I'm an un-stereotypical but still subconsciously competitive Asian, who speaks perfect American with a bit of wry humor. I'm a devoted amateur cook and professional foodie that loves to try everything from every culture (well given that Chinese eat everything I guess this ain't no news). I've been studying in Germany in the last 4 years. Currently I'm a part time data analyst at an IoT company, and a full time student at TU Darmstadt.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet new people
Embrace diversity
Relish every local dish
Travel wildly but not commercially

Interests

COOKING
TRAVELING
READING
DANCING
HIKING
KARAOKE
PUBBING

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:
- Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, ONE OK ROCK, Månegarm, Truckfighters...
- Fred Wesley, Sammy Davis Jr., James Brown, Nina Simone, Beth Hart...
- ONAIR, Pentatonix, Ratajon, Eric Whiteacre...
- ......

MOVIES:
- Identity, Mulholland Drive, Shuttered Island...
- Inception, The Departed, Whiplash, The Theory of Everything
- Ghibli movies (Laputa, Princess Mononoke, spirited away), Satoshi Kon (Paprika), Ghost in the shell, Makoto Shinkai (5cm/s)...

BOOKS:
Benjamin Franklin (An American Life), Homo deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow(Yuval Noah Harari), The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown), The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin), 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well there're several:

-One week camping in the great fjords of Norway.

- Co-founded an oversea-studying online consultancy and earned my college tuition.

- Learned some German by first starting an airport interviewer job.

- Co-cooked for a Ramen (well just instant noodles) themed dinner party, made coleslaw salad with roasted ramen & apricots, miso ramen soup, ramburger, and ramnuts (ramen+donut).

- Taught and co-catered with the campus canteen team for a 500-people Chinese New Year Celebration.

Teach, Learn, Share

A talk on a creativity: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius?language=en

What I Can Share with Hosts

- My used-to-be goody goody teen stories
- 4 years of learning and living experience in Germany & Europe
- The fuzzy trend on big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
- My cooking, catered to pure Asian, and Western-adapted taste
- Worldly & unworldly discussions
- Books, movies, music

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, Germany