ABOUT ME

Teacher - Local journalist - Philosopher - IT guy - Theologian - Comic book addict - Facebook marketeer - City historian - Movie buff - ...

PHILOSOPHY

Imagine a nation whose symbols are chocolate, waffles, French fries, beer and comic books. Could such a country exist? Wouldn't you wanna move to that great spot? Guess what: it does exist, it is called Belgium and I am already living there!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted four guests in total, couchsurfed once in Finland, spread the CS message.

Interests

Where do I start? I guess everything brand new or ancient old is relevant. The most interesting thing are those that make you discover a new part of yourself.

• books
• chocolate
• beer
• teaching
• history
• journalism
• philosophy

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Le fabeleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Fight Club, Casablanca, Sunshine, Heat, Sin City, Lola Rennt, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix
Music: Radiohead, Tool, Porcupine Tree, Snow Patrol, Tom McRae, dEUS, CPeX, Soulwax, The Scene, The Streets, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Faithless, Milk Inc
Books: Blankets (Thompson), Sin City (Frank Miller), Watchmen (Alan Moore), 1984 (Orwell), The World is Flat (Friedman), Making Globalisation Work (Stiglitz), Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonnegut), Calvin & Hobbes (Watterson), everything (Anthony Horowitz)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cape Good Hope, South Africa - Batu Caves, Malaysia - Grutas Park, Lithuania - Sagrada Familia, Spain

Teach, Learn, Share

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A ship in a port is safe, but that is not where ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther King

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, South Africa

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