One ‘drawback’ about my current job is that I cannot claim to be unaware of what’s going on in Singapore and around the world. I can’t play the role of the ignorant fool. Now that’s a bummer.
\nOther musings:
\nI think my fish’s depressed. He isn’t eating well and he doesn’t seem to have much life in him. His tail and fins are also losing their colour. What am I to do??? I don’t have fish fingers! Judging by the current situation, I might soon have to post an obitruary for him….
\nSpeaking of obitruaries, employees of the company I’m working in can get discounted rates if they want to place an obitruary in the papers. What would they think if I took one out for my fish? heh.
\nOn other fishy business, I’ve just been asked if I would like to take on a freelance writing job to write a report on the ornamental fish industry in China. It’s for a trade magazine for the ornamental fish industry. Approximately 2,000 words in length, 40cents per word, so that works out to about $800.
\nThe difficult part of this job is having to make overseas calls and conduct interviews in Mandarin. Now, my Mandarin isn’t ttoooo bad when it comes to making small talk. But conducting an interview on ornamental fish??? Hmmm….I’ll have to let the idea swim in my head over the weekend before I decide if I want to take the plunge.
\nTomorrow there’s going to be another one of those frivolous and silly articles in the lifestyle section of the newspapers about the popularity of American Chinese men amongst Singaporean women. I have a feeling such a story about Singaporean women hooking American Chinese fish will open a can of worms ‘cos the forum will surely be flooded by responses to the article.
\nAnd oh, auditions for Singapore Idol start today. Idol fever is on. There have been reports of people quitting their jobs just to practise for the auditions. Others have taken to booking rooms at hotels near Suntec City (where the auditions are being held) so that it serves as a resting place while they and their group of friends take turns to queue in line. People have started queueing since 1pm yesterday. I’m waiting to see how many William Hungs we’ll have. It’s amazing to see how many wannabes out there who are fishing for fame!
\nAnyway, so much for my Saturday morning musings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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