Eat Don't Burp & Nice Cheap Sardine Sandwich

yesterday, someone received e good news that she had made it past e final round of interviews at Eat Don't Burp. later that afternoon, 2 more job offers came in from Nice Cheap Sardine Sandwich, making it a total of 3 job offers in a day. not bad for someone with a general & non-Economics degree from NUS Arts who has yet to sit for her honours year final exams.

she was condemned by her own parents & kindergarten & primary school teachers for being slow & stupid, for not being able to differentiate 'b's & 'd's & tell left from right (she was actually dyslexic, but nobody knew what dyslexia was in those days), & for scoring cats & dogs for every exam. Lousy Pupil's Menace almost kicked out of her JC in her second year to prevent her A level results from endangering e school's ranking.

e turning point for her came in university, when she was finally liberated from e shackles of e education system & parents who had cut e slack (in a way cos they thought they had given up on her), & could create more opportunities for herself, even if it meant big fat fights with pesky people who kept harping on e fact that 'nobody/no Arts student has ever done this/been accepted before', & who else but our beloved world class uni wannabe admin. & yep, both of us shared our strategies & tips on how to crack e wor;ld class uni wannabe system - we even shared common foes in their Repository of Outcasts ;) glad that certain things that we'd fought hard against (all e way to e VC's office *evil grin*) have since been changed for e better.

am amazed by e sheer amount that she has achieved in these few years & am so proud of her =)

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