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10 Videos That Made The Philippines">

Some years ago, I lis­tened to a CD called, “20 Speeches That Changed A Nation”. It was a list of 20 Speeches that changed, made and molded our coun­try into what it is now. In homage to that, and bor­row­ing from that idea, I am fea­tur­ing 10 Videos that I think best rep­re­sent, or show us what this coun­try is all about. As with the other lists I have made (The 10 Great­est Self-Made Men in Philip­pine His­tory, or The 10 Women That Changed Philip­pine His­tory), this one is by no means defin­i­tive. But I have tried my best to get a good sam­pling from all over.

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Air pol­lu­tion is everybody’s prob­lem. Every time we drive a car or ride a bus, we add things to the air that harm other peo­ple. But we don’t need to only be a part of the prob­lem, we can be part of the solu­tion. There are a lot of ways to solve the pol­lu­tion prob­lem, but I think this has to be one the coolest things around.

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.

I read this the other day and felt that it could very well be the best thing writ­ten on the flood that plagued the Metro. I like it because it does not jus­tify nor spir­i­tu­al­ize any­thing about it; while at the same time, it keeps its eye on the God who suf­fers with us in all these calamities.

It’s by Fr. Jett Vil­larin, Pres­i­dent of my alma mater, Xavier Uni­ver­sity (where I went to for high school).