as the years go by, i can’t help but think that Saint Valentine doesn’t really like me. almost every year that i had the chance to celebrate valentines (read: not single) it would turn into something bad. well, not disastrously bad, but things just don’t go the way they’re supposed to.

many years ago, i had a family dinner during valentines day. so right after the dinner ended, i rushed off to see my then-girlfriend… i can’t remember where we were supposed to meet though. i drove to Bangsar to get a stalk of the usually overpriced valentines rose. after getting the flower in Jalan Telawi, i sorta sped a bit (young blood and raging hormones) to see my GF. after the now-defunct Kenny Rogers at the end of Telawi 1, i turned right and lo and behold, a car came right at me, headlights blaring at my face! i didn’t see any oncoming lights prior to turning so i assumed that the road was clear. how bloody wrong! i managed to swerve to the right and avoid a deadly head-on collision, but by doing that i banged on two cars that were parked by the road. again, because i had raging hormones and a brain that was going blank, i counter-swerved to the right while stepping on the accelerator instead of the brakes! the only thing that stopped me finally was a Range Rover. my poor old Mazda 323 got stuck to the front wheels of the RR.

i ended up with a broken nose and a revocation of driving rights for several months from my dad. so the cost of the valentines flower was about RM12,812. RM12,800 for the repairs (which was insured, thankfully) and RM12 for the flower itself. the irony of it all: me and my GF broke up not long after that.

a few year ago pulak, i reserved a seat for two at Coca in Bangsar Shopping Complex. it’s a nice steamboat restaurant and i just wanted to have that nice classy dinner feel on the night. to tell a long story short, me and my wife (we weren’t married back then) sat, ordered, and waited 2 hours for nothing. well not really nothing, we got our drinks after 1 hour. curses and shouts came out, but the food still didn’t come. f**king bad service. after that we went to Chili’s instead and had our Valentines steak… way better!

and i still have a few valentines misery to tell, but those weren’t really bad.

anyways, i had a good time last night with my wife… we went to Cineleisure and watched a movie. couples were everywhere! young, old, obscenely underaged, everyone were in the mood for love. and so did we!