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Meet and Share

ABOUT ME

Friends call me Hua(who-ah). I went to Ridge Park Elementary School. I met my best friend Pete Marinec there. We played a lot of video games. I am asian so I made Math my bi-atch. I did everything from student council to wrestling to physics olympics. I met my other best friend Randy. Did I mention my family has a restaurant called Golden Dragon? I eat many different types of food. I'm curious and well rounded. I have an eclectic taste in music. I went to Penn State. We Are! I made many more friends and graduated. I moved to NY to work on Wall Street with Citigroup. I stepped out from under the red umbrella and worked on two projects that I love (downtown harvest & gotgame). After GotGame, I moved into the Health Industry to work for Wellsphere.com and HealthCentral.com where we empowered people to take control of their health. I also started a company called HippoBird. We aim to build a symbiotic world. I see big things ahead. I am not the best dancer, I am not the best writer, but I have psychotic drive. I have an amazing family, a soul mate, and wonderful friends. I am blessed. I smile a lot. Hello...

PHILOSOPHY

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne Wilson

"A lit candle can light a thousand other candles without shortening it's own lifespan"
- Chinese Proverb

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To share my couch and perhaps have the favor returned one day. I LOVE people who can cook because I LOVE to eat.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Europe Backpacking trip in 2004.
Couch hosting in San Francisco from 2009-2010.
Couch hosting in Washington DC in 2011.

Interests

International travel, cooking Cantonese food, indie rock, modern art, marathons, digital photography, Texas hold’em, muay thai kick boxing, reading, entrepreneurship, eating

• arts
• writing
• modern art
• photography
• dancing
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• picnic
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• skydiving
• boxing
• wrestling
• olympics
• entrepreneurship
• mathematics
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
A Tribe Called Quest...represent represent; Pearl Jam; U2; Taking Back Sunday; Kanye West; Common; All American Rejects; The Roots; Bob Dylan; The Temptations; Beck; Biggie Smalls; Jay-Z; Ben Harper; Bob Marley; Green Day; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Michael Jackson; Muse; Nick Drake; Pink Floyd; Radiohead; Ray Charles; Thelonious Monk; The Arcade Fire; Snow Patrol; The Beatles; Snoop Dogg; Eminem; The Killers; Alicia Keys; Norah Jones; The Strokes; Billy Joel; Marvin Gaye; Amos Lee; Diana Krall; The White Stripes; Van Morrison; Yo-Yo Ma; Mozart; Andrea Bocelli; Blackalicious; Danger Doom; De La Soul; Dispatch; Mos Def; Medeski Martin and Wood; Hot Hot Heat; Run DMC; Talib Kweli; Black Star; Fall Out Boy; Florez; The Starting Line; Death Cab for Cutie; The Postal Service; Grimace Federation, Shiny Toy Guns, Peter Bjorn and John, Maritime, The Diggs, Silversun Pickups, Of Montreal, Bloc Party, and last but not least Downtown Harvest

Favorite TV Shows:
The Simpsons, Heroes, Weeds, Rome, House, Family Guy, Entourage, Lost, Transformers, Thunder Cats, Voltron, Batman Beyond, Reading Rainbow, Zoobalee Zoo, Rainbow Brite, The Care Bears, Gummi Bears, The Smurfs, Rocko, Sister Sister, Step by Step, Growing Pains, Saved by The Bell, Are you Afraid of the Dark? Clarissa explains it all? Boy meets World, Wonder Years, Finders Keepers, Ninja Warrior, Spongebob Square Pants, California Dreams, Family Matters, Full House, Hey Dude, Oz, Sopranos, Def Poetry, and The Office.

Favorite Movies:
Shawshank Redemption; Lock Stock &; Two Smoking Barrels; Boondock Saints; Big Trouble in Little China; Hero; Braveheart; LOTR; Dumb &; Dumber; The Big Lebowski; Forrest Gump; The Golden Child; Coming to America; Rocky; Goodfellas; Fight Club; Matrix; Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind; Garden State; Crash; Sin City; Clockwork Orange; Kill Bill; The Incredibles; Finding Nemo; Batman; Terminator; The Princess Bride; Gladiator; American Beauty; Big Fish; Shrek; Godfather; Spartacus; The Last Samurai; Days of Thunder; Top Gun; Waiting For Guffman; Best in Show; Pulp Fiction; Boiler Room; Wall Street; Zoolander; Dodgeball; Rounders; The Usual Suspects; John Q; My Cousin Vinny; Swingers; Old School; 40 Year Old Virgin; Wedding Crashers; Man on Fire; The Red Violin; The Green Mile; Emperor's New Groove, The Neverending Story, True Romance, 300, and Meet The Robinsons

Favorite Books:
Watership Down, Harry Potter(s), Swiss Family Robinson, Dragon Eyes, Life of Pi, Everyday Magic(not yet released)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Skydive in Interlaken
- Culetello Tasting in Parma/Po Valley
- Climbed the Great Wall of China
- Picnic under the Eiffel Tower
- Wander the streets until sunrise in San Francisco, Perugia, NYC, Washington DC, Ho Chi Minh, and the suburbs of Philadelphia.
- Friendship bracelet ceremony in a small Chinese village outside Kunming
- Grew up in a Chinese Restaurant

Teach, Learn, Share

"You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows, and has always known, that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival."
Anthony Robbins

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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