My name is Adila and I am originally from Malaysia. I am a full-time human rights volunteer. You can find out more about me on www.chrysalism.net

I am pretty laid-back, though you can see me dreaming here and there sometimes. I can be introverted, but I talk a lot with people once I like them.

I'm not the type of person to demand a lot of comfort, I don't mind the heat or the cold. Sleeping is a skill, so I can do it anywhere: train stations, bridges, under a waterfall, in a detention center. I travel with a hammock, and I try to get into it whenever the chance arises.

Generally I like to travel on my own, although I prefer hitchhiking with a good partner.

I can be careless at times, which made me realize how completely dependent I can be on the kindness of strangers.

I'm shy at first, but I can be silly if I get comfortable. Please watch out if I dance.

PHILOSOPHY

Just because you can't dance doesn't mean you shouldn't dance.
(Also applies to making music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bms3nA3iDfo

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I connect with people and I tend to trust strangers at first sight. I work a lot with people, and for that I think it is important to maintain contact, connection and relations with strangers and friends alike.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Positive, although everytime I meet someone amazing they're either forced to leave or I'm forced to leave. :(

Interests

Colouring, psychology, snooker, food.

Contemplating life through poems, scribblings and music. (:

I try to practice paradoxical intention and generally being counter-intuitive.

I follow the Tetrapharmakos.

• arts
• poetry
• human rights
• cooking
• meditation
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• sports
• law
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• snooker

Music, Movies, and Books

Jarabe de Palo, Chico Trujillo, Pablo Neruda, Man's Search For Meaning.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2016: I worked as a lawyer representing refugees in Malaysia.

2014-2015: I worked as a human rights international accompanier/observer in a peace community in North Colombia.

2015: I almost drowned my captain on his sailboat in the Colombian coast.

2012: I spent 11 days in a detention centre, made a lot of friends and ended up opening a class on "Refugee Rights" during my time there; it was the first time I really felt that my studies could impact individuals in a concrete way.

2013: My first mountain hike in Nujiang valley, China where I got to 4200m altitude. Although later I got lost twice during mountain hikes; first time it happened I had to sleep in a pig sty; the second time it happened, I almost died falling towards a waterfall and had to sleep there.

2012: I went to the World Amateur Snooker Championship in Bulgaria. I didn't make it too far, but it was a great experience in the sport I love. (:

Teach, Learn, Share

Please don't expect too much, I go by the "anything-goes" school of thought. I am somewhat clueless when it comes to system and order, and my sensory experiences can be somewhat different than others.

I can teach people how to cook as long as you don't try to make me read a recipe. Caveat: I am a big improviser (say if there´s no milk, I'd go ahead and use a banana).

I can possibly make arts, but it will be lopsided.

I am not the most musically gifted, but I have a guitar which I like to use to write poems, explore emotions or meditate with.

Also, I like snooker (:

What I Can Share with Hosts

Let me know what you want or need. Or keep silent and I can infer! (:

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Monaco, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Malaysia, Netherlands

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