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Day 2 – Meaning of your blog name?

This is easy, since I explained it in my About page. Otherworldly comes from the lyrics of Incubus’ song Warning, that’ goes like this: Bat your eyes girl, be otherworldly.. count your blessings, seduce a stranger. What’s so wrong with being happy? Kudos to those who see through sickness, yeah. I decided to make it my blog name because I wanted it to have a significance to my favorite band, as well as something that’s not too me or too predictable. I also patterned it with a hyphen to match my Incu-sisters’—Anna, who owns so-stellar.org and Keng (my host!) who owns turb0-geek.org—domain names that also have something to do with our favorite band. I’m going to be honest and say that other-worldly.org was really thought-out back in the day but what I made sure of was that even though down the line I would lose all my sense of attachment to Incubus, this would still be a domain name that I would like regardless of its initial conception. Fast forward a few years later, I …

Day 1 – Intro & Recent Photo

Hi, my name is Justine! I turned 26 last May but I don’t feel a day older than 19. I was born in the Philippines, moved to Indonesia for a bit during my early childhood, went back to the Philippines where I was “officially” raised then back to Indonesia to spend the rest of my formative years, high school, college, then my first two jobs. I’d like to put all the blame on living in another country for 15 years to my indecisiveness, being independently dependent, identity crisis, and all the weirdness I’m associated with. I like SO many things. I am a force when it comes to my likes and interests. There are just too many. I like to think I’m a unique one, but then I’m your pretty average girl. I like shoes, bags, makeup, tall/dark/handsome boys, singing British boys, being a foodie, and relating internet quotes to my life. There are so many things about me that I feel like I repeat all the time. I love to sing and play the …

31-day Blog Challenge 2014

I have decided that I’m going to participate in a blog challenge because I want to attempt to get back on the blogging horse, mostly for myself. I don’t have to write every day, but I have to finish all 31 days and I have to make sure it doesn’t stretch out until forever! I’ve given myself the rule of not posting less than 3 times a week. Intro & Recent Photo Meaning of your blog name? Why do you blog? Your favorite: 5 blogs Share: Best advice you ever got Something for your kids to know Memories: What’s your earliest one? Tell me: Currently reading anything? What’s in your purse/bag? Share: Old photo(s) of yourself Your favorite: 10 songs right now Share: Your bucket list Something you’ve been putting off Memories: Been to any concerts? Tell me: How are you like your parents? What’s the ____ thing you’ve wanted to do, but haven’t yet? Where do you work? Your favorite: Childhood books 20 facts about yourself Something you’re trying to figure out Memories: Where …

Current Beauty Essentials Vol. II

I know it hasn’t really been apparent in this blog but I have been obsessed about makeup for the past 3 years. If I wasn’t so lazy, I think I would have definitely considered beauty blogging. I have, though, made a lot of purchases in the past year and a half that sometimes hurt my pocket.. goodness knows what will happen to me once I actually switch to extremely high end products. Another “essentials” post is overdue, since the last time I did it last year, it felt like it was a very noob-y post of products here and there with not much depth on makeup knowledge. Numerous subscriptions of beauty blogs and countless YouTube tutorials later, I’d like to think I have better grasp on it now, although I still definitely am poorly versed compared to all the #bblogers & #bvloggers out there. So anyway! Here’s a rundown of my current beauty essentials in the past month or so. I wish I did these kind of posts often so I could have shown the …

Twenty Six

This white box where I’m supposed to write a post has been empty for quite some time now. After a few months, I decided to log in again today. It’s always that vicious cycle of wanting to write and failing to do it. Laziness taking over, the confusion of what to say that starts to play with my head, and a whole lot of other excuses always overpower the fact that I want to keep this blog and I do not want to stop writing. Together with singing and guitar, personal writing is something that has been shelved this year. We’ve reached July already and time is a vehicle that just keeps on going. The next thing you know you’re 26 and life isn’t getting any slower. A year older and none the wiser, or so I’d like to think. These past few months have been quite a roller coaster of emotions, to put it simply. My birthday month was filled with happiness, and excitement, and being loved by all the right people, the people …