This week I’m writing on this prompt.
#3- If you had made a career out of whatever you were passionate about when you were ten
…what would you be doing?
I’ve always been a big fan of mystery and detective stories since young. Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes were the two detectives that I adore. I love reading about how they went about solving crimes and how they piece together the clues with their analytical thinking.
I would like to be a detective going around solving crime. I imagine myself speeding through the streets of London on my BMW bike chasing after criminals. Sometimes I would be in disguise as a different person or playing along as an undercover agent waiting for the opportunity to bust the syndicate leader. It would be great to be able to display my analytical skills while cracking difficult cases . I would have great satisfaction seeing the criminal masterminds caught and put behind bars.
Till now mystery and crime still intrigue me. I love watching C.S.I, Numbers, NCIS and The Mentalist on cable TV. They even have a C.S.I game on Facebook now where you go around searching for clues and sending the tainted items to the lab for forensic analysis.
At present there is a C.S.I exhibit over at the Science Center which I’m really interested to view. We may just hop over and visit the Singapore Science Center this weekend.
16 comments
Erin
November 4, 2010 at 1:58 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Ohh I think that would be a ton of fun I think! Just digging up clues, VERY cool!
Erin
November 4, 2010 at 1:58 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Ohh I think that would be a ton of fun I think! Just digging up clues, VERY cool!
Karen and Gerard
November 4, 2010 at 6:27 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I liked games that involved figuring out who done it like Clue and Lie Detector. Now I enjoy reading fiction about crime investigations.
Stopping by from Writer’s Workshop. Here’s mine: http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2010/11/time-i-feared-for-gerards-safety.html
Karen and Gerard
November 4, 2010 at 6:27 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I liked games that involved figuring out who done it like Clue and Lie Detector. Now I enjoy reading fiction about crime investigations.
Stopping by from Writer’s Workshop. Here’s mine: http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2010/11/time-i-feared-for-gerards-safety.html
Jerri
November 4, 2010 at 7:50 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I also wrote about wanting to be a detective! I bet a lot of kids wanted to be detectives, too. TV made it seem so glamorous.
Anyway, great post. It’s always nice to meet a fellow Nancy Drew enthusiast.
Dumb Mom
November 4, 2010 at 9:47 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I wanted to be a detective too! Think it was b/c I was so nosy though. I just became a tax preparer instead which is pretty much the exact same thing!
Dominique
November 4, 2010 at 10:25 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
A Tax preparer.. it must have been fun working as one. Hubby just past his CFE exam and is now a Certified Fraud Examiner.. his new qualifications sounds very C.S.I to me.
Dumb Mom
November 4, 2010 at 9:47 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I wanted to be a detective too! Think it was b/c I was so nosy though. I just became a tax preparer instead which is pretty much the exact same thing!
Dominique
November 4, 2010 at 10:25 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
A Tax preparer.. it must have been fun working as one. Hubby just past his CFE exam and is now a Certified Fraud Examiner.. his new qualifications sounds very C.S.I to me.
Shell
November 4, 2010 at 9:49 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
The books made this sound so glamorous!
Kim
November 5, 2010 at 1:52 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I’ll bet that exhibit would be very interesting to see.
Kim
November 5, 2010 at 1:52 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I’ll bet that exhibit would be very interesting to see.
Mary
November 7, 2010 at 12:10 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Stopping by from Mama Kat’s workshop. Greetings from a blogging newbie and first-time workshop-er!
Oh how I loved Nancy Drew! And then in college my roommate and I were hooked on America’s Most Wanted. I covered the police beat for small newspapers and to this day, I think about police work as a new career.
Several years ago, I was lucky enough to win a fellowship where police reporters got the chance to go to a weekend at West Virginia University to learn about forensic science and to sit in on classes. It was an amazing weekend. They called it “Murder in the Mountains.”
Looking forward to dropping by your blog again!
Dominique
November 7, 2010 at 3:49 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
It must have been great fun to be on a police reporter’s weekend. Thanks for dropping by.
Mary
November 7, 2010 at 12:10 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Stopping by from Mama Kat’s workshop. Greetings from a blogging newbie and first-time workshop-er!
Oh how I loved Nancy Drew! And then in college my roommate and I were hooked on America’s Most Wanted. I covered the police beat for small newspapers and to this day, I think about police work as a new career.
Several years ago, I was lucky enough to win a fellowship where police reporters got the chance to go to a weekend at West Virginia University to learn about forensic science and to sit in on classes. It was an amazing weekend. They called it “Murder in the Mountains.”
Looking forward to dropping by your blog again!
Holly L
November 11, 2010 at 2:02 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
A detective is a great one. I remember reading mysteries and I so wanted to be a super sleuth. FUN!