Grace Liu

Thirty-three places, three of them home.

The other ledger — where I’ve been and what I do when I’m not at work.

The Map

33Places
3Lived in
5Continents
World map: 3 places lived in, 30 visited Canada United States of America Indonesia Kenya Mexico Brazil France Puerto Rico United Arab Emirates Thailand South Korea Nepal Austria Hungary Germany Bulgaria Turkey Switzerland Belgium Netherlands Portugal Spain Ireland Sri Lanka China China Italy United Kingdom Iceland Malaysia Finland Czechia Japan Puerto Rico China China Singapore
Lived there Visited Hover a country for its name

Off the Clock

Boxing

Gym

Year-round

Bag work and footwork. The one that most reliably resets a bad day.

Skiing

Mountains

Winter

The reason I don’t mind February.

Tennis

Courts

Spring to fall

Still working on the backhand. Probably always will be.

Golf

Course & range

Warm months

Four hours where nobody can send me a Slack message.

Pour-over coffee

Kitchen

Every morning

Manual brewing only. It’s a ritual as much as it’s caffeine.

Brazilian Portuguese

Classes, and an app I built for it

Ongoing

Studying properly, with a textbook and a teacher. I built Caderno de Português because nothing else tracked it the way I wanted.

Award travel

Points & miles

Ongoing

Transfer partners, award charts, and the small satisfaction of booking a long-haul seat for almost nothing. It’s optimisation as a hobby.