Ahhh …. Did you notice that the air is extra thick with romance these days? Especially with the passing of Chap Goh Mei (or what we refer to as Chinese Valentine’s Day) yesterday, and the coming of Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Did you not feel the extra pollen of love floating in the warm February air? Are you not touched by Cupid’s arrow? Did you not feel like howling at a full February moon? (Oops! Wrong script.)
The TV channels are full of love, the radio deejays talk about love, the newspapers are littered with love, and the malls are dressed in love … can it get any more cheesy than that? Makes one feel like hibernating for the entire month of February and living the life of a recluse with no outside communication. Have a heart for those who are single and not in love. I am beginning to think that February is a month that is conceptualised solely to torment us poor sots who are not hit by Cupid’s arrow. Just fresh from licking the wounds of Chinese New Year with refrains like “this is your last ang pow” and “when are you getting married?” February decides to sic Valentine’s Day on us too. It’s probably some divine intervention to give the “single and fancy free” an almighty push. “What are you waiting for? Choose, choose, choose! Stop procrastinating.” Yadda, yadda, yadda … Ahh! The injustice of it all! Why can’t February be as perfect as the other months of the year?
This is the one time in the year you wish you are in love just to get people off your back. It’s not even required that the supposed object of your affection do not return your so-called love. So long as there is an object, at least you get to talk about your “love”. That nerd in school is beginning to look mighty good looking these days. OMG! Did I say that? I think we need to take Cupid to task for his/ her lack of fair play; or else we have to negotiate with those folks who created the calendar and request the month of February to be taken out of the line-up entirely. What do you think? Would that work? … Nah! Oh well, at least I gave it a good thought. If we can’t beat them, let’s join them.
Maybe we can start by whipping out that little black book.
Simon?
I think he got married last year.
Cheah?
Err … did he not just come out of the closet about being gay?
Charlie?
THAT’s Charlene!
Daniel?
Wouldn’t that be cradle snatching?
Joe?
Ugh! That old thang?
Picky! Picky! Picky! Oh well … better luck next year.
Meanwhile, here’s a collection of quotes as a tribute to love, sweet love!
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -- Anonymous
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.” -- Pascal
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” -- Benjamin Franklin
“Where there is love there is life.” -- Gandhi
“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -- William Gladstone
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” -- Rabbi Julius Gordon
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” -- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
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3 comments:
I thot Chinese Valentine falls on 7th day of the 7th month of lunar calendar? or is this Chap Goh Meh valentine decided by fruitsellers? ;-)
Wut the heck, Muslims (and some Christians) view it as a pagan festival while Communists view it as an exploitation of love. I view it as... just another day?
obviously the whole episode has been 'dramatised and commercialised'. must tell those people out there the actual meaning of valentine's day, not a day where a rose costs RM10!
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