ok, i'll bite...

am here, also sitting alone at cafés, with my laptop.
find me
catherine

OK. So there are not a lot of unhappy western ladies out there.....
Is there at least someone curious?

I mean, not all us blokes are interested in the local girls, as a conversation can be a lot more interesting than deciding which Nokia phone she wants next.

If you have any friends with story's, you don't have to used names or places to Protect the innocent

A lot of stereotypes running through your posts which I would guess is why you're not getting many bites. In your first sentence to mentioning local woman you qualify your perception of them using the term "bar girl" which we all know is often used as a polite way to say prostitute. Your next post then suggests that Asian women are only capable of shallow conversation, like I said these are some pretty sweeping stereotypes. I'm no Casanova but I do know that women are generally not impressed by men whose main method of making them self look attractive is to point out the deficiencies of others, perceived or otherwise.

I know many men around town who are not interested in asian girls but are having the problem as yourselfs.
Start a singles club or something to get you all in the same place.
Just a suggestion.

If i had the choice I would rather play connect 4 with a bar girl than sit in Metro and talk about Gender Workshops with some uptight little NGO intern.

KK

KK

i'm not surprised if you guys are striking out with generalisations like these. do you really think all women who work for NGOs sit around and talk about gender workshops? i'd rather poke my eye out with a fork.

i think Mr Life has some interesting points. it's the endless, age-old problem of how to find a partner isn't it? someone you really relate to, usually with a similar culture or values, who you find interesting &/or exciting to be around for a while at least.... it does seem alot harder in this town. but i find that about meeting people in general here - everyone has their own little clique going on already, so you have to have an 'introduction' then you find people are really open and friendly....

i too would love to meet somebody, as well as make some more friends in this town, but i gotta admit, i can't just go up to total strangers and hit on 'em!

maybe that singles bar suggestion ain't so stupid.

Good on ya lifes like that.
Can i come?
I know that we barangs are inclusive type people so i will bring my khmer fiancee.
She is a lot younger than me but luckily cannot speak english so any gender workshop discussion is out.
Will you have connect 4 available at the venue?
You mention a miced bag of people,I am confused by this.
I know that the khmers in the bush like to eat rats but mice?
Seriously,good luck with your quest,there are certainly some lovely expat women around town.

Perhaps instead of labeling it as a Singles Outing, u cld just call it a Boredom Intervention Outing (BIO), where all members must b on Twitter. And instead of hving set dates n locations n times, anyone who's part of this BIO Group can just decide to Tweet where they are at any time and anyone who happens to b near can just say Hi and plonk down at the same table n just chatter on as if they were old friends. Breaks the ice immediately. Fun can b had just by hving an actual person to talk to in actual proper english and actually b fully understood wtout hving to explain or simplify words. Not everyone is looking for a romantic relationship, just a buddy whether male or female to hang out with is more than fine.

tweet to meet.

how gay.

KK

I am getting a lot of PM's with ideas and people are interested in going with this.

We need to make it as easy and comfortable for everyone as possible, so a venue and introduction is needed.
I don't think people walking around with a red rose between there teeth will go down to well with Kid Khmer.

So send me some of your suggestions for the Location and how we will know each other.

I am looking at Friday the 4th Sep unless you all want to get together earlier?

LLT

sounds good.
given the aim of the evening, perhaps Talkin to a Stranger is ideal....

what's gay is a man wearing pink. which apparently makes up like over 80% of cambodian males in this country. Gah!

he he. No tweet, most of my friends, single and in relationship don't have it and don't have the fanciest in town (ie no internet)

Great idea guys. Lets hope it works. It should, seeing the turnover of expats living here meaning every 'meet and greet' will have new faces

Actually I really miss talking to NGO chicks in khaki shorts about gender deconstructionism, and it's role in a post-U.N. world, at Cafe Frogsco, after attending another "wild" Elsewhere party on a Friday night.

Damn straight.. I've had enough of silky-haired vixens with velvet skin, and a body like a mermaid, and all their senseless teasing and intoxicating feminimity.

And, I aint talking about bargirls, just the normal local chicks.

It's horrible... where the hell is Foucault?

HDAH,
RESPECT !

KK

Happy Days: Amen

I moved to Asia over 10 years ago, and 10 years ago the foreign women were complaining that the foreign men didn't pay attention to them. I still think its funny.
In 10 years, i've never heard a barang male complaining that barang women in Asia don't pay attention to him...
Men that could never get laid in the west suddenly become ladies men when they move to asia...and these men are happy to stay surrounded by Asia women because western women are like kryptonite to them.

Western Women on the other hand go from countries that have women's rights and women's lib to countries in Asia where women have very few rights. They often don't want to date Asian men because of the womanizing, or so they are left with slim pickings.
These are all statements based on stereotypes and generalizations.

I don't want to confuse things too much, and make the battle lines all fuzzy and ambiguous, cos the war between the sexes that exists here is more fascinating to me than World War II.

Anyways, I kinda dig Western chicks, and also many of the local chicks (ie, both types) ..

I mean, if i meet a hot French chick, and she wants to talk 18th century classical liberalism and origins of feminism in a postmodern world ... don't you just buy her a few gin and tonics, until things go your way?

Can't we just unite, and dig chicks from all over the world?

Dawg?

I refuse to be forced to join Twitter, another social networking site in order to meet people in the city that I live in. (I"m sorry but I do)
Secondly, for all the worries about Gender discussions with uptight NGO staff (or interns).... seriously, this is one complex discussion over where to meet for a couple drinks.
Bless you for the initiative. I think its a grand idea.

Similar to the FCC's valentine's day blind dating thing, you single expats should have a night, called:

"Feminist Post Modernism Deconstructionism in a post Male Construct World, and its Influence in the late 21st Century in South East Asia, with buy one, get on free at FCC"

I mean, what a laff, and what fun that would be, and a good opportunity for you single guys to seduce the expat chicks, innit

Need to lighten the fugg ups, and just have a laff

well, I'd be interested but I'm not of the NGO variety. I'm of the poor English teacher variety, and I'd love to know where all the guys that are interested in Western females rather than "bar girls" hang out, because it is damned tough living here alone as a single, white female (with morals ... i.e. who doesn't sleep around).

I'm actually a close stamp-collector, and avid train-spotter.

If any of you ladies want to hang out over a soda, and half a dozen 1975 non-demominated philatelics (they also came in commemorative editions you know), then buzz me (but not after 8.30pm on Friday nights, I watch Star Trek with my mother).

I know trains are a bit scarce in Cambodia, but we can also discuss hypothetically the muliple unit British class, versus the rail car ... also over a soda of course.

Mr Hercules,

If you want to beat the Nigerians to the punch, you're going to have start cruising the supermarket aisles at Lucky.

I hear that's where they pick up....

DJ

Haha, not sure it will work though ) first days in PP i got stopped by a guy in lucky (not a Nigerian one though) asking me which washing powder i use for my laundry since he is new in PP and doesnt know any of the brands here... he gave me his card afterwards but i never called... so i dont really think it's a strategy that would work )

not my type... and washing powder discussion as a start of a romantic affair? might work for some, but not for me...

"always a way how to escape." LOL! You cant escape them Nigerians baby!!! You leave 'em on the dance floor, they at the bar, you leave em at the bar they at they bathroom, you leave em at the bathroom they outside in front.

Dancing? Nah, I dont call that dancin. Yall just be movin to the music. LOL!!!!

you guys need to study basic marketing strategy (STP: segmentation, targeting, positioning)

if you are trying to pick up broads in the supermarket, you need do it in the fruit section:

I was at a popular live music venue on the weekend and it was saturated with WW slurping on their sodas and trying to look all sexy. I went out to meet my partner and her friends ( all khmer ) and as they got out of the tuk tuk I said " lets get the hell out of here there are way to many WW in there....." and guess who was just getting off a moto as I said it and shot me a dirty look ? The chick that wrote the now infamous story for the PPP. *boom tish*

It was one of those Minty moments.