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Scouted - Fresh Off The Boat

After I woke up I headed back over to Tai Koo Shing to figure out what to do about my missing reciept. Apparently as long as I have the invoice number I should be okay for picking up the suit. I wanted to go over to the Wan Chai computer centre to look at the prices and styles for USB 2.0 hubs. On my way back I stopped by a Mannings store to look for some hair putty. My gel is just about done and I was told this hair putty stuff was the way to go. I couldn't really decide on which one to get but Alberto V05 had a sticker claiming to win the FHM 2004 Grooming Award. Plus I noticed a paper near by that stated there was a $5 off. Because I couldn't read the Chinese I had to find someone in the store to help me. The girls laughed of course and right after they told me that it really is $5 off I went ahead and bought the hair putty. They passed me some sort of ticket to win discounts but I couldn't read that either, they found a manager who could tell me that it was for deodourant.

Since I was out in Wan Chai I decided to take the Star Ferry across to TST. Right after I got off the boat in TST I went to find a bus that could take me to Yau Ma Tei. I looked at a couple of signs and couldn't find the information I needed and headed towards the information centre at the pier. Just before stepping inside I was stopped by a women who gave me her card and explained quickly (in Chinese mind you so I lost most of it until I asked her to slow down) that she works for Dragon Eight Limited (d8) and I guess wanted to know if I would be interested in some jobs. I've been looking at doing some modelling in HK if I could, but I'm also aware that there are a lot of scams going on. She quickly flipped open a magazine (milk) to show me some of the things that their company has done. She asked about my status and when I mentioned I don't have a Hong Kong ID she did say that they can't hire someone without an Hong Kong ID (my biggest problem so far). That was some what a good sign though because it made me feel they were running something legit. I left her my number and I took her card, which actually was her name written on just a company card. Of course I'm going to take this carefully. I contacted a few friends already about it to get their opinions.

I ended up in Yau Ma Tei sitting in on a seminar for SME Education. I was there as an observer and they asked me to pretend to not know any Chinese. They introduced the sales person to me and there was suppose to be a teacher who is suppose to speak English later in the classroom. What was suppose to happen and what actually happened are two different stories. Some how everyone focused their attention to me because everyone was too embarassed or afraid to talk about themselves. The first time I was there I had to pretend to not know any Chinese. Now I had to pretend to be a native Chinese speaker. Oh, it was just too hard, and quite impossible for me. I think I managed to just pass off that I'm a shy person who doesn't know how to properly express himself. When the sales person went to find the teacher to come in I figured they would tell him that I just came from abroad. But, just like before he came in and focused a lot of attention on me. Oh I just wanted to die. The centre manager, May Chan, did not have a lot of time to talk either so we just said that we would call each other at a later time. I totally forgot that I wanted to go look at USB hubs in Mong Kok and I just went home with a headache.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00