What Valentine Day Means to You?
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Actually I don't really fancy vday.
Because it is too commercialised.
Have you seen it?
People doing aggressive selling... all sort of lovely thingy that costs a bomb. (Although money is not an issue to me, but that day has lost much of its original meaning that spending that money makes no emotional sense. It seemed that you must be a willing victim to be tok by people in order to demonstrate your love and affection).
People worrying about being seen alone.
I seen people, spent hundreds of dollars and more.
Buy this buy that.
In the end, their relationship still fail.
Interestingly, people in this era are willing to splurge the money they probably saved for a long time; ironically, they refuse spent that little effort to work out differences in relationship, which actually goes a MUCH longer way in their relationship than flowers and chocolates.
Maybe like me, money may not be an issue to you.
Similar to you having ten dollars and giving one dollar may seemed nothing.
But like me, is your relationship important to you?
Everyday is a valentine's day when your relationship is strong and passionate.
Everyday HAS to be a valentine's day, if you want your relationship to bloom like flowers in spring.
Guys with girls and girls with flower = norm.
But when you have hundreds and thousands of couple with the same combination, it has become = statistic.
Read today's Newpaper (120206) a Spore's Valentine Story.
I don't know... it touched my Aries Moon.
These people have very little, but they gave all.
Similar to them having forty cents and giving forty cents.
I remember when I was in Church (I am not a Christian, but I was there when I was little), there are people who gave alot for tithing. I see notes after notes.
I was like amazed by the amount they could give.
Someone told me 'Actually, it is because they have alot, so it actually means nothing to them.'
I only have a couple of cents.
And I dropped it in.
'It's only a small amount, but it is all I have...'
They are fighting WITH their relationship... literally.
The day when couples are indulging in hedonistic pleasure, these people are struggling with sheer love and willpower through their daily living.
Is your relationship another statistic... where it is measure by how much you wealth you bleed on vday?
Or is yours like the sick, old couples: measure through conviction, faith and power of love?
Cheers -
I agree with what you've said.
But to put it this way, if you happened to read one of Xiaxue's blog, it kinds pf says it all.It's a secret...
The above was extracted from Xiaxue's blog. I'm no fan of hers, but I read her blog occasionally when I'm bored. So as it goes, girls want flowers 'cos everyone else on the streets are having it. If you don't give her flowers, she might feel envious of other girls. Of 'cos in that case flowers are just material, but if you can make your girl happy by spending a bit of money, why not?
Girls do not actually like flowers.
I KNOW RIGHT?! You gasp, but it's true! I mean yes, flowers are pretty and they smell nice, but they are but some dead plants.
So why do girls still want flowers on V day?
BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS HAVING IT. And not getting flowers means your boyfriend treats you inferior to how the other boyfriends are treating their girlfriends.
And that sucks - because every girl wants to feel special.
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Hmm...yea, I do see that V-Day getting more and more commercialized...but cant blame la, the business ppl wan to make money oso, we only have ourselves to blame for falling into the "trap"
V-day for me is just like any other day here, cos for one thing most of my frens here know I am in an LDR, so none dares to ask me to go out for dates...so I am actually in quite a difficult category to put in...I am alone here still, yet I am not single, so the singles can't ask me out to join them in their singles all nights party...yet I can't go out to celebrate physically with my significant other
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what is LDR?
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Long Distance relationship...both of us are in different countries for nowOriginally posted by SinGaporGuy:what is LDR?
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V day to me is just another day.
You dont just luv your partner for 1 day and ignore the 364 day -
but can make that one day more special for him or her?Originally posted by No_Problemo:V day to me is just another day.
You dont just luv your partner for 1 day and ignore the 364 day -
yea ur rite man... V-day is jux another day... nothing reali special expect the whole street is full of ppl waiting to chop u with knifes (meaning to charge highly for flowers and food)
every wld b V-day if 2 person wld love each other for each other... there
s no need to wait till V-day to show the affection reali...
bt for me i wld give flowers and all the sort if it's the 1st V-day that i spend with my gal... at least shld do it once i think....
no point worrying being alone or not that day.... cux either way u can avoid it... afraid of being seen alone outside? stay at home but face ur parents asking y u nt goin out/attached yet?? go out?? then wld make u feel more 'out' since everyone is a couple and the num of flowers surely exceed the number of people in the crowd....
bt fear not... jux rem ur nt the onli one in this world. or at least in this country... jux pass it like any other day i guess.... -
nothing
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Everyday is V day
but who to express my love to?
Auntie Yun, you want my hot hot love? -
just another day that need to spend extra money....which is double the price on normal days
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Having a valentine day,doesn't mean u going to ginore and not giving him/her love the rest of the year! Having a valentine doesn't mean u r going to spend lot of money than usual on that day! It just to emphasize or make it significant for u to be more expressive to yr love u! I have my way to spend valentine but not being exploit by the commercial.Originally posted by No_Problemo:V day to me is just another day.
You dont just luv your partner for 1 day and ignore the 364 day -
Originally posted by Yunhaier: Actually I don't really fancy vday.
Because it is too commercialised.
Have you seen it?
People doing aggressive selling... all sort of lovely thingy that costs a bomb. (Although money is not an issue to me, but that day has lost much of its original meaning that spending that money makes no emotional sense. It seemed that you must be a willing victim to be tok by people in order to demonstrate your love and affection).
People worrying about being seen alone.
I seen people, spent hundreds of dollars and more.
Buy this buy that.
In the end, their relationship still fail.
Interestingly, people in this era are willing to splurge the money they probably saved for a long time; ironically, they refuse spent that little effort to work out differences in relationship, which actually goes a MUCH longer way in their relationship than flowers and chocolates.
Maybe like me, money may not be an issue to you.
Similar to you having ten dollars and giving one dollar may seemed nothing.
But like me, is your relationship important to you?
Everyday is a valentine's day when your relationship is strong and passionate.
Everyday HAS to be a valentine's day, if you want your relationship to bloom like flowers in spring.
Guys with girls and girls with flower = norm.
But when you have hundreds and thousands of couple with the same combination, it has become = statistic.
Read today's Newpaper (120206) a Spore's Valentine Story.
I don't know... it touched my Aries Moon.
These people have very little, but they gave all.
Similar to them having forty cents and giving forty cents.
I remember when I was in Church (I am not a Christian, but I was there when I was little), there are people who gave alot for tithing. I see notes after notes.
I was like amazed by the amount they could give.
Someone told me 'Actually, it is because they have alot, so it actually means nothing to them.'
I only have a couple of cents.
And I dropped it in.
'It's only a small amount, but it is all I have...'
They are fighting WITH their relationship... literally.
The day when couples are indulging in hedonistic pleasure, these people are struggling with sheer love and willpower through their daily living.
Is your relationship another statistic... where it is measure by how much you wealth you bleed on vday?
Or is yours like the sick, old couples: measure through conviction, faith and power of love?
Cheers
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very nice points brought up here, i like this thread.
yes, valentines day is commercialised real badly. together with other things like anniversary, funerals, and all.
how clever are the florists in the past, who made it such a common practice for flowers to be able to put at any single occassion,
birthday: flowers, with a stick that says happy birthday
valentines day: flowers, with a sign that says happy valentines.
funerals: flowers with a note that says, my condolences
anniversaries: flowers, with a "happy anniversary card"
for any occassion, you just need flowers, and "the title of the occassion".
to me though, valentines day is another day to make my partner happy, and if she wants flowers, like all the other girls are getting, i will give it to her.
if she wants a candle light dinner together in a restaurant with other couples, i will give it to her.
if she wants me to make her picnic by the beach while we admire the sunset, i will give it to her. -
Go orchard see Chio Bu
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It's a good day to make money!!!
Couples in love don't think rationally.
Brainwash them a bit and you can sell them anything. -
For me...Valentine's day is not just a day that falls on 14th Febuary. I'm one unlucky chap who doesn't have much chance to celebrate this so call special day.
Anyway, to me...everyday is like V Day. Any day that I feel like making my gf special, I'll pop by a shop to get her something she likes or make some small little gifts for her. This is what I call special. This is what makes her special. When everyone else is only celebrating this only day in the year, I make sure she is given the surprise. That's what makes her feel special. -
V'Day is a coomercial holiday where girls can expect lots of TLC and expensive gifts and guys can expect to get into their gf's pants.
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sad but true...
but how many pple really c the pt.. -
That was two years ago...Originally posted by M©+square:
We share similar frequency... 
Cheers -
Originally posted by Yunhaier:That was two years ago...
We share similar frequency...
Cheers
So who's copying who? 
Cheers -
Hmm.. I don't think there's seriously anything wrong with hanging out with your friends on Valentine's Day so long as you know how to control yourself...?Originally posted by rainee:Hmm...yea, I do see that V-Day getting more and more commercialized...but cant blame la, the business ppl wan to make money oso, we only have ourselves to blame for falling into the "trap"
V-day for me is just like any other day here, cos for one thing most of my frens here know I am in an LDR, so none dares to ask me to go out for dates...so I am actually in quite a difficult category to put in...I am alone here still, yet I am not single, so the singles can't ask me out to join them in their singles all nights party...yet I can't go out to celebrate physically with my significant other -
Reminds me of the time when I bought roses for my ex like spending SO MUCH of my ALLOWANCE...Originally posted by Yunhaier: Actually I don't really fancy vday.
Because it is too commercialised.
Have you seen it?
People doing aggressive selling... all sort of lovely thingy that costs a bomb. (Although money is not an issue to me, but that day has lost much of its original meaning that spending that money makes no emotional sense. It seemed that you must be a willing victim to be tok by people in order to demonstrate your love and affection).
People worrying about being seen alone.
I seen people, spent hundreds of dollars and more.
Buy this buy that.
In the end, their relationship still fail.
Interestingly, people in this era are willing to splurge the money they probably saved for a long time; ironically, they refuse spent that little effort to work out differences in relationship, which actually goes a MUCH longer way in their relationship than flowers and chocolates.
Maybe like me, money may not be an issue to you.
Similar to you having ten dollars and giving one dollar may seemed nothing.
But like me, is your relationship important to you?
Everyday is a valentine's day when your relationship is strong and passionate.
Everyday HAS to be a valentine's day, if you want your relationship to bloom like flowers in spring.
Guys with girls and girls with flower = norm.
But when you have hundreds and thousands of couple with the same combination, it has become = statistic.
Read today's Newpaper (120206) a Spore's Valentine Story.
I don't know... it touched my Aries Moon.
These people have very little, but they gave all.
Similar to them having forty cents and giving forty cents.
I remember when I was in Church (I am not a Christian, but I was there when I was little), there are people who gave alot for tithing. I see notes after notes.
I was like amazed by the amount they could give.
Someone told me 'Actually, it is because they have alot, so it actually means nothing to them.'
I only have a couple of cents.
And I dropped it in.
'It's only a small amount, but it is all I have...'
They are fighting WITH their relationship... literally.
The day when couples are indulging in hedonistic pleasure, these people are struggling with sheer love and willpower through their daily living.
Is your relationship another statistic... where it is measure by how much you wealth you bleed on vday?
Or is yours like the sick, old couples: measure through conviction, faith and power of love?
Cheers " -
it is not that I don't want to hang out with them, more like they don't want to hang out with me, cos they said I am "technically" not single anymoreOriginally posted by Devil1976:Hmm.. I don't think there's seriously anything wrong with hanging out with your friends on Valentine's Day so long as you know how to control yourself...? -
I agree with you on the last portion of your post Yes, everyday can be V Day, but that doesn't mean we hafta be so anti-V Day simply because others turn it into a marketing hoohaa.
My guy & I celebrate V Day with small gestures, planning the menu for dinner, buying the stuff to make (so far, we've only bought the alcohol ), giving each other massages, SMS each other as much as possible, & lotsa of PDA (PRIVATE Displays of Affection lah! ).
FeowFeowOriginally posted by coffeeortea:very nice points brought up here, i like this thread.
yes, valentines day is commercialised real badly. together with other things like anniversary, funerals, and all.
how clever are the florists in the past, who made it such a common practice for flowers to be able to put at any single occassion,
birthday: flowers, with a stick that says happy birthday
valentines day: flowers, with a sign that says happy valentines.
funerals: flowers with a note that says, my condolences
anniversaries: flowers, with a "happy anniversary card"
for any occassion, you just need flowers, and "the title of the occassion".
to me though, valentines day is another day to make my partner happy, and if she wants flowers, like all the other girls are getting, i will give it to her.
if she wants a candle light dinner together in a restaurant with other couples, i will give it to her.
if she wants me to make her picnic by the beach while we admire the sunset, i will give it to her.