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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), English, Japanese; learning Sign Language - Chinese, Spanish
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • Ph.D student in Linguistics
  • Master's
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

I'm curious about everything on earth, in the universe, and out of this universe.

I love language, music and poems.
Plants calm me down when I feel upset.
Animals cure me with their innocent eyes, for a thousand of times.
Reading, painting and writing bring me back to myself.
Sewing makes me concentrate.

Physics and mathematics are beautiful.
Cognitive psychology is my research interest, especially with language and consciousness. For the past few years I have been working on language acquisition of the deaf population.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is eternal, being yourself in this universe is just a smallest piece of it.
I don't know what I'll become in the future, nor do I care, because every breath I've taken is unique, and each single personal experience is priceless.

Misunderstanding is the first step to get to understand. We have to tolerate, and then appreciate.

I would try my best to become a simple and nice person, better if with more knowledge and being able to help more people.

My missions for life: pursuing knowledge in every aspect; creating and writing in order to share my knowledge with others

Interests

Enjoying all kinds of music, hiking, barbecue by the sea, drawing, reading, writing, meditating, etc

  • animals
  • writing
  • poetry
  • bbq
  • reading
  • painting
  • drawing
  • music
  • hiking
  • mathematics
  • physics
  • psychology
  • sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Sibilius, Wagner, Mahler, Handel, Puccini, Vivaldi, Verdi, Rossini, etc

Beatles, Queens, Pink Floyd, Guns & Roses, David Bowie, Led Zeppelins, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmiths, Velvet Underground, Oasis, Travis, Super Furry Animals, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jesus and Mary Chains, Sigur Ros, Lacrimosa, My Bloody Valentines, Weezer, Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Libertines, Kasabian, Fratellis, Ride, Slowdive, Low, etc

Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Joshua Radin, Bang Gang, Sparklehorse, Mew, Devics, Portishead, Cardigans, Mojave 3, Arco, Azure Ray, Bon Iver, Explosion in the Sky, Antony and the johnsons, Tori Amos, Devendra Banhart, Red House Painters, Wilco, Iron & Wine, etc

X-Japan, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Glay, Spitz, Plastic Trees, Miyavi, Mr. Children, Radwimps, 椎名林檎,Chara, Every Little Thing, サカナクション,DOES, Orange Range, 高桥优,青叶市子,やくしまるえつこ,Yuki,スキマスイッチ,坂本真绫,フジファブリック, くるり, チャットモンチー, Birthday, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, sleep.ab, Go!Go!7188, フラワーカンパニーズ, ユニコーン, World's end girlfriend, mono, etc

Kafka, Mijima Yukio, Miyazawa Kenji, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Jack London, Gibran, Virginia Woolf, Gide, Hemingway, Borges, Salinger, Nabokov, Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Zweig, Rilke, etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A longest winter in Sapporo, Japan.

Teach, Learn, Share

Brain facts; Chinese; Japanese; Sign Language

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Hong Kong, Japan, United States

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