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  • 9 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hindi; learning Gujarati, Sanskrit (Saṁskṛta)
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • grown man failing to behave like a teenager
  • bachelor degrees in english, medicine and sanskrit. prese...
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About Me

i am a happy go lucky guy in early thirties who is desperately trying to hold onto his teens... ( irony - my wife and me are expecting our first child in two months ) i am wacky, nonsensical, gregarious, fun loving yet timid, modest, confused, atheist guy who just want to find some sense in this chaotic world....

MY PHILOSOPHY

Instead of trying to change "THE WORLD" try to change "YOUR WORLD"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people and exchange my findings about this enigma called life.

Interests

I don’t know if this will interest anyone, but I’m trying to understand how many things interest me. So I’ve made a list, partly for fun, partly to help me understand, and, perhaps, focus in on some subjects a little better as time passes.

The list is quite long, but not exhaustive, and will probably grow over time as other things spring to mind. Indeed, I’ve just thought of a few things I’ve missed!

My knowledge of the subjects listed ranges from a little to quite a lot, and tends to reflect the topics which are the flavour of a particular moment.

The Eclectic List

It’s in alphabetical order, not in any order of priority.

Advertising – methods and systems, and efficiency
Animals and wildlife
Business – strategy, development
Cars, Eco friendly engines, electric power, bio fuels, European, Asian, and American (I like muscle cars)
Coffee machines – Italian espresso makers, especially the coffee bar versions
Culture – what it is, how it differs and evolves
Current affairs – news, views, and happenings in Italy and elsewhere
Design – combining function and form – why I like guitars, cars, motorbikes, tools, knives & guns
Economics
English teaching – how to help people learn English, develop & consolidate their skills
Environment – maintaining and enhancing it
Films and entertainment – philosophy is my favourite genre
Food and drink – discovering new flavours, and nutrition
Guitars – had a couple, cannot play them – love the sound, and the form, though, Want an electro-acoustic Ovation model – one day.
History – modern history, but not only
Intelligence – how we develop it, why some people are more intelligent than others, different types of intelligence, artificial intelligence
Internet, and related technology, css, php, web design
Journalism, including press freedom, citizen journalism
Language – how we learn them, develop our skills, how to accelerate learning, grammar
Law, and legal systems (civil v common law), legal terminology
Legends – and their origins
Marketing – web and traditional methods. Tourism and travel promotion via the internet
Martial arts – Tai chi
Media and communications – differences between cultures, new techniques, especially use of www
Mobile phones – technology, functions, operating systems
Music – many genres, including classical, rock, blues, and some pop
Non-lethal weapons – I like the idea of being able to disable someone without killing him/her
Paranormal events – ghosts
Photography, cameras, lenses, off-camera flash (I’m a novice at this) and photo editing
Politics – political systems – particularly new ones!
Psychology – what it is, and how it effects out lives, and use of the www
Real estate & architecture
Renewable energy – particularly solar energy, biomass & wave/ocean power generation systems
Science – just about everything, much of which is mixed in with this list
Shooting – bows and arrows, crossbows, pea shooters, rail guns
Space, space travel, and UFOs
Technology – web technology, computers, operating systems, applications
Television – how it is used, how it can be used
Tools – love ’em (weird, I know!) – drills, spanners, saws, screwdrivers, soldering gear
Travel – being in other places, not getting there!
Video games and gaming platforms – Wii, Playstation
Writing – techniques, writing for the web, trying to improve my own writing skills, and how to teach others to write

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  • business

Music, Movies, and Books

i am a big movie buff ( this is the understatement of the year) as i try to live my life whatever time i get after watching loads and loads of movies, sometime i get night terrors just by thinking what will i do once there are no more movies left to see, if i continue to watch movies at the rate i normally do. even though i like all genre but i am a sucker for philosophical dramas- The Sunset express, 13 conversations, the tree of life are just to name a few, over which i have spent countless nights...... besides movies i like soft music, preferably Santana or ronan keating one of my current favorite is stuttering by fefe dobson... so i think you have got the idea,....
growing up, my parents were like all other parents, very strict when it come to watching movies or music so from a very early age to quench that urge i dived into books and from Elizabethan literature to post modernist prose, i think i have read almost all of them, but before you think i am some kind of wacko, i must tell you, i am somewhat radical in my pickings... meaning i don't like contemporary or conventional writers, i like Christopher Marlowe over Shakespeare, i like Tennyson over dickens or Leslie Stephen over pope... i think i rambled on for too long... i will shut up now,... but i think you got the general idea...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i survived the transition from teens to 20s without going insane, i think that is my biggest accomplishment till date,
But now i am preparing myself for parenthood and i think i am going insane just thinking how my parents managed to went through this with going crazy, i mean the pressure to bring the life in the world and kind of things you need to make sure they are alright and become better version of themselves, it just does not make sense, how somebody like me is given a chance this magnanimous, i seriously think, there should be screening exams just to decide the eligibility and parenting should be a licenced so that idiots like me doesn't squander the opportunity this beautiful

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach English and would love to brush up my Spanish.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My home and my time.

Countries I’ve Visited

India

Countries I’ve Lived In

India

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