I was in Grade School when I asked my par­ents for the uber cool Sony Walk­man. I wanted to buy it partly because my class­mates had it, and my friends used it when they were out with me. I also wanted it because ever since I was young I loved to lis­ten to music; and what could be cooler than being able to carry music around and lis­ten­ing to it when­ever I wanted to? Even before peo­ple started call­ing some­thing COOL, I knew the Sony Walk­man was… some­thing I had to have.

My mom told me that my Ninang/Godmother will give me the Sony Walk­man. And it’ll be so much bet­ter than what my friends had because it’ll come from the States. (It was a time when being “imported” auto­mat­i­cally meant bet­ter). And so I waited with bated breath for that imported Sony Walk­man that was to come “from the States”.

This is a plug about an activ­ity called IAmNinoy.

This August 21, we remem­ber a Fil­ipino who laid down his life for his nation, one who ded­i­cated a life of ser­vice and sac­ri­fice for his fel­low coun­try­men: Ninoy Aquino. And in remem­brance of his hero­ism, the Ninoy Aquino Foun­da­tion and the Ayala Young Lead­ers Alliance rec­og­nize the abil­ity of the youth to be heroes in their respec­tive fields. With this inspi­ra­tion, 100 youth indi­vid­u­als from dif­fer­ent back­grounds and sec­tors of soci­ety will given an oppor­tu­nity to relive Ninoy Aquino’s hero­ism through a con­gress enti­tled, “iamninoy:‘Connecting Young Fil­ipino Lead­ers’” on August 22–24 at The Aquino Museum, Tar­lac City.

My friend, Bro. Ogie Cabayao, SJ, has asked if I could “adver­tise” this in my blog. Ogie has an apos­to­late in Pay­atas and he’s orga­niz­ing a children’s choir. They need a gui­tar for their choir.
So if you have an extra gui­tar at home, or if you have the cash to spend it on, please donate to Bro. Ogie. You can leave him a mes­sage here.

adver­tis­ing

If you’re like me and you have a lot of free time in your hands (well, this is only until I start with my new job at least–but I do have a lot of free time in my hands now), then maybe you would like to check this thing out. I have joined AW Sur­veys. They pay you to answer sur­veys. Well, what they do is ask you to click on web­sites and then you’re sup­posed to eval­u­ate the web­sites. When I started, there were real sur­veys and the pay-out …

With updates below.
This was sent to me by my good friend TJ Agulto. He’s now bro­ker­ing prop­er­ties below mar­ket value. Basi­cally, his group wants to help peo­ple find liv­ing spaces that are com­fort­able, peace­ful and afford­able.
TJ was the for­mer Pres­i­dent (the tech­ni­cal term was OAC–Over All Coor­di­na­tor) of an org I was han­dling in the Ate­neo. When he grad­u­ated, he got the Most Out­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Award for his work with the Chris­t­ian Life Com­mu­nity, Socially Ori­ented Activ­i­ties (SOA), and most spe­cially with the group called Alay ni Ignacio, …