Today is probably the first Saturday in a very long time that I have been out of the house to meet up with a friend and it is something I really needed because I have not had any social interaction like this for a while now.
That being said, this meeting still felt a bit like "work" because I was meeting up with Yen to look at tiles for her new place. We visited the tile shop in Kranji, which I had to take a Gojek to get to because of how inaccessible it was. Getting a Gojek/Grab to get there was easy, but getting a Gojek/Grab to get out was a pain in the ass because it was so hard to get any cars from there. It reminded me of the first time when I got assigned to the secluded Changi Airbase camp and had so much difficulty trying to call a cab home because no one really goes there, thus began my car rental journey for the remaining reservist cycles that came after that.
The tile shop visit wasn't very fruitful because Yen couldn't find a suitable tile for her place, I was really just there as a friend so I was just offering very few inputs every now and then, the vibe that she wanted to achieve for her home wasn't one that I personally liked, so I also couldn't really offer too much assistance in that regard.
After that hour long tile shop visit, we both headed over the Orchard to have lunch, I had to try Gojek/Grab a total of 6 times to actually get a driver, we tried to look for one while we were in the tile shop and failed multiple times, so we decided to just head to the nearest bus stop to get out, the afternoon Sun was fucking intense and the single bus that serves that area had a 15 minute interval between each one, it just so happened that one had arrived while we were still quite distant away from the bus stop, so we would have had to wait for another 15 minutes in that heat. I tried to get a Grab/Gojek from the bus stop and thankfully, managed to find a driver within a minute.
The driver was surprised for us that we managed to find a driver in that area as we boarded his car. Had a bit of small talk at the start, he probably sensed we weren't too interested to have any small talk, so the rest of the trip after was just silent. Yen and I were both headed to Orchard, she had a hair appointment there and I wanted to just go to Orchard for the sake of it and also to get chocolate, so we decided to have lunch together, her husband joined us shortly after and honestly speaking, we didn't really have much to "catch up" on because she is now working with my boss on a project basis, so I do still see her on a weekly basis during our company meetings, and her husband is a full time employee who is working on some of my projects as a Project Manager, so I am almost always in contact with him.
The meal didn't feel really special, she wasn't feeling particularly chatty because of how uneventful the tile visit was, and it felt like we were just colleagues having a meal together rather than friends, but I was still happy to actually be outside having a meal with friends compared to being at home and ordering the same food that I will usually get from Foodpanda.
After lunch, we split up, Yen and her husband headed to ION and I headed over to Takashimaya to get more Laderach chocolate...
... my plan was to get the Dubai chocolate because the ridiculous thing is, this Laderach chocolate slab is still cheaper than the Fix Dessert Chocolate Bar that is being sold by this reseller in Singapore.
I got introduced to Laderach by someone I had met on a dating app, said individual gave a lot of mixed signals during our 1 month of getting to know each other, so I do not have a good impression of them, and that, in proxy, has also kind of affected my feelings towards this particular brand. That being said, it is objectively really good chocolate, so I will still splurge on it when I feel like it. I just don't like the feelings that I have associated to the brand because of that person.
Anyways, since it was a Saturday afternoon, the mall was packed as fuck, especially the route to get from Wisma Atria to Ngee Ann City, and then back again all the way to ION Orchard to get to the MRT Station, I was just shuffling along with the crowd and taking baby steps because it was so difficult to cut through all the slow walkers, so that was an unpleasant back and forth journey. I thought of PopMart when I was in the ION Orchard area, but I didn't step into the store to get anything, which I think is something that I deserve a pat on the back for., and well, it was also crowded as fuck so I really had no desire to step in.
So that's my Saturday, it was alright and a definite improvement from the last few Saturdays I have had, I really do need to stay in touch and meet up with more friends, hopefully also make some new ones online through dating apps. I tried to find dates on there and the last few that I have been on have been terrible, online dating is definitely not the way to go for me, the last 3 individuals that I had met on the app that I thought had so much potential were all disappointment, and they really went from bad to worst.
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