CURRENT MISSION

Try and finagle a way travel irresponsibly while keeping my job

ABOUT ME

Love meeting interesting people and sharing enthusiasms for everything big and small. Always game for 3 am suppers, and romps through foreign places. Always up for anything fun, anytime.

PHILOSOPHY

Do everything that comes your way at least once.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Been couchsurfing for a while now, and trying to spread CS whenever I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Vietnam/China/Mexico/India/USA. Fantastic all round. Attended a birthday dinner, had a fiesta thrown in my friends' and my honor, shown around a lot of awesome places, made some great, great friends.

Interests

food, music, movies, reading, cycling, traveling, photography. And most recently, traveling by motorbike!!!

• photography
• music festivals
• coachella
• festivals
• dining
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bjork, Belle and Sebastian, The Knife, Bon Iver, Neutral Milk Hotel, Four Tet, Best Coast, Beach House, Antony & The Johnsons, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mono, Broken Social Scene, Cardigans, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Magnetic Fields, DJ Shadow, People Under The Stairs, Vic Chesnutt, Sonic Youth, Camera Obscura, Jonsi..

Wong Kar Wai, Alfonso Cuaron, Martin Scorcese, Alejandro Amenabar, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, Miyazaki.

Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Amis, Ian Rankin, Bill Bryson, China Meiville, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Terry Pratchett, Kite Runner, Dave Barry, Preacher, Warren Ellis, Blankets (Craig Thompson), Tintin, Asterix and Obelix, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Iain M. Banks, Arundhati Roy, Tagore, Jhumpa Lahiri, Annie Proulx

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Attended two Coachella Music Festivals (a great experience in itself) and got to see The Pixies, The Cure and RATM play after a very very long hiatus from performing.

Watched as Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, descended in Chichen Itza (Mayan ruins in Merida, Mexico) on the day of the Spring Equinox.

Motorbiked 2000km from Saigon to Hanoi, and further north to the highlands. Got help from tons of awesome Vietnamese people; had to hide in H'mong village hut at one point to get away from some army officers!

Motorbiked through Leh (North India) during the most mind-bogglingly beautiful sunset ever. The sky was painted in shades of orange, pink, blue, purple, violet, every colour imaginable!

Mingled with thousands of Ladakhis in Leh, India, who were going to see the Dalai Lama deliver a lecture.

Got to see the Potala Palace with my own eyes.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Denmark, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Singapore, United States

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