DHS 4k Guys Still Unattached!?
Talking to a friend of mine online who just got rejected by a girl. Then I realise to my horror that with the exception of OFFICER WEE HONG,(who dances his way from dhs, pass SOC and through OCS) all the rest of the 4k guys are unattached!!!
Market distortion sia.. even that fat guy has got 1000 girls wanting him...wah lao... buck up guys! losers in the love field can import foreign talent, what a novel idea...
Vietnam's house of virgins
300 S'porean men have found brides there
By Chua Kong Ho
IN AN industrial suburb in Ho Chi Minh City, a single-storey zinc-roofed factory staffed by 3,500 young women churns out items like sports shoes and polo T-shirts for foreign brands.
VIETNAMESE 'BRIDES' FACTORY
-- JOYCE FANG
Girls pull long 12-hour shifts in factory
New arrivals are checked for signs of previous pregnancies. Those who fail are sent back.
Chosen ones get medical exam to check that hymen is intact.
It's not unlike hundreds of other factories, except this one has something else: virgin brides for foreign men.
The Mr Cupid International Matchmakers service was the brainchild of the factory's owner, a reclusive semi-retired Vietnamese man in his 40s.
While businesses offering brides are hardly rare, the idea of using eligible young virgins as workers while they wait for husbands is almost certainly unique.
At first, the factory hired scouts to scour the countryside for suitable virgin village girls they could advertise to foreign bachelors through their agencies in countries like Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia.
Now they don't have to go looking. Parents bring their daughters to them.
Girls like willowy 20-year-old Huynh Thi Phuong Thuy put up with long shifts sewing shirts and glueing shoes hoping it is a first step to marriage.
MR CHAN FOUND HIS BRIDE Nguyen Thi Minh Huei, 20, during a matchmaking tour. The 44-year-old assistant engineer got married to her last year. -- MR CUPID
'I went to work in the factory because I wanted to marry a foreign man,' she told The Sunday Times in a phone interview.
Ms Phuong Thuy got what she wanted.
She married a 40-year-old Singaporean storeman last July and now lives in Jurong.
'Life in Singapore is much better than back in Vietnam,' she said.
But the factory won't take just anyone. In fact, there are strict quality controls.
New arrivals are given the once-over by matronly female supervisors who look out for telltale signs of previous pregnancies, such as stretch marks or caesarean scars.
Those who fail are sent back.
Those chosen are given a medical examination to check that their hymen is still intact. If it isn't, they are rejected.
After being hired, the women are expected to work hard and behave well.
Female supervisors at the factory penalise lazy, talkative or rebellious girls by barring them from matchmaking sessions. No work, no husband.
Said Mr Martin Wong, managing director of Mr Cupid's Singapore office: 'These girls are marrying abroad. They have to be obedient to their husbands.
'We're preparing them for their new lives.'
Before she got married, Ms Phuong Thuy used to work 12-hour shifts seated on bare floors, earning less than $5 a day.
But despite the long hours, most village girls find life at the factory easier than working the padi fields, plantations or shrimp farms back home, where many of them had no electricity or running water, ate one meal a day and bathed in river or rainwater.
So far, Mr Cupid has found brides for around 1,800 men in the region, 300 of them in Singapore.
The girls are given photographs of the men and they choose whether they want to go for the matchmaking session. After that, the decisions are down to the men.
The process can be brutal. In one case, 2,200 girls wanted to be set up with a Taiwanese businessman.
'Can you imagine, they're so hopeful. They stay back in the dormitories, dress up and they only have two seconds to impress before they're turned away,' said Mr Wong, in an interview at Mr Cupid's second-floor office at Pearl's Centre in Eu Tong Sen Street.
If the groom makes his choice, the rest of those in the queue are sent back.
It sounds degrading, but Mr Wong insists the young women are willing.
'They're born in a poor country. For many of them, this is their only chance to break out of poverty,' he said.
For many, it's a long wait. Out of the 3,500 girls working at the factory, only about 300 get hitched each year.
The prettier ones usually get chosen within six months, while some have gone for more than 200 matchmaking sessions without success.
Most quit after two or three years and go back home if they haven't been chosen, said Mr Wong.
Some cling on.
The oldest worker there is a 35-year-old seamstress, who faithfully works her shifts and lives in hope of being picked one day.

5 Comments:
and you know bad habits are hard to kick...
And you know that some skills which i'm deficient in is hard to pick up...
lol!
you guys are so funny.
hey XY~!!!! TK says dinner on friday of CNY? i cant' go back with u all the dhs lah. eh u guys settle dinner on friday if there is. somewhere central can! *looks at TK* i happen to live in the southwest! and i dun think i wld like to go food court. how about buona vista coffeshop, alexandra village hawker centre, tiong baru market!!! oh yes! tiong baru! or chinatown.. muhahahah. yaya dinner there will be good. heee. let me know ya. and i ll try to get the textbooks for asaP! hee i will haev one more nihongo kaki soon!
xia la, yeah loh, anyone who knows of a chio girl who is smart, sweet, nice and friendly, can introduce her to us :) I am very receptive to premium good products. Or else later, ah, ppl like lau needs to go Vietnam and find a girl (cause no girl will listen to him recite Confucious's analects in singapore, but the vietnam girl wont mind since she can just sit down and listen and not work in the rice fields or step on minefields) that will be tragic..
Do I look so desperate? Probably not at this moment... And it is certainly not right to stereotype all Vietnamese girls as farmers and minesweepers. You could not have known better.
Btw, dun think can make it for dinner next Friday night... What about Saturday?
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