As a child, I figured that the best thing to do would be to get paid for sitting in front of a computer. "There's no way that is not a cool job, right?" asked the 14 year old me. Non-climax: it actually is. My life is pretty good. Currently, my second greatest ambition in life is to be a hand-model.

The day I was born, they decided to enforce the constitution of Mongolia. You're welcome, possible genepool brethren.

Some people tell me that I'm too smart for my own good. Other people tell me to stop saying that because that nobody has actually said that first thing. So, I don't know what to believe.

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Years ago, someone told me the difference between a tourist and a traveller. In that moment, I decided the one that I wanted to be.

When I travel, I like to look at things through the locals' lens. While that is possible in the real world, the convenience of Couchsurfing as an online platform is hard to beat. I've heard great things about the community, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Interests

Interests define who you are. Well, this is me -- a laundry list of amazing things that could visibly thrill a Queen's Guard at the Buckingham Palace.

I started reading the moment I learnt how to, stargazing when I didn't know the word for it, adventures when I got my first bike, writing when my mother ditched me in one of my school's essay writing competitions, history when I realised that it repeats itself, travel after I got a hold of some sweet internship stipend money, soccer in college, running and fitness (and hiking, I guess) when I saw how far I'd fallen after college, baking when I missed the culinary gems that my mother made when I was a kid, and eating out after I accepted that I couldn't match up to her in that space.

• writing
• baking
• fitness
• running
• eating out
• hiking
• soccer
• history
• travel
• adventures
• stargazing
• reading books

Music, Movies, and Books

My last ten iTunes buys were:
- Matchbox Twenty, Eddy Grant, John Legend, 2Pac, Shankar Mahadevan, A. R. Rahman, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Beastie Boys, Enrique Iglesias.

I know everybody says this, but I have the broadest music palette of anyone I've ever met. Awesome music comes in all genres!

Very similar with movies. Off the top of my head, in no specific order, here are a few:
- The Man from Earth, Borat, The Secret in Their Eyes, Delhi Belly, The Silence of The Lambs, The Matrix, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Yes Man.

And, as we come to books, I'm starting to see a pattern. All I need for books (just like music, movies, and food) is for them to be well written, regardless of genre. I love books including but not limited to these:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Three Men in a Boat, Gödel - Escher - Bach, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1984, Flowers for Algernon, India: A History, A Farewell to Arms, Flatland.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rode on the highest motorable road in the world in a snowstorm, and immediately after over an actual landslide. Almost died, then started living!

(That's where one of my pictures is from, but from the next day when the storm had ended.)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
- Baking, Stargazing, Indian History

Learn:
- Anything, everything

Share:
- Anecdotes and jokes ranging from mildly funny to downright terrible

What I Can Share with Hosts

Apparently my company is so valuable that some people actually *paid me* for years just to be around me.

Full disclosure: I'm talking about my parents.

Countries I’ve Visited

India, Sri Lanka

Countries I’ve Lived In

India