My beloved Valentine's Day present !
My 'daughter and son ' .
With the beautiful flower .
Hugging pooh after i just woke up xD
Obama's picture , sketched by the street artist . Looks real right ?
The couple was waiting for their portrait to be ready .
The photo taken by the starhub people , using polaroid camera .
Dear dear xD
Dinner at Secret Recipe (:
Our drinks .
Where was he staring at ??
Take some photos while waiting for food .
My Grilled Chicken with rice .
Dear's food .
Double Delight xD
Strawberry Cheesecake , my favourite !
Dear and I (:
Dear staring blankly into the camera .
Us , again .
The plastic bag that dear bought specially to put my presents (:
Me , with the rose xD
One more shot .
Finally , with a better lighting .
Pooh shall join us xD
My presents !
I bought some products from skin food for dear .
The box (:
The ginger toner and emulsion for men with dry to normal skin (:
Of course , HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEVE !
(Saint) Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The day was originally a pagan festival that was renamed after two Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[1] The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.
History of Valentine's Day .
Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. Until 1969, the Catholic Church formally recognized eleven Valentine's Days. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome (Valentinus presb. m. Romae) and Valentine of Terni (Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae). Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who suffered martyrdom about AD 269 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome. and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.
Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been killed during the persecution of Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino).
The Catholic Encyclopedia also speaks of a third saint named Valentine who was mentioned in early martyrologies under date of February 14. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him.
No romantic elements are present in the original early medieval biographies of either of these martyrs. By the time a Saint Valentine became linked to romance in the fourteenth century, distinctions between Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni were utterly lost.
In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feastday of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14." The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Vatican II calendar.
The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were excerpted by Bede and briefly expounded in Legenda Aurea. According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.
Legenda Aurea still providing no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."
Of course , i am sure many people heard of White Valentine's Day . But does anyone heard of Black Valentine's day ?
White Valentine's Day
White Day (ホワイトデー, Howaito dē?, a Japanese wasei-eigo) is a holiday celebrated on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day. In Japan this day is a widespread holiday, much like Valentine's Day.
White Day in Japan
In Japan, Valentine's Day is observed by females who present chocolate gifts (either store-bought or handmade), usually to a male, as an expression of love. The handmade chocolate is usually preferred by the receiver, because it is a sign that the receiving male is the girl's "only one". On White Day, the converse happens: males who received a "honmei-choco" [chocolate of love] or "Giri-choco" [chocolate of courtesy] on Valentine's Day are expected to return the favor by giving gifts, usually more expensive. Traditionally, popular White Day gifts are cookies, undies, white chocolate, marshmallows as well as jewelry, lingerie, and stuffed animals. Sometimes the term sanbai gaeshi (literally, "thrice the return") is used to describe the generally recited rule that the return gift should be two to three times the cost of the Valentine's gift.
Origin
White Day was first celebrated in 1978 in Japan. It was started by the National Confectionery Industry Association (全国飴菓子工業協同組合) as an "answer day" to Valentine's Day on the grounds that men should pay back the women who gave them chocolate and other gifts on Valentine's Day. In 1977 a Fukuoka-shi confectionery company, Ishimura Manseido (石村萬盛堂), had marketed marshmallows to men on March 14, calling it Marshmallow Day (マシュマロデー).
Soon thereafter, confectionery companies began marketing white chocolate. Now, men give both white and dark chocolate, as well as other edible and non-edible gifts, such as jewelry or objects of sentimental value, or white clothing like lingerie, to women from whom they received chocolate on Valentine's Day one month earlier. If the chocolate given to him was giri choco, the man as well may not be expressing actual romantic interest, but rather a social obligation.
and what about Black Valentine's Day ?
Black Day (April 14) is a South Korean informal tradition for single people (a.k.a. Unit Solo/Solo Regiment, lee: 솔로부대) to get together and eat Jajangmyeon (noodles with black bean sauce), sometimes a white sauce is mixed for those who did not celebrate White Day.
The idea is that those who did not give or receive gifts on Valentine's Day or White Day can get together and eat Jjajangmyeon (짜장면), white Korean noodles with black bean sauce (hence the name), to commiserate their singledom.
Interesting , right ? I didn't know about the black day till my sisters told me about it . Apparently , they decided to celebrate it among themselves . LOL .
Ok , back to the usuals .
Wednesday and Thursday
Working days . Those 2 days weren't pleasant as something got to do with the team manager .
I think i have done my part by reaching very early , trying to go to terminal 1 to collect my ingredients . There is nothing i can do if the stocks don't come and if the ingredients that i took out from the fridge had spoiled .
Putting mint leaves and lime in the fridge will hasten the decomposing rate as they are not use straight away after taking them out . The changing of temperature cause them to spoil easier than not putting inside the fridge .
Whatever , i have already told my vendor about this . So if they ever receive any complaint letter about me , it's not my problem anymore . I have done my part .
And , the manager picked on Jenmey and I for talking in groups . For goodness sake , my booth is always very isolated . She can walk near me because Jack Daniel's shelf is very near me .
The Henessey promoter walked all over the shop but yet she didn't get any trouble . It's not that i don't like her , i just feel that it's unfair for us .
If is not the sales assistant told us that the manager is somehow spying us , i don't think we will ever know .
Moreover , the chivas girl talks alot more lahhs . She also walk around the place and talk in groups . Yes , she does work but the amount of input for work = the time used for talking .
Whatever . By the way , the Jack Daniel promoter , Shawn , was groped by one Indian man while serving them . Poor thing .
Friday
Though it's my off day , i don't really get to rest . I woke up and prepared to go for my interview for Mark Chow modelling agency . It's at Ang Mo Kio . Thank goodness that i got a straight bus there .
However , i alighted 2 stops earlier . In the end , i got to walk there under the hot sun . Arghhhh .
Anyway , the interview is alright . Nothing much .
After that , i rushed to AMK hub to buy Valentine's day presents for dear . I really can't think of what to buy . Throughout last year , i have bought him shirts for presents .
Men's present are so hard to buy . They have too limited stuffs for us to choose .
In the end , i decided to buy some skin care products for him . It's not that he has bad skin . But he has to take care before he will not have much time to take care in the army . I bought toner and emulsion since he already have scrub and cleanser .
I think it will take less than 2 months to be Skin Food's VIP member . I have spent around $150++ within this month . Still got $100 to go , which i am going to buy some products after i get my pay (:
After that , i rushed to Defu lane for a MCYS casting . I think it took less than 20 minutes . All i need to do is filled up the form , take a few photos and take a video to introduce ourselves .
Luckily the place isn't very far from AMK , so that i can rush back and take train back to Yishun to meet dear .
I went to bank and deposit the money before going to kahtib central's Mcdonald's to wait for dear . I had my first meal of the day at 4pm ++ . Too busy to eat .
We stayed there till about 7 plus . I was helping him with maths questions . Too bad that i forgot to bring my stuffs for revision .
We went home afterwards and have our dinner . We waited till 12mn to open our presents (:
Today
We missed our breakfast as i overslept . LOL .
Oh , i forgot to mention that my presents are pooh bear in piglet outfit + ear muff and a rose . He even bought the shoelace with exact colour that i bought back on the first day we have met .
That's so sweet of him ((:
After preparing , we went to a nearby coffee shop for lunch before taking the express bus to orchard .
Orchard road was full of people . Many people were selling flowers and many girls were carrying bouquet or stalks of flowers , be it single or couple . Love is in the air .
We went to cineleisure to buy our movie ticket . Many shows were fully booked . Initially , we wanted to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . Unfortunately , 2 timings were sold out .
So in the end , we watched Slumdog Millionaire . Before watching , we went to Takashimaya to buy some tibits and sushi . Oh ya , the first Sephora open at Ngee Ann City .
Seriously , i am falling in love with the products of Too Faced and Benefit Cosmetics products . Ahhh , going to spend money again . hahas . All girls should visit the shop . I am trying to buy benefit things from DFS (:
We rushed quickly back to the cinema and watched the show .
I give a rating of 8.5 out of 10 . Reason being it jumped scenes way too fast . This show is really interesting . This guy actually become a millionaire after winning 20 Million from Who wants to be a millionaire .
He got all answers except the last 2 questions , through his real life experience . He happened to know who is the man on the 100USD note but don't know about the man on 100rupee note .
It's quite a good show , funny and interesting which is worth watching .
After movie , we went to hereen and then walked to Plaza Singapura . On our way , we saw this street Artist who draw portraits till looks very real .
The picture which i have posted above , is the portrait of Obama , which i think he drew it from looking at his picture .
I saw him drawing this couple . It's very real . The eyes are filled with expression and even indicate where the light shine from . Really very impressive . He draws using charcoal pen and pencil .
The service is for black and white , it costs $20 and for colour ones , it costs $30 . Lamination costs $10 . It's quite worth it . The portrait is really big .
Dear and i wanted to have a try but we decided to try on other days since we didn't bring enough cash and have to eat dinner .
Then , we went to Secret Recipe for dinner . Actually , we just wanna have cheesecake . But it wasn't nice to eat just cheesecake since many people were queueing up for seats . So we ate our dinner there .
We ate till very full . The meals costs $50 . Thanks love for the nice dinner (:
After dinner , we went to buy something before heading back to somerset , trying to see if the artist still there . Unfortunately , he seemed to be not around though the materials were still there .
We went to centrepoint to buy marshmellow for my sisters . When we about to leave , there was a woman in her 40s or 50s , approached us . She asked us to help her change the receipts to vouchers for her since one person only can change once .
Seriously , i wonder how she get so many receipts with spending so much money . She was alone , so i don't think she can eat so many things that total up to $100++ by herself .
I think she probably picked up from the floor .
So , we just do her a favour . Apparently , she also asked other people to change for her . After we gave her the voucher , she just took it and go without saying "Thank you" .
Geee , whatever .
After that , we went back home straight as it was pretty late .
Tomorrow , i will be going to dear's house . Yawnn.... i am so tired . This seems to be the longest post i ever posted throughout the years .
I enjoy my day , thanks to dear . He fulfiled his promise that he is going to celebrate this year's Valentine's day with me . I remembered that was when i know him for the 2nd or 3rd day .
Thanks love (:
Oh ya , next year 2010's Valentine's day clash with Chinese New Year Day 1 . I wonder how the couples are going to celebrate it . Since it's a public holiday , ROM won't be opening and those couples cannot register for marriage , according to the news reported . LOL .
happy valentine's day !
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