1. Techies could always
join Internet chat rooms but do
exercise caution. Don't use your real name or
disclose personal details.
2. Join a club or
organisation. This is a great way to meet
people of like-minded interests. If you're a nature
lover, join the Malaysian Nature Society and go for
their nature outings. If you want to make the society
a better place to live in, join a charity
organisation. However, you must be believe in the
cause you are advancing. People can spot phonies a
kilometre away.
3. Take up a course.
An etiquette seminar that teaches you how to crook
your little finger while drinking tea or a sizzling
seminar on how to make a super duper saleswoman out
of you, the choices are only limited by your interest
and your bank account. Besides learning something
new, you also get to widen your sphere of
acquaintance. Don't go for expensive four-digit sum
courses, unless you have lorry loads of cash or your
company is sponsoring you. Look out for cheap
courses, those run by YMCA or small training
companies just starting out.
4. Learn a new
hobby or skill. If you've always been drawn
to the ice-skating rink at Sunway Pyramid, maybe it's
time to take up lessons to join the group of
pirouetting and twirling seasoned skaters you admire.
Make it group lessons. If you go for an individual
class, the only other person you would meet is your
coach. Moreover, group classes are always cheaper.
One more thing, don't go for classes that usually
attract women only such as cooking or flower
arrangement. Remember you're hiding a "udang
disebalik batu".
5. Volunteer
yourself. Not as someone's date, not yet.
You don't want to date any Muthu, Ali or Ah Chong who
happen to pass you by. Look out for events where
volunteers are sought. One such event is the current
Visit Selangor 2000 (TMS 2000) campaign.
International sports competitions usually seek
volunteers too, so check out the dailies.
6. If you are working,
don't discount your colleagues as potential dates. Of
course office romance provides lots
of gossip material but if you are discreet, nobody
will know. Nothing cheers up the workday more than
the prospect of seeing your romantic interest, right?
Who knows, your boss may even give you a raise for
having such a chirpy and positive personality at work.
7. If you're still in
college or university, you should be spoilt
for choice of dating candidates. Of course you go
there to get an education, not to meet the boy-boy of
your dreams but if you could kill two birds with one
stone, why not? Your parents would be so pleased with
the "buy one, free one" bargain. Pay
the prize of a diploma or degree and get a son-in-law
for free. So open your eyes big, not just in your
lecture halls, but along corridors, in the library,
cafeteria and for desperados, outside the gents.
8. If you have the cash
and the guts, dial those 600 telephone
numbers. You could chat and meet up with someone you
like but be prepared to dig into your pockets. At $1.95
per minute peak hours and $0.95 off-peak hours (7.00
p.m. to 7.00 a.m.), this is not for those with
limited pecuniary means. Moreover, you may meet up
with a pervert instead.
9. Get your colleagues
to introduce their friends. At my first job, one of
my female colleagues pitied poor-young-never-been-on-a-date
me and kindly arranged a date for me. I only dated
the man once. Can't even remember his name or what he
looked like. So much for first dates being memorable.
"Where are all the
good guys?" 
