Over-rated V-Day

Valentine's Day is coming... the day when couples go all out to buy flowers and chocolates for their lovers and blow half of their month's salary on dinner at some superbly expensive restaurant, while the singles get together with other singles to mourn their singlehood OR go out to party so that they're in denial about their singlehood OR sit at home watching reruns of tacky romantic comedies starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

For every year before this, I was in the latter group. Well, I didn't go out with other singles to mourn my singlehood, or party like mad or watch sappy romantic comedies... but Valentine's Day was just like any other day to me. I'd do whatever I had to do the whole day, go home, surf some net, and go to bed. Same ol', same ol'.

However, this year is special, coz' this year I'm no longer in singledom. I'm actually in a serious relationship! So how is Valentine's Day gonna be different for me this year???

Well, probably not gonna be much different. Coz' for one thing, we live 2 hours apart and no one designated V-Day as a national holiday, so superbly expensive dinner , flowers and chocolates are out of the question coz' we still have to work. But even if we could see each other, I wouldn't be much into all that stuff anyway. I tend to agree with a lot of people (most of which are probably singles who wanna make themselves feel better. :P) who think V-Day is over-rated and too commercialised. I mean, people can show their love to their loved ones on the other 364 days (365 if it's a leap year) ... but is everyone so eager to splurge on this one specific day of February the 14th, when the price of flowers skyrocket and fancy restaurants get fully booked. Why lar? Flowers can buy anytime what... and I would probably appreciate flowers more if I got them out of the blue on any other day, rather than on V-Day, just coz' everyone else does it. But I also don't see much point in buying flowers, coz' not only are they superbly expensive, but they also die after a couple of days. So if the flowers are supposed to say "I love you", does it mean that once they die, the love dies too? :P And those heart-shaped stuffed pillows and other trinkets are usually left to sit somewhere and collect dust. Yeah well, obviously yours truly is not much of a hopeless romantic. If anything, I'd much prefer chocolates. They serve the much more useful purpose of satisfying my palate, at least.

Don't get me wrong. It's not that that I like don't appreciate such romantic gestures. If my boyfriend wants to buy me cute little lovey dovey trinkets to show his affection for me, I would certainly appreciate it. It's just that I don't need him to do it on Valentine's Day, coz' I don't think people need a designated special day to show love for each other. We should be able to do it any other day of the year.

Having said that, hope everyone has a good V-Day, and remember to show love to the people you care about, not just on V-Day, but every day. And for singles, I'm sure there are much better shows to watch February the 14th besides Sleepless in Seattle. :)