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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
to have some serious creative output
ABOUT ME
Hmmmm. It's hard to say what I'm like exactly. It depends where I am, and who it is that I'm associating with. Overall I'm not a bad person.
Here are some facts about me, though.
I'm a MA student majoring in English literature. I also teach English to kids as my part-time job.
I'm not an experienced traveler but I did enjoy traveling alone.
PHILOSOPHY
1. Be a true human being.
I stick to some ideals in mind, while reflecting on how they can fit in this world. For some of my friends and students, I am pretty skeptical and critical towards popular values. There's a yearning for truth behind that. But sometimes I do this and that just to create dialogism between people.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I'm totally new. I'd heard of this but had never considered participating until my friend suggested it to me. This whole idea seems very cool and fun.
Interests
visual arts: paintings and movies
I love painting portraits ( I do small ones with pastels, colored pencils or watercolors)
music: some late 80s, 90s rock music.
poetry: Philip Larkin.
watching sports: tennis (I'm a huge fan of Roger Federer), NBA (phoenix suns)
- arts
- literature
- poetry
- movies
- traveling
- watching sports
- painting
- music
- rock music
- sports
- tennis
- visual arts
Music, Movies, and Books
movies:
films by Pedro Almodovar (Hable con Ella), Theo Angelopoulos (Landscape in the Mist), Wong Kar Wai (In the Mood for Love), Ken Loach (Kes), Jule et Jim (Francois Truffaut), Fatih Akin(Head-on), Abaas Kiarostami (Close-up, Certified Copy), and a Russian film called Rusalka.
music: mostly rock music
nirvana, radiohead, modest mouse, pixies, slint,
mogwai, songs ohia (Jason Molina), the smiths, the cure, pavement, guided by voices, sonic youth, white stripes, Low, dinosaur jr., my bloody valentine, etc.
books: I don't read extensively. Not interested in popular literature or fantasy novels... I'm pretty old-school. I love William Faulkner; now I'm enjoying poetry by post-war american and english poets (Philip Larkin is my present interest), and William Shakespeare's sonnets.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Taiwan