I'll rely on serendipity instead

WHILE I appreciate the existence of Dr Love - a column on LoveByte which is currently on hiatus - to help us time-strapped adults socialise more efficiently, I prefer to entrust my life to Dr Serendipity instead.

I have nothing against finding my dream partner online, but I found mine in a dream instead - last December.

And oh, we clicked madly - over meaningful face-to-face conversations.

Though we were merely acquaintances back then, in my dream he was Prince Charming saving me from a bunch of bandits.

After weeks of pondering and making sure I had nothing to lose, I shared the dream with him. He doubted my airy-fairy fantasy at first, but that eventually led to a dinner date.

Throughout our courtship, we assumed the roles of Prince Charming and modern-day princess fairly well.

Riverside walks, check. Roses, check. Horror movies, check.

Of course, such fairytale romances do not happen to or work for everyone.

Who knows, the SDN might become matchmaker for the Single, Desperate and Needy. But not for Savvy, Deviant Naysayers like me, thank you very much.

Estelle Low, 22, is a final-year journalism student from Nanyang Technological University.

This article was first published in The Straits Times.