CURRENT MISSION

Catch as many waves as I can and surf them till I figure out the meaning of life

ABOUT ME

I was a hard working communication Designer, a dreamer. Loved to read and experiments with photography.

One day I fed up with working 12 hours a day and decided it was time.
Moved to Indonesia one year ago and started my own life travel. So here I am traveling in Indonesia until Life brings me a new mission.

PHILOSOPHY

People are like little magic boxes. You have to find the key to open them and find all the magic inside.
(If some are somewhat smooth to open, others take time to open)
And usually the box appearance has few to do with the inside.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Well my first contact with the "couchsurfing" was in the college when we worked until it was too late to go home and it was usual to sleep in someone's couch. At that time I never thought there was a community doing something like that around the world. (Now I know)

I've had 2 great experiences of hosting in my flat near Lisbon. At the time I was working 12 hours a day so it worked as a way of traveling having this incredible friends around when I got home. Their stories were the way I had to travel in these days. But they also gave me the motivation I needed to start my own world travel.

So here I am. In South East Asia - Indonesia and around, discovering the world but also discovering myself. Hopefully I will surf some couch and make some friends around here.

Interests

Art, surf, music, nature, cities, cycling, dreaming, reading, thinking, traveling, talking .... silence, drawing, breathing, living.

• arts
• design
• photography
• dining
• running
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• magic
• music
• cycling
• boxing
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

I'll try to fill this as long as I'm remembering the names.

Tom Waits
Radiohead
deus
Ramones
Kruder

Ray Charles
Nina Simone

Chico Buarque

Jack Kerouac
George Orwell
Paul Auster
Jack London
Jorge Amado
José Saramago - Blindness
Fernando Pessoa

Pulp Fiction
Death Proof
Amores Perros
City of God
Fight Club
Matrix (the first) - for all the metaphor
Cofee and Cigaretts - well, not quiet a movie, but anyway
Delicatessen
Brother Where art Thou
Trainspotting
Clockwork Orange
Black Cat White Cat

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1- A floaty and an air mattress 5 hours river cruise in the middle of the jungle of Kalimantan. (The best part was we didn't know where it was leading so we took food in case we had to spend the night, which we almost did).

2- Being overflown by a huge female semi-wild orangutan and then run in front of it until a guide (who had already fled) screamed "The food!! The food" (pointing to where we were running). That's when we realized that we were running in the orangutan's food direction. Not a good idea with a hungry orangutan behind us. (Tanjun Putin N. Park- Kalimantan)

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Portugal