Ex-city boy adapting to new country life in Kofu, Yamanashi. I can see Mount Fuji everyday from my place (when it’s not raining )

Transiting from non-tax paying student to tax-paying corporate slave Always somewhere in between. Did a one year Erasmus in Germany. Had my Japanese bachelors degree in Tokyo in economics/ international development. Volunteered in Poland. Tortured by the pressure cooker education system Of Singapore. Not all Singaporeans are rich. But I’m Always hungry.

I love politics, current affairs and international relations in general. I have hosted several model United nationals and founded international relations society in high school. Studied a lot about European Union and probed about the possibility of an east Asia union. Hope to embark on the Silk Road Trip one day. I work in a market intelligence firm now and deals with data about the energy and commodities market. Hope I can play a part in helping to solve the climate change.

My dream is that one day the whole world will converge together as one and national barriers will be broken down. For that, we will need equal development. Nations are a social construct and imagined reality anyway!

I’m currently learning programming and I’m interested in creative destruction and how to make things more efficient. I wrote my bachelor thesis on entrepreneurship.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to meet amazing human beings Make sarcasm and irony more accepted culturally around the world.

CS connects the world and I believe grassroots activities can bridge the world in an authentic manner.

Interests

• culture
• writing
• architecture
• photography
• politics
• hiking
• history
• science
• food
• nature
• videography
• finance
• humour
• debate

Music, Movies, and Books

Before sunrise, sunset trilogy Bridesmaid Zootopia Cloud atlas The prestige Hand maids tale Brave new world Boyhood Eat pray love Moveable feast Dangerous liaisons opposite of loneliness, sapiens: history of mankind, Germany, Nordic: happiest people in the world, reunion

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Managing not to break down at 25 like Britney Managing quarter-life crisis quite well Identity crisis management
Hiked on top of Mount Fuji, lived in geisha house. Found a way to drachenberg castle for free.

Teach, Learn, Share

my dry sense of humour
Asian culture like chopsticks skill and kungfu
open-mindedness, so much that your brains will fall out

What I Can Share with Hosts

My huge living room has a futon My knowledge of Tokyo and east Asia, Laughter

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan