CURRENT MISSION

keep warm

ABOUT ME

I was comfortably calling Australia home until August 2010 when a yearning for adventure saw me sell my house, quit my job and move to Beijing!
Possible mid-life crisis aside, I'm laid back, friendly and curious... just like most couchsurfers I guess.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Most days of the week I chill with CSers, I live with 3 other CSers and currently we are hosting about 2 people a week. Life's pretty dull without CS lets say...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surf, I host, I coffee and chat, but most of all I get to know people.

Interests

Scuba diving, cooking, good food and drink, taiko, pottery, martial arts, cycling, architecture and design, photography, cinema and cricket!

• arts
• architecture
• design
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• drinking
• movies
• pottery
• cycling
• scuba diving
• martial arts
• cricket

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: I like Kubrick, Jeunet, Kaufmann, Hitchcock, Jonze, Gondry, Aronofsky, Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Jackie Chan's early pre-Hollywood stuff, Tarantino, Jarmusch Coen Brothers, Wong Kat Wai, Amoldovar, Ten Canoes, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Pixar, Cool Hand Luke and many others.

Books: Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Primo Levi, Haruki Murakami, Terry Pratchett, Chuck Palaniuk, Philip K. Dick, Anton Chekhov, George Orwell, Bernard Shaw, Life of Pi, Shantaram, Midnight's Children,

Music: Hard to know what I like, depends on my mood, but all time faves are Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Washington, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Michael Franti, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Leonard Cohen, Gnarls Barkley, Manu Chao, Lou Reed, and everything else I listen to depending on the occasion.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, China, Viet Nam

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