I spend my days adrift between pages, melodies, and unfinished stories. I am, at times, a writer. Other times, a musician. To some, a friend. To others, a distant shadow, perhaps even an adversary. I move between these roles like a cat slipping through narrow alleyways—silent, unnoticed, yet undeniably present.

People are fickle, their judgments shifting like the tide. It’s futile to bend to every expectation. But perhaps, in this uncertain world, the best we can do is live with quiet sincerity and extend a hand to those who need it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To step willingly into the chaos, to let it wrap around me like a well-worn coat. To shake hands with strangers whose names I’ll forget but whose words might linger. To trade stories over coffee, each sip unraveling another thread of someone else’s life. And before the night closes in, to gather whatever fragments of wisdom I can—tuck them into my pocket like stolen matchbooks—then disappear into the dark, as if I had never been there at all.

Interests

• animals
• literature
• photography
• exercise
• technology
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• history
• philosophy
• science
• ukulele
• tiny houses
• making friends
• songwriting
• creative writing
• paradoxes
• stoicism
• mineralogy
• moral philosophy
• lyricism
• moral dilemmas

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Conor Oberst, Bright Eyes, Pedro the Lion, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, My Chemical Romance, Better Oblivion Community Center, Jimmy Eat World, The Ramones, Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Dear and the Headlights, Nightmare of You, Everclear, etc.

Movies: V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Star Wars (all,) Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, The Watchmen, Made in Hong Kong, 十面埋伏, 霍元甲, Step Brothers, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, A Haunting in Venice, American History X, etc.

Books: Killing Commendatore, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Devotion of Suspect X, Robin Hobb’s ‘Fitz and the Fool’ saga, Mark Lawrence’s ‘Broken Empire’ trilogy, George R. R, Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ saga, Biocentrism, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, The Time Machine, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, After the Cafe, The Gun, The Boy in the Earth, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I stood at the edge of the abyss, watching it stretch endlessly before me, dark and silent. I wasn’t sure how long I had been staring—minutes, hours, maybe lifetimes. Then, at some point, it began to stare back. Not with eyes, but with a quiet understanding, as if it had been waiting for me all along.

Teach, Learn, Share

I spend my days shaping melodies on the ukulele, crafting videos for remote audiences, stringing together words for Medium, and losing myself in books on subjects that pull me in like unseen currents. One thing leads to another, and before I know it, I’m somewhere unexpected, following a thread I hadn’t noticed before.

If our paths happen to cross, if something in my world overlaps with yours, I’ll share what I know. Knowledge, like music, is meant to be passed along—carried on the wind, waiting for the right ears to catch it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Songs, stories, stray memories—fragments of who I am, scattered like pages torn from an old notebook. Hopes and dreams, too, though they shift and flicker like distant lights on a midnight highway.

In return, I can listen. I can offer a few words, nothing profound, just the quiet kind that might ease the weight of things, if only for a little while. Life is strange that way—sometimes, all we really need is for someone to hear us.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Macao, Northern Mariana Islands, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cambodia, China, Guam, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Northern Mariana Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, United States