Then again, I don't know that polytechnics now run dating classes now. No wonder Zheng Long is such a winner!
Singapore succeeds at managing everything - except dating (International Herald Tribune)
SINGAPORE: It was like a college mixer, a classroom full of young men and women seeking a recipe for romance.
They had assembled for the first class of "Love Relations for Life: A Journey of Romance, Love and Sexuality."
There was giggling and banter among the students, but that was all part of the course material as their teacher, Suki Tong, led them into the basics of dating, falling in love and staying together.
The course, which is in its second year at two polytechnic institutes, is the latest of many, mostly futile, campaigns by the government to get its citizens to mate and multiply. Its popularity last year has led to talk of expansion through the higher education system.
"We want to tell students: Don't wait until you have built up your career," Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, minister of state for community development, youth and sports, said at a news conference last month. "Sometimes, it is too late, especially for girls."
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haha interesting.. I didn't know we had this going...Hard to swing on whether the Government is over interfering in people's personal lives or hey maybe its for the good of the society structure in decades to come...
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