CURRENT MISSION

See the world and meet wonderful people, perhaps understanding my raison d'être along the way...

ABOUT ME

Just a simple guy on his way to see the world...

PHILOSOPHY

Always approach things/ideas/people/etc with openness, without any judgement. Perhaps in the process you will learn more about yourself and maybe even alter your own perceptions and character.

My fave quote from Paolo Coelho Alchemist...

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

which I find it so true especially while travelling, random encounters with strangers that offered you a ride, place to stay, food, etc, just at the time you needed it...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just got my 100th reference, and they are all positive, what more should I say? I love this community!

Started CS one and a half year back in Dubai, and it was great meeting new people that I'm trying to use it as much as I can. It's a great platform to expand my social circle and get to know the place that you are visiting from another perspective. Will definitely remember the time going clubbing in Dubai, camping/hiking in Oman, staying in a trailer in Slovenia, camping in my host's garden in Croatia, staying in villages in Croatia and Romania, or just plain chilling out with my hosts - the longest being 2 weeks with my host in Antalya, Turkey!

Interests

People, architecture, history, religion, nature, hiking, food, music, movies, culture...

Music, Movies, and Books

I have too many fave to list... watch all kind of movies, listen to anything that is good, and enjoy reading a good book, especially fiction ones.

I guess I have to write a few in case people think I don't care much abt them...

movies
- anything by Stanley Kubrick, esp 2001
- foreign, b/w films (Children of Paradise, Rules of the game, 400 blows, Rashomon, Ugetsu monogatari)
- Lost Highway, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Spirited Away, The life of others, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset...

music
- currently interested in S.A.R.S, Dubioza kolektiv, Siddharta, Laibach...
- classical, esp opera before I started travelling, Philip Glass
- Symphonic metal like Nightwish
- Muse
- Japanese rock, like Dir en grey, Versailles..
- music of the places i hv visited, after all, what's life without music?
- been listening a lot to Lana Del Rey while travelling...

books
- Currently reading Dostoyevsky's The Idiot
- Ivo Andrić The bridge on the Drina
- Murakami Haruki, Yukio Mishima
- Kafka
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez One hundred years of solitude
- Paulo Coelho esp Alchemist
- Kazuo Ishiguro Never let me go
- Salman Rushdie
- Paul Auster
- Herman Hesse
- Sci fi and fantasy like Dune, Philip K Dick, Ursula Le guin, Orson Scott Card, Dan Simmons...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quitting my job and go travelling! Met lots of incredible people, saw stunning landscapes, lost my way, enjoyed amazing food, experienced different cultures, so much so that I'm now hooked on travelling!

Teach, Learn, Share

If you have some computer issues, I might be able to help.

Always interested in learning new languages, be it only a few words... I can teach you Chinese.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Laos, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Singapore

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