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Overview

  • 14 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Yue (Cantonese); learning French, Malay, Persian (Farsi)
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • interpreter, photographer, sailor, graphic designer
  • BA (Hons) Visual Communication
  • From born in Hong Kong & grew up in Malaysia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

explore beyond sight-seeing

ABOUT ME

adventurous, adaptable, flexible, easygoing, interested and open to different cultures; an artist of all sorts, a graphic designer who writes music; an artist learning to be a sailor. For the time being, working as freelance medical interpreter, serving in Navy Reserve, studying at uni.

PHILOSOPHY

live life to the fullest.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

enjoy both surfing & hosting, also showing travellers around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

surfing & hosting

Interests

photography, visual arts, music, creative cooking, psychology, languages. sport wise: billiard, cycling, horse riding, hiking, water sport (esp. surfing, diving)

  • arts
  • writing
  • design
  • graphic design
  • photography
  • cooking
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • drums
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • sports
  • freelancing
  • languages
  • psychology
  • visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

Black Swan, Inception, Avatar, Il Postino, Water for elephant / Jazz, Indie, Pop/ Paulo Coelho's Alchemist, The Fifth Mountain; Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore, Norwegian Wood; ps: Childhood Favorite: Adventures of Tin Tin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba dived into sunken shipwreck.
Saw a dolphin at twilight from on the helm of a warship.
Sailed across the Baltic sea.
Writing my own songs.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach guitar, piano, bass, drums, up to intermediate level. As well as photography, make the best use of your camera. last but not least, I'm more than happy to teach someone would like to learn chinese, my mother tongue.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Malaysia, United Kingdom

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