Uncomfortable with routine. The goal is to increase randomness. Where’s the fun when everything goes according to plan?

https://instagram.com/kae__yuan

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I gave Couchsurfing a shot in 2012. The kindness of my first host Alex was something I could hardly understand or forget. Now I'm still here.

HOSTS:
2012 / 2015 / 2023 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 Alex Ding
2015 🇨🇳 Su Xiaofang

2017 India
🇮🇳 Ujjawal Sharma
🇮🇳 Saurav Choudhary
🇮🇳 Amit + Piyush Mishra
🇮🇳 Vickeen Naik

2018 Morocco
🇲🇦 Fadi Filali
🇲🇦 Brahim Gajoute
🇲🇦 Med El Bahraouy
🇲🇦 Zakaria + Ismail Lemrabet
🇲🇦 Abdou El Hadri
🇲🇦 Zakaria Bakine
🇲🇦 Yassin Loukili

2018 Europe 🇪🇺
🇫🇷 Emmanuel Martin
🇫🇷 Jean Ferraton
🇫🇷 🇹🇷 Fatih Öztuson
🇪🇸 Lluis Pous
🇪🇸 David Funosas
🇪🇸 🇳🇱 Wouter Zikel
🇫🇷 Fabien Boucabeil
🇫🇷 Guillaume Colin
🇮🇹 Alessandro Cappelli
🇮🇹 Roberto Galletto
🇨🇭 Fred Grand Marquis
🇳🇱 Robby Hev
🇳🇱 Job Kalkman
🇩🇪 Alex Clemen
🇩🇪 Dan Hautz
🇩🇪 Marco Holz
🇩🇪 Anika Dittmer
🇩🇪 Martin Koch
🇩🇪 Numa + Nicole
🇩🇪 Richard Kluge
🇩🇪 Dirk Stöcker

2018 Istanbul
🇹🇷 Deniz Şahin
🇨🇲 Lezgîn Akan
🇹🇷 Gürkan Gamli
🇹🇷 Eray Azad
🇹🇷 Oğuz Tıraş

2019
🇩🇪 Stephan Tobias
🇮🇱 Adi Grynholc
🇵🇸 Mohammad Ahmad "Jemmy"
🇵🇸 Mo Dawood
🇦🇱 Rexhina Marku

2023
🇷🇴 Alex P
🇷🇴 Tudor K
🇧🇬 Itzo
🇧🇬 Nikola V

SURFERS:
2017-2018 Singapore
🇨🇿 Michal Adamec
🇷🇺 Moro Pelztier
🇰🇷 Lee Jun Beom
🇮🇹 Alessandro Cappelli
🇮🇹 Roberto Galletto
🇬🇧 Henry Myers
🇩🇪 🇹🇷 Deniz Kavak
🇨🇦 Rosano Coutinho
🇫🇷 Jonathan Fonvieille + Anthony Mauries

2019 Berlin
🇷🇺 Anna Semenova + Al Smirnitsky
🇧🇷 Renan Santos

2023 Singapore
🇩🇪 Finn Krauss

HANGOUTS:
2013 Singapore
🇩🇪 Alex Clemen
🇦🇺 Roy Bean
🇪🇸 David Asensio
🇨🇿 Jakub Vrsecky
🇩🇪 Elina Goldy
🇳🇱 Micky Luinge
🇩🇪 Christian Schleier
🇵🇱 Dagna Pirska
🇱🇻 Zane Enina
🇸🇰 Lucia Loposova
🇮🇳 Purush Narasim
🇫🇷 Antoine Gehin
🇺🇸 Jeff Charlot
🇩🇪 Alex Funke
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Boris Masis
🇺🇸 Justin Sheehan
🇪🇸 Xavier Quesada
🇹🇼 Lee Yi Fen
🇯🇵 Shoko Hosokawa
🇩🇪 🇵🇹 Joao Paulo Fernandes Marques
🇫🇷 Yoann van Hooydonck
🇮🇩 Mia Darmawan
🇩🇪 Philipp Sümmermann + Luisa Meisel
🇩🇪 Armin Razmdjou
🇺🇸 Ryan Bonham
🇬🇧 Toby Green
🇨🇦 Chelsea La Vecchia + George Hancock
🇷🇺 Artas Oorzhak
🇩🇪 Christoph Lex
🇧🇪 Wout Neckermann
🇩🇪 Marco Holz
🇩🇪 Næ‎ncy Hollmann
🇳🇱 Robby Hev
🇩🇰 Jonatan Mizrahi-Werner
🇬🇧 Kye McKee
🇺🇸 Joshua Vazquez
🇩🇪 Daniel Hautz
🇦🇷 Maurohs Romero
🇬🇧 Leigh Davidson
🇳🇱 Rutger Schiebroek
🇨🇭 Lukas Schmidt
🇸🇪 Johan Pellsäter
🇬🇧 Andrew Wilson
🇷🇸 Tamara Gadjanski
🇺🇸 Jenna Wiley
🇨🇳 Chen Chen
🇨🇦 Marc-Olivier Bergeron de Carufel
🇹🇼 Kila Ong
🇩🇪 Joshua Kaiser
🇩🇪 Julian Wildanger
🇺🇸 Troy Shu
🇩🇪 Mauricio Reinbold
🇨🇭 Fabrice Clerc
🇱🇹 Pavel Kirjanas
🇨🇴 Eduardo Palacio
🇭🇰 Ian Mak
🇿🇦 Renier Hulshof
🇨🇭 Benjamin Heller
🇨🇳 Zhong Yuhao
🇪🇸 Cristian Atik + Cati Carbonell
🇩🇪 Stefan Spahn
🇩🇪 Fridolin Mertzlufft
🇮🇹 Mattia Anesa
🇦🇹 Max Hejda
🇦🇹 Ortler Marcel + Michael Schnetzer
🇩🇪 Dirk Stöcker
🇨🇭 Eric Rey

2015 Hong Kong / Shanghai
🇭🇰 Gloria Chan
🇻🇪 Daniel Garcia
🇨🇳 Wang Jiahao

2017 India
🇮🇳 Vishal Sogani
🇫🇷 Mehdy de la Syka
🇮🇩 Sisi You + Winra Junus
🇮🇳 Vinamra Gehlot
🇨🇳 Wang Yanfei

2017 Singapore
🇵🇪 Saúl Mendoza
🇺🇸 Vraj Patel
🇩🇪 Moritz Wunderlich
🇲🇽 Rodrigo Merino
🇩🇰 Rune Hou Thode
🇨🇦 🇨🇿 Sebastian Železník
🇨🇳 Ramone Wang
🇫🇷 Eric Noto
🇵🇭 Paolo Bareng
🇹🇷 Semih Ozlar
🇫🇷 Gautier Cosne
🇸🇪 David Uher
🇮🇹 Pasquale di Pilato
🇪🇸 Marcos Garcia
🇦🇹 Felix Alexander + Leon Schwarzäugl + Aline Noelle
🇬🇧 Jacob Masters
🇩🇪 Laurin Waldmann
🇨🇴 Luis Ramírez + Paola Calderon
🇵🇪 Gisele Andrea Franco Valdez
🇺🇾 Silvana Schaffner Delmonte
🇨🇱 Rene Patricio Guzman Barahona
🇳🇱 Marc Rodan
🇲🇽 Victor Taylor
🇺🇸 Joshua Crook
🇨🇳 Evangelos Hsieh
🇧🇪 Siemen von Londersele + Jef Gerets
🇫🇷 Victor Coudert + Quentin Thiebaut
🇩🇪 Jan Heimes
🇩🇪 Maximilian Stahl + Dominic Rieger
🇸🇪 Andrej Tirich Joraga
🇮🇳 Pradyumna

2018 Singapore
🇦🇷 Francisco Podesta + Delfina
🇦🇹 Alexander van der Lachen
🇩🇪 Renke Deckarm + Lea
🇺🇦 Vitaly Volodchenko
🇺🇸 Sam + Virginia Phifer

2019 Singapore
🇮🇹 Antonio Cilindro
🇫🇷 Pierre-Sylvain Damaggio
🇨🇭 Max Zickler
🇦🇷 Enrique Abella
🇺🇸 Sinjin Jones + Zoe Lee
🇩🇪 Stephan Tobias
🇪🇪 Toomas Laigu
🇷🇺 Maksim Dunyashin

2019
🇮🇱 Itamar Keidan
🇩🇪 Leon Škarjan

Interests

In unfamiliar places, pick a general direction (e.g. towards a water body or high ground) and start moving. Along the way, there will be street food, public parks, strange buildings or a spontaneous invitation from curious strangers. Just keep an open mind and trust your instincts. ;)

• folklore
• skateboarding
• documentary photography
• biomimicry
• speculative fiction
• guerrilla urbanism

Music, Movies, and Books

Big fan of independent and foreign cinema, I won't exclude any language.

Memorable films: Big Fish (2003), Children of Men (2006), One Day (2011), What We Do In The Shadows (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Cold War (2018) and David Fincher films.

Sounds that move me: indie, alternative, electronic and techno. A playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0d7nm24jpxoLGOVEjEZxXD?si=275515642b49429e

Older earworms: https://soundcloud.com/kaeyuan

Anthologies of short stories, biographies of random personalities, books about the history of common and insignificant objects, and travel stories.

Recent reads: Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin, The Museum of Innocence (2008) by Orhan Pamuk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Probably the couple of nights spent lost in the Bruneian jungles with limited food and water—that made me the foolhardy (or foolish) traveller I am today.

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages interest me. I previously studied German in high school and French in university. A disclaimer though, I was never too bright.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make fun of you and your friends. Please return the favor.

Definitely food. Let’s share a home-cooked meal. I can do the eating and cleaning up. You really wouldn’t want me to cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Palestine, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

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