I'm a travel junkie and I look forward to meeting new people here during my days of being nomadic!

I live to travel. I travel to live.

CURRENT MISSION

I will start another backpacking/volunteering adventure across 5 countries next month (March 2016). Can't wait!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I enjoy having a conversation about random topics. I also don't mind being the tour guide or the official photographer.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, so good!

CSers are among the nicest people I've ever met.

Interests

photography, image-making, backpacking, volunteering, art history, performance studies, cultural studies, post-modernism, post-colonial, diaspora, globalization and modernity studies, curation, critical theories of identity, corporeality, and hospitality, Buddhist studies, aesthetics of art and everyday life, performative and participatory photography, politics and issues of representation, reality tv shows, new media art, databending, pixelsorting, cooking, writing, mindfulness, meditation

• arts
• writing
• performing arts
• photography
• concerts
• cooking
• meditation
• politics
• tv
• traveling
• cycling
• backpacking
• buddhist
• rock climbing
• swimming
• art history
• communications
• cultural studies
• history
• tourism
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Alternative, Bjork, Radiohead, Sigur Ros
Requiem for a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, The Science of Sleep
Travels in Hyperreality, The Society of Spectacle, Discipline and Punish

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's too difficult to choose just one. So here's a list of amazing things I've seen and done (so far):

- Backpacking in all countries in Southeast Asia, except East Timor
- Catching rainbows in Gulfoss and swimming in the Blue Lagoon, Iceland
- Camel trekking and sunset watching in Sahara Desert, Morocco
- Visiting the Louvre Museum and climbing the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- Biking and spending winter in Amsterdam
- Living in Brighton, England while finishing my dissertation
- Watching Bjork and Sigur Ros live in concert
- Volunteering in a school in Kathmandu, Nepal
- Backpacking in India for 4 months, starting from the South (Kerala) all the way to the North (Himachal Pradesh)
- Visiting holy sites of Buddhism: Lumbini (Buddha's birthplace), Bodh-Gaya (where Buddha achieved enlightenment), and Sarnath, near Varanasi, (where Buddha delivered his first teaching)
- Attending the teachings of the Dalai Lama at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamshala

Teach, Learn, Share

What I can TEACH and SHARE: my vast knowledge in backpacking in Southeast Asia and Europe on a tight budget.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macao, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Philippines, Serbia, United Kingdom