one day

many things can happen in one day...

a few years ago i ventured very gingerly into the world of online dating. i put up my profile in a few sites but never dared to add in a picture.

fast forward to now.

recently my best friend attempted online dating and urged me to give it a go. in part it was to 'keep her company' and in another part it was to find out what all the hype was bout.

yesterday my profile was up and running. i even bravely added in a picture.

the responses so far have been rather overwhelming. i've had loads of winks, a number of emails and IM adds. i've winked at a few guys that seemed interesting, answered a number of emails, chatted with some guys and even blocked one guy. one guy i chatted with told me that he likes me and wants to chase me. another guy within 1 minute of our chat (and the chat must have only lasted 2 minutes) gave me his number and asked if i wanted to go out for a drink tonight.

all this in one day.

but also in this one day, i've been sorta paranoid. i wonder if one day while happily walking down the street, someone is going to recognise me from my profile picture.

maybe i'm not cut out for online dating?

that said, i have cut off some other past guys. i audited the aussie podiatrist and scottish cat man outta my phone book. scottish cat man 'coz he failed to respond to a few of my friendly text messages. the aussie podiatrist for contacting my party girl asking bout her plans instead of calling me like he initially said. i decided that i'm just not gonna bother.

and instead i'm starting on something new... at least to me it is... the world of online dating.

i wonder how long i'll last... i already have this urge to take my profile down...

trying to keep unaffected...

it's been kinda a crazy time lately. what with exams and a stressful and fast paced new job. i guess i kinda went a lil crazy this weekend...

friday night i was just chilling out in the cozy hole-in-the-wall bar with my party girl and the yummy mommy. the bartender aka dj guy and i were joking around a lil as usual. the yummy mommy and the female bartender actually asked me if i liked him. i found out that he's single again. we've always had some kind of chemistry and sometimes it feels like something could go on but maybe it won't ever will. that said, at times i feel like i should just straight up tell him to kiss me already so i don't have to keep wondering what it might be like.

that night i ran into scottish cat man. now that's one guy that i haven't seen in absolutely ages. in fact i was so shocked to see him. but we reconnected again and after turning down his impromptu offer to go over to his place on saturday night, i met up with him for a quick cuppa on sunday night. we're supposed to meet up for dinner some time this week. will see how that goes. but so far he's been texting me everyday since friday.

on saturday night, my party girl, the yummy mommy and i met up with a few other friends to play pool and have a drink. feeling annoyed that the youngest one didn't reply to my text, i decided to text the aussie podiatrist. we wound up joining him and his friends in another club. that's where things got a lil strange and confusing...

my party girl and the aussie podiatrist got along really well. maybe too well... i'm not sure how i feel bout it. in between their conversation, he and i managed to have a bit of a play fight which left me with a bruise on my wrist. that turned into a kissing session. he's not a bad kisser but he's not the best either. but it was fun that he's a playful kisser. though it's hard not to, i keep telling myself that i can't afford to think that this means anything. afterall he didn't contact me again. and after i left he went with my party girl to another bar so i'm not sure what happened there. it's not that i necessarily mind my friends getting along with a guy i like but if i'm honest i admit that it was a lil weird for me that my party girl and the aussie podiatrist got along that well. i don't know...

i think maybe the whole prick04 and my oldest school friend drama kinda affected me more than i realised. or at least i'm less over it then i thought i was. but i suppose at least this time i'm more open in saying something. so even though i was tempted to just pretend everything was okay, i didn't. and kinda brought up the subject to my party girl rather hesitantly. i didn't say much. just outlined why sometimes i feel weird. i'm not sure what will happen but this much i know... i'm getting scared 'coz i think i'm liking the aussie podiatrist too much...

and the youngest one never did reply to me. i should have let it go, be done with it. but 'coz today is his 21st birthday i decided to IM him. apparently he was drunk by the time i texted on saturday and spent the whole weekend hungover. well i told myself i'm done here. i probably am.

thankfully one of the funniest things was when shy colleague and i went to watch a movie. when we were buying the tickets, the lady at the ticket counter asked if we wanted a couple seat. there was a beat of silence as we were both stunned for a moment then i couldn't quite stop giggling.

and of 'coz there was this whole banana cake incident with someone...

i saw him while he was selling some stuff for a fund raising event. he was promoting his mom's banana cake. of 'coz i had to buy some. and they were yummy. so i texted him joking that he should learn to bake. he then suggested that i go learn from his mom. of 'coz i was like yeah. i mean like duh right? he said that he'll see if he could get a few other interested people. i didn't dare say that i would even go alone. anyhow i'm not holding my breath. at least i'm trying not to.

this is hard. suddenly everything in my life seems so hard...

time makes all the difference

sunday nite i was at the height of almost wanting to contact prick04. and what a difference a day makes 'coz by last nite, i was totally over that feeling. and now i'm just indifferent bout it all. which in murphy's law probably means that he'll contact me or something haha!

yesterday i received a text from a guy who i honestly didn't expect to hear from. a few months ago i texted scottish cat man and he never replied. so in my typical style, i audited him out from my phone book. when i received the text from an unknown number, i didn't really know who it was though i had my suspicions. apparently he had been overseas. he hasn't mentioned anything bout meeting up so i'll just leave it as that. we had previously only met up once and had a few almost meetings. on our lone meeting up, scottish cat man and i really hit it off and had a great time. but somehow we just couldn't quite find the time to meet up again.

sometimes it's kinda sad. you think you've met someone who you actually have a good connection with. but then things don't really work out that way. and i'm not even talking bout romance wise but even as just friends. i would definitely have loved to get to know scottish cat man better. but for now i'm done with trying to work at it. the ball is in his court.