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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning French
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Editor/traveler in life.
  • Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh
  • From a Hakkka Town called Yangmei
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About Me

ABOUT ME

Wow! It's hard to start "All about me" in this blank place...I am adventurous and talkative (with the right people). I love people with vivid personality and ideas, those who don't follow the flow blindly...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Started couch surfing in 2008 from Barcelona-Aix en Provence- Lyon to Paris. My hosts were super super nice to me, I was so touched by their hospitality and decided I will make my flat a couch surfing one day, now here we go! I have got one!

Interests

Words, Languages, Thoughts, Arts, talking to someone who speaks a language which i completely have no clues (and enjoy the flexibility of communication & expression) flabbergasted, spechless, jaw dropping, being nerdy, partying, dancing, clubbing, making good friends, wrogn spellin, wrong categories, typos, traveling, forgetting, more travelling , LIFE, and more :)

  • arts
  • dancing
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • traveling
  • surfing
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:

Vanilla Sky, The Hours, Persepolis, Grizzly Man, The Color Purple, When Harry Met Sally, Borat, God Father, Big Fish, Paris je' t'aime, Jeux d'enfants, Buena Vista Social Club, Orlando, Great Expectaion, 2046, Lost in Translation, Before Sunrise, Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara, Borges

Music:

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Radiohead, Dizzy Gillespie, Portishead, Radiohead, Mew, Madonna, John Mayer, Rachael Yamagata, Bright Eyes, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Convenience,Lisa Ekdahl, Mingus, Ibrahim Ferrer, Miles Davies, Weather Report, Chet Baker, Amy Winehouse, Mew, Blonde Redhead, Diana Krall, Macy Gray, Coldplay, Oasis, Velvet Underground

Books:

Favourite got to be Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Tree, Harry Potter (I think those who dislikes it are the ones who either never read it or hasn't read it.ok...need to add one more kind: imagination and mind dried out kind.)
The Samurai's Garden (Soul touching, Japanese-Chinese diaspora)
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (cause doesn't seem like the novel I would read or understand)
King Solomon's Ring (a lovely fabulous book about animal behave written by a nobel prize winner)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Alchemist, Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby, Italo Calvo,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I dived in the ocean for the first time, I mean wow another 70% of the world!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Guam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Taiwan, United Kingdom

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