Geez!
Look at how quickly the time goes by!
Eleven days already!!
Almost two weeks and it went right out the window.
I'll use this occasion to announce:
I HAVE A JOB!Thanks to Jeff, my second CS host in S'pore, I've just been offered a job @
WEGO!
I'll be starting next week, where I'll be able to give you guys a run-down version of my work duties.
I'm still looking around for translation\tuitions to improve my cash-flow; it's starting slowly; it's out there in the universe (read:Notice boards, CV sent, online community, etc...)
-Tarko
~Adventure comes from poor planning~
Well, as many of you knows, I'm looking for a job at the moment, as I usually do after being in a new country.
As usual my various avenue are being covered, without success. But not to despair, I keep with me my zenhood; chillaxing in a city where 33degree is considered 'cool'.
I tough I'd thwart the system for once and apply my search and energy on system\job that would let me work wherever I am in the world, disregarding boundaries or cultural background; using the internet to do my biding, use the information highway to get me closer to clients or at least, money.
Yours truly have tried for a few weeks now to score a job as a translator (FR<=>EN) but, alas, without much success. Many would point out the tremendous amount of spelling mistakes I do, in both language, with much reason to do so. But, you know, now I have a genuine reason to learn not to do so many mistakes.
On the other hand, my contacts (thanks again CS) lead me to discover the wonderful world of teaching English as a second language! Many websites are out there with people from all over the world seeking, desperately, English teachers: I can't be THAT bad, can I? So this option is now a new one for me, double so valid now because, hopefully, it will help me improve my own level in English and by a causal-effect relationship, will help me score those sought-after translation jobs.
This is where I am; looking for jobs online. So, if anyone hear about someone looking for someone who could do a job web-based, please, PLEASE think about me! It WOULD be a win-win situations, transcending the usual boundary of work relations.
-Tarko
~Adventure comes from poor planning~
Howdy all?
I hope you're all having an amazing time!
I know I am, browsing, no, LURKING on the internet looking for work.
I had a few replies this morning (Yai), two jobs in India and one in China.
But this is not the reason of this post, I wanted to show you
THIS link.
It allows you to send me a sms on my phone. I tested it and it works! I can even reply to your msg and it will show on the webpage.
Please note that this will work as long as I'm staying with my current cell-phone service provider.
Enjoy,
-Tarko
~Knowing is half the battle~
Howdy all?
How have been your 11 days without me? Hopefully you survived,as it would be hard for me to keep on living if I learn some dies because of my (lack of) updates!
For those not in the know; I'm still in Singapore after a month, looking for a job. The reason why I'm still in this lovely, but four-days-is-enough, city is because I need money (duh). I was expecting to get a wad of cash from my previous work done with Cornucopia(RedCross) Australia, but my most-anticipated 5K turned into smoke. Coupled to that un-settled debts by various agent; my money is low.. no, it's inexistent!
Once again: thanks CouchSurfing! Yet another angel, after Jeff and Elaine: Michelle. Without her I would have to go back to dumpsters and sleep under bridges, something I don't really fancy in Singapore. So, once again (and not for the last time):
THANK YOU MICHELLE!
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Now, if you guys saw the pictures (you DID saw the link to pictures on the top-right corner, right?), or specifically
THOSEYou might notice half of them is food-related. There is a good reason for that; if you head toward CS and browse on Singaporea's profiles, you'll notice they mention two main characteristic about their city: Food and Shopping!
Altho most meals I had were alright, if somewhat exotic, a few of them require a bit more dwelling upon:
Ice Catchang Typical Singaporean desert, the ice catchang is a sweet that my canadian palate have a few problem with. It's relatively easy to make back home, here's the recipe:
-In a bowl, put small Jell-O cubes (In Sin: grass jelly and such)
-Add on top some Red kidney beans or any redish beans
-Add Ice-shavings until it form a decent-sized heaps. (yai! Coooold dessert!)
-Add 3 kind of different, but sweet, syrup (Try any of Couche-Tard Sloshe'ones)
-Pour condensed milk on top of it all
-And finally put a cherry on top!... NOT!! No cherries but.. CORN! Yup, put some Corn on top.
There you have it, ICE CATCHANG!
After trial and error I ask mine without the beans and corn: much better!
Frog: (The dish that looks like Chicken wings)
Those back home might remember that I don't even eat Frog's legs, but we're talking about the whole thing here, and frankly: it taste like chicken ;-)
Chicken Feet: (Same picture,lower-left dish.)
a few of you might remember my encounter with chicken feet in Australia; my feeling toward them haven't changed at all: the most disgusting piece of food (I shudder just to think of them as food) ever!
Other than that you have the usual yummy and cheap noodle dish @ pretty much all the food courts or hawker centers, which allows any local, or travelers, to eat for cheap.
I leave you for now with the guardian of Singapura, the
MERLION(and, in real life ,this thing is HUGE!)
-Tarko
~Adventure comes from poor planning~
