-Stuff about Jonathan you didn't have or want to know-

Ok, so this may be an information overload. So all of this stuff is self-centred. So don't read it if you're not interested! In the words of Nelly Furtado, If you so low below it why you watchin'?

= He was a GEP. "Ok, ya, I was a GEP. Shoot me. If you ask me, some GEPs just think too damn highly of themselves, that they're elite, when they're really not worth monkey crap. And I think why some Express people don't like GEPs stems from deep-rooted envy."

= He talks to himself sometimes. "What to do? Sometimes no one wants to talk to me what. So I talk to myself lor."

= He's never had a girlfriend. "Aiyah, must talk about this ah? The girls I like, they don't like me. And then all those people who like me all seem damn weird. Simple as that."

= He's never had a boyfriend. "OI! You think what? I gay ah? Ni nao hyah lah!" Ok, our apologies. We're just doing our job and reading off this list of questions, man.

= His family globe-trots. "My father's a pilot, so we get free tickets once a year. and in first class, haha! So I've been to Paris, New York, London, Milan, Rome, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Switzerland, Turkey, San Francisco, Vancouver, New Zealand, the list goes on. And yet I've never been to Bintan. The other day Huifen was telling me to go to the Club Med there. Apparently it's jumpin'. And now I'm studying in London while my sister's in Melbourne, which is where I'm typing this from. And I'm making it sound as if there're some reporters asking me all this. I bet some people think I'm siao. Guess what. No need to think. I am."

= He's siao. See above.

= He's cynical. "I think some people cannot see the fine line that separates cynical and negative. I'm not negative. Not always, anyway. I am, however, cynical. I do believe in karma and retribution and all, and that in the end things sort themselves out and you shouldn't worry. But I don't believe in love (especially when my friends tell me about it) and all that crap, or that you ultimately reap what you sow, because you don't always get a reward commensurate to what you put in. Man proposes, but Heaven disposes. You can work like a dog, but it doesn't always mean you're going to end up better off than someone else who values leisure more highly than work.
I mean, look, among Jiakai, Chih Yang and I, I think I work the hardest, and yet in the long run, they're going to be these high-flyers, Police Commissioner and Air Force bigwig and all, while I'll just be another face in the crowd. But that's life, you know? Shit happens man."

= He has super-high, almost unreachable, expectations. "I think setting high goals and standards provides the impetus for you to work hard and do your best, and if you are constantly contented with the way you are then there's never going to be any improvement of any form, so you'll just do enough to hit your targets and not any more than that. Maybe this spills over into my life and the way I live it, which kinda provides an explanation for why I've never been attached. As someone told me, I need someone who can impress me, and it takes a helluva lot to impress me. That, and the fact that I'm too hump chee. But I try to be the best I can in every aspect, so I'm harsh on myself too."

= He works like hell. "I think even though you can't guarantee success with hard work, at least you can tell yourself you've done all you can, and you won't live with regrets. I hate 'should-have's and 'if-only's, and try not to live with them. And with such high standards, how not to strive hard? My mum told me: 70 also first, 99 also first, so why work so hard and kill yourself, for what? (sic) Just get 70 can already. But I think that's hogwash. If you aim for 70 and something goes wrong, then you're screwed, right? But I profess to start heeding her advice cos all this work is making me uptight. Maybe next year I'll just take things easy."

= He's uptight. "I'm success-crazy, and all this working hard, setting high expectations and all, it all fits in with the whole character profile, doesn't it?"

= He's superstitious. "Not in the Friday the 13th, black cat way. I'm into the Chinese mumbo-jumbo. No major changes in the 7th Lunar month, no sticking chopsticks into your rice, etc etc. Oh, and I'm into Fengshui too. Whatever it takes to give me luck lah. Hahaha!"

= He's attention-seeking. "Another reason why I work hard, perhaps. So I can stand out a bit. Wait till you hear my secret ambition. Oh no no, it's way too embarassing."

= He loves his football. "But I'm crap at it. I mean really crap. Then again, I never had any ball sense. I can't bounce basketballs. 'nuff said." Our sources tell us he's even uptight about his football.

= He's a picky eater. "I eat a lot, but I don't eat durians, mangosteens, brinjal and chili. And I hate to eat papaya."

= He's 186cm tall. "And to think I was one of the shortest in my class in lower sec! And then after every holiday people would ask me what I ate over the hols cos I'd grown 4 or 5 cm over the hols. It was rather amusing. Oh, are we back to inane, fun questions? Oh, goody."

= He loves cows. "I'm not Hindu or anything, so I don't think cows are sacred or anything like that, just that...ok, never mind."

= He's been a monk before. "Oh yes, I was a monk, but that was way long ago. I actually did it twice, at a Buddhist centre in Geylang, when I was 10 and 11. I went back to school with a shaven head and was understandably the butt of jokes."

= He's helluva corny. "Why did the boy fall off his bike? Cos someone threw a fridge at him. Why couldn't Tommy ride a bicycle? Cos Tommy was a goldfish. What did Batman say to Robin before they got in the batmobile?" Why do you think we even care?

= He listens to music. Not the stuffy kind. "Amazingly, I actually do have some semblance of a life. I listen to pop/rock/alternative/rap, and am into Lifehouse and Maroon 5 and Matchbox 20 at the moment. I do a bit of Chinese as well, the usual suspects like Jay Chou and David Tao and Sun Yanzi. I do detest very hard rock and very black rap/RnB, but Eminem's fine. In fact, I like Eminem."

= He digs women much older than him."Hey! That's a blatant lie! Hey, what the heck, I'm suing this- "

= He never got the last word in this interview cos this reporter didn't let him.