I got the call while we were having lunch at Robinsons Magnolia. My paternal grandfather (or Kong Kong in Chinese) passed away today. He was 95 years old, born in the Year of the Rooster. He had been getting sick more often. He had been in and out of the hospital a lot this year. One…
Category: Personal
The evolution of Animetric
I realize that not a lot of people know how or where Animetric actually originated. I’ve always just mentioned it in passing. Animetric is a name I invented for my first domain back in the year 2000. But before I go on, I need to trace my first brush with the internet. See, I first…
Finally my own domain… ANIMETRIC.NET!
ANIMETRIC.NET at last! Goodbye Blogspot, we had a good run from 2009 to 2015. I sold my domains animetric.com and animetric.net years ago when I got bored with anime and thought I didn’t want anything to do with the internet anymore. But I realized I will always be online and so I had no choice…
Can you guess what my first job was?
When I was in high school, I wanted to become a newscaster. I thought I’d be on TV looking pretty, delivering the news, and earning big bucks lol. Anyhow, we got tasked with interviewing a TV personality for one of our subjects and for some reason we ended up with Angelique Lazo, a newscaster for…
One last look at 2015 — my last post of the year!
Happy New Year everyone! We’re currently on vacation in Los Angeles, California so posts have been few(er) than usual. Last July I was talking to our travel agent and I asked her to find me reasonably priced Manila-Los Angeles-Manila tickets for Christmas. She got back to me and said EVA Air had tickets selling for…