Young Underpaid Professionals

The interview

Posted by Rica

I have always been vexed by job interviews. I love going to interviews so much that I’d rather the cosmos make up some weird event where I’ll end up with a really bad back strain so I won’t have to go. But the cosmos, she’s not that generous. So I go. Go with the flow, drown, and then die. I so love job interviews.

This one particular interview with one of the biggest wireless telecom companies (just guess, you have a 50-50 chance of getting it wrong) I went to had me wishing Friday wouldn’t come. My interview was on a Friday, at 10 in the morning. If Ms. Cosmos couldn’t give me a back strain that day (or a concussion), at least she allowed me to become someone else on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by Rica

I am the Egyptian goddess Mout.
I am the voice inside my own head.
I am the prank caller you want to kill.
I am luuurve.
I am the smoke that floats above your lips.
I am the eyes that will ogle you when you feel alone.
I am the one you need.
I will be the person to despise you.
I am the woman sitting on your left shoulder.
I am bored.
I just want to get this over with.
Hate me.
Because I am.

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FICTION posted by Rica

If it could only make me forget, she blurted out one day while zipping up her white jacket, not really referring to anything. She had suddenly thought of something that escaped her mind just as quickly as she had remembered it.

Olivia loved going to Masagana and back. She couldn’t understand why the other jeepney passengers hated traveling on Taft Avenue. As for her, she remembered adoring the busy street.

What’s that thick dark smoke, Olivia said to herself. I can’t seem to smell it.

And what’s a pool doing in the middle of the street, she asked the jeepney driver. Where’s the street anyway? Read the rest of this entry »

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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 – we’ve seen better-looking bishies and more sensible hair colors in other anime shows – but this one really gets you hooked. Again, it’s the music.

Comments on the Manga

Before I prattle on and on about how good La Corda D’oro is, let me just say this: the I-really-like-this-because-of-the-music sentiment doesn’t apply to the manga version. Why? Because I don’t think anyone – however good their imaginations are – can possibly hear the music the characters are supposedly playing through the pages of the manga. Even I, the know-it-all when it comes to classical music, can’t enjoy parts of the manga showing the bishies playing their respective instruments. [Deep sigh] But I will have to admit that the art is consistent in the manga. I just can’t tell apart their hair colors, haha.

If the manga’s not all about the music, what’s it about then? Read the rest of this entry »

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(Subtitle: Willing suspension of disbelief)

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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 plots of anime shows or mangas I’ve already watched/read, am watching/reading, or will watch/read.

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