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  • 91 references 63 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English, Taiwanese
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Barber @ The Gentry
  • Barbering/Culinary/Audio Engineering/Computing.
  • From Singapore
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About Me

ABOUT ME
The Protagonist - ENFJ
To girls I am known as "Mr Nice Guy" (but honestly I am not that nice and I'm pretty sick of it), to guys I am known as a "bro"! I am quirky, geeky, good listener, outspoken, idealist, opportunist, on rare and bad days I am a "whiner" LOL. I belong to the creative types. I love to meet people and experience different cultures and see the world or save the world! I love food as much as travelling. I would choose a good conversation over a movie. I think I am a crazy enough, a borderline intensive thinker/dreamer. I'm into psychedelics, you know what I mean :)

PHILOSOPHY

- A cynic is a disappointed idealist.
- Learn, un-learn, re-learn.
- I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying.
- One must learn to fall before learning to walk or run.
- Common sense is not common.
- If you can't believe in yourself, you can't believe in anything.
- What goes around comes around...Karma.
- Sometimes, it is about the journey and not the destination.
- What is light without darkness? Hate without love?
- Murphy's law.
- Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment, I've been hosting (I take my cs'ers everywhere I go, sometimes I get too excited) and I think I am pretty good at it! Please bless me with some good karma in return when I travel as a couchsurfer:]

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sleeping everywhere and anywhere when you can...I did my time in the army for 2 years, sleeping in a bunk with 27 men is pretty crazy, a 3 minute shower is a gift, a cold can of coke in the forest is a gift, sleeping 8hrs is a gift, a compliment from your fellow army mate is a gift, smiling at the end of the day is a gift:] Life is a gift...

Interests

* Food - cooking and eating, cafes to restaurants.
* Music - Gigs, recording and producing, Guitars...etc
* Capoeira.
* Dancing in freestyle.
* Meeting random people.
* Driving - get lost.
* Nature - trekking, tramping...etc
* Shaman Journeying.
* Conversations!!!
* B o x i n g
* West Coast Swing
* Actor (so far TVCs and short films)

Currently, my biggest interest is playing in a band call Understanding Utopia, UU.

Checkout: http://uumusic.bandcamp.com/

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies, Docos and TV series: Oldboy, Rec, VHS, Snowpiercer, Only Lovers Alive, Dexter, Ancient Aliens, Dirty Job, Breaking Bad, Daybreaker, Wasteland, Thank you for smoking, Run Lola Run, 300, Stranger than fiction, Dark Knight, Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory, Sicko, Nat Geo, Travel Channel...etc

Music; Animals As Leaders, Deftones, Tool, The Curve, Portishead, Four Tet, Russian Circles, Jakob, God is an Astronaut, Norma Jean, Converge, Genghis Tron, Radiohead...etc

Books and Mags: The Zombie Survival Guide, The Art of War, Sound On Sound...etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I have done is to venture out of my country with a few bags and my savings. After a 11 years later I am still here with a job and got my residency here in Auckland:)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to:
- Cook awesome Southeast Asian cuisine the cheating way.
- Play the guitar and drums
- Recording etc...
- Smell good all the time
- Ginga (Capoeira)
- Biology, LOL.
- Strip and assemble a rifle like M16 in 60seconds
- Be intensely "dad" humourous
- Drive!

I want to learn how to:
- Speak your basic language (at some point)
- Be a BaddassMotherF!*ker when I need to be
- Be in love and not get hurt
- Be social and not feeling lonely inside:(
- Be less a control freak:(
- Be a better person than I am now

I want to share:
- My life:]
- My smile
- My music
- My Heart and Soul

What I Can Share with Hosts

My life skills, soul, spirit, laughter, a crying shoulder, a beautiful human being(trying)...etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, Singapore

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