VON: linguistics = teaching??

Mr. X: oh, so u're from linguistics background ar?

Me: yeah!

Mr. X: then how come u ended up here?

Me: erm.. by chance??

Mr. X: oh.. i thought linguistics people will end up teaching... then u have an honour degree in linguistics so i thought u are teaching or something..but why this job??

Me: erm, well.. it doesn't matter la... there are alot of things to learn here ma..

Mr. X: oh.. eh?? so u're doing the advertising and promotion ar??

Me: yeah!

Mr. X: then why i didn't see any advertising here ar?? no promotion oso... very dead leh...

Me: erm.. doing...

halo?? the mall is 'dead' but it is not 'dead' after i work there ok??

for the past 10 years oso quite 'dead' ady... do u expect a fresh grad who just started working in the complex can live it up in just 3 months??