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Overview

  • 18 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French; learning Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Working as a Strategic adviser for Belgian Ministry of De...
  • Political Sciences in UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve) + Subsequent...
  • From Louvain-la-Neuve, Ghent and now Brussels
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

figuring out the misteries of human nature...

ABOUT ME

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
That's why it's called 'the present' :)
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Que votre vie soit belle,
Qu'elle soit re-belle! ;)
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Pas besoin de sous
Pour être bien,
Pas besoin de vin
Pour être saoûl!
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FAUT-IL RECHANGER LE PANSEMENT
OU REPENSER LE CHANGEMENT?
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No need for hope to undertake
Nor to succeed to persevere

PHILOSOPHY

Agis de telle sorte que la maxime de ton action soit universalisable...
Emmanuel Kant
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Only when the last tree will be cut down,
only when the last fish will be caught,
only when the last river will be poisoned
only then will mankind realise
that money can not be eaten
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Your freedom stops as soon as the freedom of the others begins...

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Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your
friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up
brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life.

I chose not to choose life! I chose somethingelse!

And the reasons? There is no reasons!!
(quoting Mark Renton/ Trainspotting)

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AND YOU... WHAT DID YOU CHOOSE?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am eager to meet new people and provide them with a convenient accommodation in Brussel(I've got a spare bedroom for friends in the flat I share with three other friends.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, extremely positive. I hosted about 15 people and each tim, it was very positive meetings!
I surfed on the couch of about 10 people. Each time also brilliant experiences!!

Interests

Travelling, sport (climbing, footing, biking), juggling, partying, reading, womanizing... :)

  • fish
  • diy
  • dining
  • cooking
  • beer
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cars
  • juggling
  • cycling
  • fishing
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

...the books/essays of Jean Ziegler, Dambisa Moyo, Eric Toussaint, Arnaud Zaccharie, Arundhati Roy, Joseph Stiglitz, Anna Politkovskaya, Bernard Cassen, Ignacio Ramonet, Alain Eraly, Anne-marie Robin, Denis Robert and many many more...
About the movies: Beatiful sunshine of the spotless mind, Trainspotting, Willow,
About documentaries: Afrika: War is business, Bamako, the revolution will not be televised, Congo River (Thierry Michel), L'or noyé du Kamituga, Thomas Sankara l'homme intègre, Pas assez de volume note sur l'OMC... en gros: tous les documentaires du Festival du cinema d'ATTAC et ceux du Festival des Libertés:
http://bxl.attac.be/spip/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=cinema
http://www.festivaldeslibertes.be/2007/index5.php

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Check this out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU
scary... :s beware

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:
juggling with clubs, playing mouth-harp, reading stary sky, Cooking Belgian specialities (Stoemp, Waterzooi, Chicons au gratin, Brussels sprouts and many more ;), give a class of "Bierology" about the Special Belgian Beers ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Ghana, Hungary, India, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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