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  • 37 references 30 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Dutch, Spanish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Freelance in Software
  • A good one, ma'am
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Hitchhiking from Paris to Shanghai, the usual stuff ;-).

ABOUT ME

I graduated in RGU, Aberdeen, Scotland.
I got my MSc at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in IT, Computer Systems, Software Engineering and High-Performance Computing.

I'm smiley most of time and love humour ;-).

Oh and ... I don't eat meat, but I do eat fish and eggs. I love nature and respect animals =). Anyways, I'm not that kind of difficult person, you know ;).

I may drink sometimes but I don't smoke.

PHILOSOPHY

The madman walks faster than the sitten wise man.
But the wise, when he gets up, walks in the right direction.

And always remember : don't worry, be happy ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've surfed and hosted a few times, I go to meetings, meet great and interesting people ^^.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

42 (got it?)

Interests

I love chatting with cool people, and I think a lot of people are cool =).
I enjoy jokes, learning heaps of stuff, sharing culture and knowledge, spending time with my friends. Oh! and Baking cakes!! (unfortunately, as I just moved, I still don't have baking stuffs)

  • culture
  • performing arts
  • baking
  • vegetarian
  • drinking
  • politics
  • board games
  • engineering
  • software
  • knowledge
  • meeting new people
  • chatting

Music, Movies, and Books

Waw... a lot!
I've read a couple of H.G. Wells' books and loved them (the first men in the moon, the invisible man, the time machine).
Douglas Adams' H2G2, the 5 books, they are just soo great ^^.
My favourite author is Shan Sa, I've read almost all the books she has written in French (I don't speak Chinese :/).

I read quite a lot of webtoons (Tower of God, The Gamer, Noblesse, Space Boy, Trump. DICE, unOrdinary, Lessa, ...) and have read lots of mangas/manhwas too. I won't list them all, though ;-). It's the same with animes, I've watch quite an extensive list as well! :D If there is any you'd recommend me, please do so!

About movies, if I have to make a choice (a hard one :/), maybe it would be: Hero (with Jet Li), Memento, House of Flying Daggers, Memoirs of a Geisha, Fight club, Avalon, Sin city, The Big Lebowski, Le diner de cons, Jeux d'enfants (as well as other French movies, but I only list these two here), Pulp Fiction, The Message (Feng Sheng), Idiocracy, Boyhood, Cloud Atlas and heaps of more movies.

About series, well... obviously Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis (I could not finish Universe, even though Robert Carlyle is remarkable), True Blood, Smallville, Once Upon a Time (Carlyle!), Continuum, Jumong (Korean), Game of Thrones, Mr Robot, Sense8, ...

In music, my favourite band is the French band "Les Fatals Picards", but you lose the most interesting part if you don't understand the lyrics. Anyways, it depends on periods. Sometimes, I may listen to ES Posthumus, Secret Garden, sometimes to Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Groove Coverage, Lady Gaga. I don't really stay on one particular kind of music. It mainly depends on the mood. But rap just doesn't fit.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I ate dogs' noodles when I was a kid :/

Oh and I'm currently hitchhiking on my own. I crossed Europe, Russia, Mongolia... ;-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach French, ahah ^^.
Seriously, I'm greedy of learning more and more, I've a thirst for knowledge. And of course, I love sharing it (but sometimes people just don't want to learn new stuffs, so I may be relunctant to speak freely to people I don't know)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, smiles, veggie cooking (no guarantee on quality :-P), the usual ;-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, United Kingdom

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