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"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception."

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:55:49 +0800

“In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.”

- George Eliot

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"To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a..."

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:59:33 +0800

“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing’s pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airport gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows it’s about something else, way down.”

- David Foster Wallace

my hair is curly now! :)

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:16:06 +0800

my hair is curly now!

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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:39:59 +0800

Beautifully put.

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:02:00 +0800

Beautifully put.

royalhats: “Maple leaves are so in, dahling.”

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:35:24 +0800

royalhats:

“Maple leaves are so in, dahling.”

elle: Cannes Do! Check out our top 47 looks from the Cannes...

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:52:45 +0800

elle:

Cannes Do!

Check out our top 47 looks from the Cannes Film Festival!

Photo: Getty Images

Is high school really over?

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:01:51 +0800

The last 72 hours at Westtown were probably the best 72 hours I’ve ever had there, even though it was all such a rush. Everything’s different when you suddenly realize you have only 3 days left with your classmates. You want to appreciate everything, from that horrible westtown-made fried fish, to crawling down to breakfast with your eyes hardly open, to sitting on South Lawn doing nothing. But there’s just not enough time. I felt like I was being fast-forwarded in a film — just enough time to taste everything but not enough to savor it.

Exams over, packing furiously, selling furniture, getting up so early to get hair and make-up done for dinner dance, pictures before getting on the bus (getting scorched by the sun in the process), dinner dance, back to school, belfry yearbook-signing party, back on dorm, talking till two in the morning, naked (not really) run at six, waking up the head of school, breakfast, get ready for graduation, graduation, more furious packing, saying goodbyes, whisked away by family, and the next thing you know you’re travelling in Europe.

I guess this blog is just to let myself sort of go over what happened in those 72 hours, and give myself a chance to savor it.

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Dinner dance ended with “Forever Young” — yes I know it sounds cheesy, but looking around at our class on the glimmering dance floor, our hands on each other’s shoulders, singing along to the lyrics, I was moved. When we started to move towards the center, our hands pointing towards the ceiling, towards the sky, I was moved again.

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Graduation — it was beautiful. I was stressing out over my wobbly, high wedges at first, walking down those uneven stone steps of the beautiful greenwood. It was a cool day, a little cloudy. We all feared that it was going to rain, but thank 老天爷, it didn’t.

After graduation on the way to New York, it started to pour. It was so heavy that it was distractingly loud, so thick you couldn’t really see the road. It was perfect.

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I love you class of 2011, and I will miss you.

limehaiku: you can purchase this track here

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:32:19 +0800

limehaiku:

you can purchase this track here

can’t imagine the pain of being suddenly stripped of home,...

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:34:40 +0800

can’t imagine the pain of being suddenly stripped of home, loved ones, and all that you are familiar with. Hope that you will be able to find your loved ones, and heal all that has been destroyed.

Perfect & Unreal

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:00:00 +0800

Chinese Choreographer and Dancer Liping Yang, 杨丽萍

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:31:30 +0800

Chinese Choreographer and Dancer Liping Yang, 杨丽萍

This dance depicts addiction, with Kayla as the victim, and...

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:48:41 +0800

This dance depicts addiction, with Kayla as the victim, and Kupono the malevolent source of addiction. Amazing choreography and dancers. You cannot pull your eyes off of them.

Dancers: Kayla and Kupono, from So You Think You Can Dance Season 5

Choreographer: Mia Michaels (got an Emmy award for this dance)

Music: Gravity by Sara Bareilles

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory..."

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:30:48 +0800

““To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.””

- ~Agnes De Mille (via confessionsofateenagedancer)

Oh how I miss dance! I love the ending; so unexpected. The...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:10:36 +0800

Oh how I miss dance!

I love the ending; so unexpected. The lighting in this dance studio makes it even more beautiful. The dancers’ movements are so defined, clear, and passionate. Gives me the goosebumps.

Choreography by Erica Sobol; she is amazing, you should check out her youtube channel.

Music: The Pieces Don’t Fit Anymore by James Morrison

academiagirl: This image just popped up on my tumblr feed. I...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:45:00 +0800

academiagirl:

This image just popped up on my tumblr feed. I gasped, then totally freaked out. I.Must.Have.This.Library.Now. Like, now!