Once on a cross N America road trip with 1 Brit, 1 Japanese, 1 French, drove from Berkeley, Vegas, Albuquerque, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, Charlotte, D.C., Philadelphia, and all the way to NY, NY on New Years Eve.

Every bits of the journey counts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Life leads me this way.

Interests

meditating
baseball
basketball
running
all kinds of sports
cinematography/ photography
writing
drawing
editing
sound recording
traveling
living
taking a walk
taking care of plants
poetry
movies
concerts
enjoying good food

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• photography
• film making
• concerts
• dining
• running
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• sports
• baseball
• basketball
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

All kinds of music that sounds new, appealing to my ears, effecting my body, and inspiring my mind.
Hip-Hop: J Dilla, RZA, DJ Premier, Dr Dre, Pete Rock...

Movies:

Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard

In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai

King of Comedy by Stephen Chow

Mighty Aphrodite by Woody Allen

Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III by Kidlat Tahimik

Sunless by Chris Marker

The Wild Blue Yonder by Werner Herzog

Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu

Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch

Punch Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson

3 Women by Robert Altman

Books:
Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Last Tycoon
Norwegian Wood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Made a 16mm short film in a summer in NYC with friends from Tokyo and all over US. It's good to see part of our lives being preserved this way.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can share our approach to life, arts, music...

I am open to learning everything interested me.

Languages teaching and learning, filmmaking, storytelling technique showdown...

What I Can Share with Hosts

My stories, my skills, my labor

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States