| Stewart Green has been vouched for |
| VERIFIED MEMBER Identity Checked, Location Verified (3) more info |
| Couch available | Yes |
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| CouchSurf requests replied to | 50% |
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| member since | September 8th, 2005 |
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| profile views | 2,985 |
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| age | 44 |
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| gender | Male |
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| membername | STEWGREEN |
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| occupation | adventurer/opportunist Mr Flexible, filtering info & BS (internet consultant) |
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| education | Engineering degree Elec + Electronic |
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| grew up in | Scunthorpe |
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| ethnicity | mongrel |
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Languages- EnglishExpert
- SpanishIntermediate
- FrenchIntermediate
- KoreanBeginner
- JapaneseBeginner
- PortugueseIntermediate
- GermanBeginner
- Italian (Italy)Intermediate
Couch Information
Couch Available: Yes
Preferred Gender: Any
Max Surfers Per Night: 5
Shared Sleeping Surface: Depends
Shared Room: Dependsthe KL apt has 3 rooms but sometimes gets busy for the KL apartment contact CS username : Chee Keong Tan
cktang@gmail.com-nospam
mobile +60162768275
We very often host people, but CK just told me he's getting too many emails
(that is why he has switched his own status to not hosting, when actually the apartment is still available)
so please READ the details below and check the info page first
or CS user : Murugan (unfortunately kind Selva is ill at the moment)
rmselva52@yahoo.com.sg-nospam (remove -nospam)
(I was running the apartment in 2008)
CK's HC and CS apartment KL Malaysia, 9Km from the town at Cheras Leisure Mall.
- CKTan is studyied in Germany and since he loves the spirit of HC and CS left his apartment for members to use. Now he is back, but has kept the apartment available to you
- It is 9 Km from KL centre (during rush hours allow 2 hours to get to the bus terminal and find your bus so it's not so convenient for people who are just spending a day or 2 in KL)
- It is more suitable for longer stays.. maybe chilling out writing or resting
- basic no aircon, no hot water, no guard, no TV etc
If you decide to stay in the centre see Info on Central Hotels and you can still contact us as we are experts about KL
more info and photos here - http://www.stewgreen.com/travel/seasia07/pc407.htm
- we are experts on KL, so please email us if you have any special interests or questions ..so that you don't miss that skateboarding festival or arts event Friends (7)
 Jo Ennis
40, Several people
Panama City, Panama
Panama
Friends since November 2002
"he helped with the school in 2002-3"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
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 Chee Keong Tan
38, Male
Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory
Malaysia
Friends since November 2005
"Know him through other Hospitalityclub.org members in a supermark right after a faschion show."
Friendship Type: Close Friend
I vouched for Stewart Green
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 GENESCREAM
63, Female
Adelaide, South Australia
Australia
Friends since November 2007
"We met when he stayed with me via our HC memberships, and he introduced me to Couch surfing.com"
Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
I vouched for Stewart Green
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 LiNi Lee
35, Female
Keningau, Sabah
Malaysia
Friends since August 2007
"He emailed me n we met in Keningau"
Friendship Type: Friend
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 FILIPEK
40, Male
Palermo, Sicily
Italy
Friends since March 2011
"Palermo gatherings"
Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
I vouched for Stewart Green
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 Olivier Banor
44, Male
Mulhouse, Alsace
France
Friends since September 2011
"he needed a couch on mulhouse forum "
Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
3 |
 Katie Partlow
35, Female
Taipei, Taipei
Taiwan
Friends since June 2005
"He stayed at my house one night on his travels of the island."
Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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Personal Description108+ countries in 21 yrs: I am a phenomenon, but maybe a phenomenon you don't like ? Travel brings understanding. so we have to challenge our existing simplistic ideas of the world being black and white are contradicted by the realisation that it's not only much bigger than we thought but technicolor aswell. So I don't use words like "beautiful", "nice". We live in a bit of a false world with a lot of lying, but when we experiences things we get to understand them. I'm not a "cool guy" following the crowd no I'm a thinker. My passions are alternative thinking, honesty, skepticism, the scientific method & logic.) My system is to have a simple life. I travel to a continent, travel, work volunteer, travel etc. I worked in 150 strange jobs in more than 15 countries, but now often do internet consultant work while I travel. ... see www.stewgreen.com SMS my UK Tel no +44 7855 922 198How I Participate in CSpromote the cause .. organised HC meetups managed a HC/CS apartment in Malaysia.
- I value truth and honesty : I believe that if I respect people then I shouldn't tell them what them want hear I should tell them the truth.
- ATTENTION : Along with CS policy I only put people I know really well down as friends. Otherwise my profile would get too big. But you can check my website and email me anytime if you any questions etc
- That's why on Facebook and Myspace other people have 1000 people down as friends and I have about 6
My CS system
- 1. First I use the forums.
- 2. Warning last minute decisions. As I can only be sure about today and tomorrow
For me meeting local people is the best thing about CS so I always first check the local forums for events and meetups.
- then I might post a general hello in the forum to make contact with people. I find that often people invite me to stay and it's a lot easier than ploughing through hundreds of profiles and sending 3 or 4 personal emails. I do do that sometimes, but I have often found that's a waste of time.
- In places liike Malaysia I find it better to stay at a downtown hostel as members usually live far out in the suburbs and cos members are usually middle class they take you to a fancy restaurant and since it’s polite to pay you end up spending far more money than a hotel. Though in place like Russia or Ukraine where budet accommodation is scarce CS hosts were great.
Last Minute planning
Experience has taught me making detailed schedules doesn't work; in real travel "things happen ", so it's best to have a flexible schedule as decision can't be made until you are on the ground. For real travel one needs an open mind.
Typically I arrive in a country and I find the first city is a hellhole so I move on earlier than expected. Then I get to the next place and instead of it being a 1 day town I find it's a 2 or 3 day town. Then I get to the next place and find there will be a festival in 2 days time so I wait. Plans are made to be broken ... Many times I find a route which looks good on paper turns out to be impractical like the town that looks so near,but is actually the other ide of a big mountain and it's much easier to change route completely and take a ferry somewhere else. I often like to stop off ast nowhere towns which usually turn out to be boring, but occasionaly lead to whole new ideas therefore throwing plans out of the window.
..And then there are the normall unpredictable disruptions : the museum is closed today so you have to wait until tomorrow, strikes, national holidays, bus is full today, the bus has broken down, freak weather... I'm a practical person not a spontaneous person, but "things happen", I don't make the decisions .. "the decisions make themselves"... Y0u might arrive in Kathmandu on Wednesday expecting to get to the Indian Embassy to appy for a visa and pick it up on Friday, but then it turns out that today is an Indian public holiday or Nepali holiday and now you can't collect the visa until Monday or Tuesday.
- In a ideal world I like to make personal CS mail contact and then tell people I am coming in 10 days time, then follow that up with an email 5 days later saying I 'm arriving on "Wednesday or Thursday etc." But when I try to do this I find that often planning 7 nights of couches takes me 2 days of computer time, and then often I can't find internet.
: to me CS and hospitality exchange is more about other things like getting to really experience the culture of a country rather than a free place to stay.
CouchSurfing Experience- I've done a lot of WWOOFing farms in 7 countries and workcamps etc
stayed with lots of people it lots of countries ..e.g. Japanese family to help their English. the witch doctor in S Africa.
- I also volunteered at a lot of intentional communities, but never found the right one yetInterestssimple life, meeting alternative people like myself, sunny places (but not beaches)
I`m British, but I don`t like football and beer, but neither do I believe every hippy thing (Experience has made me anti-green)
I like simple things like apples and bananas, and playing fun games. I don't like fancy things like restaurants or getting drunk. Though I do like serious talking and learning about life. I like playing volleyball or softball, but not watching sport on TV. I like playing drama games and live theatre, but not soap operas or Hollywood movies. from my CV
"I've never been a big fan of beer or drugs I'd rather play stupid games" 1. cuddles 2. Constructive fulfilling work 3. Playing games (Pictionary, Laser Tag, Squash , treasure Hunts etc) 4. Being made to "think" by alternative theatre , TV , Radio (like BBC WS) and books 5. Music and Dancing 6. Comfortable Climates 7. Playing with Computers 8. Sharing and helping people.
I am very interested in learning about culture and history.
religion : I believe good actions are more important than beliefs.
Philosophy0. I PAY MY WAY : You provide the couch and I'll pay for the shopping and food etc. aswell as help you and provide the stories (but I prefer simple restaurants I'm not a millionaire so can't pay in expensive places) and travel experience teaches you about freecamping so CS actually costs me more money
1. To understand something, you need to experience it
2. Nothing happens if you stay at home (when you travel things happen)
3. Live today - don't die before your death !
4. Honesty and truth are most important
5. Open those barriers in your mind and you will be able to do many things that you think you can´t do !
6. Positive thinking is naive, negative thinking helps us plan for problems.
Music, Movies, Booksmy life is a little like the book Walden by HD Thoreau."the greater part of what my neighbours call good I call bad" endquote
Other favorite stories include "the Emperor's new clothes" and "The Tripods", (where everyone on the entire planet is brainwashed)
other favourite authors include Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl, Tom Sharpe, Terry Pratchett, Paul Theroux, George Orwell, NF - Edward de Bono, Ricardo Semler, Christiana Dodwell, Lucy Irving
I like playing drama games and live theatre, but not soap operas or Hollywood movies.
I like music with energy : pumping Techno dance music and Rock and Roll. Why do people dance salsa, the tango etc why don't they go to the bedroom ? Types of People I enjoyI like to find out about real people and share their different attitudes and cultures. I can show you my travel and UK photos and tell some travel stories. I can also show you some magic and psychology game. I can HELP YOU with your English or travel questions or move furniture etc. You can show me life (how you live and work). I prefer this to tourist sites. Maybe we can talk and play games etc.
Food : I'm not vegetarian, I don't eat spicy or celantro (cardomen), I like simple food and don't get excited about food , for me the people and their conversation are more important.
I don't smoke. (or like it much) It's OK if you are gay, but I'm not.
I artistically dyslexic, but don't care. I can't play music, but wish I could.
Sometimes I think I dissapoint people when I don`t live up to their expectations (like that I`m neither a beer and football person nor a believer in every simple hippy idea), other times people overrate me I: I don`t know everything.
Teach, Learn, ShareI am looking for people to chat and share time with. (I like going to festivals and exploring historical places, but I don't like bars or restaurants much, though I do like dancing to techno music)
I am interested in lateral thinking, philosophy, skeptism etc.
Travel is great cos it makes you challenge your preconceived simplistic ideas like :
1. that our own country is the best in the world ,2. "The Americans" are the root of all evil,3. After challenging the mainstream we can believe every simple hippy idea like "green" and "natural is good and artificial or "chemical" badOne Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done1988, 92,96 - saw 100 + plays in 3 weeks Edinburgh festivals. Slept in Don Quixotes windmill, been woken by a camel standing over me , Lots of crazy jobs, had my brain scanned tested sunscreen, been US election observer, cable TV host, bar host, Santa Claus, been in a Jacky Chan Movie + others, they paid to watch football, funfair, nude model done lots of websites, been a science museum volunteer etc
been robbed 4 times, been in a coma for 10 days with malaria, stayed Cappadocia cave hotel, Turkey, hotsprings with fishes, Dead Sea hot waterfalls, sailed on a Dou in a typhoon, Hitched 1000s of kilometre walked 1000Km in Spain, climbed a really active volcano, walked on glaciers, sailed the Amazon, Panama Canal, lived in the desert, stayed in Tunisia during the revolution, walked 1500Km across Italy and through Switzerland to Germany and France.. never found love Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project-I meet a lot of interesting people randomly through hitch hiking, long distance walking etc but this peer to peer networking stuff should help people meet more people with the same ideals .. together we are making the world a better place !Locations TraveledTRAVELED: Italy
LIVED: Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, England, Ghana, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, United States, Venezuela
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From Olivier Banor Mulhouse, France
Sep 14, 2011  Positive excellent ...
 From ILBOEMIO Barcelona, Spain
Jun 28, 2011 Positive I met Steve one day in Sabaudia, we got ice cream and then I hosted him in my house in the farm.
He he's a alkative person and an experienced traveller, he has many tips to suggest to travel people.
He's absolutely a positive and genle person, hope meet him travelling alla round the world in the future,
thanks Steve 4 tips!
Marco
 From Anna Kapusnik Rome, Italy
Jun 20, 2011 Positive Like he said he's a phenomenon and for me was a huge pleasure to meet him. I have never ever met such a personality -on the road for 22 years ... unbelievable!
He's full of wonderful stories and photos from every on he's journey. Amaizing men!
 From Enrico Ialongo Viterbo, Italy
Jun 20, 2011 Positive Thank you, Stew!!! I really didn't think my English was excellent (are you sure?) because I haven't been speaking for a very long time... Anyway I spent a very nice evening with you, Valentina and Giuseppe, talking about your adventures in Sabaudia, Terracina, Sutri, Lago di Vico etc. etc., and hope we'll meet again!
 From Nina Whoo Rome, Italy
Jun 19, 2011 Positive Stewart is an interesting person, a tireless discoverer and ready at any time to get involved .. a pleasure to have known him!!! Next time we'll play even more...that's FOX!!! ;)))
 From Mattia Amitrano Rome, Italy
Jun 18, 2011 Positive Stewart is great! he's so interesting!! his stories are amazing! you could speek with him for hours about travel and he'll always find something new and interested to tell!!
it was a plessure to know and host him during the cs farm camp.
a real traveler!
 From Valentina e Giuseppe Puddu Viterbo, Italy
Jun 16, 2011 Positive Stew has been with us only for one night, but despite this short period, he gave us an interesting and funny point of view on our italian habit and customs!!!!
It's been very interesting listening to all his travels and all his considerations about different cultures...we really travelled with him! thank you!
 From David Meredydd Palermo, Italy
Jun 15, 2011 Positive Stewart is a perfect example of the true traveller. Only about 1% of surfers actually have this dedication to travelling and maybe 10% couchsurf so considerately. He does make a special effort to collaborate in the smooth running of your abode. Having suffered a serious disease 8 years ago I can't cycle or walk hundreds of km (or in fact AT ALL) like I did before, I would have liked to hike or do other strenuous stuff with Stewart but for this reason (which I chose to not advertise on my profile) - the car was the only option. Stewart relished food I forced on him such as liver and onions, which I would not have attempted on non British couchsurfers! A brave man indeed. Also to put up with Sicilia being mostly "chiuso"--hahaha. He also boosted attendance at a friend's poorly attended birthday party - I apologise misspelling the name of the road. Thank you! I'm glad you experienced the typical palermo life but it sounds as if you didn't spot the night-time street pony racing!
 From Peter Michalčík Rokycany, Czech Republic
Jun 10, 2011 Positive We met in Kuala Lumpur where he took care of HC apartment. Stew has great "travel" experience. Or should I write "living on the road" experience?
 From Vincenzo Puma Modica, Italy
Mar 31, 2011 Positive We met on the evening of Carnival in Modica and we had dinner together-polenta-typical food of northern Italy.He has had so many experiences that you can fill many books.A man who can teach so much.
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