ShaSha On Mini-Haitus

Hey everyone!

Yes I'm still here. :)

But taking a week long break.

The past two weeks Shen and I have been figuring out wedding stuff. And this is how I'm feeling right now:

So despite all my talk of a courthouse wedding, we've deiced to go ahead and have a wedding instead. Initially we wanted to invited people to the courthouse with us and then go to a nice restaurant for dinner. In my head this was a good idea. But when it came to the logistics of it all, there was still going to be some coordination that needed to happen for things to work out. Shen and I really did want our closest friends and family members to be apart of the events, so we decided to have a ceremony and reception.

So I've spent the last two weeks looking at wedding websites, bugging friends for help, researching venues, caterers, etc. And I've got quite a bit of work as well to deal with. So I need to take another week off from the blog so I an keep working to get things in order. Hopefully by the end of the week we'll have a ceremony site locked down. I feel like once that part is done, I can breath again. We're going to still have a pretty small wedding and a tiny budget, so I'll probably post some pics at my attempts at making wedding shit I find off Pintrest, LOL. Throughout the week I might post some random stuff on the FB page, but won't get to a full blog post until a little later.

Alright back to venue research...

日本FLASHBACK: Big City...Small World...

I had forgotten all about this incident until I was reading one of my old diaries a few weeks ago. I still get all pissy when I think about the situation

This happened in my earlier days of living in Japan before Terri got there. I was still a bit scared to venture out and relied on the internet to meet people. That was actually how I'd met a Brazilian friend who I'm still in contact with.

So before I can really get into the meat of the story I have to explain this dude named Michi.

The Adventures of Shen and ShaSha: A Lovely Day in DC

Japanese group Uzuhi. They performed at the Sakura Matsuri

Another Shen and ShaSha post! I normally try to spread these out a bit, but I did mention some time ago I would post pics from the National Cherry Blossom festival. And lately Shen and I have been doing more random stuff, so I'll post more about us.

Dating Asian Guys 101: Online A-Lovin' and A-Datin' Part 2

Previous articles:

Dating Asian Guys 101: Initial Contact

Dating Asian Guys 101: Dating Asian Men and Loving Asian Pop Culture

Dating Asian Guys 101: The Matters of Shyness

Dating Asian Guys 101: Run Girl Run! Guys to Avoid
Dating Asian Guys 101: Fears and Frustrations
Dating Asian Guys 101: Online A-Lovin' and A-Datin' Part 1


So this time I wanted to get into using online groups and forums as a form of online dating. I think are a few major differences when it comes to finding someone through a more open online area to something where you'd only interact with a few people at a time so that's why I kept these areas separate  Generally the point of a message board or online groups isn't really for dating, but people have met on these sites and things have turned out pretty well.

Honestly I think using a group or message board is more challenging when it comes to meeting people. As I mentioned above the point of the groups is to encourage interaction for people with common interests, they usually aren't for dating. So unless someone clearly says they are looking to meet someone, it's hard to determine who's open to dating and meeting someone.

Additionally, it can be difficult to determine who's who. Granted anyone can lie to you on an online dating site, but with a forum, people can use a cartoon character for their avatar. In most cases you can't a person gender, race, or ethnicity, unless it's something specific like a AM/XF site. Even then you can get Catfished-de-ded.

But hey, not everything about using groups and forums is bad. I've seen it happen on AM/XF groups, anime groups. Heck, people have met and married off XBox Live. Now this post isn't specifically related to AM/XF groups but groups and forums in general.