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Saturday, March 18, 2006

My job requires me to travel islandwide for sales visits, my main transporter are taxis as I dun own a car.. And while chatting with them during the journey, I realised that some of them have very interesting jobs..

Out of every 10 taxi drivers I met, 2 of them are actually Property Agents.. This is merely a side line for them.. While pending for the success sale, they can earn extra cash by driving a taxi.. It's rather convinent to move around with a car, plus rental and petrol for taxis are the cheapest of all vehicles.. I would just use one word to describe these cabbies --> SMART!!

Yday while on my way to Raffles Place, I met this taxi driver, Mr Lai who holds a very interesting job.. He is a freelance writer, but he does not write for newspapers or publish his own books.. He wrote letters (of all sorts), testimonials, etc for people who are in need.. For example:

You speed and broke the law and need to write a letter for appeal

Your son can't attend sch due to some reasons and need a letter to explain

You need to write to the government for financial assistance

He can assist you in writing these letters on your behalf at a very reasonable price (depending on situation of course)..

I totally agree with him.. Some pple thou fluent speakers, but they are unable to write.. And I'm not surprise that alot of pple actually approached him for help.. Most of them are lazy pple like me, who refuse to squeeze any additional brain juice to write..

He told me about his lastest writing --> A letter of appeal to our President

Apparently, the son of this indian lady is convicted for a major crime and is sentanced to death (he is supposed to be hanged this May).. She told Mr Lai "I spent $40K to sentance my son to death.. I don't mind paying you $2K because you are my last resort".. Thus, Mr Lai offered to help her by writing an appeal letter to Mr President.. Before he pens, he did alot of research on how to write.. Who is this criminal to seek for mercy when he showed non when the crime was commited?? Thus, the word MERCY will not be accepted in the letter.. And of course there are some other issues to take note of which I can't remember what he had told me.. Mr Lai recalls some contents on the letter he wrote.. I'm not going to elaborate more but I can tell you that I was almost touched to tears by it..

I really have to admire this gentleman, who persue his passion in writing by helping pple.. He is really a master of his trade.. Meanwhile, good luck for your exams Mr Lai!!

Poisonivy on 3/18/2006 03:36:00 PM

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