Author: chette

So you want to purchase your first electronic cigarette and don’t know where to start? Never fear, Chette is here. Here are the two most often asked questions about e-cigarettes. Where to buy? Kiosks can be found in various malls (SM Megamall, SM Mall of Asia, Podium, etc.). I personally buy my e-cigs online, usually…

Petri Dish 100x15mm / Mercury Drug, Shangrila Mall / P95.00 What do you need a petri dish for? As a palette for liquid foundation. Just pour an adequate amount on the petri dish, and dip your stippling brush or beauty blender onto it. Michelle Phan would be proud. For mixing your moisturizer, sunblock, serum, and…

Not really a new blog. More of like an update. But it is a new me. Like my blog, I’m still rough around the edges … but I’m getting there. Change Log (of blog & me): Changed the directory to /blog I was a stickler on the /v2, /v3 etc format, made sure that the…

Fridge Stack, 1.5 gallons / Make Room & More, Powerplant Mall / P950.00 I hate having to stoop down to get a pitcher of water in the ref. I would’ve gotten a water dispenser if I was a heavy water drinker, and if I don’t live in a condo. It was serendipitous than I discovered…

For the time being, I am trying to veer away from my usual feeds and read more local blogs. We shall call my reference The List – which is supposedly a comprehensive list of the top bloggers in the Philippines. How the term “top bloggers” came about is debatable. But that’s another story. So what…

In a horizontal job, multitasking skills are critical People (& marketing campaigns) can’t wait for you while you wait for information to sink in. Nor will they waste time to organize information because you can’t see the bits & pieces holistically. You move fast.

Like Steve Rubel, I also contemplated on moving my blog to Tumblr. For the same reasons: the social factor, the simplicity, the absence of hosting headaches. Why didn’t I take the plunge? Because I don’t trust it (yet). Too many of my friends have complained about the downtimes. What disturbed me the most was when…

After a month of extensively using Readitlater on the iPhone, I realized it doesn’t fit my needs. Low adoption fro 3rd party apps. Instapaper is still the de facto standard with apps – on the Mac, iPhone, or Android. You’ll be hard pressed to find a good Twitter client in Android which integrates with Readitlater.…