The old version of dating is basically portrayed in a local setting where birds and crickets in the mountains are at full tones. The birds talk in sweet melodies like an orchestra played by a majestic hand of the master. The water stream has flowed along following the course of the river. The wind breeze softly touches the lovers’ arms and echo in distances like a whistling grasshopper from the leafy lands. Then the lovers roll out the cloth for their space to sit on and lie down as they retire from their childhood escapades – running, shouting, and clapping like 11 years old. The magic is there… at their palms and hands as they caress each other like new born babies full love and affection. With all these descriptive situations and ordinary lover styles, nothing is more interesting like an old, ordinary, local, touching, and dating lifestyle. However, nowadays, these descriptives and modifiers are lost. There could never be mountains, water streams, birds, and crickets. There could never be nature or jungles around these lovers. The local color of their love is anonymous, for they have no natural backgrounds – the music of the kamarus and cicadas.

The new lovers for today are totally different. They are odder than what I have known. They are using the mobile phones now, and their preliminary contacts are through texting or sending MMS or SMS. The wonder of these mobile phones in mobile phone dating is that it extends our emotions in a strange way. The love is as fast as the running horse in a grand prix or the fired bullet. It is even a text away because once one sends a love message it can give something that the recipient can imagine the thought of the message. It is really superb, yet this creates unusual cultural pattern. The gentlemen do not have the chance to do the courting with the woman and with the flowers. Sometimes, the gentlemen would like to help the household chores of the ladies’ fathers or even the gentlemen would help the ladies in their household chores. The lost tradition is that the gentlemen do not have the chance to visit the house of the ladies because they only text or send messages. By this, the exchange of messages from both parties is for them enough to extend their daily communications. Yet, there is no worry because courting is just a text away. No matter what it is whether the one who courts fails or succeeds, it is just only a cent one spends. How amazing, isn’t it?