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Day 4 – Your favorite: 5 blogs

Published by Justine

I’ve been reading a lot of beauty blogs lately because I am so into makeup, that’s why I’m trying hard not to turn this list into a “Your favorite 5 beauty blogs” you know? Here goes:

Softly Sometimes – is my favorite local beauty blogger! It’s not the things Carina buys and the pretty pictures and beautiful looks that come with it (it is, though. haha!) but it’s the way she really goes into a product and blogs about her experience with it. It’s not just your cookie cutter beauty blog review site or a blog full of looks but it’s the way she describes each and every product like it matters. I skip a lot of posts of my makeup blog corner in Feedly but I always take time to read Softly.

Minimally Minimal – Andrew Kim is probably one of my favorite design gurus online. His blog Minimally Minimal is literally a breath of fresh air, with minimal design and superb photos with descriptive writing. When I found out about this blog I spent a day just backtracking posts and reading most of them. I couldn’t believe I haven’t been reading this blog since it started and how influential Andrew is to the industry right now.

Robbie Off Duty – Saying he’s my crush is kind of an understatement. I’ve always been more fascinated with men’s fashion blog more than women’s. Not just because I’m a girl (which I bet probably contributes to most of it as well) but Robbie is really good and I love the way he writes-simple, and straight from the heart. When he makes it even bigger than now I’ll be proud to say I’ve been reading his blog since day one, when he was just getting to know the business. I love his posts and fashion photos because despite being simple it’s classy, it’s clean, it’s straightfoward. It’s weird how he got into blogging because it’s totally for him.

evacuatewithstyle – I value Amy’s opinion a lot when it comes to K-drama and K-pop (basically Korean pop culture in general). It’s very honest (sometimes too honest) which is quite rare in the K-industry. I also like her fashion posts, and Korean fashion posts but sadly she does not post as often as before. It’s a little frustrating because she keeps a level head with most of her reviews and interests and won’t think twice when she needs to point out the truth.

Spell Saab – I’ve been a reader of Saab’s blog ever since I started blogging myself, I think about 10 years ago or so. I feel like I’ve grown up with her. It’s weird because like you’ve been following this person’s life for quite a while that it’s one-sided? I’ve been through her different domain changes, different boyfriends, life ups and downs, it’s pretty crazy. I just haven’t stopped reading.

There you go, my favorite 5 blogs! I wish I would include the others but the hardest part was narrowing it to five because I still have quite a few blogs I wanted to talk about. Rules are rules, so there it was.

Day 3 – Why do you blog?

Published by Justine

This is a good question. My answer would probably vary year to year and I’d have quite a difficult time answering it, but I now have one that it was easy to think about what to say (or write).

I blog now because I want to exercise my brain. For me, writing (blogging including) has always been a way to fuel my mind.. for it to keep the writing area of my brains oiled and not let it rot into whatever shallow thing I’m currently obsessed with. As a child of social media I’ve definitely resulted to micro-blogging/micro-updating my life online. Gone are the days when I’d cook up descriptive blog posts, write a lot, have 5 blogs and have the time, the energy and the mental capacity to update them all regularly. This is the reason why I’m doing this blog challenge as well. I felt like writing (not including emails, proposals, and/or presentations that I do for work, because that’s different)—and I think I even said this in a blog post—was starting to take a backseat and I’d hate for it to be shelved away.

I don’t consider myself a good writer but I like to think that it’s one of the main avenues where I can freely express myself because I have so many thoughts in my head, and writing is sometimes one of the only ways for me to organize my thoughts. I guess this is why I still have a blog even though I don’t blog as often anymore. I like having something to go to.

Day 2 – Meaning of your blog name?

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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 still love both Incubus (in spite of my current shift in interests, genres, etc) and this domain name, so looks like it’s staying for a bit longer.

Day 1 – Intro & Recent Photo

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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 guitar, but let’s admit it, who has the time for that anymore? Work, play, sleep and fangirling take up most of my life, not to mention family. How will I ever manage to fit a love life into it?

I like my current job. I work in Corporate Marketing as a Product Development Specialist in the biggest self-publishing company in the world. It’s pretty cool. I get to do different things every day and it’s very fulfilling knowing that the challenges you face are the ones that you don’t mind. I like that.

I’m not sure if that warrants as an intro, but I’ll stop here before I start blabbing like hell.

31-day Blog Challenge 2014

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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.

This is making me more nervous than excited because I haven’t committed into anything blogging-wise for a long time now. But, here goes!
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Update: Officially done after almost 2 months! The last one took the most time because honestly I didn’t want to finish it. It’s sort of difficult to believe that I was able to do complete it.