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Overview

  • 10 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning French, Japanese, Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Reality: Fantasy; Fantasy: Reality
  • Token Bachelors Degree in Asia... the rest is self-taught
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

誇父追日:To mend the sky, fight off the dragons, and find out why waiting is like marmalade

PHILOSOPHY

"Know thyself."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I do what we all do.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some boring, but most insightful. My experience has been the more different the better... providing I am not destroyed by it.

Interests

Violence, love, peace, chaos and the occasional hamburger.

  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books? 1984, The Stranger, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore, Hagakure, Heart of Darkness, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Moby Dick, Terminate With Extreme Prejudice, The Associated Press Style Guide.
Musicals? Anything by Soundheim.
Movies? Titus, or anything by Hayao Miyazaki

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a guy throw an ordinary sewing needle through a pane glass window. It made impact with a bang, and now I'm convinced that genetically engineered borgs live among us. Or at the very least in China. And Yao Ming is just the beginning.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm enthusiastic about the idea of breaking down teacher-student roles and the free flow of information from individual to collective. Some people say this is disrespectful, but they're the ones I never learn anything from anyway.

I enjoy sharing my ideas on language and philosophy. I'm happy to learn about real(human)politik, friendship and everything in between.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Mexico, Taiwan

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