It's all the lovey-dovey stuff these days with Valentine's Day round the corner. Well, it's actually all about:
- The men complaining havin to splurge on flowers, dinners and jewellery.
- The miser-man or rather known as spoilers who would probably say "We shouldn't be suckers and spend unnecessarily! $15 for a stalk of rose that'll die tomorrow? I can buy you a whole bunch of artificial flowers that are ever-lasting for that same amount of money! Restaurants purposely jack up the price! Let's have char-kway-tiao instead! The food at Bedok Hawker is really good! Godiva's chocolates? Cadbury one more value for money leh!
- The romantic-man who'd already started planning that special night/date 3 months back with the type of flowers to get, present, dinner reservation and venue, engaged some musicians, together with some fireworks, cake, teddy bears, balloons....blah blah...and might as well throw in a wedding proposal.
- The materialistic women hoping and waiting for that moment of delight when a dozen roses are being sent to her office where she can probably "ya-ya" away and enjoy every bit of jealousy from all her colleagues.
- The single-available-but-not-desperate yuppies going for party and drinks at their favourite club/pub.
- The single-available-and-desperatepoor things dreading this day who'd probably try every method to get hitched before 14 Feb or just mai4 hiam2 (hokkien) date any guy that were once interested in them. Some may even order a bouquet of flowers and send it to themselves at office signing off as anonymous, making themselves feel better. Heh.
- The depression-ists fearing this day where they'll probably be reminded of their heartaches, breakups, being cheated experiences etc etc and they'll wanto wallow in self pity, hide at home to remenisce how their past and past past V-days were so romantically spent...which have all come to naught today.
- The workaholic who'd immerse and gladly be buried by tons of follow-ups, appointments, meetings, paper-work, reports...etc. "We can always celebrate it another day. If we're truly in love, everyday is Valentine's Day." Heh.
- The school-girls who'd make shure their single gal pals would not face the day and go home empty handed. Just buy something small and cheap for all their friends and classmates....V-Day is friendship day what!
- The young school boys who'd probably have a hard time shopping for presents with their limited budgets. Anyway, NTUC and Carrefour also got cheap but not too bad looking gifts. But I think they most probably would go for the $5.90 teddy bears.
- The women who don't believe in love and marriage---probably meet up with their similar mentality gang bunch at their favourite LV, Fendi, Dior, Hermes, Burberry boutiques to pamper themselves.
- The retailers: gift-shop owners, movie theatres, restaurant owners, florists, chocolatiers, jewellers's favourite day of the month.
- The test of patience: Squeeze with everyone at the restaurant, hear the sounds of forks and knives hitting on patra plates, and wait for ages before your food arrives, to only realise that your steak turns out to be rare when you ordered well-done.
Heh! Which category do you belong to? Leave in your comments! Whatever it is, Here's wishing everyone an advance
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!