Valentine's Day 2010 (not!!)

When I was in school, I had a love-hate relationship with V-Day. I used to envy the popular girls who used to get bouquets of flowers while I got chocolates from friends. I used to wonder what it would be like to celebrate V-Day for real.

And than came university and I had a boyfriend and the V-Days that followed were always exciting. Mostly because of the anxious anticipation - I had no idea if I would get any gifts. But I did; I got the soft toys, the flowers, the perfumes, the chocolates.

Than came working life and all the "must-dos" of Valentine's Day started loosing it's allure.

This year Nic and I decided not to celebrate Valentine's Day. But ironically, the year we decided not to celebrate turned out to be the best Valentine's Day to date.

The day started off with "Happy Valentine's Day dear" and a smooch and nasi lemak. Than because the weather was so terribly hot and humid (the kind of heat that makes you lethargic and snappy), we decided to take refuge in the coolness of the rainforest. We packed a small picnic (McDonald's burger and Mister Potato) and headed to Janda Baik.

We claimed a spot under a huge shady tree and with our feet in the ice-cold water, he read the newspapers and I read Confessions of a Shopaholic (again!:)). Occasionally a brightly coloured dragonfly or bird would catch my attention. How blissful!

Later that night we went bowling with my brothers in Midvalley. It was hilarious because all of us were terrible at it. The bowling ball was going everywhere else except down the lane to hit the skittles. We were all laughing so hard it hurt to gasp for breath. I think Sashi broke all records for terrible bowling with a total score of 4 points for the first 10 throws in the first game. Now, that's a record that's gonna be hard to break!

Even worse than our scores were probably our display names on the score board - Sambar, Mariamma, Kuppusamy and Karupiah. Real typical estate, redneck Indian names. Every other Indian who walked in would point at the display on the LCD screen and snicker. I wonder if they were laughing at our names or our embarrassing scores! Thankfully our scores improved in the second game and I even managed 2 strikes!

I'm glad we did away with V-Day celebrations and had fun not celebrating V-Day this year :)

-Anya-