Monday, November 03, 2003 0 comments Post a Comment If I was not zheng yi and didn't know zheng yi, and i chanced upon his friendster acct, reading his testimonials, I gather that : (muying) He's a 'great fren' . well, that's not realli helpful cos i guess anyone who would write his testimonial HAS to be at least a person who THINKS he is a great fren. and a little 'baby' , hmm, this girl muying mus be weird. i doubt he's a baby realli. dun understand. she advises us to 'run over to be his fren'. RUN OVER ? she must realli think he's a good fren. but well, generally not a veri helpful testimonial. skip. he's 'crappy and funny'. hmm. Impression : A jester that's a good fren. might be a ' baby ' . i dunno how. (zhengqi): this Zheng Yi's fren prob doesn't know him too well. not a veri homogeneous description. corny + optimistic + hilarious jokes + funny + artistic + smart + talented + nice fren hmm. Impression now : A jester that's quite a good fren. shouldn't be a baby. probably has a little bit of talent in e arts. probably doodles? He's probably quite irritating cos he's 'corny'. (weizhen): " NONO " ?!?! i think i can quite firmly conclude that this zheng yi guy isn't good-looking AT ALL. he lost weight too. i think he's prob was e typical ' fat smarty pants joker ' kinda guy. ew. and he disturbs girls during physics lecture. i dun think i like this fella. perverted and loud type. " beijing trip " ? i think he's not PRC but prob takes chinese or sth like dat. and physics. odd combi. "tyrannical" ? i dunno how that realli helps, but i've gotta feeling this guy REALLY irritates ppl and gets away with it. Impression now : A chubby corny jester that's REALLY irritating. maybe a pervert that speaks chinese cos all his frens dun seem to be able to describe him well in english. he's a good fren to them. i dun wanna be his fren. definitely. (zhengyong): he's def. cheena. " hong lou meng" ? man. i prob can't even survive a paragraph of that stuff. "interesting and outgoing" , " fun and laughter " , probably e class clown kinda person. prob a good person to bring along for gatherings that might turn out awkward. finally. some clue abt his artistic talent. he draws. yay. Impression now : A chubby corny but sometimes funny class clown who is cheena and draws. A good fren. i think he's prob not pervert lar. sounds much less irritating now. (Hazel): interesting. i think i finally meet a more 'english' fren of this guy. 'closet hard core thinker', this ger introduces a more 3dimensional feel to this guy :he THINKS. good. she finds him REALLY funny. either she's a corny person or he's a funny person. Impression now : A cheena, chubby, maybe funny class clown that draws and thinks. not a pervert. hopefully. (shunzhang): another cheena fren. finally hanyu pinyin appears. a 'loyal friend' , ' ur greatest foe or good friend ' . " City Harvest on Sun " Impression now : A REALLY Cheena, chubby, maybe funny class clown that draws, thinks and has some attitude. Maybe he doesn't make frens as easily as i thought. I seriously think he isn't Christian so either he likes Ho Yao Shan (i can stop trying to know him at dat pt ) or he jus jokes abt her. I'll take e latter . (Jiabin): This guy realli thinks zhengyi is a nice person. "Caring" , "bubbly", "wacky", "accomodating", "interesting". but it's prob a biased description since he knew zhengyi for a 'very long time liao'. and "song ic" that "sings well". well well. Impression now : A chubby cheena fun character that can be corny at times who probably is a loyal fren and has a kind nature beneath all e crap. He draws and probably can sing pretty well. (willy): another hanyu pinyin fren. this guy has too many cheena frens. "slimmed down alot" hmm. maybe he isn't chub now. "reliable and responsible". a "council" person. Impression now : A big sized person cheena fun character that usually isn't corny, loyal fren, good worker and prob kind beneath all e crap. Draws and sings well. Probably quite popular among e masses , since he's a 'councillor'. (Muying): this ger AGAIN. nth helpful besides commenting on his voice again. Impression now : same as above but well, except that he prob sings "VERY" well. ~~~ egad. I seem tremendously FLAT. like pancake flat character? this is terrible. guys, PLEASE start writing good testimonials? i mean, even I'M not interested myself now! who'll wanna know me then? haha. jus joking lar. i'm jus trying to prove 3 things: 1) How ppl formulate impressions of strangers when they read text descriptions. and trust me, when i read random testimonials, i get e impression that alot of ppl are "fun, funny and good frens". 2) How inefficient and inaccurate text descriptions are at reflecting e true character of a person. it's quite impossible. EVERYONE sounds like each other. 3) How ppl view u and how u view urself is usually VERY different. I'm not saying that u ppl dun know me but well, i guess, everyone's multi-faced. And i realise if u start popping ppl with some descriptions of urself, they're usually in disbelief. " I din know u were like dat " or " That's totally so not like you! " lalala. 11/03/2003 04:51:00 PM

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