Note: I'm unavailable this January.

CURRENT MISSION

To finish reading wikipedia :P

ABOUT ME

Erhm, why is it so hard to describe oneself?
Oh well, I would say that in the right company I'm quit talkative, eager to debate and discuss virtually any topic. I really enjoy it when you click with somebody and can talk enthusiastically for ages.

I have a tendency to remember random facts that seem irrelevant to other people.

I enjoy building things, whether it's making a cool app (programming) or brewing my own beer. Even if it's hard work, there's always a sense of satisfaction and achievement when you manage to create something.

I would say I find learning (whatever it is) fascinating as I'm naturally curious. When you start a new thing (say playing a sport or learning a language) you see people that do that task so easily and you can barely grasp the basics. You think that you will never be able to master it at all. Yet, as time goes by you know more about it, do it better, and slowly but surely you find yourself doing things you didn't think were possible, things that you thought only others could do. You look back at when you started and you can barely believe you have learnt so much in such a short time. It's truly an amazing process.
In a sense, if you have an open mind and enjoy the journey, so to speak, you can do almost anything.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't fall for dogma: No matter how strongly you believe in something, accept that all our ideals are subjective and therefore people that hold opposite ideas are not 'evil' or 'wrong' but they just have a different view of the world. Try to understand why they think the way they do.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've recently hosted an lovely couple from Seattle. It was a good first experience: we visited various places in London together and cooked meals for each other.

I've also hosted another couple from Canada, both of whom were design students so we had quite interesting discussions!

Most recently, an entrepraneurial girl from Singapore and a Croatian couples stayed at home.

Next week I'll be travelling to the US where I'll be staying with some couchsurfers.

Interests

Squash (the sport).
Travelling, especially to cities with a lot of history and amazing architecture.
Meeting witty people.
Endless discussions about any topic I find exciting.
Craft beer / ale.
Quirky pubs.
Brewing.
Discovery new places in London.
Computers.
Politics.
Philosophy.
History.
Current affairs.

• architecture
• design
• beer
• walking
• pub crawls
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• sports
• racquetball
• history
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm interested in a wide variety of random topics, so I"ll list a few of the books and movies I've enjoyed and pop into my mind now (excluding computer / technical ones):

Movies: The Shawshank redemption, Indiana Jones (the last crusade and raiders), Lincoln, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Star trek, Forest Gump, The secret life Walter Mitty, Frost / Nixon, James bond films

Books: A brave new World (Huxley), 1984 (Orwell), Great expectations (Dickens), A hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Catch-22 (Heller), Moonshot (Parry), Discworld (Pratchett), The age of Reason (Sartre), The Plague, The Stranger (Camus), Siddhartha (Hess), In the footsteps of Churchill (Holmes), Fictions, Brodie's report, The Aleph (Borges), Power (Russell), Made in the USA- the Rise and Retreat of American manufacturing (Smil), the Road to Serfdom (Hayek),

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking on the frozen Sea between the Islands of Suomenlinna (3 km off the coast of Helsinki).

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United Kingdom