'Cada vuelta es una ida.'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

This mindset resulted in the following, over the years on Couchsurfing: Slept at a Burmese family's place and in Burmese Buddhist monasteries
Stayed for a week in Lausanne while looking for a flat
Spent a weekend at an Austrian couple's place in Munich
Stayed for a couple nights with a local family in Zhangye, Gansu, China
Spent two nights in Almaty at an amazing local guy's place
Stayed one night with a family in Urgench, Uzbekistan
Slept one night at an Ukranian couple's place in Aktau, on the Caspian Sea shore
Hosted by two students for a few days in Tbilisi
Got hosted in Jogjakarta

Interests

Music, coding, machine learning, travels, languages, news

• cocktails
• coffee
• shopping
• news
• traveling
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Electronic music (all sorts, or close)
Reggae and Dub
Indie Rock (Beach House), Indie Dub (Fishmans)

The Shawshank Redemption
The Big Blue
The Fifth Element
The Road To Perdition

André Orléans
Yan Lianke

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Crossed Danum Valley jungle in Sabah state, Borneo, driving 66km in an old, tuned Malaysian Proton car

Another one: crossed Russia with my younger brother, from East to West, driving a Lada Niva. instagram.com/lada_trip_2018/
The LadaTrip idea originated from a solo trip in Central Asia, completed in May/June 2015 in buses and trains (all overland): Seoul, Gansu (China), Xinjiang (China), Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia

Teach, Learn, Share

Make cocktails
Solve 2/3 of the Rubik's cube
Prepare for Management Consulting interviews
Get proficient in Mandarin
Build products that use Machine Learning
Write code in Python

What I Can Share with Hosts

How to fight jet lag
How to make it to the Danum Valley Field Center in Borneo
How to bargain with Chinese taxi drivers
How to wake up in Tokyo's metro
How to find an unknown coffee-shop style reggae bar in Geneva
Where to hear the best Techno music in Paris
Where to find remote paradise islands in Malaysia
How to get rid of Kazakh policemen asking for a bribe

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macao, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, China, Denmark, England, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Switzerland, United States