Left a wreck by the loss of his partner, Hou came to Taiwan "to earn a little money teaching English and figure out what to do next." Taiwan has little in the way of a street-arts community and few resources for study, but it was here that he decided to embark on his solo busking career.
頓失夥伴的胡啟志，在「萬念俱灰」下，決定先來台灣「當英文老師，存點錢，再想下一步。」也是在這個幾乎沒有雜耍社群與學習資源的土地上，讓他開啟「一個人上街頭」的生涯。