Meeting people has always been an easy task for me. I can mingle with all levels of personality, can adjust easily with most types of attitudes, and it doesn’t bother me if one would come up and talk to me (well as long as it’s not the side streets or alleys). I mean given the usual place where people hang out, it’s fine with me. Friends would say I have a ready smile, a cheery face, and a bubbly personality, (really!). One time in a mall, I get to see several friends and acquaintances or some familiar faces. Said my hellos and smacks ‘beso-beso’ , then a friend commented that maybe I should run for a political party, I’d definitely win. I laughed out. While we were window shopping, one of us asked me that maybe I can find this 33-year old friend of ours a boyfriend for her. She can’t seem to find a guy who will like her as she is and one that she will like back. I said sure, why not. Me and my ‘bubbliness’ maybe I can fix her a date or so from one of my hundreds of boy-friends (yeah, boy=male friend, gets?) I got home and got myself to sit on my PC. While reading mails and deleting all these junks that keep swamping my inbox, 1 email caught my attention. ‘Lovelinks’… hmmm, I said. Maybe I can try to look around. Clicking on the page, I saw that ‘hey… cool.’ Turns out it’s an online dating site for Asians wanting to meet western men. Thinking of my friend, I thought this would be best for her. Though she has a hard time speaking English, but her words are audible enough for me to understand, any English speaking person can cope up. So I did. Filled up a profile for her, and uploaded her pic. Nice. Just a couple of hours when I checked her site, a few messages were already in her inbox. Cool, she’ll be happy when I tell her.
Next day we went to this internet café and I showed her what I did. Of course she was happy, and then began to answer the messages of those ‘interested men’. One happened to be online and they get to talk online. Seems the guy is really interested he asked for her number and called her. They talked for a while and seems to be getting along fine. I was watching the scenario the whole time. Online dating seems to be the ‘in’ thing these days. Not just for those who think they cannot find the partner they want in person, but also to those who are way too busy with their career and work that they lose time to socialize and meet people. But if you are in a community online, people see you. They notice you, and know you through your profile even if you are busy working. Others can send you messages and you can finally meet and talk to new people you meet online. It’s cool for busy bodies.
However, I still prefer meeting in person. ‘Cause it’s important for me to know how a person I talk to really feel. And I can easily see that by looking through his eyes, and watching his body language as he talks to me. I’ll be able to determine if he’s all but kidding or sincere. Online or personal, meeting people is just as cool, and I enjoy it. If you think you’re on the same boat on havin-a-hard-time-to-see-mr.right? you can ask me, won’t hurt to help you out. 
