S.J.H (Diary version) 16th June 2004

Still in Prague and S.J.H has now fallen asleep, she has a premenstrual belly and I have much discovered about my friend since being on this trip.  She is a meticulous planner but anally careful and i’m a chaotic impulsive disorganiser deciding things at the last minute.

She prefers not to be rushed and take-up to an hour getting ready, she is selective on where she eats and as i have found had a carefully decided idea on what and where is good as for as refined and cool existed hidden in the recommended vocabulary.

She is fun with no sexual inhibitions, assertive and wants to be right all the time.  She is in fact a little madam as I once was.  But I cannot help but feel our friendship chemistry has changed a little somewhat.  Not as close as we were, she seems less warm towards me or maybe she is just reflecting off me or am I being paranoid, but something has changed and I am yet to put my finger on it

Sapphire (Diary Version) 4th January 2013

…..I feel like I’ve only started reading the prologue to you….. your book titled xxxxxx xxxxxx

 

Sapphie to I -“An unfinished book is like an unfinished love affair – however I don’t think I want to read the ending of the book, which I usually do…. Thank god I am a slow reader and I enjoy every page…. Slowly digesting you at a pace I like. Thank you for your honesty and although you don’t remember what you said last night, I’ll take it anyway because I feel you everywhere even when you are not lying next to me right now. Don’t work too hard.

 

I to sapphire – “I am like a Kaleidoscope. Every turn you take you will find something new. It will be years before you know it all”

The Spunky Chinese Economist (Y.W)

This young lady caught my attention one night while I was out and about on the Sapphic scene. The details of where and when have escaped me, but the few magic moments we had from the moment I had seen the twinkle in her eye, to trying to seduce her unsuccessfully, to the first night we slept together, to the resisted threesome, to then throwing myself in to the threesome and to the resentment of my breakup.

I’m a sucker for a live one, and I seem to have developed a knack for seeing past the twinkle in the eye to the vulnerableness that lies behind it. One night I met her and she had an air of cocky self-confidence that usually comes with the successful financial types in Hong Kong. Her face was untouched by corruption, clean and curious. Her clothes had a lesbian nerdy quality to them but the material had that pricey feel and look as if bought from Brooks Brothers and probably was.

She was flirty, and very direct, all eyes and body language but when she asked if I had a partner and I replied that I did she briefly looked disappointed but moved on very quickly. Well, she did I however had other plans.

She found me on Facebook on May 2014 and we became friends. She had a crush and a crazy love thing for another young girl who quite frankly was a waste of space but strangely had a crush on me. I suddenly found myself in an awkward and complicated three-way platonic friendship. Isn’t this what French films are made of?

I liked the spunky economist (YW) the spunky economist had a crush on the dizzy fashion doll (DFD) and the DFD had a major crush on me. I felt like I was projected onto a big screen or drawn into a manga book and about to embark on some French three-way complicated friendship where we would all inevitably sleep together after the manipulations and seductions, and well it was just destined for disaster for someone. I had to make sure I got this three-way under control.

Geographically, it also worked out that Y.W the Spunky economist lived only a ten minute walk from my house and that slipping away from home for a late night “walk” to give my wife space to do her evening work from home also provided a convenient attraction.

But that’s to come later, for now my memory remembers the night I took Y.W to an iconic bar in Wan Chai called The Pawn. To me, it was a date that I would put on my most sexiest dress from Guess and a pair of black studded strapped high heels and get her to notice me and it was probably the most frustrating as already in her head I am taken, and rightly I am betrothed to another but that just made the attraction or challenge more appealing. Especially, as I can’t be seen to be making any direct hits or noticeable flirty comments. The bar was high and the risk of losing respect higher. Y.W was and still is smart and had morals of the highest order. Naturally, the ego in me wanted her even more.

So, we talked all night, about topics with depth and topics that would invoke deep thought and provoke a number of emotions. A slight shift in the way I sat would subtly reveal a hint of a breast, a toned calf. A slight touch to the hand to signal assurance tender friendship and not once did she give any hint. Need more wine. “Bottle of your finest wine please.”

She was pining after the DFD, so I would find holes in her reasoning behind the pining, “is it because she refuses you that you want her more?” Ok! Now, I am getting somewhere.   More wine.

Two bottles of expensive wine later and we were both to say a little inebriated and a taxi ride home. More talking, more subtle shift movements, and surprisingly I hold my wine quite well I was not as intoxicated as the lovely Y.W so maintaining my cool was always of utmost importance. Y.W however was feeling the effects and something must have changed because I noticed the moment of deep pensiveness that one gets when battling with a drunken inner turmoil but I still didn’t feel like I had made enough impact. I had one more chance tonight to leave a lasting indirect impression.

We both got out of the taxi close to where she lived and as we both gave the obligatory ‘had a good night let’s do it again’, my demeanor changed as I held her close, smelled her muskiness fused with wine and looked in her eyes deep, my heart thudded, my breath heavy and my eyes just lingered long enough wanting to kiss her but walked away slowly letting go of her hands. I was actually falling for her. Or was I just repeating what she is going through with the DFD. I went home to my wife that night confused wondering if I should be travelling down this route at all.

From this night, Y.W and I had started to take texting to a new level of friendship, we briefly mentioned and noted that something was between us but while I was married at the time we kept the friendship platonic for the rest of summer that was until another drunken night in September. Our friendship was comfortably close and the DFD was about to embark on a whole new life in a whole new country so we decided to get stoned and have sushi, sashimi and oysters at Y.W’s to bid our farewells and that we did plus wine.

The DFD had other ideas and was up to no good and vying for a three-way that was to eventually end up in her having sex with me, which held no attraction to me, which of course led me to exiting quite early. So no three-way, but as always when I get stoned a beast is unleashed and now I had to deal with all that sexual energy which I wasn’t going to waste on the D.F.D.

The first kiss with Y.W was surprisingly in London. I went over as I always did to visit my family and friends. At this point, I hadn’t quite given up in seducing her and all else had failed and I had one card left to try, I was also at the point of enjoying our platonic friendship so in my mind it was only just a friendship.  However,  in the back of my mind, the very deepest darkest corners of my deviant mind I still wanted to break through her resistance. I knew she was over in Paris visiting the DFD and she said she wanted to pop over to London for the night before heading to New York for the next round of her business trip so it was only natural that she would spend time with me in London and well it was time well spent.

They say, that to seduce someone, they need to see how popular and liked you are by other admirers and friends.

So, the night she met me in London I was trying to kill as many birds as possible by seeing as many as my closest friends all in one night. The fact that I had slept with all of them and could have gone home with any one of them on the night, except one, was irrelevant…. Or was it?

We all met in the Green Carnation for a truly Oscar Wilde experience of Victorian decor and some of his most fabulous quotes was printed on the wall, one of my favourites being – “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” And of course numerous other Picture of Dorian quotes.

And so, the night unfolded, and we all hung out and caught up and everyone became acquainted with each other. I had brought with me half an E of which I decided I was going to share with Y.W much later once most had gone home and that time came soon enough after we had found ourselves in the Shadow Lounge, the seediest and gayest boy lounge in Soho. Perfect. I hadn’t done an E in months and well Y.W had never touched or seen an E, so I thought a half was enough to share and hot damn it was the most exquisite experience of where we both abandoned any egos, and thoughts of my betrothed back home in Hong Kong and from The Shadow Lounge to her Hotel room we euphorically kissed until she wanted more. Then I stopped.

Why, I don’t know because all that deemed our adulterous sin immorally wrong was far far away and here in this nightclub in the middle of London she finally kissed me and a kiss that swept us both away and so we kissed all night and well it also worked out that she booked into a hotel at London Bridge so London bridge I went and unfortunately by the time I got there the Ecstasy was at its peak and my body was incapable of enjoying the sexual experience. With the promise of continuing whatever this was, I left the hotel with an ego the size of Africa but also feeling a warm feeling of content as the kiss surpassed any expectations I originally had.

This London rendezvous did not stop there though. It so happened there was a thick devilish fog looming over London that night as if by chance she wished it herself and her flight was conveniently cancelled and with no hotel to rest in, I naturally offered that she stay with me and it was this night I realised that under that cool exterior of high morals was a passion burning so bright I could hardly resist her but resist I did as my sister was next door sleeping in the next room and im not exactly the quietest of copulators. It did however, lead to an intense night of sensual touches and a sweaty tangle of naked bodies driving each other to the edge of breaking point but alas we never did tip over the edge. Not that night anyway, not in London.

The affair lasted possibly 6 months and it was the beginning to an end of my marriage.   It was part of a catalyst that lead to the final days of my marriage and one that I am most grateful for. The guilt crept in and I pushed my wife away, so much so I encouraged her to see another. But it didn’t end here with Y.W. After somewhat resenting her after my breakup and going through the emotional ups and downs, I finally decided I got what I deserved and tried hopelessly to let go.

This of course lead to my final complicated lusty affair with the lovely Y.W who had a beautiful and very sexual best friend who I will name Miss Mojo as she exuded sex from every pore. Her eyes playfully invited you but still had a vulnerableness that she concealed well. She was cunning, sassy and sexual and I wanted to wrap myself all over her.

So I at first kept my distance, I wasn’t her type as she was vying after my wife so I had to somehow turn that attention to me. I would hang out with them, and drink with them, and unfortunately at this point I had gotten over Y.W and moved on accepting that she was an important part in a crucial and much-needed break-up. This acceptance lead me to moving on quite quickly to my next sexual target, it just so happened to be her best-friend who was playing loyal friend and confidant.

It didn’t take long to break through the loyalty. I took them back to my friends penthouse apartment on the beach, gave them both an E and refrained from taking any myself. After she saw me undress in front of her and rejected the first three-way she playfully tried to coerce us to do, she had abandoned her duty as loyal friend and hotly pursued me via text and phone calls she did at least have the decency to let Y.W know she wanted to sleep with me and Y.W stipulated that if we do she wants to be part of it. So, here I am again, a three-way offered with Y.W and Miss Mojo. What was a woman to do during these complicated and emotional times.

Well…… I took them back to the penthouse apartment and this time joined in the fun, we both were hot for each other but we didn’t want Y.W to feel left out so we tried to keep it even but it was obvious the sexual chemistry between us was heating up and after that night we pursued each other every night without Y.W knowing but she knew, her paranoia kicked in and well it all kinda lead to all three of us at my house and again having a hot three-way but we just couldn’t hide our passion for each other anymore and excluded Y.W and oh boy did she feel the pain that night.

She broke down and I felt pity and a little guilt. Miss Mojo made a quick exit and I stayed behind to pick up the pieces. It was this night that became our last night as I had decided to try to make it work with my wife again and it was a sad ending but she had learnt a very valuable lesson that curiosity and experimenting comes with an emotional price. I however, took another path and that was absolute faithfulness and my very last best shot at making my marriage work.

 

Spunky Chinese Economist (Diary Version)

12th August 2013

It’s been a long time since I wanted to write real-time romance.  Am alone at home, the wife is in South Africa, I have Spotify and contemplating getting stoned.  Listening to acoustic hits, my favourite.

WY has introduced me to new dynamics that I never thought I would want to experience.  Intelligent alpha female that is burning to open up at an intensity that she thought she never had.

The dynamic is that there is three of us.  A likes B, B likes C, C likes A.

I have never shared a potential affair, preferring 100% adoration.  But I may in this instance give it a go.  After all, C is leaving to travel in three weeks.  WY, I wonder is as passionate and hot as I’m feeling.

Time will tell.

My Sweet Summer of Love (Diary Version)

I lie here feeling unbroken for the first time in a long time.  I’ve never had this moment when everything feels right.  The student/teacher boundary brings us closer.

It’s strange how you eliminate money, sex and ego, fear and superficialness and what you have is something so simple and pure.

I’m trying not to think of then end as it draws near everyday.  I want to enjoy this moment with you and give you everything I have.

24 years old is all you are but somehow that doesn’t matter.  I’ve never met someone so sweet, respectful and gentle and I’ve met many people.

This is the moment in time I will not repeat my mistakes and I will enjoy it with no walls or pretence.  I will allow this pure feeling to seep into my soul and for once become alive with every moment spent with you, with every text and every touch.

My Sweet Summer

The Spaniard turns up in my life just as I feel like I have won everything and lost everything.  It should never have happened.  It was too soon, too soon after my epic fail of saving my marriage.  The Spaniard represented everything that was wrong.  He was male, 16 years younger, handsome, insolent and my student.

He enters my classroom like a young man very aware of his presence in the room.  I watch him carefully and openly as he settles in and waits til he meets me eye-to-eye.  He finally settles down and meets my gaze.  Damn those eyes!! Eyes that simmer with total hotness. His eyes also faintly flickered an interest….. “but he is your student”.  The internal demon starts to work straight away.

The Spaniard was only staying in the city for 3 months during the summer.  He was a student at the centre for only 6 weeks.  Plenty of time.  But of course I had no idea of this.  It was like I went into auto seduction pilot.  However, unless you are aware of how I work, you would never have guessed that he was being seduced.  I don’t even think I was aware of it myself.

Find the common interests in class, film-making, photography, playing the guitar… this is going to be easy “but he is your student” “he is also a young male”…  (ignore).  Adrenalin based activities, romantic conquests, ideal dates…..  “is he sizing me up?”.

It was 4 weeks before i can sense his internal passion in the classroom, but he hid it well from others only my trained eye could see the body language shift, the eyes becoming more intense. The lesson on dating and romantic conquests allowed him to feel a little bold, bold enough to leave a public message on my facebook to let me know he understood my lesson.  Bold indeed. “He is a young male”  “he is your student”.

From this point, his discretion and his simmering intenseness had the inner demon working overtime.  I could feel myself bubbling over that a regular run in the evenings after work would help quash the inner demon that wanted to taste his full lips.  “HE”S YOUR FUCKING STUDENT”   (ignore).

It wasn’t until the language centre had a junk boat party that i had an opportune moment to really make my mark.  Ive never been one to openly flirt preferring the subtle gestures, the steady eye contact and thought provoked questions to leave questioner without doubt an impression of sorts and on a junk boat with colleagues and other students, this was where I work the best without a single soul knowing my true intentions.

Except he had two other younger ladies who were interested.  Both of them more gorgeous, both of them younger and both of them in bikinis and way more vibrant than me.  I watch and wait.  I was finally sat down somewhere and the Spaniard joins me.  He sits close and we talk, steady eye contact, body language mirroring each other.  The conversation i direct completely on him and his subjects, I avoid all talk of anything else. He is being chased and he is used to that.  So I choose not to chase him, well not obviously anyway.  Just teacher and student talking, a tad closer than normal but its a sign he feels comfortable with me.  Then someone wants to take a photograph of us.  Move in closer “He is a young male”  “He is your student”.  He puts his arms around me and as i rest my body against his.

After half hour of talking, I make my excuses that I need to speak with other teachers about the sound equipment.

At the point i knew he was most definitely interested on that junk was when one of the younger girls made a move to kiss him and he awkwardly shift his mouth away from hers and looked at me to see if I had noticed. I was luckily wearing sunglasses and could have been looking anywhere.  But I noticed and I smiled internally and smized.

From this event, nothing more happened, I kept my distance cooly and professionally.  He is after a young male 16 years my junior and my student that was until I had three barbeques on a beach close to my home.  End of August I hosted three Barbeques, all of which he came to as the barbeques were held first for the students, then the final one was for a group of fellow sapphic friends, but he had no qualms in inviting himself.  The first two he went home with the other students and didn’t linger but the final one he missed the ferry back and so we decided to hang out on the beach and continued to drink red wine and again sit within close proximity.  “Kiss him dammit” “NOOOOO…..  he is your student”.

I will always remember how he would delicately play with me as he pretend to throw me in the sea,  how his touches were so slight, and how we talked for hours just holding steady eye contact and yet we both refrained.  He was afraid of rejection as I had already told him I only date woman, and I was very aware of the fact he was my student and 16 years younger.  Strangely though, that night nothing happened.  He respectfully slept on the sofa when I told him thats where he was sleeping.  Didn’t really help with my sleeping as I was tossing and turning in the next room my body alive with wantoness.  URGH! Sucks to be a teacher.

This continues for another two more weekends as he invites himself over to mine and I make him sleep on the sofa.  Then……  its mid September and he finally finishes his English Course. He invites himself to mine and before I can tell him he is sleeping on the sofa, he directly tells me he is sharing my bed that night.  Needless to say, we didn’t even make it to my room.  The passion had at this point boiled over and neither of us could keep our hands off each other and still to this day, I remember the feel of his lips, his strong torso and his firm hands as the passion openly poured through our pores and through every limb as we both unleashed feverishly.

This only happened a few more times before he realised he had to go back to Spain and he went into a dark hole of moodiness and barely spoke to me at all. Wasn’t exactly the ending i imagined, but I got the result I wanted and thus he left me in October as my sweet summer of love 2015.

 

So, Where did it all begin?

This is the mother of all questions.  Where the fuck did it all begin?  Where are the roots of destruction that was firmly planted so had created turbulent chaos that had spun me so out of control and allowed me to leave a trail of weeping hearts and confused souls.  In psychology they say it starts with the parents.  A book that was suggested to me to read about 7 years ago suitably name “They Fuck You Up” humorously or not so humorously depicts family life is where it all goes wrong.  Lets face, they manipulate you, bully you, throw you around, blame everything on you,  well mine did anyway.  No wonder i became numb to emotions and numb to the world around me.

My earliest memories of childhood  happened while I was still in nappies and in a cot.  Two distinctive memories and neither of which could have been triggered by photos.  The first i was standing in a cot in a room with dodgy brown wallpaper and there was another double possibly or queen sized bed in the middle of the room with not much space on the right side.  In the bed there was a woman, long dark hair screaming, and two men fighting each other.  I later found out my mum was having an affair and my stepdad came home and caught them together. He was not happy, my mum on the other hand was surprised that i remembered so much detail and information recalling i was less than 1 years old. The second memory  i was at someones else who was not my parents and they were changing my nappy and while they were not in the room and i have no idea why i was alone, i was eating the stools from my dirty nappies.  I am so glad to say that, that was not a habit that turned into some weird fetish thing for me. Phew!

Other memories, were of me just a little older locking myself in the kitchen, playing alone with my two headed material doll, being bitten by an alsation dog, building my own home with bricks at the end of the garden, spending copious amounts of time in the library. Strangely, I have no memory of my mum being around or spending any time with her.  I have memories of my stepdad taking me to an older womans house to be looked after and another woman in South London whose belongings I used to look through but still no mother. In fact, between the fight and being roughly about 7 years old, she was no where in my memories. When I later asked her about this, she gave me some drivel about travelling around the world.  When my stepsister approached my stepdad about this stage in my life he just said, my mum was having affairs all over the place, he had no idea where she was ever.

BUT, when she did come back all i remembered was the clashes between her and I and the head butts between my mum and my stepdad and him beating the crap out of me. My teens were hell and I was no exception to a hot-headed half asian teenager with raging hormones.

Love??  I didn’t know what love was, I had never experienced love, a cuddle, affection. Especially before I turned 13 and definitely not from my mum.  My stepdad was up to his eye balls with tolerance from me.  I was pushing everyones buttons in the house and the more i pushed, the more they disciplined.  I was smoking by the time I was 13 years old, i wanted to fit in with the kids at school and well i was left alone many a times.  Except by this point i had a little sister and a little brother to look after because both parents were out working and whenever something went wrong with them, I would get the belt.  if i wasn’t in time to pick them up from school, i would get the belt, If i hadn’t cooked and fed my brother and sister, i would get the belt.  I would get it so often that at some point i remember thinking to myself.  “Go on then…. Give it to me…. hit me so hard…. because i am so emotionally dead, physically you can no longer hurt me”. The emotional numbing to survive, the lack of love, the responsibility of my younger siblings certainly took its toll that when my body was wanted by another, I was happy to give it to anyone.

First sexual awakenings probably started when I was about 7 years old.  I remember vividly we used to have regular visits from Roger and Susan and their only child Jonathan who was about 4 years older than me perhaps.  Anyway, i was coming out of the bath and Jonathan walked into the bathroom to use the toilet and I stood there naked watching him watching me, and i stood there very aware of his eyes on me and stood purposely to show him my body proudly.  Then my stepdad walked in and made an awkward joke to Jonathan. Seven years old and so aware of my body.  Was I really that deprived of love from such an early age.

My next encounter was on a school trip in a room full of girls who were no older than 11.  Again i remember it well, it was on a school trip to Devon and i had to share a room with 5 other girls.  There were two bunk beds and I shared a bunk bed with some girl slightly older than me.  One night, the older girls were having a discussion about sex and they wanted to show three of us how sex was done.  One of the girls laid on top of me and kissed me and rubbed herself all over me.  I remember feeling hot, very very hot and flushed.  I wanted more and from here this pivotal point in my life i started to develop crushes on girls.

It wasn’t until i turned 13 though, that I had lost my virginity to an 18 year guy.  He wanted me and my parents didn’t.  He was showing me what at the time seemed like affection and I wanted that and all i could do was respond by giving him my body.  It was from this point also, that I only knew sex was a way to receive affection, needless to say i felt empty each time, but I didn’t know any better.  I was numb, and sex was a good way to feel something for a short time.  It fed my ego, my lack of self-esteem, it gave me a feeling of temporary abandonment until it was all over and I would wait until the next one and here the path of destruction starts and from here it spirals out of control.

 

 

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

Before I delve into the history of my conquests, lets have a look at the signs and symptons of the infamous Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

There are 23 clues to look out for and I can certainly relate to most, especially most definitely in my 20s and 30s.

  • An insatiable appetite for the attention of other people.
  • Generally prone to extreme feelings of jealousy.
  • Behave is if they deserve special treatment.
  • Commonly exaggerate their achievements, talents and importance.
  • Extremely sensitive.
  • Find it difficult to maintain healthy relationships.
  • Have fantasies regarding their own intelligence, success, power and good looks.
  • If they have to take advantage of others in order to get what they yearn for, they will without regret or conscience.
  • It does not take much for a person with NPD to feel rejected.
  • Lack empathy – empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of other people. People with NPD lack empathy and disregard other people’s feelings.
  • Many believe that only others – “special” people – are really able to understand their uniqueness.
  • May consider themselves as very skilled in romance; more skilled than anybody else.
  • Most people see narcissists’ goals as selfish ones.
  • Obsessed with themselves.
  • Respond to criticism with anger.
  • Respond to criticism with humiliation.
  • Respond to criticism with shame.
  • Seem arrogant.
  • Tend to seek out praise and positive reinforcement from others.
  • They may be perceived by others as tough-minded or without emotion.
  • Usually expect others to agree with them or go along with what they ask for or want blindly.
  • Very easily hurt.
  • Whatever they crave or yearn for must be “the best”.

I don’t know about you, but this list pretty much sums up most people that I know especially here in Hong Kong, you can’t get get much bigger egos than those losers who failed to make it happen in their own countries and Hong Kong being so significantly small makes it possible for all those egos to shine like Sirius A.  I know, pot calling kettle black, right?  Well, i’d like to think i have evolved but i’m not sure in what direction.  I am hoping the more empathetic direction but it all feels so unnatural or just evolved to not be discovered.  Who knows, you decide.

Lets look at the list of known celebrity NPD’s.  Casanova, Marquis De Sade,  Hitler, Stalin and possibly Madonna and Margaret Thatcher.  Interesting considering I used to idolize three of them and was fascinated by the other two.  There is also: Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, Simon Cowell and even Donald Trump.  Urgh! he gives narcissists a bad name.

The list is endless but lets face it, apart from Donald Duck Trump, most people are attracted to the arrogance, that cool exterior, that pzazz that thing that makes your heart race and truly can only really be expertly done by the person who has confidence enough to say hello and make all those moves that you dream about.  Yes, the person male or female with the NPD that will sweep you from under your feet and then eat you alive.

Out of the unknown number i have preyed and chased on only two or three didn’t succumb to my charms and even then that is a recent turn of events, and I boil that down to my lack of wanting to put the energy into it.  My need for validation, and the constant appetite for attention has waned somewhat since my wife and I have split. I have taken a new journey of self-discovery and have had plenty of time to reflect on who I am…. or have I?