Published by Swiss James on 26 Feb 2008 at 01:22 pm
Dating in Shanghai
The singles scene in Shanghai is a very sad place indeed.
I thank Krishna every day that I managed to hook up with Emma on my first ever night out (even if it did take 3 months of begging, cajouling and mild hypnosis before she agreed to be my girlfriend), because if I’d fallen into the Chinese ex-pat dating pit, I’d bump into these kind of characters:
- Bachelor without a clue
- Bridget Jones starts to lose it
- Sugar Daddy wanted, apply within.
Oh mate, I can’t believe I’m the one to tell you this, but if a girl says she’s going to the bathroom and then climbs out of the window, she probably isn’t The One.
Hey crazy lady! There is no whiskey bar at Yu Garden, I’ve looked!
There is a difference between a “Shanghai Princess” and a prostitute. It’s just that I can never remember what that difference is.
Ads taken from the print version of Enjoy Classifieds
I think you might have found Woai’s next girlfriend . . . hahahahahaha!
That is sooo sad.
I like to read the M4W or W4M sections of my city’s Craigslist. Makes me feel 1,000 times better about myself and my life.
BTW:
WooHoo! . . . #1! #1!
The twentysomething expat girl sounds like a keeper - X-Files and Sunday church services, she knows how to catch a guy’s interest. The bathroom disappearing act one is classic - what an idiot / loser. And I think you’re being unfair on the Chinese princess - it’s just lost in translation as the Chinese version of “able to pay” simply says “generous” which means … oh ok, prostitute alert.
Interesting how both our posts today are on related subjects (ie love and romance or prostitutes for the cynics!) - we should synchronise our efforts more often.
*begins tortured sobbing*
You should respond to #1: “That’s my girlfriend, asshole”
Maybe you should post a trackback in the comment section of chinadirt.blogspot.com, then you can help justify those girls’ whinings.
#1 probably ain’t Edison Chen…
hahaha…second post in 2 days….trying to find relevant emoticon
hehe i love those ads, i had a post in my blog about this as well before.
me and a friend would sit in element fresh and just read thatsshanghais ads for hours and laugh so hard and laugh at expats sitting in Elementfresh thinking that they might be the person who wrote it.
will never forget the fun times there
#1 reminds me of the london paper’s ‘love struck’ section.
At least the girl didn’t lie about her expectation of wanting a guy who will pay for everything!
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