CURRENT MISSION

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ― Anaïs Nin

ABOUT ME

There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, traveling the world and the seven seas but looking for a reason to stay. I’m not looking, I’ve found what it is I want and I can’t have it. I actually have many incarnations but let me acquaint you to the one most people know. I'm Ram from a quiet town in the southern part of the Philippines. A self-taught visual artist, an imagination junkie, a daysleeper, and an occasional cultural relativist. I’m also a part-time romantic who enjoys poetry, sipping cups of coffee, gastronomy, and reading dog-eared books. I'd be more than glad to engage in small talks that could blossom in wonderful conversations. We could talk anything from carpentry to architecture, from arts to the natural sciences--anything that catches your fancy. I'm fond of books as well--that dogeared, rustically scented books. So if you share one or two of my interest, drop me a line, I'm not necessarily looking for something romantic here, friendship would be nice.

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Diem, not really personal but close to home

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Accidental, like history

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Backdoor

Interests

Art, Literature, Gastronomy, and a dash of adventure

• dogs
• arts
• books
• literature
• poetry
• architecture
• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• history
• philosophy

Music, Movies, and Books

FRANZ FERDINAND!

The BEATLES

RADIOHEAD
NIRVANA

PIZZACATO FIVE

TORI AMOS!
RACHAEL YAMAGATA

AMY WINEHOUSE...

THE SMITHS
YANN TIERSEN

The VELVET UNDERGROUND

VERVE

PJ Harvey Pink Floyd Florence and the Machine The Ting Tings Bread Emi Fujita Fiona Apple
Arctic Monkeys Yeah Yeah Yeahs Oasis
The Pierces Norah Jones Dido Edith Piaf Dave Clark Five
Vampire Weekend Phoenix Birdy
FRANCOISE HARDY PORTISHEAD

Amelie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Closer, The Virgin Suicides, Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu Mama tambien, Jeux d'enfants, Everything is Illuminated, Love and Other Disasters, Magnolia, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Broke Back Mountain, The Banquet, Leon the Professional, Angel A, A Summer Dress, Un Cien Andalou, Age of Innocence, My Beautiful Laundrette, Sound of Music, Casablanca, Girl Interrupted, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, One Day, Cinema Paradiso, Bridge to Tyrabithia, Into the Wild, Welcome to the Doll House, Coffee and Cigarettes, Babel, Things You Could Tell Just By Looking at Her, The Hours...

Films according to Directors

Akira Kurosawa

Woody Allen

Wong Kar Wai

Alfred Hitchcock

Lino Brocka

Lars Von Trier

Wes Anderson

Hayao Miyazaki

Gus van Sant

Pedro Almodovar

Ingmar Bergman

Liev Schreiber

Federico Fellini

Roberto Rossellini

Quentin Tarantino

Coen Brothers

Francis Ford Coppola

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Finding your niche

Teach, Learn, Share

Have open ears, an open mind, an open heart and everyone is a philosopher...