Gretchen Singh

 is a contestant from Survivor: Son Doong - Elements.

Profile

 * Name (Age): Gretchen (22)
 * Tribe Designation: Apa (Water)
 * Current Residence: Greensboro, North Carolina
 * Personal Claim Of Fame: I was voted most likely to amount to nothing by the catty, 'popular' girls back in high school. Jokes on them, I'm not the one with two failed marriages by the age of twenty two like Becky is, or the one that dropped out of college after having her fourth kid.
 * Hobbies: Disappearing for an entire weekend when I find a good book series and throw out all my responsibilities to read it, going for walks in the forests a little outside the city, and playing with my cat, Sponge who, true to his name, has an obsession with stealing sponges from the kitchen and making me chase him to get them.
 * Pet Peeves: Expectations, especially those of my parents. I hate people that stereotype Asian parents as helicopter parents, but there's only so much 'we moved to America to give you a better life and you go and do this?' that you can hear before you give up on caring. Obviously I appreciate them looking out for me, but all the 'don't get so many piercings', 'don't study literature, it's a waste of time', 'why did you dye your hair black?' gets old eventually.
 * 3 Words To Describe You: Quiet yet forthright.
 * If you could have 3 things on an island what would they be and why?: Probably a book like Jane Eyre since it's long enough to kill time, maybe the photo I've got of my little brother and I when we first arrived in the US since it's actually pretty adorable, and definitely earbuds in case I get put on a tribe with lots of loud and abrasive people.
 * Survivor Contestant you are Most Like: Natalie White if you overlook the squealing in the jungle over killing a dead rat and constantly saying 'oh my word'. Does that eliminate her entire personality though? Whatever, I just respect someone like her who's quiet and calm about everything, especially in the face of loud and arrogant people. I suppose in that sense Ken McNickle would also work. They're both just relatively calm for most of the time, but despite being the quiet ones, they weren't afraid to get [expletive] done, like Natalie getting everyone to turn on Erik at the merge, or Ken turning Adam against Figgy.
 * Reason for being on Survivor: It would be pretty great to have a million dollars, not going to lie. I could finish up my degree without being thrown into a cesspool of debt and wouldn't need any help from my parents in paying that off, and would have enough cash left over to put towards a better apartment than I'm in right now which would be great. Aside from the money, I guess it's probably going to be good to go outside my comfort zone a bit, not that the concept thrills me in the slightest. Maybe once it's all over I'll appreciate it though.
 * Why do you think will be Sole Survivor: I know how to be calm and bite my tongue and not let what idiots say get to me, but I also know how to be direct enough that I'm not going to be a pushover. I'm also pretty much a closed book to people, which you might see as a negative, but in Survivor that's definitely going to mean that I'm a reliable person to work with since I'm never going to be leaking information you don't want out there. I know firsthand how to guard certain things that would definitely be better off kept a secret and not aired out for the world to hear.