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Overview

  • 5 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, Chinese, English; learning Japanese
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Aspiring journalist/photographer
  • No education listed
  • From Hong Kong
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To be a brutally honest person.

ABOUT ME

I aspire to become a journalist, hopefully publish my own magazine so that I can share my own aesthetics with the rest of the world. But meanwhile, I am still in journalism and communication school. I am doing a one-year exchange in Utrecht, The Netherlands right now, hopefully can see more of the world before I head back home and finish school.

PHILOSOPHY

1. You have to be the first and last one to love yourself.
2. Be honest, especially to yourself.
3. Shop till you drop. (I seriously believe I have a shopping disorder.)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None. Couchsurfing for the first time. (Please show some sympathy and love and show me around)

Interests

I am a big fan of analogue photography, in other words, I use film camera.
I love to dance, did a couple years of modern dance and stopped several years ago, but will definitely pick it back up one day.
I am a competitive rower, but besides that, I ain't particularly athletic. I prefer poetry more somehow.

  • poetry
  • photography
  • dancing
  • shopping
  • communications
  • journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

I aint particularly picky when it comes to movies, except I dont really like action movies. I used to read quite a lot of books when I was younger, but I stick to magazines (lifestyle and fashion magazine in particular) most of the time.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The moments when I see the endless Pacific Ocean in Southern Taiwan and Okinawa. It may sound weird as I come from Hong Kong (an island), but we never get to experience the ocean in such way.
My articles were published in Time Out Hong Kong, once by a Hong Kong Chinese newspaper, I consider that as my very moments of publicity.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Netherlands

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