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	<description>Of brokedom, semi-bumhood, and what keeps us from going overboard (or over bored)</description>
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		<title>Lessons I Learned After the Fact: Double Surgery Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Rica Montenegro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three lessons I learned from this entire ordeal: I hate hospitals in general, I &#60;3 nurses, and I hate getting cut up. Oh, and throw in the fact that I should go for check-ups more often. How the whole thing started It started two weeks before I got admitted to the hospital (but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuppie Updates: the Triumvirate discusses the Apocalypse, among other things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Triumvirate of Evil (Rica, The Overlord, and I) have been working on, in and with the Internet long enough to know that: One. The surefire ways to be popular on the world wide web include posting porn, disgusting things, flamebait, and lolcatz. Unfortunately, we have none of those things or have serious issues with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young Underpaid Professional&#8217;s Corpo Dictionary &#8211; Moanday to Manicorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, it&#8217;s another Fried-day gentle readers, and you&#8217;re probably ready to spout fire by now. Here&#8217;s another hit at the Young Underpaid Professional&#8217;s Corpo Dictionary, from Moanday to the Manicorn. Moanday. According to the Overlord herself, Moanday is the day of the week when you moan that you don&#8217;t want to go to work. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elections 2010: Oh, the Kafka-ness of it all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YuppieUniverse presents The Young Underpaid Professional&#8217;s Corpo Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know when Fried-day is? As functional and highly sarcastic Young Underpaid Professionals, we&#8217;ve come up with a Corpo Dictionary for all of you folks in the same soup as us. This is a completely open dictionary so feel free to send in your words and definitions. A word of warning though, personal attacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuppie Replay: Rom-Coms and the Classics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drew Barrymore]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meg Ryan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the coming Hallmark-inspired non-holiday, I’ve busted out several sappy DVDs for a special singleton Valentine movie marathon. For the purposes of this marathon, I’ve decided to divide my viewing equally between the Rom-Com movies (romantic comedies) and the Classics. Arguably, the Rom-Com movies I have lined up can also be considered classics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in 140 words or less: status messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember that super flash fiction activity we had back in the hell hole, the 50-word story (Note: If the title of the activity wasn&#8217;t self-explanatory for you, you can see mine and Rica&#8217;s submissions for the said activity here and here.], and I realized that most of the people I know do it on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in 160 words or less: proverbs, poetry and prose in SMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a particularly merciless bout of insomnia and so I tried to keep my nighttime activities as inane as possible to bore myself to sleep. I read a boring book I have been trying to finish since 2008. No dice (no luck finishing the book either, I found my mind wandering to cheerier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to Alay ng Puso (Missionaries of Charity)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Rica Montenegro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to Alay ng Puso and I didn&#8217;t pick up a single toddler and treated him like he was my pamangkin or cousin. Or as someone who&#8217;d infallibly affect my life in some way. Alay ng Puso Kids&#8217; Conference But I guess I was wrong. I&#8217;m here writing about this. How it all began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuppie Reports: Banned Books Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow marks the end of Banned Books Week, a yearly celebration that started back in 1982 to counter calls for censorship. There have been several challenges to written works for any number of reasons like anti-ethnicism, sexual content, different political and religious viewpoints, violence, offensive language, and inappropriateness for the age group the book was [...]]]></description>
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