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Overview

  • 101 references 80 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Arabic, Chinese, German, Spanish, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Poke at numbers
  • Math
  • From Gainesville, FL, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

schtuff

ABOUT ME

All aboat me, eh?

Ahm from nawthern Florida, wur we tawk lak this, though my parents were from Hong Kong la. Tzun hai lor.... Went to college in bahstan and learned mad stuff, though spent mah recent summers in North Idaho building hiking trailsers.

In college, I ran me some marathons, did me some math, sang me some gospel, and was out of tune in another choir and another orchestra.

Then for 2 years and some, I went to a job where I stared at numbers and tried to make them blue.

And then I traveled aboot for another 2,

learned 中文 for another 1,

and finally moved to Germany to stare at more numbers until I'm blue in the face.

I also like playing with my stuffed animals.

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Wir können auf Deutsch sprechen!
Si puedes hablar por castellano, hablamos. Siempre necesito practicar.
也可以說一點中文。希望我們可以見面啦!
廣東話識聽,差不多不識說。但係我係香港人。:(

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosty mc host host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted some folks wiff my brother T.Ho. And then he lefted and I hosted some mores. And then I surfed a bunch. Yeaaahhhh.

Interests

Trails, chainsaws, country music, FOOD, classical music, computer programming, FOOD, pure math, NBA, books, FOOD, Stuffed Animals, playing soccer/tennis/basketball/climbing/hiking, TREES!, anorexercise, and FOOOD!!!.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
LOTR, 300, The Lion King, Fight Club, Infernal Affairs, The Matrix, Mean Creek, The Godfather, The Usual Suspects, WALL-E, How to train your dragon, Office Space, Prayers for Bobby

TV:
Battlestar Galactica, Avatar the Last Airbender, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Music:
MICHAEL JACKSON, JoSh TuRnEr, Eric Clapton, Prince, Emerson Drive, Howard Shore, John Williams, Dvorak, Elgar, Ernst Bloch, Poulenc, Byrd, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Eminem, Moses Hogan,

Fiction:
Ender's game
Lord of the Flies
Foundation Trilogy
Winnie the Pooh
Paddington Bear
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
1984
Huck Finn
East of Eden
Bajo la Misma Estrella

Nonfiction:
Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint
Linear Representations of Finite Groups
Complex Analysis (Ahlfors)
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Classics:
The Gallic Wars
The Odyssey
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Short stories:
Sandkings
Flowers for Algernon
Edgar Allen Poe
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Final absurdo

Essays:
Politics and the English Language
A Modest Proposal
Sinners in the hands of an Angry God
Jeremy Taylor: on death
Joseph Addison: the tombs in Westminster abbey
William Hazlitt
Maurice Hewlett: the maypole and the column
J.B. Priestley: on doing nothing

Other:
The Age of Reason
Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Matthews, John, Revelations
Common Sense
The Elements of Style

Plays:
Macbeth

Favorite english writers: e. a. poe, shakespeare, edward gibbon, and whoever wrote the KJV. Favorite spanish writers are Julio Cortázar and Cervantes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jjukkumi Alley.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach/Share:
Math, a couple programming languages, hiking trail maintenance tips, viola, random NBA stats, bass sangin, noobish Chinese cooking. Starcraft 1, FFR, tennis, soccer, bball, ping-pong, how to boulder, traveling tips.

Learn:
Starcraft 2, overtone singing, planche, how to boulder.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Things and stuff

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Taiwan, United States

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