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Overview

  • 1 reference
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning Estonian
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Photographic Artist, Educator, Producer
  • Dip, BA, MA
  • From Singapore, Singapore
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Have meaningful conversations; trading stories.

ABOUT ME

A city boy, born and breed in Singapore. Lived in London for a bit.
Living in Tartu now, a master's student studying philosophy

Love traveling, experiencing different cultures and meeting new people along the way.

Left Singapore and now living in Estonia, Tartu. Currently a student in the University of Tartu.

PHILOSOPHY

We organise our lives through narrative.

Interests

Photography, Filmmaking / watching them, Art (Making and looking at them), Reading (non fiction / thought provoking), Roller blading, surfing, Martial art, walking in the spring and autumn leaves, music, cafe hopping and people watching, yoga

  • arts
  • photography
  • film making
  • yoga
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Prestige (in Nolan we trust), Matrix, cloud atlas, LOTR, Match point, The great beauty (La Grande Bellaza), La vita è bella, Departures (Japanese), Linklater's film (all 3 before and after, and boyhood), Aronosky's films (including fountain if i might add), Hurt locker and war films in general.

TV: Black Mirror (UK), House of Cards (US), True Detective, Walking Dead, Community, Californication, Entourage, Shameless, The Unit, Sherlock

Music: Chet Faker, Lykke Li, Young the Giants, Tame Impala, Of monsters and men, London Grammar, Disclosure, James Blake, Radiohead, Daughters, Rhye, Coldplay, Artic Monkeys, The XX, Civil Wars, Metronomy, Sigur Rós, Portishead,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There has always been a desire to spend a day visiting and paying respect to the victims who suffered and perished in Auschwitz. The visit changed my life. Overwhelmed and dumbfounded by the things human beings can do to each other because of ideology.

At the same time, the kindness of strangers; fellow travellers who possess a good heart and soul. Spending a few days together and connecting on a human level even though we barely know each other.
Moments like these, simple as it is, amaze me.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, Singapore, United Kingdom

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