How to celebrate valentine's day inexpensively

What valentine’s day really means? Isn’t it because of the real essence of the day or just because it is made to be so commercialized that it affects a lot of people?

I have a long lost friend who once said that she never experienced how it feels to celebrate valentine’s day. To make the storytelling short, I made her feel the happy feelings celebrating valentine’s day…(we’ve gone separate ways though.)

But the point that I want to emphasize is, is it really needed to celebrate valentine’s day like it’s so special? Firstly, it’s not a regular holiday or special day for that matter that if it falls on a working day it will be either non-working or working holiday, which entails additional pay for those who are employed. Secondly, neither Christian faithful nor other religion celebrates the day grandiosely. And lastly, no doctrine or document is being laid down for the said day to be special.

Commercialization did it. As some quarters would say, the “Capitalist society” made valentine’s day as something people to be worry of. Look around during “valentine’s day”, lovers troop down to a lot of commercial districts to kind of celebrate “kuno” the day. But the question that crops up is, couldn’t they do it on any other day? Or isn’t it that they’ve been doing it all year long? Unless of course your financial health dictates otherwise, but giving flowers, chocolates, dinner dates, and giving of gifts is just a normal thing that can be done anytime of the year?

But, because it’s the buzz and a lot of people are so worried for the day especially those who have “dates” and more so for those who don’t have, more and more people would try to grab the opportunity to do the same thing also…

For those lovers who are so in love and would like to make valentine’s day celebrate like it’s a very special day, they tend to forget that it’s nothing special actually. What made it extra ordinary is a lot of people are going crazy in finding for space, either in restaurant, bars and hotel rooms…ahemm…

It’s not that I am against showing your affection through things like that, especially if we do it with someone special to us. What makes it wrong to my taste is the way people treat the day commercially and expensively. We can celebrate valentine’s day in a conservative and yet meaningful way, within which the message of expressing our feelings, affection and love can get through.

Top 3 on my list:

3.Take a walk at the park, or beach and just talk anything under the heat of the sun.

2.Cook for her/him some finger-foods and eat together while watching love-themed movies on DVD.

1.Have dinner outside your house, in the garden or in the backyard under the moonlight.

KEEP ON SHARING

i don't know how and where to start..i've never posted anything on my blogsite for the past couple of months or so. maybe i lost passion for writing, or maybe i just have no time to write and to think i have a lot to share to the world about my life, the people around me, my community and every little issue with social relevance.

to be honest, i almost forgot my account and my password. luckily after three attempts i was able to remember everything. at any rate, i just want to assure myself that i should keep sharing myself (literally and figuratively..hahahaha) because i know somewhere, somehow, through this we can enlighten somebody's gloomy day or two and to encourage others to share their own story as well.

just wanna express my gratitude and apology to a co-forum member using the account name "supergirl"..gratitude for linking my blogpage to her blog, thanks a lot..and apology because i was not able to reply to her comment immediately...sorry a lot.

and to all my friends (real and virtual), thanks for visiting my blogsite..feel free to post some comments, reactions, suggestions, etc.

Why Goodbye

I want to cry on your shoulders
I want to shed all my tears
I want to cry my heart out
Knowing we can't work it out

Why do we have to say bye
When yesterdays seem alright
Love hurts us so many times
Please let’s keep our love alive

Why so soon you say goodbye
You hurt me most in my lowest times
Yet nothing I can do but sigh
and let you go even if I cry

I love you so much believe me
I die slowly with this agony
Much more when i could see
your loving eyes staring at me

I'm sorry girl for all my mistakes
I am begging you to stay
But I just love you truly
So I’ll just set you free.

Loving and letting go

Love will always be the sweetest feeling you could feel. When you’re in love, the world is always bright and life is so light to carry. Everything is so easy and there is always a certain glow in your eyes. When you’re in love, you don’t seem to care for the deficiency of the person you love. It is always a great feeling that you wish would be forever.

However, there is always the risk of falling in love. One risk would be getting hurt. And a big part of getting hurt is letting go. However, if you look at the good side of it, getting hurt is a way to mold your personality. Letting go not just of your ill-feelings but the person whom you offered love and care is very much painful. Nevertheless, you might not know it, the feeling of getting hurt is molding you to become a stronger person, a better person, a more mature person.

I do have my share of loving and letting go. When I look back those days when I was so in love and it turn out that I have to let go, I would now smile and couldn’t help but be grateful to the persons who caused me pains and aches. Without them hurting me, I would have not survived the storms in my life that could have made me crumble like a helpless uprooted tree. Although there are events which you wish to have not took place, but still remains the fact that there are things which really might not meant to be. After all, as the line of song goes, “what matters most, is that we loved at all.”

TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER

He was a strong person

Whom I always depended on

He was rude at times

Yet I love him deep inside

He showed great love to us

Doing all kinds of work to survive us

He never complained about life

For he hoped we’ll succeed in life

Yet fate let him to suffer

Two years of agony and fear

Of the cancer he kept us unaware

He doesn’t want us to be depressed as well

He died slowly but peacefully

He went to face God with all humility

To my dear father whom I’ll never forget

his loving ways I’ll forever appreciate

When I Die

When I die, I beg you not to cry

For I’ll just be on the other side

Enjoying serenity and solitude therein

Where doubts and fears are inexistent

When I die, please don’t be sad

It may be gloomy but please be glad

For I’ll just be there waiting

‘til fate brings us close to each other again

When I die, please rejoice, will you?

Fill your hearts with laughter overflow

Drinking and merrying I hope you’ll be

I want to bring along happy memories in my journey

When I die, I’d like to leave this piece

Expressing to you my gratitude and gladness

In making my life on earth worth treasuring for

Bye for now and know that I love you all.

DESIDERATA (reprint)

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence

As far as possible, without surrender,

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly,

and listen to others,

even to the dull and ignorant,

they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons;

they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,

you may become vain or bitter,

for always there will be greater

and lesser person than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble.

It’s a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is,

many persons strive for high ideals,

and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit

to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,

be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe

no less than the trees and the stars.

You have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,

whatever you conceived him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations,

in the noisy confusion of life,

keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,

It is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.