The Arteed

Posted 02.29.2008 in Matchmaker's Diary, Thai Lifestyle

Everyone deserves a little photo treat once in a while. And it was my lucky weekend to have a professional photographer (k. Fon) taken pictures for me. After a stressful years of corporate law, Fon decided to pursue a photography career, something which she always wanted to do since high school. She finally took up the courage, and graduated from New [...]

Dating Chemistry

Posted 02.29.2008 in Matchmaker's Diary

I mean it literally. Dating Chemistry. A few months ago a new kind of dating agency was borned in Boston, calling itself ScientificMatch.com. It uses DNA samples from customers to match them with others who have different alleles for major histocompatibility complex genes.
To put it in a layman term, the theory is based on people tending [...]

Politics and Oil price

Posted 02.28.2008 in Thai Lifestyle

Our affections towards ex-prime-minister Thaksin has surpassed the $101 per barrel crude oil price this morning.  With the news that he has landed in Thailand, it’s almost comparable to seeing an oil price peaking above $200 per barrel.  I’m just so thrilled we are now experiencing the $200 oil price economy prematurely.  Because when the oil really reached that price, [...]

What not to say on the date?

Posted 02.26.2008 in Matchmaker's Diary

A female PR client of mine just came back from her third date. Although her date was a good looking (for a Thai standard) 35-years-old guy, who has a wonderful job, he failed to make a good impression in the following area:

“Dominate all the conversations and talk about himself in drastic way.  
Degrade himself by [...]

Venue for dating

Posted 02.26.2008 in Matchmaker's Diary

 My latest client came back with an excellent feedback of the restaurant. It gave me a pretty good reason why not to pick some places for dating again, (or in this case for coffee) and perhaps I should forward his comments to Yura An’s owner. We have over 30 venues, where we sent our clients to. [...]