Lived most of my life in Singapore, and spent 4 years living in Melbourne. Got a whole new perspective on life, and now on a journey with no end (see one amazing thing I've done).

I believe in a Universe that is perfect beyond my imagination, and to grasp even a pinch requires that that I live beyond my imagination in comfort boundaries.

Even try to love it.

I am a voracious learner and everyday I believe there is something to learn either of the world or of myself, and in that perhaps of the Universe.

So I have a philosophy that for everything I encounter, if in its randomness I might find some order, if in its ugliness I might find a hint of beauty, if in its contradictions I might find silent harmony - if in its imperfections I might glean perfection - then perhaps that day I have learnt something.

live & love

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

remember + connect + inspire + sleep

Interests

All that lives, moves, grows and dies.

• beauty

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
I am fond of electronic ambient like anything from Album Leaf and M83, dreamy postrock sounds like Brian Eno; grand theatrical and haunting vocals like The Irrepressibles' Arrow, Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, and Dead Can Dance's Sanvean and Host of Seraphim (Lisa Gerrard); I get into the emotive mature vocals of John Grant's Glacier and not-as-mature Miley Cyrus' We Can't Stop (yes, her); repetitive mantras of the Buddhist and Hindu persuasion. The Beatles, David Bowie and when my mood feels it, 60s dancealong.

Movies & Books:
I love documentaries that are uplifting, humbly respectful yet sound and level headed: BBC's Planet Earth and How To Grow A Planet; films that are strikingly creative and with understated stories, especially the trilogy by Ron Fricke: Samsara, Baraka, Chronos; adventures that are highly philosophical: Cloud Atlas, Inception.

I love content with broken protagonists and salvageable villains, like Maleficent, or that have extremely vivid inner lives, like Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. I'm especially drawn to magical realism and deeply symbolic prose, or poetic prose. Kahlil Gibran. Creative work that were born in defiance of the Canon - It is a dream of mine to be able to sit and finish Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

But mostly I read nonfiction and academic literature in the humanities and social sciences. Favourite theorists: Castoriadis - his writing is neither trapped by the limits of structure nor of chaos; Carl Jung - he manages to capture the mystical within the value of science with such humility, temperance, and even magic.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

12 July 2014 I left Singapore. As of around today, I've walked about 8000 kms, through:

● Malaysia,
● Thailand,
● Myanmar,
● India,
- Put a foot in Bangladesh,
- Put a foot in Bhutan,
● Nepal, and then back to India
● Flew to Oman,
● UAE,
● Ferry to Iran,
● Armenia
● Georgia
● Turkey
- Flew to Israel,
● Greece
● Macedonia
● Kosovo
● Serbia

My only compass and plan is 'Atlantic Ocean'

Teach, Learn, Share

Whatever is appropriate :-)

What I Can Share with Hosts

It is up to the moment :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Canada, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Serbia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Singapore