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my favorite people on the internet
my favorite people on the internet

Celebrating my sixth year of being a human on the internet with some of the people I admire the most

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lifejayemseyblogiversary, blogging, writing, Bitch Media, fellowship, pop culture, Jia Tolentino, Amanda Taub, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Helena Fitzgerald, Griefbacon, Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study, Scaachi Koul, millennial burnout, Rebecca Jennings, John Saito, Haley Nahman, Maybe Baby, Rachel Miller, Just Good Shit, Friday Night Chores, Lili Loofbourow, Amanda Mull, Colin Nagy, Noah Brier, Why is this interesting?, Rebecca Traister, The Pudding, Krystal Bick, Chrissy Teigen, Molly Yeh, Jessica Merchant, How Sweet Eats, Joss Fong, Erik Singer, linguistics, Awesome Restorations, Safiya Nygaard, Susannah McCullough, The Take, Natalie Tran, communitychannel, Pop Culture Detective, Jonathan McIntosh, Debra Minoff, Binging With Babish, Binging with BabishComment
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 3.17.19
minute thoughts 3.17.19

On the joy of tiny love stories and who is entitled to natural wealth

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minute thoughtsjayemseyrecipes, viral, homebody economy, self-care, Girls' Night In, Instagram, snacks, Black Forest Gummy Bears, Crash Bandicoot, Mission Impossible, The New York Times, Modern Love, Tiny Love Stories, compliments, catcalling, Michelle Yeoh, Lana Condor, Crazy Rich Asians, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, representation, visibility, capitalism, Silicon Valley, baking, bread, The Perfect Loaf, self-optimization, blogging, lifestyle blog, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Almond Cake, French fries, McDonald's, Five Guys, Shake Shack, pop culture, The Nanny, pop music, Carly Rae Jepson, millennials, Millennial Whoop, Bo Burnham, Repeat Stuff, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, music, Call Me Maybe, Asian AmericanComment
year in review: 2018
year in review: 2018

My year in review and 2018 favorites

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lifejayemseyYear in Review, blogging, relationships, postcard, Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Manhattan, aliveness, New York City, winter, Middle Branch, Baltic Sea, Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Kiel, Mia, Bombay, Brooklyn Animal Action, Little Panthers, ZHU, #cravingsfest, Twitter, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Cravings, Cravings 2: Hungry For More, Luna, California, Korinne, LA, Santa Barbara, Big Sur, Sonoma, San Francisco, Morro Bay, The Arboretum, peacock, Isla Vista, Ripplewood Resort, Bixby Bridge, Hawaii, Japanese Tea Garden, Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge, Washington D.C., Gwendolyn, Spy Museum, Newseum, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Obama, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, George Washington, Michelle Obama, Brothers & Sisters, Line Hotel, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Syndicated Brooklyn, Madwell, 72andSunny, Love Actually, Street Food Cinema, 5K, Roscoe's, Museum of Death, Museum of Tolerance, Heaven's Gate, The Wolves, Shoo Shoo Baby, Paris, Croix Me A River, Disneyland, California Adventure, Guardians of the Galaxy, Incredicoaster, Toy Story Midway Mania, Radiator Springs Racers, Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Indiana Jones, brunch, Christmas, xiao long bao, Ruby's Café, matcha, Brooklyn Ball Factory, Trader Joe's, cold brew, butter toffee pretzels, KazuNori, Momosan, Daikaya, Sonoratown, Seabutter, Jongro KBBQ, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, Bill Gates, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The New York Times, #MeToo, Domino's, creativity, F*ck Off Fund, negotiation, long distance, Griefbacon, Bloomberg, America, venture capitalism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, college, Minute Thoughts, heroin, addiction, white supremacy, white nationalism, The White Flight of Derek Black, I.AM.GIA, Uniqlo, Fenty Beauty, Mix No. 6, Hourglass, C.O. Bigelow, jasmine, Pat McGrath, KitchenAid, Neogen, Acwell, NARS, Glow Recipe, Bliss, Swisch, MoMA Design Store, TOKiMONSTA, Shanghai Asian Manor, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, Asian AmericanComment
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
how i write: a process
how i write: a process

A little insight into how I write blog posts (and everything else)

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lifejayemseywriting, blog, blogging, things I've learned from blogging, reading, conceptual blending, Twitter, Elon Musk, jack of all trades, curiosity killed the cat, great minds think alike, blood is thicker than water, idioms, The Pink Panther, microjournaling, stream of consciousness, point of view, outline, John Saito, red thread, Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly, blogiversary, year threeComment
a love letter to the lion city (jayemsey x singapore, part IV)
a love letter to the lion city (jayemsey x singapore, part IV)

The final chapter of my Singapore adventures...thanks for the memories :')

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traveljayemseytourists, blogging, Sentosa, Singlish, Singapore, lah, Marina Bay Sands, Marina Bay, ION Sky, Whisk Café, Gardens by the Bay, Supertrees, Flower Dome, Cloud Forest, Karl the Fog, Marina Barrage, laser show, Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden, turtles, Pulau Ubin, nature, Escape the Room, lo hei, Chinese New Year, Chinese food, lion dance, Kazu Sumiyaki, hawker center, Platform 1904, Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire, STRAY by Fatcat, truffle fries, emotion, diversity, JAYEMSEY x SingaporeComment