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Paris Mon Ami

Published by Justine

Indonesian fashion blogger and one of my close friends, Caroline Robianto, invited me to a fashion event by Hermés called Paris Mon Ami to launch their new scarf line in Indonesia. I’m not usually a fashion person (although my bff says otherwise), I mean most of the time I prefer comfort over style but I never not care about how I look and always try too look my best even in just shorts and flip flops. So when she told me she was going to invite me, I admit I was sort of freaking out. I wasn’t in the league of fashionable people!!! WHAT TO WEAR HOW TO ACT.

Last Friday Night

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It’s another Monday and another start to the week. Not to mention it’s officially October.. we can finally stop rolling our eyes to statuses like “Wake me up when September ends.” I love sleeping, but I’m sure sleeping for a whole month isn’t the best idea. Last Friday I went out with old Uni friends I hadn’t seen in a while. We basically went our own ways after graduating; a friend went to China to study Mandarin for a year (he said it was like a year-long vacation, envious!), another got married not too long ago, one started his own online gaming business while still working, some maintaining family businesses and the rest being part of the working class. Just less than 2 years ago we were still sitting in class trying to figure out what to do with our lives and here we are, all employed. Quite surreal. We went out for dinner then went clubbing (which was packed, packed, packed so I didn’t take any photos). Even as we went out the Security …

Life Desserts: My Weekend

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A few hours into a new work week and before I start with work I decided to write about the weekend. On Saturday I had a good reunion with two of my best friends from uni especially with Caroline, whom I haven’t seen in almost 2 years (and also just resurrected her fashion blog!). To cut a long story short, everything which happened became water under the bridge and all of us couldn’t be happier at how things turned out. We met for lunch at Pesto. Dress and belt by WAGW Cebu, shoes by CELINE Philippines (not to be mistaken with the French Celiné) and ASOS Tradition Colour Briefcase. I was pretty much supporting local Philippine brands in Jakarta that day, except for the ASOS bag. Even my accessories were a gift from a good friend back in Cebu, and the pearl coated bangles were from a tourist shop in Cebu as well. I’m such a mini me compared to my friends especially Caroline who’s super tall and still wearing heels. She told us she …

Friday Nights

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..mean a whole lot different to me now. I used to look forward to Fridays because it would be the time when I’m able to go out but now I look forward to it so I can sleep until Saturday. I go so hard on weekdays and it is so draining that I don’t mind even mind anymore that my Friday nights are spent chilling by myself and wasting away as opposed to usually going out to dinner or the occasional drinks. Even as I write this entry on a Friday night (midnight just struck to Saturday) I’m perfectly at peace listening to Iron & Wine’s Such Great Heights followed by Elliot Smith’s Whatever (Folk Song in C) because these are my go-to songs of happy melancholy loneliness solitude, if you know what I mean. Goodness gracious, how old am I? We’re halfway through the year and once again time is going by too fast. The past 2 weekends have been spent going out with friends, drinking (soju bombs are my newfound love) and lots …

Bantayan Island

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I am so bad at posting pictures on my blog because I’m always so lazy to process or transfer photos from the SLR. I should be changing that because photos are such interesting elements to add into a post. This entry is a bit overdue but it’s something I really wanna share and put here. When I went home to Cebu for vacation about a month ago we decided to go to Bantayan Island. Time was limited but we promised ourselves that we would go for a small family trip together with cousins who also came back from New York. We only stayed for a very short time, barely a 24-hour overnight stay but it was so. Damn. Worth it. I fell in love with the place. It’s a little bit weird because my family comes from the northernmost part of Cebu and Bantayan is literally just an hour away but this is my very first time to set foot on the island. I’m kind of embarrassed when I think about it but what matters …