the other characters       

::life glossary::

clicking on names will bring you to a more detailed description, and pictures.

[    friends    |    love    |    misc    ]

family

dad: businessman, year of snake, he's like how i want my husband to be.
mom: private tutor, year of dragon, love her to bits.
kor: economics student in kyoto, year of horse, horribly mean to me, but i know he loves me. ahem.
xiang: electrical engineering student, in local polytechnic, used to be a brat, but such a sweetie now.

friends

[ck]
got to know him in the most bizzare circumstances. basically that he liked a friend of mine. befriended me in hopes of getting me to matchmake for him. so far, unsuccessful. but he's not giving up. very interesting guy.

[email pals] erik, sabi and wei
the "pen" pals i never had. they emailed me responding to my website and we ended up talking for many emails more. many days. months. in erik's case, more than a year now.

[hwachong gang] agnes, david, wallace, cheryl, wendy, teejoo, jinghua, fuling
friends from 97S73 [separate descriptions of guys and girls and pictures pages created 2 years ago.] despite having no classroom of our own, we bonded over lunch, over skipping lectures, over studying frantically for our exams. of those studying locally in singapore, they do still hang out regularly. i can only join them when i'm back for the summer.
our specialty activity is talking crap, suan-ing each other, and gossiping, over a cup of late night coffee. and then sharing a cab home.

[jun]
the most infuriating student during my short teaching stint in hwachong. yet, now a friend. he's signed on to the airforce and will be studying engineering starting this school term. a basketball player, he's funny, and has an air of indifference that i predict will be very seductive to the girls in nus. if only he's older, cuter and nicer to me. oh well.

[rgs gang] poachie, ming, addy, xinyi, minz, jia and su-lin.
forged our friendship early during the rgs years, remained close through the past 8 years. some closer than others. some closer now than before. we've all got our little quirks, which makes us a rather loosely defined "gang".
don't hang out as much as before now, especially now that most of us are not in singapore anymore. but always enjoyable company. went to spain together in summer '00, save minz and su-lin. awaiting another baking adventure with them.

[rgs class]
my experiences in 3/11 in '95 and then 4/11 in '96 greatly defined my memory of rgs days, undoubtedly. [
description and pictures pages were created 2 years ago.]

[uiuc]
-girls-
lynn, li, priya, angel, yufen and debbie
   vastly different people who have bonded out of sheer need for kinship in a foreign land. living in same house as lynn and li right now, the other 4 girls stay in another apartment. we come together for a soppy movie session sometimes. or a cuppa.
-guys- shaun, alvin, cw, tk
   there are others...who i am not likely to mention in my journal, and who will not appreciate being mentione. we meet up only occassional for meals, or birthday celebrations.
-house-
   3 girls and 3 other guys [including alvin and cw], we stay in the house, aka 804 which so far has served as the social house and party venue for singaporeans in uiuc. i suspect part of the reason is the pool table we have.

love

[ws]
i think he deserves
this. my first boyfriend. my favourite. the only guy who seemed to really love me for who i was.

[mikey]
very very short online long distance relationship. jerk. idiot. i hate him...he doesn't even email me anymore. i don't even have a picture i can stick pins into.

[E]
i hate to call him my summer fling. but it sure looks like it. but really, there's
more to it than it meets to eye.

[alvin]
my present love. we've come a long way.
here's the juice.

miscellaneous

[gep]
the name sounds intimidating - gifted education programme - but to me, that was just schooling. i have met very brilliant people from there. met very good teachers. i know i will forever to grateful to the opportunities of intellectual exposure this program offered.
it's elitist, no question about it. the people there can sometimes be arrogant, even me. it was a stimulating, competitive and sometimes very stressful environment. i think my IQ peaked some time when i was in the program.

[glbt issues]
gay lesbian bisexual transgender issues - i actually don't mention this much, but i wish to eventually work on glbt issues. especially in singapore. especially in the closely related aids issues. i am not gay, just like he's not straight. what's the big deal.
i should try to take more initiative in pursuing my conviction. i know, i will. soon.

[huang cheng]
huang cheng ye yun - the drama production experience of 2 years that propelled me into the world of the performing arts. i look for theatre productions to volunteer at, i volunteer usher and i write chinese plays - everything because of huang cheng. just some little contributions, i know but i will never let go.
this was written two years ago. redesigned now.

[kcsa]
krannert center student association. the krannert center of performing arts is one of the top performing arts centers in the country, and basically kcsa is the group of people who want to contribute to its excellence in any way possible. i do mainly ushering for the shows. over the past 2 years, ushering gave me the opportunity to watch shows i would otherwise due to financial constraints, not be exposed to. like symphonies. dances. experimental plays. choirs. sometime last year, i also took part in the backstage production of an opera. anyhow, this year, think i'll become a trained usher supervisor, and tour guide for the center. who knows, next year i'll do more.

[psc]
public service commission - i am a psc oms scholar, open. i graduate from college in 2003. after which i return to singapore to serve my bond in the public service for 6 years. maybe i can carve out a career there, maybe i can't. my bond is worth S$500,000, no way i can break it. unless i find a rich lover.

[ssa]
singapore students association - in uiuc, i mean. i was the treasurer, now no more. now i'm just an active member. sometimes i feel that i'm too active. i like hanging out with non-singaporean people too, i just don't do it often enough.

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