I am a corporate trainer and coach who loves sharing my academic and professional experiences with others. In doing so, I fulfill two of my great passions - public speaking and lifelong learning.

I received the prestigious Chevening scholarship award in 2015 to pursue a postgraduate degree in Engineering Management at the University of Exeter, UK, My previous experience was in the industry, as an engineer in a renowned medical device manufacturing MNC. Besides that, I have also dealt with the beginning (conceptualization and R&D) and end stage (post-market and sales) of medical devices.

I hope to leave a lasting, positive impact on those I come into contact with, while at the same time fulfill my desire to discover more about myself and my place in the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Connecting with people and transforming lives (including mine).

Interests

Watching European football, reading, music, meeting people and sharing experiences.

• culture
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• soccer
• engineering
• future
• artificial intelligence
• singularity

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - ranges from Rage Against the Machine to Epica to Bob Marley to Norah Jones to The Beatles to instrumental music from movies.

Movies - I like movies which require more than 2 brain cells to understand. Mindless fun is accepted as long as it's funny or there is good acting. Mad Max: Fury Road is the best action movie I have ever seen, surpassing Terminator 2 and my childhood favourite, the Rambo franchise. I love watching de Niro and Pacino, and I think Christian Bale and Tom Hardy are their successors.

TV - The Wire, Mad Men, Dexter, Six Feet Under, House, Game of Thrones, Spartacus.

Books - Game of Thrones is the latest fiction books I've read, and that was about 2 years ago. Nowadays I read a lot of non-fiction books that have some worth to real-life situations, such as Freakonomics. Seneca and Marcus Aurelius have work which I intend to read more of. The former produced 'On The Shortness of Life', which I read every once in a while to remind me of what life is all about.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm a contest freak, and my biggest win thus far was a car from a movie quiz back in 2014. Here's the proof ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCp9xoZL35E

Teach, Learn, Share

I really don't know what to put here. The information above should be sufficient I guess?

What I Can Share with Hosts

Information, experiences, culture and good company!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, United Kingdom