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Overview

  • 6 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic, English, French; learning German
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Legal Advisor, Drummer, Gamer
  • LLM in International Business and Commercial Law (Masters...
  • From Byblos (Jbeil)
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About Me

ABOUT ME
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I would like to apologize for all the people/requests/etc that I did not get the chance to reply to on time, and for the inconvenience which I may have caused for some but I was offline and away from CS for a long while...
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I love life... I look at it from many perspectives... The best one is the ARTistic!
I love night crawling... I enjoy all kind of parties... I'm a rocker, metalhead and psyhead... (depends on what's actually cooking)!
I love meeting new people from all around the world... Gladly lived in London for 2 and a half years, that's where the big mix is, hahaha! I so wana go back...
I graduated from University of West London, got my Masters in Law (LLM in International Business and Commercial Law) now I'm back to my hometown Byblos... Opened the first Genuine Rock Bar in Lebanon called "Rock, Stock and two smoking buds" and went on Pilgrimage to the WACKEN Holy Land... Wacken Open Air 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and soon 2016... the world biggest Heavy Metal festival...!
I am very passionate about traveling... here, there and everywhere!
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PHILOSOPHY

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts!"
"Where's your will to be weird?"
"I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown... Although I live in the subconscious, our pale reason hides the infinite from us."
"This is the strangest life I've ever known. "
...Jim Morrison
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"And who's to care if i grow my hair to the sky, i'll take a wish and a prayer, cross my finger cause i always get by" (Cindrella - The Band)

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional!"

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
~Steve Jobs~ in his address to Stanford Grads

‎"We think too much and feel too little." - Charlie Chaplin

"Go to sleep, it will be okay!"

"Donnes de la vie a tes annees mais pas des annees a ta vie!"
means "Give life to your years, but not years to your life!"
(Lord Baden Powell)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hung out with a handful of couchsurfers... previously hosted internet friends back at my home in Lebanon... now I moved to London so I don't have a couch anymore... but I'm open for coffee and definitely drinks and hang outs around town!

Interests

Music Music Music, Meeting New People (that's why I'm here, lol), Travelling, Photography, Hi-Tech Freak, Internet and Social Networking, Movies, Scouting (Camps, Jamborees, Etc...)...
Gaming... (not much lately) World of Warcraft, Warcraft: DOTA...
Riddles/Puzzles (Odd Pawn - www.oddpawn.com)
Poetry -i only read hehe- (Gothic, Deviant, Freestyle...): Mr. MojoRisen (The Lizard King), ...
Philosophy, Psychology, Psychedelics...

  • poetry
  • photography
  • concerts
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • nightlife
  • partying
  • drinking
  • technology
  • movies
  • traveling
  • puzzles
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • drums
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • business
  • languages
  • law
  • psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
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Seriously a never ending list...
Here we go:
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Tom Waits, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac...

Iron Maiden, ManOwaR, old-MetallicA, Orphaned Land, Children Of Bodom, Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Dream Theater, Amon Amarth, Ensiferum...

Infected Mushroom, Younger Brother, Shpongle, Hallicinogen, Drumcorps, Bong Ra, ,

Portishead, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Bonobo, Tricky, Gorillaz...

Gogol Bordello, Goran Bregovic...

Ziad El-Rahbani, Aziza Moustafa, Toufic Farroukh, Dhaffer Youssef, Souad Massi...

Hans Zimmer, Bill Brown, Tchaikovsky, Mozart...

So basically from I enjoy all non-commercial styles...
Rock to Metal, Blues some Jazz, TripHop, Downtempo, Psybient, PsyTrance, Dubstep, DnB...

Books:
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The Screwtape Letters (C.S.Lewis), Metamorphisis (Franz Kafka), Les fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire), Pigs Might Fly,Broken Music (Sting), Jim Morrison (Michael Burgan), The Only Published Poetry of Jim Morrison (Jim Morrison), The Rough Guide to Rock (Peter (EDT) Buckley), The Bloody Countess (Andrei Codrescu), Vampires (Konstantinos), The Road Ahead (Bill Gates), The Prince (Machiavelly)...

Movies:
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The Usual Suspects, Blow, Lord Of War, "SAW"s, The Lord Of The Rings (sequel), The Ring (sequel), The Underworld (1&2), The Matrix (sequel), Mulholland Dr., Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Exorcist, The Crow, Empire Of The Sun, Chendler List, Black Hawk Down, Ladder 49, 12 Angry Men...
The Wall (Pink Floyd), It Might Get Loud, The Doors (Oliver Stone), 24 Hour Party People, This is England, Bang Band You' Re Dead, Queen Of The Damned, RockStar, Coyote Ugly, Airheads, Almost Famous, The Banger Sisters, Some Kind Of Monster, One Year And A Half (MetallicA), Denver Rock City, School Of Rock, Sid & Nancy (Sex Pistols), Last Hippie Standing, Taking Woodstock, DMT: The Spirit Molecule...
99 Francs, Micmacs, Yamakazi, L'auberge Espagnole...
West Beirut...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Experience of a lifetime:
*** Attending the World Scout Jamboree 2007 - The 100th anniversary (Centenary) of the Scouts in Essex (London - England)... Where I met scouts and made friends from all over the world!

*** Moving to London! Biggest city with the biggest diversity and multinational mixture in the whole world... & ALL THE CONCERTS I'M SEEING HERE!

*** Travelling with FRIENDS to Dubai and attending one of my Favorite bands' concert IRON MAIDEN!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Drums, Swimming, Skiing, Arabic...
Learn: New languages... Managing across cultures...
Share: Philosophy, Experience...

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lebanon, United Kingdom

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