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Overview

  • 9 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), English; learning Yue (Cantonese)
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Student
  • Bachalor of Computing
  • From Singapore, Singapore
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Work hard, play harder :)

ABOUT ME

I am currently a undergraduate doing my exchange in Sweden for 1 year.

Before this, I am living all my life in this small little island called Singapore if anyone know where it is.

Not a complete party-goner, nor am I am considered a geek, but I often enjoyed having a coffee with friends or acquaintances.

Sleep is often something I treasure. Hence you can see I can always host people for sleepover, because definitely I will be sleeping every night (Like duh! :p).

NOTE: ONLY READ ON IF YOU CAN STAND THE BORING INTRO.

Technically, I am not studying now in Sweden. I am enrolled in a special program offered in my home university, to learn about Entrepreneurship.

PHILOSOPHY

Some of the quotes I personally like:

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. ~Henry Louis Mencken

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have participated in CouchSurfing by hosting several couchsurfers in my room. I have planned to go on CouchSurfing soon myself to experience CouchSurfing as a guest myself. I must say that I am pretty excited looking forward to that!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I think I have quite a few experiences hosting guests from all over Europe. And I simply like the concepts of couch-surfing.

I think that hosting other people really make me understand more about their local culture. As what others say, hosting is like traveling at home. I will never knew that most Polish must drink tea every night before they sleep. And their own opinion on their politics and history. I will never have learned about them even if I went traveling. CouchSurfing is a definitely unique experience for me thus far. :)

Interests

There are a few things which I enjoy.

I like marketing. A lot of people do marketing as a job, but for me, I am particular interested in it but not working on any marketing job. My area of interest is Social Media Marketing. I think that the emerging social media marketing really invoke my interest and it is so interesting to learn about consumer behavior and their reaction to my marketing campaign.

I do not watch television. I often watch video online. There is one particular show that I love. It is called 康

  • culture
  • coffee
  • partying
  • drinking
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • surfing
  • communications
  • entrepreneurship
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

I watched movies as a pastime. My personal favorite type of movie is those action-packed movie with really good special effect. Of course, I enjoyed to be entertainment by chick flick. Some of the movies that I think are good:
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Hostel 3
- What's your number?
- This means War
- Harold and Kumar wish you a Merry 3D Christmas (Oh man! I love the whole series!)
- Girl with dragon tattoo
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- 2012我爱HK喜上加囍
- New Year Eve (This is my favorite movie of 2012!)
- Valentine Day

I definitely listening to music. I listen to music during my work. I listen to them when I am studying. Almost most of the time I I am listening to music. I like Pop music and R&B. No heavy metal for me please. I like soft rock too. :) Some of my favorite singer:
- S.H.E
- F.I.R
- LMFAO
- Katy Perry
- Avril Lavigne
- Bruno Mars
- Beyonce
- Britney Spears (My childhood idol!)
- David Guetta
- Flo Rida
- Pitbull (My favorite male singer!)
- Jennifer Lopez (My favorite female singer!)
- Nicki Minaj
- Ke$ha
- Lady Gaga
- Maroon 5
- Oliver Ong
- P!nk
- Rita Ora
- Taio Cruz
- Taylor Swift

Book wise, I do not read many book. I think that I read regularly, but on books. I read more of articles wise. But there are still some books that I enjoy:
- Harry Potter
- Detective Conan
- Eragon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As a typical Asian, I think anything that I think consider amazing will be not at all interesting for people who are reading this, as they might have rich travel experience.

If there is one thing that I have consider regarding worth mentioning in my life, that is that I have served in my students' union for my home university for around 2 years, where I really fought hard for the student welfare in providing them with a better student lifestyle, more student benefits.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, Denmark, Indonesia, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, Sweden

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