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Overview

  • 42 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English; learning Spanish, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Mandarin teacher, Jazz singer
  • yes, I have been educated. what kind of question is that?
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

discover new things about the world and about me everyday.

ABOUT ME

I hate to write these things, it took me so long to sit down and actually typing here. I might sound really bitchy here, but I promise I'm a nice person. I can't say I'm a interesting person because that totally depend on what you think is interesting, but judging from the past experience of people's reaction towards me, I believe I'm not boring.
and I can be kind of weird, like talking-about-how-poop-is-one-of-the best-art-work-of-nature, -when-everybody-including-me-are-eating weird, not like serial-killer-psychopath weird. so bon appetit!

PHILOSOPHY

I have a theory, everybody should go behind the jail bar at least once in a life time. but I don't mean it in a criminal way, if you swich "go behind the jail bar" into "eat a egg" or "sing a birthday song in a funeral", it all works.

look me up on instagram if you like : nereidsrealm

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I go to the HK CS event very offen, and I hosted people before I even I have this profile, and I surf too. However, I just been lazy about setting up my profile, so I'm just doing it now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfing experience bla bla bla....

Interests

films, literature, dancing, being mildly crazy, intense discussion....

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • singing
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • drinking
  • movies
  • surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS OR FILM MAKERS:

wong kar wai,
David Lynch,
David cronenberg,
Ki-duk Kim(Pieta, The Bow, Time),
Shunji Iwai(Swallowtail, Picnic, All about Lily Chou-Chou),
Park-Chan Wook(Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy, Sympathy for lady Vengeance),
Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine, Temptress Moon/Feng Yue), Hitchcock,
Three colors: Red, Blue, White,
Jiang Wen (The Sun Also Rises, In The Heat of The Sun),
Ringu, Kill Bill, Mirror mask, No Country for Old Men, American Psycho, Dark city, Following, Sin city, the English Patient, and many more.

BOOKS:

Dream of the Red Chamber/ The Story of Stone,
Ha Shore)
Eileen Chang (Red Rose White Rose, Lust,Caution, Xiao Tuan Yuan)
Haruki Murakami(Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, Kafka on the SHore)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
Gone with the WInd,
The Red and The Black,
The Lady of the Camellias,
Carmen,
Anna Karenina,
Dostoyevsky,
The Little Prince,
1984,
Jimmy Liao (When The Moon Forgot, The Sound of Colors : A Journey of the Imagination),
Hong Ying (Daughter of the River)
Wong Anyi (Song of Everlasting Sorrow),

MUSIC:

Chopin,
Yo-Yo Ma,
Tom Waits,
Leonard Cohen,
CHet Baker,
Elvis presley,
Billie holiday,
Astor Piazzolla,
Astrud Gilberto,
Pu Shu/朴树,
麦田守望者,
mild classic music, Jazz, Latin, Spanish classic guitar...

SHOWS:

Mad Men,
Hannibal (season 1 and2)
Black Mirror,
Game of Thrones,
The X files,
Sherlock(BBC)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In gernal, I have met amazing ppl, made great friends through Couch surfing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I learn so much from lots of CSers about life, culture, dance, cooking....
I can teach others Mandarin, Chinese cooking, how to be drunk without drinking....

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, United States

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