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A Chinese college student posted a bulletin board notice seeking a "girlfriend" to rent over the Lunar New Year holiday. The physics student plans to show her off to his parents.
For 1,000 yuan ($130), the right candidate will be an "honest, kind and similar-aged girl with a diploma," who will travel home with the young man for the holiday.
Apparently this guy's mom and dad had been pressuring him to get a girlfriend, but he'd been studying too hard to meet that special someone. This sounds like the plot for a sitcom. Maybe he should spend the money on a counselor who can help him stand up to his pushy parents.
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1-31-2007 @ 2:26PM
Dawn said...All I can say is Wow. Neither good nor bad, I think the shock is still setting in... hahaha. Renting a girlfriend. Isnt that, umm.. considered like an escort or something?
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2-03-2007 @ 7:23PM
Violet said...I can speak from experience when I say that, if your parents are traditional Chinese, it's pretty damned hard to stand up to them.
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2-02-2007 @ 12:38AM
SKL said...This reminds me of a Chinese science student that lived in my dorm. He was way too practical to have a girlfriend. He once admitted he had a crush on someone. When a friend suggested he buy her some flowers, he retorted "no way - too espensive." Years later he married a very nice young woman, whom he happily introduced to me, perhaps to prove he had a heart after all.
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2-25-2007 @ 7:34AM
teachermom said...Greetings and Aloha,
I live in Hawaii where we have a large Chinese population, so the situation mentioned does not appear to be outrageous to many of the local community.
It is the sort of situation that would go over well in Hawaii and Japan were they to make it into a TV show.
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