CURRENT MISSION

To encourage widespread dancing and singing, thus making the world a happier place.

ABOUT ME

My husband and I live in a little 2 bedroom apartment in the Central District, located, you guessed it, in the center of Seattle. We moved out here from the East Coast for UW's outstanding (yet underfunded) graduate program in Asian languages and literature. We are world travelers, so we figured couchsurfing would be a great way to get a bed once in a while. We often go to China and France, since we both have family members that live there. As a result, we speak Mandarin and French! Plus Thai and am attempting to learn Vietnamese but mostly just speak English in bad Vietnamese accents. Our favorite most recent international trip was to Laos, where we ate duck blood salad in the jungle and somehow escaped contracting avian flu. Check out my blog at http://thatsamasian.blogspot.com

Interests

Asian cooking, Bollywood, hip hop, tea, knitting and crocheting, cats (we have 1), kung fu, karaoke, dim sum, whiffle ball, double dutch, dancing (!!!), beach-going, hot dogs, the environment, bike riding.

• cats
• dogs
• literature
• singing
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• blogging
• knitting
• karaoke
• cycling
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I love to dance, so anything with a good beat! My recent favorites are Peter Bjorn & John and The Sounds. I also love the classical Romantics, like Beethoven, Dvorak, Sibelius, Faure, and Ravel. Jazz! John Coltrane, early Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday. Also The Shins, Shonen Knife, Cibo Matto, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Pat Benatar, Le Tigre, Black Eyed Peas, Outkast, Cat Stevens, Bhangra, Blue Scholars, Generation X, M.I.A., The Strokes and Plastic Bertrand

Books: Lolita, Cather in the Rye, The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, Middlesex, White Teeth, Dude, Where's My Country?, Harry Potter, Light in August, Jane Eyre, Wild Swans, Wonder Boys, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace), Blindness, Beloved, Perfume, Invisible Man, The Human Stain, The Ramayana, Down and Out in Paris and London, Yukio Mishima, Rita Dove, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, The Omnivore's Dilemma

Movies: Woody Allen, although he's been faltering lately (sigh): What's up Tiger Lily? Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah & Her Sisters, Deconstructing Harry, Match Point, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Rosemary's Baby, Mean Girls, Blow, The Princess Bride, The Motorcycle Diaries, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Place in the Sun, Deepa Metha: Earth and Water, Fatal Attraction, Psycho, Vertigo, Harold & Maude

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Fiji, France, India, Italy, Laos, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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