12:04 PM

Jobless investment bankers and hedge fund managers aren't the only thing that is flooding HK these days, single women are too. If there is a season for everything, this is my season of meeting single women and not just any women - smart, successful and very eloquent women; the type feared by a lot of men because they are just not good enough for them.

I am someone pretty opportunistic and lethally obstinate and when I see something I want, I will climb mountains just to get it. I have been brainstorming and analyzing ways to help my single girlfriends. I ask myself repeatedly- if I were single where do I find normal men who are at the same time fuckable.

Networking events - I went for this chamber event last week and for one moment I forgot I am notsingle, there were just so many yummy men. God and they come in all shapes and sizes. I would think that they are professionals because networking events aren't really attended by construction workers or delivery boys. Recommended chamber events - try the once every three months interchamber events then voila - you get a superb concoction of Europeans. I personally dig Aussie boys. They are usually laidback, have great bodies and love sports.

Get a dog- I have undoubtedly a pretty hot dog. Sophie is the social connector to all my neighbours. She has this thing, whenever we are playing ball and someone walks by- she will run to them and pass them the ball. However having said that, dogs don't descriminate and more often than not, she passes the ball to ugly/lonely freaks with bad body odour. It's a Sophie way of saying," It's okie no one loves you, I have bad breath myself, I don't mind you".

Find a sport you like and join a club - It has proven that we choose who we want as friends based on common traits. If you like running, join the running club. If you want a man with the right moves and bootylicious hip sways - join the social dance club... Shake, shake and it's shaking all the way to the bedroom.

Guyfriends - Christina's grandmother told her, it's okie if you don't like this boy, use him as a stepping stone to get to his male friends. I heard it when I was 18 and I still laugh my head off thinking about it. Yes, access his database and then organise parties for singles and if you look too suspicious, invite girls as well but make sure they are unavailable.

Hang out with ugly women and go out to paint the town red - Men love looking at women in a group and if you stand out in a group in a dark bar at Lan Kwai, your chances of getting noticed has just increased by 20 times if you are the crown jewel of the group.

Own your space and redefine personal hotness - Most people who are not that good looking owe it to their aura and personality to get laid. Be that centre of attention and own it.

Two Saturdays ago, Ruby, Keith and us - Rudi, Sophie and I went for a hike in Chi Wan San over in Kowloon.

I can say this over and over again, Hong Kong really baffles me. At the foot of the hill where we parked the car, you'd find tall intimidating housing estates and as we walked up, I felt as though I trancended into a different dimension. That hike was really an interesting one - throughout the walk, we saw people collecting mountain/spring water, a deer ( in the middle of HK, that's bloody rare), ancient grave sites and it was one of those days with rolling clouds- a day in Sound of Music where all your worries are far far away and the trees swayed rythmnically.






















I met a friend who works for UBS today and when he walked into the room he said, "you are probably the most un-stressed person I have met in a long long time".

I am stressed to a certain extend and I don't know anyone who is not these days with the exception of monks and social workers. On second thought,they probably are too because they have plenty of social issues to handle now.

HSBC laid off 450 people today and those who got the axe weren't allowed to pack, their stuff were to be DHL-ed to them because reporters have been waiting in the lobby to snap juicy pictures, thousands of factories have shut in China, real estate agents are in the midst of being laid off. I have never seen Hong Kong at such a vulnerable state. Lately, I find myself asking, how did we get here? This time last year,we were still partying like there was no tomorrow and girls that worked for LV couldn't care less if you bought anything because Chinese tourists will buy everything....

I refuse to be stressed over something that is so beyond me. In my fitness course, I remember studying this part that in the past 20 years although people have increased their spending power, they have also developed more problems - health and mental wise. While growing up, we have been taught values that are so wrong. Your whole being,your worth is measured by the size of your house, the car you drive, the rich people you are friends with...

We push ourselves so hard, so far over the edge. Like why? Why do we need a walk in closet with 200 pairs of shoes? How do we justify the validity of having 400 bucks Manolos? Afterall, we only have one fucking pair of feet..We have fallen so deep into this a-hole of owning things, having things - to the point we define our worth based on those things.

Again if I were to lose my job tomorrow, I won't say it's entirely a bad thing. Maybe some of us need that push to set us free. I want so much to be a full time fitness professional but the thought of starting from bottom, horrible pay really freak me out. However I do like my day job, I derive a lot of satisfaction out of it and I am good at what I do. I'd be just fortunate to be able to do both.


You can't have everything. You can only have the best of what you put your mind into.

Isn't life about that tension - it's like playing a perpetual game of tug of war between what you want and what you love and I have loads of be grateful for.