Count our blessings... in a way

my personal mini Chingay

The good news is that Ms SUN Yuanping skipped her college graduation ceremony for a job interview armed with degrees in marketing and botany from a well-regarded school in this central Chinese city and ranked in the top fifth of her class.

The bad news is that Ms Sun never heard back from that prospective employer, nor from dozens of other companies and government agencies where she has applied since she graduated last June.

She is one of the 1.45mio unemployed new graduates from a total 5mio graduates each year in China.

Recently, after tearful self assessment in many sleepless nights while living off a US$100 monthly allowance from her parents, she has decided to cut her expectations and began sending her resume to small businesses asking for salaries as low as US$140 a month, a third of what she had hoped to make.

Compared that image in China with the image of our graduates in Singapore which I saw on tv recently. I heard this guy said, "I will probably wait till the right job comes along..." or something along that line.