we are not the police station

The things that happen to me nowadays... tsk tsk tsk... can write a book liao.

I just received an email from somebody looking for her library book. Read and think: Does she really think we'll be able to help her locate that person in the midst of the thousands of students we have in the uni?????


Hello there

I'm afraid i face a slight problem and need your help.

I lent a book from the (Institution) Library to a stranger in need around the (date), and the library threatens me that the book is due in a week. Only the foolish are generous, as the wise old men say, and this time the old bats must be correct, for I failed to remember his name that i may contact him when the book was due. I'm sure the fellow has immersed himself in cosmological affairs long enough to have forgotten that the book will be due soon, and I face a problem contacting him.

Could you please help? He mentioned that he was going to write the (some exam), and since people in (Institution) only write the (some entrance exam) for one reason, i'm hoping that you have an account with his details under it, most importantly a phone number and address (I will now proceed to embarrass myself highly by letting you know that i never bothered to take his number or e-mail down).

To help locate his account, I managed to garner the following from memory:

1) He is short, equal to or over 5'7", with short cropped hair almost as in a crew cut. For two days in a row he specialized in wearing loose little sleeveless vests, but they are not singlets. He also specializes in wearing three-quarters, the ones i saw were grey in colour on both the days i saw him. Being a Chinese National living in Singapore, he always wore sneakers, and i suppose also always wears them. As expected of those who immerse themselves in Deep Cosmology, he wears spectacles. He is a thin, lanky fellow with a grim (but not sad) Chinese face.

2)He is a Chinese National who at the time of our meeting was going to write the (some entrance exam). He also possessed a student card, which made me wonder why he was studying for the (some entrance exam). One possible logical explanation is that the card belonged to someone else, though i quite clearly remember his face on the card. Assuming that was his face on the card, would it be possible to track him down through his distinguishing feature, given #3 below?

3)His distinguishing feature, and also the reason why i remember his face so well, is that his face appears as if a million bees had decided to sting it all at once. There are reddish pink bumps all over his face, and although i don't know what could have caused these specifically it is very likely that it is the result of an allergic reaction. This is his unique, one-of-a-kind feature which none of the other students have which i hope will help identify and locate him best.

I'm afraid there isn't much else i remember of the fellow, and I do hope that the information above, though not enough, will help track him down.

Thank you very much in advance for your help. I will try and see if i can dig up anything else from memory. Please let me know if you need any more information from me to help track him down, and i will gladly provide such.

Hope to hear from your soon,
Regards
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So am i a police database now? Shucks. She'll have better luck at the police station. At least she can do an identity kit to be posted all over the Institution!