Sometime last October, the Colourpop Cosmetics website offered free international shipping for a day with no minimum purchase. I of course scrambled to order some of their much coveted lipsticks. Colourpop lipsticks cost an average of US$5+ each. But since they don’t have a legit distributor in the Philippines, resellers or biyaheras sell them for…
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First Christmas on Animetric.net
Merry Christmas everyone! It’s my blog’s first Christmas as a self-hosted WordPress site under my own domain. Blogger (blogspot.com) was my online home for a good 6 years before I decided to finally move. I had maybe 2600+ posts at the time. I needed to fix them all because the photos sizes no longer worked…
Animetric on turning 42
Turning 40 was kind of a big deal for me a couple of years ago. I could no longer say I was thirty-something, which sounds kinda young somehow. There’s just no getting around the big 40. Saying I’m forty-something doesn’t make it better wahahaha. When I was younger, I remember thinking that people in their 40s are old….
The Google Cook — that’s me!
I’ve been cooking for a month now. Our cook and helper of over 10 years decided not to come back after her mom passed away. We tried to survive on food delivery and dining out, but after about 3 weeks of that we all started to feel sick. I knew then that I had to…
Animetric tries to cook
So one blustery day in July, our cook and helper of over 10 years suddenly comes up to me crying. Her mother had passed away. She asked me if she could go to the province. I remember telling her of course, it’s your mom, you should go. I even gave her abuloy and asked her if…