Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 20:48:34 +0100


      COUNTRY: USA / Illinois
         TOWN: Urbana
         NAME: Ian Chai
      ADDRESS: 309 North Busey Avenue #3
        EMAIL: spectre@uiuc.edu
        PHONE: (217) 367-6140
      SEX/AGE: Male/26
ACCOMMODATION: Apartment.
               Normally, there's just the couch, but I can often
               borrow a folding bed from a friend.
     LOCATION: 5 minutes' walk to campus
   MAX GUESTS: 1
   MAX LENGTH: 1 week
     EXPENSES: food, long-distance phone calls, things like that.
 RESTRICTIONS: No smoking, no drunkenness.
 EXPECTATIONS: Pick up after yourself and keep the place
               reasonably clean.
    LANGUAGES: English (native)
               Malay/Indonesian (fluent)
               Hokkien (fluent, but not deep topics)
               German (conversational)
               Mandarin (conversational, but not deep topics)
               Cantonese (haltingly -- can go shopping in Chinatown! 8-)
     THE HOST: I am a graduate student in computer science.
      HOBBIES: include -
               Conversation, some topics include -
               Politics
               Governmental systems, including -
               Democracy
               Republic
               Oligarchy
               Dictatorship
               Monarchy
               Planetary political structure, including -
               Planetary government
               Nationalism vs. Globalism
               Free movement
               Comparative religion, including -
               Islam and deriviatives, including -
               Sunni
               Shia
               Ahmadiya
               Baha'i
               Hinduism and deriviatives, including -
               Ganesh
               Krishna
               Vishnu
               Buddhism and deriviatives, including -
               Mahayana
               Therevada
               Zen
               Confucianism
               Taoism
               Christianity and deriviatives, including -
               Orthodox
               Catholic
               Protestant
               Evangelical
               Charismatic
               Fundementalist
               Liberation Theology
               'Cults', including -
               Mormon
               Jehovah's Witness
               The Way
               Philosophy
               Science fiction
               Music
               Computers
               Linguistics
               Music
               Playing
               Guitar
               Keyboard
               Saxaphone
               Listening
               Rock and roll
               Soft rock and sentimentals
               Folk, including -
               Simon and Garfunkle
               Peter, Paul and Mary
               Joan Baez
               Bob Dylan -- well, I like many songs he
               writes, but not when *he* sings 'em
               himself! 8-)
               Folk Country, including -
               John Denver
               Glenn Campbell
               *not* Country-Western
               Gospel, including -
               Rock
               Rap
               Praise
               *not* Southern Gospel
               Classical, including -
               Bach
               Pachelbel
               Handel
               Games
               Board games, including
               Pictionary
               Scattergories
               Trivial Pursuit
               Sports, including
               Walleyball
               Ping-pong
               Volleyball
               Racquetball
               Croquet
               Animals, including
               Hamsters
               Cats
               Dogs
               Just about any kind of mammal -- not into
               reptiles, fish, amphibians, insects, etc.
               Note - 8-) means that I'm wearing my glasses and smiling.
               (It's called a 'smiley' and is used to express facial
               expressions in email...)