I knew Gin when I was working as a XXXX Dealer in year 2000. We have girls help us to knock the door when we do door to door sales. She agreed to see a demonstration of the system at her house. And it was my turn for the demonstration.
At the end of the demonstration, I realized that she was not in the position to buy the system because she was a widow then. Instead I invited her to join me as a dealer. This is a fresh proposal to her; she was hesitated because she never does sales before. She has been the housewife for the past ten years, although occasionally help the sister in law selling some snack in the coffee shop.
She was thinking to work for Beer Company. The beer company nowadays has placed their girls at those popular night spot like hawker centre or neighborhood coffee shop at night. The customers place order for the beer, these girls will serve them by pouring the beer into the glass, occasionally chat with the customer (but not necessary) very simple job. These girls will gain commission from the total sales of the beer sold. I heard those girl can easily earn S$1500++ working from 6pm to 12 pm -2am.
I convinced her to give a try as the dealer. I told her "you will not lose any things by giving it a try, you are not losing a skin, and a hair ....you can also take this opportunity to find out your real potential!"
We wanted her to start by fixing appointment with people she knew. She managed to fix two appointments. First appointment was demonstrated by our group leader who is an elderly man with very hot temper. She must have said some things not appropriate during the demo, hence there was no sale for the first demonstration and the leader was very angry with her. He was so angry that he refused to do the second demo for her and asked me to go instead. I went, and we manage to close the sales. The first success gave her a lot of confidence, then she started to do demo for the total strangers. When she got the 2nd sales, we all know that she is definitely qualified to be the dealer.
Then for 4 years we are working together. We meet almost every day, because we work 7 days a week including raining day.
She has two sons. The elder boy is a smart boy, score very good result in school, but quite addicted to all type of video game. The second son is a dyslexia, can recognize words but unable to talk. When he made noise, the whole block can hear his sound. She engages maid from Indonesia to help her to look after his sons when she works.
Her husband suffered from lever cancel. Before the last stage of his life, Gin noticed that there was one woman came to visit her husband in the hospital while she was not around. At last, her husband admitted that was his woman outside. They were running the second hand car trading business together. Can you imagine Gin's reaction? She went wild and crazy. She screamed and scolded her husband. She felt betrayed and hurt. However, at the very last week of his life, she put his husband into the taxi and let him rejoin with his girlfriend at the girlfriend's house. After her husband passed away, the siblings of her husband expressed that she should not over reacted over her husband's affair. They believed if she kept cool, her husband probably can live longer. She almost has a flight with them.
The husband does love her. He left her with S$220,000/- insurance money! She got half the money, the other half of the money must wait till her son turn 21 years old. The brother in law act as the guardian angel to that money, in order to take out that money will need his approval as well.
With so much money on hand, you know what she has done? The thought of having to take care of her two sons alone drive her crazy. The thought of being cheated by her husband made her more frustrated. She turns to gambling, she was in the "mahjong table" almost every day. One day, some wicked friends brought her to casino that stage on the ship. She won some money, and she become addicted to the game. She brought her own mum there as company also. Within 2 months, she has lost nearly all her inherited money. She borrowed another S$12,000 from her mum. She only awake after she lost that borrowed money! She told herself.............." stop!!! ", she still needs to bring up two kids. At that time, the elder son was 9, while the younger son was 6.
She started to work as dealer. She left home at about 5pm in the evening. The leader will decide where to meet. It could be any part of housing estate in Singapore. She will work till 10pm at night. She is a diligent woman, she sells quite well, 4 to 6 units was not a problem. Several months past........
One night, she pulled the demo set down to the van, she has just closed one sale, apparently very happy, very high and she was red! She said her customer invited her for a drink of red wine, and this guy has watched the demo with the company of a China girl friend.
Soon, this China girl left Singapore for a while. When she returned to Singapore, this man has changed the main door lock and the gate lock, so that this China girl can not enter his house! This woman went crazy, she come to this house to look for him every day and called him every hours. Even this man at home, he closed the entire window, he would not go and answer the door. Finally, when she saw the man was with Gin, she threatens her to be careful. However, not too long later, the China girl was caught by police, because she has "jump flight" - stay illegally in Singapore without a valid passport. She was jailed for 6 months because she was using fake name or fake passport to enter Singapore!
This man was around 50, 1.8m tall, well built. He is a contractor for more than 20 years. He specialized in partition. He used to have a booming business, but lately the business was a bit slow. He would come and meet Gin before we started work. He would buy dinner for her and wait for her to finish work, and then they would go for a beer session or supper together.
Before the China girl, this man used to have a Thai wife whom they have a daughter who was 11 years old then. His wife fell in love with her native man. One day, she just packed the jeweleries and brought along her daughter left Singapore back to her own country without a hint to her husband. This man spent almost a year to search around Thailand in order to get back his daughter. He managed to save his daughter and brought her back to Singapore. Since he is a single parent now, he sent her daughter to stay with her half sister. He paid them S$1500/- for food and lodging. He only brought his daughter back during weekend.
The relationship of Gin and this guy developed very fast. Gin started to refer him as her boyfriend. He would fetch her back after work. He would bring her to supermarket to buy food for her children. He also brought her to meet with his half sister and daughter. He also encouraged her to bring her sons to his house for party. When she has poor sales of the month, he would top up her accounts with S$800-S$1200/-. He helps her to buy a second hand van in order for her to carry on her business as a dealer independently. He enjoyed her company, she also fond of him who was always generous to help her out during the difficult time. Every thing seems going smoothly and nicely. But, this man revealed to Gin, since he had a bad experience in his previous marriage, he is sceptical to "married". He would prefer to stay as friends with no commitment.
Occasionally, she would complained that her son sneak out to play video game, never know how to save money, and he some time very rude to her boy friend. In one incident, the boy was seating behind this man's car, this man was smoking in the car! The boy just screamed," so smelly". This man commented her son was very rude, and she felt very hurt of his comments. Numerous times they quarrel because of her sons, especially the elder son. She has to bet him not to have grit with the child, …….look, they are just the kid.
He bought a pendant with a tiny diamond for her as birthday present. She told me this was not some things she was looking forward to. She wanted his proposal for marriage. But he expressed that he felt pressurised because of her heavy overhead. It will be good if they can just be friends.
I heard that another suitor was very serious with Gin. He tracked them. This new suitor has some financial difficulty, he told Gin he was not as rich as that guy now, but he will provide her all she want. He took up a part time job as taxi driver, he promises Gin all his income from the taxi will be going to Gin. Later, when he caught Gin kissing that guy in the car park, he couldn't take it. That night, when he see the kissing scene, he made himself drank, and he has a fight with a stranger, actually, he wanted to have a fight with his enemy.
Gin has been avoiding the boy friend for a while. She actually still in love with the boy friend, she was not interested in this mad suitor. She avoids him because she want to see him come back to beg her back. But this never happen, when Gin was not available, he went to Batam to buy sex instead. When he realised Gin has a new suitor, he went to Match maker Agency to get him a Vietnamese bride. He returned once, and finally, he went again and marry the second Vietnamese bride. Gin was so hurt, he rather marry some one he rarely knows than to marry her!
To be continuing...........
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