It's not one of SGSlinger's books, is it? None of us mortals read those...pisceangirl wrote:You could also try Meet Up. I have had better success with signing up for groups that are of interest to me as the chances of finding like minded people are higher and quality of conversation better
(Of course there are always exceptions to the rule- like I went to a Book Club meet up recently where some of the people who turned up had not read the book! But it was entertaining to have them around- quite fun to watch )
Hmm Akimbo-you're saying something about me here? [/b]Akimbo wrote:It's not one of SGSlinger's books, is it? None of us mortals read those...pisceangirl wrote:You could also try Meet Up. I have had better success with signing up for groups that are of interest to me as the chances of finding like minded people are higher and quality of conversation better
(Of course there are always exceptions to the rule- like I went to a Book Club meet up recently where some of the people who turned up had not read the book! But it was entertaining to have them around- quite fun to watch )
jktokyo wrote:I am 33, female, from Tokyo. Moved to sg about 5months ago, gosh, I can't believe it has been over 5 months!
As a new comer, I did exactly the same as everybody else, trying to meet more people and built up new social circle, which is not easy, I guess, or maybe I am not doing it right yet... lol
So far, most friends I made are actually from work, it's easy to go grab a drink after work together, some chit chat, then more drinks, then you eventually know the person more. I did meet a female friend through some event on this forum, which is pretty nice. Cos in my work env, not so many ladies, and sometimes I wanna enjoy girls' night out.
Other than that, it seems not that easy to expand circle... so the million dollars question again, where to meet people (outside of office)?
Cheers,
JK
jktokyo wrote:I am 33, female, from Tokyo. Moved to sg about 5months ago, gosh, I can't believe it has been over 5 months!
As a new comer, I did exactly the same as everybody else, trying to meet more people and built up new social circle, which is not easy, I guess, or maybe I am not doing it right yet... lol
So far, most friends I made are actually from work, it's easy to go grab a drink after work together, some chit chat, then more drinks, then you eventually know the person more. I did meet a female friend through some event on this forum, which is pretty nice. Cos in my work env, not so many ladies, and sometimes I wanna enjoy girls' night out.
Other than that, it seems not that easy to expand circle... so the million dollars question again, where to meet people (outside of office)?
Cheers,
JK
Couldn't agree more JR8. The desire to project a certain image is widely prevalent and in that environment there's tons of people trying to look appealing and ending up looking appalling without realizing it. Conversation tends to be superficial too (in my experience). I have had much better luck with activity based meet ups.JR8 wrote:
Another facet IMHO, is that at say a bar, club, or pub, someone will be sub-consciously projecting an image of themselves, that might not necessarily be accurate. For example the rich banker will be acting as one might expect such a person to, ditto the humble girl who happens to have model looks: But on the back of a pony, or on foot, one hours trek into the jungle, or on a dive 20M under the sea, you tend to see peoples' truer colours (maybe it's about taking people out of their cosy social/status micro-environments?).
It's almost like the activity becomes a social leveller, that strips away the need to display and project ego,
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