Young Underpaid Professionals

YUPPIE Fangirlism #2: La Corda D'oro / Kiniro...

Posted by Rica La Corda D'oro by Kure Yuki is probably the best music-themed anime I've watched so far, and I'm not saying this because I'm so fangirl-ing (is that even a word?) over the bishies here, but because it really is good. The music is what got me, honestly. The animation is nothing new...

Things I learned in Corpo - Part 1

Posted by Rio S. Back when I was still living the hell that was Corpo, I learned a couple of stuff that helped me live through all the bull crap in the office. Of course, corpo's not all bull crap but you know what I mean. So anyway, here are the things I learned in Corpo: Thou shalt not shit where...

Yuppie Survival Tip #1: Be good to yourself

Posted by Chris S. Well howdy there, kiddies! Chris S here saying hello to the world. I'll be chiming in from time to time to share the little gems of knowledge I've gleaned throughout my working years, whether vicariously or through expending my own blood, sweat and tears, working my fingers to the...

Enter the Old Underpaid Professional

Posted by Rio S. We are young and possibly too stubborn to listen to old people, but when we are going about our way (career-wise and real life-wise) like toddlers learning how to walk - bumping into furniture and having our rear ends contact the floor in painful ways - we're going to need a walker....

YUPPIE - Young Underpaid Professional

Posted by Rio S. Disclaimer: Don't get us wrong, we're not defeatists. Far from it actually, for those who strive for world domination require constitutions of steel - and highly developed senses of irony. Someday, the Young Underpaid Professionals will be the ones sitting on the seats of power (or...

YUPPIE Fangirlism #1: Ultra Maniac

(Subtitle: Willing suspension of disbelief) Posted by Rica Ultra Maniac The Young Underpaid Professionals (YUPPIE) site needs fangirlism, seriously. So, I’m writing my first post on something anime/manga-related: Ultra Maniac. I thought of writing about an anime or a manga that has social relevance,...

Yuppie Fangirlism Project Plan

Posted by Rica Posts on anime/manga fangirlism won't be random; they'll be selective and most probably be subject to my whims. I've come up with a plan to let you all in on what keeps a yuppie (our own definition of the word) like me from going overboard/over bored with obsessing about characters or...

HostYourSitePH: we're in business

Posted by Rio S. This is a call for those people who'd like to blog or want to start a personal blog. The Yuppies, formerly known as the Triumvirate of Evil (we are no less evil these days, just with more time on our hands to plot world domination), has opened a business venture for everybody. We're...

Simpleology Blogging Course - Lesson 1

Posted by Nancy S. Finally, I had some spare time to take the first lesson today. As expected, the first lesson of any type of course is probably introduction, definition or history of a topic. This course covered all of them. I took the video course and was presented with the definition and a little...

Virus alert: better safe than sorry

Posted by Rio S. I'm writing this on Windows safe mode, and if you've ever been hit by a computer virus, you'd know what I'm doing right now - scanning my PC. I had fired up my PC again after a couple of hours of trying to sleep (insomnia attack) and logged on to my usual haunts. Gmail, Yahoo Messenger!,...

Simpleology Blogging Course - Get it While...

Posted by Nancy S. I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog. It covers: The best blogging techniques. How to get traffic to your blog. How to turn your blog into money. I'll...

Meet the Yuppies

Posted by Rio S. This blog is brought to you by three yuppies plotting world domination: Nancy S. has a day job. She's researcher for a company in Makati and of course, is underpaid. She's now looking at ways the internet can fund her world domination schemes. She also bakes scrumptious delights, possibly...