Hello! I'm a Singaporean poet and armchair philosopher who attends university in Massachusetts but is currently based in London. In the last three years, I've also spent time studying in Paris, Moscow and St Petersburg. I love my alcohol and am a pretty heavy drinker, am obsessed with Sylvia Plath, and occasionally play the ukulele.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Mostly to meet people! The accommodation is secondary - I love meeting and talking to people and making new friends around the world! It's also always great to have a friend in a new city.

Interests

• poetry
• fashion
• lgbt rights
• traveling
• philosophy
• feminism
• foreign languages
• coffee shops
• musical theatre
• portrait photography
• indie folk
• raw fish

Music, Movies, and Books

music: fleetwood mac, joni mitchell, the cranberries, yeah yeah yeahs, belle & sebastian, the weepies, ifwe, the beatles, angus & julia stone, bowerbirds, the xx, the beach boys, copeland, amy seeley, the national

musicals: next to normal, rent, legally blonde, wicked

movies: blue is the warmest colour, blue valentine, her, the devil wears prada, legally blonde, jeux d'enfants (love me if you dare), moulin rouge

poets: sylvia plath, anne sexton, marge piercy, courtney queeney, jorge luis borges, anna akhmatova, tsvetaeva, brodsky, pablo neruda, louise glück, carol ann duffy

other books: harry potter (ask me about my wand and my house), milan kundera, sartre/beauvoir, goethe's faust, virginia woolf, jane austen, anna karenina and eugene onegin (ask me about my paper on love and the relativity of time)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

survived the singaporean education system

also:
- roof-climbing in st petersburg during the white nights and watching the bridges go up during the 3am sunrise
- spent 3 weeks backpacking spain solo knowing almost no spanish when i started
- 14th july fireworks in paris
seen the eiffel tower and the sydney opera house within 72 hours of each other
- winter sunrises in california's death valley
- read all three books of dante's divine comedy in a week

Teach, Learn, Share

if you've ever been curious about:
the languages i speak
free-verse poetry
singapore
sartre/beauvoir/nietzsche/heidegger
metaphysics
philosophy of time
my bad tinder dates,

then i'm your girl!

What I Can Share with Hosts

good conversation, excellent vietnamese coffee, poetry recommendations, and a love for french existentialism. will also bring a bottle of moscato.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Russian Federation, Singapore, United States