Coffee-date.

 There was a sudden spike of viewers from my last post and it's a bit weird.

Anyways, it's Sunday and today, I went out on a coffee date with someone I had met on Hinge. I didn't have a lot of expectations when it came to this particular meet up because I felt like we didn't really establish a lot of rapport, he suggested a coffee date and I agreed because I really didn't have much planned over the weekend and figured it would be nice to just go out.

He recommended this cafe at Outram called Double Shot, and their name derives from the way they prepare their drinks, which is always served with double shots of espresso, I was open to it, but the only thing I had a slight problem with is his request to meet up at 3.30pm in the afternoon for coffee, which is a time when I definitely do not want to be drinking caffeine anymore otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep.  I did check the menu beforehand and noticed they had decaf option, so I agreed.

According to Google, getting to the cafe from my place will take about an hour, I decided maybe I should buffer more time, so I left home at around 2.00pm, thinking I might reach there at about 3.15pm. 

I got there at 2.50pm, 40 minutes before the meet up time, figured since I was there, might as well just get a drink and a bite, read my book on my kindle app and just wait for my Hinge date to arrive. I got myself a cup of iced chocolate and a chocolate twist pastry, it's like as thick as 2 fingers and shorter than a whole finger, it cost me $3, it's fucking expensive, the drink was about $7, so this whole thing was $10.

 

The chocolate drink was actually pretty good, there was some kind of spice in it so it wasn't just flat chocolate. I was seated right beside the casher, so I just read my ebook on my Kindle app and waited for like the next 30 - 40 minutes and thankfully, he was actually pretty punctual, he came in at 3.30pm and headed straight for the counter, looked over and we just waved at each other. 

As with all my dates, the first few minutes were a bit awkward, I was struggling to find conversations, so was he, we hadn't really established any shared common interest so it was hard to really have a deep conversation about anything, it was just a lot of small talk. I kept sipping my drink because I felt like I had to do something, and then when I had nothing left to sip..

...I got myself another cup of Decaf Cafe Latte and we continued just small talking, there were moments when the conversation felt like it was picking up, but then it would also just end really quickly. 

I don't know how I feel about meeting over coffee or a simple meal anymore, they are always just so awkward, it's so much better when the both of us are doing something, like maybe hotpot where we can actually be prepping the food together, or maybe at their place where we can do some sort of activity like baking, just to keep us entertained because to be with a stranger and expect conversation to flow like how it would with old friends, well, that is not going to happen. 

By about 4.45pm, we decided to call it a day, we walked to the MRT Station together, I will say that walk to the station, and the conversation we had, it felt better than us sitting in the cafe, we were able to chat a bit more comfortably, talk about about our surrounding, it was so much better than sitting in that small cafe, I honestly feel like the awkwardness that was radiating from the both of us were palpable enough for the other customers in the store to feel it.

We bid goodbye at the station and I just decided to drop him a courtesy text to thank him for the meet up, I mean it was a bit awkward but it wasn't the worst. He did try to make the conversation last, so I can appreciate that. We did chat a bit more through Instagram, but whether we would actually meet up again for a second meeting is still up in the air, I personally don't think we will.