CURRENT MISSION

To be

ABOUT ME

. I studied English and creative writing.
. I resort to literature for my chivalry.
. I'm down to Earth but also up in the clouds
. I'm enjoying youth whilst it lasts, because when I'm old I can say 'in my youth I did this' blah blah blah.
. I am childish but mature
'You have no choice in growing old, but you have a choice in growing up'.
. Did I mention that I read a lot?

PHILOSOPHY

'God will not have his work made manifest by cowards' - Mr Emerson
'Ne te quaesiveris extra' - Mr Emerson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By visiting people and staying with people and getting to know their country via their couch. Hospitality is a beautiful word. Everyone is given the option, but only a few understand its esoterism

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

November 2009: stayed in Paris with a couchsurfer
May 2010: Stayed in Egypt with couchsurfers
June 2011: Used it in Italy (Trieste, Padua, Milano)

Interests

Reading, writing, procrastinating. Repeat.

• writing
• books
• literature
• reading

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:

Y Tu Mama Tambien/My Fair Lady/Napoleon Dynamite/Scent of a Woman/The £1,00,00,00 bank note/Roman Holiday/The Machinist/Equilibrium/Breakfast at Tiffanys/Road to Perdition/Amelie/Mona lisa Smile/Double Indemnity/Dead Poet's Society/Kill Bill/Carlito's way/The Godfather/Sin City/Spirited Away/Mystic River/The Apartment/Training Day/Scent of a woman/Frankie & Johnny, 3 idiots, The Notebook, Training day

Books:
Jostein Gaader - Sophie's World
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mathnawi of Mevlana Rumi
Exupery - Wind, Sand, Stars
Exupery - The Little Prince
The poetry of Muhammad Iqbal
Sadi - Gulistan
William Blake
Khalil Gibran - The Prophet

Music:
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan/2Pac/Bob Marley/Film scores & soundtracks i.e. Thomas Newman/Hans Zimmer/James Horner

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

After breathing...

Visiting the Egyptian musuem and not seeing the golden statue of Tutankhamun
Sleeping on a bench in Morocco because I had no money for a hostel
Sleept through an earthquake

Teach, Learn, Share

Open books. Passionate personas.

Countries I’ve Visited

Egypt, France, Italy, Morocco, Pakistan, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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