Final Answer.

Screw this. You call it "a matter of the body" or of "material pragmatism."
I say I WILL FIGHT TO MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE IN MY HEART I KNOW OUR PEOPLE DESERVE BETER. Months of discernment has led me to this: I as a Catholic, support the Reproductive Health Bill. I do so in good will, and in good conscience. This world is not merely for us to practice Catholic doctrine. This world is to be lived in good faith, through the example of Christ. It is both a matter of the body and a matter of the mind. It is both of material pragmatism and spiritual idealism. I know better than to seperate this world with the next. Heaven is NOT my goal, rather my final destination. My goal is The Kingdom ON EARTH as it is in Heaven. Splagchnizomai is my way. I will not be a meek sheep. I will be what God has called us to be. I will be as Jesus has revealed us to be. I too will be the good shepherd. I too will be the man for others. I too will live my life in this simple way, and I too shall say that let the Scribes and Pharasees come and have me crucified. I would rather like my saviour die, bleeding on a cross, than to say I had not fought at all for what my conscience dictates. Quo Vadis Ateneo? We go to be shepherds as well.

FINAL ANSWER.

Ateneo’s Freudian slip
By Minyong Ordoñez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:34:00 12/17/2008
Filed Under: Schools, Family planning, Legislation, Religion & Belief

Methinks Ateneo de Manila University’s big blue advertisement for its 150th year, which appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer last Dec. 10, is a Freudian slip. Why was Ateneo buying expensive two full pages of advertising and making a big deal of proclaiming its deepening spirituality? Is the depth of Ateneo’s spirituality being doubted nowadays?

Or was the big blue ad a mea culpa, mea maxima culpa for the shallow spirituality reflected in the defiance of the Catholic Church’s magisterium by 14 Ateneo professors who wrote a position paper that Catholics could support the Reproductive Health Bill in good conscience? Where did these 14 professors get the authority to interpret the official teachings of the Church?

Forty-two world-class Catholic scholars from North America, Europe and the Middle East were aghast! Aghast enough to rebuke the Ateneo professors with an authentic Catholic discernment proving that Ateneo de Manila academics are greatly mistaken. No Catholic can in good conscience support House Bill 5043.

In the big blue ad, Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, S.J., president of the Ateneo de Manila University, focused his message on Ignatian spirituality, tracing its roots to the classic spiritual exercises. Popularly called retreat, it was conceived by Jesuit founder St. Ignatius of Loyola. It is de rigueur for priests and lay persons pursuing personal spirituality and holiness.

Nebres defines spirituality as the spirituality that understands the way of the cross, a terrific insight that hits the nail on the head. It is precisely the kind of spirituality that’s patently omitted in the rationale of the RH bill.

Many congressmen and congresswomen who favor the bill insist that they are good Catholics. They are conversant with the economics of poverty but not fully knowledgeable or playing possum on doctrinal matters.

Sanctity of life. Divine dignity of women. Selfless love within the family. These are the pillars of strength of an authentic Christian living, and of a society with unerring moral compass.

Population demographers, social engineers, secularized politicians, hip-shooting opinion peddlers, modernist theologians plus the 14 Ateneo professors have got their values anchored on practical materialism and personalism. They cannot discern Pope Benedict XVI’s teachings on agape (self-less and sacrificial love for family). Or Fr. Nebres’ Christ-centered insight on spirituality that understands the way of the cross.

Many Ateneo alumni of the 1950s and 1960s underwent outstanding tutelage from doctrinal Jesuits of the post-war years. To cite a few: John P. Delaney, S.J., who championed the sanctity of marriage and devotion to the Holy Eucharist among Ateneo and University of the Philippines students; Fr. Henry McCollough, S.J., who taught that faith and reason is the right approach in understanding and practice of the Catholic faith; Fr. Lino Banayad, S.J., a Catechism expert who clearly defined what’s wrong and what’s right in his ethics classes; Fr. Catalino Arevalo, S.J., a top-rate theologian who can explain the Catholic faith in simple human terms; Fr. Horacio de La Costa, S.J., a world-class historian who found Catholicism as the driver of time-honored Filipino values; and Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J., an inspiring retreat master and marriage counselor, a father confessor with a soothing doctrinal admonition.

Many Ateneo alumni are asking questions. Whatever happened to “Ratio Studiorum,” the Jesuit-conceived curriculum concept that inspired many Ateneans in the past to pursue excellence of mind and spirit? What is happening out there in Loyola Heights? Are there two schools of thought in Ateneo today?

On one side are followers of the Church magisterium who obey the Church teachings with humility as taught by Jesus Christ in his Sermon on the Mount. On the other side are a coterie of modernists, populists and personalists whose attitude on Catholicism is a matter of feel not faith, a matter of body and not of soul, a matter of material pragmatism not spiritual idealism, a matter of worldliness not of saintliness and a matter of selfish love not self-less love.

The media savvy lawyer and priest, Fr. Joaquin Bernas, S.J., who wrote his opinion on the RH Bill does not augment Fr. Nebres’ kind of spirituality at all. He chose to skin the cat in many ways, replete with ifs and buts, hence the good father was disabled from making a truly Catholic stand on morality. Methinks Fr. Bernas is too fascinated with life in a pluralistic society. He chose to be a politically correct constitutionalist first, an ordained Catholic priest second.

A top-rating TV preacher in America, the late Bishop Fulton Sheen, had an unequivocal view on moral issues. He said, “Right is right even if only one person believes it and millions don’t. And wrong is wrong even if millions think it’s right and only one thinks it’s wrong.”

Quo vadis, Ateneo?

Minyong Ordoñez is a retired chair of Publicis Group of Companies, a Paris-based communication company. He is an Ateneo alumnus, High School 1955 and Bachelor of Science in Journalism 1961. Email: hgordonez@gmail.com

Pinoy Kanto Twilight

Blatantly stolen from Aldo Tong and Karen Santos >.< I just HAD to repost this.

TWILIGHT
(Filipino kanto boy's version)

Kasi pare ganito daw yun. may isa daw babae na hot daw pare. pero maputla siya kasi hindi siya inalagaan ng nanay niya pare. tapos pare emo daw siya kasi nga daw hindi siya mahal ng mundo at para siyang patay na bata na galit sa mundo. tapos pare, lumipat daw siya ng tirahan kasi daw masyado daw siyang emo para sa luma niyang tirahan. sabi niya sa nanay niya "tangina mo nay gusto ko lumipat kay tay". tangina pare hindi nagalit nanay niya. sabi lang ng nanay niya "tangina mo pare wag ka magmura".

So lumipat siya sa tatay niya di ba? pagkarating niya dun sabi niya, "tangina erpat bakit maulan dito?" sabi ng erpat niya "gago "bur" months na! malamig na tangena". so nagtaka yung babaeng simula ngayon ay tatawagin na lang nating "babaeng maputla at emo".

So pumasok siya sa school di ba? binigyan siya ng truck ng tatay niya pare. sabi ng tatay niya "tangina mo sa'yo na tong truck ko". sabi niya "salamat tay".

Pagkarating niyang school tsong, may nakita siyang lalaking mukhang bangkay pero pogi. sakto. pogi pero mukhang bangkay. sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "hot pare".

Nung chem lab na ni babaeng maputla at emo, natagpuan niyang lab partner niya yung poging bangkay. so nung tinignan siya nung poging bangaky, ang asim ng mukha nito. mukhang nandiri ata kay babaeng maputla at emo.

Sabi ni poging bangkay "tangina mo". sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "tangina KA". sabi ni poging bangkay "tangina NIYA oh *tumuro sa teacher nila*". sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "oo nga noh. TANGINA MO". sabi ni poging bangkay "tangina mo gago bampira ako". tapos naghubad siya ng damit at kumintab ang katawan niya kasi linagyan niya ng glitters ang abs niya kasi tigas siya at ganun na ang mga tigas ngayon na nagpupuntang emba.
So pare na in love si babaeng maputla at emo kay poging bangkay. si poging bangkay naman sige lang kasi sex din daw yun. so ayun. angshweet shweet nila.

"Eow poh... ahihihihi"

"Bebe mwahugz,..... ^^,"

So tapos nun nagpunta sila sa damuhan kasi.... alam mo na. tapos sabi ni poging bangkay "ikaw na buhay ko ngayon" sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "tangina mo gago patay ka na". sabi ni poging bangkay "TANGINA KA".

Tapos nagsex sila

So basically pare yun lang yung mga importanteng nangyari sa buong storya. intense noh? kaya pala nahhook lahat ng tao.

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Imagined Poverty

Intro: Benedict Anderson explained in his article "Imagined Communities" that the difference between Imagined and Imaginary is that Imaginary means simply a construction purely in one's imagination. The thing imaginary is simply a figment of imagination without realistic grounding. Imagined on the other hand, at least in his defined social sense, simply entails a mental construction that has a realistic social grounding, although lacking in actual physical affinity.

Borrowing Ben Anderson's definition of Imagined, I would like to apply it to poverty, and thus defining a concept of imagined poverty. Imagined poverty is the feeling of poverty that has a social, even a pseudo physical basis, but in comparison to true poverty, it pales drastically.

Now, back to regular programming.

26% of our population live under conditions of gross malnutrition. That's a shy 3% difference from sub-saharan Africa. What's worse is that most of this gross malnutrition happens in the poorest of provinces, hidden from the eyes of the bourgeois. Really, the only people who can help the hungry are those who have food to spare. The problem is, either they don't know about the hungry, or they think themselves poor as well. Point one is that I myself was shocked to discover the above statistics for myself. I'm pretty sure the same goes to most of the members of the ABCs. Point two is that in these times of crises, and as the Philippines is always in a crisis, the people think to themselves that "hard times are coming," so they save up, conserve, panic buy, and other popular middle class defence mechanisms. This is precisely imagined poverty. The ABCs are too busy thinking of their shrinking wealth, and how times are getting harder, that they fail to discover a class yet below theirs. The Ds and Es are forgotten. Those who have had nothing to begin with are left to the periphery of some obscure province somewhere they don't care to tread. It's a sad case of out of sight, out of mind. This is precisely the problem with imagined poverty... We fail to realize that our dwindling wealth is not merely our own, but it was meant to be shared with those who have none. Instead of investing your savings in the stock market (another imagined institution) and wait for funds to theoretically grow, why don't we invest in people? Why don't we invest in infrastructure? Why not in new businesses? Why not in social enterprises? Jobs are created, wealth is shared, and a sense of community ensues. It is when we connect with the periphery, getting to know them, do we understand their needs, and with our resources and educated minds, we can bring about a sense of true community. Egalite. Fraternite. Liberte. It's not about our individual imagined poverty. It's about sustainable growth in the community. We may be as Anderson said, an imagined community, but the affinity does not necessarily need to be theoretical.

Economics for Poverty

When someone says company, people think profit, growth potential, supply and demaind, market shares etc.

Hapinoy. It's not an NGO, and it's not an outreach program. It's a company. It makes money from it's business, and it's growth potential is great. It helps women all over the Philippines improve the lives of their families, and it brings together a network of sari-sari stores that have the common goal of building better lives for everyone. It is open to new home made products, and open up small scale producers to wider markets. They are not merely a company. They are a social enterprise. (To learn more about Hapinoy, visit (http://www.hapinoy.com)

The problem with companies isn't that they do not have the potential to be social enterprises. On the contrary, as Hapinoy has shown, companies can more than simply money making enterprises that seeks only the growth of it's wealth. It's about paradigms. When companies seek only for profit, they then only see solutions that lead to profit. When they seek to improve the lives of people, as well as make a profit, then the solutions they find leads to a better life for all. What most can learn from the Hapinoy experience is that the problem with market enterprises is that they precisely look at humanity as merely one of two things: producer, or market. We are merely statistics. Market enterprises lack humanity. As Raul Lejano once told us in class, the future lies in networks, or in this case, social enterprises. It is only once we truly get to know the producer, as well as the consumer do we get to truly succeed. Growth comes not merely from the central company but also from the collective efforts of producer, company, and consumer. The whole point of economy is to make like better.

Ranting.

Lecheng Humanae Vitae yan. Sana di nalang siya naisulat nang Paul VI na yan. Andaming unsolid points ng document, patuloy parin ginagamit... HAAAAAAY.

P.S. The UST people can just go suck my humanities.

A Failed Catholic University

"As a Catholic University, the Ateneo de Manila seeks to form persons who, following the teachings and example of Christ, will devote their lives to the service of others and, through the promotion of justice, serve especially those who are most in need of help, the poor and the powerless. Loyal to the teachings of the Catholic Church, the University seeks to serve the Faith and to interpret its teachings to modern Philippine society."

Reading this on the university website, a cross between a frown and a smirk formed on my face.

A newspaper article by John Nery in the PDI that initially came out on the 25th of November discussed how the calls for change in the 40 year old "Down From The Hill" Manifesto of Ateneo's Martial Law days have, in a sense, come into being. The Ateneo, more than any other tertiary institution has made a distinctive mark in Philippine society. It is proudly a venue for the discourse of the essence, effects, and solutions of social realities. We are proudly a collection of some of the Philippines' best minds. We are scientists, professionals, trained by the best in both an intellectual, physical, and social sense. The fact that multiple university affiliated organizations discuss and deliberate stands on key social issues serve to show a university steeped in social value. We have succeeded in this sense. As a Catholic university though, we have failed.

Passing by Zen Garden today, I stopped by the social awareness canopies displayed at the center. The largest of the issue walls was that concerning the Reproductive Health Bill. Various Ateneo socially oriented organizations such as the Ateneo Debate Society, Entablado, the Assembly, and other organizations such as the Ateneo Statistics Circle, the Ateneo Economics Association and the Ateneo Student Catholic Action displayed their stand on the matter, with a short rationale. I applaud said organizations for making an informed decision on the matter. In general, the points were well thought out, and obviously come from a very socially aware point of view. We truly are a university of social relevance.

The problem is, although we thrive in the social aspect, in service to the Filipino people, we forget that we, above being a Filipino university, are a Catholic university. Reading the organizations' stands was wonderful, but amidst all the economic and social data and critical analyses, not once did I read a statement pertaining to the Catholic aspect of their stands. We in general forget that we are not merely social scientists, natural or applied scientists, managers, or artistic scholars. We are, as a majority, Catholic. Our organizations exist under a Catholic perspective. We can continue saying, as most of above mentioned organizations mentioned, that we are for the RH Bill because it is "beneficial to the poor", and it "supports women's health rights", and that it is "needed in our third world situation," but the call to us is not merely to know reality in the social perspective, but we must also realize our role as Church in the proceedings. Where is the critical analyses of church documents? Where is the Theology? Where is Splagchnizomai? What our education fails to incorporate in us is this: We are Catholic scientists. We are Catholic managers. We are Catholic artists. The call as a university is to meld Science and Catholicism. This is the original virtue of the first universities established by the Church hundreds of years ago. This is the virtue of our university. The divorce of our academics and our Theology is heartbreaking. In this sense, can we truly say we, the collective Ateneo de Manila, are a Catholic university?

Famous People, Famous Words.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" -Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Man is the cruelest animal" -Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Filipino is worth dying for" -Ninoy Aquino Jr.

"Forevers are composed of Nows" -Emily Dickenson

"Your mistakes and losses are as important as your achievements and gains; they show you how strong you are despite your limitations" - Anjo Benedict Fabellon

HAYOP ANJO! NICE POSE PARE!
picture copyright Fionna dela Cruz 2008

The Social Project NEW UPDATES and TO DO LIST

P.S. to all others who may read this, maybe you'd like to join in as well? We need help. :) We're putting up a mini social program we would like to implement...

Good Morning Friends!

Here's a list of what we need to start up our little project...

1) We need a name.
2) We need a list of mga kasapi :D
3) Objectives/Rationale
- Concept Paper (objectives part) (2 people can make this)
- For public schools
- Discuss who we are and why we're doing this.
- Discuss the need for education in written English.
- Discuss benefits of knowing English
- Discuss the deficiency of English programs in public schools (cite NAT
sources etc. I'll get the data from ACED). Data also available on net.
- For private schools
- Discuss who we are and why we're doing this.
- Discuss the need for education in written English.
- Discuss benefits of knowing English
- Discuss the deficiency of English programs in public schools (cite NAT
sources etc. I'll get the data from ACED). Data also available on net.
- Discuss the Social Development Initiatives of the Church (I have documents)
- Discuss the need to know the social situation.
4) Program
- Initial implementation member schools (get in touch) (2 people can do this)
- 2 private schools
- Principals and CLE coordinators
- Talk to them if school is willing to participate
- Send them a copy of the concept paper and invite to participate.
- 2 public schools
- Principals and city DepEd superintendent
- Talk to Principal if school willing to participate if superintendent is OK
- Give concept paper and explain + lots of follow up.
- Send them a copy of the concept paper and invite to participate.
- Method (2 people can do this)
- Discuss program mechanics (method part of concept paper)
- Weekly topics for letters (have to be detailed so private students
learn what they are meant to learn about the social situation).
- Instructions:

General moshed up Instructions of the project:

Gr.6 kids from a public school
HS4 kids from a private school

Gr. 6 kids will write weekly english language letters to HS4 kids... HS4 kids correct grammar, spelling, etc. and return corrected piece along with a reply. There's a holistic plan as to what they have to learn about their corresponder througout the program (1 year?).

The Gr. 6 kids learn English, and the HS4 kids learn the social reality of poverty (in greater detail) it's win win for everyone.

In yellow: being done by Anjo

In red: being done by Mic

In orange: being done by Irae

no highlight: NOT DONE YET. Can someone please write the process of the project (General Proces and Instructions) down in proper paragraph form please? Para it sounds good...

In gray: finished.

UPDATES:

we picked 2 Publics and 2 Privates na...

CSA Makati and Malate Catholic will be the Private... unless the rest have other ideas? (Kasi di nag meet kaya kami nalang ni Talitha nag meet)

Aurora Quezon ES and RAfael Palma ES will be Public. Both are in the city of Manila.

WE NEED A NAME. Someone please suggest a name :(

The Final WIsh

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory...

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself..

I can't be who you are...

I can't be who you are...

Leave Out All the Rest -Linkin Park

Pet Lion

The best thing in life..Everlasting friendship Amigos para sempres @ Yahoo! Video

I WANT A PET LION!!!!!!! :'( Does this work for tigers?

Hello forgotten friends out there... I'm reconnecting!!!

PLEASE READ The Social Idea (Need Partners)

I have a sort of Outreach idea that I want to pitch to you guys...

basically it's an english mentoring program between public and private schools...

It involves Grade 6 kids from public schools and 4th year high kids frm Private schools.

Gr. 6 kids will write weekly english language letters to HS4 kids... HS4 kids correct grammar, spelling, etc. and return corrected piece along with a reply. There's a holistic plan as to what they have to learn about their corresponder througout the program (1 year?).

The Gr. 6 kids learn English, and the HS4 kids learn the social reality of poverty (in greater detail) it's win win for everyone.

Well... I plan to start this up soon... I need partners and co planners... I was thinking we could start in 2 Private schools and 2 Public schools... I was thinking CSA and MCS (Talits...) What initially needs to be done is to talk to the Principals and CLE coordinators of the Private schools and pitch them the idea... then to talk to Public school principals and superintendents to have them agree... I was thinking free paper and pens for the classes (Public) that involve themselves?

We can always get sponsors and or go for donation drives... or we could scrap the free paper pens... anyway... its just an idea that needs editing and stuff from you guys... You guys willing to join in the fun? It's for a great cause :). Plus most of you are still bums anyway >:)

Jurjurethics 2: The Satyriatic Nerdoks

Nerd- as defined by urban dictionary.

Everyone lusts for horny nerds.


Can you imagine it? Suspenders stretched over low arching shoulders... Thick framed glasses that accentuate the color of their eyes... Plaid shirts, tucked in, showing off that taught body frame... Tight, diaphragm high pants, impishly framing their groins... It's the Betty la Fea stereotype fused with the raw sexual will of a dominatrix. It's the Satyriatic/Nymphomaniac Nerd.

So what is this about?
I saw a condom poster with a nerd (as described above) smiling at you, condom in hand.
Well for one, it just seems wrong... the whole concept of a nerd buying condoms. It just gives an unneccessary sexual twist to a wholesome, tried and tested stereotype. What's the point anyway? Are they trying to attract a nerd demographic? What would they do with it, masturbate with a condom on so it won't spill everywhere? Anyway...

Stereotyped objects of sexual attraction. It's a complex thing. Princess Leia in chains, or Japanese school girl, it's a diverse field of imagined debauchery. I once had an acquaintance who had a thing for women wearing bloodied up butcher's aprons. Another one of my friends has a thing for asian dominatrices.

Call it a fetish thing, but it's odd how everyone's fetishes differ from each other, and more often than not, your fetish reflects on your personality. A female friend of mine who had reciprocation issues (as in no one reciprocated the love she offered, no matter how hard she tried) had a nerd fetish. Upon delving deeper into the matter, what appealed most to her was the fact that her nerd stereotype in mind was dependent and clingy. Her stereotyped object of sexual attraction was the type that was so grateful to her for hitting on them, that they would look no place else, and would devote themselves to her. Another example would be my acquaintance who liked women-butchers. He has boundary issues. He is the type who doesn't know when to stop. The butcheress (?) serves as a sort of authority figure for him. It is somewone who gives bounds... sort of like a dominatrix, but bloodier. It's just odd that personal aspects of a person's ego persona are deflected upon a person's sexual persona... In Freudian terms, I guess repression by ego builds into Id, then gets sublimed by creating a personal fetish. Aggression and Sex. hahaha.

The Annual AdMU-UP-MC Wet T-Shirt Competition!

The Annual

Ateneo de Manila University

University of the Philippines- Diliman

Miriam College

WET T-SHIRT COMPETITION

Eliminations are from September to November 2008

Semi-Finals December 2008

Finals January 2008!

See students from top universities and colleges battle it out in the rain!

hear them scream!

See them running, all those wet chicks!!! (basang sisiw)

Mechanics:

Ilang tangang tao ang walang dalang umbrella during rainy season?

Araw araw nalang. 'Di na natuto! As in!

Bukas na bukas pa naman ang Katipunan!

Kasama na ako dun!

VOTE FOR ME!!!! MIC CABAUATAN! DI NA NATUTO NA PALAGING UMUULAN SA KATIPUNAN!!!!

Paperchaser

According to the great philosopher Rihanna, featuring Dr. TI, instead of chasing that paper, I should live my life. (ey!) my life (ey!) my life (ey!) my life. Yes, I'm a paper chaser, just living my life.

I will be a shining star
fancy clothes & fancy car

You will see

I'm gonna go far

and everyone knows... who I are :D

maiaheee..

Rihanna disappointed me.

The back to back concert was fun. (Thank you Meg for the libre close up tickets!) Chris Brown was the best. As a performer, wow. Then he took his barong off (girls go wild)... was that necessary? Anyway.. Rihanna wasn't at her best. She was fun, but it came to a point that instead of concentrating on her songs, I was staring at her thighs (since she was wearing her famous black underwear) and thinking to myself, "Is that cellulite?" She herself said it best, "I never expected y'all to be so quiet." Then you see her desperation to rouse the crowd by shouting, "make some mother fucking noise!" Priceless. Rihanna swearing... hmmm...

The Umbrella/Cinderella duet at the end was heart-stopping. I LOVED it.

We Will. We Should. We Might.

The problem with poverty is that it is unsightly. It is families of ten, making most of two square meters worth of living space. It is small children in tears, shivering in the cold rain begging you to buy their flowers. It is an emaciated man; his ribs seen clear through his paled skin, expressions of pain carved onto his face. It is our country’s future, cognitively deficient due to nutritional deprivation. It is disgusting. It is uncomfortable. We, who consider ourselves the developed, the educated, cannot stand the reality of such lack. Something has to be done about it. That is why we build walls to hide the urban poor’s existence, and we call the police to send the transient beggars to jail. There. Now the metro is pretty again. This doesn’t do our educated status justice. Aesthetics is the norm. It was never the solution.

If aesthetics is the norm, then poverty is the disease. Maybe it’s time to realize that in our society, at least for 26 million of our countrymen, poverty is the norm, and our extravagance is the disease. Substantial steps must be taken to address this issue.

I was privileged to witness a landmark event in world history. In the year 2000, I along with a friend from my high school, and a few friends from my days as a student volunteer in Malate Church were in Remedios Circle in Manila for the Philippine launch of the Millennium Development Goals of The U.N. The two of us from my high school were only 12 then, and the other people with us were in their teens. Inspired by the wonderful display of hope and passion to eradicate world poverty, we promised each other to continue working for the good of our fellowman. We were determined, that with the U.N.’s guidance, and the determination in our hearts, the world would be rid of poverty by 2015, and we would be part of this great effort. Halfway through the program, it seems even the U.N. has lost hope. 7 years after our promise of service, I and my friend are in College; hopeless of our cause, on the brink of despair. We used to think our idealism could change the world. Now our greatest challenge is changing our social class’ minds. Our friends from Malate who had lived in the nearby squatter area had since been evicted. Of the five of them, only one had finished college. This is the reality of apathy and poverty. We fail to care, and the world sinks lower.

Ateneans: Public Schools Need You for a DAY.

The Ateneo Center for Educational Development need volunteers to help sort donated goods.

There are two container vans worth of goods, all donated by the people of Guam. We need volunteer workers to help us sort the goods into basic categories. It will take only a few hours, if not an hour of your time. You can volunteer by emailing me, or by emailing aced.admu@yahoo.com Sorting goes on from Dec. 1 to Dec. 20 There's also a gift pack packing (ano?) activity from the last week of November, to Dec. 11. This is for the Advent Recollection for public school teachers on Dec. 13. Oh, and ACED Volunteers get to sign up as OICs for the packing... ask ate Mai or anyone of us officers for details >.<

I'll post again in a week or so to remind you people.

The Final Schedule for 2nd Sem 2008 (As in Final)

Anyway... This is my final (sucky) schedule. Chemistry at 730 in the morning. WONDERFUL!
I have 2 Jesuit professors (again). They would be Fr. Antonio De Castro SJ and Fr. Jaime Bulatao SJ. The DLSU people should know him from the Hiya essay of Zeus Salazar. I'm a bit excited for the subjects... Cell and Molecular Bio under sir Russell should be a blast. Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy... I guess I took this over Educational Psychology because... deep inside I haven't given up on Clinical. My Th141 (basically Liberation Theology) is under

Harvey Keh. He's the one who started Pathways to Higher Education... so I guess I picked a practical experience based professor versus the theoretical Liberatore. Anyway... ayun...

Jurjurethics 1

Jur Jur (As defined by urban dictionary)

When it comes to the experiential aspect of jur jur, I'm not really one who knows anything, as can be assessed from my general physical state and social demeanor. I like to think though that jur jur is a more complex human aspect than simply one that is experientially genital. Man's jur jur complex, it's roots, it's causes, it's methods, and ultimately, it's goals, consequences, and effects seem to indicate a complex of human operators working under a collective human sexuality. In the masculine sense, it's not just about someones pototoy, and the long list of possible holes and pseudo holes it can inhabit. It's not simply about airplanes in bushy-bushy mountain caves.
The whole jur jur complex begins when your dad waits longingly for that inch long dangling muscular organ to pop out of your mother's womb during your delivery. It then continues on to your first fist fight, or it's more exhibisionist counterpart, the pahabaan ng ano. It then develops into a lifetime of other seemingly normal masculine behavior, such as wearing blue, not pink, not crying, even when faced with epic loss, and even the simple fact that you wash your jur jur properly with soap. In the masculine sense, the jur jur complex is merely these small collective masculinities, expressed in the fact of man loving his jur jur action above most things.
Assuming that the jur jur complex is a more social, not entirely genital matter, by what authority do I write about it? It is simply by my own experience as a developed masculine entity, and the second hand experiences I will share, mostly in the experiential aspect of jur jur. I trust my sources. You should too. This is about jur jur. It does not dwell on the what, although detailing is immanent, but rather how it is seen, how the complex exists, and how it is experienced. All of this of course in the Mic-ro (say it like a black man would) perspective. It's time to talk about your jur jur.

It's the Most Wonerful(ly Consumerist) Time of the Year

Christmas... I understand that everybody's happy and whatever because everyone thinks it's a time of celebration, and I'm not here to ruin the season, so I'll leave the Christmas lecture for some other post. This will be my consumerist Christmas post. WISHLIST 2008.

Literature:

[ ] Naked- David Sedaris

[ ] Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris

[ ] When You Are Engulfed in Flames- David Sedaris

[ ] Complete Prose of Woody Allen- Woody Allen

[ ] Night Train- Martin Amis

[ ] Yellow Dog- Martin Amis

[ ] Sputnik Sweetheart- Haruki Murakami

[ ] Dance Dance Dance- Haruki Murakami

[ ] After Dark- Haruki Murakami

[ ] Trese- Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo

Mac:

[x] Macbook (c/o parentals)

[ ] Macbook protective case (clear)- found in Power Mac Center

[ ] Macbook hard leather bag (black or red)- found in Power Mac Center

[ ] Mac Mouse- found in Power Mac Center

[ ] MS Office for Mac OSX (kahit fake)- kay dibidi boy

[ ] The Sims 2 Collection for Mac OSX (kahit fake)- kay dibidi boy

Misc:

[ ] (5 slots) Pilot Gel Pen .5 (clicky-clicky)- National Bookstore

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[ ] (3 slots) Mongol Pencil #3 (in packs of 3)- National Bookstore

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[ ] Moleskin 2009 Weekly Diary (small size)- Fully Booked, Sketchbooks

[ ] Wallet (kahit ano basta cute)