Happy Valentine Day to everyone; a day that is so globalized and commercialized that it is practically unromantic! But it’s a material world out there and so no occasion is spared; and at the risk of being accused as unromantic (in addition to being pushy and a royal pain!); I really do not like Valentine Day as I’m pretty sure that the majority of the morons people out there do not know the history nor reason for the celebration of this day apart from the vague notion of it being a lover’s day. Do they know that it originated in 5^th Century Rome as a tribute to St Valentine, a Catholic Bishop? Or its sordid history? For eight hundred years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day, the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box. The girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his sexual companion during the remaining year. How you wished!

Anyway you can read more about it here. And here are some photos I took this morning of the roses I bought for my valentine and as if by magic the water hyacinths decided to bloom in unison as well.

I’m talking too much here and this hypocritical moron is taking his beautiful half for a Valentine as well as Birthday dinner tonight! No, I'm not being a cheapskate here as her birthday really falls on Valentine Day as well! Some of us are luckier than others ... kekeke

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