CURRENT MISSION

Connecting deeply with people wherever I go =)

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Brunei (a tiny Sultanate located in Southeast Asia, on the northwestern tip of the island of Borneo), went to high school in Singapore, and then moved to America in 2007 to pursue a college education. I graduated in 2011 and have been working in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since.

Connecting deeply with people makes me come alive :)

PHILOSOPHY

Personalism.

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."- Howard Thurman

"When a person is sick, in danger or in misery, all religious duties recede, all rituals are suspended, except one: to save life and relieve pain."- Herschel

"First of all, faith is not an emotion, not a feeling. It is not a blind subconscious urge toward something vaguely supernatural. It is not simply an elemental need in ma's spirit. It is not a feeling that God exists. It is not a conviction that one is somehow saved or "justified" for no special reason except that one happens to feel that way...It is not something so purely yours that its content is incommunicable...Faith is first of all an intellectual assent. It perfects the mind, it does not destroy it. It puts the intellect in possession of Truth which reason cannot grasp by itself...Faith is not expected to give complete satisfaction to the intellect. It leaves the intellect suspended in obscurity...yet it does not frustrate the intellect, or deny it, or destroy it. It pacifies it with a conviction which it knows it can accept quite rationally under the guidance of love." - Thomas Merton

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to CS but this seems like such a cool way to meet people and make new friends!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Relatively new to CS!

Interessen

Social entrepreneurship, psychology, religion, personal development, cooking, yoga, zumba, and traveling!

• lgbt rights
• education
• cooking
• yoga
• zumba
• traveling
• socializing
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• psychology
• religion

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Les Miserables, Argo, etc.
Music: Celine Dion, Boyce Avenue, JJlin, Lee Hom Wang
Books: The Last Hunger, Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Blue Sweater, The Rape of Nanking...mostly nonfiction books about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Safari in Kenya - our van was really close to a lion. Also kissed a giraffe.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

China, India, Kenya, Malaysia

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, United States