The situation with the ladies here is that, firstly the language issue is a little troublesome. Now, this isn't an insurmountable problem, as most young women speak a little English, but not to the point where you could have deep and meaningfuls day and night.

As for my Mandarin Chinese, if svelte Oriental beauties are drawn to fizzing flings based around (slow) discussions of the numbers 1 to 10 and how badly I want to buy a chicken, then I'm destined for stud-dom. If not, my Mum needn't worry about buying a new hat on my account.

People are conversative here. If I did find myself with a girlfriend, the chances are their parents would start talking about marriage pretty quickly. This is my first impression anyway. Scary huh? There's no need for all that methinx.

Yours in everlasting celibacy,

Matt.