| Sunday, February 08, 2009
Valentine's day is coming!
There are a lot of different stories surrounding Valentine's Day. A true romantic, Valentine's Day is enchanting and mysterious!
The most well-known theory is that Valentine's Day originated as a pagan holiday which was originally celebrated on Feb. 15. The celebration, called Lupercalia, was a fertility festival. Roman boys drew the names of Roman girls out of an urn and on the festival day, exchanged gifts. That is where the exchanging of Valentines comes from, or so the story goes.
Later, Pope Gelasius decided to put a Christian slant on the day. He declared it was to honour St. Valentine, who died on Feb. 14. St. Valentine was a Roman priest who married couples in secret although Emperor Claudius III had banned marriages. As a result, St. Valentine was put to death. The Emperor had decided that single men made better soldiers which is why he banned marriages - little did he know that he was unwittingly introducing a celebration of love that continues today!
Cool right?
But then .. "Single men made better soldiers" how I hate this quote.
Sigh. I've never really celebrated Valentine's day before. My previous one on 2008 is spent with Kervin, Nigel, Joseph, Heng and Allen.. I remember hugging each other and saying Happy Valentine's day and running around in camp. Quite memorable because we were preparing BV-206 for a huge exercise and Nigel went crazy and asked what are we doing exactly on Valentine's day right then.
The woes of one who have a hundred and one ways of celebrating Valentine's day yet have no one to celebrate with =/
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