A friend once told me a story about a woman who desperately wanted to get married at a particular (very expensive and very popular) venue. Say Chiswick House. Even though her then boyfriend hadn’t asked her to marry him yet, she went ahead and booked the venue for the next available slot which was in …
A short history of personal rejection I once went out with this guy. I thought he was all right, you know, nothing to write home about, just a regular Joe, good looking and nice enough. But he seemed distracted. Like he was just being polite in having a drink with me, even though I …
Don’t you just hate Valentine’s Day? If you’re single, you wish you had someone to share it with, someone to bring you flowers and chocolate (or to bring to) and kiss and cuddle with on a cold February evening. If you’re in a couple, then you feel like you ought to do something special, but …
I’ve been struggling with some conflicting thoughts over the last couple of weeks. Turns out I have somehow written two books: The Love Project (focused mainly on the dating and the project management methodology I used in my search for love) and The ’Love’ Project (focused on reconciling my past with my present …
“I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity Today I’m going to treat you to my top 5 most memorable ‘ghosting’ experiences of my life. In chronological order. My Father My Father was the first man who ever ‘ghosted’ me and he only partially ‘ghosted’ me, …
Almost three years ago, in the middle of The Love Project, I was having a conversation with a male friend over lunch. He complained to me about a girl he started seeing that took hours to respond to his texts and sometimes even days. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said. ‘It’s not like she doesn’t like …
Dating too much, often feels like eating too much chocolate or like a really bad hangover, when even drinking life-saving water makes you throw up. I certainly felt this way a few times during The Love Project. In fact, the last time I felt disgusted with the way I did not value my time and …
I know it’s been a while since I last posted. I am sorry for my long silence but I promise you it’s only because I’ve got so many things in the making to share with you. To start with, last month I launched The Love Podcast! Yay. Check me out 😉 This is a very …
The Rules are dead. Long live the new dating paradigm! Read More »
A few years ago, shortly before The Love Project, I was enjoying cold beers on a roof terrace in Saigon with a lovely young couple from Germany I had befriended during the day trip to Cu Chi Tunnels. When they asked me if I had a boyfriend, I didn’t just simply answer ’no’. I went …
I absolutely love Twitter! Because that’s how I found out about REglam, a fashion magazine that celebrates the glamour, sensuality and ambition of real women in real world. And when they asked me to write an article for them about the relationship between loving your body and finding romantic love, I was totally chuffed. …
