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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, …

This is a pitch for my alma mater. I gave a talk about the Ate­neo sev­eral years ago to high school stu­dents in Cebu City. A part of this arti­cle has been repeat­edly quoted in alumni newslet­ters and ori­en­ta­tion kits. Here’s the arti­cle in full…
Why Go to the Ate­neo for Col­lege?
Eric San­til­lan
I’ll just share with you three things about my expe­ri­ence in Ate­neo de Manila. In an indi­rect way, what I’m really doing is answer­ing the ques­tion: WHY GO TO THE ATENEO?
Here are three rea­sons why I think you should go …

You prob­a­bly noticed the blog’s new “redesign”. Basi­cally, I made the ads col­umn more promi­nent by putting it on the left side of the blog so that as you scroll the post, you will be able to see the ads as well. This will hope­fully encour­age more adver­tis­ers to place their 125×125 ads on my blog (for this month, I’m offer­ing a 125×125 space at $10/month). If you want to adver­tise on my blog, please con­tact me. Oh and I would love your com­ments below about what you think about …

My friends have been quite curi­ous why I have been very con­sci­en­tious and con­sis­tent in blog­ging the past month. This was because about a month ago, I’ve decided to become semi-serious with this whole blog­ging thing. And I found this ser­vice that makes it truly worth­while for me to earn some money from blog­ging.
It’s called blog adver­tis­ing. In the last two weeks, I’ve actu­ally earned some $20 just writ­ing sev­eral 100 word arti­cles about web­sites. Adver­tis­ers are con­nected to blog­gers who write opin­ions about their ser­vices and give a link …

Found this really inter­est­ing book. It tells the story of AJ Jacobs’ quest to fol­low every sin­gle rule in the Bible — lit­er­ally. And he did this for one whole year.
So you can just imag­ine what hap­pened.
The author puts it this way:
–The book is an explo­ration of some of the Bible’s star­tlingly rel­e­vant rules. I tried not to covet, gos­sip, or lie for a year. I’m a jour­nal­ist in New York. This was not easy.
–It is an inves­ti­ga­tion of the rules that baf­fle the 21^st cen­tury brain. How to jus­tify the laws about …