CURRENT MISSION

Explore the planet and never stop learning

ABOUT ME

I'm a physicist living in Seattle by way of Singapore by way of Geneva, Switzerland. I love meeting new people, learning bits and pieces of new languages and exploring new places. Some of the things i love to do are hiking, biking, travelling (of course!), working on cars (or any big machinery in general.. show me an engine room and I get giddy!), good beer and wine, cooking, urban exploration, and pretty much anything interesting and offbeat.

PHILOSOPHY

My life is dominated by an insatiable thirst for knowledge and understanding, which is why I pursue science and travelling with vigour.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

visited 42 countries, met locals, shared conversation.

Interests

Travelling, abstract mathematics, physics, urban exploration, rock climbing/weight lifting/swimming/hiking/biking/running/other random noncompetitive sports, racquetball, chess, go, reading, beer/wine/whisky, history, cars (especially BMWs and pre-1996 Mercedes-Benzes), politics, drugs, and coffee.

• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• running
• politics
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• rock climbing
• racquetball
• swimming
• history
• languages
• mathematics
• physics
• science
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Various types of metal (especially black metal and symphonic death metal), jazz, blues, reggae, '80s synthpop, classical, baroque, opera, alternative, techno, ambient, g-funk era gangsta rap, folk, ethnic/world music, and even some country. So, pretty much everything except for boy bands, lite rock and urban top 40.

Books: Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1984, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, Ramanujan: The Man Who Knew Infinity, Gödel/Escher/Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Herstein's Topics in Algebra, The Count of Monte Cristo, and "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler.

Movies: Clerks, Requiem for a Dream, Stalingrad, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Goodbye Lenin!, Casablanca, Flesh Gordon, Sin City, Pi, Lola Rennt, Real Genius, A Clockwork Orange, Thank You for Smoking

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A planetary nebula through a professional telescope on top of Kitt Peak, Arizona. The Chernobyl power plant, up close and personal. The initial turn-on of the LHC. Lunch with an old Belarusian babushka in her house in Nyasvizh. Wild tapirs in Costa Rica. The surreal cult that is the DPRK. Shwedagon Paya in Myanmar.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am an physicist who used to work at CERN, so there's that. I'm also really big into history, esoteric facts, and can teach you a few words of French or German.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Singapore, Switzerland, United States

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