'Tis the month of February. Thought I'd compile a list of gifts from Valentines past that struck a chord with me. Immitate at your own risk, and for personal health reasons always make sure the receiver has a sense of humour before proceeding.
Case Study #1
A friend of mine gave his girlfriend a plastic bottle full of panadol, meant to relieve a condition that commonly afflicts half of all the human beings on the face of this planet: chronic headaches.
They're still together, so I don't think his injuries were particularly life-threatening.
Case Study #2
A friend of mine was this close to receiving the fairytale Valentine's gift, a bouquet of 99 red roses wrapped with fluffy pink and white tissue paper. She got her bouquet...of dried roses that didn't cost RM10 a stalk. Boyfriend went up to Cameron Highlands for cheap flowers about a month in advance and dried them himself. I have to say he did a pretty great job of packing them into the tissue paper too, cos god only knows beautiful bouquets are extremely unwieldy to fashion unless you're a professional florist.
She would've killed him if he spent RM100 on flowers that would've been droopy in 2 days anyway.
That's all I can remember for now. I'll tack on more later when the old memory gets some juice and gets going.
Again, I cannot even begin to stress the extreme need for caution if you're thinking "Hey, this is a good way to perk up my Valentine's Day,". I happen to have crazy/weird friends who're reasonably open to pranks like these. When in doubt, don't. A repeat of the St Valentine's Day Massacre is not everyone's definiton of 'perking up'.
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That 99 roses thingy, did my friend a major disfavour once. Never trsuted in them roses after that. One of the nicest thing about being single is that, you don't have to spend a single cent on 14th Feb. But you have to endure days of mushy love movies on tv :(
I appreciate the creativeness of Case study #1. Beats the usual flowers and dinner thingie. Perhaps he was trying to say that he is her pain killer. Heh.
Some still think Valentines is a cosumerism plot to get people's cash. Anyway some people equate love as to how expensive the gifts are, and I think its the wrong way of thinking. If it is heartfelt or meaningful, it doesn't matter how much it costs. A person with no income coming up with a RM20 gift is more touching than someone making a six figure salary giving something costing thousands of dollars.
@mdmfia:
Aww, relationships like that are so cool. Much better to be able to joke around and poke fun at each other rather than expect them to be perfect. :)
@Bawang:
Youch, sorry to hear about the rose incident. Nothing can be worse than spending a bomb on Vday and then having it not work out. Roses, candy, dinner and sex is so boring. If you're gonna spend so much doing what everyone else is doing, why bother, honestly?
But then I'm on to talk, I'm on the Singleton brigade. *grins*
@IBlogMe:
It was a complaint about the lack of sex in their relationship. Of course, being a hormone-charged hamsap lou, 3 times a day is not enough for him. :p Wanna know what she got him? A vibrator, heheheh. Someone was sneaky and passed the 'top secret' information to her. :D
@Kervin:
People like that, dump liao. Unfortunately, it's more often the girls who think like that, bleh.
The best gifts are the ones that are handmade. Of course, it also says you're cheap, but here's to hoping no one else notices that. ;)
3 times a day is enough? :P
Heh, anyway, the celebration is way overrrated. I rather give impromptu gifts and all without the need of a general occasion celebrated by all. Some girls, imho, just don't get it.
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