bless and the city

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:11:40 +0800

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

- Benjamin Franklin

Today is the first USC football game of the season, wish I could...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0800

Today is the first USC football game of the season, wish I could hop on a plane and fly to Hawaii to be there! I miss the feeling of baking in the sun, pumping my victory sign and cheering with friends. Homecoming or ND, gotta make it to one. Fight on!!!

My boy’s coming to China! Thank goodness for...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:20:00 +0800

My boy’s coming to China! Thank goodness for trans-Atlantic flights… Google indicates that kayaking from Washington to Hawaii, then from Hawaii to Shanghai, is the practical way to reach China. We think otherwise.

Every 11:11 wish, crossed finger and bedtime prayer is coming true. Now I can start crossing days off the calendar :) My heart is so happy it might burst.

*Addendum: If this is too mushy for you (ahem, Brandon) be thankful I didn’t connect the dots and draw a giant, pink heart across the Atlantic Ocean. I thought about it…

"I think you just try to do your best, see where you can have the biggest impact and try not to hurt others. Life pretty much unfolds all on its own."

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0800

- an email from Aaron, whom I met on a Boltbus from NYC to Philly. I love when you meet a stranger, strike up a conversation that gets past superficialities, then keep in touch with said stranger and become friends. That seems to happen to me a lot :)

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:34:25 +0800

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

- Soren Kierkegaard (via quote-book)

A video about Shanghai’s street food scene, featured on...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0800

A video about Shanghai’s street food scene, featured on CNT’s blog aggregator. It’s like watching live art. Yum.

Owl City - Cave In If the bombs go off, the sun will still be...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:11:07 +0800

Owl City - Cave In

If the bombs go off, the sun will still be shining
Because we’ve heard it said that
Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining
Though I’m always undermining too deep to know

Newly obsessed with The West Wing... 10 years late

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:55:00 +0800

Mrs. Landingham: Josh, aren't you a little old to be leering at college coeds?
Johs: I'm a Fulbright scholar, Mrs. Landingham, I don't leer...
Also, there will be plenty of grad students there!

Dream destination: Fiji

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:00 +0800

Since before I can remember, the location I’ve dreamed of visiting is Fiji. Pristine beaches, snapshot-worthy sunsets, village huts - what else is wanting? Maybe I’ll make it happen, since I’m on this side of the world and all. Just need to start a Fijian piggy bank, asap.

Modriki

Yasawa Chain

Vuaki Village

Namuamua Village

Western Fiji

How can you see these photos and not believe in God?

(photos via cornersoftheworld)

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0800

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

- Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

sexmusic: cosmic love // florence + the machine

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:07:54 +0800

sexmusic:

cosmic love // florence + the machine

(via quote-book) I’ve blogged this before, but it was a...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:32:18 +0800

(via quote-book)

I’ve blogged this before, but it was a refreshing reminder.

My Emmy’s Glee skit reaction: “JON HAMM, I LOVE...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:50:00 +0800

My Emmy’s Glee skit reaction: “JON HAMM, I LOVE YOU”

President Barack Obama, holding a tortilla from the buffet table...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:11:03 +0800

President Barack Obama, holding a tortilla from the buffet table at the White House Cinco de Mayo celebration, smiles at First Lady Michelle Obama as they get on the elevator to the private residence following the event on May 4, 2009.

(Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

I’m way too fixated on them, but how can you not be?

"The one that is meant for us is going to be the hardest to get, the hardest to keep, and the hardest..."

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:39:39 +0800

“The one that is meant for us is going to be the hardest to get, the hardest to keep, and the hardest to accept because through all that the love will grow stronger. Love wasn’t made to be easy, otherwise we wouldn’t end up with the right person. We would end up with the first one who comes along. By struggling we single out the wrong ones and realize who really is the one.”

- (via eletheowl)

Video

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:13:38 +0800

"God speaks to each of us as we are made, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the..."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:42:00 +0800

“God speaks to each of us as we are made,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words, the numinous words,
we hear before we begin:

You, called forth by your senses
reach to the edge of your longing.
Become my body
grow like a fire behind things
so their shadows spread
and cover me completely

Let everything into you;
beauty and terror.
Keep going, remember
no feeling lasts forever

Don’t lose touch with me.
Nearby is the land they call life,
you will know it by its intensity.

Give me your hand.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, Before the Beginning

Tyler Ward - Teenage Dream (Katy Perry cover) We can dance until...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:53:00 +0800

Tyler Ward - Teenage Dream (Katy Perry cover)

We can dance until we die
You and I, we’ll be young forever

The faintest ink is better than the best memory.

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:54:00 +0800

- Chinese proverb

(courtesy of Paul Kinsey, adore his sage advice)

quote-book: “A few times in my life I’ve had moments of think absolute clarity, when for a few...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:39:00 +0800

quote-book:

“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of think absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”

— A Single Man

Anything for an excuse to post a photo of Colin Firth (and Lee Pace!) Tom Ford dressed them brilliantly. If you haven’t seen this movie, you should. It’s a work of cinematic art.