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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, Japanese; learning English, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Taiwanese
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2013
  • Student
  • Undergraduate
  • From Malaysia
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Looking for couch in Italy

ABOUT ME

A very cheerful, passionate, and adventurous girl. I love to read novel and cook.

I grow up in Malaysia.
It is a colorful country that has a mix of ethnic, religion and nice food.

Studying abroad in Japan.
It is a modern and yet traditional country.

After 4 years in Japan, I feel tired and lost.

I have no rest in the four years, study from Monday - Friday.
Work full day on weekend, like 9-23, and some days in weekend after school, as I need to support my living cost and tuition fee.

Get lost in finding way for my future, because I know that's not the life I wanted. I want to be free from crappy thing.
Trying to figure out what I want in Norway.
And yes, I found what I want.
Travel ! A life that full of new and fresh thing, the culture shock, challenge. Now I just can't stop it.

Sometimes, I would like to be alone, dreaming, reading, doing nothing.

Sometimes, I would like to be crazy with people.

Sometimes, I would like to talk non stop for over 10 hours with a stranger that I just meet.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't regret.

I've experience 311 earthquake in Japan, and I survived!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Searching for a couch in Norway when I was going to do my exchange study there.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surf :
Bergen, Norway with Stian, 3 nights
London, UK with John, 5 nights
London, UK with Tina, 1 night
Paris, France with Gorka 2 nights
Paris, France with David for 4 nights

Interests

Food! I love to cook, and read too.

Food that I like to eat, apparently all kind of food but raw food like sashimi is not my type although I live in Japan.

Cook, actually I would rather call it experiment. Sometimes I will just cook anything that I have inside the fridge like one time I tried to mix all garlic, potato, mushroom, spinach in a pot of milk. It end up not bad but please don't try it at home, sounds dangerous for kid.

Why I like food so much? I came from a place call food paradise, Penang. It is an island in Malaysia. We are a multiracial country, so there are a lot different food from different people. Take an example, curry, there are Chinese curry, Indian curry, Malay curry. They taste all different.

  • culture
  • books
  • dining
  • cooking
  • raw food
  • reading
  • traveling
  • history
  • languages
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Read... I like detective and fantasy novel, like Sherlock Holmes and Harry potter. Just love those kind of fantasy stuff.
I like Chinese history as my ancestor came from China. Those war stories always amuse me.

I don't really listen to music, but I enjoy listening any music.

Movies and dramas... A lot. I just love them.
Walking dead, the vampire dairies, Korean drama, Chinese drama

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The national park in Iceland is the best scenery.

Get back stolen purse by chasing after 3 thieves and little fight occurred.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach.. I can speak few languages.

Learn.. I would like to listen to others culture or history or stories that can't be learn from book or internet

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Malaysia, Norway

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