Young Underpaid Professionals

Surviving SAD: A Guide for Singles on Valentine’s...

Rio's Note: This is a list cobbled up by Lei, aka Chibichan, listing all the things one can do when one is found better-halfless on Heart's Day. Go to a Happy Place (aka Gay Bar) - you are going to be safe here as the only couple you will have the chance to see will probably be “nuts”. Learn...

Elections 2010: Oh, the Kafka-ness of it...

We live in a country where surreal is everyday life, where the improbable happens once the right people will it, and where even the laws of physics are bent out of shape, and most of us have all come to accept it (well, not everybody, just most). To an outsider, our open acceptance and tolerance of corrupt...

Elections 2010: Oh Snap!

Yesterday, “official” campaign period for national positions started and for those of you who thought it started in November, apparently, plastering your face on TV ads don’t count as campaigning. As long as they don’t say “Vote for President” right? Anyway, it has started folks. If...

Elections 2010: Comelec denies Ang Ladlad,...

Caveat: To be able to read and appreciate this essay, you should be armed with the prerequisite knowledge of sarcasm and irony, the ability to acknowledge the absurdity of our government, and have a good set of balls and a backbone. This morning, I had barely wiped the drool off my face when...

Facebook: Of Whines and Passive-Aggressiveness

Facebook invaded the interwebs on February 2004 (and started eating its competition alive); it all started with a [then] Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg. The Philippines caught the Facebook bug only relatively recently, since Friendster Mad Cow was then the preferred spawn pool/watering hole/troll...

Teka lang muna please

Umuulan nanaman. Parang may inang humahagulgol para sa mga nawala nyang anak. Malakas, maingay, at hindi matahan. Kung tutuusin, kung iiyakan ng Inang Kalikasan ang kanyang mga anak na puno, siguro kinain na ng dagat ng Pilipinas. Hindi napapakiusapan ang ulan. Hindi napapakiusapan ang bagyo....