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Overview

  • 5 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • I am a registered nurse
  • No education listed
  • From Wendling, a small town in Upper Austria
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

just enjoying live...

ABOUT ME

My live is not as exciting as Paris Hiltons and as generous as Angelina Jolies. I am not as beautiful as Brad Pitt and not as rich as Bill Gates. I do not have muscels like Arnold Schwarzenegger or a brain like Albert Einstein. And I am not as funny as Tim Allen but also not as stupid as T## ######.
I was never as clever as my sister and I was never so skilled with my hands like my brother is.

I would like to have Mahatma Gandhis thoughts and Forest Gumps way of seeing the world.
I would like to be a New Zealand resident and a Snowboardpro, but I also 'd like to live a simple live in a country where the heart counts more than money.
I cannot play guitare, but I would like to learn to play drums and I am not as good in knitting as my mum :)

I've never rescued a cat from a tree and never helped an old lady to cross a street(there is still time that I get the chance to).
I have never been to the United States, have never discoverd a destroyed city, but also never destroyed a city.
I still dont know sometimes when to stop drinking and have friends who doesn't know neither.

I don't donate to Organisations which approach me in the streets.
I think I haven't had any traumatic events yet, just a childhood with my parents and my brother and sister in a small town with many cows and chicken.
I have had an amazing teenager time with lots of friends, partys and happy moments. And even if I would have the chance to, I wouldn't change any of the mistake I've made, because of them I am who I am.

I think I never really missed a train, but managed to miss a plane. Sometimes I belive I have seen more from other countries than my own.

Actually I was never ever really good in something, but there was never ever something I couldn't do at all.
When making decisions I am usally following rather my heart than my mind and I am convinced that following my gut feelings is mostly right.
Somehow I like everybody and I think everybody likes me
(:-)

I know, my live is not really exciting, I am not really exciting, but I life my live and thats just how it should be.
(;-))

PHILOSOPHY

Be the change you want to see in the world.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Interests

travelling, reading, having fun with friends, drinking some tea, rock-climbing, snowboarding, juggling, my plants, photographie, having some good conversations with either friends or random people, walking barefoot in the gras, joking,

  • cats
  • walking
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • knitting
  • drums
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

I hardly ever watch TV, just some DVD´s from time to time. Some of my favorites are: Big fish, Indien (Austrian movie), Donnie Darko, Good bye Lenin, Snatch, Whale Rider, Team America, Hotel Rwanda, Thumbsucker, Fight Club, Lonesome Jim, Pulp fiction,.....

Music: Calexico, Morcheeba, Hans Soellner, Manu Chao, Morcheeba, Jack Johnson, Massive Attack, Fat Freddys drop, Nightmares on Wax, Salmonella Dub, Thomas D, Seed, Thievery Corporation,...Reggae and chillout music in general,.....

Books: The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), The Flycatcher (Willy Russel), Freedom from the known (Jiddu Krishnamurti), Owen Meany (John Irving), Harry Potter, Siddartha (Hermann Hesse),....and really loved the books of those guys: Carlos Castaneda, Noam Chomsky, Michel Houellebecq,

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Cambodia, Chile, France, India, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Switzerland

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