#honestly my tumblr is just a diary and scrapbook art this point

[insomnnastudies]

things I learned in my five years of bullet journaling ✍🏻

April 2022 officially marks the fifth year of my bullet journaling journey! My spreads aren’t exactly stellar or aesthetic, but it’s been great looking back at the journals I’ve kept throughout the years. I fell into the rabbit hole of the study community in the fall of 2016, and got myself to finally start in April 2017. 

I unfortunately do not have a picture of all the journals I’ve used, and still have to pick and choose + blur out stuff from spreads I’ve taken pictures of, before sharing them on the internet (for privacy reasons of course) ☺️

In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some things I’ve learned throughout this journey!

Colour schemes!

Honestly, I’m quite awful with mixing and matching colour and would wear all monotone if not for my mom helping me out ;-; Having a theme palette, or an accent colour for the month usually helps to give some diversity to your journal! I’ve usually seen people align it with the seasons and events associated with the month, like the colour green for March (spring) or red for November (fall)

My theme for 2021 went like this: 

January (royal/cornflower blue)

February (gray)

March (purple)

April (yellow)

May (red)

June (brown)

July (turquoise)

August (pink)

September (green)

October (navy blue)

November (orange)

December (sky blue)

“Inspiration, not imitation”

Use posts and videos on social media platforms (e.g. tumblr, instagram, pinterest, youtube, etc.) as inspiration for your journal layouts, themes, and other tips. Take what you need—you don’t need to copy everything! You can incorporate other people’s style into your own journal and use it to come up with creative ideas of your own! This was one of the biggest mistakes I made when I was starting out. I tried to copy exactly what other people were doing, even to go as far as buying what they had to get the “same result”. I’ll elaborate on this further in the next point...

Do what works for you!

Do you create collages? Scrapbook? Do you love to sketch? paint? Write poetry? stories? songs? your travels? Keep track of your habits? movies/shows you’ve watched? books you’ve read? I’m fully aware I sound like a Spotify ad, but really, your journal can have it all! Like what I said in the previous point, I wasn’t making the bullet journal I was keeping my own. The art of journaling empowered me to unleash my creative freedom, but I failed to realize that until I started implementing things I loved. As @tbhstudying has repeatedly mentioned in her videos, a bullet journal is basically a “glorified to-do list”. 

My bullet journal is a planner, diary, scrapbook all in one! It contains tasks, important events, reminders, notes, entries, pictures, tickets, receipts, favourite songs, quotes, poems... you name it!

“My journal is my trusted best friend”

I’ve been able to build a relationship, so to speak, with my yearly journals. I get to spend 365/366 days with each one. Like a friend, my journal gets to know me, or rather that version of me for that year. Its blank pages provide a safe haven for me to express myself, my thoughts, and the words I can’t express to people at times. It shares my both my happy and sad memories. My journal even gets to know people in my laugh when I write about them and when I let others doodle/write in it! It also stores our precious memories in its back pocket, and seals its lips shut when I put the elastic back on.  Our journey together ends once the year is over. But just like an old friend who you may keep in touch with, my previous journals and I reconnect once again when I take it out of the stationery bin to open it up and read its pages. 

“Where do you get your stuff from?”

Journals: muji (spiral dot-grid a5 with the clear cover, no elastic; 15-month undated monthly/weekly journal) amazon (peter pauper black a5 essentials grid journal with back pocket)

Washi Tape: muji, staples, michaels, oomomo, walmart/canadian superstore (double-sided tape)

Supplies: 0.5 mechanical pencil, 0.38 & 0.5 muji gel pens, zebra mildliners, crayola supertips, pentel fude touch sign pen, tombow dual brush pen, watercolour pencils

Pictures: paint samples from the hardware store, cut-outs from magazines, travel brochures, etc.. I only print pictures when I really need to (I used to print every month, but I use so much coloured ink, it’s quite a waste)

Final Thoughts:

To the person reading this awfully long post, thank you so much for sticking around til the end. My sincere apologies for writing this essay ;-;

I hope I was able to inspire you to start your bullet journaling journey too, just as how many in the study community helped me. Let me know how it goes!

#bullet journal #journal #journalling #bujo #studyblr #happy five years! #5th anniversary #fifth anniversary #study #studying #journey

[petrichorpoetryy]

tagged by @teremisoo . Tereeee, im tats, huhu. I’m usually just here silently liking and re-blogging posts, pero someone’s actually aware of my existence pala rito hahah. Love uu 

(ok, so sobrang simple ko lang about stuffs hehe.)

five things you’d find in my bag:

1. Laptop

2. Wallet

3. Water bottle

4. Wires? (charger ng phone at laptop, earphones. haha)

5. Stationeries

five things you’d find in my room

1. Books (for entertainment and accounting-related)

2. Study materials (chair and table, for when I study or work)

3. Clothes

4. Work-related documents

5. A framed painting that was given to me by one of my closest friend then during 4th grade (grabe, ang tagal na pala, ano? huhu.)

five of my favorite things

1. A scrapbook that was given to me by my bestfriend then, who happens to be my first love as well lol, before our high school graduation.

2. My physical diary

3. Phone

4. Laptop

5. Earphones

five of my habits

1. Massaging my feet with baby oil, or any ointment that has menthol in it,  after a long tiring day. 

2. Having my earphones plugged in my ears in any possible circumstances, hehe.

3. Watching live performances of my favorite artists.

4. Writing my feelings in my notes or here in Tumblr.

5. Reading stuffs whenever I feel things are being too much and I want a quick escape.

five things about me that i like

1. My social skills. Idk, I always find  myself in situations where people would say that they instantly feel comfortable with me. Also, just a side story (this was from last week), I was about to turnover one of my clients to one of my co-accounting associates due to some changes in work, when a client refused the other accountant to handle their company and specifically requested me to stay and continue working for them. 

And I could honestly go on about other similar circumstances regarding my social skills, haha, not that I’m bragging :3 

2. My persistence. I guess I could safely say that I’ve had my fair share of failures in life, but even with those experiences, I’m proud that my goals have always been the same. If anything, I’ve grasped them closer when paths are blurred and tighter when my steps are unsure.

3. My fervent capacity to love. I know this has its down sides as well, but someday in some way, I will get it right and things will fall into place that all the consequences of loving fervently won’t even matter at all.  

4. My willingness to pour my broken heart into art. I know this is baduy and all, huhu, but as much as it is baduy, I believe it’s sweet and unique when I find the right one who’ll understand all my shenanigans in life haha. Sige nga, hanap ka ng taong susulatan ka ng tula, kanta (kahit hindi talaga ako marunong kumanta huhu), maraming maraming letters, at marami pang iba! (haha, yes, with exclamation point kasi my crush doesn’t know what she’s rejecting. chz, haha.)

5. Being a perfectionist. I’m not saying I’m perfect ah, haha. It’s actually the opposite, I want things so badly to all go perfectly according to my imagination that I end up procrastinating instead. I badly overthink things, kahit hindi ko pa ginagawa, pagod na ko. But I’d still like to think this as somewhat an advantage, because at least I have a higher structure of ideals in mind, it’s just a matter of dwelling with myself for the execution. 

five things i want this year

1.CPA title

2. a job that I actually love and at the same time treats and compensates me well.

3. pass the entrance exams and get into a law school of my actual choice

4. love life

5. lose more weight :) 

tagging the birthday girl @lrviolet @gladventurers @mediwriter @kinikimkimnikimbie @maligalig