中国女人！请不要上老外的床（新东方校长俞敏洪夫人写）

I can't remember how I came across this article but I seem to recall that there is a link to it on Sammyboy. The original article is in Chinese but some cracker translated it to English. Unfortunately, his standard of English is shockingly poor. For the benefit of my readers, I have taken the trouble of 'recycling' his chopped-up rubbish into something coherent. However, if you are a masochist and wish to torture yourself, you can read his translated version.

Chinese women! Please don’t get into bed with foreigners.

If you ask a foreigner why he came to China, he’ll usually tell you: “Because I admire China’s long history, wonderful culture, the stunning scenery, the breakneck development, the amazing changes.”

But I tell you, apart from the very few who are sponsored by the government, and those who are backed by large companies, the overwhelming majority are here for two reasons:

- They can’t support themselves very well at home, or maybe even can’t support themselves at all.
- They come for the Chinese girls.

One afternoon, me and my friend (a French girl), were returning home from eating out. We were at the entrance of our place of work. Far away opposite where we were standing, an old guy was collecting rubbish and pushing a small cart. At this point the French girl poked me, “”Did you see that?”

“See what?” I replied, bewildered.

“In front of you.”

I then discovered that the old guy was a foreigner. His hair was long, dirty, and messy. No wonder I thought that he was just a garbage collector. The cart in front of him was not for carrying rubbish; in it was a baby of mixed parentage. I then noticed a young, beautiful, and statuesque Chinese girl was beside him.

The French girl giggled, “Why do Chinese girls do this?” She was laughing because we were discussing this ‘issue’ during our meal. Actually, I’d already heard stories about this kind of foreigners with Chinese girls, but I’d never thought anything of it. Before my eyes, however, was a sight too powerful to ignore: a gorgeous Chinese girl with an old, ugly, dirty, short, bald, and shrivelled foreigner, and their baby in a push-chair.

The French girl wouldn’t stop laughing - I had no idea why she was laughing like that - and at that moment, as a Chinese, my self-respect was affected deeply.

Several days later, I made three decisions:
- Tell everybody the ugly truth about the foreigners I know.
- Inspire the Chinese people to rise up and stop Chinese girls from fawning over foreign men.
- Research on how foreign women look at Chinese men so that I could use the knowledge gained to help Chinese men attract foreign women.

To address the issue. My first act was to go with my colleagues to interview some white women who live in China and who have never had a Chinese boyfriend. More importantly, we wanted to go and interview those who had dated or married Chinese men and invite them to tell us the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese men. I know that foreigners who fit this description are few, but luckily, I’ve already met several.

Taking a more systematic approach, we also handed out a questionnaire to these white women, to get them to describe how they view Chinese men, and try to find out who are the five most charming Chinese men that they could think of. This research will answer for me these questions:

- Are foreign women interested in Chinese men?

- What do the single foreign women in China want most from a foreign man?

- What can Chinese men do to make themselves more attractive to foreign women?

- What kind of Chinese men are most attractive to foreign women?

- What kind of foreign women go for Chinese guys?

- How do you meet foreign women?

- In public, how does one approach a foreign woman?

- When did China become a heaven for foreign men?

John is one such example. Not long ago, I met him on the street, holding hands with a Chinese girl who is taller than him. Introducing himself, he said that his Chinese girlfriend works for the Home and Motors Company.

John is an American, 42 years old, and 1.67 metres in height. As he was a university dropout, he couldn’t get himself a decent job. After living in Africa for a couple of years, he heard ‘get rich quick’ stories of many Americans in China, and decided to come to China. Although he was not yet familiar with life in China, he managed to get himself an English teaching job in a small town in Jiangsu.

John wasn’t happy. After a couple of months in Jiangsu, he came to Shanghai to look for work. He stayed in a cheap hotel for 12 yuan a night. I met him there. That day I met with a foreign friend for a meal. As I saw them chatting, I thought she knew John, so I invited him over to our table. I didn’t know they had just met.

When we were ordering dinner, John ordered a pretty expensive dish,. My friend asked him in English, “The thing you ordered was pretty expensive. Do you intend to pay for it yourself?” John carried on like a kid who’d been caught doing something naughty. I saw him racking his brain. I told my friend in Chinese not to worry and then in English, told him to continue choosing.

After that, because of work and other responsibilities, I quickly forgot about him. The next time I saw him, he told me that he’d found an English teaching job in a school in Shanghai. I didn’t talk to his girlfriend, but I could tell that she looked down on Chinese people. Looking at her background, I was tempted to think, I bet she doesn’t know that her American once relied on other people to buy him dinner. This is rather too similar to a fairytale. It’s obviously manmade, and after making it up, a man goes and lives it.

Also, on a Shanghai bus, I spotted a typical American street-hood with a young Chinese girl. And in broad daylight, he put his hand under her shirt and started feeling her breasts. After ten minutes, the Chinese girl clearly wanted to say that her breasts had had enough stroking, but unfortunately her English ability was rudimentary at best.

A taxi driver told me that once outside a famous bar, he met a black man with both his hands aound a Chinese girl. Originally, he thought that she was a working girl so he wasn’t bothered, but they ended asking them to drop her off at the dormitories of a famous college. He was shocked.

It’s been reported that, a hospital in Beijing received a AIDS patient, an American businessman who confessed before dying, in the preceding weeks in Beijing, he had been with six Chinese women Further investigation, revealed most of them were respected intellectuals.

This kind of foreigners can’t find jobs in their own country. They use their status as foreigners in China to get money, chug beer, and chase women. Their only hobby is criticizing China. Some diplomats even use their position to have their way with Chinese girls. Some even publicly say, “My identity can get me any Chinese girl I want.”

China, do you know, you give foreigners too much, way too much, and in return, foreigners do nothing but look down on you. You should call them something even they are not used to. Call them white trash. I also want to take this opportunity to officially tell these foreigners. “Don’t congratulate yourselves too much, you’ve only had the flesh of Chinese girls, not their souls nor the best of what they have to offer.”

Recently, a joke has been doing the rounds on the Chinese internet sites about a foreigner seeking marriage in China:

A 47 year-old foreigner signed himself up at a Chinese marriage-agency but for a long time there were no inquiries. Then suddenly one day, he received two marriage proposals. The foreigner was shocked. Investigation revealed that one of the staff at the marriage agency had put his age at 67.

An independent survey recently confirmed that Chinese women don’t marry foreign men for love. It also discovered, the average age gap between a Chinese woman marrying a Western man is 10.5 years. 13% are of entirely different generations - a full 20-year age gap. It is reported that the record age gap for a Chinese-foreign marriage is 54 years. On the day they were married the American man was 82 and the Chinese girl was 28.

Incidentally, I recently saw a joke in an American magazine. It goes like this: “A man in his eighties took his pregnant wife (in her twenties) to the hospital. The doctor gently asked him if it was possible that the baby could have been someone else’s. The old man replied, “No way, I can perform miracles. Once, when my wife and I went hunting with one of her boyfriends, I used an umbrella to point at a deer, that deer just dropped dead there and then.”

I don’t know if that Chinese girl will get pregnant, but it definitely makes one respect the human capacity for creating miracles. You might have achieved something, but you’ve lost the most valuable thing: self-respect.

Needless to say, the instigators of these ugly foreigners’ success are the Chinese women. But for these women, most of whom have never been abroad, their brains are full of fantasies. So, today I want to take this opportunity to tell them the truth. If you’ve found true love, I congratulate you and wish you luck. Personally I say, if it’s true love, then no matter what troubles the future brings, it’s worth pursuing.

Nevertheless, I also want to warn you. Firstly, Chinese women seek marriages that are stable. However, in developed Western countries, the divorce rate is around 50% and for inter-racial marriages, the rate is even higher.

Secondly, I find it highly unlikely that the foreign men of today can give Chinese girls true love because the first ingredient of true love is respect. And in the eyes of foreign men, the image of Chinese women has already been ruined by that minority, It’s already changed. They are now the world’s most open, most forward, least careful, simple-minded, half-witted, stupid and easy girls. It’s very hard to believe that any man would give true love to this kind of girl. I only have one example, I heard an American say he was looking for an Asian girl who was a combination of maid, cook, and sex worker.

Maybe you’re only after money. I understand you and I don’t blame you. But I want to tell you, before committing yourself, you should be certain of two things: i) Is this foreigner really rich? (I know many foreigners in China are not rich.) ii) Does he want to marry you? If he doesn’t marry you, then his wealth will have nothing to do with you.

Maybe you want to travel abroad. Again, I don’t blame you. But before you commit yourself you should be certain of two things: i) This foreigner wants to go home. The outside world is generally wealthier than China, but it’s certainly not heaven. The dangerous part is, many foreigners in China don’t want to go home, because they can’t find decent work at home,, let alone any work. They don’t want to go home to return to that idle, lonely life. Ii) Does he want to marry you? If he doesn’t marry you, then you’ll never acquire the right to settle in his country.

My colleague’s neighbour’s daughter married a Japanese mountain farmer. The neighbour often says some analogies in front of my colleague “Now we don’t care about money. 100,000, 200,000 is a small number.” But, my neighbour replies, “Do you know if your daughter’s really happy in Japan? Chinese people are obsessed with face. They will always tell the good news, and keep the bad news under wraps. Some years ago, a Chinese TV show interviewed a Chinese girl who had married into a Japanese farming community. From lively, vibrant, colourful Shanghai to the remote, cold hills of Japan, the Chinese girl could only express disappointment and helplessness.

Maybe you’re after sex. In Australia, a female author, Miss Shi, has written, “I have a girlfriend. By Chinese standards she is extremely open, a woman of vast sexual experience. The first time she was with a wWstern man, she felt an extreme pleasure. She told me over the phone that the feeling this Western man was so good that she wanted to marry him, and I calmly told her, “8 out of 10 western men are great in bed, 2 out of 10 are average. 2 out of 10 are awful.”

By saying this, Miss Shi really stirred the pot. Swathes of Chinese men came out of the woodwork to defend themselves. This topic had been discussed in our local newspapers over several months, it’s even spilled over into parts of the international media. Apparently, this is a very sensitive subject for Chinese men.

Granted, this 2/10 figure was subjective. What are Chinese men really like in bed? I did my own investigation.

This time my subject was not Chinese women who had married Western men. I wanted to ask white women who had married Chinese men, or had once had a Chinese boyfriend. I bluntly asked them one question,: what are Chinese men like in bed? They bluntly replied, very good, some even said perfect. One even responded with a question of her own: “are Chinese men not confident in their own sexual prowess?”

I should continue my investigation. After I have finished my research I will make my findings public.

I’d like to tell everyone, the latest research on sex shows that, a woman’s pleasure in bed does not depend on the man she is with, it depends on herself. This research goes to show, a woman’s failure to enjoy herself in bed is usually the result of her own suppression of her own spirit. As long as women can raise above this repression, then they can be as happy and carefree as men in bed, perhaps even more so. This research proves that the real reason Miss Shi’s friend experienced so much pleasure the first time she was with a Western man was because of what he represented to her allowed her to let go of her repression.

The most recent studies have shown that men and women have similar responses to sexual stimulation. Previously, it was believed that men depended on visual stimulation and women depended on atmosphere and ambience to prepare for sex. This had been used to explain why men like to watch porn. But visual stimulation can also arouse women, even to the point of orgasm.

I can tell you, Chinese men’s problem is not physical, it is psychological. What is Chinese men’s biggest problem? Lack of sexual technique. Western men’s advantages are that in both urban and rural areas, they have sexual counselling and treatment clinics,, and an open attitude towards sex,. If they have a problem, they can seek support. To use an inappropriate example, an old lady who has cooked all her life is not as good as a young chef, because professional training is so important.

I call upon you to eliminate all of these ugly foreign men. Some of you might already be blaming the Chinese women, but aren’t we all responsible for creating this situation for the ugly foreign men?

The kind of women who are only after money are everywhere in the world, in America they are called gold-diggers. In other parts of the world, these kinds of women are looked down upon. It’s only in China where they are respected and envied. This society, which mocks poverty but not wealth, is responsible for creating them.

An American Professor of Chinese, who has an incomparable love of Chinese history and cherishes Chinese culture, took her husband to China. But after not very long she decided to return home. “Every day my husband was surrounded by Chinese women, Some didn’t even bother disguising their excitement. In order to preserve my marriage, I decided it was best to return to America.” This American professor bemusedly stated, “Back in America, I read a Chinese novel from the eighties, the novel is full of women and their lovers who are not careful and accidentally have a baby, and end up having to throw it into the river.”

I also don’t get it, we’re all Chinese people, but in a short twenty years, our attitudes have changed so much.

I would like to know, the ones who give special attention to foreigners, especially the Americans, are they these same women? I can understand the American President’s visit to China being in the headlines, but everything else is taking it a bit far isn’t it? Don’t forget, the more fuss you make over them, the less fuss they might make over you.

Here, I am appealing for one thing: stop Chinese women from surrounding Western men. I am deeply aware that as an individual, my power is miniscule, so I want to encourage everybody to rise up: if you know any young Chinese girls who have opportunities to meet foreign men, please feel duty bound to show them this essay.

If you married a foreigner, bravely stand up and tell your sisters: your life abroad is actually lonely, repressed, painful, and homesick. If you are the parents of such people, don’t boast about your daughter’s life bound to this sluttish moneybags existence.

If you are a translator, under no circumstances get emotionally involved. Our translation of the names of foreign countries shows that we subconsciously have an inferiority complex to them. We translate the word America into “beautiful country,” whereas our Japanese neighbours translate it into “grain country,” a much better translation! If your imagination is vivid, don’t think of America as a perfect country, or a beautiful country, think of it as a grain production base.

If you work in an international company, don’t look up to foreigners. Foreign affairs are not all big affairs. Have a better attitude towards your own fellow citizens - foreigners come and go. Don’t forget, the food you eat is cooked by Chinese people, the clothes you wear are made by Chinese people, your salary is paid by Chinese people.

If you work in sport, don’t let foreigners earn Chinese people’ money. Most importantly, don’t welcome foreign thugs like Tyson into China again.

If you work in an insurance company, don’t look at foreigners differently again, treat them the same as your compatriots.

If you work in positions of authority, please be less corrupt. The corruption is the main reason for the bad atmosphere in our society, and this is your responsibility.

If you are an economist, don’t just think about your vested interests, don’t just think about powerful people. Say a few words for the man on the street please.

If you are a policy maker, do not get wrapped up in self-interest. If the mountains are bald, the water is smelly, the air is dirty, the dust storms are rising, and every day morals are declining., if nobody cares, and social harmony is lost, if the suffering are left for dead, then what does your power really count for?

If you’ve earned yourself some money, be kind. Have some morals in the way you spend it. Don’t be greedy and materialistic. Contribute to society.

If you are a doctor, please save people’s lives. Do your job ethically. Don’t let the angels in white die in your hands.

If you are a lawyer, respect the law. Don’t use your power to prey on innocent people.

If you are a film-maker, don’t waste all of your money on crowd-pleasing. Make some films about Chinese girls who turn down foreign men, or Chinese men who hook-up with Western girls.

If you work in dentistry, please recommend a decent toothpaste for the Chinese people. Today’s Chinese people rely too much on primitive methods of oral hygiene.

If you work in advertising, please have less of these disgusting words like “royal”, “noble” “elite”, “successful” and “luxury.”

If you serve as a role model for young kids, please impart to them a sense of shame. When I was young, my mother told me, clothes may be tattered, but will never be dirty; people may be poor, but will never be downtrodden; wealth cannot be prostituted, conviction cannot be destroyed, the head can be cut and blood can flow, but life is precious, love is even more valuable. Why don’t today’s children hear such speeches?

If you are a Chinese woman, hold your head up high. If you are a Chinese man, straighten your spine. In this world, there is an unalienable truth, if a person doesn’t respect himself, he will never achieve the respect of others. This is the same for both country and race.

A Kind of Afterlife

A friend of mine, whom I haven’t seen since university, called me last week and asked me out for slop. Being blokes, we shot the shit about specs and towards the end of our conversation, a thought occurred to me. I asked him if he was peddling insurance. He said yes. I told him I already had insurance and therefore could not help him. He was fine with that but insisted that it wouldn’t hurt to just come out for slop.

Then a few days ago, I ran into an old friend. He left the military last year and is now an insurance agent. The majority of ex-regulars either join some government-linked engineering firm as technicians or become insurance agents. The reasons are simple. Despite whatever achievements you had in the military, nobody ‘outside’ really gives a damn about them. (Welcome to the real world – it sucks!) This is what you get after spending the golden years of your existence serving the nation: your experience and skills are simply non-transferable and your efforts are unrecognized by most prospective employers. The worst part is that you picked up few useful skills (if any) in the military and you are out of touch with the real world. As a regular, you do the same shit every day. You laze around when you get the chance. You are paid to do simple things like attend parades. You soon start to think about how glamorous it is to wear a tie to work, work in Shenton Way and do ‘intelligent’ jobs like office work, but you never realize you have been living like a plant in the greenhouse all the while. The outside world is result-driven and your mistakes can result in a loss of bonuses and in some cases, immediate dismissal from your job and a black mark on your resume. You have to tax your brain to find ways to meet some company objective. When you fall sick and return from illness, you will find a large pile of work on your desk and a hundred unread emails in your mailbox.

Unlike in the military, there is no such thing as taking MC ‘for fun’ or when you ‘don’t feel like going to work’. You have no canteen breaks and you certainly do not get paid a decent salary to stand in some ‘change of command’ parade or attend some ‘pride day’ or ‘army family day’. You can slack and screw up but it is unlikely that you will be sacked. You begin to think that you are too good for the military and that you are getting ripped off and underpaid for contributing so much. This is true for many regulars but there are also those who are paid the same salary for doing a bloody 8 to 5 job which mainly consists of packing parachutes from Monday to Friday in some air-conditioned room, the monotony alleviated by two canteen breaks at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m! It is little wonder that so many regulars cannot even pass their annual physical fitness test!

Where was I? Oh yes the skill relevance. Big government-linked firms are always hiring technicians and unlike their competitors, they recognize to some extent your military experience. An army mechanic can easily land a job as a technician or mechanic in one of these companies as long as he does not talk rubbish in his interview or ask for the sky in his wage demands. For the rest who want to wear a tie, insurance and sales are popular fields to go into. Why? Because they do not require any experience or qualifications! For example, all you need to apply for an insurance job is just four credits in your ‘O’ Levels and to qualify, you just need to pass two computerized tests. If you can make it in sales or insurance, everybody gains. If you can’t sell anything, too bad. The company loses nothing by giving you a try and then dismissing you if necessary, when you fail!

Seriously, if you want to be a military man, you should strive to make it your career. There is no point realizing that you can’t cut it when you are in your late-twenties and then correcting your mistake by going into a different field. You would have lost much precious time and it is always painful to start all over when you are jaded and battling hard to find positives in your wayward existence.

A Male Animal Rants

The Shite Times reports that low-income men are having difficulty getting local specs to be their girlfriends. This is hardly surprising, considering how materialistic our local specs are. One sorry sod, who has a vocational certificate and earns only $1,300 a month, bemoans the fact that specs just aren’t digging into him. While I do not blame the specs - $1,300 is really pathetic – they can be too demanding. There was a quiz last year in which local specs were given the photos of three men (Choice A was the best-looking of the lot, Choice B was average in looks, and Choice C was ugly) and asked to rate them in terms of attractiveness. Choice A naturally was given the highest score, followed by B and then C. The quiz-givers then displayed their salaries: Choice A earned around $2,300, Choice B earned $4,000, and Choice C earned $8,000. The specs were then asked to rate them again. Not surprisingly, Choice C (the ugly one) received the highest score and Choice A got the lowest – a complete reversal of the results. Despite what they claim and how vehemently they argue, it is simply indisputable that sgspecs are money-grabbers and materialistic vain-pots. And you don’t need a quiz or sociological survey to reveal this fact. Sgspecs go on ad nauseam about ‘girl power’, ‘female equality’, ‘equality of the sexes’, ‘Ms Independent’ and all that bollocks, but it is only too apparent that they are insecure and yearn to be taken care of by an automatic teller machine who dispenses cash and Gucci bags. If they are really so confident, they should not pick their partners on the size of their cash flows. How about buying expensive gifts and opening doors for their men for a change? Instead of talking the talk, it would be nice if sgspecs remembered to walk the talk.

Local specs have a maddening tendency to denounce all foreign, or more specifically Asian women from poorer countries as god-diggers, whores, and vixens who are after our money. While this is true in many cases, such blatant generalization is unreasonable and does not befit our local specs, many of whom have high education and impressive professional credentials. Before they point an accusing finger at their foreign counterparts, they should look themselves in the mirror and ask if they are not dissimilar to those they criticize. What is the difference between a spec from China or Thailand who chooses to marry a local bloke to improve her economic circumstances and a sgspec who only goes for local blokes who earn a higher income or a laowai , who is perceived as being richer? Both are motivated by money! Gold-diggers from poorer countries may be less educated and as a result, they are denied many opportunities to improve their economic straits and social status – at least they can use this as an excuse for their mercenary ways. In contrast, many sgspecs are well-educated and have high earning power. Some enjoy promising careers and a few are even high-flyers. I am sure they are capable of looking after themselves, an ability no doubt enhanced by the critical thinking and intelligence their education affords them. What excuse then, has the sgspec for relying on men? Before criticizing foreign hussies for their despicable ways, maybe they should put themselves in their sisters’ shoes (no stiletto heels for these poor wenches, unless provided by the wallets of their sugar daddies) and honestly ask themselves if they will do the same thing (which, in essence, they are already doing). After all, judging by the cloying manner some sgspecs adopt around laowais, I dare say that they are no better than some Vietnamese hussy walking the streets of Geylang!

Sgspecs are losing market share to their Asian sisters and it is not difficult to understand why this state of affairs has come to pass. Sgspecs’ inability to understand market and customer preferences means that they have failed to erect an effective barrier to entrants to safeguard their market space. Mistakenly believing themselves to be highly attractive due to their education, they have overlooked the fact that high education is of little relevance to the needs of their customers (local blokes) and in some ways, a high education is an unwanted commodity that only serves to lower their market attractiveness. Most modern specs demand their men to be more educated and earn more money than they do. Given that many females these days have at least tertiary education, they are effectively pricing themselves out of most of the market. In addition, a high education does not improve a spec’s ability to be a supportive, caring and gentle girlfriend and in some cases, it may even make her think that she is some kind of rare and protected breed, causing her to adopt a ‘princess attitude’, demanding this and that from all males and not just her boyfriend and throwing little bitch fits and melodramatic tantrums to get her way. We blokes are indoctrinated from young to look after our mates. Even though our mates may earn more than we do, it does not really matter for most of us. (I leave the gigolos out.) We do not expect to live off our women anyway.

Esteemed works such as The Satanic Bible recognize that the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Few things beat the joy of knowing that your loving girlfriend or wife is taking time and effort to prepare a scrumptious meal for you. Such a simple gesture is very endearing indeed. Sadly, many sgspecs do not even know how to whip up a decent meal, preferring to eat out or rely on their maids or mother to cook for them. Many women are busy with their careers but surely it will not kill them to cook once in a while to pamper their men. A man will not be motivated to go home when he knows that all he gets every time is some slop prepared by the maid or worse, no slop at all. Instead of making themselves more attractive by learning to do some feminine chores, they disguise their inadequacies by criticizing us for not knowing how to do the housework and that we aren’t independent! Incredible! We males go through at least two years of army training, during which we suffer through countless stand-by-beds* and area-cleanings. We know how to mop or sweep the floor, windows, and even the ceiling. We know how to wash our own muddy clothes and we can do it without using a fucking washing machine. And we definitely know, at the very least, how to cook a packet of instant noodles or boil an egg, and wash the utensils afterward – no thanks to our outfield training – and to say that we are incompetent around the house is simply disgraceful! The same cannot be said for some of our ‘precious and delicate specs’, who will complain of melting in the sun when they have to walk from one bus stop to another!

As I have stated, what blokes really want is a caring and supportive girlfriend. Of course if possible we would like her to be beautiful. (We always get stick from females about this ‘shallowness’. A spec who seeks a rich bloke for a husband or boyfriend is exercising her goddamn prerogative. A bloke who asks for a pretty girlfriend is a shallow bastard. Double standards, double standards…) If sgspecs cannot satisfy our needs, we have to seek alternatives in the form of cnspecs, vcspecs, and myspecs! If we are being despised by our own women, some of whom now prefer Europeans and Americans, it will be unfair for us to retain our brand loyalty to a brand that does not reciprocate our loyalty and provides us with no customer satisfaction. Just look at Nokia. They have been losing market share and revenue to Samsung and Apple, and Chinese manufacturers because they are stuck in their own bubble and are making little effort in making their products more appealing to their customers. To borrow from Nokia’s CEO, Elop, sgspecs are like a man on the platform of a burning oil rig in the middle of a freezing ocean. However unappealing the icy waters may be, he has to jump. It is time that sgspecs appreciate the situation they are in and take measures to make themselves more attractive to their customer segment. They shouldn’t think that there will always be laowais for them to hook up with. The reality of globalization means that many foreign competitors will find it easier to enter the market. They will have attributes which are superior to sgspecs’ and traits which are more attractive to both laowais and locals. For example, specs from Vietnam and Thailand are prettier and more submissive. Chinese and Hong Kong specs, although materialistic, are smarter and prettier. Sgspecs, do not think for a moment that you are the centre of the universe or that your degrees and your careers and your cars and your ability to speak English make you irresistible. The world are catching up and it is time for sgspecs to go back to basics and truly understand that despite what the trash columnists in Cleo, Her World and all the fucking rubbish fashion mags say about what guys want, we are really simple in our needs: a caring and supportive girlfriend. (Of course, being pretty is an advantage but not a must - sounds like a job ad, I know.) We definitely do not like a high-priced spoilt princess! And if I may inspire some hope in sgspecs, the majority of local blokes still prefer a sgspec for their girlfriend. The ball is in your court, ladies.

Having said that, would I go for a sgspec? NO.I am only interested in specs from Hong Kong, Taiwan or China. Most local specs do not appeal to me and some of them are quite repulsive. I like beautiful women and local specs are generally inferior to the aforementioned specs in terms of looks. If you insist that these foreigners are gold-diggers and only interested in money, let me ask you: because of their monetary requirements in a prospective mate, aren’t local specs materialistic as well? Let me use an analogy. Nokia phones and iPhones have the same basic functions. They allow you to text-message and make calls, and may break down just after their warranty periods have expired. You know that you are paying a steep price for the Nokia or Apple phone you purchase and are therefore in a way ‘overcharged’ and ‘screwed’ by both companies, but you know that the iPhone lets you surf the internet, play Angry Birds, use Google Map, and download all kinds of fun stuff from iTunes whereas the Nokia phone gives you a lousy interface (you need to navigate through layers and press a few buttons before you get to the application you want), a Ovi Map that does not work, applications you never need, unplayable ‘bouncing balls’ and ‘racing cars’ games and a boring Ovi Store, any reasonable person will choose a iPhone over a Nokia phone. (To digress, I am getting rid of my Nokia phone and getting a iPhone. (Bye bye Elop, hello Jobs!) Likewise, I am given two materialistic wenches to choose: a sgspec (not pretty), and a cnspec (pretty) and I know they are screwing me for my money, of course I will take the pretty one! I am not daft!

To round it up, if you are a Shitholer bloke and cannot get a local spec to be your girlfriend, do not feel sorry for yourself. You have lost nothing. If you are a foreigner who likes sgspecs, please take them all. You have my gratitude.




* Stand by bed - In the military, this is an inspection of the barrack’s cleanliness by a superior, which is usually done after the poor soldiers or recruits have spent a few hours or more on cleaning the barracks until not a single speck of dust remains on all surfaces. Given that the barrack is not in a clean-room, this is an impossible task and the inevitable failure leads to punishment, usually in the form of harsh scoldings and press-ups ‘sessions’ but can also include re-stand by beds, the awarding of extra duties and confinements.