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  • 24 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Vet
  • DVM, MRCVS
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Work, work.

ABOUT ME

I just come back from 2-years-long trip around SE Asia. Now I'm working in a mixed practice veterinary clinic in Gołdap. I have moved to Ełk quite recently. Since I have a little daughter all I have time for is work and taking care of her ;)

Bright side: "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Dark side: "It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything."
"Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

PHILOSOPHY

Discovering all aspects of Life. Trying to find answears on those basic, but very important questions: What are we, where we are coming from, where are we aiming, why we are what we are, etc.

do, ut des.

Powód, dla którego popieram miłość, może się wydać dziwny: prawdziwa religia zaczyna się tam, gdzie znika miłość i odkrywasz, że jesteś tak samotny, jakim byłeś zawsze i zawsze będziesz. Możesz oszukiwać swoją samotność przyjaźnią, miłością, pieniędzmi, władzą. Gdy ciągle masz nadzieję, że miłość jest wieczna – nie dojrzałeś jeszcze do religii. Tylko porażka miłości może pokazać ci, że “inni to piekło”. Tylko porażka miłości może skierować cię do wewnątrz. Przez fiasko miłości rozumiem punkt, gdzie pragniesz połączyć się z kimś innym i nagle odkrywasz uniwersalne prawo: ciała mogą się połączyć, istnienia – nie. Wtedy możesz stać się zgorzkniały i wrogi wobec miłości, ale będzie to pseudoreligia. Powinieneś być bezgranicznie radosny, że odkryłeś podstawowe prawo, że inni to niebo, a nie piekło. Nagle jesteś wdzięczny innym ludziom za to, że umożliwili ci zrozumienie faktu, iż niemożliwe jest połączenie się z innymi istnieniami i dali ci szansę zwrócenia się do wewnątrz.
Osho.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm an experienced CS surfer ;)
I've been traveling a lot, and I LOVE all the CS people I've met.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted few people, traveled some time. 100% positive!

visited 36 states (16%)Create your own visited map of The World

Interests

Big invertebrates, with plenty of legs called centipedes ;)
I'm really maniac about them. I'm also getting more and more into scorpions and other arachnids.
Of course vet medicine, medicine, traveling, good music, good movies. Self-awareness. Spiritual development, etc.

  • animals
  • dining
  • coffee
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • medicine
  • physics
  • hitchhiking
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Trainspotting(!), Breaking & Entering, Control, Donnie Darko, Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Into the Wild(!), Mr. Nobody(!), Girl Interrupted, Dragon Ball Saga (!), also some shitty zombie horrors, and stupid comedies.

Music: Underworld(!), generaly so-calleg "intelligent techno", and many other good bands, such as:
Orbital(!), Dub FX(!), Marshall Watson, Medicine, Mozdzer, Raisin Murphy, Asian Dub Foundation, Bad Religion, Aural Planet, Bjork, Bonobo, Carbon Based Lifeforms, CocoRosie, Future Sound of London, Front 242, The Orb.
Also some good Jazz/Fusion - Pat Metheny, Gary Burton.
I realy recomment "Lazy Hours" compilation.

Books: Osho(!), veterinary books, Haruki Murakami, Paulo Coelho, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Marcin Ciszewski.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Walk 800km through Camino de Santiago in Spain.
- Hitchhike ~2000km in 12 days, traveling around Turkey.
- Hitchhike around almost whole Borneo.
- Volunteering in animal charities in Thailand, Malaysia, on Borneo,
- Living my dreams for past 2 years, traveling, working, hitchhiking and volunteering around SE Asia,
And many, many others..

I'm keeping many weird animals. All kind of bugz ;)
Especialy centipedes, scorpions, spiders.
I've breed some species 1st time in captivity in Europe.

I'm going to Thailand to volunteer !!!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a vet. and I love nature, so life/animal-releated topics are always welcome. I'm also quite interrested in
quantum physics ;)
I possess wide knowledge about healthy food.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Philippines, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, Poland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

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