Down to earth, chill out kinda person. Proud to declare that I've travelled with friends around Europe without even booking a single accommodation for 5 days. We treated the bus as our 5 star hotel *****

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people all over the world and learn more about their culture and hidden places of interest in their citites. In exchange, I can tell you more about Malaysian culture and also cook a Malaysian cuisine for you. If you're not up for it, I can cook Western, Indian, Thai or Japanese food as I am very versatile in cooking. You name it.

Also, I have a great interest in music especially bands from America, United Kingdom and also European countries. In the UK, I have already been to many concerts. It would be great if we could just chill out with some music, or maybe jam together or we can even start a band if we click. Would be so much interested to be a part of the Indie/diy scene where the band members always outnumber the fans. My kinda show.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - It's pretty hard to name all of them when you listen to every piece of music from all over the world, here's my last.fm account

http://www.last.fm/user/Baskin31Robbins
Please stalk me

Bands that are always on my mind :-

-Shonen Bat
-Deftones
-Kaki King
-Russian Circles
-Radiohead
-Mogwai
-Boards of Canada
-Smashing Pumpkins
-Justice

Books :-

Wind up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Strange Library (Haruki Murakami)

1984, Animal Farm, Burmese Days (George Orwell)

Banker to the Poor (Muhammad Yunus)

Freakonomics (Steven Levitt)

Remains of the Days (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Kite Runner, A thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini)

.....And the list goes on and on

Movies -

-Most of Stanley Kubrick's movie
-The Intouchables
-Pulp Fiction
-Green Mile
-Inglorious Basterds
-The Girl With Dragon Tattoo
.........

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing the Glencoe Mountain in Scotland without wearing any proper hiking equipment right to the top. One of the hikers we came across told that if the ice that we were walking on shattered, we would have drowned and no one would be able to save us. Armed with a Fleece and a pair of clarks shoes, I was prepared to take the risk :P

Maybe this story would turn out to be more amazing if it were the K2 or Everest mountain, but that was the story of my low budget hiking.

Teach, Learn, Share

Always make way for anyone asking for help, and expect nothing in return. It always feels good.

Learn to play any four chord songs, it will be useful when you need some spare change.

The most basic ingredients in cooking are big onions, white onions, ginger, green chilli and capsicum. Oh and also sugar and salt. You'll be a chef in no time.

Small change are more valuable than big change. Because of my small change that I had kept for 3 years, I was able to buy a Polaroid.

What I Can Share with Hosts

-It would be the beauty of Malay culture, good places to travel in Malaysia and also the South East Asia region.
-Some basic words you need to know to survive in Malaysia
-I can also teach some Indonesian language
-Cook some Malaysian Cuisine, I'm quite handy in the kitchen and also a very clean person
-Teach you some traditional Malaysian games.
- Play music together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States