February 15th, 2008Just another (Valentine’s) day
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and it was like any other day for me. For the first time since 2004, the boy and I are both in Shanghai for the school holidays. The one month winter break is going to end next week. Usually the boy is back to Singapore at this time of the year. Yesterday was our first Valentine’s Day spent together. Knowing him, I didn’t expect any gifts or any flowers and I was right. I’m dating a guy who doesn’t have a romantic bone in him.
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We saw many girls carring big bouquets of roses and I jokingly asked my bf where mine was. He was like “Oh? You want flowers?”. He would probably buy me roses if I asked him to but it doesn’t come naturally to him. I teased him quite a lot but the truth was that I didn’t want him to spend money like that. Flowers will just wilt anyway. Furthermore, we are both only students. I still think that Valentine’s Day is over-commercialized. Spending the day together was enough for me and I noticed that he was nicer to me than usual. ![]()
We intended to go have dinner at Bakerzin in Raffles City. (near People’s Square) I love Bakerzin!
When we reached Bakerzin, we were told that there were no free tables until 8 p.m . A lot of people had called to make reservations. In the end, we had to go somewhere else for dinner.
Something which happened yesterday:
As I was going inside Raffles City,a woman carring a baby tried to steal my purse which was in my handbag. I felt a tug on my bag and immediately turned around. The woman hastily removed her hand from my bag and walked out of the door. I lost sight of her in the crowds so I just turned my attention to my bag. The zipper on my bag was half-opened but luckily, nothing was missing. My bag was quite in a mess as usual and my camera & purse were at the bottom, underneath my map of Shanghai (which I was carrying around since the week before, when a Mauritian friend came to Shanghai) and other things. I suppose that the woman couldn’t find my purse among all those things. Well, it’s a good thing that my bag was so messy then.
After that incident, I was more careful and chose not to open my bag unneccessarily. Therefore, I didn’t take any pics yesterday. My camera didn’t leave my bag at all.

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i had broken up with my gf 3 days befor valentine’s day. with little sad. so admire your couple.care your love~~~
Quote?i did not receive any rose as well.
we just had a nice lunch together.
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Quote?That’s why I always have my school bag in front when I have some precious things in it (passport, PSP, camera….).
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Like your new template, li reflete St Valentin! lol.
Glad the woman couldn’t snatch anything from you, brrr… I carry mine in front of me instead of placing it by my side..
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Quote?I don’t care much about Valentin’s day for some reason. Yet I had the man cook for me
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