Thursday, August 05, 2004
I am a destitute prostitute
I'm now officially unemployed, and whoring myself.
It's not that bad an analogy. I'm doing what belle du jour does, except we have different skills.
I guess in a way we both try to keep people happy. heh.
Except of course she doesn't do call outs.
I suppose I could extend the analogy even further. Call ins are stable jobs, much akin to working full time for a hospital.
Call outs are for the working class girls who can't command the same clientele, and are prepared to engage in dodgy scenarios with potentially dangerous clients.
I guess that's what working for a locum agency is like.
Mind you, we get paid the other way around. Working full time for an NHS hospital apparently commands me a paycheck one quarter the size I could earn working for locum agencies.
Starting pay for SHOs of my vocation range between £220 to £340 a shift. A SHIFT! Geez louise, I could work a five day week and earn more than four times my old salary.
Question though : does it matter?
*****
In other news,
1)T wants me to sign up for Queer Eye for a Straight Guy. Urk.
2)My flat is still a mess, despite two full days on holiday.
3)I have a tan after yesterday.
4)Despite sporadic efforts at going to the gym, I now weigh less than before. I have a weight most women my height would KILL for. Dammit. Take it away :(
5)Sitting down eating my toastie yesterday, I noticed three german people a table down from me. One of them was Indian, but clearly German as well, complete with german-tinged English.
Seven years later, it doesn't really surprise me. I just went on eating my toastie.
But once upon a yesteryear it would have.
Can Singapore truly claim to be a multiracial, multiethnic society when we hold everyone with a different skin colour fast to the prejudices within our heads?
London is the real thing. Racism and all.
There is racism the world over.
But there are different degrees of acceptance.
Secretly pointing fingers behind people's backs and jeering, or doing it to their faces -- is no acceptance at all.
Once in a while the papers put out articles, or we hear anecdotes about the overt racism they have "out there" in the rest of the world. Australia, England, America, you name it. It's a big, bad world out there.
Funny thing is, I live here in it, and I don't see that big a difference between here, and there. I guess the major difference is you don't get as much racism directed at Chinese people in Singapore, since they are the prevailing race.
Xiaxue avidly defends Singapore as her homeland, and probably deserves recognition for her patriotism. Perhaps I've just seen too much... but I feel that if the country wants to be multiracial and multiethnic, it has to do more than call itself that.
The people have to grow up. And out of their prejudices.
It's not that bad an analogy. I'm doing what belle du jour does, except we have different skills.
I guess in a way we both try to keep people happy. heh.
Except of course she doesn't do call outs.
I suppose I could extend the analogy even further. Call ins are stable jobs, much akin to working full time for a hospital.
Call outs are for the working class girls who can't command the same clientele, and are prepared to engage in dodgy scenarios with potentially dangerous clients.
I guess that's what working for a locum agency is like.
Mind you, we get paid the other way around. Working full time for an NHS hospital apparently commands me a paycheck one quarter the size I could earn working for locum agencies.
Starting pay for SHOs of my vocation range between £220 to £340 a shift. A SHIFT! Geez louise, I could work a five day week and earn more than four times my old salary.
Question though : does it matter?
*****
In other news,
1)T wants me to sign up for Queer Eye for a Straight Guy. Urk.
2)My flat is still a mess, despite two full days on holiday.
3)I have a tan after yesterday.
4)Despite sporadic efforts at going to the gym, I now weigh less than before. I have a weight most women my height would KILL for. Dammit. Take it away :(
5)Sitting down eating my toastie yesterday, I noticed three german people a table down from me. One of them was Indian, but clearly German as well, complete with german-tinged English.
Seven years later, it doesn't really surprise me. I just went on eating my toastie.
But once upon a yesteryear it would have.
Can Singapore truly claim to be a multiracial, multiethnic society when we hold everyone with a different skin colour fast to the prejudices within our heads?
London is the real thing. Racism and all.
There is racism the world over.
But there are different degrees of acceptance.
Secretly pointing fingers behind people's backs and jeering, or doing it to their faces -- is no acceptance at all.
Once in a while the papers put out articles, or we hear anecdotes about the overt racism they have "out there" in the rest of the world. Australia, England, America, you name it. It's a big, bad world out there.
Funny thing is, I live here in it, and I don't see that big a difference between here, and there. I guess the major difference is you don't get as much racism directed at Chinese people in Singapore, since they are the prevailing race.
Xiaxue avidly defends Singapore as her homeland, and probably deserves recognition for her patriotism. Perhaps I've just seen too much... but I feel that if the country wants to be multiracial and multiethnic, it has to do more than call itself that.
The people have to grow up. And out of their prejudices.
