Why “The Peak” pales in comparison to “Today”

There's a new drama on Channel 8 starring Christopher Lee, Qi Yuwu, Elvin Ng, Jeanette Aw, Dawn Yeoh and Ben Yeo. It's supposed to showcase Singapore's offshore, marine and maritime industry, and I also suspect it's for manpower purposes. The cast certainly has a magnetic hold on the audience (Jeanette looks conspicuously fair though she's supposed to work under the sun, but I think she looks better that way), but I'm not sure that people are going to be attracted to the industry because of the show.

One important factor that is going to make job-seekers consider taking up a job in the industry, of course, is pay. Well, here's an excerpt of an article from Today on Jan 6, 2007:

Keppel Offshore & Marine (O&M) is paying out a record 7.2-month bonus to all its 7,700 employees this year, topping the 6.2 months given out last year. The good news comes after record order completions and timely deliveries for all its projects in the past 12 months.
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Keppel O&M, a subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Limited, completed and delivered 26 new builds and conversions totalling $2 billion, all on time and within budget.

According to a friend,even though the average EEE grad's pay in this industry is slightly below average, the 6-7 months of bonus more than makes up for it. And they have projects lined up to 2010!

Anyway, I was quite surprised by Qi Yuwu when he spoke English, quite decently too. :-)