CURRENT MISSION

go back to Asia.

ABOUT ME

i live to enjoy life, not to work, not to make money (yet ^-^). at the moment i spend my days furiously trying to draw like a pro and come up with designs that are new and inspiring....it's hard.

...that's during the day, at night i'm a nomihodai fiend! all praise japanese drinking!

visited 22 states (9.77%)

read more to find out more, or just contact me, i'm happy to help.

PHILOSOPHY

it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

currently i do this couch surfing in order to meet new people on my travels and save a bit of money enabling me to go further around the world. when i return to the uk and start living in coventry for my 4 years of Uni i will gladly help out any backpackers (coventry is really close to Birmingham, less than an hour) but is quite shit by itself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

best couch surfing i ever did was before i knew these kinds of sites existed. it was in Tokyo, Roppongi that i met the nicest guy on earth. basically i was in roppongi with a japanese friend having some drinks and just enjoying life when he, regrettably, had to leave to take his last train home. i decided to stay a bit longer and have another drink by myself seeing as my last train back to kawasaki was not due to leave for another 20 mins. so there i was quietly drinking my beer (japanese beer is the best!) when i noticed a guy at the other side of the bar having some whisky from a small bottle (now, being who i am, drunk and having a strong Scottish background i felt it was my duty to explain to this guy how to properly drink whisky), so i wondered over and through my fairly crap japanese i explained that what he was doing was wrong and showed him how it should be done. he then decided to teach me all about japanese o-sake, and we both got drunk together.

the time came for me to leave so that i would not miss my train and i started to say goodbye to my newly found drinking buddy when he suddenly shouted "chotto mate yo!" and whipped out his mobile phone. the conversation was short and excited, then he hung up with a smile and turned round to face me and asked "kobe-beef suki?" (do you like kobe beef?). i had never had the notoriously expensive beef so i answered accordingly which seemed to please him and he promptly invited me to have some kobe beef with him over some more booze.

during the lavish meal he started to speak fluent English and explained that he liked to hear my child-like Japanese and that was why he had refrained from using English before. i learned that he was married, 28, and that he worked for Square Enix as a game CG artist/programmer (most of us know of Square Enix through their Final Fantasy films and games). he had a lot to say and i was all ears (i love pc games, i would call myself a PC otaku), then i told him of my trip so far, the people i have met, things i have tried, things i regret not doing, we got on like two old best friends in an onsen. 1am turned to 3am and he decided to show me the roppongi nightlife at it's best so we hit the town and drank every kind of alcohol that i had not heared of. more talking, gazing at girls, drink, gaze, talk, toilet (with all the funny functions and buttons), drink, gaze...you get the point. 3am turned to 6am and it was time to go. i would like to note that he had paid for everything!!! all the booze, kobe beef...everything! even though i had protested he told me that i had no job and he was well paid, as well as the fact that it was his duty to do so because he was my senpai (something we had agreed on earlier on that night) and i was his kohi. the Japanese are really polite and unreasonably stubborn.

we arrived at his house by way of taxi (another stupendous expense he was unwilling to share) where he showed he to the guest room and we said goodnight to each other.

next morning (well, 1pm...) i woke up with a hangover not remembering what i had been up to the night before, not knowing where i was, surrounded by unfamiliar walls and objects. slightly scared i crept down the stairs in search of an exit. i slipped (socks on polished wooden floors, deadly combination). The sound of my ass hitting the stairs conjured a woman out of the kitchen and to my side. After many apologies from both of us we started to get talking and my memory came back to me bit by bit, it turns out she was his wife and Mr Jun had left earlier that morning. She offered me breakfast and then decided to drive me back home to Kawasaki.

I still keep in touch with him and we are good friends.

That was the best couch surfing/night out of my life!

Interests

i LOVE mountainbiking, drawing, music (iron maiden anyone?), drinking and , obviously, traveling.

• dining
• breakfast
• beer
• nightlife
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sailing
• software
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

far too much to list here, think of it this way, i have 2 hard drives each one has 500Gb and they are both dedicated to music and films.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

read the story about the best night out...ever! otherwise i've seen some cool things. listing specifics is hard because in japan i have paricipated in rituals (fire clensing, tea ceremony) and in the Caribbean i did some cool things too like, bathing in sulfur lakes, diving, eating/smoking strange things, sailing between all of the virgin islands and stopping at each one (accidently stumbled accross the set of Prates of the Caribbean which was cool too). Greece was also very nice, i love greek food. Korea is ace too!

Teach, Learn, Share

...i'm too young and inexperienced to teach anything of any value, just wait a few years.

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