CURRENT MISSION

Discover Toronto

ABOUT ME

Just came back from the east cost of China. Otherwise, in regular life, I am a Montrealer who is living in Toronto for work, doing family medicine residency at University of Toronto for the next 2 years.

PHILOSOPHY

There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist or take upon the responsibility to change them
- Rakesh Omprakash Mehra

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surf and host

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Pretty incredible!

Interests

In a nut shell, I'm curious, open minded, love art, music, dancing, sports but am also passionate about science, history and movies. I like good music, creative food (cooking and eating), dancing, playing music, basketball, badminton, hiking, crosscountry skiing, the great outdoors, documentaries, news & politics, languages, religion, beautiful people, traveling, discovering new things and places, have particular interest in Asia and Latin America, medical anthropology and lots more.

• arts
• documentaries
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• flowers
• politics
• news
• movies
• traveling
• eating out
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• skiing
• sports
• basketball
• badminton
• anthropology
• history
• languages
• medicine
• religion
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies/shows: Bollywood flicks, documentaries, the L word, Prince of Bel Air, Chris Rock, George Carlin, Russell Peters, American History X, Bruce Lee
Music: reggae, Bob Marley, Xuhuru, Alika, sitar, bangra, R&B, hiphop, Bone Thugs, Asa, M.I.A, Immortal Technique, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Miles Davis, Lord Kitchener, Harry Belafonte, Elvis, Otis Redding, salsa, carlos vives, los pericos, fabulosos cadillacs, gotan project, el gran silencio, Celso Pina, Carlos Jobim, Sergent Garcia, kompa, zouk, magic system, classical, George Brassens, Harmonium, french rap, Kery James, tango, electro, too much music, too little time...
Books: Arundati Roy, Bertrand Russell, Naomi Klein, Ronald Wright, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Patrick Süskind, Zola, Inga Muscio, Naom Chomski, Howard Zin, all of Malcom X, so basically mainly essays and non fiction, try to fit in some medical journals too

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most beautiful experiences I've had was to see the Valley of Flowers in the Himalayan mountains with thousands of rare wild flowers amists the baren mountain tops..

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahrain, Belgium, China, France, Guatemala, India, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada