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Hi! My name is Adrian Liem. I’m an online strategist and web specialist located in Vancouver, BC. I’m currently on a leave of absence from my job at UBC. Here’s what I’m up to in the meantime:

Working

Playing

  • Skiing, climbing, biking, swimming, running and eating
  • Playing hockey and ultimate
  • Dabbling in design, photography, and videography
  • Spending time with my family
  • Writing about the experience
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Posts Tagged ‘motivation’

The End is Not as Far as the Start

There’s a line from a U2 song that cropped up into my head this morning: “the end is not as far as the start”. These are words that have extra meaning for me these days – hard to believe, but I recently crossed the halfway mark of my year off from my full-time job. While the clock was ticking up from the beginning back in May, June and July, there’s that second clock that’s popped up with the countdown to the end.

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A June to Remember

It’s almost the end of June, and the last post I wrote was in May. Needless to say it’s been a whirlwind of a month, but as I head into month 3 of my 12 month leave, I figured I better get out an update.

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Taking A Tiny Leap

I’ve started to let folks know about some new and exciting plans in my world: I’m taking some time off from my full-time job and embarking on a leave of absence a tiny leap.

Stoking the Winter Fire

With the first sprinkling of snow hitting the nearby hills (not quite on the local ones yet, but coming soon!), my mind’s been drifting to thoughts of winter. To help stoke the fire, I’ve been checking out a few ski videos – some good finds courtesy Doglotion, a freeskiing web magazine run by an old friend of mine. Other than getting psyched for the snow to fall, the guys in these videos have some inspiring words. Here are a couple recent favourites.

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Thinking of Possibilities

It’s been a busy last few months since I last regularly posted here. I’ve started writing for a few other hobby blogs, launched a couple web apps with my brother, launched some major projects at work…the list goes on. Life flies by when you get busy, and it’s just zoomed right by the last little while. Sometimes it goes by so fast that if you don’t take that time to slow things down, or you don’t experience anything else to change your momentum, you never get a chance to stop and think. Lucky for me that busy-ness got a couple breaks and I’ve had a chance to re-focus.

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