I'm Angie, a Malaysian living in Singapore, and I love Southeast Asia so much!
Even if I have only visited 6 of the 11 countries here. Perhaps being a small-town girl transitioned into a big-city woman gave me an opportunity to experience the regional charms from natural forest to concrete jungle, and the easy access to the local food culture put me right at home no matter where I go.
Over the past few years, I had the chance to meet a few long-term travellers from beyond, touring Southeast Asia. Often they would tell me that their favourite part about the region is the less touristy places, where they could put themselves right into the local experiences. I almost get what they mean - when I was researching for a Bali trip, I was so sick of repetitive contents about the same destinations and sights that I decided to forget about it, rented a scooter, and went about with my own exploration and schedule. Best decision ever made.
Bali aside, I began to think: what about everywhere ...
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A quick poll for the community: what new skills have your learned in the past year?
Examples:
• Online courses (e.g. photography)
• A new hobby (e.g. snowboarding)
• Masters degree (e.g. sustainable tourism)
Can be travel, or non-travel related...
👉 Bonus points for interesting or obscure skills you've learned!
I'll go first... I learned two things this past year that were fun but challenging:
👨💻 Elixir — the coding language this site is built in (thanks to @mplatts & @daamsie)
🏄♂️ Wingsurfing (self taught)
It's not really a learned skill, but I've been dedicating most of my learning time in the last couple of months in exploring everything web3 related. Also with connections to the travel industry.
A new music genre that I started listening - Jazz 🎺
Rolled in the LCA last year. A complete course by Christian Leblanc! I learned how to shoot, edit and improve pictures in lightroom, improved my editing skills and got to learn how to post them efficiently. Feeling blessed to be able to do it in a good way now!
The useless one - making the best french omelette in the world. Sounds silly but I tried it over 50 times(a couple of times every week for the whole family) and can now safely challenge any professional chef to it now. My inspiration was a very old video by Jaque Peppin on youtube(though I did check out many others' versions since).
The important one - being a father. My girl turns 1 this month and I think I learn more from her every day than anything else I do.
Ooooh this past year has been a big year in drones for me. But I shifted to try to take on the hardest drone to fly (the first person view or "FPV" drone). WOOOO.. a LOT of dramamine later... I still get VERY sick every time I fly. But it's fun.
Oh as i had to produce content and PR to grow awareness on Melanin Travels Magic, I had to learn blog and article writing online and offline, interview skills, pitching media.
Some new sports for me:
1. Snowboarding 🏂
2. Downhill mountain biking 🚵♀️
Mostly digital focussed: How to automate customer journeys, how to use social media on Hubspot, and a few growth hacks as well!
Hi,
I was looking the way to improve my spanish persuasive texts for my website.
I study and read a lot about copywriting, and I start working as a copywriter for other people and bussiness.
Very happy about that.
www.depradena.com, my website of spanish copywriting and copywriting for crowdfunding specialist.
Two things..
* Coding in Elixir - to help build this site. It's a really enjoyable language to work in.
* Playing the piano. Shout out to Simply Piano for that one. I did lessons a very long time ago (when I was about 8 years old), so I had some very basic knowledge. Going back as an adult to learn an instrument has been quite satisfying.
This year I'm trying to learn oil painting.
I've been learning how to play the ukulele & trying to take my piano skills to the next level.
Another thing I've been studying is practicing an anti-inflammatory diet & movements (exercises on land and water) to help strengthen the core and spine.