CURRENT MISSION

Save the world, get the girl, come home in time for supper, and put it all in writing and pictures.

ABOUT ME

So I was born in San Francisco, CA, and by the time I graduated high school, lived all around California, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the Philippines. When someone asks me where I'm from, I usually just say "I live down the street" or imitate whatever accent I can and see if they can guess that I'm pulling their leg before I flat out tell them. Being politically correct is not my thing, but universal respect for self and others is, which I learned going to international school in Manila where everyone's a little bit racist (if you have seen Avenue Q the musical, you'll know this).

PHILOSOPHY

Don't forget to breathe. You can never be too polite. Never overstay your welcome. Take risks now because you may not get a chance to later. Don't have a comfort zone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By spreading the gospel of couch surfing to fellow travelers and showing those experimenting with this that good manners are worth their weight in gold; being the perfect guest means showing you truly appreciate hospitality.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sleeping on the floor of someone's home is what I did recently, and after experimenting around NYC recently sleeping on the floor of grand central station and on subway trains, I can sleep anywhere. The problem with that is when I can sleep anywhere, I fall asleep everywhere, whether it's a loud party or leaning against a wall. I have yet to fall asleep sitting on the toilet.

Interests

I've got an eclectic set of interests, from meditation to scuba diving, skydiving, writing, photography, comics, video games, museum hopping, martial arts, breakdancing, cooking, and complete spontaneity.

• arts
• writing
• photography
• cooking
• meditation
• partying
• comics
• video games
• surfing
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• martial arts

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Hunt, Michael Moorcock, William S. Burroughs, Phillip K. Dick, William Gibson, Jose Rizal, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and a variety of other authors.

Movies: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Shawkshank Redemption, El Topo, The Matrix series, Last Life in the Universe, Baraka, Hero, Once Upon a Time in America, The Painted Veil, The Beach, The Rum Diary, Into the Wild, Chungking Express, Last Life in the Universe, Beautiful Boxer, Ip Man, Vertical Ray of the Sun

Music: Indie before it became a catch-all label and genre, which means everything called indie before 2006, whether it's pop, rock, or folk variant; IDM like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, and Prefuse 73; classic rock, classical music, 1950s music, swing, old school hip hop, video game music soundtracks.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba diving in Coron, Palawan, Philippines, where the sunken Japanese World War II ships are and seeing the amazing coral growing on the ships as well as all the fishes. Simply breathtaking.

Teach, Learn, Share

Meditation, bodyhacking (a special kind of workout for minimum time and maximum results), writing, photography, video editing, and time management.

The truth is, it's all meditation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Singapore, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Indonesia, Philippines, United States

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