Manila is beau­ti­ful. Believe it or not. I went on the tour of Car­los Cel­dran and it made me real­ize how impor­tant it is for us Fil­ipinos to have an under­stand­ing of the glory days our past so we know what we were capa­ble of, so that we know what we can be capa­ble of becoming.

This is partly a nos­tal­gia trip. and partly an indict­ment of the things we have done as a coun­try and as a peo­ple over the past fifty years. I hope we are shamed enough to do some­thing about it. We have the capac­ity and the poten­tial to be great once again.

During my free times, I just go to YouTube and watch dif­fer­ent com­mer­cials. It’s a good exer­cise. It allows me to see great touch­ing com­mer­cials that leave you awed and mes­mer­ized. I am amazed by the great minds who con­cep­tu­al­ize and put it into real­ity for us. This list are of the most touch­ing com­mer­cials I’ve watched.

And I real­ized they are all from Asia!

150 Years. 150 Things About the Ateneo. (101−150)">

This is the last of a three part series on 150 things about the Ate­neo. It’s dif­fi­cult to exhaust every­thing about the Ate­neo; so this is not an attempt at exhaust­ing every­thing about it, it is an attempt to show­case the beauty, and the his­tory, as well as talk about triv­ial things we prob­a­bly do not know about it. I hope it helps all of us Ate­neans (and even those who aren’t) cel­e­brate our expe­ri­ence and cel­e­brate the great­ness of who we are, what we stand for.

This is what we are about. This is the Ate­neo Way.

150 Years. 150 Things About the Ateneo. (51−100)">

We started with the First 50 last week, and we are con­tin­u­ing with the next 50 things about the Ateneo.

150 Years. 150 Things About The Ateneo (First 50)">

I apol­o­gize to non-Ateneans who will be read­ing this. But this is a unabashed expres­sion of love to my alma mater. This year is the Sesqui­cen­ten­nial (it means 150^th year anniversary–I didn’t even know there was such a word until the Arneow started using the term!) of the school. And there are a lot to be thank­ful for. These are 150 odds and ends about the Ateneo…