We Got Strangers To Go on a Blind Date While Shopping | Filipino | Rec•Create
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And what I mean is, I don't mean romance.
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I'm the type of guy na anyone I meet, I mean, I just love.
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How am I here today?
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My sister tagged me a few weeks ago on Recreate's post.
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And her only comment was, hahaha.
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Because it was like a search for like single people.
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I have no expectations.
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But what I am looking for in a partner is someone independent.
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I want to sincerely get to know someone without judging them based on how they look.
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I want someone to get to know me based on who I really am.
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And hopefully, bonus, if I get to know more about myself today.
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I'm 24 years old and I am a filmmaker.
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My office mates, they're all boys, they're all dads.
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When they chanced upon the Recreate post, they decided to apply for me.
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So in a guy, I'm actually looking for somebody who could actually match my energy.
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Somebody who would actually keep a conversation.
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Because I love it when I get to talk to a person and have like really deep conversations with them.
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I do hope that if I do meet like a guy and date him,
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we have like genuine and deep conversations about anything under the sun.
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Matthew, nice to meet you.
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Cash, like money?
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Yeah, like cash money.
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Okay, got it, cash money.
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You can call me Matt.
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Nice to meet you.
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Natuwa ako that she was smiling coming into it, coming up from the escalator.
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Like she waved the peace sign agad and she was smiling from the very start.
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Made it easier for me also.
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So that was nice.
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So when I finally saw si Matt, like all of my nervousness disappeared.
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I don't know why, but he had this very, very calm aura.
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Okay, okay, we gotta get this.
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I don't know what it is.
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Whatever, here, you read it.
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Welcome Cash and Matt.
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Today, you will embark on a quest in order to build your own date.
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Follow the arrows and look for your yellow flags.
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Below is an envelope containing your quest.
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Enjoy and good luck.
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It said below is an envelope containing your quest.
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And look for the yellow flags.
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Maybe you have to look for the yellow flags.
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Okay, so again, let's continue.
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So you have like an accent.
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I have an accent?
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What's my accent?
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Like you're a film.
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But you were born and raised in Manila.
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I was born in the States, but I grew up here.
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As in I grew up here talaga.
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But I didn't stay long enough to get an accent from there.
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So where did your accent come from?
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Inside this envelope are zoomed in images of furniture pieces that are found inside this showroom.
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Search for those items and collect the question cards hidden underneath.
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Once you have everything, have a seat and read the questions that share your answers one at a time.
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So I just read the words.
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I didn't absorb anything.
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Okay, you know what?
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I'm actually gonna read it.
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So hahanapin natin ito.
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And then they have questions underneath those items.
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Here, you look for this plant.
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I'll look for this lamp.
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I found the lamp.
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Grabe, you're so fast naman.
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This room is so pretty.
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Wait, this is hard.
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That's what she said.
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I'm sorry, one of those guys.
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When it presented itself.
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Since I'm always at Ikea buying these little trinkets, I started to see Ikea in a different light.
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I started to get more and more excited with like what the next tasks would be.
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It wouldn't be the normal questions that you would ask a person on the first date.
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Describe yourself to your date using five household items or furniture.
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Maybe just say the words.
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Ah, we don't have to explain, no?
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I'll be light, naman.
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I was gonna say plants.
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Like seriously, I was gonna say plants.
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Plant gives life.
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Um, it's very, it's a very light thing.
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It's something I love that I appreciate.
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Like, um, sorry if it sounds weird or hippie.
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But it's like it's one of those things in life that without effort,
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regardless of how we feel, regardless of what we do to it, it will just give life.
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I'll be curtain also.
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I was like, why curtain?
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Because that's the, that don't, I can't figure why.
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Curtain because, diba, you use curtains to like hide parts of your house.
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I think you use curtains to block out the light.
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Why would you block out the light?
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Because I like the dark.
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I pretended to be deep, but it literally had no, no explanation at all.
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Tapos bigla siyang may deep explanation.
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I was like, oh shit, I feel bad toloy.
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I was just saying random things like curtain.
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I was like, what do you mean plant gives you life, whatever.
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Tapos ako curtain.
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I think we're supposed to look for a room.
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Like a room, like for example, this room or like that room.
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This is tough, like looking for a showroom is a bit tough.
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I feel like if there's a showroom that describes you the most, it would be the one with the bikes.
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No, not that one.
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I feel like it's the one with the bikes.
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I feel like if you change the color of the walls to white and then like to lose some
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of the items here, it kind of, it kind of fits your vibe.
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If you want to change the color of the walls to white, I feel like it's the one with the
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If you were to choose a room that describes you.
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I think there were two.
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Okay, I'd choose this.
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You seem like a very simple person.
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I just think it's easy on the eyes and that's just off first impressions.
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Obviously, I could be very wrong.
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You're actually, it's pretty close.
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I would actually choose either this room or that room.
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Okay, and those were the two choices I had.
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Okay, I think that deserves a high five.
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If I, I feel like if I'd edit this room though, because I'm not, like I'm wearing
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a dress that has like a lot of flowers, but I actually am the type of person who hates
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You don't like florals, so you wouldn't like this.
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No naman, it's pretty, but I never like saw the point of like receiving flowers.
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Just because it dies.
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Kasi people, parang waste lang.
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Yeah, I feel like it's a waste too.
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I mean like they're beautiful to look at.
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Like I would love to receive like a plant.
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That's why, you know what, I just want to make kwento.
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So like my ex-boyfriend of like four years, I cried talaga like when it was my graduation.
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Because he gave you flowers?
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Yeah, he gave me flowers.
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And you didn't like it?
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And it was like the 12,000 peso kind of like bouquet.
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You wouldn't appreciate?
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I cried because I realized after four years of being together, he didn't really know me.
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Yeah, that's why I was like, oh my God.
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I remember like telling him repeatedly that I would rather receive an orchid.
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Like even if the flower dies, you keep the plant alive, it will eventually be okay, right?
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Unlike a rose, wala na.
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It was very sincere feedback.
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And I like that because that's all you can ask for.
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Because you know a lot of people sometimes when you just get to know them, medyo there's like a wall.
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Parang siya it was like, this is me.
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So I respect that.
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I don't know why I make kwento but I'm oversharing.
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Pretend you're going to cook dinner for your date.
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What would you serve?
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I would serve you kimchi rice paired with like enoki mushrooms
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and a tofu dish with like bok choy or something like that.
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I'd probably cook you sinigang just because that's my favorite.
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Just because that's my favorite.
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And I'd like and it's the meal that I feel like I'm the best at cooking.
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You think you make great sinigang?
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I make like the best sinigang.
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So I'd probably, I'd say sinigang.
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Do you believe in the saying that men should pay for the first meal?
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I never really agreed to the fact that you have to pay for your date's food just because you're a boy.
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You're supposed to make libre just because you're a boy.
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Real feminist right here.
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I never really saw the point in it.
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Guys, how about you?
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I don't believe in generalization.
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I think it's easy for people to generalize.
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Even people who are trying to be woke or progressive.
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But then they end up becoming like, they have double standards.
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And don't judge anyone for that.
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It's just if you really want to be pure, I think you should take everything case to case basis.
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And to say that a woman should do this or a man should do this is like...
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I wouldn't mind paying for my date's food even if it's on the first date.
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But I don't think there should be an obligation.
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If someone says yes, I don't know how I would feel.
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I would ask them why.
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But it just wouldn't make sense to me that yes, a guy should pay first.
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So when she said no, surely, I was like, okay, great.
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His answer solidified the fact that we have a lot of things in common.
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And we have interests pala.
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Choose a table and chair for your DIY date.
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Make sure to take note of your item choice.
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So we have to look for a table and a chair for our date.
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Do you like sitting in front of your date or beside your date?
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Do you like sitting beside your date?
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So if you were to sit, would you sit beside your date or in front of them?
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I think sitting beside your date is weird.
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If it's the first date.
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Because I'd have to...
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Unless, right, I don't know.
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It's like, wouldn't you want to sit in front of someone you're getting to know?
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I actually do like that.
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It's beautiful, right?
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And it's acacia wood, so...
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You know what? I feel like this is like the...
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Let's just choose this table.
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I feel like this is the prettiest table.
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This is the table.
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Okay, we'll take this table.
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That fits our lamp and our coffee pot.
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Why don't we sit?
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I'm gonna sit in that one.
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I'm gonna sit next to you.
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Okay, chairs and tables.
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Choose a bedroom that you both like and take a seat on the bed.
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Once seated, you may now read question cards and share your answers together.
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That you both like?
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Oh, is this different from before?
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This is different.
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What's the longest relationship you've had and why didn't it work out?
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I think it was four or five years.
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I'm not really sure anymore.
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Okay, why didn't it work out?
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I'd say LDR, but then for reals, it's because I feel like we both grew apart.
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I suddenly woke up one day and suddenly realized that I didn't love him anymore.
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Oh, you didn't love him or you didn't love him?
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You mean you didn't want him to be your partner?
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He would always support me with everything that I do.
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So if I'd go wakeboarding, he'd just stay there.
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If I want to go hiking, he'd come with me.
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But I don't think he was really enjoying it.
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So I kind of want to be with somebody who actually enjoys stuff you do also.
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I tried to prolong the relationship a bit just to see if it would work out or grow better.
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We were together for already four or five years, right?
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I was really invested.
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My family knows him.
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My family loves the dude.
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But then I felt like by staying in that relationship, I was keeping him from the life that he deserves.
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I know that he loves me and I know that he'd do that for me.
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But I'd rather him do something that he actually enjoys.
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My longest is more than six years.
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So it didn't work out because she's a little bit older than me.
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There were pressure from different people to do different things.
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My dad, this and that.
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Yo, get married, have a kid, all this.
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And to be honest, yeah, that pressured me a bit.
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Let me put it this way.
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I'm 99% sure, 99.9.
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And everyone's telling me, Matt, 0.1%, just work on it.
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And I'm like, no, that's the thing.
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I'm not even trying to not work on it.
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But I don't think anyone deserves 99%.
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So let's say we part ways, which we did.
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Let's say in our separation, I decide and learn about myself.
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And I realized she's the one.
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And let's say in that situation where I figure out she's the one, Kunwari,
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or she's happy with someone else, I'll swallow that regret.
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That's why I separated.
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It's because I didn't want to waste your time.
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That's why when you said, yeah, you're holding him back, I don't want to do that.
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I don't want her to feel like she's holding him back.
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I don't want her to feel like she's holding him back.
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And I don't want to hold her back or waste her time when she's short.
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She deserves someone short.
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So that's why it didn't work out.
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Because, yeah, yeah.
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So when we started to get like the really serious questions,
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that's when I realized that we actually had so much in common.
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Like we shared the same mindset.
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We share the same values.
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Like even up to the point of the both of us letting go of our significant others.
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I guess that whole conversation just made me realize how good of a person he is.
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So at that moment, I started to realize that,
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I started to realize na, okay, this guy actually is of the same wavelength as me.
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Seeing that I could have like deep conversations with Matt,
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even if it's literally just parang 20 minutes in of just talking to him.
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Because she was just so fluid and like talking and very chill.
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The experience from the beginning was chilled in for me.
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It wasn't hard to like strike a conversation or to go with the flow
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or follow the mechanics of what we were supposed to do.
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I never really expected IKEA to be a place where you could date and get to know a person.
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Our history like before this moment and this date kind of happened.
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Parang ang dami naming almost moments na parang,
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oh shit, we were in the same film pala before.
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We were in the same like space, concert, ganyan.
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It could have been a different girl.
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It could have been a different situation.
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Di ba she didn't apply for this herself?
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So for it to have been her when she didn't even want to go,
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and then for us to talk about lots of things on and off cam, it's very weird.
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Congratulations, you have reached the final leg of your IKEA quest.
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Here's one last question before you start building your dinner area.
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What do you want to do?
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Like as a career or as a lifestyle?
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What I want to do?
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Well, personally, I want to create content,
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whatever it is, like whether it's an ad or a music video.
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I want to create like content that will touch other people's lives,
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that will eventually touch other people's lives.
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That's ever since that's been like my thing.
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Like I want to expand horizons and create an impact.
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Like I know it sounds so fake, but I genuinely, genuinely feel that
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for the rest of my life, that's what I want to do.
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I want to create content that will touch people.
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What do you want to do?
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Similar, but I wouldn't use the word create content.
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I just want to make art and communicate things that will help people in their life.
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Like so kind of like you said, create content that will touch people's lives.
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I want to just be able to make and do what I love every day,
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which is create art that will affect people beyond their wildest dreams in a good way.
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Sometimes you read one line from this book and it changes everything from that day on.
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Or you watch this movie, you didn't expect it.
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Biglang nag-iba yung pananaw mo, biglang everything is like, oh shoot.
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It clicks because of that.
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With every piece of art I make, whether it's music, poetry,
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or as an actor, I want to be able to affect people like that.
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To me, it just feels aligned.
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Like whether we stay friends or we become workmates or whatever else,
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I feel like there's gonna be a long chain of events after today.
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I used to hate blind dates. Like for the past two years of being single,
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I never put myself out there.
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I'm the type of person who's like, I want to meet them organically,
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like in work or like kunyari at a party, ganyan.
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But it's not as bad as you put it in your head.
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I'm pleasantly surprised.
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I knew I was gonna have fun no matter what,
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but I didn't expect to be surprised in those ways.
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Okay, so million dollar question.
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Would you ever go out with Cash again?
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Yeah, I would see her again.
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I would see her again for sure.
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I would definitely go out with Matt again.
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Even like the date was over,
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I feel like there's so much more we could talk about.
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Without the cameras, without like the crew, without the lights,
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I feel like I'd be more comfortable in getting to know him.
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I think you should just do it because I think people here
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put too much pressure on themselves in the sense that
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they associate the word date with romance or with being together agad.
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You shouldn't go on a date thinking,
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I'm gonna marry this person because we went on a date.
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No, go on that date to get to know someone new,
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to get to know yourself, your likes, your dislikes.
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At the end of the day, you'll never know if you'd meet somebody solid,
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who you share the same mindset, share the same vibe with.
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If it works out, great.
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If it doesn't, you learned.
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But you'll never know unless you get to know people.
