CURRENT MISSION

To meet people through CS and make cultural and other exchanges. - "What is not shared is lost!" ;)

ABOUT ME

Short Intro: I am an easygoing, open-minded, friendly, fun-loving, crazy, curious hedonist person.

I like to break every stereotype, and I think I strike a chord with those, who like doing the same. =))

I am in the occupation of :
- Liberating minds;
- Breaking stereotypes (of any kind, of anyone;)); and
- Transgressing [Meaning of Transgress: over-stepping, going beyond the limit or boundary]!! ;P:D

Read the four laws of pleasure below under the "Teach Learn and Share" section. I love all kinds of art and artistic people! I would love to meet nice people from all over the world. I also love adventurous people who're full of surprises and full of life!! If u wanna have "loads" of fun, then "come" to me!!! ;)) Haha!! ;)))

I like all kinds of creative and artistic-minded people. I believe in consensual pleasure, mutual respect and tolerance, liberation specially for women (see "types of ppl i enjoy" section below), freedom, sustainability, peace, arts, enjoying the little & simple pleasures of life like 'chocolates'! ;)

I think in general, i just go along well with all those people who're different and who're courageous enough (i.e. who own up the fact & are bold, or sometimes even proud) to be different!

People tell me that i am a dreamer, and that sometimes i can be unpredictable!! And u know what? i think they are right! ;)) I love travelling and meeting new people, exploring and having nice adventures in life, so am happy to find out about CS! I like playing silly games. hehe ;)

- "What is not shared is lost!" ;)
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Long Intro (please don't read it - i will delete this portion soon! haha): I like different, daring and original people, and I like to "suck" the marrow of life. While maintaining mutual respect, and respecting mutual consent, I try seeking maximum mutual pleasure with other like-minded people who also believe in this same philosophy.

I like learning about other peoples' cultures, thoughts, ideas and stories etc. I am mostly enthusiastic, talkative, intense & full of energy but not always.

Meeting & exchanging with different people thrills and motivates me, allows me to expand my world-view. I think that meeting & exchanging with other people in fact helps us understand ourselves better.

I'm an open-minded, adventurous and pretty crazy (in a nice way) person, who also likes deriving narcissistic pleasure from life. I like different, daring, bold, courageous and original people. :) I'm very interested in the world and its people, I want to learn more about it. :) I like doing cultural, language (and tongue ;) ) exchange.

I would like to host or be hosted by Parisian people - not only those who could call themselves to be typically Parisian, but also those who just happen to be here at this moment! :-) In general, I think I am a very easy going and down to earth person. I respect other people's point-of-view while being open about what i think about it; and I like those who accept others as they are rather than judging them (and while being open in their views, who try to see/ understand things from other person's view-point as well). :o)

PHILOSOPHY

Life is short, so live it to your fullest, and enjoy it to the maximum.

The pleasure is in the search, & not in finding.

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1. Let's neither "take pride", nor "be ashamed of" things which we didn't consciously decide or didn't have any control over; or the ones with which we got labelled just by a mix of the accident of birth - & some other natural phenomena): like your race, your sex, your sexual orientation, your national identity, your clan, your sex drive (libido), your race, your color, even your religion (which is usually the religion of the family where u were born), etc.

2. Have respect for winning arguments with the depth and the strength of reason, rather than the might of power and/or authority!

3. So have no respect for racism, patriotism, religious fundamentalism (or for that matter, antisemitism, islamophobia) or homophobia, etc.

4. So long as there is still no equality or global acceptance, one could/should encourage: feminism, sexism, Queerism (e.g. bi-sexual and trans-gender)ism, and polyamoury etc. (Let us overcome our instincts of possessiveness and jealousy; and let's instill and internalize the principle of sharing).

Cheers! ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting/Exploring someone for a few days (minimum) to a few weeks (maximum) is what I would like to do ideally.

I would like to offer anyone to stay with me, or inversely I could also be hosted by someone.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's a super FUN idea!! :-) I have already done it a lot outside of CS through contacts, and now I would like to do the same through CS!! :)

Interests

Hedonism, epicureanism, engaging in pleasurable activities, collecting silly things, playing silly games, role-playing games, photography, films. Also highly interested in people, their culture, their languages and their 'tongues'! ;-)

Art, dali, escher, schiele, surrealism, impressionism, op art,

• arts
• culture
• impressionism
• photography
• coloring
• environment
• womens rights
• exercise
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• anthropology
• history
• languages
• religion
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Varying: From Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of the being to George Orwell's Animal Farm, 1984. Also Nusrat Fateh Ali kahn/khan (singer), Pink Floyd (group), The Wall (album, movie), Pulp Fiction (movie), Juno(movie), Woody Allen(actor/director), Stanley Kubrick (director) etc.

Movies: the princess bride, le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain, interview with the vampire,
Before Sunrise, Labyrinth, La Vita e Bella, Paris je t'aime, Edward Scissorhands, 12 Angry Men, One Flew over cuckoos nest, The life of others (German film), Les Misérables, Waking Life!
And i must add: Star Trek -TNG (series)... amazing!!
Books: 1984, Animal Farm, Sophie's World, Ethical Slut, The Fountainhead,....
Music: Pink Floyd, Guns N Roses, Aerosmith (yes, old rock bands)! ;) U2, Beatles (old, very old!), some numbers by Kurt Kobain (everything i like is so old fashioned!) ;)

One of my favorite passages from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" [This style of writing is called "nonsense verses", it's one of the best ones that i know of in this class..]
(It's by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872")

"The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright --
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done --
'It's very rude of him.' she said,
'To come and spoil the fun!'..."

complete piece here: http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html

read discussion on it here:
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/02/walrus-and-carpenter-lewis-carroll.html

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Everything seems so amazing for the first time, but so ordinary and banal later on. Which is why people in the east find the west so awesome (& like to come here); while on the other hand, those in the west find the east so amazing.

One must get used to this idea, and try finding a new perspectives and points-of-view in the already tried things.

Teach, Learn, Share

Exchange hedonist & epicurean ideas and share/ teach/ learn/do stuff related to it. These days i'm learning some nice relaxing massage techniques! :))

Well, I'm interested in learning & exchanging exotic languages and accents. Let's make our brains "somersault" by means of creative discussions and synthesizing ideas, and our tongues engage into a tongue-of-war ;)

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Some may find this strange, but that is only because of our social conditionings. Nothing else. I'm sure students of history and arts (& sociology & anthropology) already know what i'm saying. :)

Follow the following four simple "laws of pleasure" and you will be happy (they are listed in the order of their importance and precedence i.e. the higher up in the list, the greater its importance)!

First—-That pleasure which produces no pain is to be embraced.

Second—-That pain which produces no pleasure is to be avoided.

Third—-That pleasure is to be avoided which prevents a greater pleasure, or produces a greater pain.

Fourth—-That pain is to be endured which averts a greater pain, or secures a greater pleasure.

The first two of these four laws are of critical importance here, the third is also OK, but extreme care must be taken in observing the fourth one, since it is the one which always appeals to the religious/mystic sentiments and has historically been used and abused by them! :(

I'd love to teach/learn and share with people to be hedonistic, and to try to live and enjoy life to its fullest without giving-in to the external pressures of the society or being trapped by its conditionings!

Let's have our spiritual and physical energies unite...

Massages - all kinds! Body (wellness, feel-good, relaxing) massages and last, but not the least - and one of my personal favourite - foot massages!

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Liberation, especially for women... I'd like to put up a question: Why are the societal inhibition different for men and women? Why for men terms like "Don Juan" are used (and the term is even perceived positively by the society); but when it comes to women, the world uses the term nymphomania! That's Not fair with them!

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Most of you might laugh at what I have to say here, but I will do it anyway... because once you see things differently, then it brings a great satisfaction & feeling of contentment, to be able to experience such things, and also to be able to share your experiences with others.

In the pursuit of maximizing pleasure, let us be generous in giving what others want, and open in receiving what others have to offer!!

It is indeed a spiritual exercise of being one with the world of which we are a part. The process of realizing that "we" as individuals, and all that which surrounds us (of which we feel to be but a part) is one and the same thing. Everything is a manifestation of the same source of that resides within each of us, and is shared by everything and everyone around us. It is only a matter of whether we are willing to submit to this idea of "perceived reality" or whether we are willing to open our eyes to the "real reality"?

Spirituality also entails to connect with nature and connecting (i.e. being one) with it. Seeing oneself and other being as a one big totality (as being part of one big whole).

One could make an attempt to overcome the barriers of the physical reality by means of positive energies of the human bodies. Letting physicality and the spirituality unify and drawing the maximum effect pleasure by their synergistic energies.

One could try/employ different techniques to achieve a great sense of contentment: e.g. one could try that by playing with the ideas of soft/delicate and hard/strong.. the bodily and the spiritual.. trying to play with the ideas and experiences amongst things which can be seen versus those which can only be felt.

This must all be commenced first in a relaxing environment by exchanging soft movements of different everyday life objects and different parts of the body in order to communicate to the mind through our different senses and different sensations, and then going for the ultimate unification - of the psychological and the physical senses. If one is able to achieve this feeling of oneness with the self and the surroundings, the result of that can be extremely ecstatic, spiritual and that of fulfilment and being content with ones self. So are you ready?

See you soon!! ===

I could teach you about some of the the sevens (7s)! Like there are 7 chakras, 7 different love styles (Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania, Agape, Charitos, Philia). Have a look here for description and tell me how many of these do you approve of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_styles

Of course, I would also be most eager and willing to learn anything else that you would like to teach me as well. :)
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Some people may find this interesting (especially those amongst u, who are interested in different/alternative view-points) :
In our anthropology course, we were supposed to identify any topic with famous or established points-of-view, and then find out if someone was proposing an alternate point-of-view.
I decided to choose the idea of "how the idea of love or loving is seen or viewed by the world in general, and some alternative view-points".

See these 2 videos
In my endeavour, i particularly found a really interesting view-point, which to my great surprise also has a great popular/cult following by some hundreds of thousands of people world-wide!

You may see this short video and tell me if u agree with his point-of-view: (note: only very broad-minded ppl should see this) Being selfish; sharing pleasures of life
(Some of the crazy ideas that he talks about are: "Be selfish", & "Finding a treasure is a lesser joy than sharing it"!)

I have seen a vast variety of other videos by the same person. His philosophy are based on the following ideas: "loving oneself first"; "loving everyone else as well as much as we love ourselves"; "being selfish", & "finding a treasure is a lesser joy than sharing it"! Do you think what he says really has substance? or are they just crazy ideas?

Here's another one which many people at first find particularly weird, because people have norally not been exposed to such view-point before. (note: as i said before, only very broad-minded ppl should see this)
Love is really a "Sacred" Experience!

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These days i'm into practicing some new massage styles, as well as into trying my hands in photography (particularly portraits and macro)

And ultra finally...
Hey, i need some help with a social experiment that an anthropologist friend is conducting. If u wish to participate, then here's what you need to do.
Their hypothesis is that there's a correlation between the person's height, waist, and his/her mood!
This is what you need to do to help:
You need to write me the following, before i have have seen you in person. You need to a) send me your, height and waist (in inches or cms) ; b) tell me how much enthusiastic, you think, you will be as my guest (you must give yourself an index or a number on a scale of 1 to 10 on cheerfulness scale, with 1 being not enthusiastic at all, while 10 being hyper-enthusiastic and super cheerful all the times); and c) tell me why did you give yourself this index number? That's it! :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Netherlands, Norway

Countries I’ve Lived In

France