Who say this is not date?

Some friends and colleagues who started dating lately has asked for some suggestions on what to do or where to go for dates? I've promise you, AC to write a post on this =p but sorry for the delay.

Some of these are cheap, some are affordable while some may require a little budget =)

Going to the playground – swing, jongkang jongkit, slide, play badminton (cheap)

Dance at the road side when hear favourite song on radio (cheap)

Volunteer activity (cheap)

Hitting the gym to work out to work out together (a little budget) or you can change this to lake gardens (cheap)

Others are like

Meeting for breakfast (cheap)
Shopping (it's cheap if it's window shopping, else need a little budget)
Sport (cheap)
Attend art exhibition / expo / seminars (cheap but a little budget for those with entrance fee) Yam cha (cheap)
Day tour – scenic / historical route (with a little budget considering the petrol price increase)
Watch movie (a little budget if at cinema, cheap if at home)
Gardening

Of all the above, you asked if I tried everything? I think I had done almost all

Dance at the roadside ???
I’ve even climbed onto the roof of dear’s white Wira =p

Playground???
no one loves swing as much as I do ....LOL
oh…this we always do during the earlier stages of our dating due to my obsession with swings and playground – it was much safer during then. And it’s the cheapest way to have fun provided we don’t get caught by DBKL people for destroying kiddies playground. Had played a few games of badminton with dear too =)

hit the gym???
We don’t hit the gym per say but we did jungle trekking and jogging around the lake. I'm usually the culprit who dragged dear along =p kekeke...

meeting for breakfast??? … especially dim sum – dear’s favourite

exhibition / expo / seminars??
art exhibition – went with dear on the 2nd or 3rd date at KLCC art exhibition centre. We had no idea why we went in but I remembered we talked a lot on the drawings although I can decipher some of them …

yam cha ??
I lost count. In fact it’s like a weekly ritual for our group of common friends. But yam cha on date, we did so 1st time at Midvalley’s Coffee Bean after the Financial Expo and after dragging him along to buy adult diapers for someone at home then.
Subsequently as we have more dates, I’ve always discourage dear from patronizing THOSE outlets with 'STAR' and 'BEAN' (although dear like) because I feel we need not spend so much for yam cha, we can always go for ‘thong sui’

trips???
have been to many trips with dear to place near and far far away. One thing special about dear is he always bring me to places I’ve never been before =)

volunteering???
I always like this idea and think it’s a romantic date to be contributing to the society with your loved one. Been to SPCA but didn’t help much except playing with those puppies and doggies… hehe. Going to old folks home with family and dear is our pre-CNY annual affair. Been to Sunbeams home with dear and our common friends was a fulfilling experience. I do hope we have more of activities like these in future =)

Gardening?? Yippie, can never missed this one. One of my fav, where I get to plant plants and watch them grow and watch how the plants i grow almost di-ed and being revived by dear.

And the good thing about these kind of dates as opposed to normal movie watching and shopping, it's cheaper plus we get to know each other at a more comfortable pace
after all, if we just sit and watch movies, we aren’t communicating with each other, we are concentrating on the screen.

All in all, what we do when we date is of the choice for the 2 person involved. It doesn't matter what we do. It's the companionship and the quality time spent together that counts =)