Spring Love in shanghai

For many of us living near the Equator, we will never understand the meaning of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.. the four seasons that kept our world revolving. In singapore, we only see a never changing season, sometimes facing ourselves with the monsoon season and that's about it. When I face encounter spring in Shanghai, the first thing that caught my attntion was the fact that flowers bloom before new green leaves were sprouted out.

Spring is an amazing period where new life begins and everything is given a chance to start all over again. We look at this modern city called Shanghai, where friends and strangers sometimes meet. Love in Shanghai, for expats, perhaps carried a different flavour that is different for the locals who reside here. For most, remaining in China for a long period will give them the name of Old bird. Even with that name, Old birds are usually very much an attraction to the locals, especially the Laowais who can throw off a great party, making those lovely ladies out there to fizzle and think that they are endless gold mine to dig upon.

But if you look at the traditional thinking of Asians, we prefer to have a happy marriage, many children, the ideal partner who will not shame or dishonour the family, a secure mindeset that there will always be enough bread and shelter for the family.

That is so. But even so, Asian expats tend to have the mentality that Party is the word while based overseas. Many are skeptical are finding locals and thinking something will work it out. If we look at it in another way, even the locals have different mindset about love and marriage compared to overseas Asians. Chinese always feel that their partner should always be able to afford a house, have status before marriage proposal can begin. Here in Shanghai, people only marry when the guy can afford a house, have a car or something. But in Singapore, we tend to think that owning a house might perhaps take 10-20 years before it is rightfully considered as personal belonging. The one step reach the sky concept perhaps do not seem possibly ideal, and because of this cultural difference, Singaporeans always feel that Mainland Chinese girls are Xiao-long-nvu in many sense, taiji and martial art mistress who manipulate the worlds out of you

Despite this, love is still a special thing. We cannot say that things do not work out in diffeent places and different times for the right people meeting each other. Spring is here. Love is in the air, who knows what one can find after all?

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