Spend the morning at a Fitstop class, had some concerns about going for weekend class alone for the first time (because I have always joined my friend for weekend classes) as the classes are always packed to the brim, but after experiecing an almost packed class during the the weekday session the past week, I think I kinda got used to it.
That being said, I still had a lot of anxiety about it the night before for some reason, but the class itself went really well and it's always invigoraating to start the day with excercise.
Met up with Zo later in the aftenoon for Matcha and catch up, we were supposed to meet around late morning, but there were some army related stuff that he had to deal with, so we only ended up meeting late afternoon instead.
We went to Rituals of Kora, this is literally my third time there, it's a good spot for Matcha but not exactly a spot I would keep going back for, so that was a bit excessive, but Zo had seen me posting about it on my Insta-stories and wanted to pay a visit, so I decided why not.
Got ourselves cookies and Matcha, duh.
I had offered to pay for this meal because he had just came back from Korea/Japan not too long ago and brought back presents for me.
The main item I had met up with him to collect was the Blue Elephant shades, this is the exact pair I had wanted to get back in Korea, but couldn't decide whether to or not until it was too late, and whilst he was in Korea, I noticed that he had posted about getting a pair of Blue Elephant for himself, so I shared with him about how I had missed my window to get it and congratulated him on getting his, to which he immediately offered to help me get the pair I had wanted, and so here we are.
I had wanted the shades, but I think a bigger reason I accepted his offer to help me get the shades was that it would give us another reason to meet up, not to rekindle any romance, but just purely to have a reason to meet up again as friends.
Anyways, Blue Elephant shades were what I was expecting, the rest were extra surprises, the biggest one being the small carton of Matcha he had gotten for me from Japan.
We stayed at the cafe for a bit, did some catch up there, but because the cafe was a bit crowded that day, I wasn't too comfortable sharing about my own Korea trip experience with him, so I kept telling him I will share more during dinner.
Popped by Orchard, did the usual perfume stops to smell a bunch of perfumes at Ngee Ann City, so the usual Diptyque and Byredo, walked around the mall a bit to look at random stuff before he suggested we go to a pasta bar for dinner.
So we headed over to tipo Pasta Bar at Waterloo,
We got ourselves pasta and a side to share, the side was fried Lasanga, it was a lot of pasta and it was quite filling, but it was a good meal.
This was where I started ranting to Zo about my Korea trip with Drew.
It felt a bit weird talking to him about Drew because I pretty much started seeing Drew about 2 weeks after Zo called things off with me, but one thing about Zo is that he is a very good listener.
I shared what happened during the trip and, with everyone I have shared this experience with had a universal reaction of just disdain towards Drew, Zo was no different, he was shocked and he was upset for me me and I guess this is my way of taking "revenge" against Drew, by painting him in that negative light to other people. To my own friends who will probably never meet him, and to people in the community who may potentially see his profile on Hinge, so that they will steer clear away from him.
Anyways, during my sharing, it got a bit uncomfortable because the table next to us had diners as well and I really didn't want complete strangers hearing stories about my dating life, especially because of the context of it all, it's weird, but it was a bit too late to switch seats, so I just tried to talk a bit softer, unfortunately, I think they were still able to listen in on my rant and I did not enjoy that, was kinda annoyed at how the staff didn' spread the diners out a bit more sparesely, there were literally seats around the resturant that they could have been seated at, but the waitress had to slap them right beside Zo and I. Sigh.
Zo and I stayed in the restaurant for a while because I was talking so much, I had to do a lot of setting up for the story to do in order to be able to help paint a fuller picture for him, and because he was such an engaging listener, he was also asking me a lot of follow up questions during my sharing and it just felt really therapeutic chatting with him, it's feels like I am talking to a therapist.
After dinner, we walked over to Bugis for dessert, had originally wanted to go for Chinese Dessert, but the queue was long, so we opted for Ice Cream instead and landed at Tom's Palette.
This was when it became his turn to rant, but his was more about work, so I did my best to offer a listening ear.
We were only technically only allowed to dine in for 40 minutes, but I think we ended up staying there for a little over an hour, no one chased us out so we just overstayed our welcome and chatted as much as we wanted.
After this, we called it a night and made our way back home because it was already past 10pm, close to 11pm at that point. I really enjoyed meeting up with Zo, he reminded me how fufilling it had been when I was actively dating someone, whether it was him or Drew (during the early stage when he was still consistent).
I tried using Hinge again after our meet up, matched with some people, but I honestly don't think I am all that ready to get back into dating game because the moment I swiped my very first match, I started having all these expecations again that I know the other person will not be able to fufill, at least not at the start, and it is just so mentally exhausting to think about having to go through all the vetting again.
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