Speed Date

7 September 2006

Always wanted to meet your compatible other half? People who are born in the year of the dog, horse, rabbit and tiger are supposed to be more compatible for each other. So come and watch love blossom for you.... From the above, I'm sure you know it's a speed dating session...

Yes! I signed up for it.. Quite excited just now.. Imagine me searching thru my cupboard and wondering what to wear. Tried on a few old blouses but didn't seem nice. Wanted to wear my new transparent blouse with a tank top... But the colour seems abit too bright.... So ended up with my usual black top with abit of green in the centre...

On the way to TCC, heart beat getting faster and faster.. Nervous lah! :P Seeing that nobody was there yet as I was like 30 mins early, so hung near to TCC and watching if anyone walked in.... Saw some standing just outside TCC.. Wanted to approach them to see if they were coming for the date.. But somehow my feet couldn't move.. Words were just stuck in my throat... haha

The organiser and volunteers soon came.. Registered ourselves, got our name tag and number.. Sat around waiting for others to arrive... Hmmm.. more guys were coming in... Since there wasn't anything much to do yet, so I introduced myself to some guys.... hehe.. One was called Albert, other was Alex. Albert was always smiling, being extremely friendly. Alex was ok. Quite quiet.

How the date was played? The gals will sit at the tables as stated on the tags. The 2 guys will start first at one table and rotate whenever the bell rings. Each table is allowed 10 mins. So the 2 gals & 2 guys will have a time of 5 mins each to chat. The questions and answers will have to be simple. No offending questions. No asking of what the person does for a living unless both parties agree on that question. No exchanging of phone numbers or emails. For contacts, the organiser will revealed to us next week on those we are interested in.

A while later everyone proceeded to the assigned tables... So we started with the questions like work as what, hobbies, what they do in their free time, whether they like travelling, what places they have travelled to.... the 4 of us took turns to answer. There were a few guys that I end up talking 10 mins to just one person.. Somehow the minutes didn't seem enough. haha

Of coz there were few interesting ones. It's really true that looks can be deceiving.. Why I said that coz ppl that I think may not be chatty or interesting are actually the good ones.. Yes! There was one that I was interested in... :P

Session ended around 9.45pm... After that the gals and guys sat in 2 groups again.. Of coz gals talking about the ones they interested and guys did the same.. haha.. Some guys forgot the gals tag numbers and had to go around searching... I wanted to go chat with the rest of the guys that stayed longer.. but somehow seems odd if I'm the only one doing that... Sigh!

The conclusion was I'm glad I didn't backed out and happy that I knew more friends and also enjoyed myself very much. I thought I would be like too quiet as it's new ppl.. But surprisingly I wasn't as quiet as I thought I would be. Maybe as I get older, more daring... Anyone agree with me?