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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Software Engineer
  • Computer Science (Cambridge University)
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Software engineer who loves travelling, photography, hiking and mountains.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

認識新的朋友
Making new friends.

I love visiting and exploring new places.

我也會講中文!

Interests

Mountain climbing, nature, photography, classical music, piano.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music 音樂
Frédéric Chopin 弗雷德里克·肖邦
Edvard Grieg 愛德華·格里格
Tchaikovsky 柴可夫斯基
Rachmaninoff 拉赫瑪尼諾夫
George Gershwin 喬治·格什溫
Radiohead 電台司令

Film 電影
Life is Beautiful 美麗人生
The English Patient 英倫情人
Heat 烈火悍將
Blade Runner 銀翼殺手
Interstellar 星際效應
The Prestige 頂尖對決
Inception 全面啟動
Anything by Christopher Nolan (克里斯多福·諾蘭) :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm really interested in language acquisition. I once used TPR for a year to learn Chinese. TPR is really different from traditional language teaching methods, in that grammar is not taught explicitly. Instead, it emphasises natural language acquisition, along with real-world movements and actions. Would be happy to share this method with other people!

As a software engineer, I spend most of my time writing Haskell (a functional programming language). It's quite rare to meet anyone else that also writes Haskell, so definitely would be very happy to learn and share this. :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lesotho, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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