Singles' Summer Night -- Our 4th Speed dating Event

After 2 months of hibernation, we felt it's about time we do our 4th speed dating event. But it's not like we lost interest in speed dating, we were simply busy with our lives-- renovation in my room and Candie's sister, P, got married last April 26. In short, we had no time to decide on a nice theme for our next speed dating, let alone actually plan it.

During that time, I met with an old friend, L, and she introduced me to this new restaurant behind Starbucks, Banawe. Admittedly, I've never looked beyond Starbucks and upon walking through the alley, CocoAsian Bistro seem to just pop through the scene, it was that unexpected! It has a sort of a fine dining feel to it, or at least a place striving to be a bit more upscale compared to other food establishments in the vicinity.

Candie and I talked to one of the managing owners, R, who happened to be an acquaintance in DLSU. And of course, there were the SOP meetings where we talked about food, budget, space allotment etc. Pretty soon, we found ourselves booking the place for May 16.
what would you like for dinner?

And as usual, we love doing "extra" work. By that I mean improvements on various seemingly unnecessary stuff. It took us almost the whole afternoon trying to redo our vectors, changing the font in our kit, colors for our name tags...pretty much those stuff that our participants might not have notice, but actually improves the total package of our events. Amidst that, we collected participants and were extremely delighted that some of our previous participants joined yet again (3rd time already!). "nicer" tops

There was a slight downpour on the night of the event and a number of people were late but a whole lot were early...as in 30 minutes early! Candie and I haven't even changed into our nice tops yet (!?). Anyhoo, our registration now is a zip! Primarily because the name tags are already printed and we were able to put names on the faces on ALL our participants. Some were obviously pleased, albeit a bit surprised, with our little effort and it made for an interesting first meeting. The night happily wore on smoothly with a lot of ding!ding!ding! and "..next date please..", which is really the fun part! Soon, everyone got to have their 20 first dates and was more relaxed as they mingled with other singles (take that!).