CURRENT MISSION

meet, learn, tell, create, love

ABOUT ME

I was born in Montreal, Québec. My parents are war refugees from Viet-Nam. It makes me something like french-canadian-québécois-vietnamese, but it doesn't really matter.

My friends tell me I'm curious, quiet, artistic, empathic, mature, a little shy and clumsy.

What I do these days : working on a film script, trying to start a film production company, trying to read more, training for my first marathon, debating on whether I should be vegetarian or not.

PHILOSOPHY

Sharing. Love, friendship, family and peace. Doing less.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting as much as I can. Surfing when travelling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Discovered couchsurfing in Turkey and tasted the legendary Turkish hospitality. I have hosted a few times in Montreal.

Interests

laughs, cooking, filmmaking, photography, music, night trains, reading in bed, art, graphic novels, sounds, learning new things, radio, biking, falling off mechanical bulls

• arts
• photography
• film making
• cooking
• recipes
• vegetarian
• marathon
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• surfing
• hockey
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC : Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Beirut, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver.

RADIO : arteradio, this american life, radiolab, wnyc, BBC, CBC.

MOVIES : Tsai Ming Liang, Nicolas Philibert, Hirokazu Koreeda, Terrence Malick, VBS.tv, National Film Board of Canada, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Documentaries, and so much more.

Books = Jorge Semprun, Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Capote, Oliver Sacks, graphic novels. I never read enough!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Was ranked 7th in chess in Canada, what I was 10.
Spent a night in jail in Spain.
Slept on the beach of the Dead Sea.

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I could teach : playing the piano, rocking out on guitar-hero (or a real guitar) cooking some of my mom's recipes (vietnamese), video or photo editing, understanding hockey rules (why they fight), shoe-lacing, kung-fu fighting...

I want to learn languages, how to tune a bike, playing the accordion... anything really.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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