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Overview
About Me
Management consultant jumping head first into the startup world. Maximizing the gap in between to explore the world. Bilingual with slight geeky extroverted tendency towards strangers.
Overall obsessions: Musicals, Asian history and soup dumplings.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
To understand different ways of life and views on life and relationships as a working adult. Be it, struggles or triumphs, it'll be nice to understand a different perspective.
Interests
History - For real life country/family feuds
Musicals - For a more theatrical way of life
Hiking/Kayaking - Forms of exercise I can tolerate
Standups/Boardgames - Forms of entertainment which maximises fun
- books
- cooking
- traveling
- hiking
- kayaking
- history
- standup comedy
- boardgames
- musicals
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: Lady Gaga, Carrie Underwood, The Black Eye Peas, Train, Sam Smith, Audra McDonald, Lea Salonga, Ben Platt, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Books: The Harry Potter series, Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lean In, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series
Movies: The Greatest Showman, Always Be My Maybe, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Romcoms with Sandra Bullock/Julia Roberts
Series: Friends, Brooklynn 99, Grey's Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory, Russian Doll
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Hiked up the tallest peak in Malaysia despite being physically unfit.
Volunteered at a social neighbourhood in Lisbon, Portugal
Lived right next to a genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for 2 months
Teach, Learn, Share
Cultural differences between both countries. Argue about which country have the best food. Opinions on recent world developments. View on friendship, relationships and life.
What I Can Share with Hosts
Food and company. Pretty much an open book looking forward to test the boundaries of human relationships.
It could be a good night out with drinks or a night in with games and conversations.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
Countries I’ve Lived In
Cambodia, England, Malaysia