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Day 2 – Meaning of your blog name?

Published by Justine

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

Published by Justine

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

Published by Justine

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.

Current Beauty Essentials Vol. II

Published by Justine

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 evolution of my beauty essentials journey and what kind of products I used before as opposed to now, but alas, here it is.

Twenty Six

Published by Justine

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 I hold dearest to my heart as they were with me physically and emotionally for my birthday. Once that euphoria of a great week and a half was over, I was back to my normal life without anything major to look forward to. No trips, no plans, just life waiting to be lived. Such a contrast from last year where I was out of the country almost once every quarter.

Re-reading the paragraph above, I sort of realized how self-consumed I was, and probably still am. As much as these feelings start to consume me I always try to stop and take a step back, and realize this is where I am. This is what needs to be lived. Plans will unfold and excitement will happen in its time.

Just a few days ago I lost a friend who was/is dear to my heart. It’s been quite hard to take in. You never know what hit you until a friend passes away and leaves questions that need to be answered. Dale was always such a great friend to me from day one when we were the twitter legacy (or as I’d like to think so) 6 or 7 years ago, up to when we met a few years ago and continue to communicate without fail. I didn’t know that last January would be the last time I was ever gonna party with him, let alone see him. Everything he has done for me, all the memories we shared whether on or offline will always be dear to my heart. Life hasn’t stopped, but whenever Dale comes to mind I feel a bit of a painful tug inside and tears start to fall. It’s been a bit easier now than a few days ago but I can’t even begin to imagine what his family and dearest friends have to go through. I hope he’s in an awesome place and having the grandest of time. I miss him.

Having said that, life is precious. It may shit on you and give you the worst of the worst but life wouldn’t be life without all of that. We all want to strive for perfection, but sometimes settling isn’t half as bad as how others make it out to be. I guess now that I’m 26 insight keeps growing, and the older you get the more you are exposed to the bitterness of life. I’m just here, powering through all of it. The good, the bad, the everything. As I should be.