CURRENT MISSION

to know what the next step is.... and take it!

ABOUT ME

I'm curious. I want to know why people do what they do... why I do what I do. I want to know how things work. What looks good. Why does it look good? I like to engage with new/experimental work whether that's music or art or business... though I don't experiment myself as much as I could.

PHILOSOPHY

SEPARATE THE ISSUES.
(helps in SO many aspects of life)
(note I do recognise that many things are intertwined and may even be inseparable... but most are separable)

Think positive, but don't delude yourself or others.
Imagining the worst case scenario can help you deal with challenging situations and continue to make positive steps rather than feel like things are going against you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm spreading the word of the CouchSurfing!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

First couch surfing experience was great! Thanks Michal and family. So far that's my only surf, but met nice people in Beijing, Cochin, Melaka, Kuala Lumpur (great group meeting) and looking forward to the next fascinating people engaged in this wonderful site!

Interests

Music - it powers my soul.
Beauty - it powers my soul almost as much as music.
(that is MY perspective on what is beautiful, not the homogenised comercialised beauty staring at you from magazine covers)
Art - big overlap with the above two.
Ideas
Learning
Football

• arts
• beauty
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• soccer
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Books -
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
Anything by Stephen Donaldson especially his 'Gap' series,
Anything by Roald Dahl, Frank Miller (graphic novels)...
Music -
Björk - tirelessly inventive and emotive I love her work.
Chemical Brothers, Bassment Jaxx, Tori Amos, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The White Stripes, Sigur Rós, Massive Attack, Skunk Anansie, Klute, High Contrast, Roni Size, Zero 7, The Beatles.
Films (aka movies) -
Laurence of Arabia, The Jungle Book, The Shining, Memento, Run Lola Run, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Atanarjuat, Mulholland Drive, Leon, Tekkon Kinkreet, Ju Dou, The Emporer and the Assassin, About Schmidt, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Timecode.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Organise the start of this overland year of travel I have embarked upon! It was EPIC!

(I did also see things roll backwards uphill... and the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Hayword gallery London UK in 1998 was an amazing experience of art)

Teach, Learn, Share

SEPARATE THE ISSUES.
We can discuss this more when I surf your couch!
(or, in the distant future when I'm more stationary, when you surf mine!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Malta, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, United Kingdom

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