MBA or DAA

Yesterday before leaving Hong Kong, I met this "cousin sister" of Kevin. She is the daughter of Kevin's father's cousin, originally from Hunan provience and currently lives in Hong Kong. She insisted on taking us out for lunch. According to Kevin, she married an older man from Hong Kong in a sort of mysterious circumstance. The details of the marriage or the man are sort of blurry, belonging to that "nobody knows" category. We met her at her apartment complex Harbor View Plaza next to Hong Kan Stadium, a deireable neighborhood. I was not quite clear of the purpose of the meeting because Kevin had gone to see her the night before, but I decided to string along.
Sometimes, some Chinese people open their mouth and you are shocked to hear everything. Things American would consider completely private, such as how much is your apartments, how many apartment does one own, what much rent does one gets, how much money did one make from the last transaction, one's opinion on buying gold, ect. None of these seem to be the materials for conversation with someone you just met. But those were exactly what we talked about over the Dim Sum. Yet often under the veneer of all these "intimate and private" conversation, one also feesl that you actually know nothing about the person. Everything is sort of abstract and encoded and a lot of deciphering seems necessary. The cousin definitely appeared to be a smart woman who picks up things quickly and makes her own (she learned Cantonese by watching TV). Without a college diploma, she works in some place as a broker to invest in gold and other stocks. The minimum to invest with her is 50,000 HKD. Yet I never learned where she works exactly. She called herself a MBA: married but available, yet she also said she was divorced. "So shouldn't you be DAV? Divorced and available?", I asked her. "Doesn't matter", she replied, "MBA is what we call here". As some woman from mainland arriving in Hong Kong merely three years ago through a marriage, she is considered quite made. Her apartment cost a little less than 2000 USD to rent per month and she has two other rental properties, one is HK, on in Sheng Zheng. And of course, she trades gold. She talks about her vacation in England and Australia, buying high-end fashion in some outlet in London, "You know that all check check brand?" "Buberry?" "Yes, that is, Buberry."

Later, the curious cousin ended up taking the train with us to ShengZheng to visit her parents while we were heading to Taki's place. Later, Kevin said that her mother was a very smart woman too, one of the first who resigned from her job in 80s and started a tailoring business. So there you go, like mother, like daughter.
Still later, we were sitting around and talking in Taki's place. She commented: "those girls, especially those from HuNan, they seem always know who to marry." She turned around and then asked Kevin a profound question, "so are you going to invest gold with her?"