RE: My Travel Journal
Update:
After doing some further thinking I have decided that in order to get a handle on my dating life, I need to move the hell outta Canada, not even another city I think would be enough. I figure I'll try my hand in Poland first since it was challenging enough to force me to adapt and learn, while at the same time still yielding a bit of fruit to keep me going. I figure I have two ways of going at it, assuming I can get a job there. This is more of a medium term goal for when I return back to Canada from my trip.
Option 1: Start applying for work either right now or as soon as I get back from Vietnam. The only problem with this is, my lack of funds which I think would be putting a tight squeeze on my financially if I were to go over there. I probably wouldn't be able to afford rent and need to borrow some money from my parents for the first 2 months or so to get by.
Option 2: Start applying for jobs in my city as soon as I get back and then save up about 8-10 grand and then start applying for jobs in Poland. This would be a much safer bet but at the same time, I would need to endure several months here where my dating life would be non-existent and my skills would plateau. Much safer bet but would have no social life for several months and just be working. The benefit of this approach is that I can also apply for a working holiday visa for Poland in case the companies don't want to sponsor me with work permits and so on. I'm leaning towards this option.
Alright now for the niddy gritty stuff.
I'm 1 week out from flying off to Ho Chi Minh City. To prepare for this trip I started to pipeline a few weeks out. Now this is where I think I screwed up. I started pipe lining about 3 weeks ago via tinder and then got a Vietnamcupid account like last week. I've gotten a fair number of matches on tinder and grabbing numbers off of girls is surprisingly extremely easy, with some chicks even offering it to me without me asking for it despite being quite picky on it however I'm noticing a lot of girls losing interest because I'm unable to meet them soon and instead am forced to continue chatting with them via text. I find it difficult to sustain interest level over several weeks and I'm noticing a dip in their interest levels. Now I'm trying to decide whether I should just leave the girl alone after grabbing the number or continue to send periodic text messages to them so that I'm not forgotten about. I've also started experimenting today with transitioning the girls over to a voice chat or video chat where I can run my verbal game which is much better then my texting skills. I actually had two girls who I number closed today and ended up having a really short 5 minute chat with them on the phone, plus a skype video chat with another one who I number closed about a week ago. Also one last thing to note about tinder in HCMC. I practically swiped right on nearly every white chick there and only got 1 match from one chick from Australia who was a 6 at best and had a bit of fat to her. She was leaving the very next day. Most of the white chicks there on tinder are age 30+post wall and work as English teachers. You would think at their age and current situation, they would be happy to even get any male attention since the local viet girls outshine them in nearly every aspect but no. I couldn't believe their arrogance to still be so picky and disregarding me just because of my race. I know this was mentioned several times before about my race being a huge detrimental to dating white girls. I should also note that most of these girls are from Anglo speaking countries such as you guessed it, Canada, USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, with the rest comprising mainly western European countries such as Sweden, and Finland. Take it for what you will, but I definitely now believe that there is some inherent under the carpet racism and discrimination against Asian men. This was less prevalent in Poland where I at least got an ok number of matches. I also spoofed my tinder location to Russia and Ukraine and also got a fair number of matches but absolutely nothing in Scandinavia and the UK. Also, there is a surprisingly high number of girls on tinder who are just looking for friends or want to practice their English. I even see some chicks who were married and had a few photos of them with their husband on tinder. Did these people not get the memo that tinder is a dating app and not a app for looking for friends? Isn't that why they have couchsurfing? Lastly, I have noticed a few ladyboys on there, and several profiles that I suspect are ladyboys as well, along with hookers. One of the girls who I number closed and started talking to, I initially had a bit of suspicion she could have potentially been a ladyboy because she had a guy's name but upon further inspection of photos she sent me in her bikini, plus joking with her about ladyboys and seeing how she responded, I'm 95% sure she ain't a dude. Also the fact that she left and went back to her home country and is Filipino made me feel a lot better talking to her. She said she wanted to date me and told me to go fly to Manila but I turned her down.
I also created an account on vietnamcupid about 3 weeks ago but didn't pay for a premium membership until like last week. I was getting a shit tonne of messages on my inbox and it currently hovers around 190 messages from girls. I was really surprised with this. It was as if I had switched shoes with girls and now felt exactly how they felt with dudes spamming their inboxes. As we speak, I continue to receive messages plus interests from girls on a daily basis. Most of the girls here and also tinder average around the 5 on the looks scale. After sorting through most of the messages plus girls I had bookmarked, I got a surprisingly high rate of response from girls who I messaged first plus the ones who messaged me, something like around mid 80% or something.
Overall: I have to admit though, after sorting out through all of the 5's, I'm actually quite impressed and surprised by the quality of the girls who I have matched with and also corresponded with. If these chicks look just as good as they do in their photos, man I might have to reconsider my previous stance about becoming attracted to white girls only. If I had known sooner quality like this could be found in Vietnam, I would have hopped on a plane ages ago. A few of them have sent me photos and they look pretty darn attractive to be honest. I could totally see myself dating these girls unlike the trash in Toronto. Short, thick glasses, acne, geeky, hoodies, sweat pants, running shoes, slightly chubby, and smelling kind of funny plus the bitchy westernized Asian chicks who think their shit don't stink who only exclusively date white guys. With these Vietnamese chicks, I no longer face the social stigma and discrimination that I face in the west and I'm able to land myself some attractive looking girls. At the moment, I'm actually getting too many messages and matches that I have had to cut back on responding to girls. It's ridiculous, I've never had this happen before. I'm having trouble keeping up responding to every chick. Two days ago, I was juggling between messaging 8 different chicks at once.
Potential scams:
1. I had spoofed my location to Nha Trang because I heard that there was a large Russian population there. You all know by now my interest in white chicks so I thought if the Viet chicks don't do it for me, I could always target the Russians. There weren't many people on tinder in Nha Trang but I did get 1 match from an attractive young Russian. She seemed receptive to my text game but then something seemed a bit off. She asked me if I lived alone or with others. I told her I lived with my plant or something sarcastic. I don't remember exactly what happened next but she made some bullshit excuse saying she needed a place to stay at for one night and wanted to come over to my place. She said the hotel she was staying at, the place was all booked up and that she didn't want to stay there anymore. I found that very suspicious. I'm not sure what type of scam she would have tried to run on me, maybe a robbery or crying rape or something but I called her out on it and she stopped replying.
2. This one was on Vietnamcupid. There was one girl who messaged me and when I responded back, immediately gave me her number. I was a little suspicious about this however I've had several girls do the same on the website so I figured maybe its normal in Vietnam. Upon adding her on whatsapp, she immediately started to send me photos and asked me my age. I didn't give her a straight answer on my age. The first two photos were ok, but then starting from the third photo it got progressively more and more provocative with her 4th and 5th photo being her in a nightclub beside a table in a really skimpy looking black dress with massive cleavage. This was a huge red flag for me, because so far no girl had sent me photos right from the beginning and definitely no photos where the girl is dressed so slutty. I asked her what she did for a living and she said she just studies but that her ex-bf used to support her but now her parents do. It sounded really suspect so I asked her what she was looking for her and she told me she was looking for love and marriage and for someone to take care of her. I guess her definitely of taking care of her meant a sugardaddy or something. She in turn asked me the same thing and at this point, I was 90% sure she was either a hooker, golddigger, or some scammer so I gave her a sarcastic answer and told her I'm here to look for a old rich lady who would marry me and buy me a nice expensive car and house and nice rolex watch. I told her I already received two offers, one with a BMW and another for a Mercedes and asked her which one she thinks I should take. She says she doesn't know and then wished me goodluck and said she had to go. I immediately called her out on it and she stopped replying back.
Update: I just checked and her profile has been removed, so its a confirmed scam.
3. There's a few minor dishonestly issues but not really a scam depending on how you look at it. There were at least two girls who I exchanged several texts with and later number closed. Neither chick looked like the original photos they had on their profiles. One of them made a bullshit excuse saying because she's in her school uniform so that's why she doesn't look anything like the photo, Bullshit! The second one told me she looked a lot more beautiful then her profile pic prior to giving me her number. She ended up being extremely butt ugly. The girl who I mentioned that I skyped with today also looked to be significantly uglier then her photos. I'm at the point right now where I'm thinking if I should make every chick skype or video chat with me prior to meeting up with them because this is just blatant dishonesty. Also nearly every chick always asks for my name and age even though its listed on my tinder and Vietnamcupid profiles. This leads me to suspect that they all lie about their names and age. The Filipino chick also lied about her age. Her profile listed her as 27, but she told me later on that she was 30 but that she couldn't change it on facebook, bullshit! I changed my facebook age to try and get a cheaper price on tinder plus. Several girls also had different real names compared to their profiles. I'm not sure whether or not its customary to ask strangers for their ages and what they do for a living right from the get go or if they are trying to size me up but a huge percentage of chicks have asked me this usually relatively quickly. I'm actually using this as a gauge now to see if she's a scammer or not.
Problems:
1. A lot of the girls don't speak good English. From my interactions so far, maybe like 20% speak at a decent level. Most of them speak little to no English and often times, leads would end their interactions upon discovering that I can only speak in English. I can totally see this being an even bigger problem once I land there and start doing day and night game. I can only understand a little bit of Vietnamese and speak like 3 words lol.
2. A lot of the girls are going away back home during the Tet holiday. I've had at least 3 girls tell me they are going away during the Tet holiday. This gives the girl time to cool off and all of the work I did prior would be wasted. It won't be for at least another 3 weeks before I can meet up with these chicks at the earliest.
3. My logistics is kind of fucked. My parents have booked a place I believe in District 3 because they want to be near our relatives like right across the street from them lol. I'll have to double check to see exactly where it is located. Initially they booked all of our beds together but then I told them I couldn't sleep because my father snores like crazy and that I needed some privacy so they booked me a separate smaller room. The place is apparently in someone's house I think. I hope this won't be an issue if I try to bring a girl back to my room. I don't think they would have let me spend money and book another place in D1, plus my funds are kind of low despite me making a few hundred back since I got back home. I could try to take the girl to a hotel somewhere in D1 but then comes the challenge in how do I tell her that I'm going to take her to a hotel for the night? I doubt most would be willing to go, unless we had been dating for a while which I can't do for obviously reasons. I'm thinking if my area has restaurants & cafes, I could try to get her to meet me in my area, go to those venues then try and bounce her to my place or I would meet them in D1 somewhere, and venue bounce them to the hotel but I would need some good reasons to convince her to come and book a hotel with me. I don't think I would be able to seal the deal at the girls place, unless she lived alone. I think for me, this is probably going to be the biggest obstacle to overcome.
4. Maintaining interest level until I arrive. I'm not really sure how to go about this. I'm thinking I might text them either every 3-4 days or only once a week or I do it 1-2 days before I fly out.
5. Family cockblocks. Since I'm here with family and kind of expected to stick around for family gatherings and stuff, this could potentially be a problem.
I'm actually kind of stoked for this trip now. I love Vietnamese food and warm weather and I have a tonne of leads before landing in Vietnam. I think overall things should be a lot easier here for me based on what I'm seeing so far online. Hopefully things work out in the end.
On an unrelated matter: That Latvian chick who I mentioned that I met on my last night and tried to kiss her but she rejected my advance, messaged me out of the blue on whatsapp two days ago asking me what's up and if I went back to Canada. I guess I didn't screw things up with her as badly as I thought I did. I'm positive if I had had more time in Riga, I could have gone a lot further with her. Ah well, I suppose if I ever go back to Riga I could catch up with her and maybe resume things where they left off.
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2017 04:08 AM by destiny.)
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