Do I really have to write about Valentines' Day?

No, because it's just like any other day. But i could always make things up as i go...

ok this year, single, and i spent the day BUYING A NEW CAMERA!!! ahah why aren't you surprised that it would be photographically related? those of you intersted to know what i bought can ask me, but generally most of my readers won't know wtf i'm talking about, unless u're a photographer. anyway... next...

last year, i was also single, having broken of with Jas on new years' day. ar well, we're still great frens, bless her, and we will be friends for a long time yet! i spent the day with Feliza, or at least dinner at Ivin's.

the year before (in case you lost track, we are now talking about 2005), i was with pf, and we had dinner at Prego. come to think of it, we took pics.. i wonder where they are now, and what did we shoot with? handphone i think. incidentally, someone (can't remember who) reminded me of her at a wedding i shot a couple of weeks back. but no, this time her mother didn't appear out of no where in front of me.

right, now to 2004, i am certainly stretching my memory here. it's a male thing. we don't remember stuff well! ok let's see here... 2004... i think i was single, but u know could be casually seeing someone. seriously, i don't remember.

2003 and beyond no need to say lar. even during the days of cheryl i don't remember what we did. that would be like 2001 and 2002...

i have to say my most memorable v-day experience was with this girl called Duvel, and we were YOUNG then.. i think i would have been... 19? 20 tops. at that age, i was POOR. i mean.. who's really RICH at 19 (especially if you don't count parents' money?) and i still managed to cough up a nice dinner at conrad hotel complete with flowers and all. she wasn't my girlfriend, was never, but VERY VERY pretty. do i sound shallow? well, if u did, then u didn't wait for me to mention the other things i really liked about her, so right back at ya!!! anyway she had this really really abstract mind, a deep thinker and regularly depressed. in some strange way, that made me very curious about her. she seemed happy that night, and as far as 19 or 20 year olds go, we had invigorating and deep conversations. I've lost touch with her ages ago, last i heard, which is at least 5 years ago, is that she's living (and i think married) in melbourne, and free of depression. good girl! if she EVER reads this, i hope things have stayed the same - as in, married, in love, and happy.

u know.. now that i think back.. maybe that was christmas eve, and not v day.. ARGH... not sure now...

while i'm in the "thinking back" mood, i have two interesting stories to tell, and if u've already read thus far, u might as well keep going. i'm SURE i'm not that boring a writer am i?

my dad (in australia) emailed me to say they managed to sell the house and now doing lots of packing which involves throwing alot of my stuff out. he SPECIFICALLY mentioned tho, that he would pack my comics properly. yes that's right, i used to collect comics! and it wasn't really because i loved reading them, it was Mark Tan (not the same Mark Tan who is my favourite videographer) that told me it would be worth alot in 30 years, to which i thought, wah.. so long time.. relac man.

this was when i was 16. that "30 years" Mark mentioned has gone HALF WAY!!!!!! time just flies and now my comics should be worth much more than when i bought it, and all these while i totally forgot about them! damn.. i'm getting old.

ok next story, for some reason when i was having supper with ryan tonite (yeah i spent valentine's day with a guy, but technically it was already past nidnite!) i was telling him about a story of my childhood days. the place we were having supper was playing this old song and i remember the song from the house parties that my mum used to organise once a year, i can't remember for what occasion, probably christmas, where we would shift the furniture so that we could have a dance floor in the house. can u imagine your parents having a dance house party! but i figured when i was about 8 years old, my mum would be 32 years old, so it's not THAT old to be having parties, even if u're married with two kids.

so that's not the interesting part yet. my mum had this colleague that i "liked" very much. as a kid i was "attached" to this colleague of hers and would dance with her at this party every year. when someone else danced with her, i would be jealous! it was WHACKED! i was like 8, and she would probably have been 30 at least, since she's my mum's colleague! oh the memories that just jolt back from cold storage just by a mere song.

that is why i say, photographs are so important. can u imagine the kind of bigger "jolt" a photograph could possess, when a mere song that's not directly related to the memory as far as the song's content goes can already do so much?

i have mentioned before that i love my job. just reminding everyone. be envious!

HAPPY VALENTINES' DAY!!!!