The Valentine’s Day On Which I Chose The Better Gift

my Valentine’s Day began with such excitement and romance!

i woke up to…………. a phone call by Timothy Tiah who was emoing about the fact that the general election was announced that very morning, and that it’s going to be held on the 8th of March, which is the same date as our Nuffnang Pajama Party. which means we have to postpone the party. sigh, so romantic right. actually, no, i just remembered that emo election conversation was the second time he called me.. the first time he called (and kicked me out of bed) was to ask me to do work. wtf! you can’t evade him sometimes.

i want to tell you another story about Timothy Tiah. i told him the day before Valentine’s what Waffle suggested i give my boyfriend for Vday. such is the conversation -

me: stewie! i hate your programmer!

tim: har why!

me: i asked him what he thinks would be a good Vday gift for my boyfriend… then you know what he said ah? i said that my boyfriend’s idea of a good gift are things like an external hard disk drive.. so Waffle suggested i get him a hard disk preloaded with porn. WTF.

tim: eh.. that’s a damn clever gift!!! that’s really cool! i would love something like that!

me: *insert many protests* blablabla

tim: no no it’s so thoughtful! think about all the effort that went into customizing such a gift… it’s like the male equivalent of a mix CD for girls.

me: what the….

tim: but what did you eventually get your boyfriend?

me: i got him a digital photo frame! it’s soooo cute; it’s like one of those mini LCD screens that displays an automatic slideshow of many many many photos that you upload onto a thumbdrive and plug into the screen. hehe nice leh!

sample photo of a digital photo frame

tim: hmm yaa i’ve heard of those.

*long silence…..*

me: …. YOU DON’T LIKE MY GIFT????????

tim: er… it’s just that if i got one of those things, i wouldn’t really use it….

me: WHY

tim: er.. cos it wastes electricity

sigh such is timothy tiah. no i dont know why he is like that. ANYWAY i turned the digital photo frame on when Martian was sleeping and he was very surprised when he woke up and saw it on the morning of Valentines. and he loved it :D just like he loves the scrapbook i made him for our anniversary. we spent the morning looking at the 300+ images i’d uploaded onto the screen and naming all the places and events and memories linked to those pictures :)

yknow, i’m so glad my boyfriend likes sentimental gifts. otherwise i would have been knocking on all my guy friends’ doors on Valentines Day, begging them for their porn stash so i can upload it into an external HDD to give to my boyfriend. -____-

so after lunch, Martian told me he wanted to go and get his IC done because he recently lost his wallet and all the stuff in it. i was like… ‘what! you want to go and get your IC done on Valentines Day??’ so while he went, i was at Starbucks being emo on MSN about how my boyfriend ditched me on Valentines. and all my girlfriends were like ‘aiyo why your boyfriend so bad!’ yalar damn bad right.

but then he later came to pick me from Starbucks with …

my gift :(

and flowers :(

and this box of really really nice tarts that i forgot to take a photo of and ate already.

and this damn funny Bahasa Melayu card HAHA. with a really romantic message in it.

so actually he didn’t go get his IC done, but he just needed some excuse that i couldn’t say no to. ishes. now i feel so bad that i was gossiping about him with my girlfriends :( hehe but i LOVE my presents to absolute bits! the card is so funny and obviously i love the tarts (why does my boyfriend know me so well), and as always i am very excited about flowers .. but my main present, the one wrapped in pink, is just perfect. haha but i cant say what it is yet. cos quite coincidentally, i actually need it for an upcoming blog post. so i will blog about it later ;) give you 10 sen if you can guess.

hmm eh then what happened. oh thank you Wenqi for the candle, heehee. if you know what i mean wtf.

at night, we went for dinner at Nero Vivo, which is one of our favourite restaurants in KL. i made reservations like a month ago - i am so shocked that on VALENTINES DAY itself, my blog was STILL getting hits from people googling Valentine’s Day restaurants. and the hits from the 14th logged the highest number of search engine referrals in February! why are all these people so last minute!! i do hope they all managed to find themselves a nice restaurant for Vday :\

sleepy us

it was so nice having Martian back in KL for almost 2 weeks. no, we didn’t go eat chili pan mee or red velvet cake like we were supposed to do, nor did we drive down to Melaka and Seremban as planned, and we also didn’t have that quick weekend getaway to Tiger Rock… but we did a lot of other stuff :) stuff like mice-drawing competitions.. hahaha. and Nasi Lemak Famous at Bangsar which gave us bad stomachaches. dessert with Martian’s very delightful Uncle Chris who has a billion stories to tell. going to the pet shop to play with puppies! and sleeping in till 12pm on most days. hehe.

soooooo i had a lovely Valentines day :) we night-capped it with tau foo far and the best ever double boiled soup in Lucky Garden, heehee. what did you all do for yours?

happy belated Valentine’s Day, everyone :)

p/s: eh …to all guys reading this, seriously lah… if you were my boyfriend, you would prefer my gift over a bunch of porn in an HDD, right? … right?

p/p/s: it’s Tuesday morning. should i head to Singapore this afternoon and surprise Martian? just for fun. and so we can watch Juno, because it’s not showing here in KL and he’s not allowed to watch it without me. and also because he’s bought the new season of Little Britain on DVD! if i go, i’d have to come back home on Thursday though. aiyah how ah! it’s like such a short time only and i’ve really got so much i need to settle back here in KL. decisions, decisions. i think i shall flip a coin.

80 comments February 19th, 2008