A Woman's Preferences.

As a Malaysian female chinese, I believe I speak for the lot of us when I say our preferences in looking for a mate will still lean heavily in direction of those born on Malaysian soil.

Our preferences may at times include those from Singapore, and for the most, Australia (dependent on the kind), since we're here anyways. For the younger lot, it may now include South Korea, and Japan.

But generally, its still Malaysian for the most part. My preferences may venture as far as Hong Kong, but let's not deviate from the topic.

Realistically speaking, it'd be difficult for me to not have rice during meals, and meat. Yes, and that includes pork, as I've found out recently.

I pretty much have asian food all the time, mostly Korean when eating out, and recently as I've discovered, Vietnamese beef noodles whence in Melbourne. YUM.

At home, I am still very much at home with Malaysian style of Chinese cuisine, and tong shui for that matter.

I wouldn't mind having congee/juk for breakfast in winter with yau zhar gwai, char siu pau, chee chiong fan, but seriously, no muffins,
vxor cold sandwiches. A coffee is still good, with an occasional egg tart, or slice of banana cake thrown in.

None of that bacon, sunny side eggs on the top, and anything too greasy is also out.

Anyways back to the topic, I was chatting online with a Malaysian born chinese guyfriend of mine this morning. He piped up with the comment that he's never dated a Malaysian since he came to Sydney.

Dating preferences aside, for the uninformed, the Malaysian law currently still applies differently to Malaysian citizens in regards
to men and women to their spouses.

A Malaysian man is allowed to bring his wife into the country, and any offspring under his name is still eligible for Malaysian citizenship
anywhere that they're born in the world.

Whereas the opposite applies for a Malaysian woman.

It is difficult for us to bring in a foreign spouse, with much red tape, and even more so in order for our offspring to be eligible for Malaysian citizenship if we were to do the same. Hence we have to return to our country of birth and give birth there to claim that right for our children.

Which is exactly what a uni mate of mine did.

It is said that which makes our lives much harder will make us stronger. But it also affects the preferences and choices that we make.

Sent from my Nokia phone.