PHILOSOPHY

Learn whatever is learnable.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted many fascinating people in Groningen. Now, I'm on a big hitchhiking trip through Asia, and I hope to meet many more couchsurfers along the way.

Interests

Music! (Playing the piano, writing songs)
Literature
Folk dancing, Meditation, Kung Fu
Science (astronomy, mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience)
Origami
Other forms of art.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Radiohead/The Smile, Spock's Beard, Haydn, Mozart, Beatles, Distillers, Lúnasa, Arvo Part, They Might be Giants, 蔡健雅, Patricia Taxxon, Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Hans Zimmer's DUNE music, Bonobo, Morten Lauridsen, Oscar Peterson, Snaarmaarwaar, Beirut, Genesis, Coke Studio, Lankum/Lynched...

Movies:
Anything by Kubrick or Hitchcock or Miyazaki or Tarantino or Baker (Sean) or Anderson (Wes); Synechdoche New York, Being There, Chunking Express, The 3rd Man, Blade Runner, Dune, Alien, 5 cm per second, In the Mood for Love, Hardware, Les Choristes, 12 Angry Men, Apocalypse Now, Lost in Translation, Fight Club, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Fish Tank, Naked, Playtime...

Books:
Anything by Dahl, Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Murakami, or Dr. Seuss; Shantaram and Mountain Shadow, Kim (Kipling), Moby Dick, My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Moshfegh), Blood Meridian, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Orange World (Karen Russel), Grapes of Wrath, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tinkers (Paul Harding), Otherland (Tad Williams), The Little Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sherlock Holmes, A Little Life (Yanagihara), Hotel New Hampshire (Irving), Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

wrote a choir song and had my choir perform it

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I would love to teach you:
Origami, playing the piano, music theory, astronomy, English language, Dutch language, Cooking (dishes from different cultures), Mathematics

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'd love to find out!

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Netherlands