Monday, February 13, 2006
hearts, roses, and pretty pink thoughts
the title says it all. pretty much. it's vday again (soon), and inspired by an article i read in 8days (pretty much the depth of my general reading materials) i will now present a list of 10 things single people can do on this much-commercialised day(or night) of such great romantic import:1. Save money on roses, presents, and candlelit dinners (all of which are grossly overpriced)
2. Spend all of the money saved above on food, clothes, holidays and dive trips
3. Sell roses, chocolates and cookies at exorbitant prices to other couples
4. Spend all of the money earned above on food, clothes, holidays and dive trips
5. Immerse yourself in work
6. Do your memorial.
7. Indulge in ice cream, chocolates and other happy food (read: food therapy. also: get fat)
8. Go shopping and buy something nice for yourself (read: retail therapy. also: go broke)
9. Find an activity to do with other single friends
10. Do your memorial.
2. Spend all of the money saved above on food, clothes, holidays and dive trips
3. Sell roses, chocolates and cookies at exorbitant prices to other couples
4. Spend all of the money earned above on food, clothes, holidays and dive trips
5. Immerse yourself in work
6. Do your memorial.
7. Indulge in ice cream, chocolates and other happy food (read: food therapy. also: get fat)
8. Go shopping and buy something nice for yourself (read: retail therapy. also: go broke)
9. Find an activity to do with other single friends
10. Do your memorial.
If all else fails, find some random hot chick and ask her out, hoping against all odds she's single and the big hulking guy looming overhead isn't her boyfriend. Alternatively, be happy you aren't racking your brains (and draining your angpow money and wallet) in this festive period.
But seriously, after today's (well, technically yesterday) sojourn into the world of bouquets and cookie baking, i've decided that i) i'm staying away from cookies for at least half a year and ii) i finally understand the unfathomable attraction girls have for bunches of roses. it's all about the presentation! and there's something to be said for an entire room filled to the brim with roses. hopefully someone took a photo, then i can post it up here. because somehow, i think seeing so many roses all wrapped up prettily all together in a room is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. as is a bouquet of 99 pink roses. (well, unless you open a flower shop. or have a really rich boyfriend) but i have to say, roses are awfully short-lived in our climate! and as i told my friend the other day, my girlfriend is never getting any roses from me in future (assuming i ever get one)
not that i'm against vday, of course. it's a lovely thought, to have a day dedicated to love (although the commercialisation is questionable and detracts from the mood greatly) and it's nice to believe in romance and love-at-first-sight. i mean, no one really knows how vday came about. there're loads of theories about it. but ultimately, it all brings us back to medieval romance, young love, meetings by moonlight and secret trysts, and for a moment, drives away the dull mundanity of everyday life, to replace it with something magical. and that, (despite the commercialisation and advertising and money to be made) is something worth cherishing.
In other news, singtel dealers (not the main branch) really suck. and ought to be shot. many times. with something very sharp and painful. where it'll hurt like hell. but more on that another day. if i feel like it.
wen was dreaming at 2:20 AM