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Overview

  • 6 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil; learning Czech, Indonesian, Russian
  • 28, Male
  • Member since 2018
  • Student
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

I grew up in Indonesia and Bahrain as a kid.

In India I’ve lived in Vadodara,Cuddalore,Salem,manipal and Hyderabad.

I’ve travelled to Udaipur,Munnar,thekkady,Saurashtra(Gir,Junagadh),NewDelhi,Mumbai,Bangalore,Nainital,sikkim,Coorg,Augumbe,Goa,Kochi,Ooty,Pune,Chennai,Ahmedabad.

I’ve trekked to roopkund,ufa mountain and Athish waterfall (Russia).

I’ve done assisted paragliding in Sikkim.

I used to play in my college football league.

I’ve researched on shark skin riblets in my college final year.

I’m interested in space,higher dimensional theory and relativity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to travel to new cities,meet new people.
I want to visit those places which are beautiful but are hidden from the public eyes.This will be possible with the help of the locals who live in the city or through other travelers in the country.

Interests

  • photography
  • cooking
  • chess
  • couponing
  • guitar
  • volunteering
  • football
  • trekking
  • learning languages
  • mountain climbing
  • string theory
  • coursera
  • collecting boarding pass
  • general theory of relativity

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
Guns and roses,nirvana,red hot chilli peppers,ac dc,Metallica,queen,3 doors down,creed.
Eminem,2pac,ice cube,dr Dre.
Linkin park,green day,coldplay.
Marshmellow,shm, Avicii.

TV series
Breaking bad,True detective,Night manager, Californication,game of thrones,death note,Friends, Supernatural,Suits,Seynfield,

Movies
Icarus,Godfather 1&2, Shawshank Redemption,Fight club,Forest gump(I like all Tom Hanks movies),Lord of the rings,Inception, interstellar,Wolf of the wall Street,Ted,21&22 Jump street,

Books
Surely you must be joking Mr Feynman,Hyperspace,Godfather,Apocalypse now,Camel Club,Dan brown books,Rich dad & Poor dad,I used to enjoy reading Hardy boys as a kid,science of interstellar written by kip Thorne,harry Potter books,Sidney sheldon's autobiography,IE irdov and Krotov for it's beautiful physics problems.University physics for the wonderful way they have explained elementary physics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My school friends live about 1000 km from the city I used to live in. To be precise they used to live in the city called Vadodara and I used to live in the city called Manipal.One day in our WhatsApp group one of my friends posted a message that guys let's meet today in a cafe at 9pm.It was about 12:30 am when she posted this.I was really getting bored with my every day cycle of going to university for my research getting bad results on the software coming back home cooking.My sleep cycle was also affected by this and I used sleep at 4 am everyday.So I thought wouldn't it be interesting to go to Vadodara and surprise my friends.I immediately booked the ticket and I reached there at about 3 pm.First thing I did was to go to my barber who I used to visit every month for three years.He looked at me and almost cried,it had been 4 years since I had last come to the city.I told him just cut the hair the way you want to and give me a face pack.It was the most wonderful barber experience I ever had.After that I was loitering around my old house and then I went to a park where my late grandpa used to go.I sat there had my meal which I had packed from home and called my friend.She was super excited that I called her again I didn't call her for the past 5 months.I cooly asked her about the meeting in the cafe this was at about 7 pm.She was like it would have been great if I was there so I told her that why shouldn't she come to my city.My clothes looked dirty and I didn't pack anything so I went over to a polo store and got a T-shirt and then I took a rickshaw to the cafe.I reached the cafe at about 8:15 pm and was waiting for my friends.The first person to enter was my friend pooza who I hadn't met for the past 5 years she couldn't believe that I was sitting there.Then my friends came as usual late at 9: 30 pm and they were all looking at me like I had teleported from my city,but one of my best buddies was sick and didn't show up in the cafe. So after eating and traveling for some time I went to my friend Karan's house at 1:30 am.Now I forgot which was his apartment building and there were four buildings.So I ran to each one of them hoping I could recognise his door.Somehow I did recognise and I heard a big bark.His dog had a become a dinosaur from a puppy.I rang the door bell and he was like Ashok and he was so happy even though I showed up that late.The expression on my friends face and the barbers was totally worth all the traveling and the cost.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn coding,I can teach how to play the guitar.How to book cheap air tickets(sky scanner) ((open to suggestions on this one)).

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my experiences in different country,strange and funny things which happened with me.Also get few souvenirs from India. I can cook Indian food for my hosts.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Poland, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bahrain, India, Indonesia

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