Saturday, February 14, 2009.

yup so today's SINGLES' AWARENESS DAY, the ever-so-famous pseudo-holiday where people sell roses on the street with flagrant disregard for Singapore's selling permit rules, guys and girls boost sales and help get the world out of a recession, and where PEOPLE GO BACK TO SCHOOL FOR SECTIONALS.

zzz.

(joking luh we do need it, seriously!)

but honestly, all jealousy and jokes aside, i am one who totally disbelieves in Valentine's Day. I know you couples out there who actually bother to read this blog and not caress your dear one will scream "heresy" and demand me to be stoned to death tomorrow and claim i'm just jealous that i was HAPPILY alone listening to mahler, but i DO have reasons.

vday seems to be a very insincere and meaningless way of showing love and appreciation to the other partner. what happens is that people seem to prepare JUST for v-day and nothing else. it feels very forced, that there is specially a day set out for you to be forced to show your love, all thanks to peer and societal pressure for you to go out and spend your hongbao money on your loved one.

it feels artificial.

i mean, you ARE expected to go out to give some love to your loved ones on vday! so whether or not it is truly from your heart no one knows. maybe it is, but it may JUST be that one day where you care for him/her, and neglect him/her for the other days. HOW is that sincere?

it's like going to an old folks' home to visit your parents once every year during chinese new year. How does that show sincerity?! how does that show that you actually do care? everyone's expected to turn up, so it does not give an indication of anything.

yes the love spread during vday is nice, but really what happens after that should be the acid test (haha acid test soo reminds me of screwed-up chem practs where chester would drink chemicals). so in the end v-day becomes rather redundant, because EVERYONE shows their love no matter what (because society expects them to.), and as such it really feels insincere.

might as well scrap it and save up money so that you can BETTER show your love in a more meaningful way. eg. like buying stuff periodically instead of wasting it all on 1000 roses. maybe just buy 10 and save the extra 990 for a nice meal (or 10) at equinox.

and furthermore not saying anything about the roses and plantations. countless many other crops could have been grown instead of roses. the whole trade and supply of roses just serves to create more hunger and possibly even more deforestation and global warming.

seriously, why keep v-day?

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