Your friend-to-be

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to make friends and share experiences.

Interests

I am into Chess, Reading, and Zen.

I've played chess since I was very young. I find that we can make friends and understand each other by playing chess. Actually, thanks to chess I know some of my friends now. Chess is like a language, and I have the chance to get to know people speaking the same language as me. I also know a little bit about Go (Japanese board game), Xiangqui (Chinese chess). (The more "languages" I know, the more I could talk to my friends :) ). However, now I do not play chess often.

I love reading and I read a lot. Books always bring me to new horizons. I am a speed reader in Vietnamese (but my reading speed in English is just average and I can hardly read Japanese, although I am studying Japanese very hard.) Another thing, I am quite easy to cry when I read fiction.

I have a lot of questions about the world, the meaning of life, and about my own thoughts and feelings. I believe that through meditation I could understand such things profoundly and in Vietnam I practiced for a while. Now that I am in Japan, I want to know about zazen and practice it.

I also think that it would be nice to be able to play an instrument, cook nice meals, or take photos professionally, but I have little experience with those things. I'd like to learn such things some day.

• chess
• traveling
• engineering
• physics
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

The works of Fujio F. Fujio, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, O. Henry, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Anton Chekhov, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, Hoshi Shinichi and Phùng Quán.
Books and talks of Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama, and Thich Chan Quang.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This question makes me realize that my life is somewhat monotonous, I do not see anything I've done really amazing :(

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Viet Nam