Okay so I usually write a year-ender post on Dec. 31, the last day of the year. For the first time ever I wasn’t able to do so last night. You see I made the mistake of stopping by Data Blitz earlier during the day. I couldn’t resist getting the latest installment of my all-time…
Category: Personal
No more taxes for purchases below P10k BUT…
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…
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…