ABOUT ME Teacher - Local journalist - Philosopher - IT guy - Theologian - Comic book addict - Facebook marketeer - City historian - Movie buff - ... PHILOSOPHY Imagine a nation whose symbols are chocolate, waffles, French fries, beer and comic books. Could such a country exist? Wouldn't you wanna move to that great spot? Guess what: it does exist, it is called Belgium and I am already living there!
Interested in Beer
Fluent in English
Learning Afrikaans
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Hosted four guests in total, couchsurfed once in Finland, spread the CS message.
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Le fabeleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Fight Club, Casablanca, Sunshine, Heat, Sin City, Lola Rennt, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix Music: Radiohead, Tool, Porcupine Tree, Snow Patrol, Tom McRae, dEUS, CPeX, Soulwax, The Scene, The Streets, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Faithless, Milk Inc Books: Blankets (Thompson), Sin City (Frank Miller), Watchmen (Alan Moore), 1984 (Orwell), The World is Flat (Friedman), Making Globalisation Work (Stiglitz), Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonnegut), Calvin & Hobbes (Watterson), everything (Anthony Horowitz)
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Cape Good Hope, South Africa - Batu Caves, Malaysia - Grutas Park, Lithuania - Sagrada Familia, Spain
Teach, Learn, Share
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald A ship in a port is safe, but that is not where ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther King
My Interests
Where do I start? I guess everything brand new or ancient old is relevant. The most interesting thing are those that make you discover a new part of yourself.
