(If you’re thinking this is another car-related entry, you’re wrong.)

Attended Click2Asia’s (an online dating site for asians) speed dating event in San Francisco last Thursday. I’d heard about speed dating before—as part of some human-interest piece on CNN I think—but much to my annoyance, Match.com never seems to organize such events for people of my “tender” young age (under 30). So when I saw the ad for Click2Asia’s event—and given my positive attraction bias towards asian women—I lept at the chance.

The only unfortunate thing about the evening was that despite stating that dating would start at 7pm “sharp”, the organizers ended up kicking things off over half an hour late. As a result (I think) they shortened the “dates” to just four minutes… barely enough time to get introduced, I found. Nevertheless most of the ten women I met were intelligent, charming and attractive, and overall I was quite impressed.

The greatest difficulty came at the end when I had to check yes/no for each woman—whether or not I’d “like to get to know them better”. (If both people say “yes” then the organizers will forward their E-mail addresses so that they may contact one another.) I’ve never been good at putting names to faces of people I’ve just met, and coupled with the sheer information overload from meeting ten women in forty minutes, I had a virtually impossible time remembering who was who. I ended up checking “yes” for a couple whom I remembered, then “yes” on four others that I chose randomly—leaving my fate to chance, so to speak.

I haven’t received the results yet but I think things went well enough that I’ll be doing this again in the near future. It’s hard to argue with the fact that I met more (attractive, available) women that night than I had in several months.