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Overview

  • 6 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Gujarati, Hindi; learning Chinese (Simplified), Spanish
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Performance Software Developer
  • Masters in Computer Science - University of Southern Cali...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Work hard and play harder !

ABOUT ME

I love talking to people, understanding different cultures and eating all sorts of food :). I believe world would be such a better place if we all treat each other like one big family and understand that its the people and their culture which makes places unique not just the buildings. I enjoy going to music festivals and love music and think music is a universal language to unite us all :)

PHILOSOPHY

Work hard, play harder and love/share larger than life !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have put up my couch/extra matterss for people who are visiting San Francisco Bay area and would love to show you around and hang out with you and make your stay an exciting one while you are here.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted some people over my place and have been a great experience so far. Looking forward to surfing this summer. Travelled to puerto rico and bunch of other places surfing at great people and I cannot explain how much fun I had !

Interests

snowboarding, eating cusines from different places, running, camping, surfing, swimming, kayaking, clubbing, beers, raves, music festivals,chillin, playing dead for whole day at the beach :)

  • culture
  • music festivals
  • festivals
  • dining
  • cooking
  • beer
  • running
  • clubbing
  • raves
  • traveling
  • music
  • kayaking
  • camping
  • surfing
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • history
  • mathematics
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Kaskade, DeadMau5, Skrillex, Rusko and Sander Van Doorn for music. All kinds of movies ( special fav shawshank redemption, eternal sunshine of spotless mind, cast away, notebook, marley and me )and ofcourse all funny ones and hell yes Bollywood ones :). Books .. Fountain Head, Rich dad poor dad, chariots of god, kane and abel, Business at speed of though, Gita and all books which talk about author's viewpoint, ideas, philosophy...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trekking and mountain climbing at Himalayas,India in a 9 people team when I was 18. There was a french group ahead of us who did not reach the peak due to unstable snow and we decided to go for it as it was gonna snow next day and that day was the only day in a week we could do it and surprisingly enough we did end up reaching the peak and were super excited. BTW I was the youngest (17) in the group with no prior experience at that elevation :) which made it the one of the most amazing thing in my life and I still remember it in great details :)..

Teach, Learn, Share

I could probably fix your computer while I am there if you got any issues with it. I might be able to teach you some stuff about computers, maths, etc or if thats you or your kids need :).

Share :- I would love to share my culture and type of food we eat and stuff by cooking for you while I visit as well :). I definitely have tons of travel stories and also becasue I read a lot about history, cultures etc I would love to talk about anything !

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States

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