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  • Fluent in English, Malay; learning Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2012
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  • Bachelor in Chemical Engineering in Curtin University, We...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To explore other ppl cultures all over the world

ABOUT ME

I love to meet new people with different background and culture. Since we are all young, this is the right time to travel and open your mind and heart to the world out there. Engineering is my passion too along with photography, playing guitar, listening to all sort of music, doing outdoor activities and stuff

PHILOSOPHY

Life is like a buffet line with all types of food for you to choose. Choose what you want & love what you choose.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

CS New Year Party in KL 2012. Bump into a huge group of CSers and kept on asking me "Are you couch surfer?" being so curious, I went back home googling and yeah that was the first time I created my CS profile (Jan 2012)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Outdoor activities, hiking, climbing hill, playing all sport games and partying

Interests

I love to try/listen/watching/tasting new things like foods, games, musical instrument, outdoor activities, new musics (techno, retro, dance, ballard), movies and tv series each day of my life. These are the list of my interest:
a) Travel to as many countries as I can. So far travelled to 37 countries and I had stay in Australia for 3 years
b) Walking around, join party, events here and there and live like a traveller eventhough in my own country
c) Playing guitar to kill my past time
d) Changkat is like my second home now. I will try my best to join any CS event which related to Changkat
e) Ronggeng and enjoying the seaside/ beach. 20 years of my life I lived near the beach and it is part of my soul now. So, any CS event related to the beach too, I will join absolutely

  • culture
  • photography
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • walking
  • partying
  • movies
  • tv
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • engineering
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Gladiator, 300, Underworld, and the list goes on and on..too many
I love Enya coz her music give me inspirition to travel, and teach me the meaning about life.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed the Mount Cook in NZ back in 2007 and that was my first time holding the snowball. Also climbed the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland and sent postcard via the highest post office in the world (In alps mountain). Climbed up till Annapurna Base Camp (4100m), witness avalanches while survived the Nepal mega earthquake in 2015 (8.1 magnitude scale), rode a horse before sunset at Taal volcano (5 days before the volcano erupted), reached the Everest Base Camp without altitude mountain sickness in 2016, joined the Rainforest World Musical Festival in Kuching back in 2012, drove up to Monkey Mia to watch the largest dolphin sanctuary in the world and swam on the net of the catamaran boat, hiked up Mount Kinabalu till the peak, witnessing 5 of the world 8000 meters mountains (Everest, Lhotse, Kangchenjunga, Annapurna 1 and Dhaulagiri 1), rode a yak at Tsongmo lake, Sikkim at the height of 3753m, landed at Lhukla Airport (world most dangerous airport), stayed with Nepalese local in Nepal, visited The Gap in Western Australia (part of Antartic plat millions of year ago), swam in the large waves of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, visited Mount Bromo, Java Indonesia (volcano surrounding by sea of cloud), Tasted the Darjeeling tea while seeing Himalayas from Tiger Hill, explored 9 countries in Europe for 1 month, participated the World Youth Day in Sydney (2007) and Madrid (2011) and met the Pope. Explored the world oldest salt mining in Hallstatt , Austria (7000 years old) and stayed near the peaceful lake of Hallstatt (World Heritage site UNESCO), toured Pompeii ruin city with the Vesuvius volcano background in Italy. Enjoying the view and sunset at 4 different oceans (North Pacific ocean from Yilan beach Taipei, Antarctic ocean from Esperance Australia, Indian ocean from Mirissa Sri Lanka and South Pacific ocean from Bondi Beach Australia). Drove more than 1200km in New Zealand from the North to the South and had a late evening cruise ride at Milford Sound. Stayed for the first time in caravan twice in Christchurch, traveled along the Balkan countries from Athens to Ljubljana for 2500km while witnessing the beautiful coastal road and Mediterranean sea, experienced the fighter jet 800 meters tunnel in Mostar Herzegovina, climb the hill to witness the only island in Slovenia with the church in the middle in Lake Bled, escaping the magnitude 10/10 typhoon in Macau airport, my first skiing in Vivaldi Park, Seoul during winter under the temperature of -8 degree celcius, strolling along the Plitvice lakes in Croatia which is combination of 16 lakes connected to each other by streams and waterfalls

Teach, Learn, Share

Tutoring the refugee child under Voice of Refugee Malaysia (Tutor Afghanistan and Myanmar kids)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Macao, Macedonia, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Malaysia

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