Getting into the game

i was beginning to get really frustrated with the results of my job search here in singapore. or rather, the non-results. after spending nearly three weeks in couchwifely languor, i had decided to really sink my teeth into the task of finding a job. not just any job, mind you -- one that i love, enjoy and am inspired by. nothing less! (this is also how i am about clothes nowadays. if i don't look spectacular in it, i'm not buying!)

and so i set about creating games for myself, games that i would change around every so often just to keep having fun. the first was the 20 game -- twenty CVs sent out in a week. then there was the 3-to-5 game -- three to five CVs sent out daily.

yesterday afternoon while i was hanging out with phyllis (the doctor wife of one of marlon's work friends) at her flat, i realized how much i had really gotten into my games. "gotta go soon, phyllis," i told her at four p.m. "i told myself i'd send out at least three CVs today."

"wow! you're so dedicated!" she exclaimed. "that's a lot!"

"oh, it's nothing! i once sent out twenty in a week," i said dismissively.

to say that phyllis was shocked was an understatement. she actually sputtered. "twenty?!" she wondered. "my god deepa! i'm so lazy! i've sent out two in the last year!"

now here's the kicker. they both want to hire her. and there i was, pushing thirty applications made, and not a single interview lined up.

after that exchange, i began to feel tired, like all the hustling for a job had suddenly caught up with me. i got very, very frustrated and very, very upset last night, to say the least. while there was no doubt i would return to my various job-seeking games anyway, i felt resigned and very easily pissed off.

i just got my very first "result" -- i'll tell you what it is in a minute -- and now i've realized all i had to do was change my game... again. thank heavens the universe will never run out of games for us to play. sick of looking at my cv? stopped looking at it, stopped tweaking it. and stopped sending the damn buggers cvs out and sat at the phone following up past applications instead.

and in this manner, i actually lined up a "chat" (is this a euphemism for an interview?) with the first company i applied to after moving here -- and one that totally got my heart thumping when i saw the job posting! the company is bruce dunlop (BDA), an international creative agency that specializes in doing on-air television promos. how perfect is that?! check out their website to see just why i'm in lust. they're putting together a pool of freelance writer/producers, and i'm dying, dying, dying to jump in and swim with the rest of them!

and the funny thing is, this is like the fifth time i've called them -- and i applied nearly two months ago! i never would have thought i'd still get the chance to come in for a chat.

i don't know how it's going to go on monday. but it's like i've gotten a jolt that's going to power me through the rest of my job hunting. just in freaking time, i might add -- i was not a pretty sight last night.

so it's time to change the game again. and this time the game is called "what am i going to wear?"

any advice... fashion or otherwise? ;-)