*** Update in Sept '17 - I'll be traveling in Central Europe from 8 Sept to 25 Oct to Berlin, Belgrade, Milan, Naples, Prague, Budapest ***

I'm basically a capital person, I feel more comfortable in downtown of metropolitan cities. Instead of typical tourism attraction, I rather spend time in discovering what's sold at local super market to guess lifestyle and preference of local people. I enjoy conversation with local people, thus I prefer countries or cities where I can carry conversation in Mandarin or English.

Although I studied Business in College, I've been interested in Psychological Anthropology, specially about India. Accumulatively and physically I've spent 7 years during recent 18 years in India. No mention I ever worked for Indian companies for 3 years of my 6-year in Indonesia. I've spent recent 5 years in Delhi with occasional 3-month short stay in Manhattan or Taiwan for work.

Some friends call me good coordinator and/or social butterfly. I love networking with ex-colleague or ex-customer whenever I'm in Hong Kong, and my best record is having 5 one-to-one appointments during 13hrs transit. I enjoy my like-minded friend circle in Delhi with a good mixture of Indian and European friends.

Interests

• design
• cultural anthropology
• startups
• online marketing
• eco-friendly
• social anthropology

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

During May 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii, by mistake I went hiking for 1st time on an amazing but risky trail, where I discovered I was emotionally, mentially and physically tougher than what I had thought of myself.

I was supposed to be on a running trail with a group of runners. I got lost and ended up finding myself caught in dilemma on such magically beautiful but narrow mountain ridge over slope for total 7 hrs. I encountered 6 ropes and had no choice but to use ropes for the 1st time in my life climbing up and down over 45' to 85' almost vertical slopes.

Hiking on a trail like this one is not only demanding physically emotionally, and mentally. It involves dealing with complexity by swiftly deciding strategies and skills. I had so much inner dialogue and self-observation whenever I felt challenged along the trail.

I made a return just before a real big robe when 5 hikers tried to convince me to return with them during big drop of rain and strong wind. That point I was climbing up with robe in midway on 90' angle. I felt so much bitterness and hoped to call a helicopter to rescue me. My calf muscles were gone. I went down by sliding down with hips, or by grabbing and migrating my body weight to still useful arm muscles.

At one critical moment I was almost slipping off the slippery knife edge. By pure luck, my right palm grabbed a slim tree when I stretched up my right arm without even aiming anything. I could ironically die or get serious injured just the day next to my milestone birthday.

So glad I survive during that life threatening experience. I don't understand why the other hikers look were so casual by their spirit and equipments. The trail rewards me with full of wonderful views and sounds of birds for sure!

Teach, Learn, Share

*** Important message to male surfers interested in requesting a stay at my place in Delhi. ***

For obvious safety reason in Delhi, I only host and screen female surfers. Since I joined couch surfing, daily I receive request from Indian male surfer for a stay in my place. Instead of being responsive and declining one by one, I hope this message help all of us to divert our time and energy toward something better. I stay with a male and a female flatmates, so I dislike to risk bothering them with safety concern by hosting males surfers, both Indians and Non-Indians. Below websites FYI.

1. Pink: A Bollywood film about India's 'rape culture'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37426720

2. If India can protect cows, then why not women?
https://www.bitgiving.com/cowmask

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, United States