Recent: ? Less recent: Celebrated NYE in Shanghai, received acupuncture, wandered around in Pinghu, Wuzhen and Shanghai, finished a Wudang Taiji training in Shanghai, started learning Mandarin, got a criminal record in China, celebrate CNY in China (2020) Less less recent: Ate frog 🐸 , cycled on ‘Silk Island’ Cambodia and learned about Khmer Rouge killings, moved to China for a month (2019) Less less less recent: changed home within Singapore, explored Bali, became a teacher, explored Bangkok greenery, explored Ho Chi Minh, acted as a Singapore tour guide (2019) Less less less less recent: Songkran, vipassana, finished a Thai massage and reflexology course (2019) Next up: learn Mandarin, discover more of Singapore, learn Salsa, improve bodywork, improve Taiji, meet inspiring people🥋 I love nature walks and the city, having long deep conversations and total silence, creating a connection and letting go. I love opposites and similarities, life and death, all emotions and feelings, and of course, I love meeting you. To me nothing is more inspiring than Life itself; beautiful and awful at the same time. It’s a drug with the most complex and intens side effects on earth. Nothing can compete with Life. Best part is, you can’t overdose 🤷🏼♂️ so make sure you take in as much as you can. Thank you, Life 🙏🏼
I am a computer nerd / book author / video artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. I escaped the stress of Silicon Valley to have much less money but a much better quality of life, eventually settling in the tiny mountain town of Pai, Mae Hong Son province, Thailand, where I have lived for most of the last 15 years. Pai is a beautiful place https://allaboutpai.com/intro/ Hope you can visit some day! In 2008 I helped Casey Fenton and the nomadic Couchsurfing dev team get set up with internet in our small town of Pai. I am a fan of natural hot springs and beautiful mountain landscapes. We have both in Pai. For my hobby, I make interactive video art where you can dance around and see yourself as if you are in an impressionist painting, or made of fruits, or distorted in time. I like to bring this video art to the Burning Man festival and I have also set it up in Pai and China. You can check it out here: https://lurkertech.com/mez/ For my digital nomad "day job" I make language learning apps for iOS/Android, including Thai and Mandarin dictionaries and phrasebooks. I am the programmer (not linguistic) side of the partnership, but I know quite a lot of Thai and just the basics of Mandarin. https://word-in-the-hand.com/ https://slice-of-thai.com/ You may have heard that Thailand, Laos, and Burma have unbelievable, horrible air pollution---worse than China---every hot season around February - April now. Lots of people buy expensive air purifiers/filters, but in Pai where I live, most people cannot afford those. So I created a free, open-source DIY design and tested it out and translated the instructions to Thai so that lots of people in Northern Thailand can breathe clean air: https://slice-of-thai.com/air/ It's not pretty, but I hope it will save a lot of lives. I noticed that a lot of Thai-Western couples seem to run into the same cross-cultural misunderstandings over and over again---most of them totally avoidable---so a Thai friend and I wrote a bilingual cultural guidebook to the aspects of Thai culture and Western culture that cause the most problems in relationships: https://thailandfever.com/ Everything is in English and Thai, so the reader can simply point across the page when he/she wants help explaining a difficult issue. I am happily single myself, but I hope this book will help people make a good decision about whether they want to embark on the challenge of a cross-cultural relationship, and be happier if so! I am a native English speaker and fluent in Thai. I learned French decades back (most of it has been replaced by Thai in my brain :) ) and know basic Mandarin. I have just started to learn some basic Spanish (so far went through 28 Pimsleur lessons and studying via YouTube/websites). Happy to teach you some some Thai if you want a very strange skill :) I am quiet and I am a non-drinker and non-smoker (of anything). I'm friendly if other people 420 etc., but for me, regular life is already stimulating enough :)
Digital Nomad, living and traveling in SE-Asia for the last two years. 🌏🧑🏽💻 I love creating artistic videos by blending art, tech, and culture. 🎬 I love connecting over fun activities or just a stroll through the city. Excited to meet and learn from fellow travelers and locals alike! ig: graylife_ My docu-series "What makes you happy": youtube.com/@graylife_
CURRENT MISSION Engage with my experiences. ABOUT ME Dynamic Jew-Bu digital hobo INFP. 13-year nomad in search of connection, community, companionship, courage, and other good things (but apparently only if they start with the letter 'c'.) So far I have lived in USA, Nepal, Australia, China, Germany, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Korea, Grenada, Israel, Thailand, and Egypt (Sinai), and now I'm turning towards the goal of rooting in one place as a home base. Work is content writing and online English teaching. Play is organizing events for digital nomad communities. Dinners, mafia nights, and events where we get high on super strong cacao and do connection-building activities. If you are a digital hobo dharma bum environmentalist dumpster diver gypsy traveler who enjoys abrasive folk-punk music and vegetarian food, we are probably destined to be friends forever or perhaps get married and you can definitely sleep on my couch in the event that it's available. And if it's available you can sleep on my couch without that stuff too, and we will be friends anyway :) PHILOSOPHY Mindfulness. Engaging with everyday experience, including suffering. Feeling stuff fully. Appreciating feeling. Letting go gracefully. Often failing at this philosophy, and trying again every time. The best way to solve a problem is to make friends with it. By the way, I am definitely more introverted than extroverted. I like to spend time with surfers/hosts--that's the whole point--but not ALL the time. I'm independent and prefer to spend some hours hanging out and getting to know my host or surfer, but also some hours being quiet to recharge. Spices take up a disproportionately large amount of weight in my travel bag and running out of whole cumin seeds is a major emergency. Let me cook for you! Compliment my food. This is my love language! Just kidding (kind of)
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