CURRENT MISSION

To visit at least 100 countries

ABOUT ME

curious

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe diem noctemque

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

SIGHT

Interests

art, ethnology, learning languages, movie festivals, photography, psychology, theater

• arts
• theater
• photography
• festivals
• traveling
• languages
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand);
Asian writers (eg. Abe, Murakami, Seth);
Theater writers (eg. Duerrenmatt, Frisch, Ibsen);
Travelling literature (eg. Iyer, Severin, Thubron);
Quality Science Fiction (eg. Asimov, Franke, Lem);
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Music: Irish Music (Enya and the like), Lais (Belgian Folk),
Asian music (eg. Mongolian throat singing),
French and Spanish vocal music,
Folk and World Music in general

Movies: Art Movies and Film Festivals; Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Persian, Spanish, Vietnamese, ...

Ami de mon amie, Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise, Belle époque, Belle noiseuse, Bitter Moon, Brazil, Cet obscur objet du désir, Conte d'été, La Discrète, Fu rong zhen (Hibiscus Town), Hong gao liang (Red Sorghum), Indochine, Lost in Translation, Marg Yazdgerd (Death of Yazdgerd), Monsoon Wedding, Mua he chieu thang dung (Vertical Ray of the Sun), Pillow Book, Salaam Bombay, Sopyonje, Shayad Vaghti Deegar (Maybe Some Other Time), Solyaris, Tesis, TGV, Utomlyonnye solntsem (Burnt by the Sun), Xich lo (Cyclo)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My passion is World Travelling. I want to see at least one hundred countries. Here are some places I have been to:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungaria, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macau, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, St. Lucia, Switzerland, Tahiti, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam.

>>> I'm trying to learn some Asian languages, such as Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Mongolian, Thai and Vietnamese.

Teach, Learn, Share

IT, Psychology, Asian languages