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Overview

  • 8 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Korean; learning Chinese, English
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2012
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About Me

Living my life to the fullest
Loving family and friends to the max
Learning everything possible until I die
Laughing my face off makes me happy (endorphins!!)
Appreciating (not taking for granted) everything I have
Keeping warm heart to the people

Seemingly big problems shrink to nothing when it comes to the matter of death
Doing my best not to regret at the funeral
Doing my best to relish this remarkable ride called 'life' ! :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To invite and share my excitement and happiness of the travel!

Interests

Artistic sense of whatever that is
; Interior design, writing essays, dancing, drawing, cooking, baking, singing, etc.

Open to every type of unique creation activity.
Love to see the way people express what's been inside of themselves and love to express my own identity, too!

  • writing
  • singing
  • design
  • interior design
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • baking
  • clothing
  • traveling
  • drawing

Music, Movies, and Books

*Music

All of Jazz music
Jam session

Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Bill Evans
Nat King Cole
Miles Davis
Louis Armstrong
Eddie Higgins

* Books
Michel Tournier - Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique
Alain de Botton - Essays in Love / Status Anxiety / The News: A User's Manual / The Architecture of Happiness
Karl Pillemer - 30 LESSONS for LIVING
Kishimi Ichiro
Son Mina
Kim Sooyoung

* Movies
Beautiful Mind
Prestige
Her
About Time
The lovers on the bridge

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BBC documentaries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Things await me on the list ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

* Quotation : A better question than 'what do I want?'

If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous that it doesn’t even mean anything.
Everybody wants to have an amazing job and financial independence—but not everyone wants to suffer through 60-hour work weeks, long commutes, obnoxious paperwork, to navigate arbitrary corporate hierarchies and the blasé confines of an infinite cubicle hell. People want to be rich without the risk, without the sacrifice, without the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate wealth.

A more interesting question, a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before, is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out. Because happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative. You can only avoid negative experiences for so long before they come roaring back to life.

At the core of all human behavior, our needs are more or less similar. Positive experience is easy to handle. It’s negative experience that we all, by definition, struggle with. Therefore, what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we’re willing and able to sustain to get us to those good feelings.

* Quotation : 30 lessons for living

Proposed utopias notwithstanding, no one has come up with a system by which humans can avoid working. On a fundamental level, we work to survive-to obtain the food, clothing, and shelter we need. Jobs vary, but the basic principle is the same: we exchange hours of lifetime for money, and we use that money to live.
For most people, however, work means much more. It is a primary source of meaning and purpose in life, the way we gain a sense of self-worth and achievement, and a means of making connections with others. It is also a component of our core identity, of the people we consider ourselves to be.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Philippines, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, Sweden, United States

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