CURRENT MISSION

To swamp my passport with countless stamps before it expires

ABOUT ME

a free spirited liberal who just wants to make the most out of a little red book he calls his passport.

i can be found here http://www.facebook.com/andre.he

PHILOSOPHY

life is incomplete without travel

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As I've been pretty much on the go for the past couple of years, I try to do my best as a member of the CS community to showcase Singapore's hidden gems to city-weary visitors whenever I'm in town

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

- Introduction to Singapore 101 to couple of sea-faring folks aboard the Semester at Sea vessel when they berthed at port

- Couchsurfed the umm...couch of the ever so delightful Emilia in Beijing

Interests

a definite film/TV/pop-culture geek! i'll watch anything (b-grade horror, direct-to-dvd crap, campy comedies, oliver stone, ang lee)...even if it boils down to the television test pattern, i'll take it.

and of course, backpacking! i would make a career out of it if i could.

• culture
• books
• dining
• tv
• traveling
• stamps
• backpacking
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

American History X, Training Day, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors, Interview with the Vampire, Eat Drink Man Woman, Farewell My Concubine, The Wedding Banquet, American Beauty, Ghostbusters to umm name a few.

Fleetwood Mac, Toto, The Cranberries, Garbage, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Rilo Kiley, Queen, REM, Rachael Yamagata, Aqualung, Moby, U2, Adele, The Killers, Heart

Alex Garland's The Beach, Khalid Hosseni's A Thousand Splendid Suns, Ha Jin's Waiting

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

two months of sucking it up in extremely questionable hotels, ungodly transportation and stomach upset inducing food to reach the awesome snow capped peaks of shangri-la (frm singapore).

Teach, Learn, Share

For anyone curious about the Asian Culture, Language or History...I will try my best as a culturally confused third generation Singaporean to share the secrets and mysteries of the Far East

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Singapore, Taiwan