A Taiwanese girl's perspective

Last Friday evening, I had an interesting conversation with the girlfriend of my friend. She is from Taiwan, very well travelled and an entrepreneur. My friend met her while he was on a term assignment in Taiwan.

Our conversation drifted to the topic of how she became my friend's girlfriend. She said she had to ward off a few competitors to "win" him.

I asked her how. She sent a bouquet of 100 roses to his office. Pls note the flowers are from a she to a he. I never had a bouquet delivered to me lei. Haizzz! I asked what for. Besides trying to win his heart, she was using the flowers to mark her "territory". Wow!!!

There were possible competition from the many ladies in his office. She said he would be a highly demanded "trophy" as he was a single in a senior management position, charming, with good taste for food and music and from Singapore.

I asked her what else she likes about my friend.

She said she likes him because he is not careful. Huh??? Apparently he is not very good at hiding things from her. She found a diary of a girl he had dated in his Boss jacket. After the initial explosion between them and after some re-thinking by her, she concluded that it was a ploy set up by a competing girl intended to wreck the relationship. I said wow again! Taiwanese girls so scheming type meh? Like from those Taiwanese TV series :)

A rare feature of him not found in Taiwanese men (that smitten her heart) was the fact that he was almost always at home when she called him during weekends. "At home during weekends", she stressed.

As we finished our bottle of Chilean red "Antares", we adjourned to teh tarik and prawn noodles for more deep insights of their relationship.

My best wishes to you, my old friend.