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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese, French, Spanish, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Recent graduate is a euphemism I used for unemployed.
  • Berkeley
  • From Monterey Park, CA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To learn how to survive

ABOUT ME

I am young, strong, and intelligent. I'm currently swimming through the nebulous ocean that is life after graduation. For the moment, the only thing I am sure of is that I want to travel and see more of the world. I'm ready to learn about people, get stuck in places for way too long, learn how to get myself unstuck, and see where I fit in with what is around me. As Bob Dylan said, "I'm ready to go anywhere, ready for to fade..."

PHILOSOPHY

Still searching

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I appreciate I'm very new to couch surfing and that can be to a certain degree unappealing to some. But I also appreciate that everyone starts somewhere. I plan to be taking my first trip since graduating soon and it will one in which I'll be playing by ear in many respects. I am hoping that the spirit of couch surfing and those who engage in it will lend me a helping hand as I drift from Vancouver to Los Angeles.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed with some wonderful individuals, and met through them a similar like.

Interests

Theater.Making art.Talking film. Making film. I always carry a book on me, I like to cook, I like music and I play it haphazardly. I am about the Arts and I am about the people and I'm about to see how they intertwine in my life.

  • arts
  • books
  • theater
  • cooking
  • crafts
  • flying
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • woodworking
  • music
  • surfing
  • bungee jumping
  • swimming
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

City Lights, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, East of Eden, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, There Will Be Blood, Rope, True Grit, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Heathers, The Prestige, American Psycho, Into the Wild, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Edward Scissor Hands, Revolutionary Road, 2046, In the Mood for Love, Happy Together, Blow, Cruising, Godfather, Star Wars IV, V, VI, Ed Wood, Taxi Driver, Donnie Darko, Pi, Amadeus, Z

Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jimmi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Bibio, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Charlie Parker, Blood Sweat and Tears, ELO, Elvis, Pavement, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, 2Pac, Nas, Common, Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Wild Beasts, Radiohead

Shakespeare, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Wild Ass's Skin, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Joy Luck Club, The Great Gatsby, Galilleo, Waiting for Godot, Short Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, Survivor, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ulysses, An Actor Prepares, Building a Character

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watch my first nephew grow before my eyes (5 months now).
Jump off the World's highest bungee jump tower.
Jump off a 40 foot cliff into the water.
Motor Scootering in the mountains of Chiang Mai.
Help make two films in 48 hours.
Played a Siamese Twin in a world debut play and be half a half naked for most of it.
Get a degree for reading things and pretending I'm make-believe people.
Fly a 4-person small aircraft.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy exchanging languages. I would like to learn more crafts like cooking and woodwork.

I can teach English and Shakespeare.

I enjoy sharing Theater, Film, and Dinner.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Japan, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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