UPDATES BELOW The great news is that the Jesuits have elected a new Supe­rior Gen­eral to replace Fr. Peter Hans Kol­ven­bach (who is still very much alive, thank you!). Fr. Adolfo Nico­las, who was Pres­i­dent of the Jesuit Con­fer­ence of East Asia and Ocea­nia (JCEAO) (that means he stayed in the philip­pines, because the JCEAO office is in the Ate­neo de Manila Cam­pus), is the new Gen­eral of the 20,000 strong Soci­ety of Jesus.
Jesuit Gen­er­als are sup­posed to stay on for life, so a Gen­eral can­not be replaced until he …

This is an orig­i­nal song by the up-and-coming Marie Digby. It’s sup­posed to be a song meant for the hol­i­days, but just humor me with this. This is a less angsty and more hip ver­sion of My Grown-Up Christ­mas List. This is weird, but I can imag­ine lis­ten­ing to this while dri­ving all the way to Baguio. :-)
For those of you who have trou­ble with stream­ing videos, here’s a stream­ing audio ver­sion from Aimini.

Bring Me Love­Marie Dig­by­Dear Santa I wrote you a let­terI won­der if you ever read itI’ve only …

Web­site: Rags to Riches
URL: http://​www​.rags2riches​.ph/

This is the web­site of Rags to Riches which I have writ­ten about before. Rags to Riches gets first dibs at Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends because 1) I really believe in the project–I think it is worth­while and it can really make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of the women of Pay­atas, 2) The project is a good model for social entre­pre­neur­ship, and 3) I know the peo­ple who are involved there.
What helps make my job eas­ier is that their web­site is cool. I like its use …

Start­ing tomor­row, I will not be post­ing any­thing over the week­end. This is for sev­eral rea­sons:
1) I have found that I get very few hits on week­ends. Most of the blog read­ers here read my Sat­ur­day and Sun­day posts on Mon­day. If they have the time to read it. That’s just too many posts to be read in a sin­gle day. So I’ve decided to just do away with week­end posts alto­gether.
2) I can actu­ally make much bet­ter use of my time on week­ends by going around the net and …

Just some things I picked up here and there…For the nerd in all of us. :-)

* A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh cham­pagne will bounce up and down con­tin­u­ously from the bot­tom of the glass to the top.* A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.* Almonds are mem­bers of the peach fam­ily.* Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark’s stom­ach from under­neath, caus­ing the shark to explode.* Babies are born with­out knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2–6 years of …