Sitting here rereading through some of the old posts, and in between the lines a bit, I realized I succumbed to a bit of the Coco/Shekou hate in my post.
I just want to clarify: I don't think they are bad places. There's tons of talent there. It's just that the talent itself has a very short half-life. The gems are few and far between. YMMV, but the average Coco/Shekou pickup is not going to be something worthy of note. More of a raincheck for the mental spank-bank, if anything.
That said, for the newbies, if you're up on your game and not afraid of putting yourself out there, you can nab some prime.
One night I closed, in Coco, completely in Mandarin, during a loud ass DJ set in Viva, only to find out the next morning that she spoke perfect English. When I asked her why she never spoke English to me at Coco, her answer nailed into my head the necessity of learning the language.
"You were speaking Mandarin, and you were cute, what was the point of me speaking English?"
Six months later, she moved to Chicago to get her MBA, and got a modeling contract as well... Ah, C'est la vie!
I just want to clarify: I don't think they are bad places. There's tons of talent there. It's just that the talent itself has a very short half-life. The gems are few and far between. YMMV, but the average Coco/Shekou pickup is not going to be something worthy of note. More of a raincheck for the mental spank-bank, if anything.
That said, for the newbies, if you're up on your game and not afraid of putting yourself out there, you can nab some prime.
One night I closed, in Coco, completely in Mandarin, during a loud ass DJ set in Viva, only to find out the next morning that she spoke perfect English. When I asked her why she never spoke English to me at Coco, her answer nailed into my head the necessity of learning the language.
"You were speaking Mandarin, and you were cute, what was the point of me speaking English?"
Six months later, she moved to Chicago to get her MBA, and got a modeling contract as well... Ah, C'est la vie!