Born in Borneo, Malaysia, my heritage is deep rooted in South East Asia between Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia.

I am especially drawn to architecture, people, arts, and culture. I am most passionate about spaces, voids, and gaps, and everything that occupies them. I am known by my peers to be a keen observer, and an avid documentarian (a person who absorbs everything like a sponge and records everything in my sketches).

I have worked in a theatre production, a film production house, a few architectural and urban planning practices, and indipendently as a self-taught artist taking commissions doing murals and paintings. My subjects are often places I have travelled to.

I discovered from early on that travelling is a great way to experience. I often like to take my time to witness and experience many great things firsthand, and that is perhaps the main reason why I am here.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To take a peek and dive right into the mundane of daily routines other than mine, the ordinary, the normality, and enjoy small little pleasures of life in doing so.

Interests

• arts
• culture
• architecture
• design
• sketching
• festivals
• music
• philosophy
• food
• people

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
Jazz, soul, electronic, funk, blues, keroncong.
Arvo Pärt, Max Richter, Yann Tiersen, Hans Zimmer.

Movies
Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Yasmin Ahmad, Dain Said.

Books
Yuval Noah Hariri, Paulo Coelho, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Haruki Murakami, Sigmund Freud, Rutger Bregman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went solo backpacking for five months around Asia and Europe and reached Everest Base Camp twice. The first time which I had to be evacuated due to altitude sickness and luckily escaped a storm and an avalanche which killed over 100 people.

Teach, Learn, Share

Urban sketching, painting, films, music.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Meaningful connections and conversations over a cup of tea or coffee while sketching, or a long walk we are going to remember.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jersey, Jordan, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, United Kingdom