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  • 24 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English; learning French, German, Indonesian
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Funemployed/Running my own travel agency
  • Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Tourism & Hospitality Ma...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To travel the world, to see every corner, walk every sand, to explore the world and discover myself in the process.

ABOUT ME

Life should not be so serious! I am a very easy-going person and I love people with a sense of humor.

I love the great outdoors. Hiking, cycling. I do quite a bit of hiking, or I love to hike. The mountains are seriously amazing! I had climbed Mount Kinabalu, done Tongariro in New Zealand ( that place is amazing) and the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. Now I have done Stok Kangri (6153m) in India, I am looking to do more high altitude trekking hikes!

I have my own DIY website for backpackers because I hate travel blogs without any information: www.yonderingsoles.com. Feel free to take a look at my hikes or my trips!

I just started my own travel agency called Little Monsters Travel: www.littlemonsterstravel.com so I will be busy with that!

I love hiking! The feeling as you climb the mountains, the great expanse of the sky and the field around you! They say, the closer you are to the edge of death, the more alive you feel.

I love trading stories, but I love listening to people tell stories more! To hear about the different cultures, how they live their life, problems , everything is a learning experience for me.

I am a very neat and clean person. I do not smoke, or drink much(although I can). I am not a picky person at all and I look forward to trying out new things! Food, experiences, bring it on!

PHILOSOPHY

I live....to eat

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Anyone who needs help in the places I have gone to, can just contact me! I'll do my best to help. Other than that, I hope to couchsurf while I travel. It allows me to interact with people.

I am looking to try to host when I get back to Singapore.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed many times!

Coimbra
Porto
Aalborg
Vorbasse
Poznan
VIlinius
Krakow
Zakopane
Bratislava
Ljubljana
Koper
Zagreb
Bucharest
Budapest
Indonesia
Iran
Sri Lanka
All awesome experiences!

Interests

Trekking, Hiking, Nature.Trying new things, learning the different cultures and languages.Just seeing the world and enjoying every little moment

I love languages, I love literature, I love the nuances of English, poems and all. I love music, I love sight, I love sounds, I love life.

  • culture
  • literature
  • poetry
  • chinese new year
  • dining
  • cooking
  • drinking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • eating out
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music : Almost all except techno/electronic. I love alternative music, rock, oldies. My personal favorites just to list a few are : Muse, Rachael Yamagata, Priscilla Ahn, MGMT, KT Tunstall, Au Revoir Simone, Coeur de pirate, The XX, Queen, Beatles, Bee Gees, Meatloaf,

Movies : I love intellectual movies, movies that make you think, reflect. I am trying to watch foreign films as they are way better than some Hollywood trash.

Movies I love (just to name a few) : Fight club, Dark Knight, Donnie Darko, Little Miss Sunshine, Life is Beautiful, Schindler's List, Memento, Se7en, Forest Gump, Lord of the Rings, Jeux d'enfants, The beat my heart skipped, 3 Idiots, Alien, Confessions(Japanese movie), Oldboy(Korean), Incendies, Memories of Murder, Her, Cloud Atlas...etc

You can check out my letterboxd profile: https://letterboxd.com/ganworm/

Books : Mainly fantasy books. I like classics too. A song of Ice and Fire by George R.R Martin (loved it before HBO series), LOTR ( read it like 19 times), Simarillion, The Hobbit, The Wheel of Time series. The Assassin Trilogy by Robin Hobb. Classics like The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, Shakespeare etc etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Most amazing thing I've seen are just the sincere smiles of people, whether its strangers smiling at you when you've helped them, smiling at you when they've helped you, or smiling at you just because you're human.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach English and Mandarin =D and even Singlish.

I would like to share a lot of my own culture, more about the Chinese culture as well as the SIngaporean culture! One thing is I really love to share is about FOOD. FOOD IS EVERYTHING! I also really like Chinese New Year so I can tell you lots about it!

Additionally, I am also concurrently taking a tour guide course in Singapore so I can give you more information than a normal Singaporean =)

I love to share movies also!

I want to learn everything! The best if its about cooking, I like to learn how to cook different dishes and to utilize the various ingredients! I like to learn more about each and every individual culture and habits. I love to learn about things I would never be able to know.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Singapore

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