January 2011
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I'm starting to get almost everything I want
And having to pick and choose is a privileged burden. In fact, instead of other people telling me that I can’t have what I want, I have to tell myself, “No, Noel — you can’t have everything. You can’t do everything.”
I haven’t eaten at a buffet for a while, but I imagine this is how I am at the buffet table.
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catladysoul:
iekeliene:
I can’t stop listening to Bottoms Up
I feel like I have betrayed everything I once held dear
this is how i felt when i first started listening to kpop in public
then i stopped caring
Um. So is it okay that I listen to Justin Bieber? *glances around*
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“One night I got caught by a security guard. He became angry at me because he...”
– Wilfred Chan, Rooftop Superstar
One of my good friends wrote this. When I stand on rooftops in New York, I feel the closest I have ever felt to the heavens. Back home in California, I would go stargazing with my friends. Over here in New York, you can barely see the stars — but you can see...
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“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
– - Bridgette Bardot (via makelifehappy)
I first read that as “Do you have to have a reason for being happy?”
In either case, I don’t think so.
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“In France, we complain of the growing number of suicides; in America, suicide is...”
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Published in 1840)
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Miss Couturable is back! →
But this blog will stay too — for those more personal, spontaneous posts. Someone recently told me that she listed my blogs under the publications she reads regularly on her Columbia University application. I guess I should start blogging about How Great Columbia Is.
Oh wait, I already do. Please let her in, dear admissions office.
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Mid-blog crisis
I miss blogging on MissCouturable.com. I thought I didn’t need it, but it was more like I didn’t have time for it. Now, I love NoelDuan.com for my personal writings and two-second thoughts, but MissCouturable.com was always for the more frivolous side of me.
Can I have two blogs? Would anyone read both blogs? Can I relaunch MissCouturable.com? Oy vey.
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The funny thing about everything that I've learned...
is that it both affirms everything I stand for and questions everything I had ever taken for granted as part of my identity.
I want to elaborate on this, but I have quite a bit of work to do before the semester begins. Lazy blogger, aren’t I? Point is, college changes things. That’s something my high college counselors forgot to tell me.
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Whenever I get an email or comment from a reader
about how she’s been reading MissCouturable.com and NoelDuan.com for the past four years or so, I remind myself that blogging is not a waste of time.
It’s kind of like we grew up with each other. Except you know more about me than I know about you. So, feel free to send me emails whenever you want, aiite?
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“IQ is much less important than I will.”
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WSJ: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior →
29lives:
jessicachu:
Chinese parents believe that they know what is best for their children and therefore override all of their children’s own desires and preferences. That’s why Chinese daughters can’t have boyfriends in high school and why Chinese kids can’t go to sleepaway camp. It’s also why no Chinese kid would ever dare say to their mother, “I got a part in the school play! I’m...
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“Have you ever stopped to think that the serious subject of woman’s...”
– Woman’s Home Companion, 1914
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2011
I sought out to write something longer, but succinctness is poignant:
May 2011 be nothing you expected and everything you wanted.