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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Voicing it

How much does a person's voice tell you about his persona and his looks? I have been getting alot of double takes from the people I have liaised with over the phone in the course of my work - when they finally meet me in person that is. All of them have said that I do not look like the person they imagine the voice on the phone belongs to. When pressed for details and an explanation on what they meant, they would desist in talking about it and I only get coy (or probably, devious) smiles. This has not happened once or twice, but lots of times.

I would like to flatter myself to think that they simply did not envision me to be so young but one can't help but wonder whether - the truth, will be very much more unflattering.

I don't think I can handle the truth.

Not yet anyway.


5 comments:

savante said...

Well it's like the David Beckham Synd :) You can't imagine his reedy voice, right?

Anonymous said...

They are probably expecting someone who looks older. You can sound very mature over the phone. :D

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Zyklon22 said...

Savante: I would rather have a reedy voice and good looks than the other way around :(

Inaesb: I sound old. That is so not good.

[chocoley] said...

Okay, in my case ppl impression was I sounded like a mature guy, I guess too manly to describe, but at least it wasn't a bad impression at all. XD