I'm Aloysius, I'm from Johor, Malaysia. Currently 21 years old and started working in singapore. I will be very shy when I first met new people, but after days of bonding and knowing each other, I will be a very outspoken person. Just like everyone here, I'm eager to travel around the world an meeting different kind of people, different religions, different faces, different cultures. Sometimes I will be afraid of traveling alone as I got lost a few times when I was traveling alone to other places, but I dare to be an adventurous boy to explore new places. I love learning culture as I was an exchange student to Milan, Italy in 2012/2013. I was representing Malaysia (MYCoprs, Malaysia version of Peace Corps) to Angkor Ban, Cambodia volunteering to build latrines for the local during December 2015.

For me, I don't want travel like a tourist but like a local and sharing cultures and connecting life. Besides shopping and sight seeing I also want to meet the local people and communicate with them and stay with them like a host family learning each other culture and share our stories.

For other people, success might be fame, wealth, but for me, I think success is to travel the world and grow more knowledgable.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Just like most people who join Couchsurfing, I love to travel and I love meeting new people all over the world, learning their culture. Most importantly, exploring myself.

Interests

I have a big interest in cheerleading, performing arts, filmmaking and cultural learning. I always being so excited when meeting different people from different country with different skin color and backgrounds. I also try out on photography as I believe wherever I travel, photos are one of the main thing I can bring back home an share to people around me. I want to do a documentary of my backpacking traveling and hopefully one day I will direct and film a real movie of it.

• arts
• culture
• performing arts
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• coloring
• dining
• cooking
• shopping
• traveling
• backpacking
• cheerleading
• religion
• volunteering
• sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: acapella, pitch perfect, glee, Taylor Swift, pop music.
Movie: pitch perfect 2, Fame, Minions.
Books: Live what you love

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most amazing thing that I've done is being chosen to be and exchange student going aboard (Italy) to study for a short term period.

Teach, Learn, Share

Able to teach Chinese, some Malaysia culture.
I want to learn about how to live like a local and also the language, how to cook local dishes when I travel to countries to countries.
Sharing cultures and stories.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach some Mandarin and also a little bit of Malay as these two language are the few most important language in my country Malaysia. Share some recipe on how to cook Malaysian food (I know how to cook few very simple dishes, depending on the spices that available in particular country), share my traveling stories, culture exchange and some knowledge about fields of my studies.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Malaysia