The chasing game

What will you do if someone 'carded' you?

That's the million dollar question which i read from the "lifestyle" section, Star newspaper last week. Cheek'd is the new dating gimmicks in town. Stranger coyly slip business card with cheeky message such as "feel free to stalk me", "i dare you" to those who catch their eye. The receiver will go to the networking website and check on the fella's profile/contacts and if you feel up to it, wallah! you have a date!

If you feel totally lost, don't sweat, cuz i felt the same. And that's not all, i came across September social and Skout the other day, and was totally taken aback by revolution of the act called "dating". Apply for a date through blog? location based iphone mobile dating apps which allow you to detect singles within 0.5 mile radius? Frankly, it was really an eye opener for me (maybe i am really from STONE age). I didn't now that dating had become so sophisticated nowadays. People are taking advantage of the new media technology and social networking to the maximum and the normal rules of engagement which used to apply to the previous generation (like me!) has somewhat became invalid.

Although i am not that old, but during my days (which is like 6-7 years ago), the entire dating process was very much depended on physical (not virtual) interaction, i.e. he/she is either your friend/classmates/churchmate OR your brother's friends OR your friend's friend (thats how i met Peter, hahaha... ) etc. and the modus operandi is always the same: exchange glance, show interest, sms/chatting online, finding excuse to ditch the rest of the friends and go out alone with him/her, more sms (maybe in tons), and finally comes the peak of the entire process, which is the love confession, its either a face to face "Will-you-be-my-girlfriend?" or a 10 page love letter which quoting all the lyrics from the love song you heard before.

Maybe i am the dinosaur here, but i still think that nothing can beat the feeling of a guy asking a girl out the old school way. If i am still unattached now, i probably end up being single forever, cuz i dont think i can keep up with the dating-pace of this generation. It seems as though they are simply making new rules as they go, wait.... is there any rules at all?

I asked Peter once whether did it ever crossed his mind that he may want to have a new girlfriend (you know 6 years is not short so he might getting itchy or start to develop wandering eyes syndrome). His answer was a firm "no", and here comes the reason: He is too lazy to go through the chasing and flirting game (a.k.a guy go all out playing Romeo, girl playing hard to get) all over again.

Priceless.

I think we are really made for each other.