I'm Curiosity, in the flesh. Though colloquially, I usually respond to mischa.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm aspiring to be the modern Captain Nemo, carrying on his mantra of "mobilis in mobili."

However, I'll probably end up being an eccentric zig zag wanderer like Erdös, crashing under another roof to sketch out another mathematical proof. Not a scientific seafarer predisposed towards organs, art, & piracy.

Nutshell: I love to travel and connect with people the world over.

Interests

Everything I have not yet experienced or learned.

• classical music
• jazz
• piano
• violin
• hiking
• scuba diving
• martial arts
• gymnastics
• chemistry
• medicine
• philosophy
• physics
• travel
• cinema
• parkour
• consciousness
• psychedelics
• maths
• machine learning
• fire spinning
• russian literature
• neuropsychology
• pharmacology
• curious
• beatnik
• aesthete
• wilde

Music, Movies, and Books

Rachmaninov & Bach || Warren Zevon & Bob Dylan || Thelonious Monk & Sarah Vaughan

Tarkovsky & Kubrick || Tarantino & Refn || Trier & Lynch

Dostoyevsky & Camus || Wilde & Ginsberg || Hitchens & Hofstadter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Not gone entirely mad over the surreal, horrifying, beautiful, & painfully absurd nature of existence.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've (somehow) managed to persuade others that organic chemistry is an art, whose masterpieces rival those of Beethoven in sheer gorgeousness and gorgeosity of design. Some of those souls even followed me into the inferno of learning retrosynthetic analysis, waltzing into the laboatory with...

Okay I may be exaggerating somewhat. I adore chemistry to the point of manic raving and sometimes bystanders hear it's music and become curious.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I ran a weekend business catering dinner parties in San Francisco. Saffron crème brûlée anyone?

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Curaçao, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, United States