V-day musings

I woke up to a friend's text greeting on Valentine's Day. I answered in the most cynical tone I can muster:

'Valentine's Day is crass commercialism at its finest, when crafty businessmen take advantage of sentimentalist fools. A day when hearts become senselessly mad and stubborn. This day cannot be happy. It can only be brief, profitable, expensive, painful. Happy Valentine's is nothing but an oxymoron.'

Kill joy daw ako and lagot ako if kinilig ako that day. Sagot ko, di ako kinikilig.

Two hours later, I choked on my own text-words. Ganun pala effect ng beautiful (according to K.Nattaporn, 16 daw) pink flowers na nakapatong sa desk ko pagdating ko sa office. hahaha. My first time to get flowers sa Vday and a whole pink bouquet too! Nakakatamad na tuloy mag work after that :P



So now I take it all back. Valentine's Day is not crass commercialism at all. It is merely the capitalist way of expressing an endearing sentiment. :P


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I was watching Ever After (that Cinderella-inspired Drew Barrymore movie). As usual, nakilig na naman ako sa movie. I just noticed though that the lead girl character didn't give the guy a hard time in the end. I mean, the guy denied her in front of a roomful of courtiers, degraded her status as a servant and just generally publicly humiliated her. And when the guy realized his own stupidity in rejecting the girl, he goes after her, didn't even have to suffer through a swordfight because of course, the girl managed to escape on her own. After a few choice, sweetly worded phrases, he was in the girl's arms already! Hello? Penance anyone? hehehe.
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I didn't have work today so I bonded with Star movies again. They were showing one of my favorite movies 'Sense and Sensibility' based on Jane Austen's book. It has a more subtle romantic theme but I have always loved the endings. It's like all these pent up emotions, desires and love that are repressed during the course of the movie is let out and their love always wins through and they all live happily in the end. Sigh.

I especially liked the part when Hugh Grant gazed at the girl longingly and feelingly utters, "My heart is -- and will always be yours." This never fails to elicit my own sigh of kilig.

Oh my gawd. ataya. ka-mushy na nako oi. hehehe.

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