Posts tagged love
truth, beauty, freedom, love
truth, beauty, freedom, love

A love letter to my favorite movie and its Broadway incarnation, or how a TikTok reignited a decades-old obsession

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culturejayemseyMoulin Rouge, Broadway, Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo, Richard Roxburgh, Jim Broadbent, musicals, Paris, Tonys, Baz Luhrmann, El Tango de Roxanne, Elephant Love Medley, Your Song, Come What May, Tom Holland, Lip Sync Battle, Aaron Tveit, Derek Klena, Ashley Loren, COVID-19, Love Affair, Regina Spektor, Natalie Imbruglia, No Doubt, Elvis, The Postal Service, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Sia, Madonna, Kiss, David Bowie, Nirvana, La Boheme, La Traviata, Orpheus, Soft Cell, Britney Spears, The White Stripes, Eurythmics, The Sparkling Diamond, truth, beauty, freedom, love, Karen OlivoComment
year in review: 2019
year in review: 2019

My year & decade in review and 2019 favorites

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lifejayemseyYear in Review, blogging, Y2K, millennium, San Diego, Singapore, New York, New York City, love, travel, oral history, working holiday visa, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, France, London, Scotland, Costa Rica, Chicago, Portland, LA, mass shootings, democracy, kitten, graduation, Big Bear, Super Mario Odyssey, Arrowhead Village, Nintendo Switch, Super Mario Galaxy, Mandarin duck, hot duck, waterfall, La Fortuna Waterfall, Alajuela, La Fortuna, Monteverde, Chapman University, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Gov Ball, Randall's Island Park, ZHU, Florence and the Machine, Fyre Festival, The Strategy Super Sizer Megaclass, Julian Cole, Mark Pollard, Maine, anniversary, sunrise, Alaska, Baltic Sea, Mendenhall Glacier, silent disco, weddings, KAABOO, influencers, Snoop Dogg, Long Island City, LIC, Pepsi-Cola, Mia, Fish, Christmas, Instagram, housewarming, Samin Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat, scallion pancakes, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Bouchon Bakery, laser tag, Ramen Ishida, ramen, Chinatown, How Sweet Eats, Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine, Bar Pa Tea, Oscar Wilde, tea, Burp Bowl Café, KitKat, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama, The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin, Educated, Tara Westover, Intimations, Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, The New Yorker, millennials, gentrification, San Francisco, The Pudding, happiness, Ariana Grande, cultural appropriation, E. Jean Carroll, gaslighting, sexual assault, Central Park Five, grocery store, taxi, Aperol spritz, culture, pop culture, Gamergate, Allbirds, Uniqlo, Krave Beauty, Great Barrier Relief, Kale-lalu-yAHA, Stratia Liquid Gold, gua sha, Lauren Singer, zero-waste, Great Jones, Dutch oven, Secret Eyelash NYC, Dyson, Decrypto, Los Espookys, Booksmart, Hustlers, The Hustlers at Scores, The Haunting of Hill House, Cambodian Rock Band, Cambodian Genocide, Fleabag, Parasite, Luigi's Mansion 3Comment
25 goals for 25
25 goals for 25

Letters to my not-so-little sisters

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lifejayemseybirthday, Anna Akana, So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister, stories, birth control, sisters, Madwell, compassion, Death Café, death, grief, The Atlantic, dying, existence, existential, existentialism, travel, Jada Yuan, The New York Times, 52 Places Traveler, Baltic Sea, discipline, self-optimization, Mitski, Friday Night Chores, Girls' Night In, perspective, stress, mental health, self-care, skincare, Korean skincare, visibility, critical thinking, branding, personal branding, working holiday visa, Crazy Rich Asians, woke, cancellation culture, organicism, Happy New Year, New Year's resolutions, psychology, habits, non-zero days, consciousness, conscious consumerism, socially-conscious, reading, women authors, what am i going to do with my life??: a working framework for how to design the life you want, love, communication, commitment, Modern Love, Tumblr, Kristen Bell, emotional labor, exclamation points, Quartz Obsession, Twitter, Louis C.K., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, blog, blogging, passion projects, gratitude, simplicity, tea, Asian AmericanComment
minute thoughts 8.8.18
minute thoughts 8.8.18

On Venmo storytelling and lonely space robots

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minute thoughtsjayemseyFrench tuck, big dick energy, Christina Tosi, The New York Times, Momofuku Milk Bar, Masterchef, Chef's Table, desserts, candles, florals, gardenia, freesia, jasmine, Diptyque, Magic Tree House, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, NASA, space exploration, Curiosity, Space Race, small talk, 36 Questions That Lead to Love, intimacy, love, jazz, Ultra Miami, burgers, In-N-Out, Shake Shack, Ben & Jerry's, blog, ice cream, Queer Eye, Netflix, Fab Five, toxic masculinity, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Antoni Porowski, data, big data, privacy, Facebook, Google, Venmo, Public By Default, elote, UCSB Comments
minute thoughts 2.19.18
minute thoughts 2.19.18

On solo performance anxiety and authentic pasta-cooking technique

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minute thoughtsjayemseyTeam USA, Facebook, tea, Trader Joe's, Irish Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Jasmine Green Tea, tea party, Winter Olympics, figure skating, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Stars on Ice, Champions on Ice, Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Adam Rippon, Maia Shibutani, Alex Shibutani, ShibSibs, Vox, Chloe Kim, halfpipe, immigrants, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, Georges Bizet, Carmen, Aragonaise, Les Toréadors, oboe, solo, SDYS, dim sum, high tea, The Incredibles, The Incredibles 2, Pixar, Quartz Obsession, diamonds, gin, square dancing, Birkin bag, Drake, Valentine's Day, love, relationships, Medium, pastaComment
minute thoughts 5.24.17
minute thoughts 5.24.17

On exercise cults and the media's assistance to terrorism

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minute thoughtsjayemseyphilosophy, Spanish, Ave Maria, David Bisbal, Quantico, Priyanka Chopra, Snapchat, San Bernardino, Star Wars, Designated Survivor, politics, terrorism, terrorists, nationalism, mass media, mean world syndrome, Manchester, premonitions, clairvoyant, multiverse theory, A Thousand Splendid Suns, humanity, love, SoulCycle, Pussycat Dolls, cult, juice co. LG, rose rose cake, buttercream, succulents, The Grand Budapest Hotel, aesthetics, symmetry, cinematography, Kill Bill, dating, Star Trek, Michelle Yeoh, visibility, stereotypes, whitewashing, my name is yeh, friendship, Asian American Comments
friday five: international women's day edition
friday five: international women's day edition

How a little girl stopped Wall Street in its tracks + what we can learn about feminism from Solange Knowles

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friday fivejayemseyInternational Women's Day, A Day Without a Woman, Women's March, Fearless Girl, Wall Street, McCann, identity, feminism, diversity, tragedy of the commons, sexism, Modern Love, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, love, Solange, Beyoncé, A Seat at the Table, Lemonade, compassion, empathy, Uber, #DeleteUber, Susan J. Fowler, Silicon Valley, misogyny, rape culture, STEM, Melinda Gates, TED TalksComment