14/2/2009
Today is Valentine's day.... a day to celebrate the greatness of love ...
However, also a painful day for the single and lonely... i.e.one without a valentine to declare your overwhelming love to...
Thus it's a day when the singles become very aware of their status... and their situation.. which is very single and alone... especially after being abandoned by "couple" friends around them. Hence, it's also aptly named Singles Awareness Day.
Was having tea just now with a relative and he lamented how terribly "sien" (boring) and uneventful his V day was.
In between his grouses and jokes about *how girls don't know how to value good stuffs when they see one, a thought came into mind... (Ting! Not really a lightbulb moment but close.. ahhaha)
Which one is worse?
NOT having a Valentine and thus, not celebrating Valentine's day...
Or having a Valentine, but STILL DON'T get to celebrate Valentine's day...
Yeah, to be celibate or be uncelebrated... that's the question...
In the first scenario, your expectations are low, and thus the slightest thing that happens on that day is Bonus...
In the second scenario, imagine the feeling of being disappointed year after year... after waiting 365 days for this day to come,.... each day planting a seed of hope that your valentine would somehow reinstate their vows and profess their strong undying love to you all over again,.... only to have it pass you by without any significance...
I asked a few of my married friends about their Vday plans,... (at least 4 - yeah, Kens, Khoo, Key, TFL, ... you guys are in the list) and they tell me that they are not celebrating Valentine's day. Kens even went to the extent to tell me that V day is S*Hai Day (In Cantonese, S*Hai means Suckers) as the V-day related items (cards, flowers, dinner, chocolates, ice-cream, or even anything with slight relationships, i.e. car park, hotels) are all exhorbitantly priced!
So, bro, sometimes being alone* ain't all bad.... It's just a matter of perspective.... hahaha
*these meat, I mean, words were deliberately minced, err.. changed to protect the innocent and to promote blogging ethics
Today is Valentine's day.... a day to celebrate the greatness of love ...
However, also a painful day for the single and lonely... i.e.one without a valentine to declare your overwhelming love to...
Thus it's a day when the singles become very aware of their status... and their situation.. which is very single and alone... especially after being abandoned by "couple" friends around them. Hence, it's also aptly named Singles Awareness Day.
Was having tea just now with a relative and he lamented how terribly "sien" (boring) and uneventful his V day was.
In between his grouses and jokes about *how girls don't know how to value good stuffs when they see one, a thought came into mind... (Ting! Not really a lightbulb moment but close.. ahhaha)
Which one is worse?
NOT having a Valentine and thus, not celebrating Valentine's day...
Or having a Valentine, but STILL DON'T get to celebrate Valentine's day...
Yeah, to be celibate or be uncelebrated... that's the question...
In the first scenario, your expectations are low, and thus the slightest thing that happens on that day is Bonus...
In the second scenario, imagine the feeling of being disappointed year after year... after waiting 365 days for this day to come,.... each day planting a seed of hope that your valentine would somehow reinstate their vows and profess their strong undying love to you all over again,.... only to have it pass you by without any significance...
I asked a few of my married friends about their Vday plans,... (at least 4 - yeah, Kens, Khoo, Key, TFL, ... you guys are in the list) and they tell me that they are not celebrating Valentine's day. Kens even went to the extent to tell me that V day is S*Hai Day (In Cantonese, S*Hai means Suckers) as the V-day related items (cards, flowers, dinner, chocolates, ice-cream, or even anything with slight relationships, i.e. car park, hotels) are all exhorbitantly priced!
So, bro, sometimes being alone* ain't all bad.... It's just a matter of perspective.... hahaha
*these meat, I mean, words were deliberately minced, err.. changed to protect the innocent and to promote blogging ethics
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