We invited two single strangers, Matt and Kashka, to go on a blind date in IKEA and have them build their own dinner area. Will they be able to hit it off and have a successful date? STARRING Matt - https://www.instagram.com/rmbarbers/ Kashka - https://www.instagram.com/kashkagaddi/ CHECK OUT IKEA FB - https://www.facebook.com/IKEAPhilippinesOfficial IG - https://www.instagram.com/ikeaphilippines/ YT - https://www.youtube.com/@IKEAPhilippinesOfficial SPECIAL THANKS TO Arsenal Cinematography Company https://www.instagram.com/arsenal_manila/ ____________________________________________________ WANT TO HAVE YOUR OWN PHOTOSHOOT? CHECK OUT THIS SELF-SHOOT STUDIO! https://www.instagram.com/studiopersona.ph/ https://studiopersonaxrecreate.youcanbook.me/ Use our special code "RECCREATESP10" for 10% discount! WANT OUR MERCH? CHECK OUT OUR OFFICIAL STORE! https://shopee.ph/reccreate WANT TO COLLABORATE? EMAIL US! reccreatestudios@gmail.com ABOUT REC•CREATE This channel stars your ordinary Filipino and their mo

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Describe yourself to your date using five household items or furniture.

I'll be curtain also.

I think you use curtains to block out the light.

Yeah.

Why would you block out the light?

Because I like the dark.

Pwede.

Okay, my name is Matthew Barbers.

I'm 29 years old.

I love love.

And what I mean is, I don't mean romance.

I'm the type of guy na anyone I meet, I mean, I just love.

How am I here today?

My sister tagged me a few weeks ago on Recreate's post.

And her only comment was, hahaha.

Because it was like a search for like single people.

I have no expectations.

But what I am looking for in a partner is someone independent.

I want to sincerely get to know someone without judging them based on how they look.

I want someone to get to know me based on who I really am.

And hopefully, bonus, if I get to know more about myself today.

Hi, I'm Kashka.

I'm 24 years old and I am a filmmaker.

My office mates, they're all boys, they're all dads.

When they chanced upon the Recreate post, they decided to apply for me.

So in a guy, I'm actually looking for somebody who could actually match my energy.

Somebody who would actually keep a conversation.

Because I love it when I get to talk to a person and have like really deep conversations with them.

I do hope that if I do meet like a guy and date him,

we have like genuine and deep conversations about anything under the sun.

Hi.

Matthew, nice to meet you.

Cash.

Cash, like money?

Yeah, like cash money.

Okay, got it, cash money.

You can call me Matt.

Nice to meet you.

Natuwa ako that she was smiling coming into it, coming up from the escalator.

Like she waved the peace sign agad and she was smiling from the very start.

Made it easier for me also.

So that was nice.

So when I finally saw si Matt, like all of my nervousness disappeared.

I don't know why, but he had this very, very calm aura.

Okay, okay, we gotta get this.

I don't know what it is.

Whatever, here, you read it.

So cute, okay.

Welcome Cash and Matt.

Today, you will embark on a quest in order to build your own date.

Ooh, cute.

Follow the arrows and look for your yellow flags.

Below is an envelope containing your quest.

Enjoy and good luck.

It said below is an envelope containing your quest.

And look for the yellow flags.

Maybe you have to look for the yellow flags.

Okay, so again, let's continue.

So you have like an accent.

I have an accent?

What's my accent?

Like you're a film.

But you were born and raised in Manila.

I was born in the States, but I grew up here.

As in I grew up here talaga.

But, right.

But I didn't stay long enough to get an accent from there.

So where did your accent come from?

Cartoons.

I think so.

I don't know.

No way.

Okay.

Inside this envelope are zoomed in images of furniture pieces that are found inside this showroom.

Search for those items and collect the question cards hidden underneath.

Once you have everything, have a seat and read the questions that share your answers one at a time.

So I just read the words.

I didn't absorb anything.

Okay, you know what?

I'm actually gonna read it.

I got it.

I got it na.

So hahanapin natin ito.

Wow.

And then they have questions underneath those items.

Here, you look for this plant.

I'll look for this lamp.

I found the lamp.

Grabe, you're so fast naman.

Ata ha.

Nope.

This room is so pretty.

Wait, this is hard.

That's what she said.

I'm sorry, one of those guys.

No, naman.

When it presented itself.

Since I'm always at Ikea buying these little trinkets, I started to see Ikea in a different light.

I started to get more and more excited with like what the next tasks would be.

It wouldn't be the normal questions that you would ask a person on the first date.

Describe yourself to your date using five household items or furniture.

Maybe just say the words.

Okay.

Ah, we don't have to explain, no?

Okay.

Okay, pwede.

Spoon.

Um, clock.

Lamp.

I'll be light, naman.

Light?

Light bulb.

Okay.

Plants.

I was gonna say plants.

Like seriously, I was gonna say plants.

Why plant?

Why plant?

Yeah.

Plant gives life.

Um, it's very, it's a very light thing.

It's something I love that I appreciate.

Like, um, sorry if it sounds weird or hippie.

But it's like it's one of those things in life that without effort,

regardless of how we feel, regardless of what we do to it, it will just give life.

I'll be curtain also.

Curtain.

Why?

I was like, why curtain?

Because that's the, that don't, I can't figure why.

Curtain because, diba, you use curtains to like hide parts of your house.

So maybe.

I think you use curtains to block out the light.

Yeah.

Why would you block out the light?

Because I like the dark.

Pwede.

Pwede.

I pretended to be deep, but it literally had no, no explanation at all.

Tapos bigla siyang may deep explanation.

I was like, oh shit, I feel bad toloy.

I was just saying random things like curtain.

I was like, what do you mean plant gives you life, whatever.

Tapos ako curtain.

I think we're supposed to look for a room.

A room.

A design, right?

Like a room, like for example, this room or like that room.

This is tough, like looking for a showroom is a bit tough.

I feel like if there's a showroom that describes you the most, it would be the one with the bikes.

This one.

No, not that one.

I feel like it's the one with the bikes.

Okay, sige.

Okay.

So this one.

I feel like if you change the color of the walls to white and then like to lose some

of the items here, it kind of, it kind of fits your vibe.

How about me?

Okay, my turn.

If you want to change the color of the walls to white, I feel like it's the one with the

bikes.

If you were to choose a room that describes you.

I think there were two.

Okay, I'd choose this.

This.

But smaller.

Why?

You seem like a very simple person.

Okay.

I just think it's easy on the eyes and that's just off first impressions.

Obviously, I could be very wrong.

You're actually, it's pretty close.

I would actually choose either this room or that room.

Okay, and those were the two choices I had.

Oh, no.

Okay, I think that deserves a high five.

If I, I feel like if I'd edit this room though, because I'm not, like I'm wearing

a dress that has like a lot of flowers, but I actually am the type of person who hates

flowers.

You don't like florals, so you wouldn't like this.

No naman, it's pretty, but I never like saw the point of like receiving flowers.

Just because it dies.

Kasi people, parang waste lang.

Yeah, I feel like it's a waste too.

I mean like they're beautiful to look at.

Like I would love to receive like a plant.

That's why, you know what, I just want to make kwento.

So like my ex-boyfriend of like four years, I cried talaga like when it was my graduation.

Because he gave you flowers?

Yeah, he gave me flowers.

And you didn't like it?

And it was like the 12,000 peso kind of like bouquet.

You wouldn't appreciate?

I cried because I realized after four years of being together, he didn't really know me.

Oh, shoot.

Yeah, that's why I was like, oh my God.

I remember like telling him repeatedly that I would rather receive an orchid.

Like even if the flower dies, you keep the plant alive, it will eventually be okay, right?

Yeah.

Unlike a rose, wala na.

It was very sincere feedback.

And I like that because that's all you can ask for.

Because you know a lot of people sometimes when you just get to know them, medyo there's like a wall.

Parang siya it was like, this is me.

So I respect that.

I don't know why I make kwento but I'm oversharing.

No, no.

Pretend you're going to cook dinner for your date.

What would you serve?

I would serve you kimchi rice paired with like enoki mushrooms

and a tofu dish with like bok choy or something like that.

I'd probably cook you sinigang just because that's my favorite.

Interesting.

Okay.

Just because that's my favorite.

And I'd like and it's the meal that I feel like I'm the best at cooking.

You think you make great sinigang?

Yeah.

I make like the best sinigang.

Fair point.

So I'd probably, I'd say sinigang.

Number two.

Okay.

Number two.

Do you believe in the saying that men should pay for the first meal?

No.

Agreed.

I don't think.

Agreed.

I never really agreed to the fact that you have to pay for your date's food just because you're a boy.

Right.

You're supposed to make libre just because you're a boy.

Real feminist right here.

Thank you.

I never really saw the point in it.

Guys, how about you?

I don't believe in generalization.

I think it's easy for people to generalize.

Even people who are trying to be woke or progressive.

But then they end up becoming like, they have double standards.

And don't judge anyone for that.

It's just if you really want to be pure, I think you should take everything case to case basis.

And to say that a woman should do this or a man should do this is like...

Yeah.

I wouldn't mind paying for my date's food even if it's on the first date.

And same.

Yeah.

But I don't think there should be an obligation.

If someone says yes, I don't know how I would feel.

I would ask them why.

But it just wouldn't make sense to me that yes, a guy should pay first.

Like why?

So when she said no, surely, I was like, okay, great.

Same answer.

His answer solidified the fact that we have a lot of things in common.

And we have interests pala.

Challenge.

Choose a table and chair for your DIY date.

Make sure to take note of your item choice.

So we have to look for a table and a chair for our date.

Do you like sitting in front of your date or beside your date?

Do you like sitting beside your date?

I'm asking you.

So if you were to sit, would you sit beside your date or in front of them?

I think sitting beside your date is weird.

If it's the first date.

Because I'd have to...

Like...

Yeah, unless...

Unless, right, I don't know.

It's like, wouldn't you want to sit in front of someone you're getting to know?

Yeah.

I actually do like that.

This one?

Yeah, actually.

It's beautiful, right?

And it's acacia wood, so...

Yeah.

You know what? I feel like this is like the...

Let's just choose this table.

I feel like this is the prettiest table.

This is the table.

Okay, we'll take this table.

That fits our lamp and our coffee pot.

So pretty.

Why don't we sit?

Let's try.

I'm gonna sit in that one.

I'm gonna sit next to you.

I like that.

I like this one.

Okay.

This chair.

Okay, chairs and tables.

Choose a bedroom that you both like and take a seat on the bed.

Once seated, you may now read question cards and share your answers together.

Okay.

That you both like?

You both like.

Oh, is this different from before?

This is different.

Oh, here?

Here?

Yeah.

What's the longest relationship you've had and why didn't it work out?

I think it was four or five years.

I'm not really sure anymore.

Okay, why didn't it work out?

I'd say LDR, but then for reals, it's because I feel like we both grew apart.

I suddenly woke up one day and suddenly realized that I didn't love him anymore.

Oh, you didn't love him or you didn't love him?

You mean you didn't want him to be your partner?

Yeah.

Okay.

He would always support me with everything that I do.

So if I'd go wakeboarding, he'd just stay there.

If I want to go hiking, he'd come with me.

But I don't think he was really enjoying it.

So I kind of want to be with somebody who actually enjoys stuff you do also.

I tried to prolong the relationship a bit just to see if it would work out or grow better.

We were together for already four or five years, right?

I was really invested.

My family knows him.

My family loves the dude.

But then I felt like by staying in that relationship, I was keeping him from the life that he deserves.

That's fair.

I know that he loves me and I know that he'd do that for me.

But I'd rather him do something that he actually enjoys.

That's fair.

My turn?

Mike, your turn.

My longest is more than six years.

So let me check.

So it didn't work out because she's a little bit older than me.

There were pressure from different people to do different things.

My dad, this and that.

Yo, get married, have a kid, all this.

And to be honest, yeah, that pressured me a bit.

Let me put it this way.

I'm 99% sure, 99.9.

And everyone's telling me, Matt, 0.1%, just work on it.

And I'm like, no, that's the thing.

I'm not even trying to not work on it.

But I don't think anyone deserves 99%.

So let's say we part ways, which we did.

Let's say in our separation, I decide and learn about myself.

And I realized she's the one.

And let's say in that situation where I figure out she's the one, Kunwari,

or she's happy with someone else, I'll swallow that regret.

That's fine.

That's why I separated.

It's because I didn't want to waste your time.

That's why when you said, yeah, you're holding him back, I don't want to do that.

I don't want her to feel like she's holding him back.

I don't want her to feel like she's holding him back.

And I don't want to hold her back or waste her time when she's short.

She deserves someone short.

So that's why it didn't work out.

Because, yeah, yeah.

So when we started to get like the really serious questions,

that's when I realized that we actually had so much in common.

Like we shared the same mindset.

We share the same values.

Like even up to the point of the both of us letting go of our significant others.

I guess that whole conversation just made me realize how good of a person he is.

So at that moment, I started to realize that,

I started to realize na, okay, this guy actually is of the same wavelength as me.

Seeing that I could have like deep conversations with Matt,

even if it's literally just parang 20 minutes in of just talking to him.

It felt so good.

Because she was just so fluid and like talking and very chill.

The experience from the beginning was chilled in for me.

It wasn't hard to like strike a conversation or to go with the flow

or follow the mechanics of what we were supposed to do.

I never really expected IKEA to be a place where you could date and get to know a person.

Our history like before this moment and this date kind of happened.

Parang ang dami naming almost moments na parang,

oh shit, we were in the same film pala before.

We were in the same like space, concert, ganyan.

It could have been a different girl.

It could have been a different situation.

Di ba she didn't apply for this herself?

So for it to have been her when she didn't even want to go,

and then for us to talk about lots of things on and off cam, it's very weird.

Congratulations, you have reached the final leg of your IKEA quest.

Here's one last question before you start building your dinner area.

What do you want to do?

Like as a career or as a lifestyle?

What I want to do?

Well, personally, I want to create content,

whatever it is, like whether it's an ad or a music video.

I want to create like content that will touch other people's lives,

that will eventually touch other people's lives.

That's ever since that's been like my thing.

Like I want to expand horizons and create an impact.

Like I know it sounds so fake, but I genuinely, genuinely feel that

for the rest of my life, that's what I want to do.

I want to create content that will touch people.

Nice.

What do you want to do?

Live my life.

Similar, but I wouldn't use the word create content.

I just want to make art and communicate things that will help people in their life.

Like so kind of like you said, create content that will touch people's lives.

I want to just be able to make and do what I love every day,

which is create art that will affect people beyond their wildest dreams in a good way.

Sometimes you read one line from this book and it changes everything from that day on.

Or you watch this movie, you didn't expect it.

Biglang nag-iba yung pananaw mo, biglang everything is like, oh shoot.

It clicks because of that.

With every piece of art I make, whether it's music, poetry,

or as an actor, I want to be able to affect people like that.

To me, it just feels aligned.

Like whether we stay friends or we become workmates or whatever else,

I feel like there's gonna be a long chain of events after today.

I used to hate blind dates. Like for the past two years of being single,

I never put myself out there.

I'm the type of person who's like, I want to meet them organically,

like in work or like kunyari at a party, ganyan.

But it's not as bad as you put it in your head.

I'm pleasantly surprised.

I knew I was gonna have fun no matter what,

but I didn't expect to be surprised in those ways.

Okay, so million dollar question.

Would you ever go out with Cash again?

Yeah, I would see her again.

I would see her again for sure.

I would definitely go out with Matt again.

Even like the date was over,

I feel like there's so much more we could talk about.

Without the cameras, without like the crew, without the lights,

I feel like I'd be more comfortable in getting to know him.

I think you should just do it because I think people here

put too much pressure on themselves in the sense that

they associate the word date with romance or with being together agad.

You shouldn't go on a date thinking,

I'm gonna marry this person because we went on a date.

No, go on that date to get to know someone new,

to get to know yourself, your likes, your dislikes.

At the end of the day, you'll never know if you'd meet somebody solid,

who you share the same mindset, share the same vibe with.

If it works out, great.

If it doesn't, you learned.

But you'll never know unless you get to know people.