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Overview

  • 13 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Vietnamese
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • phd student
  • i studied at manchester and london
  • From london
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

get a solid handstand on the parallel bars

ABOUT ME

i am playful-inquisitive, quiet but lo-fi confident. i'm fond of: idle-time to daydream; libraries, especially the dusty corners; and, ellipses..., dashes and other punctuation. stretching like a cat also rates up there!

to be less elusive... i'm a phd student looking at particle simulations. this entails building prototypes, conducting experiments and drinking lots of tea.

i appreciate my friends, late sessions with books, dancing, reading eecummings and other poetry, op-art and the theatre, climbing up trees, and listening to deviant music.

PHILOSOPHY

always be curious

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

if you email me, i'll probably let you couchsurf with me

Interests

paleo, movnat, natural movement, gymnastics. maths and computer science.

  • cats
  • arts
  • books
  • poetry
  • dancing
  • drinking
  • reading
  • music
  • rock climbing
  • gymnastics
  • computer science
  • mathematics
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

books, all time favourites: all the names (saramago); the wind up bird chronicles (murakami); the art of looking sideways (fletcher); computer architecture AQA (hennessy&patterson)

recently read: hikaru no go (hotta); complications (gawande); the unconsoled (ishiguro); blink (malcolm gladwell)

films: man with a movie camera, the corporation, spirited away, ringu, howl's moving castle

music: quantic soul, tortoise, manu chao, joanna newsom, sigur ros, hexstatic, sufjan stevens, air, four tet, fridge, jay-z, rodrigo y gabriela, jenny lewis, cinematic orchestra (actually, this list isn't truly deviant, is it? ;) how about autechre, squarepusher and plump djs?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

bivvying on top of the mulanje massif in malawi (where i spent 5 weeks counting aphids).

Teach, Learn, Share

remember when you use to do cartwheels and handstands in the playground? if you'd like, i can show you how to re-capture them!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Malaysia, Portugal, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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