From: mahesh@******ams.com
Cc: anlalk****as@yahoo.co.in
Dear Deep,
My Hearty condolences for yet another unsuccessful Valentine's Day.Hope your next Valentine's Day will be different.
Regards,
Mahesh
I was split into laughter reading the first mail in my inbox today morning!! Instantly i expressed my deep concern for him in the reply mail, as we both can be considered as prospering non valentines (dis valentines? unvalentines?...whatever)...
I was never influenced by valentines day during my adolescence or my entire life (to be modest). ha...just another of those bloated commercialized days - having nothing to do with romance or love for that matter. hmm...mmm.. such acute rejection of valentines day by me as an insensible idea does not help much - as usual during the past couple of days, all newspapers, magazines & TV had their coercion tactics, to instil guilt for the shortage of romance in our boring lives. I was so impressed to watch the new ATLAS jewellery commercial in which the guy who says "jana kodikalude viswastha sthapanam" was wearing a romantic purple dress and proposed his inspiring bidding. This ad can be considered the second reason for not buying more gold for my imaginary valentine...first reason being the current market price - AED 106 per gram (converts to Rs 1397)...truly romantic...i would opt for a rose and a heartfelt kiss instead ;)
During engineering college days few of us guys (who scorned valentines day for unknown reasons) developed a new day to counter valentines day - The Jilted Lovers day - or JLUentines day...The fun fact remains that the ratio of guys to girls in our batch was 1:3 and still almost 80% of the guys were active members of this union.
Umesh won 1st prize in the poem writing competition. My poetry attempt turned bit complicated and failed to qualify as a poem :(. Umesh, who had an inclination to literature, was too romantic those days, I even remember his analogy of intense spiritual romance, which he revealed to few of us animatedly during a tea session in sallap restaurant near EBC "eda..its like consuming hot green chillies with boiling tea"... and not to mention someones admiration for the romance of two teenage lizards back in his room, which was one of the funniest anecdotes those days - (That reminds me of one awful commercial i saw sometime back in youtube - pretty sad one).
apologies, if i offended any of you valentine enthusiasts...
Have a cheerful valentines day :)
update : http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece - valentine surprise!!! No comments as I`m at a loss for words.
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