tokyo-fashion:

Short video showing the eclipse-watching crowd this morning in Harajuku. I was surprised to see so many people here at 7:30am!

Missed this because I wanted the extra 30 minutes of sleep… maybe I should have woken up that bit earlier after all? 

(via japanlove)

1 week ago

kolyaaa:

Yuna - Live Your Life

Yuna’s a Malaysian singer-songwriter with an absolutely enchanting voice - this song was produced by Pharrell, and is a gem. 

Rolling Stone mag had this to say about her:

Yuna has a knack for intersection. The 25-year-old blends heartland acoustic folk, quiet storm R&B and bouncy trip-hop to create songs to fall in love to and fall asleep to. In fact, she opens her set with “Lullabies,” off her self-titled debut: “Like lullabies you are forever in my mind,” she coos, her voice somewhere between Sade and Norah Jones. “You’re my first love.”

(via braided)

2 weeks ago

Just breathe

Being away was much needed, I guess. Staying would perhaps have driven me nuts. Escape was perhaps what would get my mind off things, keep it busy with constantly new experiences, new people, new languages, new environments. Just to stay sane.

Perhaps it was timely after all.

Things have changed, too much has changed. Home doesn’t feel like what it was. And it’s not. It’s not what it was, and it never will be. And that’s life, I guess. People moving in different directions, heading to different places. Fluidity. Motion. Wishing things would stay the same would be a sure way to insanity.

Yet I still wish things would be what it was before.

Months have passed, and I still get a sudden sense of fear when I receive messages from home.

When things changed, I was reluctant. I was selfish.

Deep inside, I guess I still am. 

2 weeks ago
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[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.”

“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)

We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.

(via benedictatorship)

(Source: fairtest.org, via braided)

2 weeks ago
I sent my mum a message to wish her a happy mother's day, but she also got wind of what happened this morning - I went to the hospital to get some eye medication due to an allergic reaction where my eye got all red and itchy...Here's the SMS conversation:
Me: "Happy Mother's Day!!"
Mum: "Keep bill and claim in SG"
2 weeks ago