I'm a travel enthusiast eager to learn about other cultures. I enjoy meeting new people, sharing experiences and broadening cultural understanding. I'm deeply inspired by poetry and wish one day to be able to express everything through poetry (It may be possible only as an abstraction!!).

I have the curiosity of a cat; even when I cannot remotely understand anything, I keep fiddling and hovering over my object of curiosity, hoping to make something of it. I love reading on literature, criticism and fiction.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

There is learning that no book nor course can teach; and that is learning from people, people different from you in every way yet similar in the quest for new experiences and understandings, in the quest to know humanity better. We are all different- in individuality, beliefs, occupations, mindsets- yet share the common human pool. I believe CS allows for that sharing to happen fluidly. I'm here to learn and broaden my experience of the world by sharing my culture, personality and views with people from the rest of the world.

Interests

I'm interested in performance in all its varieties, in the arts and everyday living, and its bearings on philosophy, relationships, politics and development.

I love inventing games out of daily life situations.

I'm also interested in the politics underlying ideologies and belief-systems, mind sciences and buddhist philosophy.

• cats
• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• poetry
• performing arts
• dining
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• guitar
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
-Techno-trance when there is the right environment and friends.
- Lounge music(Buddha Bar) and classical music(Chopin, Mozart, Barey Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan).
- Soft Rock(Blind Melon, Staind)
- Blues and Jazz (B.B King, Freddie King, Clapton)

Movies:
- King of Comedy
- Fight Club
- A Bothersome Man
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Movies directed by Scorsese, Woody Allen, James Cameron, Edward Nolan.

Books:
The Black Swan by Naseem Taleb
P.G Wodehouse Novels
Present Shock by Douglas Rushkov
Modern English Poetry

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in an unfurnished room with just an attached bathroom- no kitchen, dining, family- for two years.

Lived in a forest monastery in Thailand

Climbed to the Buddha Statue atop a mountain hill in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Teach, Learn, Share

I have taught theatre and love to employ theatre games and activities in any group setting, They are fun, great way to build understanding and improve self-awareness.

I can teach basic guitar, trinkets of anecdotal delights, how to get slim quick and wacky yet effective diets routines.

I'm eager to learn how people interact with their environments and overcome difficulties to achieve their goals, whatever they may be.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Theatre sports, sessions of self-composed songs played out on a guitar, fragments of perverse poetry, travel stories, wisdoms of mythology

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Pakistan