­ful Human Being

Eric Hamm wrote this piece and I con­cur with every­thing he says here in this post. Read it to see how you can be

14. How My Legs Give Me Superpowers

This is Aimee Mullins talk­ing about how she over­came adver­sity and helped changed the con­ver­sa­tion in soci­ety from dis­abil­ity to augmentation.

“The con­ver­sa­tion with Soci­ety has changed pro­foundly in this last decade. It is no longer a con­ver­sa­tion about over­com­ing defi­ciency. It is a con­ver­sa­tion about aug­men­ta­tion. It is a con­ver­sa­tion about potential.

A pros­thetic limb doesn’t rep­re­sent the need to replace what is lost any­more. It can stand as a sym­bol that the wearer has the power to cre­ate what­ever it is that they want to cre­ate in that space.”

Nuff said.

15. The Impor­tance of Prac­ti­cal Wisdom

This is another TEDTalk. This time from Barry Schwartz and the impor­tance of wis­dom. This is the anti­dote to a soci­ety gone mad with bureau­cracy. He argues pow­er­fully that rules often fail us, incen­tives often back­fire, and prac­ti­cal, every­day wis­dom will help rebuild our world.

So there you have it. The 15 Coolest Ran­dom Cool Post in AngPere­grino so far. Hope you enjoyed read­ing as much as I did review­ing those articles.