Nong nong ago, in the ancient city of Rome where everyone seemed to leave their beard growing and wore white cloth over their shoulder, lies a story that would evolve into a phenomenal exercise we see today.
During the third century, the outskirts of Rome was being ambushed by flocks of hungry wolves, leaving the poor shepherd no place to feed their sheep.
As such, they turned to Lupercus, the God that was said to watch over the shepherds and their flocks and keep them from the wolves.
And therefore the superstitious Romans celebrated a feast every February called Lupercalia to honor Lupercus so that no harm would come to the shepherds and their flocks.
Also during Lupercalia, but in honor of the goddess Juno Februata (what a nice name) , the names of young women were put into a box and names were drawn by lot. The boys and girls who were matched would be considered partners for the year, which began in March. This celebration continued long after wolves were a problem to Rome.
PS: You can try reviving this tradition again and putting in hell lots of slips of your own name and the girl you like so you could be together for a year :D
As Christianity began to spread its influence over Rome, the priests attempted to Christianize this celebration and officially changed its name to St. Valentine's Day (Why don't change to St. Leon Day?!)
And how did the heck did the priests get the name Valentine?
While it can't be proved historically, there were seven men named Valentine who were honored with feasts on February 14th. Of these men, two stories link incidents that could have given our present day meaning to St. Valentine's Day.
One of these men named Valentine was a priest during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Valentine was revered by the young and old, rich and poor, with people of all walks of life attending his services. At this time Emperor Claudius was heavily recruiting men to serve as soldiers for his wars without much success. The men preferred not to leave their wives, families and sweethearts to fight in foreign lands. Claudius became angry and declared that no more marriages could be performed and all engagements were cancelled.
Valentine thought this to be unfair and secretly married several couples. When Claudius found out, he threw Valentine in prison where he died. Friends of the priest retrieved his body and buried it in a churchyard in Rome.
Another version had St. Valentine jailed for helping Christians. While Valentine was in prison he cured a jailer's daughter of blindness. Claudius became enraged and had Valentine clubbed and beheaded on February 14, 269 A.D.
Yet another story claims that Valentine fell in love with the jailer's daughter and wrote her letters that were signed "From your Valentine."
Maybe I should try getting myself into prison and then writing to the jailer's daughter saying "From your
Oh well, but in modern context, St Valentine no longer preserve it's holiness anymore. It's sinful.
I mean, what can you say about everyone going to each other and giving sweets and chocolates? It's Singapore's own version of Halloween's trick and treat, I say :D
It's not about the act of giving sweets to people that is sinful, or maybe gay according to what Melson said, but it's about the SWEETS.
SWEETS.
As if the act of someone actually giving you chocolates or sweets isn't SWEET enough, the next day you know it, your struck with diabetes.
Oh well. In Valentine's Day, as I have observed in this really LOVELY day, is that the guys normally lose out (PROTEST!)
Just like me.
I set out with my army of chocolates that I bought the night before with my weekly allowance (I feel the pinch!) but my army somehow returned home as small little sweets, a packet of skittles, a little Ferrero Rocher, some MILK chocolate, a lolipop, and a NEOPRINT. (yes you heard it right)
Girls get better things like, necklace.
Just like in this case:
I was with SOME people the day before, going around buying things for Valentine's Day in Parkway Parade and I must say (and proud to say) that PP is the infestation ground for Tanjong Katong Students.
We went to 77th Street to choose a necklace for our Valentine (but I didn't buy lah, if I actually wanted to give someone a necklace, I'll give her my choker)
*cough* As you can see, there's a hot sexy Malay in the right hand side of the picture whose emitting so much charm that the girls will flock to him like bees attracted to a flower, and whose name I shan't mention *cough, hint hint*.
And after a precise and careful selection for the perfect necklace among the sea of metal, they finally decided to part with their money, hoping that this metal gift will captivate the hearts of the girl in their dreams as it captivates their eyes.
Eyes sparkle sparkle sparkle. Okay, enough.
Go sparkle when you look at my eyes :D
And as we finished our shopping spree in 77th Street where they actually don't allow photographs to be taken but due to my agile movements of my hand I manage to escape the terrifying wrath of the shop keeper.
So we proceeded to Giant.
And we discovered...
SCANDAL!
The Lenny's gang: Lenny, Nikki, Jolene, Wei Rong!
Double date detected!
But it's not true actually, because Wei Rong's a "Secondary One" girl :)
For your enlightenment, refer to this picture below:
The middle girl. The very cute yet very
Oh well. And we all got our stuff, and prepared ourself for the big day - The day whereby love will be in the air.
For some, it's just a normal day. For some, it's the fear of their life (giving the present). For some, it's harvest reaping season :P But nevertheless, here are some things that happened:
Our Miss Someone-whose-name-I-will-not-mention received flowers from Mr I-will-not-mention-that-someone's-name, what a magnificent display of love! :D
I spent half my day in school, giving sweet stuff, receiving sweet stuff (don't think sick), playing soccer and the other half with:
Miss Dwarf-in-Tampines, also known as Michaerl, also known as Apple, also known as the-poor-girl-whose-always-teased-by-Leon and also known as the Human Parrot.
Don't underestimate the power of dwarves. Sometimes, they kill as well *cough cough* with butter knives :)
And of course not to forget Miss Eileen Ng who taught that the name tag on NCC (Land) uniforms are actually all the same (OMG HOW LAG CAN SHE BE)!
There are many examples to be listed in order to fully explain to you her
And regrettably I got dragged to the deadliest shop ever in the mall - The neoprint shop.
Talk about the deadly fetish that women have over taking pictures over in a small little room, after paying a hell lot of money just for a few stickers ($10 in this case man!)
But in this case, Leon paid $0 because he was reluctant to go into the pinkish feminist shop and had to be bribed in order to curb the appetite of girls hungry for photogenic males (insert sinister laugh here)
And this is a really nice (although free) Valentine's gift from Daniel (please say I'm gay, pleaseeeeeee!)
The E actually looks like a R but guess what, he did it in paint. Bloody artistic ass @#$&*%^@334
And another unexpected "Valentine Present"
I totally has no idea who she is. Really.
And also a big disappoint for everyone:
NORMIT IS NC16.
Look at the picture carefully.
Aww... (pities the lower secondary
Alright, peace out people! :D
Thanks to all who gave (as far as I can remember):
Terrence
Navin
Astrid
Fang Ning
Eileen
Ariel (next week, a BRAND NEW uniform, yahoo!)
Charles
Gavin
Grace
Boon May (
Daniel (2C)
Michelle Goh
I can show you the world, shining, shimmering, splendid.
I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder, over sideways and under on the magic carpet ride.
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WAN ZHUO - I like it too! It's as cute as *cough* the owner . Yup, I know, I know :P
ARIEL - What's with drinking coconut juice on the moon? Want some cheese instead? :D
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HUI MIN - Hoiiiiii, it's a Nickelodeon song okay, it made it to the Top 40 UK song for your information! :D It looks gay also never mind, cause gay means happy. Happy means good. Good means satisfied. Satisfied means
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RICHNY - WEALTHY GIRL, CAN GO YOUR HOUSE FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR OR NOT? TAKE HONG BAO.
CURIOUS - I'm
THE ORACLE - LOL. Nah, Lemuel's slim, babe!
OZ - Wizard of the Oz! My long lost friend! How can I not hear your constructive remarks? Much appreciated, buddy :D I'm gonna "perm" my afro hair before Chinese New Year come, or else later my hair drop into the steamboat during reunion dinner then very jia lat already.
MICHELLE GOH - I buy you tricycle want or not! Then you can cycle to my house, 3 wheels more safe than 2 wheels :D I scared you fall (see, so caring!)
Peace out y'all, happy valentines!
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