CURRENT MISSION

Have a gin and tonic in every town I visit

ABOUT ME

Hey, just moved back to Taiwan after a stint in Ho Chi Minh City. I'm into politics, indie movies and music, and drinking gin and tonics preferably with some conversation.

I like travelling for as long as possible which usually means doing things on the cheap. It seems only fair to offer my couch to anyone looking to do the same.

Right now I'm working on a healthy alcohol dependency and trying to stop going to the roulette wheel.

PHILOSOPHY

All the best things in life come from the people you meet. You always remember the chats and the times you got roaring drunk with people over the things that you actually saw. I'd take a great conversation over looking at the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat or the Pyramids of Giza any day.

Interests

Banter, politics, language, Indie Movies, Indie Music, complaining, meeting new people, drinking, nights out.

• drinking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: L'Auberge Espagnole, Das Experiment, Run Lola Run, Coen Brothers, The Lives of Others, Casino, Shawshank Redemption, 101 Reykjavik, Dirty Pretty Things, No Man's Land, Carlito's Way, The Quiet American, Amelie Poulain, East/West, GoodFellas, Darjeeling Limited, Trainspotting, Punch Drunk Love, Lost in Translation, City of God, The Constant Gardener

Music: Blur, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, The Kooks, Vampire Weekend, Eels, Hot Hot Heat, Embrace, Suede, Envy Corps, Postal Service, Sloan, Mansun, Spinvis, Oasis, Sam Roberts, Supergrass, Arctic Monkeys, Ash, I Am Kloot, Elbow, Dirty Pretty Things, Muse, Ooberman, Serge Gainsbourg, Pulp, Elbow, The Shins, The Killers, Tahiti 80, The Divine Comedy, Mathieu Boogaerts

Books: Michel Houellebecq, Haruki Murakami (especially Blind Williow Sleeping Woman), In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, Sterling Seagrave's historical stuff (Soong Dynasty, Lords of the Rim), Gogol, George Orwell (except Burmese Days), Balzac, Marquis de Sade, Kreutzer Sonata, The Economist, any book about international relations.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen plenty of cool things in my life. Happy to have made it to closed Turkmenistan at the height of the President's cult of personality.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Taiwan, Viet Nam