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  • 119 references 56 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Serbo-Croatian; learning French, Russian
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • architect, singer, gypsy, joker, walker, midnight talker,...
  • university + some "bizarre" home education :P
  • From Novi Sad, Ujvidek, Neusatz, Neoplanta
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

entwining the system in chaos, enjoying the entropy ,searching for knowledge and fortune, lasting for a few more units of time, having a cynical comment

ABOUT ME

>>>First of all... more and more I get to realize I'm just alter-ego of my unorganized and lazy self. Everything else that U get to know as me is my honest try and dive into self wannabe :)
>>> I'm liberal, nonconformist. I'm nonreligious although i respect all religions, politically nonactive but always have an opinion, I'm tolerant but not naive, and I have a Slavic soul.
>>> I like quietness of the morning in wilderness, waking up in an unknown place, exploring the caves, tunels and mines, speaking with no words.
>>> I'm curious, and will use any opportunity to learn.
>>> I collect thingz... not to have them, but to have one ultimate collection of collections...
>>> Frivolous ?? Piebald ?? Random ?? Absurd ?? Nonconsistent ?? Maybe that also... :)
>>> I don't like prejudice, vanity, hypocrisy, fanaticism, ignorance, indifference, negligence, limits...
>>> I appreciate good paradox and absurdity...

TIME is relentless
It is not waiting
For those
Who have
Time to wait.
I have no time! - myself <<< one of my wannabes

PHILOSOPHY

>>>Conventions of action are those which are preventing us of operating.
>>>Sense is a surrogate for ignorance, that we use to make ourselves look not so ignorant.
>>>As people get older they grow more and more into caricatures of their own oppinion and idea about themselves.
>>>We use forms cos we have no guts to think limitless." - ...my random rants and scribbles...

and some people said:

"Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir legenti" - Follow your path, and let the people talk.

"Nulla dies sine linea" - Not a single day without sth done (wish I could follow that one)

"Das, was man sich vorstellt braucht man nicht zu verlieren" - ...

"Periculum in mora" - Danger is in delalying... delaying is my life nemesis...

"Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun."

"People ask why climb the mountain? Because it's there " - George Lee Mallory

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

Live, and upgrade yourself, seize every day the best U can, and enjoy small things... maybe... :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Go figure :P

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Till now, everything is more then perfect. Had wonderful hosts in Zagreb and Rome and hosted few people here...

Interests

Drawing, Reading, Traveling, Biking, Hiking, singing, music, sculpture, meeting people, learning languages, geography, history, astronomy, philosophy

  • singing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • drawing
  • music
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • astronomy
  • geography
  • history
  • languages
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

It's a long list, that is growing every day...

Books >>> Bulgakov, D.Kharms, Kolakowski, Douglas Adams, Borges, Llosa, Saramago, Kish, Chesterton, Palahniuk, Pynchon, Fowles, Auster, Mrozek, Calvino, Gombrovicz, Antic, Sheckley, Orkeny, Cortazar... and many many more... I tend to read a lot... Umberto Eko (especialy his theoretical works)
Besides fiction also books on philosophy, theory of art, architecture, history...

Music >>> hehh, again, a lot of thingz :) world music (afro cuban, samba, fado, tango, throat singing, arabic, russian ,greek, whatever... >>> if U can bring some genuine music from Ur country, I can offer music for exchange ) jazz, blues, classics, various forms of metal, rock, electonic music...
My last.fm profile: http://www.last.fm/user/Dukelander

Films >>> Kieslowsky, Herzog, Wenders, Bunuel, Ki-duk Kim, Linklater, Tim Burton, Vincent Price, Terry Gilliam, Kubrick, Lynch, Fellini, Jacques Tati ... La cite des enfants perdus, Delicatessen, O brother where art thou ?, Lawrence of Arabia, Wizard of Oz, all Jim Henson works, Russian fairy talles,all Monty Python's :), Mike Judge, Adam Eliot, Dusan Kovacevic... again too many diverse thingz to remember them all...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every day is amazing. This whole world is amazing, moreover, every single rainfall, or sunshine, or birth, or meeting someone that U will get along with , or even love, among billions, is a spectacle.

>>> ok, one thing that is kinda amazin' :) I live in the same house and I changed 4 countries :)

>>> nothing is more amazing than being bored. If U can do that besides all the thingz that there are, were, will be, could be U are amazing!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

Improvise, adapt, overcome is “an unofficial mantra of the Marine Corps based on the fact that the Corps generally received Army hand-me-downs and the troops were poorly equipped. Despite this, the Marine Corps has been successful mostly because of the creativity of its people and their success-based attitude.” This is what is written on and about “Improvise, adapt, overcome” on answers.com.
Despite my big aversion to all forms of military (and bigger aversion to pompous US Marines), I admit I greatly like the motto.
Follow the routine of not following the routine is what I would add to it. Together they make a simple, philosophical, yet applicable device of solving a problem where usual tools and pre-established methods won’t work. Since improvisation and adaptation carry amount of logics we get a logical and creative way of changing ways in order of finding an adequate way :)
Now, to improvisation, adaptation and overcaming…

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Serbia

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