I am living in the Portland area since 2011 and I love the city. It offers a lot in a small package. People are wonderful. For living, I work in a semiconductor company. Outside work, I watch football, and play sometimes, play music (for myself at the time), go to live music shows, explore cuisines of different countries, trying to add a few languages in my list, .... also going on camping, hiking trips on holidays or long vacations.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Interested in meeting new people, local people and willing to host open-minded people when I have time and showing them around the beautiful city that I live in now.

Interests

Traveling, camping, backpacking, learning languages, football, music, world cinema, photography, trying different cuisines.

• photography
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• soccer
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Mostly classic rock and blues ... classical, jazz once in while.

Movies: Too many to list ... some of my favorite directors are Stanley Kubrick, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Robert Bresson, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak.

Books: Again, too many to list ... I always keep one fiction and non-fiction with me and switch them based on my mood and focus.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Biked from Sapporo to Wakkanai, in Japan ... along the western coast of the Hokkaido island.
Biked from Hamburg to Dresden in Germany along the Elbe river.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States