I enjoy staying in a place for a while and live a peaceful life, talking with locals and making friends. It could be 3-30 days in one city, depends on cost.
Every year I spend a few months traveling and the rest time hibernating in my nest. Some of the travel stories can be found in the description of my photos.
Not in Beijing anymore, now I own an apartment in a small town (about 3 hours train to Beijing) and live there happily. Currently working remotely for my friend’s furniture business and have a cute stable (low) income. The rest time is usually spent on reading, painting, learning stuff, playing games.
Recently focus on learning more English and a few other languages, learning a bit this and a bit that, making simple AI stuff.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet people and make friends around the world, share each others' story and learn new things, it's always interesting to find new views of value. A person is like a world :)
At the same time I believe that the similarities between people are far greater than the differences.
I have a plan of traveling around the world and living in different countries in a long run. For now I am practicing my skills and getting prepared for this plan. Also I hope to find some traveling partners, I am used to traveling alone, but there will be more fun when there is some people to share to on the way.

Interests

Besides traveling, I'm into indie games, a lot of my friends are game developers. I also attended Ludum Dare for a few times.
Also I enjoy reading books, painting, and always curious about new knowledge. Recently learning playing guitar too.

• arts
• books
• traveling
• anthropology
• science
• linguistics
• people watching
• learning
• games

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie recently liked:
Asphalte (2015)
La tête en friche (2010)
(This was written in 2023, surprisingly I didn't watch movies this year. )

Books recently read(2024):
The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
Do Birds Have Knees? Stephen Moss
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matt Ridley
False Knees: An Illustrated Guide to Animal Behavior, Joshua Barkman
The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut, Nigel Barley
The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
Journal de voyage, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Les caves du Vatican, André Gide
The Blue Castle, L. M. Montgomery
The Castle, Franz Kafka
The Devil's Pool, George Sand
Conversations with Kafka, Gustav Janouch
Languages:A Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, Samuel Johnson

Games:
Heaven's Vault, Cultist Simulator, The Long Dark, Card Survival Tropical Island, Return of the Obra Dinn, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, 80 Days, Four Last Things, The Case of the Golden Idol, The Last Door.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I used to appear on NHK.
There was a close-up of my face on Japanese NHK TV news for 1 second, as an audience laughing extremely happliy.
I was very into sumo for a while. It is like a small ancient society running in modern times and it is very interesting to learn its cultural details.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy learning all the arts and sciences and would like to share those too.
Recently interested in Linguistics (that's also science, I suppose.)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Last year I wrote "I can paint a small watercolor painting for my hosts" but ended up only did paintings for 4 hosts (basically because lack of time and energy) ... so I guess it's better to write:
Pleasant conversations and good companion (92% of the time)
I will bring a tiny gift with good wishes for my host also.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Serbia, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Philippines, Tunisia