CURRENT MISSION

To brush my teeth on the other side of the world

ABOUT ME

I'm a writer, not a fighter. I like to eat rice, but not necessarily with soy sauce.

PHILOSOPHY

Living simply, being kind to others, working hard on what you believe in, even if all you believe in is cooking the perfect egg.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0faaK5e4A - I eat my hosts

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In my first Couchsurfing experience, I stayed with a crazy but kind hearted man in his caravan and helped him build his yurt - no looking back after this.

Interests

Books, cinema, writing, home cooked food, natural living, music, travelling on a shoestring, people watching, nature, day dreaming.

• writing
• books
• beauty
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• running
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• nursing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Manhattan, After Hours, Chungking Express, , Anti-Christ, Café Lumière, Ikiru +++
Music: David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Tenniscoats, Arik Einstein, Cat Power, Zhou Xuan ...
Books: Steppenwolf, Crime and Punishment, Letters to a Young Poet, Tropic of Cancer, Une Saison en Enfer, The Passion According to G.H. ///

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The past few months in India went by like a punch in the head and I feel like I'm just starting to stir. I have been yelled at, (accidentally) spat at, leered at, and rammed on the hip by a holy cow. I have been dazzled by the smiles, overwhelmed by the cuisine, and inspired by the emphasis on beauty that could be found even in the poorest of people and simplest of huts. I have fallen on top a heap of sleeping bodies, been in silent meditation for ten days, taken into a disco by a policeman on the guest list, and become intimately acquainted with the toilet. I have seen pigs running wild in the city, holy men getting high, dead bodies being cremated by the riverbed while bathers dip themselves ceremoniously downstream. I have lost some weight, gained a tan, and things which I had previously labelled as merely positive or negative have started to blend, shift and bleed into one another. Now I know: Changing, changing - life is always changing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn how to ride a bike with no hands. And to cook without refering to recipe books.
I can teach you to nurse a beer for hours but it isn´t really a skill, more like an affliction T_T

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Malaysia, New Zealand