No matter how busy, stressed, or tired you may be, there is always room for a spot of the love stuff. But when you’re holding down three jobs and find that the only spare time you have is spent running errands, shaving your legs, or arguing with your landlord ... Read More
The end of a relationship is about as much fun as being trapped in a crowded elevator with 15 chain smoking migrant workers after a questionable chuanr lunch. Whether you wanted the relationship to end or not, when it does so, you are left with a gaping void. Breaking up ... Read More
Some say it’s about the presents, others say it’s about the parties; for many, it’s about spending time with the family. Yet the one thing we all have in common is the spirit of Christmas. It’s not just about the eggnog and the lords a-leaping, the ... Read More
At some point in all of our lives there’s a high chance that we will fall in love with what my grandma would call, a “wrong’un”. We’ve all been there, there’s no telling whether it’ll happen again, and though you may not want to admit ... Read More
Last week we celebrated China’s Singles’ Day, but was anyone out there actually going “woo hoo, I’m ruddy single!” Ok, I know nobody says “ruddy” anymore, but you’re missing the point – the point being, the only people who celebrate being single are those who have just come ... Read More
The best things in life are free; the exhilaration of meeting a deadline, the joy of catching up with an old friend, a lie in, a relentless case of the giggles… But out of all the things that are wonderful and complimentary in this world, my favourite is the feeling ... Read More
As the old saying goes, “there’s plenty of fish in the sea”…but I’m starting to think that Beijing’s ‘sea’ is as polluted as the rest of it. The single foreigners in this city fall into one of four categories, 1. Thrill seekers, 2. Escapists, 3. Misfits ... Read More
Women spend a discomforting amount of time trying to figure out the weird and wonderful world that exists inside a man’s head. Womankind has matched mankind in intelligence, physical agility, business acumen and balls, but still one area remains as baffling to us as the Bermuda triangle; and that ... Read More
One day you’ll meet someone and when you look into his or her eyes you will instantly know that this is the one you are meant to spend your life with. This person completes you. This person is your soul mate.
I like to believe in soul mates. I ... Read More
My friends have often marveled at my peculiar taste in men. Even as a teen, instead of practicing my snogging technique on a poster of Nick from the Backstreet Boys, I would be daydreaming of Lister from Red Dwarf. By my late teens, when my friends were chasing football players ... Read More
When female friends sit around and chat, we will often relay tales of the ridiculous things we have done in pursuit of a man. As one friend reveals the intricate details of how she freaked out her latest love interest, the rest of us will sit around and nod, giggle ... Read More
Nothing can dampen the process of falling in love quite like a bad kiss. That first kiss that you’ve imagined over and over in your head to be nothing short of perfection. A teeny-tiny orgasmic lip lock. But then, as you bob your head to go in for the ... Read More
What western gal in China hasn’t at some point met a Chinese guy who rattled her cage, got her heart racing, and made her question everything she thought she knew about her preferences and types? Pre-China, 99.9% of my non-Chinese female friends never expected to find themselves entangled ... Read More
Over 400 years ago, Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice, “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see”. I’d always assumed he was referring to relations with the aesthetically challenged. Well give me a big fat F in my English lit score, because I was wrong, and I’ve ... Read More
It doesn’t matter who we are, every one of us has a motive for staying long-term in Beijing, and it tends to fall into one of two categories; for career or for love. If you have the best of one of them already, then you count your blessings, but ... Read More
Its funny how when we’re on the inside of a relationship, we have trouble remembering what life was like before that person became such a massive part of it. It can be difficult to see clearly when you’re so in love you feel like it’s going to ... Read More
How come that you can spend all night batting your eyelashes and pouting at a guy that you fancy and he doesn’t have a clue that you’re interested in him, and then other times all you have to do is say “hi” to a guy and he’s ... Read More
We all have secrets... You know those secrets that you don’t even want to tell your best friend or maybe don’t even like to admit to yourself… but should they be buried and forgotten about, or shared and discussed?
When we think about our past, most of us ... Read More
Meeting your boyfriend or girlfriend’s parents for the first time can make even the most confident person’s knees knock. Unlike a job interview, where if you make a complete tit of yourself you can walk away and never have to face the same people again, when you meet ... Read More
As City Weekend reported last week, recent research has unveiled that nearly 60% of Chinese women are unfulfilled by their sex lives. So what better way to help the nation in this time of crisis than to tell all you boys (and girls) how to satisfy your ladies in bed ... Read More
We often look back on past love affairs as wasted time and failed relationships, but it’s from these ‘failures’ that we learn the most about ourselves and what we really want in our future.
They say that each person comes into our lives for a reason, a season or ... Read More
The perfect Beijing fling would be passionate, brief and satisfyingly uncomplicated. The mere possibility of an unrequited love or feelings of rejection being left in the aftermath would be nonexistent. Unfortunately, things are rarely that simple when it comes to matters of the heart, which makes successful casual relationships the ... Read More
One of the worst things about being on the singles market is not knowing whether your next kiss is going to be a dynamo or a disaster.
You can meet the sexiest person in the room, get along great with them, and as you lean in for that first kiss ... Read More
In the West, it’s tradition for the trembling guy to get down on one knee and offer his cubic zircona to his girlfriend in return for her hand in marriage. As if that wasn’t nerve-wracking enough, in good old China making a complete tit of yourself in front ... Read More
Beijing is a lot like one gigantic airport; people are coming in and out of it all of the time. So something you have to accept and learn to love about the hustle bustle we live amongst, especially if you are here long-term, is that it will seem as though ... Read More
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