That's so nice. I've never been able to see how I can skip the
friends stage with a person and jump straight to the dating/lovers
stage. Every single person I became interested in and tried to go
after started as friends first. And usually it took me 6 months at
least, and 2 years being the longest record, to look at them
differently. What can I say, I take a long time to warm up to
people. However, as mentioned earlier, either other people already
make moves liao, or I was rejected outright. I'm already far too
old and decrepit liao to waste time on that kind of approach, so I
really need to do things differently from now on.