Valentine’s Day has got to be one of the more popular and widely celebrated occasions, specially in a country where people just love to give and receive some lovin’.
In my high school days upto around the time until I finally chose "the one" (Hi Munchkin! 
), V Day, to me, has always been pretty exciting. Aaahhh…the teeny bopper years…to be young and ignorant innocent (clasp hands and blink, blink, blink). I had my days in the sun receiving flowers, chocolates and valentine cards, and not just from one guy, mind you! (yabang! hee hee!) It always felt good to receive such tokens of affection, whether I actually like the giver or not. My favorite flowers then were white roses, and for chocolates, it did’t really matter. My sweet tooth isn’t very hard to please (as you may very well know by now). It’s the card that makes or breaks the person.
Young love. Who could ever forget?
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Dondi and I have what you may call a V Day phobia. Blame it on that one time in our college days when we got stuck in really bad Espana and Quezon Ave. traffic! Our dinner plans went pffft. It was getting late and we just wanna eat and get dinner over and done with. I believe we ended up at Dulcinea in Tomas Morato and since I was am Cinderella (shhhhh!), I have to be home at a very decent hour, say 9pm? (Joke! Ok, half joke!) Since then, we never celebrated V Day on the actual date ever again! Seriously! From the teeny bopper who used to swoon at the thought of V Day, I began to associate it with heavy, impossible-to-get-anywhere traffic. That’s scrooge of V Day for you!
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As with most everything else, all that changed when Abby came along. Suddenly, we were celebrating V Day again. And on the 14th at that! You know me and my "Abby’s Firsts"! In 2005, Abby’s first V Day, we dined al fresco at Eastwood City’s Shanghai Bistro. Last year, we had lunch at Mc Donald’s…in Germany. You may probably already know how this year went, what with Dondi thousands of miles away. Abby and I simply stayed home and for dinner, I made spaghetti as per my little lady love’s request. 
I told Abby, "I made that (spaghetti) for you" and with a smile, she graciously replied, "Thank you." How’s that for good manners? She ate an awful lot last night, twirling the noodles by herself with Gerber fork. I wish she’d always eat like that.
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Did you know that in Japan and Korea, Valentine’s Day is celebrated with mostly the women giving chocolates, flowers or candies to people they like? This is an interesting fact I came upon in Wikipedia. Want to read up more on V day? Then click away!
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As the price of flowers in Dangwa and the sale of Hallmark cards go back to normal, I hope everyone got their chance to express their love to people whom they hold dear, although I believe we need not wait for V day to do that. It’s so much sweeter and nicer to receive flowers and love tokens when there’s no occasion at all, dont you think? (Hint! Hint!)
February 22, 2007 at 11:16 am |
i remember telling hubby na, when i was still single (and like you, yabang din ako), lagi akong nakaka-receive ng flowers and chocolates from suitorsssss, kaya he has to live up to that. or else…
this year, we tried to have dinner at the cheesecake factory pero may 3 hour wait. so we went next door to maggiano’s (no walk-ins), mccormick & schmick’s (by reservation only), and even tried morton’s (pero anti-steak kami because of hubby’s health). so we ended up at… (hindi naman McDO)… good ole CPK hehehe. pero we had more fun here kasi kid-friendly sila than those other stuffy overrated places (hmp!). oh well, that’s the snubbed me talking. hehe!
pero i agree it’s the thought of celebrating the day with the people we love that’s most impt. bawi kayo next year with dondi! malay mo double date tayo next year hehe!
belated happy love-day, weng!
February 23, 2007 at 2:30 am |
Uy, double date! Type ko yun Mama Mee! Double threesome date! Siyempre wala naman tayong pagiiwanan ng mga unica hija natin.
See, even there it’s quite a hassle to go out on Vday! May everyday be love day for you…and me! 