I'm searching for adventure and excitement, that inner release of tension. Energy, euphoria, passion and experience. I'm high and low. Pseudo-bipolar. Eccentric, exciteable, constantly coming up with ideas, frantic, short attention spanned, temperamental, easily bored yet a great listener, anxiously extroverted craving human company. My thoughts race a hundred miles an hour and I am usually thinking of six things at a time. I am highly cynical, skeptical and pessimistic especially towards organised religion, the media, modern civilisation, the education system, and politics. Pretty much everything. I'm also a little hyper aware of people's body language that I'm paying attention to more than one person at the same time, I could be listening to a conversation about chocolates whilst noticing one person being bored and noticing another person making jokes - I tend to listen to two conversations at once and interchange between which sounds more interesting.

I am also searching for the polar opposite, zen, tranquility, patience,
love, calmness, stillness, and peace.

I'm a nerd for language, linguistics, novelty, general knowledge about world history, foreign cultures, music, literature, pop culture, I'm a massive film buff and I make a mean cook.

I like being around different people all the time, I find the german language quite sexy, it is the spiritual mother tongue of English, it is dominant, commanding, staccato, mature, powerful and masculine. I also love Icelandic which sounds like an ethereal atmosphere, a ghost language of an isolated society from the celestial heavens. Finnish has the sound of an ancient fantasy world, elves, and faeries. Spanish is the sound of passion, lust, magic and flirtation. Swedish is musical, it is playfully scandinavian. Brazilian Portuguese is a performance, it is the sound of love, elongated vowels, it is pure expression in words. Hebrew is the sound of sincerity, genuineness. Russian is the sound of syllables, consonants, seriousness, sturdiness, invulnerability and mastery.

When I need to get outside of my hyper aware mind, I like to associate with humorous and lighthearted people who can laugh at anything.

Creatively, nothing really stops me. I am happy to combine things that are of stark contrast to eachother in the realm of music, metaphors and foods. Musically I like to take all my influences and churn them out to create something uniquly me. Taking all the jazz chords and harmonic theory from uni and combining them into a hip hop beat. Or using Jeff Buckley-esque chord progressions and turning into a black metal neo soul piano ballad.

I've worked in a Spanish restaurant as a chef and come from a Vietnamese background so my culinary expression is quite fusion and eurasian in its roots. My appreciation for food is huge and I am always breaking down the food I eat and analysing it.

I'm generally open minded and accept people from all walks of life, unless I feel somewhat personally threatened. I am very fond of nitpicking things and categorising things into seperate compartments, I'm left handed and mixed between creative and analytical.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to make new friends. I enjoy company. Conversations. Sharing skills and interests.

Interests

Cooking, Performing, Music, Culture Exchange, Socialising, Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, History, Politics, Social Media, Being Weird

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
John Mayer, Jeff Buckley, Björk, NIN, Radiohead, Brd and the Bee, Lior, Bat For Lashes, Jon Hopkins, Sigur Ros, Aphex Twin, Angus and Julia Stone, Venetian Snares, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Brazilian Music, Miles Davis, Kaskade, Proem, Autechre, Merzbow, Burzum, Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone, Lianne La Havas, FKA Twigs, Miley Cyrus, Grimes, Fleet Foxes, Erik Satie, Debussy, Antony and the Johnsons, Little Dragon, Cocorosie, Soley, Agnes Ovel, Bon Iver, Birdy, The XX, Feist, Kings of Convenience, Yelle, Owen Pallet, José Gonzales, Nick Drake, Ólöf Arnalds, Animal Collective, Akron/Family, Mirah, Thao, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Solange

Movies:
Mr Nobody, Requiem For A Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ex Machina, Blade Runner, Bowling for Columbine, Donnie Darko, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Oldboy, Insomnia, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Fantastic Planet, 12 Monkeys, Gandahar, American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, The Matrix, Mulholland Drive, Inglorios Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Eraserhead, Silent Hill, Jacob's Ladder, Watchmen, Eyes Wide Shut, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Before Midnight, Ex Machina, Equilibrium

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Graduated Uni!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you English. How to write poetry and using creative devices such as metaphors, puns, irony, rhyme schemes. I can show you how to play the piano, techniques to help with songwriting, singing, piano, cooking.

Here's a clip of me playing keys with my awesome friend Tony on vocals.
https://youtu.be/2MRs8Qt-ja4

I love learning languages. I am currently learning Spanish. Being around other creatives is great, I'm interested in learning many things such as: yoga; painting; meditation; line art; graphic design; dancing; videography; photography and pretty much any artistic pursuit.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Friendly personality, my cooking skills, my musical talents, my intellectual conversations, interest in artistic value, neatness, organising the house

Countries I’ve Visited

Malaysia, Viet Nam