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About Me

I'm a dreamer, a world traveler, a constant explorer of new musical instruments and foreign languages, a Karater, an aspiring photographer, a minimalist, a vegetarian, a free spirit, a couch surfer. and of course, a TED translator. All I can say is that I'm an open-minded person, I enjoy meeting people, especially those who have different opinions. And I'm always curious about the world we live in and can appreciate those little things in life.

I enjoy communications between cultures, because I always think that if people have better understandings of each other, we'll be living in a much more peaceful and better world.

I love travelling and music as much as I love life itself, they are like the air that I breath, the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive.

Location:
China, Chengdu
Current organization:
Disaster relief shelters
Past organizations:
Chengdu Innovate
Current role:
translator / interpreter
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Communication - both verbal and nonverbal, Photo-journalism, Translation and Interpretation
I am:
Agnostic, Explorer, Foodie, Global soul, Musician, Photographer, Single, World traveler
Languages:
Chinese, English, Japanese, Cantonese, Portuguese
My website links:
MySpace Page, Facebook , Couchsurfing page
Universities:
Hunan Normal Universtiy

TEDCRED 30+ TED Translator

More About Me

I'm passionate about

Solving puzzles, live shows by local bands, playing some guitar and jazz drums, photography, exploring, philosophy,astronomy,calligraphy...

An idea worth spreading

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

Never save something beautiful for a special day, cause each living day is a special day. Each day, each minute is so incredibly valuable.

Talk to me about

Anything that ain't boring.

People don't know that I'm good at

daydreaming and discovering~

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    A comment on Talk: Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

    Jul 20 2011: Thank you for sharing with us, Janet. Your work is weaved with imagination, philosophy and poetic charms. It's just incredible to see you take something ordinary like fishnets, breathe life into it and make it a marvelous sculpture. It has the great virtue of water, as Laozi said, "The highest good is like that of water. The goodness of water is that it benefits the ten thousand creatures; yet itself does not scramble, but is content with the places that all men disdain." I hope I can visit those places and see your work and the wind with my eyes. Better yet, hope you'd build something in China one day.

  • A comment on Talk: John Walker re-creates great performances

    Jun 28 2010: This is really amazing! Makes me think about all the incredible things yet to come in the future~
    But, would the music still be the same even if they record everything, from the high-resolution sound to how the musician plays the instrument? It's still different even though you can't tell the difference. Like, if you reproduce e a drop of tear, would it be the same as the real tear?
  • +2

    A comment on Talk: Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso

    May 13 2010: It's the first talk I translated in TED, I appreciate her curiosity, I think we have something in common: we both love doing stuff that other people think is useless or unimportant. But I think the world needs people like us, there've been so many serious people already.

  • A comment on Talk: Steve Jobs: How to live before you die

    May 13 2010: Steve Jobs is one of the greatest inspiration of my life.

  • A comment on Theme: Unconventional Explanations

    May 16 2009: I love this idea~

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