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Overview

  • 39 references 27 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English; learning Czech
  • 42, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Ambitious Dreamer:) which means semi-professional Filmmak...
  • Master degree
  • From South China
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Conquer the Czech Language

ABOUT ME

I thought I know myself quite well until few weeks ago. Things keep changing all the time, as well as me. What i know about myself is simply one corner of the iceberg. There's a lot of potential and sides waiting for exploring and discovering.
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Well, the blah blah blah you've just read was written in 2008 ... Anyway, to be short, Now I'm a filmmaker who is struggling how to choose my future direction between dreams and reality. (Jun 2011)

PHILOSOPHY

Just try, or you'll never know.

Kill off all my demons, my angel might die too.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Most of the time I hosted people, only surfed few times, hopefully would try more surfing in future.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

By far they're all good ...

Interests

Films, Music, History, Philosophy, Languages, Travel, Any possible exciting Adventures and anything unknown but reasonable for me.

  • horses
  • folklore
  • cooking
  • beer
  • running
  • meditation
  • partying
  • movies
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • cycling
  • camping
  • hunting
  • surfing
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: All Almodovar's films, All Coen Brother's films, All Tim Burton's films, Woody Allen's films, Billy Wilder's films, Roman Polanski's film; Film Noir, Europe arty films...Recently i become interested in Narrative Documentaries.

Music: Mum, Feist, John Legend, Joe Hisashi, Andrea Boceli, Mika, Louis Amstrong, the Beatles, Billie Holiday, Arielle Dombasle, Brigitte Fontaine, Frente, Nora Jones, Maroon 5, Vitas, ABBA, Bee Gees, Oasis, ANJ, Calle 13, Vampire Weekend, Amy Whitehouse.....too many

Books: Against Interpretation and Other Essays - By Susan Sontag
Leni Riefenstahl Memoiren - By Leni Riefenstal
Der Steppenwolf - By Hermann Hesse
The Alchemist - By Paulo Coelhe
The Count Of Monte Cristo - by Alexandre Dumas
Les Miserables - By Victor Hugo
20000Leagues Under the Sea - By JuIes Verne
Wang Shuo's collection, Susan Sontag's collection, Many fairy tales, many other film related theory essays...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching Muslem people spent their Eid al-Adha holiday by killing alive cattles and sheeps, although very bloody but tradition is tradition. After Me and a girl took many pictures of the butcher scene we found that we're the only two females there and being told usually women are not allowed to watch...hehe, but still we're invited by two hospitality locals at that day to have a meal at their house and they gave us some raw meet as present.

Making a 30-minutes feature film in Tallinn city, working with talented fabulous film partners...and shooting a scene with passionate love images...:P and this film has been banned by Chinese state film and video census...although the theme of the film is quite healthy and comic!

When My estonian friends came to beijing, we hanging out at night in Wudaokou place,almost 2 a.m, when we passed through a little restaurant, there's a trycicle with full of beers, nobody around us, so we take 3 bottles away, running crazy on the street at late night!One friends even carried me running at least 100 meters in the street, we were Shouting, laughing, and then we passed by a hair salon which is opened by a korean...and...one of my estonian friend went in and had his haircut with a Mohican style!Then we 5 persons crowded into a taxi crossed through almost half Beijing city back home...when we arrive at our destination, the sun was about to rising and wake up all the city while we were about to sleep with crazy but happy mood:)

OH!register at this web in April fool's day:)

Try Magic Mushroom in Beijing...twice...the first time i saw a beautiful and fantastic vision which makes me feel so happy, the second time i didn't see any vision but giggle like an idiot for almost two hours in public place, which makes me feel a little bit embarrassing when i recalled it, but fortunetely my friends didn't laugh at me for my silliness expression.

Trying to sleeping on the Great Wall after sunset without tents and sleeping bag...Freezing my fucking ass off!Also Kissing and Peeing on the Great Wall at late night...So damned good memory...the next time hope i can camp and trek there for few days...HOHOHO...

When i was working in South China, promoting my Anti-Communist Party and Anti-autocracy thoughts in my Film courses and caused resonances from my students, by which caused me no trouble but good paid. Hooray! For Free Speech!

Drive 4729km in total during 8 days through beautiful Hulunbuir Grassland, Inner Mongolia, shouting, Jumping, meditation in the mysterious A-Er-Shan Mountain, Riding horse on the Boarder between China and Russia......Seen millions of cows, sheeps, horses and a lot of amazing scenes.

Made a 9-day long distance Bike and Camp trip down south of Czech Republic, the second last day had a bike accident which broke my face, arms and legs, but after that encountered a lot of warm-hearted Czech people (from Moravian area) which even made me feel it's so worth to have the accident :p But now I have to wait at least half year to get rid off the pink scar dot on my chin ...

Get chance to Study in FAMU, live in beautiful city Prague ...

Get chance to work in a Galerie and Auction house dealing with high level Asian Antiques in Beautiful Prague ...

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: How to make a short feature film;
Chinese style of cooking;

Learn: Your unique life stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bangladesh, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bangladesh, China, Czech Republic, Estonia

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