The Meet Market
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If you're a single looking for love, where do you think you will find it?
Especially when there're no potential future partners in your current circle of friends, and you're constantly busy at work during weekdays, and weekends are spent doing stuff that don't allow you the chance to meet new friends...
Where do you think cupid will hit you?
Are there any chance that love will strike like in the movies, where the female and the male leads met in the middle of the streets or lift or any other remote place where you never imagine you can meet someone new? Nahhhhhh...
What do you do? Go for sgForums outings? SDU? Speed-dating outings? Online-dating sites? Go clubbing? Go for courses like cooking or diving or golf?
So how do you meet new people? -
sgforums is a good mating ground
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Actually, I'm too slothful to plan actively about it. I just go about doing whatever I feel like doing, wherever I feel like going, no special plans, per se. If in the course of my activities, someone interesting crops up, niiiiiiice! If not, I won't be disappointed anyways cause I wasn't looking for anyone in the first place.
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matingOriginally posted by FireIce:sgforums is a good mating ground 
hey! it the mating season now 
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loads of well-proven examples in sgforums....... ahahaahaOriginally posted by FireIce:sgforums is a good mating ground -
There's always other friends' friendsssss to meet.
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Just sit and wait for fate to drop lor.....
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Eric, what about yourself? Tell us!
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Hmm.. fate dun drop like durian.Originally posted by cindtan29:Just sit and wait for fate to drop lor..... 
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I admit I'm trying. Whenever I'm in the bookstore or the music store I look around...The travel and cooking sections are usually empty or occupied by other men or women far older than me.
And then I also don't know if I've met The One somewhere before, at the wrong time... -
Anywhere.......
Possible is frd's frd.
Can know her background,etc.
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i guess the context where we are in will make a slight but discernible difference to the way we meet people.
most of us would probable have read in magazines (women's, most probably) that some of the ways to meet men are:-
* supermarkets - then they'd tell you to look out for what's in his shopping basket to deduce what kinda man he is etc... and to strike up a conversation by saying something in relation to the contents to establish a mutual interest e.g. "hey, is that brand of *something* good? heard it's really *whatever*, but have never tried it... " and voila! frens for life!
* bookshop - same as above, just substiture "groceries" with "books"
etc etc etc...
personally, i 've never seen the above (esp the first 2) happen before in sgp. i guess it's just our asian roots n ness which makes it weird, firstly for the approacher ("should i? wa lau, scarly she brush me off in front of so many ppl super paisay leh" ) and for the approachee ("oh no, what kind of creep is this???")
i've been approached off the streets twice in my life, both by non-asians, and i must say the above is exactly what i thought as the approachee in both instances. hahaaa... perhaps if either of them looked like brad pitt it'd be a difference story! -
Originally posted by Estee:loads of well-proven examples in sgforums....... ahahaaha
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Seriously, I don't know, that's why I post this here!
I guess at the moment, I'm in no rush to find my future partner... still want to enjoy a few more years of freedom and singlehood...
I still like to be romantic and idealistic about love. Whatever happens, happens. What will be will be.
Maybe some girl will greet me today with a "Hello Stranger"!
Ok, I'm daydreaming...
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Widen your social circle by getting to know your friends' friends, or join clubs that have members of your age demographic.
Key is to socialise, enjoy yourself, keep an open mind and allow sparks to fly.
Don't have to actively search, we smell desperation.... but don't have to limit yourself to a Start-date for dating either. -
Neuros, thinking about what you posted, I remembered that I was approached twice in Borders, once in Orchard Road and once in Holland V before... and all four were non-Asians too.
The two who approached me in Borders were in the same section where I was browsing so I guess there was shared interest. But the first one, poor chap, the minute I saw him walking towards me with this huge smile on his face, I panicked and though my mind said, 'STAY!', I started to semi-run away!
We met again later at the magazine section and the same thing happened. My friends am familiar with this and call it my 'Runaway Mare Syndrome' (RMS). -
maybe u were instictively running from a potential MLM agent.Originally posted by Rhonda:Neuros, thinking about what you posted, I remembered that I was approached twice in Borders, once in Orchard Road and once in Holland V before... and all four were non-Asians too.
The two who approached me in Borders were in the same section where I was browsing so I guess there was shared interest. But the first one, poor chap, the minute I saw him walking towards me with this huge smile on his face, I panicked and though my mind said, 'STAY!', I started to semi-run away! We met again later at the magazine section and the same thing happened. My friends am familiar with this and call it my 'Runaway Mare Syndrome' (RMS). 
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It's survival instincts
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hahaa... i get wat u mean. it's jus plain uncomfortable, huh?Originally posted by Rhonda:Neuros, thinking about what you posted, I remembered that I was approached twice in Borders, once in Orchard Road and once in Holland V before... and all four were non-Asians too.
The two who approached me in Borders were in the same section where I was browsing so I guess there was shared interest. But the first one, poor chap, the minute I saw him walking towards me with this huge smile on his face, I panicked and though my mind said, 'STAY!', I started to semi-run away! We met again later at the magazine section and the same thing happened. My friends am familiar with this and call it my 'Runaway Mare Syndrome' (RMS).
strangely, i'm much more approachable when i get approached at a club/pub. perhaps it's the alcoholic imbibing that makes me friendlier. again, this seems warped, but then, the world's warped anyway!
i hate mondays... -
Come to think about it, it will be quite nice and sweet to meet your future partner in a bookshop. That way, there is a higher chance of having common interests...
Nothing beats having an engaging chat about a book both read before and progressing to further topics...
Ok, next time you guys see a 45 year old balding guy standing around at the self-improvement section in Borders and holding a "How to find a wife" book, you know who he is... -
This is bad...Originally posted by neuros:hahaa... i get wat u mean. it's jus plain uncomfortable, huh?
strangely, i'm much more approachable when i get approached at a club/pub. perhaps it's the alcoholic imbibing that makes me friendlier. again, this seems warped, but then, the world's warped anyway!
i hate mondays...
Girls run away from guys in the bookshop and supermarkets but are more approachable at clubs and pubs...
Give NERDS (like me) a chance!
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Library also can.Originally posted by EricDraven:Come to think about it, it will be quite nice and sweet to meet your future partner in a bookshop. That way, there is a higher chance of having common interests...
Nothing beats having an engaging chat about a book both read before and progressing to further topics...
Ok, next time you guys see a 45 year old balding guy standing around at the self-improvement section in Borders and holding a "How to find a wife" book, you know who he is...
Scenario:
Woman drops book in Self help section. Man nearby picks it up. Woman: "Ooh, thank you, sir!!"
Man: "Ah... don't mention it!"
Woman: *melts at the look in his eyes....*
Don't mind me, just in a crazy mood today! -
Haha...Originally posted by SydneyLibrarian:Library also can.
Scenario:
Woman drops book in Self help section. Man nearby picks it up. Woman: "Ooh, thank you, sir!!"
Man: "Ah... don't mention it!"
Woman: *melts at the look in his eyes....*
Don't mind me, just in a crazy mood today!
My scenario would be:
Woman bumps into man in library. Both dropped their books. Woman picks up man's book titled "Quantum Theory", man picks up woman's book titled "Modern Atomic Physics".
Woman and Man (together): "Ah.. you like... " *nerdy giggles*
Man snorts while giggling...
Man: There's a documentary this afternoon on Breaking Scientific Discoveries, wanna catch it with me?
And the rest, as they say, is history...
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sigh..my scenerio will be...
woman trips on a 'bump' on the floor and drops book..
book falls next to man
man picks up book and returns to woman...
woman glare at man with the "don't-u-dare-snatch-my-book-to-borrow" look.
woman walks away with a huff.
*sigh*
I look like a library book horder isit? -
LOL yours sounds much better than mine!Originally posted by EricDraven:Haha...
My scenario would be:
Woman bumps into man in library. Both dropped their books. Woman picks up man's book titled "Quantum Theory", man picks up woman's book titled "Modern Atomic Physics".
Woman and Man (together): "Ah.. you like... " *nerdy giggles*
Man snorts while giggling...
Man: There's a documentary this afternoon on Breaking Scientific Discoveries, wanna catch it with me?
And the rest, as they say, is history...
Hahahahahaha... *snorts*
eh... nerdy giggles from a man? I dun think... err... I won't want my man to giggle... hmm... kinda feminine, but then, that's just my thinking!