CURRENT MISSION

Move to Nashville and Resume to host lovely CSers there!

ABOUT ME

It's miserable to say (but I'd tell you anyway) that I am an aspirational doctor (meaning I'm not allowed to put my hands on you yet). Most importantly, I am a patient with stage-5 Wanderlustoma, a type of cancer present on people whose passion for travelling is like teenager boy's urge for porn. The 'prognosis' of my wallet/shoes is always bad, but eh, I don't care, I'd travel anyway.

If you know me a bit better, you wouldn't provide me a comfortable warm couch, instead, you'd allow me to sleep on the floor of your fishmonger, ask me to wake up at dawn to lend a hand on a fishing boad, or to stay over night to be your assistant in a science lab, or to wear a hat to go pray to a rabbi/Allah/father/buddha/.,or to bartend in a slum gin joint. Why? because I don't see travel as 'travel', I see travel is living a life different from my own.

Ah, MOST IMPORTANTLY, my last name is pronounced as 'Choo', like the crisp sound you make when you sneeze.

PHILOSOPHY

We lost the idealism for the world we live in as we grow older. Yet the sane ones managed to preserve the idealism to serve the people they loved. In the end, you are the one who made the path you walked.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

About when I heard all the cool people are here?

Start CS in Atlanta, my home sweet home.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Host in Atlanta
Surfed in Accra and Istanbul

Interests

1. Travelling with no planning ahead
2. Hiking for inspiration
3. Reading my kindle (currently stolen) in a coffee shop at Saturday afternoon
4. Dancing like a yeti on my rooftop, drunk or sober, listening to Kenny Loggins or Carpenter
5. Having a ice beer in a dive bar
6. Pretending that I speak Cantonese or French, and ending up speaking English with Canto-Franco accent.
7. Couchsurfing!
8. Medicine/Social Study/Gender Issues/Wine tasting!

• dancing
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• wine tasting
• partying
• drinking
• shopping
• reading
• traveling
• fishing
• hiking
• medicine
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie list: http://www.imdb.com/list/3art_buWbO4/
Musician: Gregory Alan Isokov, James Taylor, Fratellis, Debussy...
Books: Berlin Story, On the Road, God's Hotel, Howl...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Thru-hiked Isle of Skye (beginning of my long-distance hiking career)

Lived in the most impoverished area of Accra, Ghana for a month

Survived unforeseeable blizzard in Sequoia National Park (Near-death experience is not as fun as they put in the research articles)

Teach, Learn, Share

Points to teach: You can be self-destructively romantic when you travel, or you can garner what you saw in the world to better serve the ones you care.

Points to share: shoe-string travel basics, bring filtered water bottle, that will save you tons of money, so you can go have drinks and parties with locals more freely

Points to learn: still a lot

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States