Mistress. Hostess. Social escort.

These are names Ms Angel Hsu, a Taiwanese, has been called in the five years she has worked and lived in Singapore.

She hates it, even though she's learned to ignore the insults. Sometimes.

"You know, (some of) the men will mentally try to categorise me when we meet for the first time," says Ms Hsu, a business development director for an international head-hunting company here.

What she may be called, says the pretty, tall and leggy woman, depends on where she is at that moment.

Ms Hsu, 30, recounts in fluent English how she once confronted a group of "young and rude" people.

She had got out of her BMW convertible at her office carpark in Shenton Way when she heard a woman utter: "Must be someone's mistress."

The woman's friends - three men and another woman - started to laugh in agreement.

It irked Ms Hsu enough for her to walk up to them and say: "You are a bunch of rude people with filthy minds.

"Just because you cannot afford a nice car does not mean others are as incapable."

She takes a sip of her Perrier mineral water, then says with a laugh: "You should've seen their shocked and embarrassed faces."

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