Tuesday, October 28, 2008

English PAYS baby!!!

Today it landed Chris and I on the tenth floor of some random apartment building doing "voice recordings" for 150 RMB. To put that amount in perspective for you, that much money could buy me several meals, a pair of leather boots, or three months of train fare.

YES, some shady thoughts crossed my mind, but I couldn't resist the adventure!

We were told that our help was needed for a project that would develop special voice recognition technology for LG. BS? Perhaps.

I spent an hour reading sentences such as, "passionate kisses on her honey body" "talk to me on MSN" and "she is overwhelmingly optimistic." I also read dates, phrases containing curse words, numbers, and pages of nonsense words.

Who knows, maybe it was totally legitimate. Maybe there's a 900 number with my voice on it now. Or maybe I'm the voice of some Korean soap opera queen.

Regardless, I'm 150 RMB richer and all I had to do was speak English!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You never finished watching "Hostel" did you?


Jackie Oh
said...

There's a difference, the bad guys in hostel were pretty beefy. I could easily take on a small mob here.

*reconsiders after realizing everyone here knows kung-fu*

D-Rock said...

umm... yeah... so your "start" in the porn industry is going to look very interesting in your autobiography.