CURRENT MISSION

to see the world!

ABOUT ME

I'm a laid back happy kid who loves to travel, meet interesting people from different walks of life, do science, and on occasion party like there is no tomorrow.

I'm a bioengineering PhD candidate at UC Berkeley with a very meager stipend...

If you want to know anything else about me just ask or add me @ facebook.com/todd.duncombe
or check out my pics:
https://picasaweb.google.com/105229835564354231071

PHILOSOPHY

...
Nothing on either side was said.
They knew they had but to stay their stay
And all their logic would fill my head:
As that I had no right to play
With what was another man’s work for gain.
My right might be love but theirs was need.
And where the two exist in twain
Theirs was the better right---agreed.

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future’s sakes.
-From the end of "Two Tramps in Mud Time"
Robert Frost

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Total couch-surfing newb. But I love meeting new people!

Interests

Skiing, Beer, Traveling in Asia, Backpacking, Science, Seeing the world through a strangers eyes, Talking politics, American Football, Soccer + sports in general

• cooking
• beer
• partying
• politics
• traveling
• backpacking
• surfing
• skiing
• sports
• american football
• soccer
• logic
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: City of God, Inglourious Basterds, High Fidelity, Jerry Maguire, When Harry Met Sally...

tv: Arrested Development, Colbert Report, Coupling, Lost, The Office, House, Scrubs, Entourage, The Wire, Freaks and Geeks, How I Met Your Mother, Californication, Dexter, Battlestar Galactica

books: The World Is Flat, Angels and demons, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, Kite Runner, Feynman Lectures on Physics

music: Modest Mouse, Frou Frou, The Cure, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, The Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, Stroke 9, The Strokes, Dave Matthews Band, The New Pornographers, The Streets, Cake, Franz Ferdinand, The Guess Who, The Offspring, Run DMC, Pink Floyd, Death Cab for Cutie, Immortal Technique, Eclectic Approach, O.A.R., The Stack

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

spent 7 weeks traveling through peru/bolivia, lived in tokyo for 3 months, lived in singapore for 2 years, I've explored a good bit of Europe...

Teach, Learn, Share

hmmm i don't know if i have any practical skills to share (i mean i am going into academia, nothing practical about that)... I'm probably best at teaching skiing or science.

I am not a good cook but I'd love to learn different techniques from different places in the world...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bolivia, China, France, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Singapore, United States