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Overview

  • 89 references 35 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Vietnamese
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Working
  • Bachelor Degree Chemistry and Phd in School of LIFE !
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION.

Live to 100 Maybe ....? YES MAN !

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

ABOUT ME

ME ?; An genuine easy going and open minded individual. Likes meeting people from all over the world.
A CRAB: Hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
I am always willing to help out and am a straight forward person. As you can read from my references.
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE !! Or is that TWICE ....!
There's a chance you'll like me and I'll like you. I like to meet like minded people.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a Box of Chocolates ... Be open minded and explore. Enjoy each others company and diversity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

MI CASA ES SU CASA/ MY HOME IS YOUR HOME. :-)

Message me and I will do my best to reply to EVERYONE !
Offering 1 spare room, Sofa-bed plus couches for people coming to London, and to show them around. Or meet others in London for coffee or something.

Organised a few events via Couch surfing;

Christmas Couch Surfing Party 2013, where hosted 23 Surfers;
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/christmas-day-for-us-orphans-united-kingdom

Kitchen Surfing event:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/kitchen-surfing-event-united-kingdom

Chinese/Vietnamese New Year 2014:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/chinese-vietnamese-new-year-2014-london

Adventure show:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/adventure-outdoor-show-united-kingdom

COLOUR FESTIVAL:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/holi-colour-festival-wembley

INTO THE WILD FESTIVAL:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/into-the-wild-festival-bank-holiday-weekend-royal-tunbridge-wells

GREENWICH TALL SHIP FESTIVAL:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/greenwich-tall-ship-festival-2014-united-kingdom

SUSHI EVENT:
https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/events/kitchen-surfing-sushi-london.

LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/598661

BBQ SPRINGTIME:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/609585

SUMMER SOCIAL/ PICNIC:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/euston-picnic-if-sunny-bar-meetup-if-raining-london-2015-08-05

PICNIC HYDE PARK:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/picnic-in-the-park-bank-holiday

ESTONIA SUMMER CAMP FESTIVITIES:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/tallinn-cs-camp

LATVIA SOCIAL AND EXPLORE:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/48-hrs-riga-socialise-explore

I tailor you CS experience to you, as a person, so that you can enjoy your stay in London. So you will have an EXCELLENT time !.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

FANTASTIC IDEA !!. I am new to CS but very open minded and want to discover more about it. Couch Surfing sounds like an amazing community of experiences and human interactions. LIVE LIFE !.
By immersing myself into Couch surfing I have met many fantastic people and experienced many rewarding moments, situations and emotions.

Interests

Cooking & Baking, Pubs & Clubs, Socialising, Meeting friends, Music, Travelling, Jogging,Weight training, Martial Arts, Movies. Also can do a little bit of knitting but very rusty.

  • arts
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • picnic
  • bbq
  • baking
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • pub crawls
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • knitting
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • surfing
  • boxing
  • martial arts
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Maroon 5, Coldplay, King's of Leon, Mumford & Sons, Adele, Katy Perry, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Michael Buble, Tchaikovsky. OK OK I admit it, I like Cheesy music too bring on ABBA and the Disco music !

Movies: A Summer Story, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Into the Wild, Leon, Hangover movies, The Butterfly Effect, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Stardust,The Lord of the Rings, Marvel comic movies.
Also into Chick Flicks; Love Actually, Mama Mia, 50 First Dates,Something About Mary, It could Happen to you, Definitely Maybe, Serendipity, A Very long Engagement, New Years Eve, Footloose, Etc Etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Guest I can claim to have travelled to over 100 countries. Most amazing place was Antarctica for it's purity and amazing scenary.

visited 91 states (40.4%)Create your own visited map of The World or Brazil travel guide for Android

Teach, Learn, Share

Sharing experiences and having good conversations. Laughing and having fun. Meeting new friends from around the world. Happy to share my knowledge of travelling the world and of London. I can cook and bake.

What I Can Share with Hosts

CARPE DIEM

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mali, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wales, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Malta, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

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