Sometimes when I tried to hook L up with some italian contacts, he'd say 'I didn't come to S'pore to meet other italians'. Hey, you never know. From what I observed, italians love to help their counterparts, specialmente when they are many thousands miles away from home. We Singaporeans would shun our fellow beings at the hint of a 'lah' or 'lor'. Anyway I'd always say - never rule out any contacts. I sent his CV to every possible remote friend/associate/family who's a step away from the relevant hospitality/F&B/casino industries he has experience in. He was also very diligent in networking at career fairs and posting his CV to every hotel.
We kept positive amid these 'recession times' and I made him read 'The Secret' which helped to attract the right energies to turn our beliefs into reality. Il secreto finally worked last Friday when on a whim, I emailed his cv to this italian guy who ran 3 ristoranti siciliani. He called L in for an interview almost immediately and asked him to start training 2 days later! Woa-hoo. We'll see how it'll unfold but we're grateful things are looking up. If this doesn't pan out, he can try his hand at making the coffee buns from the uncle at the Elias Mall 'dino-pao' dim sum shop. We can just imagine us in a steamy small shop rolling out buns after buns and selling them for 1 euro each outside the stadio in Napoli.
Sometimes when I tried to hook L up with some italian contacts, he'd say 'I didn't come to S'pore to meet other italians'. Hey, you never know. From what I observed, italians love to help their counterparts, specialmente when they are many thousands miles away from home. We Singaporeans would shun our fellow beings at the hint of a 'lah' or 'lor'. Anyway I'd always say - never rule out any contacts. I sent his CV to every possible remote friend/associate/family who's a step away from the relevant hospitality/F&B/casino industries he has experience in. He was also very diligent in networking at career fairs and posting his CV to every hotel. 
We kept positive amid these 'recession times' and I made him read 'The Secret' which helped to attract the right energies to turn our beliefs into reality. Il secreto finally worked last Friday when on a whim, I emailed his cv to this italian guy who ran 3 ristoranti siciliani. He called L in for an interview almost immediately and asked him to start training 2 days later! Woa-hoo. We'll see how it'll unfold but we're grateful things are looking up. If this doesn't pan out, he can try his hand at making the coffee buns from the uncle at the Elias Mall 'dino-pao' dim sum shop. We can just imagine us in a steamy small shop rolling out buns after buns and selling them for 1 euro each outside the stadio in Napoli.
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