♥ Hello! My name is Daniel. I was born and raised in Changchun, China, and currently living in New York City, Troy NY, USA, Sendai, Japan. I work as a Software Engineer for a startup during the day, running, cycling and taking Arabic language classes at night. I have a dream of becoming a film director like Pedro Almodovar and traveling all over the world.

Get in touch: daniel@danielatwork.com

Places I’ve Been

Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador (and Galápagos!), Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, North Korea, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vietnam

Travel Plan (next 5 years)

Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Patagonia, Israel, Jordan, Mongolia, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Swaziland, Taiwan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Being Active

After moving to New York City and starting a full time job, I realized that being active was an important part of my life. In 2015, I started to work out for the very first time and fell in love with running, later started running half marathons and marathons. Then I bought a road bike, and started swimming and training for my first Ironman 70.3. I discovered my love for endurance sports and what it meant to have a base level of fitness and it challenged and ultimately changed my world. I use Strava to track my training and you are welcome to join me!

This is a WordPress.com blog

I love WordPress, and have been a user since 2008, back then I only blog in Chinese. I’ve also written a WordPress Theme Pilot Fish. And I love Android, and have been a weekend Android developer since summer of 2013, and made some apps on Google Play.

Here are some of my favorite things:

apple pie, Arabic

blogging, biking, bear hugs, black and white photos, buildings with creativity

cross stitch, calligraphy, Changchun, Chinese tea ceremony

day dreaming

Essure (I’m officially childfree since the beginning of 2015)

family, flip flops, Friday

Garfield

hot yoga, handwritings, hiking

iPhone, iPod, iPad

jazz

Korean rice cakes (injoelmi)

lighthouses, languages, learning

mellow winter mornings, meeting old friends, movies, maps

postcards, photography, Pedro Almodovar, pole dancing

ragtime, reading, raccoons, running

sand beach of all colors, sightseeing, snow, subways, swimming, Sendai

tattoos, triathlon, travel

Wim Wenders, Wallace & Gromit

yoga

zebra