I discovered that I had a flair for it and was my cup of tea afterall. I just needed a job then and had only planned to stay for 3 months until I found a "real job". Honestly, I had no idea what a recruiter did. I was transitioning out from a brief stint as a Scuba Diving Instructor and a friend of a friend asked if I was keen to join a local recruitment agency. I started out my recruitment career by accident in year 2000. I remember that I'm not being buried, I'm being planted. We didn't have a silver spoon, and like he said, we didn't have a spoon at all.īut I've discovered that no matter how many tough experiences we recover from, there's always the possibility of more curve balls headed our way.Īnd when things seem dark, hard to breathe, tight and restrictive. It was a harsh lesson in growing up for a shy, insecure and introverted teenage boy. I used to lug black trash bags with my stock of ladies handbags all over Woodlands. I never sold newspapers like my friend, but I did sell door to door as a boy. You couldn't tell the challenges he had overcome from the cheerful energetic personality he conveys today. Friendly, down to earth and humble.īut as a boy, he used to sell newspapers by the roadside not far from where we coincidentally decided to meet. He's now an accomplished senior executive. Turns out he knew the place better than me. I was trying to send him directions etc to our meeting place. I was having coffee with a buddy in a familiar joint at a popular suburb of Singapore recently. If you are crazy enough to want to see more of my content, click on Ben Teh then slam the notification BELL icon.
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I'll be looking again to go back to my Kampung and be free and young and happy again. It's just an excuse to partake in some good old fashion oily chicken rice and not feel guilty. The kampung (aka free range) chickens are leaner with much less fat and firmer to the bite. There is this place in Upper Thomson that serves this perennial favourite with Kampung Chicken. To convey, a younger, fitter and freer version of life.Īnd one of those more popular use is in a common Singapore dish, the Hainanese Chicken Rice. The word "Kampung" is now latched onto any item to recall a simpler, better and more basic time. To qualify, the toilet was outside the house, over a bucket and each visit was a potential life or death situation. When dad moved the family down from Malaysia to Singapore, one of the first places we stayed was in Chong Pang Village.
I come from a generation that was just exiting these rustic wooden accommodations into concrete flats with locks on doors and running water.Īs a small boy, I spent alot of time with my maternal grandparents up in Penang, Air Itam. We don't have too many of that these days in Singapore except for a tiny enclave near Buangkok and a splattering of huts in Pulau Ubin. I run the #LBFalumni & #SkyHighTower tribesĪ kampung is the Malay word (and often misappropriated by the Hokkiens) for a village. She whatsapps the latest gossip & videos, day & night.
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Now she spends her days reading, posting on FB like a pro (She has been banned a couple times for her enthusiasm) But she retains a strength borne from having walked through hell with an unbreakable spirit.
She always said she had enough & wasn't hungry. Some days, there was enough just to feed the 3 of us kids. Taking care of kids in a hostel & doing the night shift in an office, answering overseas calls. This aloneness became more stark in 1982 when dad passed away suddenly. We were the only family on this island, away from everyone else. In Singapore, my youngest sister joined the family. I was born in KL, along with my younger sister. My mum moved from her home in Penang to Kuala Lumpur, and then to Singapore, following my dad as he chased after a career.
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