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One Day Or Another

Last year’s journaling efforts weren’t successful. My dad bought me a 2012 Daily Moleskine for Christmas and I was so so so excited. I finally owned one and I wrote every day. For about the first 3 months. During the second month a very unfortunate thing happened that caused my Moleskine to get all wet and a few pages got smudged and unreadable. Still, I proceeded to write everyday, even just a little. Then I got busy with work, settling in Cebu, shifting my comfort zone to another comfort zone, changed my BlackBerry to an iPhone (finally) and a full page turned into a half page, turned into bullet points until a whole year passed by and I’ve only got until March will full pages, April dwindling down, almost stopped writing on May, and hardly had any pages filled on June.. until the year ended.

It’s a bit disappointing really, because I had always expected myself to write for the rest of the year. That was one of my new year resolutions, dammit. But other priorities in life reverts your focus and suddenly you aren’t writing anymore. Sure, you’re living, but the “living” isn’t documented in text and feelings that support it.

Against my beliefs (heh) and my consistent attempt on furthering away from going even more digital than I am, I bought an app to journal. Let’s see how this pans out.

Hello 2013!

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I rang in the new year looking this happy and excited when the clock struck 12 and the balloons came down. I hope the rest of the year will be full of happiness and excitement just like this moment. I hope for balloons and unicorns to fall my way instead of dark clouds and sad rain.

2012 was a great year for me, here’s to 2013 stepping up its game!

Love lots,
Justine

Time Machine: Always a Cycle, Right?

Found something I wrote about 6 years ago. Can’t believe I was able to write something like this, let alone still the feel the same way as I do up to now. Wow. The power of the time machine.

Sometimes we can’t ever understand which state we’re in or what we’re feeling. Sometimes we never notice the weirdest things. Like when we’re spending so much time with this person and realizing we’re actually falling for them. Or for the fact that we think they’re falling for us too, but they might not be. So many things are deceiving. A single look can be deceiving. A single touch can be deceiving. Either way, we can never tell.

We might be able to tell what is most subtle, through action, words or that occasional “glance” which makes your world stop for a nanosecond. But being able to decipher them is another different thing.

I never really reflect on my past relationships because I’ve never really learned anything from them. The bigger picture, to say is that I gave up too easily, or too soon. I can say right now that I don’t want to give up anymore which is probably the maturity talking, but to give up on something or someone which is non-existent in the first place is merely stupid. Once, I gave up easily on a long distance relationship which could have worked, but what would I be now if I hadn’t given up? Yeah, I had been with a guy who totally had the most bizarre pride, and why didn’t it work? Of course, I was immature then and didn’t know what relationships meant so I blamed it all on pride, not only on his side, on mine too so I wouldn’t have to face the loser (which is me). Everything has it reasons. When you stop and think about these situations which keep on lingering, what comes into your mind? It now dawns to me that the only thing which appears is a big fat CONFUSED neon sign.

Someday I’ll find out the reason for this never ending confusion that’s constantly fazing the heck out of me. Maybe in the future I’ll laugh at myself for being like this. Heck, it comes with the package of being at this age. It’s just inevitable sometimes. In pop culture world, I’d be referred to as “emo”.

All we need is love. Love, shmlove. Is it? The world revolves around love. People suffer without love. People relentlessly have dramas in their life due to love. But it is love in itself which revolves around us. It’s what keeps us fueled. So no matter how much is disconcerts us, as cliché as it may sound, it’s going to stick. It’s a sick cycle carousel.

When will this end it goes on and on, over and over and over again. Keep spinning around I know that it won’t stop. Sick cycle carousel, this is a, sick cycle carousel. – Lifehouse’s Sick Cycle Carousel

Bohol 2012

A couple of weeks ago during the “Thanksgiving” long weekend I decided to go to Bohol with a few friends from work. We needed the R&R and I needed the travel so we stayed for 3 full days and 2 nights. I haven’t really explored any city in the Philippines outside of Cebu (save for Davao and Manila airports and its nearby spots) so I was extra excited for this trip. Coming from someone who has traveled to a few countries outside of my own, I feel as if I have yet to see what the Philippines has to offer. I really want to go on more nationwide adventures!

I’m not going to go on detail with words, so here are some photos from my recent trip.

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