My Columbia love story

I want to talk about my love story at Columbia.

To give you some background information, I was unfortunate enough to have dated a guy from another Ivy League institution in my freshman and sophomore year. I think he is the closest human being to Jesus Christ and Adam from the Garden of Eden. But I am not Christian. Well, I am quite the opposite of it so whenever I had some lone time with this guy, we always ended up fighting. If you have read Ibsen's A Doll's House, you will immediately associate this guy with the likes of the combination of Torvald and Dr. Rank. He called me a piggy like I was his pet. He objectified me and described me as a depreciative good that my beauty would not last after I reached the age of 20 so he dumped me right after he graduated from college. He thought that I was no longer worth his time because I, as a sophomore, have already spent my prime time with him. He then went on to become a banker in Hong Kong even though he is earning less than a high school graduate police officer in Hong Kong. But I was more than happy that I could finally break free from him. He thinks that women are made only for men's sexual desires and reproductive purposes, nothing else, and that getting into a marriage must and always will be a woman's entire life goal, no exception. Not only that, he thinks that I am not rich enough for him because my family was the richest in China. He tends to look at a person's net worth and value based on the national GDP, instead of that particular person's earning powers. To make it worse, this guy also slept with every single female friend of mine and he thinks that I would never find out. Even now, I still have haunted feelings whenever I pass through his home district, Kwun Tong.

Because he is deaf and somewhat lacking common sense severely, I sort of became fed up with the so called self proclaimed geniuses who are idiotic ignoramus in fact. I was then fortunate enough to date my true love, my one and only hubby, Edward Hahn, from Columbia. We are like Pepper and Iron Man.

By the time we started our relationship, I was already a junior and he was a graduating senior. Time was ticking fast so I decided to move into his dorm for a few months. It was the first time I ever lived with an opposite sex. Surprisingly, things kind of worked out. I really love the fact that he is kind of the opposite of the previous jerk whom I dated. He is muscular and good looking. He is respectful towards women and he is also very intelligent. He has good attention to details and he is hard working in stuff outside of work and academics, like taking good care of his body and his looks. Guys who are pale, narcissistic, nerdy and lacking good body coordination are a big turn off for me. And he is nothing like that. To be honest, I think Eddie is the hottest guy I have ever met in my life. I first met him through our mutual friend, Jason Chen, who is also a Columbia senior at the time and he lived with Eddie in his senior year. Jason was dating my friend from NYU, Sharon, whom I have known since my elementary school.

Oh, I haven't talked about how I first became friends with Eddie. So, I first paid attention to Eddie when I saw his pictures at Jason's birthday party in my freshman year. I have heard about Jason even before college. Plus the fact that he is dating my elementary school rival Sharon makes me pay even more attention to Jason and his friends. The fact that Eddie is really good looking and he is Korean really helps him stand out in the crowd.

I thought most Koreans would never date non-Koreans because I have some Korean friends in college and they somehow really like to stick together. Also, I have heard the term Korean pride a lot so I was very impressed that this really hot Korean guy actually has taken the time to make friends with foreigners and understand the culture outside of Korea.

When I was a freshman, I saw Eddie on the runway at the CSC Fashion Show. I was literally shocked with awe of how attractive guys could be because before I met him I was basically a non-believer in heterosexual mating relationship which motivated me to study biology and take classes in genetic engineering and cloning in Hong Kong.

I think I like Eddie for some unexplainable reasons. He is very smart and the fact that he is not a nerd really makes me fall for him. He is physically very attractive and he has those Korean eyes which I think are so cute and seducing. He makes me want to have babies with him.

I think in my circle of friends, I have seen enough romantic tragedies that I was very certain that he is probably the Mr. Right for me, even if he may not reciprocate. But surprisingly, I think he has shown some interests in me too. When I was a sophomore, I started taking classes with the juniors and I made him do group projects with me. Through doing homework and projects together, I got to know him better and I was even more sure that he is the guy whom I have to be together with, or else it will be a life long regret.

So I gave my first night to him without telling him because nowadays claiming virginity will be tagged as Mother Mary so there are no true virgins ever being born in this universe.

After a few months, I moved out of his dorm because I had to focus on classes and interviews. Until the summer when I worked at Morgan Stanley, I was still dating him.

Because of the competitiveness of the dating scene among the people at Columbia and in my circle of friends in Hong Kong, I had to break up with him and I have not met him in person ever since then.

There are some things that I want to convey to my friends in Hong Kong and those who are privileged enough to attend the Ivy League colleges: there are plenty of fish in the sea. I don't think the fact that others being in a relationship will limit your chance of meeting your other half because life is not a musical chair game. There are abundant opposite sex on this planet. You don't need to kill a person if you happen to like her boyfriend. Moreover, someone's meat could be another's poison. We will all find our life partner eventually. It is not worth committing crimes over getting laid.