With Valantine's coming up, the question that's on virtually no one's lips right now is this:

What are your plans for that day?

Are you going to do nothing because you're not seeing anyone? Are you going out on a date with that special someone? Are you going to rebel against the commercialized institution by paintballing people who buy overpriced stuff?

Come 14th of Februrary. What's your game?

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Jia

Written Feb. 5, 2008 / Report /

firstly, i have school on that day. so i dont think i would be able to go out with that special someone (if i have 1).

secondly, i dont have that special someone. but im helping this guy friend of mine to get a girl by advising him in stuff to give andgiving him support. =)

I am going to school, like Jia. It is Malaysia, after all, and school is school, even if it is pre-U. Then I am going to host the Debate Club's first meeting. Then I am going to go home and sleep. Then I am going Judo.

I can't wait. *winks*

Valentine's Day coincides (3 days off) with my anniversary, so we're going to celebrate our year marker along with VDay. I'm making him a time capsule, with memories from the past year, old ticket stubs, love notes, and a letter to us in 5 years. It'll be an intimate dinner out at our favorite restaurant, followed by a mellow evening in with our homemade presents, candles, and probably a classic romantic movie.

This is going to be my first V-day single in 6 years and I honestly think that's just fine. It will be yet another day for me, except this time I won't be fighting restaurant crowds.

Well, my girlfriend will be 200 miles away at school so I am going to go to work (super lame) then go see V.A.S.T. that night with a friend up in Northern Virginia.

Should be a great time. I wish it was my girlfriend I was going with, but another friend will have to do.

If people would bloody well leave me alone that day, I am going to watch a six-hour BBC documentary on the Nazi concentration camps — as I had intended to do on Christmas Eve.

Seriously, I'm not doing anything that day. It's horrible.

We stay in on Valentine's Day, opting instead to go out the evening before. It used to be because of the money I could make waiting tables that night, but now we'd just prefer to avoid the hassle of getting a reservation, etc. We have a gift certificate to a local steakhouse so we'll probably use it.

I'm off to see Frank Sidebottom live in Sheffield :)

I realize that I should answer it too. She shares a habit with me where we sit and snicker at people who buy into the valantine's day commercial madness.

But I for one always keep things simple. Home cooked dinner and a red origami rose. We don't really subscribe to a special day for love not when we spend everyday in it.

I'm in school, and honestly never really fell into the commercialization of Valentine's day, as early as high school I saw some of the worst guys, the real "me Tarzan you Jane with an apron" types were always the ones buying their girlfriends gifts, usually as a way of claiming them in some way, and the girls were either the kind who actually thought that it meant something or who used the fake holiday as a way to make their boyfriends purchase them something the boyfriend could barely afford. All pretty silly if you ask me.

If you can't respect you partner every day, one day a year, a day which corporations make billions off of, isn't going to make much difference.

I never really cared about Valentine's Day but the guy always felt like if he skipped it (even if I said it was okay to) he would be in trouble lol.

To me, if a holiday is needed to remind a person to show appreciation for someone they love, there is something wrong. Candies, flowers, etc. are cool I suppose but that is not what is important to me. The free things (which I guess are the tough things like honesty, loyalty, companionship, sharing, etc.) are more important.

I don't really hold Valentine's day with any specialness. Way I see it I'm with the one I love and we know that each day. I guess maybe it's a bit different when you've been in a relationship as long as we have, although I never held much weight to it.

I'm not a big flowers, chocolates, romantic gift girl and never ever liked even the whole dating / romancing thing - to me it's the small day to day things that let me know someone loves me not an over priced gesture I should expect. I agree with Tyme on the free things - I've been known to be unbelievably happy with stones, conkers (hey I go out with a gardener) or free gifts, may sound weird but given by someone you love they mean the world.

So here's to the little things everyone takes for granted save for the ones we love. That's what love is about. Everyday's a Valantine. :)

Hear, hear, Kami. =) Points to you.

I haven't celebrated Valentines in years. I don't even know if I remember what it is...

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