Personalised dating
services by Toa Payoh Vets?
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
Date:
06 July, 2011
One of my interesting client is working in the Singapore
match-making agency called Social Development Network (SDN),
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.
The SDN has a new strategy whereby it partners "grassroots
organisations" to do match-making. This is an excellent idea
as the communities are a great source of contacts. I wonder
whether Toa Payoh Vets can be a partner of the SDN. For
example, introducing pet owners to pet owners via functions
organised by Toa Payoh Vets in partnership with the SDN? Do I
sound desperate?
The young lady sent me a list of courses in match-making.
Everything in Singapore seems to require government approval,
training and certification. So that is why I asked her to give
me a list of training courses. I have included the list in my
blog in case some of my readers may be interested.
Below is my e-mail reply to her.
E-MAIL FROM DR SING DATED JULY 6, 2011
Hi
Is your cat's breathing rate normal now? I have not heard from
you for the past 3 days and presume she is OK now.
Thanks again for dating agency courses. I wonder whether there
are any baby boomer attending the "personalised dating
service" courses? Such courses may be good for veterinarians
in providing "personalised veterinary service" as
client-doctor relationships last a life-time and into the
younger generation if there is an element of connection and
trust.
The following true story may be of interest to your lecturer.
I had this enterprising realtor friend in his 50s. He can sell
ice to Eskimos as that is his personality and he does not have
the fortune of being a graduate. He sold me an idea to invest
in his Hainanese businessman's pig farming business and spent
his time and money to take me on a tour of the three big pig
farms. I enjoyed the pig-farm tourism as I was once a pig vet
in Singapore in the 1970s when I was a newly minted
veterinarian working for the Primary Production Department
(now called Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority).
Once I asked this man whether he had done any dating business
in Hainan since he has the connections in Hainan. He actually
did one successful personalised match-making a lady from his
hometown in Hainan with a Singaporean free of charge. He is
very welcome by the Hainanese mothers in his home-town. I was
surprised.
He told me that it is a very risky venture as he will be
blamed if the marriage fails later and so he has stopped doing
it. "The best income still comes from property," he said to me
recently. "But not selling properties to Singaporeans." Now he
sells Singapore properties to his China quite successfully and
if you think about it, China is a vast market of possibilities
in real estate and in match-making.
TOA
PAYOH VETS
