MISTER SURF

I'm Nilesh Ashra, a surf-nut from London who works for W+K in Portland, USA. More↓

This is me! I was born in London around 28 years ago, and I now live with my girlfriend Emily in Portland, Oregon in the beautiful surrounds of the Pacfic Northwestern USA.

My fascination with the Internet (I mean seriously, millions of computers connected together) has never gone away since I first discovered it as a kid.

These days I get paid to channel it at work for Wieden+Kennedy as a Lead Technical Engineer. It’s great, I get to connect together social networks, APIs, data, physical computing platforms, etc. in order to make things people like on the Internet. If I wasn’t being paid to do it, I’d be doing it in my garage anyway!

As you might have guessed, I’m obsessed with surfing. It started about 3 years ago with an impromptu trip to Portugal with my best mate Rob, and I hope it stays with me forever. It’s turned into one of the very few things I truly love. Close↑

Getting surf fit
Mon 12 December, 2011

We've been in Portland for 10 weeks now, and starting to feel settled in this charming little city.

It's been a good 4 months since I've been surfing, and even more alarming is my slide into the anti-surfer stereotype: I spend most of my time sat at a desk.

So, I've made a deal with myself; an investment, if you will.

I'm going to spend the next 30 days religiously getting surf fit, so that once the madness of Christmas and New Years is over and I can hit the surf on the Oregon coast and make the most of it.

Here's a calendar that visually represents my commitment to making the most of that first Oregon surf. Green means I trained, and red means I didn't.

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