There's a district in Hong Kong called LKF. Clubs, bars, you get the idea. Lots of ex-pats, tourists, etc. mixing with the locals. Loud, noisy, narrow streets. I'm not a local, but I'm visiting and staying with relatives so I decided to go out and see if there's any difference between gaming here and the gaming in the states, find out if there's any truth to the whole "being Asian sucks for dating due to American culture" stuff.

Friday night.

France vs. Germany is at midnight, so things are crazy packed. I went out by myself, all my relatives here are old. I randomly started talking to people, visiting bars. Met some real cool guys from Arizona, so I hung out with them for a bit.

In the actual club, things are jam-packed. If you've never been to HK, just imagine that no matter where you go, there's a sea of human beings.

We go to the dance floor. The three or four of us are laughing, doing silly stuff, whatever. We're having fun, but without women. Of course, then we started to get attention. Stares from girls. I tap shoulders, touch hands, try to gently pull girls to dance with me. Twirling the girl if I felt like it. Breaking the mold gets you points, if it's done from a position of high value. They ate that shit up.

Boom. Make out sessions with three different girls. One of them was crazy about me. When she's interested, you can basically do anything and she'll love it. I actually did a flurry of punches that were just light taps on her stomach and she fell on me laughing and started feeling up my body with her hands.

Of course, no story would be complete without the fat friend cockblocking, right? So whatever. There were more girls after. And with the crowd, once you lose somebody, they're impossible to find. Logistics aren't too pretty here either since bringing random girls back to Grandma and Grandpa's isn't the best, especially since they're light sleepers who end their nights at 8pm.

So I took a taxi home, and blacked out on the couch.

EDIT: Random girl just messaged me - I remember my phone dying so this is definitely new. Too bad I'm leaving HK today.

Saturday night

I met up with some friends for a few drinks in a quieter bar beforehand. They had to go home early, so I was still stuck on my own this time going into the clubs.

I only danced briefly with one girl. I tried the exact same moves that worked the night before, and nothing was working. Well, not the flurry of punches or the twirls. Just trying to check if girls were interested. Still had the same confidence. Same club. Same time of night.

Except why did two girls kick, knee, and punch me when I went back to doing my own thing after they turned me down? It seems like an extreme reaction, even towards a beta. I was moderately buzzed, but still in control. I didn't do anything horrible to deserve it.

Security was nice enough to let me back in after I explained things to them, but they didn't kick the girls out. So I went back, stood in the exact same spot, and they attacked me some more but I just laughed at them before moving away.

Why was nothing working?

I felt like I had beta cologne all over me. Like my pre-RP days. Complete failure of a night.

I think I made a mistake. The night before, girls must have seen me hang out first, chatting with some good looking foreign dudes, make buddies, head to the dance floor together. But I'm not sure if girls picked up on that, especially since I was just with my buddies for a minute or so before losing them in the crowd, and due to how packed the room was.

I think last night, even I did the exact same things to hit on girls, that lack of social proof by having friends to do silly stuff with killed my chances. I'm still fairly new to TRP, so this is just my theory. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Oh, here's the weird thing. In the US, Asian guys are kinda seen as lower status and white guys are seen as normal to high.

Here, the brand names like Coach and Abercrombie still use the white models on all their ads, but the big name Asian companies use Asian models. So being white, in itself, isn't that big of an advantage over the rest of the population. Being foreign is.

I might've gotten complacent. Too drunk on confidence from the first night, perhaps too much confidence can also be a bad thing if you don't have the social standing to back it up. I felt different issues both nights. Friday it was "is this really going to work?", and Saturday it was "I hope I don't fuck up, because I pulled off crazy things on Friday". Maybe it was because I had those high standards set in my mind that made me subconsciously act differently. I remember the first few weeks of college, I was doing a lot better with girls before I started to feel like "Hey, I'm achieving my goals with girls. This is great!"

That's essentially it. I have no other ideas as to why Saturday night sucked, but Friday was amazing.

Thoughts?