big me to talk about it 

• i do exist.
• while we’re still on the topic, i am also a little unsure of the purpose of my existence (but i guess we all do think about it some way or another)
• i am a singapore citizen.
• my passport number is S7604166/J.
• my blood group is o positive.
• the schools i have attended are: blangah rise primary school; victoria school (1989 to 1992); catholic junior college (class of 93/94); computer science at national university of singapore (1997 to 2000).
• in primary school, i was occasionally picked on and bullied.
• "an eye for an eye" is not something i subscribe to but when i am provocated and subsequently lose my head, the proverbial gates of hell break wide open. that might give you a fair idea how the bullying in primary school stopped.
• i served my (one quarter of a decade-long) conscript national service in the singapore police force.
• the employers & freelance agencies i have worked for include formul8, generator, angel dynamics, red square and xposure pte ltd.
• adidas is my preferred choice of footwear.
• i wear my watch on my left hand.
• i hate clipping my fingernails.
• currently, i play hockey for the prisons sports & recreation club.
• there comes a day in almost every man’s life when he realises that he’ll never play professional sports and i have too many of those days.
• a long time ago, my screen name used to be macphisto. (oh yes, i am a fan.)
• i hate seeing myself in photographs and hearing my own voice.
• i drink way too much coke and much too little water.
• occasionally, you would be able to find me on the msn messenger network -- to circumvent the fucking spam bots, i have to kind of cryptically tell you that my username on the msn network is jaffry at dullneon.com.
• my apparent skepticism in religion is somewhat analogously reflected in my frequent unhappiness with (and consequent afterthoughts on) all the computing platforms that i use. that doesn’t necessarily make me an non-believer or disloyal, of course.
• breakfast is probably my favourite meal of the day.
• sometimes, i just talk too much.
• other times, i don’t say much at all.
• "everytime i see you falling, i get on my knees and pray" is the line bernard sumner is singing in my headphones as i write this.
• i discovered calculators at the age of 11. my mathematics went downhill from that day on.
• on reading euclid more carefully, i, like isaac newton, formed a high opinion of it as an instrument of education, and would like to record my regret (like newton) that i had not applied myself to geometry before proceeding to algebraic analysis.
• my field of work is design and i am in the advertising industry.
• to be honest, i kind of work in a vacuum; i put my head down and don’t think that much about the world.
• no, i don’t have any tattoos or body piercings. i just don’t like them. and some folks who have body art on them seem to have ‘issues’ anyway.
• someone once said, “never let your morals get in the way of doing what’s right”.
• an extracted premolar, a chipped bone in my left ankle and a history of frequent dislocations on left shoulder are 3 of the most important medical facts about my now out-of-shape body.
• being a terribly soft, sentimental wussy, i cry very easily, especially at movies.
• and it might surprise you that i can handle pain pretty well.
• at this point, i’d like to say i am not a gay man.
• if i were a star footballer, i’d be a skilled, stylish & silky midfielder who’s also a fierce, combative tackler, precisely because i have none of those attributes.
• to quote sam seaborn, most of the time i am just acting smart.

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