CURRENT MISSION

Reporting in Indonesia and Thailand.

ABOUT ME

I'm traveling across Indonesia and Thailand as part of a three-week reporting trip.

PHILOSOPHY

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"The journey not the arrival matters." - T. S. Eliot

"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come." - Milan Kundera

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've stayed with a bunch of people all across Europe and Southeast Asia and showed a few people around Bonn, Germany, when I was living there. I hosted in Krakow while my host was away for the weekend last summer. I've also hosted several times in Lawrence when I lived there as a student at the University of Kansas. I was most active in the Jakarta CS community, one of the best group of CSers I've ever been a part of.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ask me sometimes about my stories, I'd be happy to share. They include hitchhiking to Luxembourg, cliff diving in the south of France and reporting on a bamboo chocolate factory in Bali.

Interests

Good conversations + coffee. Discovering new music + different cultures + podcasts. Improving my cooking skills + language skills. Current events + politics. Literary non-fiction + long-form journalism. Hiking. Playing drums + tennis + frisbee + pool. Riding my bike + running. And of course, traveling.

• cooking
• chocolate
• coffee
• running
• politics
• traveling
• billiards
• podcasts
• music
• drums
• cycling
• hiking
• scuba diving
• tennis
• journalism
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

TV Shows: The Daily Show. True Detective. Game of Thrones. Sherlock. Louis. Last Week Tonight. House of Cards.

Music: Current rotation: Beck. The National. Beach House. Alt-J. The Carpenters. Grizzly Bear. Arctic Monkeys. Philip Glass. Arcade Fire.

Books: Right now I'm on a literary non-fiction binge. A friend keeps telling me to read more fiction, but the truth is that I rarely do.

Podcasts: Radiolab. This American Life. 99% Invisible. PRI's The World. Planet Money. Longform.

Teach, Learn, Share

I always enjoy trading good stories, music, and card games.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Moldova, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Indonesia, United States

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