Calaidescope World

The New Curriculum Vitae

What if standard resumes and/or phone job interviews were replaced with this line of questioning?

WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Guess.
HOW ARE YOU TODAY? Surviving.
WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING? Black.
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Kula Shaker's first album, K.
WHAT IS THE WEATHER LIKE? It is the winter of my discontent.
DO YOU PREFER SUMMER OR WINTER? Winter in Hawai'i.
ANY SIBLINGS? Pancanioni, Ding, JM, Tiking, (almost Miguel).
IF YOU WERE A CRAYON WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Silver.
LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? Last new movie: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Last movie seen on tv: GATTACA.
SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING BETTER? Scary movies with a shocking plot twist.
HAVE YOU EVER CRIED DURING A MOVIE? Surprisingly, yes. Who didn’t cry in THE STORY OF US?
IF YOU WERE A MOVIE, WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BE? Murder-mystery-psychological thriller like SE7EN. Or something realistic but strangely full of hope like BEFORE SUNSET and BEFORE SUNRISE. But so far, I'm a cross between STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE and THE GODFATHER.
WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING NOW? Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION (again), THE POWER OF NOW (a book that G got me for Christmas), BANGKOK 8 (I can't remember the author's name), and SMOKE AND MIRRORS by Neil Gaiman (for the nth time).
WHAT BOOK WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOU? David Benioff's THE 25TH HOUR. Although sometimes I'm A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers.
HAVE YOU EVER KEPT A SECRET FROM ANYONE? Of course. And I’m so good at it, I often forget what it is.
FAVORITE DAY(s) OF THE YEAR? Weekends.
FAVORITE DRINK? Got milk?
FAVORITE SPORT? Now, badminton. I'm trying to get back into swimming. I like ultimate frisbee, but the sport doesn't like me. I can think of other things that should be considered a sport like making lait, speed texting, rushing to work on the Skyway, speed job matching, speed validation, survey-while-you-wait,....
FAVORITE MONTHS? Ber Months.
FAVORITE FOOD? Thai, Italian, Spanish.
FAVORITE SUBJECT(S)? English, Religion, Philosophy, History,...anything without numbers (Can you prove that the intersection of an empty set and a union set is a union set?).
FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER(S)? Shrek. Puss in Boots from SHREK. That robot girl in GHOST IN THE SHELL. Jube in NINJA SCROLL. Mr. Smee from PETER PAN. Malefacent from SLEEPING BEAUTY. The Power Puff Girls. Samurai Jack. Batman. Justin from SECRET OF NIMH.
FAVORITE ADVERTISEMENT? The old ORANGE ad that they used to show during the F1 races with the kids jumping in the water.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF? Of course =)
DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR FRIENDS? Depends which ones =P
DO YOU BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS? In our family, if you don’t believe, you don’t receive. And I’ve NEVER caught my parents. To this day, I have no idea how they do it. And one is in the States, ha.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN DESTINY/FATE? I’m of the opinion that I create what I will.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANGELS? Definitely.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? Yes. Why do you think I hate being left alone in the office?
WHAT ARE YOU PROUD OF? My family (you will never meet a more interesting and mind-boggling cast of characters), my dog, my work group, my closest friends, Search-In.
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
MORNING? "Noooooooooooooooo!"

posted by Calai @ 11:55 AM