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Overview

  • 9 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Tagalog; learning Spanish, Swedish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • recent engineering grad
  • travelling, reading, and living
  • From Philippines & Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to experience life to the fullest and to help make this world a better place

ABOUT ME

Half Filipino, half Canadian, and come from a huge family of 9 siblings. The glass is always half-full for me and life is an ongoing adventure taken with a big smile and a positive optimistic view.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is like an ongoing class where every situation, relationship, and opportunity is an opportunity where lessons can be learned and wisdom gained.

Confucious says:"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

The world acts like a personal mirror and it reflects back what you send out to it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Leaving people a little bit better

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Most memorable one was when I was in Indonesia, I met a family that just took me in as one of their own. 3 generations living in one house, there were 19 of us. This was truely one of the best 2 months of my life

Interests

traveling
motorcycles
martial arts
gardening
volunteering
reading
couchsurfing
photography

  • arts
  • design
  • photography
  • motorcycles
  • gardening
  • reading
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • fishing
  • backpacking
  • martial arts
  • mathematics
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
good will hunting
love actually
brave heart
the matrix

Music: classical, country, spanish guitar,

Books:
the prophet
the power of now
atlas shrugged
seat of the soul
the alchemist
think and grow rich
good to great

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Backpacking throughout SE Asia at 17yrs old,
Treeplanting for 5 months in the great wilderness of Northern Canada
Working at a remote fishing resort near Alaska that was an hour by helicopter from any city
Designing supercars with Koenigsegg Automotive in Sweden
Meeting my twin sister through CouchSurfing in Berlin

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: martial arts, math, portrait drawing, how to fix things, how things work, the internet, computers, how to travel on a budget, how to design a supercar, public speaking

Share: a good laugh, smiles, travelling stories, the best places to go in the Philippines,

Learn: Photography, public speaking

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Philippines

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