Date #35 of 2013 – ice ice baby

I don’t think Ike and I made for the most elegant sight in the world, holding hands as I awkwardly tried to remember how to skate based on the previous FOUR times I had ice-skated in my life. He was telling me how he had been skating since childhood but had not made the hockey team. Talk about a level playing field – that’s like a cheetah challenging a turtle with three legs to climb a tree. He may have laughed at me a couple of times but I didn’t fall and he said later that he would have felt very bad if I had fallen and had to go back to India with my arm in a sling (a possibility I had not given much thought to!)

Date #31 of 2013 – How to break the rules and inadvertently recruit a fuck-buddy

The Canadian – I shall call him Ike – was quite quick to ask me out on a second date after our first one on Thursday night. I had spent the weekend in Bangkok so he asked me on Monday whether I had recovered. Of course I had, I was out drinking already. He asked me what I wanted to do. I agreed to meet him on Tuesday and fueled by liquid courage, I told him to show some initiative and not make me do all the work. On Tuesday morning he proved that he had done his research by proposing two very different date ideas: an art gallery plus tacos or brace yourself, ice-skating!

 

Date # 30 of 2013 – A late night date in Wanchai

Since before I went to Spain for work in late November, I had been chatting with a free-spirited Canadian man. He seemed extremely nice on messages and asked me for a drink on his first message itself. I had politely declined as I was crazy busy at the time and proposed that we catch up after my Spain trip if we were still in each others’ memories after I returned. He was not outdone by this and stayed in touch and even pointed me towards a cute little Mexican place in Madrid where I ended up taking my brother out to dinner. We finally made plans to meet more than a week after I returned from Spain. This was because, again, I had all sorts of social engagements including the HK panto.

Date #32 – Drinks with Communists

Everytime I go on a date, I brace myself for what kind of circus freak/mutant I am about to meet. Even with all the prior messaging, photos, texting, the probability of meeting someone that’s really out of left field in some way or the other is disproportionately high. From the very rude and ill-educated to the mock-croc-pleather-wearing, from the superiority-complex-harbouring to the not-even-single-as-it-turns-out, you name it, I’ve dated it. And still there seems to be room for surprises.

(non) date #28 – No, I would not like to cuddle

I Chimp, Therefore I am

I must be the most fickle of beings because it is ridiculous how contrary I feel sometimes to my own thoughts just a few months or days ago. Here’s yet another horrible date I was on. It takes two hands to clap so admittedly I am slightly guilty as well.

date #27 – The finer things

“Sam,
this is not the impractical house-warming present I had in mind but…
xo, Jups”

Date#20 and #21 – A Cursi Friki Affair (a different kind of CFA)

Miguel’s first message to me on okcupid was nowhere near as smooth or witty or articulate as the thoughtful note he left on my bed. No it was awkward but he was tall and broad shouldered and claimed a fanatical love for south park. That was sufficient material to go on for a first date. I was hesitant to go on a date before my exam. I had not committed a date (for the date, heh!) yet but had been exchanging messages with him.

date #18 of 2013 – "I am so handsome"

Monday, May 20th:

“Yorkshire is renowned for being full of tossers. Richard III was from the House of York. Yorkshire puddings (which is an ok dish) are from Yorkshire. Yorkshire dogs are incredibly annoying. So there.”

This concise and hilarious blurb is in response to me reporting back to Santa last night after a date with a total tosser. He thought he was the proverbial shit. I simply thought he was shit.

Date #10 of 2013 – ewoks!

I am not sure if pub quizzes should be counted as dates – Leonard says they shouldn’t be. Yes he deserves a name now and yes I am literally dating Leonard from the big bang theory, my brother said so even before we had ever met and he couldn’t have been more right. But then again I did ask him if we could go eat some crepes before the quiz started. And dinner alone without any random grungey 3rd wheel professor should count as a date. Leonard, that evening, said that had stopped counting the dates. How offensive! We’ve only been on 3 dates so far … Let’s not get too comfortable. What’s next? Peeing with the door open?

date #9 of 2013 with Two Drink Maximum Guy

Date #9 is the date that made me so hungry and angry and frustrated, I nearly cried once I got home. Nearly.