This site used to be a catch basin -- of rage, rants, and random things wrapped around my head. Through the years, this site has outgrown itself undergoing several changes, from the layout, blog name, to the content & purpose. X good years have been gone and counting, four blog names to sum things up, and
still, this site is still alive.
Oliver's Blog. The most uncreative way to give a blog a bad name, sometime in August 2010, back in the days when I was drowning in a sea of laboratory reports and mountains of laundries. Inspired mainly by then staple sites in my reading plate such as Superbianca and The Melting Pen, this site was created and envisioned to be something similar to those pages. Unfortunately, things didn’t pan out as planned, and this blog never matured in that direction.
Protocols
of Oliversiblerxn. Speaking of maturity, this blog was renamed to Protocols of
Oliversiblerxn towards the end of 2010; protocols being protocols, and oliversiblerxn as a poor attempt to
mean irreversible reaction – supposedly to imply my irreversible views on stuff chemically speaking, being a chemistry major, close-minded and narcissist at that.
The
Beat Box Blog. Diverting towards topics closer to my heart, this blog was rebranded again
by the end of 2012, weeks before the supposed end the world. Filled with music charts, reviews, playlists, mixtapes, and all
things music, this site has flourished into a huge, frustrated music site. And
while this turned into a second-rate music blog, it remained as a personal one
at the very core (and a travel site on the side). With all the internal content conflict, I decided the music contents permanently migrated to another space (for convenience).
Olvr’s
Trvls. Fast forward to six years later, I decided to rename the site to Olvr’s Trvls (with a new logo I'm proud about), loosely based on the 2010 film Gulliver's Travels, believed to be a more accurate
expression of this site’s current contents. This is also a slight tweak of my defunct personal Tumblr
blog called Oliver’s Troubles, basically about the troubles in my then day-to-day life.
