CURRENT MISSION

Live without regret, experience and see the world!

ABOUT ME

I have been moving continents a few times and I love travelling. I was born in Indonesia, then moved to Sydney Australia when I was 15 years old initially as an overseas student and ended up Australian after 10 years. In my 24th, I came to live in London under the WHM visa for a year and a few months. The experience was great and eye-opening full with weekend travels around EU, I completely fell in love with the cosmopolitan lifestyle and the travel-friendly location.

Unfortunately though I was not qualify for Tier 1 back then due to Master degree requirement. So I moved back to Sydney for a year or so. Now I am back in London with Tier 1 for more travelling, experience and seeing what life offers next. Why not? I'm still in my 20s :) Now that I have found a job in London, I do hope to stay till 2016.

PHILOSOPHY

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is not a dress rehearsal" — Rose Tremain
You can talk about what you want to do forever and nothing gets done in the end. There is never time to do it, you just have to make time! Do you know that regret is a b*tch?

"Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain, cherish the moment, ignore the pain, live, laugh, love, forgive & forget. Life is too short to be living with regrets"

"Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you gonna get"

"What goes around comes around"

"Happiness is in the state of mind"

"I am a lover not a fighter but I will fight for what I love"

"Never regret something that once made you smile"

"Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections"

"Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.” — Napoleon Hill

"Find a job you love, and you will never have to work again.” — Confucius

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm happy to meet up for coffee or to show other CS members around London. I love the museum, exhibitions, musicals, transport system, different food and characters that different London areas offer. My current plan is to stay in London till 2016 and travel around Europe on the weekends or whenever work permits.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Still newbie with one CS experience in Denmark, some CS outings in London... I surfed once (it was a great experience), but I will stick to coffee/drinks only in the future because it doesn't take up other people's time as much as surfing.

Interests

Travel, food, adventure, technology, 3D animation, Art, movies, foreign languages, party/gathering at friends' place (neither a party animal nor a hermit, just somewhere in the middle... go only with friends), social drinker - like to try something new.

• animals
• arts
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• coffee
• partying
• drinking
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• coding
• surfing
• scuba diving
• boxing
• animation
• languages
• language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Just Go With It, Michael Palin, Eat Pray Love, Cirque Du Soleil, I Am Sam, The Notebook, Tuesdays with Morrie, Forrest Gump, Fifty first dates, Howl's Moving Castle

Discovery Travel & Living, MasterChef, Iron Chef, The Simpsons, MythBusters

Various music styles: Buddha Bar series, Linkin Park, U2, Jason Mraz, Vanessa Mae, Bond...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sky diving in Picton, NSW Australia.
PADI certification with ProDive Manly Australia.
Experience as a Working Holiday Maker in the UK, travel around EU while working.
Experience of being a wedding guest in Pune, India.
Experience 100% English Christmas 2008 in Chelmsford, UK (including overnight stuffing of Turkey with traditional recipe and hours of cooking).
Moving out from home to a foreign country when I was 15.

Teach, Learn, Share

Coding (C#,VB,ASP.Net,Java), drawing (cartoon/life), language exchange? I'm so keen to further my French (did 8 months - niveau 1-4 à Alliance Française de Sydney), I have fluent English and fluent Bahasa/Indonesian to exchange with.

Travel-wise, I can give tips to some cities I've been to like: Bali, Jakarta, Bandung, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, London, Bath, Brighton, Bristol, Oslo, Amsterdam, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Barcelona, Porto, Frankfurt, Venice, Rome, Stockholm, Pune, Goa, Taiwan...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Indonesia, United Kingdom

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