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minute thoughts 2.13.20
minute thoughts 2.13.20

On the delights of geomapping and the difficulty of reading as an adult

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minute thoughtsjayemseyParasite, the Oscars, Bong Joon-ho, Vulture, Architectural Digest, YouTube, West Village, Apartment Therapy, The Washington Post, Lily Lines, The Disposables, Kristen Bell, photography, travel, memory, New York, New York City, linguistics, subway, what3words, UCSB, Storke Tower, Year in Review, alcohol, drinking, snow, climate change, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, reading, representation, Barnes & Noble, Panda Express, orange chicken, hot and sour soup, '90s, the '80s, playlist, Asian AmericanComment
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
minute thoughts 8.14.19
minute thoughts 8.14.19

On the joy of foreign grocery stores and the cult of productivity within WeWork

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minute thoughtsjayemseyNew York Magazine, grocery store, 7-Eleven, travel, Quartz Obsession, food, food for thought, brag document, The Cosmos, résumé, career, shift responses, support responses, emotional labor, emotional intelligence, Reddit, gun violence, gun control, Gilroy, Dayton, El Paso, '90s, WeWork, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship, startups, consciousness, culture, America, Britain, election, 2016 election, How I Met Your Mother, thunderstorm, Jane the Virgin, Minute Thoughts, compassion, mass shootingsComment
a short oral history of us
a short oral history of us

A collection of stories from my family about how we came to be

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lifejayemseyThe Joy Luck Club, Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, United Shades of America, W. Kamau Bell, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, hashtag, Frasier, Get Out, Anthony Bourdain, oral history, Hong Kong, New Jersey, ye ye, nai nai, China, Chinatown, Brunei, Malaysia, Chin Wing Laundry, Chinese, Chinese-American, Chinese food, discrimination, racism, Borneo, Columbia University, Jersey Shore, Long Beach Island, Kojak, Milton the Monster, Barbie, ice skating, Atlantic City, A&W, fishing, fish, The Four Seas, Ging Hawk Club, MOCA, NYU, SUNY Buffalo, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, California, LA, San Francisco, Dish of Salt, Crazy Rich Asians, Greece, UCLA, Sony, Japantown, SF VA Medical Center, Sharp Hospital, Hello Judge, stroke, Palm Springs, vacation, Palacio, Colverhurst, Montemar, Greenwillow, Wii, Game Boy, blanket fort, Tumbles, birthday parties, travel, Princess Cruises, Pompeii, Hawaii, Chapman UniversityComment
25 goals for 25
25 goals for 25

Letters to my not-so-little sisters

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24 moments from 24
24 moments from 24

To one wild ride of a year

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