I had just recently graduated from college and flew back to Hong Kong for good. I had lived there the early half my life and had lived my other half in the state, so I'm pretty americanized.

There was this good female friend of mine (HB8; also an Americanized Chinese) I made a month before I got back to Hong Kong. When we were in the state, we built somewhat of an emotional connection with each other, both musically and religious-belief wise (yes, she's a Christian, but I'm not). We did somewhat keep in contact texting each other occasionally. The contents were nothing too big of a deal except she gave me a pretty good advice on how to get rid of my ex nicely.

She just got back to Hong Kong a week ago and we met twice. Then, I realized I had a crush on her. Although she's going back to the state for college in a month, I decided spark things up and make our time in Hong Kong memorable.

We had dinner two days ago and we had some fun conversation and aside from that, I unlocked her iPhone for her. And we hang out today, she paid for my dessert (my reward for unlocking her iPhone for her), then we headed straight to karaoke (popular asian thing to do, and yes, just two of us like the previous time). It was very fun hanging out with her and I'm sure she feels the same. And she invited me to her house party next weekend.

It seems like I am having the whole situation under control, but perhaps a little bit too smooth. She and I share an extremely similar personality. We are both extroverted. She initiates activities just as much as I do. Both of our core confidence are high. There's no doubt we have some chemistry going on, but I'm afraid my brothers are gonna give me a moment of silence later on. Most girls I had picked up think I'm different from most guys, but this time is the first time I've encountered that big of challenge ever since my "transformation". I'm afraid she's thinking the same as me. She does think I'm different from most guy (she actually told me that when she was giving me the advice I mentioned above through text) knowing that she's also different from most girls, and vice versa, but it seemed like we explore a lot of similarity we have for each other.

So this is the problem:
She admits I'm different from most guys, but then it seemed like I'm actually the same type of person as she is. We are both initiative and perfectionist. But according to my experience, attraction is pretty much based on differences... similarity pretty much means friendzone. Is there anything I can do to avoid being dropped to friendzone? What should I do to differentiate myself from her so that I can amplify the spark we are having right now? Because I figured if I fail to do this, it's friendzoned.

I normally avoid gaming with a girl with ultra high core confidence. She's the type that if I ask her to rank her happiness in a scale of 1-10 (even at work), she would tell me 11. But I hope I can make history for myself this time because if I succeeded, I will be very happy (duh).

Thanks guys!

Sounds to me like you're in the friend zone right now. Try bringing a female friend to that party she invited you to, see what kind of reaction she has initially to test her attraction level.

The truth is, not yet.
I do seem to be in a friendzone situation in a normal scenario, but since we think very similarly, it seemed to her that I'm also putting her into my friendzone area. Which she also seemed to be afraid of. She left urgently yesterday after we had karaoke. Saw her parents' car waiting outside. She called/texted me afterwards to basically check if I was doing okay after she had left, then I told her I'm hanging out with my other friends.

Then after I got back home:
Me: Crap! I accidentally missed my badminton training.
Her: Because of the karaoke?
Me: nah we ended karaoke at 7:30pm but my training's at 10pm.
And then I instantly texted back
Me: YES, IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! How are you gonna make up for it?
Her: I can offer you either an ice cream sandwich or candy".
Me: "BOTH! Add a few macarons on top and we can call that even *wink*"
Her: SO GREEDY!!!"

I didn't text back. until next morning.
Then for today, She texted me a few mins ago.

I was showering
Her: You wanna have lunch?
Her: Kinda weird {asking you to lunch}...
So after I got back from shower 20 mins later
Me: okay.
Her: nvmm (lunch break seemed to be over for her)
Me: okay~~ see if you have any luck tomorrow *wink*.
Her: tmr tmr!

Her "Kinda weird" line confuses me for a moment but I realized it can only imply one thing: "I have short lunch break, dunno if it's appropriate to leave you hanging afterwards".

That gives me a feeling that we are actually even.
So what should I do next? And did I miss something?