Hey this is Victor :)

I’m an undergraduate student in Los Angeles, California, USA. I love travelling - since college, I’ve been to numerous places in the US and internationally, such as Honolulu, Seattle, Savannah, Germany, and Austria.

PRIOR TRAVEL EXPERIENCES/PHILOSOPHY 👣
- more spontaneous ones: sometimes I booked plane tickets and hotels/airbnbs the night before I travelled - which was rather pricey before I found out CS - but stayed in a place for around a week just wandering around the city and sitting at coffee shops (I did that most recently in Savannah and San Diego)
- group travel experiences: these were more organised as my friends and I created a shared Google doc to plan out our travel itinerary to book tickets, restaurants and places we wanna go (I did that most recently in Honolulu). We also like to watch the sunrise & sunset in places and I’m always amazed by the beauty of nature :)

BASICS ABOUT ME 👀
Male, 21
Personality trait: ISTP 📖
Astrological sign: Aries (I don’t believe in these signs making any difference on me personally though - but I’m open to people educating me more about that)
Where I’ve lived: lived in Singapore when I was little, moved to China then for some years, and now living in LA 🇺🇸 (also studied abroad at Oxford, UK for a year)
Favorite city: DC
What type of music do I listen to: musical, classical, indie, pop
Food allergy: shellfish (shrimp, prawn, lobster, crab)
Weird thing about me: I talk with myself (or what I would call “my internal personas”) all the times, especially when I’m alone 🎙️

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My friend invited me here. Shout out to her if u see this :)

Interests

Rowing/netflixing/baking/listening to music and podcasts/lifting/wandering around a city mindlessly (when it’s safe to do so)

• cooking
• baking
• music
• rowing
• law
• gym
• musicals

Music, Movies, and Books

Music (that I binged listening to lately):
- Speed of Sound - Coldplay
- Fix You - Coldplay
- Critical - Mina Obake
- My Heart is Buried in Venice - Ricky Montgomery
- As It Was - Hardy Styles
- You Keep Me Waiting - Snoh Aalegra
- Have You Ever Seen the Rain - Imaginary Future
- Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez
- Grow As We Go - Ben Platt
- Fly Me to the Moon - Imaginary Future
- Home - Bruno Major
- Line Without A Hook - Rock Montgomery
[[and if you like Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, hit me up and tell me which one’s your favourite! Mine is summer. And I recently watched a live performance at St. Charles’s Church in Vienna. It was an absolutely mind-blowing experience!]]

Movies (quite busy lately so didn’t keep up with the films, but these are some good ones that I watched in the past):
- Top Gun: Maverick
- CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) on Apple TV
- Get Out
- Green Book
- La La Land
- 1900

Books:
- Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
- Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje
- Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law - Jeffrey Rosen
- Constitutional Law - Erwin Chemerinsky (jk)

What I’ve watched on Netflix this year so far:
- The Great British Bake Off
- The Mole
- Lucifer
- The Watcher
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo
- Echoes
- Uncoupled
- Designated Survivor
- Virgin River
- Persuasion
- Madam Secretary
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Heartstopper
- Bridgestone
- Tales of the City
- Emily in Paris

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sitting at the passenger seat on a helicopter

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
- some simple baking/cooking
- cantonese/mandarin
- my friend told me that I preached them too much on law, but if you’re interested and won’t mind me rambling for hours I can definitely talk about it haha

Learn:
- different perspectives
- anything, I love talking to ppl and listening to their storie
- French!

Share:
- a list of dining recommendation in LA

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States