Hobbies

International Travel, Snowboarding, Motorcycles, Cars (Race, Drifting, Tuning, Modding, Repair, ODBII), Shooting (Handguns, Rifles, Crossbow), Home Improvement, Billiards, Yoga, Tameshigiri, Anime, Learning Japanese, Music & Concerts (Metal, Hard Rock, Industrial), ATV, Surfing, Jetskiing, Snorkeling, Kayaking, Eating Good Food.

Decluttering the House

Posted by Amy Kong

For the new year, I’ve been on a mission to declutter the house and found an old hard drive from 1995 in box of old computer parts. Curious to see if it contained anything fun from the ’90s, I plugged the hard drive in a IDE enclosure and gave it a go.

Unfortunately, the hard drive started making cranking noises and failed to install. Since the drive is failing, I figure I’d open it up and see how it works before tossing it in the trash.

After opening the drive. the hard drive installed correctly and the data was accessible.

Awesome!!!

I was hoping to find old AOL emails and pictures from my teenage years, but alas, the drive was wiped.

Oh well. At least I got it to work 🙂

Lanyard.fm – My Concert Photo Journal

Posted by Amy Kong

One of the perks of working for Live Nation/Ticketmaster is opportunity to attend a lot of concerts. I did quite a bit of “field research” and used Lanyard.fm to “create a visually stunning online journal of my live music memories.”

Check it out: https://lanyard.fm/AK-Nation

https://lanyard.fm/AK-Nation
lanyard.fm: Online Journal of my Live Music Memories

Also, some concert videos on vid.me

Resources for Learning Japanese & Living in Tokyo

Posted by Amy Kong

1) First: Learn Hiragana & Katakana

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2) Kanji Damage: Personal Favorite for learning Kanji

3) Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

4) Japanese Pod 101: Listened to Podcasts during my commute

5) Textbooks from the Situational Functional Japanese Series:

Other Resources

Useful Websites

  • Timeout Tokyo – Tokyo’s best restaurants, films, gigs, clubs, things to do and places to see – Written by local experts.
    http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo