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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:

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  • 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 ‘music’

The Beauty of Music, Teaching, and Learning

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One of my little-known secrets is that I play piano. And I’ve also recorded it. And uploaded it to YouTube. I’ve witnessed some of the lashings you can take when you upload videos of your own to the site, but I have to say that sometimes it’s worth the risk.

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On the To-Do List: Dominate Everlong on Rockband2

I’m a competitive person. If you only know me a little, you might not know this. Actually, even if you knew me pretty well, you might still never think of me as competitive. But I’ll tell you now, that fire is in there and sometimes it leaks out. Case #1: My attempt to dominate Everlong on Rockband 2.

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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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Great Moments in Music Awesomeness

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Here’s a post I update on an on-going basis. Great Moments in Music Awesomeness is my list of favourite hooks, transitions, bridges, choruses, beats etc… Some great moments will undoubtedly come from great hits. Others will come from songs and singers and bands I’d otherwise probably be embarrassed to admit to liking. In some cases it will have a very clear reason for being on the list, for others, the only criteria may be that it just conveys a sense of awesomeness that only music can.

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