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Overview
About Me
Looking forward to meeting you!
I have a single-room apartment close to the center of Munich. There's sleeping space for 3 (including me) or 4 (if you don't mind being tight and cozy).
It is a common/shared sleeping space so I exist in the same room as you. :)
From Munich Central Station/ Flixbus ZOB, it's 20 minutes by foot. I will send you the exact location in the messages. Just for reference, you can find Hochschule München for a rough idea of where the apartment is.
Just a normal person who likes to meet interesting people and learn and appreciate cultural differences or nuances.
*Please do not be offended if I decline your request without a reply (:*
I have been living in Germany (Munich specifically) since 2016. I graduated from TU Munich and currently working full-time in the semiconductor sector.
I am originally from Karachi, Pakistan (South-East Asia) so I have experienced both Eastern and Western cultures. I am an ambivert who likes to hang out with my friends, loves to engage in subjective conversations, and is interested in making long-term acquaintances.
I am an uncomplicated host, love to share my experiences and culture (music, arts, language, food), and listen to other people's experiences.
If you share a cultural nuance that is new to me, your first coffee is on me!
I like the concept of existentialism. Are we in this world for a reason, does anything matter at all, should we do good, or what is in fact 'good'? Of course, there is no answer to such questions but I like to hear what other people think about them.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Why do I host people?
There are many straightforward reasons.
1. I help someone, someone will help me.
2. When I meet new people, I learn new things. I improve myself personally.
3. I get to have new experiences which I can share later with others.
There are some subtle reasons too. I like to take as much responsibility (for myself, my country, my culture, my family, and my values) as possible. When people meet someone from a different country/culture, they try to extract the key features of that country/culture from the behavior of that single person. This, technically, is called generalization which is an important technique humans use for foreseeing. I want to meet people so that the generalization they make about my country/culture would be positive.
I am interested in the concept of language. How we use words to transfer our thoughts to someone else's mind and how well we do it is remarkable. I like Ludwig Wittgenstein's theory of language that 'words trigger pictures in the mind'. If you want to understand better, your mind should already have a picture of that object/concept. Hence, meeting different people and learning about different things/customs/cultures makes me populate the database of pictures in my mind. This, in turn, will help me understand better.
Interests
- cricket
- philosophy
- psychology
- games
Music, Movies, and Books
12 Rules for Life
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Culture and Values
Crime and Punishment
Metamorphosis
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I haven't done anything 'amazing' in my life (yet). But I have done several small things like helping a guy start a small business, teaching underprivileged kids in Pakistan, taking care of university debating society, etc. I believe that 'doing small things, consistently ' is amazing.
What I Can Share with Hosts
The most important and scarce resource: Time
Other than that, whatever is present in my room (a couch, PS4, board games, Pakistani cuisine, etc.)
Countries I’ve Visited
Albania, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Pakistan, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Countries I’ve Lived In
Germany, Pakistan