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Welcoming 2012

Published by Justine

…and just like that, it’s another new year. I’m going to be redundant and say that FUCK, HOW DOES TIME FLY SO FAST?

I’m (still) in the Philippines right now, and still loving it despite endless eating and drinking. There are so many things I want to say but I don’t know where to start. I want to be candid with this blog starting from this year but I wanna be just as candid to myself. I feel like I’m so open and transparent about so many things but there are other things I hate to admit to myself, and have so much fear about things and life that I need to start taking charge and practice on how to get rid of those things. I will get there, just you wait.

New Year’s Eve was spent with my family and cousins at the Waterfront Hotel Cebu, first NYE spent with so many strangers in one room. Our NYE’s usually consisted of big family events or family friends, then after dinner and fireworks I’d go run off with friends or cousins my age and do our own thing when the oldies get to bed. We had a proper countdown and a proper hotel buffet this time, I guess we wanted to start the year different and big. I loved it. There were balloons and live music and everyone was more dressed up than the usual. There was also more booze, which I think I need to cut down on.

My dad bought me a Moleskine! I’ve been wanting to buy a Moleskine for ages but I’ve always felt that I can’t afford it from my own pocket because it’s “just” a book and I’d rather spend that money to buy shoes or bags or anything from ASOS or food or booze instead. So when I asked my dad to get it for me as my Christmas gift, he gladly said yes without any convincing. YAY for me. I got the 2012 Diary/Daily Planner and love it because it’s DAILY(!!!) and very thick and I want to log everything I do every day for this year. I’m obsessed with diaries. Before buying this Moleskine I had already bought 3 journals and my 2011 journal isn’t even finished yet, even my 2010. Seriously. It’s an obsession.

There’s actually one thing I really want from 2012. I’m planning to move back to Cebu and had a few interviews here and there already but I really really need a sign on whether this is for me. This job opportunity was supposed to be it, and it was very very bright up until the year started but right now I’m not so sure anymore. I am excited yet nervous but if it doesn’t happen then maybe it really isn’t my time yet. Crossing my fingers for 2012 to be awesome!

Best of 2011!

Published by Justine

I was seriously contemplating on whether to do this or not because I didn’t know where to start, but I have decided to do it and just dump everything in here.

ALBUMS OF 2011

 

Béyonce – 4
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne
Adele – 21
Beth Ditto – EP
The Strokes – Angles
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Incubus – If Not Now, When?
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
Theophilus London – Lovers Holiday EP
J. Cole – Cole World (The Sideline Story)
Zee Avi – Ghostbird
Feist – Metals
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Foster The People – Torches
James Blake – James Blake

Albums I enjoyed and thought they were from 2011 but actually from 2010: Rumer – Seasons of My Soul and Young The Giant – Young The Giant.

MOVIES

Unfortunately, I didn’t watch enough movies this year.. which I think I should definitely change. With the strike that happened in Jakarta it just put me off from watching movies in the cinema but I loved the last Harry Potter installment, Friends With Benefits, One Day, The Help. I know, very poor choices. I used to watch so many movies in a month.. that was when I still had the luxury of time and didn’t have a job. Sigh.

TV SHOWS

Suits
The Borgias
Happy Endings
Revenge
Teen Wolf
Hart of Dixie (guilty pleasure!)

K-POP (Singles)

MBLAQ – Cry
TVXQ – Keep Your Head Down
Joo – ?? ?? (Bad Guy)
BIG BANG – Tonight
f(x) – ???? (Danger)
After School – Shampoo
Jay Park – Abandoned
B2ST – Fiction
2PM – Hands Up
2NE1 – ?? ?? ? ?? (I Am The Best)
miss A – Good-bye Baby
After School RED – ? ??? (Into The Night Sky) ***
T-ara – Roly Poly
KARA – Step
U-Kiss – Neverland
Super Junior – A-CHA, Mr. Simple
Jun.K – Alive
???? – The Boys
Wonder Girls – Me, In
Tablo – Tomorrow (feat. Taeyang)

J-pop Crossover Bonus:

Girls’ Generation – Mr. Taxi
2PM – I’m Your Man

K-DRAMA

City Hunter [Final Thoughts]
Protect The Boss [Final Thoughts]

I’m Coming Home (x-post)

Published by Justine

I was supposed to be spending Christmas (and New Year) in Jakarta but due to urgent circumstances I had to be asked to go home to Cebu. My sister, mom and I are leaving tonight but my sister and I have different flights and different routes (Singapore for a layover because we couldn’t get the same flights at the last minute). I’m filled with so many mixed emotions right now because even though I initially wanted to go home I already planned out my Christmas vacation with my best friends so now it’s like, a total turnaround again oh well that’s life, just go with the flow.

It’s been a while since I “blogged” on tumblr like this I remember used to doing it all the time before, sharing little tidbits about my life which were too short for my blog or too long for my twitter.

Picture above was taken last weekend when a few uni friends and their friends had a little (which turned out to be big, lol) Christmas dinner. At least I got to squeeze in one get together before leaving, even though I had a lot planned for this weekend and next *cries*

Happy Holidays!!

Christmas Wishlist, It’s Time

Published by Justine

It’s that time of the year again where I whip out my Christmas wishlist, I just realized I did it around the same time last year. I decided to be a bit more reasonable with my Christmas wishlist this year as opposed to the previous ones. I figured a Chanel flap bag should start making its way out of my list (but I will keep wishing for it lord help me) because if I can’t even afford it, why the hell would I expect people to get it for me? LULZ. This year has been pretty good to me in terms of gadgets, I opened the year with a new phone, bought a Kindle, got a new MacBook Pro and recently bought a camera. Not to mention abundance of bags (thanks, ASOS), shoes and makeup. Such a (broke) girl. So here are what’s left of my list of wants 🙂

1. iTunes Store Cards, because there are too many things to buy in that damn store! Also counts for the Mac App Store.
2. Repuplic of 2PM, their debut Japanese album with a 100 page photobook and behind-the-scenes DVD.
3. nail polish, this one is a constant want. I’d be happy to get any kinds or colors of nail polish!
4. Aldo Lewi, when I saw this in the store I almost kind of cried. It’s so beautiful but I’m waiting for it to go on sale!!! Hahahaha.
5. Cambridge Satchel, something I’ve been wanting for the whole year but never got the chance to get. I would set aside money for it but that would suddenly just poof and disappear, no thanks to my bad spending habits.
6. iPhone 4S, I have a feeling it’s time to switch to the iPhone? I love my Berry but I’m an Apple girl through and through.. and with news that the Indonesian govt. is trying to shut down BIS in Indonesia and the 4S launching in the Philippines, maybe it’s my calling.
7. Instax Film, this is a constant need too 🙂

I love getting gifts just as much as giving them (I mean, who doesn’t) not because receiving is great but it’s mostly because it’s so nice that somebody was kind enough to think of you and included you in their gift-giving and that alone is awesome enough for me and really makes me happy. That’s why when I receive gifts from people I’m just really genuinely pleasantly surprised and all tingly. Heehee! Unless of course you give me a literal pile of shit.

..but really, you can just give me a Christmas card with nice thoughtful words and I’ll be happy or donating something under my name, I think that would make me cry. I’m really emotional.

Oh and lastly.. I really want these:

Happy Holidays!

11 Months Later

Published by Justine

I was looking through my journal when I came across this entry exactly 11 months ago. The year had just started and like every start of the year we’re full of cliched optimism. This is what my entry was, incase you can’t read my horrible handwriting:

TGIF!! This week went by so fast. if there’s any indication about how this year will pass from how this week ended then WE. ARE. DOOMED.
I definitely don’t want it to be that way. In order for 2011 to be awesome for me I need it to go slow so I can enjoy each and every minute that passes amirite?

It’s crazy. When I read that a while ago it felt like I just wrote it last week and now 2012 is just around the corner. 2011 has been a pretty awesome year for me. I was also thinking about that today, weighing the bad and the good that happened this year and the good definitely weighed more and I’m eternally thankful for that. Granted there is so much more I need to work on myself but what’s most important is that despite of all the misfortunes and dissatisfaction with the things around me I feel like I’m on my way to actually growing. I just have a good feeling that time will continue to be good to me, I’m counting on it.