CURRENT MISSION

Stay crazy, dream wild

ABOUT ME

I'm now a freelance writer/journalist/translator based in Brussels while pursuing a master's degree in journalism and media at VUB. Before moving to Belgium in 2015, I worked as a dentist in Taipei, Taiwan.

I like to experience new things. I've worked as a magazine editor, a waitress/bartender, a YH front desk in Daocheng, China, a guide at Ostrale (a modern art exhibition in Dresden, Germany), a rides operator in Minnesota and a home tutor. For me, staying in a foreign place is always way much easier than staying in one place forever.

For the rest of my story, let's meet and talk about it with some beer and wine :)

PHILOSOPHY

No plan is the best plan.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With love.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always the best part of the memory about visiting a place.

Interests

Watching films on a cozy bed, writing on rainy days, taking pictures when the light touches me, starting a day with beautiful folk music, reading on the grass, meeting gorgeous old friends and amazing new people, messing around the whole day

• writing
• books
• poetry
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• folk music
• freelancing
• journalism
• volunteering
• documentary

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Best of Times (張作驥Tso-Chi Chang), Taking Woodstock, Eternity And A Day, The Dreamers, Summer Palace and all the other films of 婁燁(Lyu Ye), A separation, Dallas Buyers Club, Nebraska, Birdman, Jodorowsky's dune, 20000 Days on Earth, Her, Vivre l'Amour (蔡明亮Ming-Liang Tsai), 37°2 le matin, One Day in September, Searching for Sugarman, Boyhood, Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, Jules et Jim, Les Quatre Cents Coups, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Clockwork Orange, Lost in Translation, Dust in the Wind (侯孝賢Hou Hsiao-Hsien ), Taipei Story (楊德昌Edward Yang)...

Music: Beck, 宋冬野Sung Tung-Ye, 張懸 Desert Xuan, Daughter, Family of the Year, Nick Cave, Sixto Rodriguez, Kings of Convenience, The War on Drug, Sufjan Stevens...

Books: Chinese modern poems, Invisible Cities, Slaughterhouse Five, Island, On the Road, Mo Yen's novels...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trying to stay crazy in a serious world.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Chinese and piano.
Would love to learn and share all the interesting things you know.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My stories. Chinese writing. Taiwanese dishes. Some dental consults (if you really need some, I sincerely hope you don't)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Taiwan, United States