I am not ready yet. I am not ready to introduce myself.
However, I am here, in our couch surfing age.
Those fantasies are buried somewhere but I am still confused.
Confused about life and confused about death.
Confused about the world and confused about myself.

PHILOSOPHY

Ruminate over what I should ruminate.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

After hearing how wonderful couch surfing it is from my friend and my sibling, as a seeing is believing person, I started CS during 2009 while I had PhD interviews in Europe.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed with:

1. Nuremberg, Germany @ Slyvia
2. Würzburg Germany @ Moritz
3. London, UK @ Sean
4. London, UK @ Ferlynn
5. Oxford, UK @ Hangteng
6. Edinburgh, UK @ I-Chern Lai (03/09 - 30/11/2011)
7. Paris, France @ Alexandra Perol (04/10/2011)
8. Paris, France @ Anne Jacob (05-06/10/2011)
9. Paris, France @ Cécile Bou Farres (07-08/10/2011)
10. Paris, France @ Ken Lin (09/10/2011)
11. Leuven, Belgium @ Fanchiang (21/10/2011)
12. Leuven, Belgium @ Wan-Yu (22/10/2011)
13. Rhodes, Greece @ Emmanuel (23,24,28/10/2011)
14. Kalymnos, Greece @ Maria (25-27/10/2011)
15. Pisa, Italy @ Aldo (30/10/2011)
16. Borgo, San Marino @ Jenny (3-5/11/2011)
17. Valencia, Spain @ Wan-Ling Chen (8-9/11/2011)
18. Porto, Portugal @ Daniel Leite (11,12,15/11/2011)
19. Taipei, Taiwan @ Jui-Yu (18/12/2011)
20. Taipei, Taiwan @ Lorence (18/03/2012)
21. Taipei, Taiwan @ Maxine (08/04/2012)
22. Osaka, Japan @ AoiLabyrinth (18,25/12/2012; 07/01/2013)
23. Nagoya, Japan @ Kenichi (19-21/12/2012; 10/06/2013)
24. Kyoto, Japan @ Katsumasa (26/12/2012)
25. Nara, Japan @ Classy (02/01/2013)
26. Taichung, Taiwan @ Sharon (29-30/04/2013, 19-20/02/2014, 19/11/2015)
27. Taichung, Taiwan @ I-Chern (01-02/05/2013)
28. Taoyuan, Taiwan @ Gimmy Yeh (01-02/11/2013, 14-21/05/2016)
29. Hsinchu, Taiwan @ Hsin Ping (26-27/12/2013)
30. Taipei, Taiwan @ Ying-Hsuan (16/01/2014)
31. Taipei, Taiwan @ YaChing
32. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam @ Hoa (20-21 & 23/09/2015)
33. Nha Trang, Vietnam @ Tram (25-27/09/2015)
34. Ha Noi, Vietnam @ Ally (29/09/2015)
35. Phnom Penh, Cambodia @ TyTy (11-13/11/2015)
36. Taipei City @ Xiao Fu (24/12/2015)
37. Taipei City @ 閃亮 (23-24/02/2016)
38. Taichung City @ Iris Fox (02/06/2016)
39. Taichung City @ Mei Hu (Jan 2017)

I have hosted:

1. Johanna & Christina @ Edinburgh, UK
2. Wei-Chen (Amanda) @ Edinburgh, UK
3. Tom @ Edinburgh, UK
4. Chang @ Edinburgh, UK
5. Vivi & Fu-Chi @ Edinburgh, UK
6. Emily @ Edinburgh, UK
7. Yi-Chin @ Edinburgh, UK
8. Chien-Yi @ Edinburgh, UK
9. Pheobe @ Edinburgh, UK
10. Esther @ Edinburgh, UK
11. Yiran and Ningning @ Edinburgh, UK
12. Mengchun @ Edinburgh, UK
13. Chieh Fang @ Edinburgh, UK
14. Angelonia @ Edinburgh, UK
15. Ula @ Edinburgh, UK
16. Simon @ Edinburgh, UK
17. Jou-An & Wei-Shan @ Edinburgh, UK.
18. Simon @ Edinburgh, UK
19. Bei @ Edinburgh, UK
20. Joanne @ Edinburgh, UK (22th - 24th Apr. 2011)
21. Claire @ Edinburgh, UK (25th - 28th Apr. 2011)
22. Peak Ho @ Edinburgh, UK (3rd - 5th May. 2011)
23. Sharon @ Edinburgh, UK (4th - 7th Jun. 2011)
24. Chris @ Edinburgh, UK (8th - 9th Jun. 2011)
25. Alessio @ Edinburgh, UK (10th Jun. 2011)
26. Chia-Yin @ Edinburgh, UK (11th, 12th, 15th Jun. 2011)
27. Yee-Chen & her father @ Edinburgh, UK (13th Jun. 2011)
28. Jui-Yu @ Edinburgh, UK (18th - 21st Jun. 2011)
29. David @ Edinburgh, UK (22nd - 23rd Jun. 2011)
30. Suhyeon & Jun Min @ Edinburgh, UK (30th Jun. 2011)
31. Ilona @ Edinburgh, UK (7th, 10th, 11th Jul. 2011)
32. Joni @ Edinburgh, UK (8th Jul. 2011)
33. Paul & Natalie @ Edinburgh, UK (9th Jul. 2011)
34. Cynthia @ Edinburgh, UK (23rd - 25th Jul. 2011)
35. Cosette @ Edinburgh, UK (31st Jul, 19th & 25th Aug 2011)
36. Kelly & Joanna @ Edinburgh, UK (10th - 13th Aug 2011)
37. shooting @ Edinburgh, UK (15th - 17th Aug 2011)
38. Stacy & Pei-Hsuan @ Edinburgh , UK (26th Aug 2011)
39. Wei-Chen (Amanda) @ Kaohsiung, Taiwan (8th Jan 2012)
40. Toshiya Yuguchi @ Kaohsiung, Taiwan (24th - 26th Jan 2014)
41. Gimmy Yeh @ Taipei, Taiwan
42. Hsin Ping @ Taipei, Taiwan
43. Der Won @ Taipei, Taiwan
44. Wan-Ling @ Taipei, Taiwan (28th Jun 2014)
45. xmsevetl @ Taipei, Taiwan (11th Jul 2014)
46. Ching-Yi @ Taipei, Taiwan (11th - 14th Dec 2014)
47. Mia and Chin @ Kaohsiung (1st - 3rd Jan 2015)
48. Laureen @ Taipei (10th - 17th Jan 2015)

CS EVENTS:

2011 04 13 CS meeting @ Forest Cafe
2011 07 14 CS International potluck
2014 11 15 No thanks CS activity
2015 01 17 Impression‧India x La vie est ailleurs

Interests

Music (post-rock, indie-rock, pop-rock...), novel (Sci-fi, literature), movie (watching and writing reviews), card design

Cycling, mountain climbing/ hiking, long distance running, modern dance, badminton, basketball, baseball, pin-pon, volleyball, billiards...), travel

• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• design
• dancing
• potluck
• running
• traveling
• billiards
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• hunting
• surfing
• baseball
• basketball
• rock climbing
• volleyball
• badminton
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:

Wim Wenders (The Lisbon Story, The end of violence...)

Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo...)

Lars Von Trier (Dancer in the dark, Europa...)

Francois Truffaut(Les Quatre cents coups, Jules et Jim)

Kitano Takeshi (Kikujiro, A scene at the sea)

Zero Chou (Splendid float, Drifting flowers)

MUSIC:

Sugar plum ferry / Shimmering Islands

Aphasia

Cicada (Taiwan)

Sigur Ros

Mum

Mogwai

God is an astronaut

Explosions in the sky

The album leaf

Balmorhea

MONO

Omnipotent Youth Society

Suming

1976

Miss Stocking

Echo (Taiwan)

Dessert Chang

Europa Huang

Bearbabes

Broken Social Scene

Kent

Club 8

Mary Onettes

Lingkin Park

Ludovico Einaudi

Ólafur Arnalds

Onitsuka Chihiro

BOOKS:

Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead)

Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Grey)

Oliver Sacks (The man who mistook his wife for a hat)

Issac Assimov (Nightfall, Foundation series)

Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughter house 5, The Sirens of Titan)

Milan Kurdera (Farewell Waltz, The unbearable lightness of being)

Italo Calvino (Invisible cities, Mr. Palomar)

J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the rye)

Philip Dick (A scanner darkly, bladerunner)

Ursula Guin (The Earthsea cycle)

Arthur C. Clark (Space Odessy series)

Isaka Kotaro (Gravity Clown, The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker)

Wang-Ling Hsieh (Mountain Pilgrimage)

Tze-Wu Chang† (Until the End of the Road­)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went on the pilgrimage with Mazu (2014 & 2015), the Goddess of the Sea in my culture.

Teach, Learn, Share

The one thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history, so take it easy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A dancing beggar.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Laos, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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