Monday, November 21, 2011
北美大学单身活动 UT-Austin 非诚勿扰活动 sponsored by 2RedBeans
Monday, November 7, 2011
单身活动:南加 2011-11-12 get-together
单身活动:两颗红豆和湾区亚裔活动组织JAB合办:San Mateo Bowling
Where:
Bel Mateo Bowl
4330 Olympic Avenue San Mateo, CA
SAN MATEO, CA 94403
Time:
2:00pm to 4:00pm, bowling.
4:00pm onwards, socializing and dinner.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
留美新生接机变“相亲会” 美女受欢迎男生遭冷落
去年取得俄亥俄某大学博士的华人Hans,在校期间参加过学校中国学生会的迎新。Hans透露,学生会曾要求申请接机新生上传生活照并提供性别,理由是方便接机学生认人,但结果这一年的新生接机组织得相当不理想。分配接机任务时,上传照片的女生往往都有两、三名男生争着接机,容貌稍好的美女更是炙手可热,而部分男新生却无人愿提供接机,只有求助当地华人侨团帮忙,还有几名女生由于填报资料时没有发照片,性别也填写男生,所以分配接机时也出现“被剩下”状况。
2009年到南加大攻读硕士的孙小姐说,当时尝试寻求学生会接机,但由于个人信息没有说明性别,中文名字看起来比较中性化,结果直到上飞机也没有学生会成员联系她。孙小姐说,当时自己“作好在机场窝一晚心理准备”,幸而巧遇来争取信徒的教会才被接走。
来自台湾俞小姐接受所在学校华人学生会的接机服务,俞小姐事后形容接机更像学长们的一场“选妃大典”,女生一下机,最漂亮的首先由学生会地位最高的单身汉接走,而后学长们再按“官阶”逐个接走各自看入眼的女生,“到最后就算相貌平平的女生都会有人接走,可男新生就没那么好命了”。
但接机并非只有学长占主导权挑女生,如今也有不少女新生充分发挥“优势”,“反客为主”挑学长,难怪有过来人形容接机是“美女vs.多金男的双向选择”。
2009年从北加名校取得MBA学位的华人倪先生透露,他念到第二年时,首次参加学生会组织的新生接机,当时开的是本田Civic,有一次接到一位来念金融的女生,倪先生为这位美女学妹殷勤服务,开手机线、银行账户,又带去购置日用品,晚间还掏腰包请对方吃饭,忙足一整天。过不久倪先生再想约对方去买菜,却遭婉拒,后来才听说,这位美女师妹入学不久就已“名花有主”,男友正是接机当天同去机场的一位开Lexus的多金学长。
今年7月底,倪先生应一位学弟求助,帮学生会友情接机。工作后升级开“大奔”(奔驰)的倪先生与另两位在学男生去机场接三名女生。到停车场后,其中一名“特漂亮”学妹拖着大箱子“一路小跑”直奔倪先生的车。将学妹送到宿舍后,倪先生正要走,学妹又要求他带出去“转转”。当时已是西岸时间下午3时多,学妹坐在车上却“high得不行,完全没时差”,兜了一大圈后,又要倪先生带去买咖啡,直到吃过晚饭九时多才让他送回住处。这位学妹有手机后,又多次邀约倪先生去IKEA、逛街、吃饭,已有女友的倪先生都以工作忙为由推掉,这位学妹“还是留给在学的哥们吧”。前后两次接机的强烈反差让倪先生颇为感叹,“如今出来的女生在国内未必坐过好车,但M(Mercedes)B(BMW)A(Audi)她们可都认得门儿清呢。”
协助南加各高校迎新的全美中华青年联合会会长任向东表示,接机对象通常由学生志工认领,新生的性别或专业,都可能成为考虑因素,也有部分单身学长确想藉此机会认识新学妹,几乎每年迎新接机都能成就佳偶,但大多数志工仍不求回报帮助新生。任向东说,今年南加大将近1000名新生要接机,有的志工一天跑三四趟机场,有时在机场一等就是几个小时,非常辛苦,甚至还出现个别新生另约亲友接机、志工被放鸽子问题。
任向东指出,随着新生越来越低龄化,独生子女比例越来越高,初到国外的孤独感确实会令学长学妹容易擦出火花。他建议新生可通过多参加学校社团或小区活动,尽快融入异国生活。(骆舒娴)
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
What Scents Drive You Crazy?

Have you seen the movie Perfume? With a tiny droplet of this exquisite scent, enemies bow down and worship you like a god. A good whiff of it in the air, a crowd with aggression slips into a trance of euphoric orgy. Well, if you haven’t seen that, you must have seen the AXE commercial where the magic shampoo turns men into a powerful magnet for every sensual woman.
Be it to conquer the world or to conquer women (or men), chemists/alchemists have been looking for the magic potion from the beginning of the time. Now the modern scientists give us some new clues.
For women, the smell of musk can keep the blood flowing, making them feel aroused. This is why most of the cologne/perfume contain musk.
What about for men? What drives them crazy? A recent study by Dr. Alan Hirsch, founder of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, and his colleague Dr. Jason Grussman gives us an very interesting list. (The study is done by letting men smell different combination of scent and measuring the blood flow to their nether regions.)
1. Lavender and pumpkin pie
2. Doughnut and black licorice
3. Pumpkin pie and doughnut
4. Orange
5. Lavender and doughnut
6. Black licorice and cola
7. Black licorice
8. Doughnut and cola
9. Lily of the valley
10. Buttered popcorn
Next time when you two have a romantic getaway, try rubbing some pumpkin pie on you?
And, what scents drive you crazy? Care to share with us?
Links:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183988/unsexy-scents-that-drive-men-wild
http://www.scienceofsmell.com/index.cfm?action=research.sexual