Remember how I said that I have strong feeling that my next relationship will be introduced by someone? So, at the begining of this year, I signed up at Lunch Actually. Considering the social circle I’m currently in, and how Mom’s been not proactively helping me to look for a match (TLDR: there’s this banker guy she think is quite a good guy, but before she could introduce to me, he already has to return to Ipoh), I decided to take things on my own. It’s Covid season, they are giving extra discount since most dates will be only meet thru virtually. Minus the fancy dining, and F2F interview in their center, they are giving me a discount for 3+1 dates for about RM2K.

The first person to contact me from LA was Rene. TBH, I felt comfortable talking to her about my ideal match compared to Dateworks. Also with dating agency’s help, I feel more secure knowing someone as the agency will verify those people who register with them, and most importantly, they get to ask difficult questions which you would not able to otherwise ask in a normal social setting (IE: are you planning to married in the next few years, what’s your income, do you plan to have children, etc). So I did tell Rene that I’m not looking for someone at the moment till say in April / May. And she told me that there is potential suitors from my hometown. That was in early Feb.

But after that, another girl took over from there, Jessie as my matchmaker and Rene the sales coordinator. She gave me a quick call last week and told me she has a match for me. I told her I did inform Rene that I’m not ready to meet someone right now, but she insisted that I should give it a try. So I gave in. Then come to yesterday she called me that she has this guy for me, say he’s friendly, educated, caring, family guy, he is from KL. I did dully inform them that I wanted to meet someone from Kuantan. But still, Jessie urged me to get to know him. So ok lah, I agree. Last last, because we both cannot schedule a time, so Jessie created a group chat for us to chat and that’s it. Then she told me that this wouldn’t be counted as a date, but just to know a friend. Oh, well.

I’m not in hurry to meet someone, but maybe she has KPI to fulfill, or the other party is urgent (but I’m sure there’s more girls than guys in any dating agency), so I really don’t understand what’s the rush here.

So far, no red flags with the guy, well mannered and quite conver-sy; but I’m not sure if Lunch Actually could deliver their promises actually. It is a shame that the person that I bought the program, wasn’t the SAME person who match-make my matches. I hope good things turn up well from there – fingers crossed!

p/s: but I really tired of long distance r/ship! I want to meet someone from the same area and settle down.