Hi! I’m Jessica. I am Singaporean, born and raised on that lovely island, but I moved to the US in 2012 for university and have been primarily living here since. I hope to spend some extended time in northern Europe I am an artist, designer, coder, person who thinks about behaviour and usability (UX enthusiast?)…I have a lot of interests. Here’s my real website.
I started this blog in anticipation of living in Mannheim, Germany, from June to August 2014. My goals were to chronicle my preparations for the trip and the summer experience itself. I didn’t do a great job of that, but here is my first post. These days I just use this as a regular catch-all blog, part personal, part professional. Should I separate the two? Probably. Do I care? Do you care? Is anyone even reading this blog? No.
Elsewhere
- My Facebook page is super active: Jessica Yang
- I finally started using my Twitter account: @krysjez
- I haven’t started using my dribbble account, but here I am: @krysjez
Partial list of hobbies I don’t get to do as often as I’d like
- Videogames
- Woodworking
- Biking
Progress Tracking
- German: I started a halfhearted attempt at teaching myself German in late May 2014. I then spent two months living in a small German city with no instruction. As of 13/8/14, my German was at 86% of A1 and 64% of A2, according to the self-assessment tool on the Deutsche Welle website. I then took a semester (3 months) of German at university, took a break of 9 months because I didn’t like the teaching style, and had another two semesters. Since 2015 I have been using the DIALANG test to measure my progress on European languages. I take it cold, with no preparation.
- Mid-Dec 2015: Placement: 345 / Writing: A2 / Reading: B1 / Structures: A2 / Vocab: B1 / Listening: B1
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Early May 2016: Placement: 541 / Writing: B1 / Reading: B2 / Structures: B1 / Vocab: B1 / Listening: B1
