Lonely Hearts No More

Yesterday was Valentine's Day. Of course, upon entering North Gate I saw guys holding flowers pysching up themselves to give it to their girls. For my first class, thank goodness there weren't a lot of girls who had flowers. For my Services Marketing, however, almost everyone did. 4 girls were even serenaded. I swear, it was like the Chamber had a concert there. I hated it. Yes. For the first time, I'm bitter on Vday.

Had a date with myself in Haiku in Greenbelt. (O say mo?!). Got a fake white flower for eating there. Haha! So why was I there alone on Valentine's day, you ask? Very simple. It wasn't really planned. I had a meeting in New World Hotel for my event at 230pm but I got there at 130pm and I was starving. It was Valentine's day so I decided to treat myself. Hehe. Simple as that.

I was supposedly to meet Brian in school and we'd drink. We were talking about it Tuesday last week. We're gonna drink in school. Cool but a very risky idea, eh? My idea to do it in school. Haha! But there were so many requirements to be accomplished for my event. I had to finish it this week because I'll be leaving for Bangkok on the 23rd and I'll be there til the 28th, which means I'll have to delegate all the stuff I'm doing to other people. So the plan to drink ourselves out of misery didn't push through...hayyyy. Instead, I went back to school, had a meeting with my logistics team. Ironically, none of us had dates. After the meeting, I was supposed to go home, but I bumped into the girls in our tambayan and stayed for another hour just singing old, mushy ballads for everyone to hear. It was fun. Then went home to drown myself back to work. But my YM friends surprisingly were in a mood to chat. What's Vday without the single people talking about their angst and frustration with each other, right? Haha!!!

Lonely hearts no more. The good thing about single people getting together during Vday is that we don't feel alone. We know that there are others like us hating Hearts Day just because. We spend that time to justify and rationalize why we're single and convince ourselves we're happy as we are (defense mechanism, I guess), when in reality, inside, we're just dying to spend the next Vday with someone special and wish we won't have to be with that singles group ever again.