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Overview
About Me
I was living in small city in Indonesia so our family didn't have chance to travel; even within our country. That's why my childhood dream was to be a traveler. I remember that I could remember all the capitals in Asia, Europe, America and some capitals in Africa when I was child. I had a dream that I would like to travel to the places that I love someday. However, I never had a chance to do that therefore I was starting to forget those.
Suddenly, about 5 years ago. I had a chance to have my first flight. It was vacation to Thailand by the company that I worked. I was very excited to fly and suddenly I remember my childhood dreams. Then the adventures begin; I started to travel other countries within South East Asia, then crossing to India, China, Australia, and Europe. It feels like an addiction; but in good way. I'm so delighted that I could have a chance to visit my following bucket lists:
- Climbing the Great Wall of China (twice; different routes)
- Watching the beautiful Taj Mahal by own eyes. (Indeed; very beautiful)
- Watching amazing sunrise and sunset in Bali and Santorini. (Both are the most amazing sunrise/sunset in my life).
- Sightseeing in Paris
- Eat Pizza in Italy
- Admiring Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
- Touching an ice; but not from fridge in Inner Mongolia !
- Mount Fuji
- Alhambra, Spain
Meanwhile, there are some of my bucket lists that haven't been achieved yet;
- Macchu Picchu
- Pyramid and Sphinx
- Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock
- Chichen Itza
- Watching one of the World Cup match; but not on TV
- Could speak more than 10 languages :D
I'm lacto ovo vegetarian so I love to have vegetarian culinary trip while I'm visiting other countries.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
I realized that CS is not just about host and couch. I found it as a bridge to have friends in another places. Just can't wait to have another friends for my next trips !
Interests
Traveling, History, Languages, Music, Photography, and Movies.
- photography
- cooking
- breakfast
- vegetarian
- flying
- movies
- tv
- traveling
- music
- rock climbing
- world cup
- dialects
- history
- languages
- sightseeing
Music, Movies, and Books
I enjoy most of the movies genre; but I love Sci-Fi and history movie at most. Currently, I'm crazy in love with Game of Thrones !
I can listen to any of song genres; mostly top40 such Ed Sheeran & Snow Patrol; rock such Muse, Rammstein & Arctic Monkeys. However, when goes to singing; I can only sing rap song such Asher Roth's one hit wonder song and Gym Class Heroes because my tone sound awful when singing pop song. :P
I rarely read books but I love to read news regarding to the international relations, airlines; hotel miles (really worth when I didn't get couch lol), history and of course about travel.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
- Walked around 13 km under -15 C during the landslide in Inner Mongolia
- Was halted in Ukraine immigration so I missed the flight to Italy and I have to change all my plans in Italy to catch my flight back to Asia from Switzerland
- Communicate to Korean traveler in Kapadokiya (Turkey) using her google translator because she can't speak English at all. However, on the next day I got karma when I have to communicate using google translator to Turkish people in Trabzon because my Turkish language was very bad and 99.9% people in Trabzon can't speak English.
Teach, Learn, Share
I love to learn languages. However, due to my hectic working hours so I didn't have many chances to improve it. I used to take Mandarin class but stop it after I have to move another city. Therefore, it's hard for me to improve languages other than my mother language. However, since I often move to another city in Indonesia. My language capabilities in native languages are improving. There are around 700 languages in Indonesia but at least I could speak three of them plus some dialects. Not bad either. :p
What I Can Share with Hosts
I can't cook but I'm sure that we can look for breakfast together and also we can share our stories.
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
Indonesia