CURRENT MISSION

To see the world in a hundred bajillion ways!

ABOUT ME

a muht who's livin' it up for colors, calculus, sharpened pencils, muffins, 7am sun, economics, white sand, white blouse, outdoor activities, black ballpens, hard to find BOOKS, blueberry muffins, livejournal, knitted wear, oranges, Twin Lagoon, purple hues, cakes, photos, autumn rain, chemistry, beaches, morning jogs, parks, rainbows, GYM, pizza, dance steps, vegetable salad, mountain hikes, moonlit sleep, JAZZ, e-books, flowers, classical music, shopping, STATA/SPSS, rechargeable batteries, ultra chocolate brownies, logistic regression, DIYs, tea with milk and lately, coffee (w/o sugar ofcourse!)

PHILOSOPHY

to know is to live and to live is to soar

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Met a couchsurfer and heard all about the wonderful things about learning culture and meeting people with like-minded inclinations.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

a newbie in couchsurfing but had memorable experiences living with gracious hosts in Australia, U.S. and Greece!

Interests

WRITING, swimming, READING, bowling, TRAVELLING, movie-watching, BADMINTON, clubbing, VOLLEYBALL.
Would love to try scuba-diving, skiing and other extreme sports very soon

• culture
• writing
• books
• e-books
• dancing
• chocolate
• coffee
• clubbing
• shopping
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• scuba diving
• sailing
• skiing
• sports
• tennis
• volleyball
• swimming
• table tennis
• bowling
• badminton
• extreme sports
• chemistry
• economics
• beaches
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

The Labyrinth, What Dreams May Come, With Honors, The Sixth Sense, The Priest, Still Breathing, The Negotiator, Amelie, Babel, Blood Diamonds, Freedom Writers. Catch and Release. Movies with happy endings, usually.

Jazz(aretha, fordham, jonathan butler, tomlinson, al jarreau, musiq soulchild, etta james, lee ritenour), R&B (shirley murdock, rick james, floetry). soul (Hil St. Soul), pop (Jamie Cullum, Santana, Johnny Legend, Dave Matthews Band), disco and classical music

All time favorite book is Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The Color Purple, Jane Eyre, Conan Doyle's and Jack London's. I also love children's fiction: Alice in Wonderland, Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking, Barrie's Peter Pan, Colfer's Artemis Fowl, Rowling's Harry Potter and so much more.

Recently ecstatic about MICRONATIONS, THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS, FREAKONOMICS. Gladwell's Outliers and Blink. Currently reading: Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and Superfreakonomics! Reading in between: The Commercialization of Intimate Life by Hochschild

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled to Asia from Europe on a ship and learned to play table tennis whilst on a 15 degree tilt. Methinks that rolling and pitching feels like heaven after 41 days of sailing!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Philippines, United Kingdom