Hello! This is the first #ThrowbackThursday which is a feature I will be every last Thursday of each month. Since this is my first #ThrowbackThursday in Unhesitant-- my brand new blog from which you are reading this on, I will be doing a feature on my old blog (justinedoesib.weebly.com/). Although I am no longer updating the "Justine does the IB" blog, it remains special to me. I consider it to be my very first blogging site. It is an online portfolio of the various stuff I have been busy with throughout my IBDP years. Since I was sure no one was reading it, if you look hard enough, you would find some very personal rant sessions and self-consolation sessions in there.
Originally created for the purpose of being a CAS portfolio, it became so much more than that. My classmates often told me that I was spending way too much effort on something that wouldn't even be graded but amidst the stress and deadlines associated with the IBDP, I craved for a creative outlet. When I was still in MYP, especially Year 10, creative writing was my expressive outlet. 'Awry' had been the result of it, in addition to various stories I have posted online under anonymous usernames (they shall remain my little secrets :P). However, creative writing required time and energy above all things which I neither had while I was in the IBDP. Whenever I had energy, I didn't have time for there were more urgent and important things I needed to attend to. Whenever I had the time, I didn't have the energy for all my mental juices have been spent on homework and various assessment tasks. A blog, which I was confident no one would read (or even if they did, I did not particularly care), was informal and quick. It was like an online diary. Whatever I had in mind, at the moment, I could just write it. Granted that there are not very many blog posts in "Justine does the IB" at the moment (I have since deleted some), I still consider that blog a necessary component to my sanity while being under the IBDP. Additionally, that blog contains so much memories--- just look through the Gallery section and you'll see.
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Special hashtags to watch out for:*** the following are specialised blog entries that have no set schedule compared to the usual bi-weekly postings.
#WednesdayWritings - drabbles, poetry, prose, short stories--- creative and expressive writing in no one's style.
#ThrowbackThursday - the cringey, the I-did-that? moments, the tear-inspiring, and the embarrassing moments of the past gone by--- available only here so shhhh...
#FreeThoughtFriday - a collection of 3AM thoughts for your collective amusement and might get you asking wtf?!
to see older posts:To view some of my older posts, there is a "previous" button hiding just below the bottom left corner of the last post of this page.
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