Open heart, open mind. After all, "de gustibus non est disputandum".

Find me:
1) On Instagram at https://instagram.com/babs_my/
2) On TripAdvisor at https://www.tripadvisor.com.my/members/BabsMY

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I enjoy hosting and meeting people, and I have a spare bedroom / bathroom.

Interests

Cooking. Books. Learning languages. Walking. Films. Traveling. Mountain climbing. Whisky. Vodka. Cycling. Rugby. Smoking. Buses and trains.

• books
• cooking
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• cycling
• backpacking
• rock climbing
• rugby
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Garbage. Bi-2. Peggy Lee. Bob Dylan. Anouk. Joshua Radin. Mr. Children. Onitsuka Chihiro. J Rabbit. Amos Lee. BOYS generally ASIAN. OST of films / TV shows I like. From gamelan to grunge, Rimsky-Korsakov to Iggy Pop, Disney tunes to J-Rap - anything goes.

Das Boot. Life of Brian. Lawrence of Arabia. Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. Trainspotting. WALL-E. Battleship Potyomkin. Hot Fuzz. A Single Man. District 9. Tropic Thunder. Blade Trilogy. Anything starring Olivia de Havilland, Okada Jun'ichi or Tom Hardy. Anything made by Denis Villeneuve.

The Wire. Netflix’s Marco Polo. Monty Python. The Shield. Doc Martin. La Femme Nikita. Kisarazu Cat's Eye. Fawlty Towers. Rome. Shinsengumi. The Good Wife. Whose Line Is It Anyway?. SP (Security Police). The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Phineas and Ferb. Poirot. QI. Sons of Anarchy. Disney's Pepper Ann. The Hornblower Series.

Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series. Nautical fiction. Nathaniel Fick's One Bullet Away. Biographies. Historical accounts especially military / naval history. Everything penned by Alexander Pushkin, Hamzah Fansuri, Thomas Hardy, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Douglas Adams, L. J. Smith, Oscar Wilde, Muhammad Haji Salleh, HH Munro, Tom Clancy, Mercedes Lackey, or John Grisham.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Ascending Mont Blanc twice and Puncak Jaya once. Backpacking solo across Africa. Going to North Korea and coming back alive.

Teach, Learn, Share

Malaysian cooking, folklores, history, several traditional dances, ghost stories and urban legends.

No, I don't know how to make haggis. *sadface*

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Egypt, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Wales, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Malaysia, Scotland, United States