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Overview

  • 33 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Tagalog; learning Arabic, French, Hindi, Malay, Spanish
  • 30, Female
  • Member since 2019
  • Technical Consultant - Remote
  • BA of Communication & Media Studies
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About Me

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Origin of Manila 🇵🇭
I also used to live and work in Singapore almost 4 years from 2018 up to early 2021. Unfortunately with pandemic, I had to come home but all is well as I had transitioned to a new work & life set-up called "remote working" as Sourcing and Data Consultant where I applied all my acquired knowledge from abroad and social intelligence skills of meeting all walks of life.

✈️2022 - 2025 my travel bucket list update: 🙌✈️🗺️🏖️
Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Jeju Island Korea, South America (Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia), Caribbean, Abu Dhabi, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Australia
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📌Update Nov 2023📌
Upcoming trips🌏
Nepal Oct-Nov'23
Australia Dec'23-Jan'24

📢Important Note on Israel Planned Trip:
~Hi, thank you so much for all the host request and advise for my future trip to Tel Aviv. However I decided to postpone until further scenario has settled down 🙏~

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PS: I'm a guest not the host so looking forward to stay in your lovely nook 😊

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

self-claim backpacker as of January 2019. Learning the ropes of solo traveling combined with acquainting new people along the way!

My love for traveling came from my mum when she was still 6th months pregnant carrying me on a flight from Riyadh Saudi Arabia to Manila sometime in the 90s, I was a fetus back then of course. I started setting foot on a commercial passage ship at the age of 8 traveling across Luzon, Visayas to Mindanao covering all 3 part islands of the Philippines. First time rode a budget airline Cebu Pacific when I was 10 years old to accompany the burial of my late grandma at her final resting place.

Since then, I've been going around the provinces of mum’s old town in Luzon riding a provincial bus every weekend from Manila to remote areas with limited signal and data.

All of these gave a clear idea to what I want to achieve a life of a backpacker and a career in digital tech space.

Interests

Passionate traveler. Spontaneous trips. Outdoor festival. Outdoor camping. Re-learning to ride a bike. Bi-language and cultural exhange🫰 Personal outreach help for street settlers🙏 Terrible planner ✌️

  • spas
  • technology
  • movies
  • socializing
  • backpacking
  • mountaineering
  • beaches
  • instagram
  • harry potter
  • pancakes
  • flights
  • first aid
  • book reading
  • edm music
  • concerts and festivals
  • health and fitness
  • cooking and eating
  • social events
  • football soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Coldplay, Something Wonderful by Judith McNaught, Secret Pandemic by Simone Heng, Harry Potter, Step-Up, Fast & Furious,True Blood, Grey's Anatomy, The Kingdom, Extraction movie, The Old Guard movie, Edge of Tomorrow movie, The Man from UNCLE movie, Kygo, Lany, Lauv, One Republic, Gryffin, BSB, Anne Marie, Rihanna

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've traveled solo crossing border of Malaysia from Padang Besar station to Hat Yai Thailand

I've pitched my own camping tent to an island called St Lazarus off coast beach from Singapore riding a jetty in order to get there

I've done again setting up my own tent at San Felipe Zambales, in northern Luzon, Philippines

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macao, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore

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