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Overview

  • 45 references 29 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Indonesian, Malay; learning Spanish
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Reminiscing the dream.. ROUND THE WORLD 2010-2011
  • BSc Exercise & Sports Science, Edith Cowan - Australia
  • From Republik Singapura
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Adventures without limits, the world without borders, & life without regrets.

ABOUT ME

A neat & very patient person.
Love being positive minded.
Sometimes naughty but EVERYtime nice.
Definitely a winner by nature..!!
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PHILOSOPHY

Through my eyes, i view the world.
Through my tongue, i speak the words.
Through my life, i learn.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Purely enjoying the best experiences & moments with CS.

Am always amazed on how easy it is to connect to the same wavelength with other fellow CS-ers.

Interests

Low-cost, independent international adventure travels;
Backpacking `Round The World` 2010-2011; 400 days of chasing summer

New found hobby: `multi-sport adventure racing..`

  • backpacking
  • sports
  • adventure travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Started reading habit in 2009 while on long journey travels:

2009:
Baggage; Emily Barr
Fear of Flying; Erica Jong
The Kite Runner; Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time; Mark Haddon
Angels & Demons; Dan Brown
The Book Thief; Markus Zusak
I Am the Messenger; Markus Zusak
Random Acts of Heroic Love; Danny Scheinmann
Ayat Ayat Cinta; Habiburrahman El Shizary
A Thousand Splendid Suns; Khaled Hosseini
Boy & Man, Niall Williams

2010:
The Memory of Running; Ron McLarty
The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho
The White Tiger; Aravind Adiga
The Zahir; Paulo Coelho
Wish You Were Here; Mike Gayle
The Great Railway Bazaar; Paul Theroux
The Sex Lives of Cannibals; J. Maarten Troost
Two Lives; William Trevor
Ordinary Miracles; Grace Wynne Jones

2011:
Push; Sapphire
The Solitaire Mystery; Jostein Gaarder
McAuslan in the Rough; George MacDonald Fraser
Raising Fences; A Black Man's Love Story; Michael Datcher
Getting Stoned with Savages; J. Maarten Troost

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Backpacking `Round The World` 2010-2011; 400 days of chasing summer

Asia-Euro:
China: #Beijing (7may)
Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar (12may)
Russia (V): Irkutsk (17may) - Moscow (23may) - St Petersburg (26may)

Baltic:
Estonia: Tallinn (29may)

Nordic:
Finland: Helsinki (31may) Turku (31may)

Scandinavia:
Sweden: Stockholm (8jun)
Denmark: Copenhagen (10jun)

Europe:
Germany: Hamburg (12jun) - Berlin (15jun)
Netherlands: Amsterdam (20jun)
Belgium: Brussels (23jun)
United Kingdom: London (26jun) - #Wiltshire (27jun) - Liverpool (03jul)
France: Paris (04jul)
Spain: Irun (05jul) - Barcelona (07jul) - Ibiza (08jul) - Barcelona (11jul) - Girona (12jul)
Italy: #Rome (14jul) - #Pisa (16jul) - Florence (16jul)
Slovenia: Ljubljana (19jul)
Austria: Graz (20jul) - Vienna (26jul)
Czech Republic: Prague (30jul)
Slovakia: Bratislava (01aug)
Hungary: Budapest (02aug)
Romania: Brasov (06aug) - Bucharest (08aug)
Turkey: #Istanbul (12aug)

Balkan:
Bulgaria: Sofia (16aug)
Macedonia: Skopje (18aug) - Ohrid (19aug)
Albania: Berat (22aug) - Saranda (24aug)

Europe:
Greece: Athens (26aug)

Africa:
Egypt: Cairo (29aug) - #Alexandria (31aug) - Luxor (4sep) - Cairo* (6sep) - Dahab (12sep)

Europe:
Portugal: Lisboa (15sep)

South America:
Brazil (V): Salvador de Bahia (16sep) - Chapada Diamantina (21sep) - Salvador de Bahia (16oct) - Rio de Janerio (22oct)
Argentina: Puerto Iguazu (27oct) - Buenos Aires (30oct) - Bariloche (2nov)
Chile: Puerto Montt (2nov) - Pucon (6nov) - Valparaiso (11nov) - San Pedro de Atacama (14nov)
Bolivia (V): Uyuni (15nov) - La Paz (18nov) - Copacabana (19nov)
Peru: Cuzco (23nov) - Trujillo (05dec) - Iquitos (20dec) - Huanta (24dec)
Columbia: Leticia (31dec) - Bogota (03jan) - Medellin (07jan) - Capurgana (12jan)

Central America:
Panama: Panama City (18jan) - Bocas del Toro (22jan)
Costa Rica: Puerto Viejo de Talamanca (27jan) - Playa Tamarindo (29jan)
Nicaragua: Isla de Ometepe (1feb) - Granada (2feb)
El Salvador: Playa el Tunco (5feb)
Guatemala: Antigua (9feb) - Semuc Champey (11feb) - Flores (13feb)
Belize: Caye Caulker (15feb)
Mexico: Palenque (19feb) - San Cristobal (20feb) - Oaxaca (23feb) - Mexico City (25feb) - Tijuana (01Mar)

North America:
USA: Los Angeles (04Mar) - Las Vegas (08Mar) - Grand Canyon (10Mar) - San Francisco (11Mar)
Hawaii: Oahu (14Mar) - Maui (20Mar) - Kona (28Mar) - Hilo (04Apr)

Asia:
Japan: Tokyo (9Apr) - Kyoto (15Apr) - Osaka (18Apr) - Nagasaki (21Apr) - Fukuoka (24Apr) - Nagoya (26Apr) - Ofunato (27Apr) - Tokyo* (6May) - Ofunato* (10May)
South Korea: Busan (19May) - Pohang (22May) - Seoul (25May) - Jeonju (29May) - Seoul (29May)
China: #Nanjing (02Jun) - Shanghai (04Jun) - Hong Kong (08Jun)

visited 54 states (24%)Create your own visited map of The World

7 wonders of Medieval world:
Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England)
Colosseum (Rome, Italy)
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (Alexandria, Egypt)
Great Wall of China (Northern China)
Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
Leaning Tower of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (Yangtze in Nanjing, China)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_World

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, Singapore

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