This is some­thing we could all learn from here in the Philip­pines. We have our own ver­sions of the work done in Bogota, Colom­bia, but it would be great to have more and more cities in the Philip­pines doing this.

It starts with erad­i­cat­ing cor­rup­tion. And peo­ple doing what they are paid to do, and were elected to do. And it also includes every­one else’s coop­er­a­tion. But it is pos­si­ble. It can be done. We do not have a choice.

If two peo­ple are meant for each other, it doesn’t mean that they are meant for each other NOW.”

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.