My V-Day

Backtrack: This year's V-day was pretty much "single" to me. I must say this year's was one of a kind for me.

Many of my friends went out for Valentine's dinner, splashing money on over-priced food, buying over-priced flowers to pleased their girl, some even arranged for candle-light dinner with limo service to pick up his girl! It was oh-so romantic when I heard from her. While some of my other girl friends celebrated at home with their boys, cooking and pampering them with good food and massages, I was slightly depressed that I wasnt celebrating V-day with love. Not to mentioned, totally left out by my attached girls friends.

Not to say that no one actually asked me out for dinner, (hey, my "stock market" is still high!) I declined all the invitation that will atleast make me feel part of the "celebration". If you ask me now, I have no idea why I did that. Maybe, I wasnt in the mood to date on this special day. Maybe for once, I wanna know how is it like to be all alone while the rest are busy pampering each other.

Here's a few tips for singles to celebrate V-day:

1) Indulge yourself with your favourite foods
2) Pamper yourself with warm bath filled with aromatic scent and candle lights
3) Have a Movies marathon session (with a few singles,if you want),e.g. Lord of the Rings Marathon,or Drama series marathon.
4) Do things that you had always wanted to do, but didnt. (e.g. Yoga at home, gardening, or reading that book that has been on the shelf for some time now)
5) Enjoy it as ME-Day

My V-day was significantly alone this year (well, of course!). I wanted it that way. When the hand of the clock reached 5:30pm, I wore one of my baby-T with short pants, and my favourite pair of Nike shoes and went out for a jog near my house. I ran towards the biggest park at my area, running with my mobile phone cum mp3 player stuck to my ear. Frankly, it was my first time running around my housing area. I had always wanted to do it earlier, but that didnt happen. (I procrastinated!) And I regret, I should have done this much earlier.

I "tortured" myself thoroughly with running and push-ups, and sit-ups. Surprisingly, the park is filled with equiptments to help you to push up and sit up. There were quite a number of people hanging around the garden, doing their daily/weekly exercises that night. It hit me at once, not everybody fancy celebrating Valentine's day. Especially those aunties and uncles in the park.

After my exercises around the park, I pampered myself with the swing. (I had to stare at the small girl for sometime before she gave me the swing.HAha!) The swing made me feel young once again. I felt like most of my worries and stress were "swing" away from me while I tried to swing to the highest point above. It was, relaxingly happy. (I highly recommend that every adults should try this). It may look weird to those passerby (why, an adult hogging that swing and letting the younger kids look so sad).

Later that night, I completed my 20 episodes of FullMetal Alchemist anime (for the 2nd time now).

Surprisingly, I feel really relaxed and good about myself after that. It is not a bad idea at all to celebrate V-day alone. *smile*