February 14, 2008

"Happy Valentine's Day''

ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးကုိ ရႈပ္တဲ့ ေန႔ေတြဘဲဗ်ာ၊ ေျပာကုိ မေျပာလုိက္ခ်င္ဘူး၊ လခထုတ္ၿပီးၿပီဆုိရင္ သိပ္ကိစၥ မရွိေပမယ့္ အခုလုိ ၾကားရက္ႀကီး က်ေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ဒုကၡမ်ားတာဗ်၊ ဟုိလူ႔ဆီ ပုိက္ပုိက္ေခ်းရ၊ ဒီလူ႔ဆီ ပုိက္ပုိက္ငွားရနဲ႔၊ အလြန္အလႈပ္ရႈပ္တာကလား...ေနာက္တစ္ခါ ကမၻာႀကီး ျပန္သစ္သြားတဲ့ အခါက်ရင္ေတာ့ ဒီ Valentine ေန႔ ဆုိတာႀကီးကုိ လကုန္ရက္ကုိ ေရႊ႕ခုိင္းရမယ္ဗ်....:P ။ မေပးျပန္ရင္လဲ ``နင္ငါ့ကုိယ္ တစ္ကယ္ မခ်စ္ပါဘူး´´ ဆုိတဲ့ ေသႏုိင္ေလာက္တဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြနဲ႔ ပစ္ခတ္ တုိက္ခုိက္ဦးမယ္၊ ေပးထားမွ ေပးထားမွ၊ ျမန္ျမန္ေလး ေပးထားမွဗ်ိဳ႕...အခုေတာ့ အလကားရတဲ့ E-card ေလးဘဲ ေပးလုိက္ဦးမယ္၊ ေနာက္မ်ားက်မွ.... ပုိေပးမယ္ေနာ္...




The Legends
  • A common legend is that Valentine happened to be a priest in Rome. The emperor outlawed marriage in order to fill his army's ranks, but St. Valentine defied these orders and went on issuing marriage ceremonies. For this, the St. Valentine was executed.

  • The legend continues that St. Valentine, during his time in prison, fell in love and was responsible for sending out the very first "Happy Valentine's" greeting. He signed the greeting, "From Your Valentine", in the same manner that we do in Happy Valentine's Day messages today!

  • The most basic legend is that the day is dedicated to 2 martyrs who both shared the name "Valentine". Ostensibly, they were killed on the 14th of January. These are...
    Valentine of Rome
    Valentine of Terni

  • Another Valentine to consider is Valentinius, a gnostic teacher whose vision of Christian love placed the "bridal chamber" as a important as baptism and the eucharist. Suffice to say, this position (no pun intended) was not supported widely by the church.

Recommendations
How do you make a perfect Valentine's Day?
  • Dinner: Get reservations early, at least a month in advance or longer. If you cannot get reservations, start scrambling to find restaurants that do not have reservations and do offer call-ahead seating. Call ahead on 15 minute increments starting 2 hours before you want to go. If you are with your "Valentine", you may need to slip out of the room to do this to keep the destination secret.

    Once you are there, take a restroom break, find the waiter, and hand him enough cash to cover whatever you might purchase, plus a great tip - this will cost you more, but when the waiter says "thank you for dining with us Mr. so-and-so" and doesnt give you the bill at the end of the evening, it will be very impressive.

  • Dancing: Not a Club. Dear God, don't go to a club. There is nothing less romantic. Rent a nicer car than yours with a decent sound system, get a CD of old Frank Sinatra romantic songs, and pull off somewhere scenic and just dance together.

  • Presents: Everyone gets chocolate and roses, except your Valentine! Get. Something. Else. Sure, a chocolate or two and a rose should accompany the evening, but the primary money should be spent on something else. And not just lingerie. That is for you. Not her. Get recommendations from the florist.

  • Cards: Do get her a card. I know guys don't exactly care about the card, but she does. Even if she says she doesn't, she does. And even if she really doesn't, she will wonder why you didn't if you don't. Confusing? Just get the card.

  • Poetry: Write your own, even if it sucks. She knows you can't write. She knows that you will probably use a crayon to scribble it out to the beat of some 80's hair band ballad, but hey, its you. Rhyming is not important, in fact it is kind of cheesy. When you don't rhyme, it sounds more sincere. Really

Happy Valentine's Day


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