View Poll Results: Do you have a date for Valentine's Day 2009?
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Yes, I have a date on Valentine's Day
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No, no date for Valentine's Day
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Single since birth!!
2 11.76%
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February 12th, 2009 02:37 PM #53
chua, ehem.... hahaha...
seriously speaking, ganun talaga ang mind setting ko sa ganyang bagay
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February 12th, 2009 02:50 PM #54
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February 14th, 2009 04:40 PM #55
Ano'ng date-date. Dito sa Saudi, may Valentine's, pero patago...... Bawal kasi maging masaya dito.
He-he! Only in Saudi.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/2009021...e-aeafa1b.html
14 Feb 2009
Be My Valentine -- But ssshh! Saudi vice cops are watching
RIYADH (AFP) - - It is the eve of Valentine's Day in Saudi Arabia -- and as usual the florists are hiding away their red roses.
Toy stores have cuddly red teddy bears and candy merchants have heart-shaped red boxes of bon bons in stock, but all are hidden out of sight.
It is the annual battle between Saudi romantics and the feared Muttawa, the Islamic police, who each year try to convince the public that Valentine's Day on February 14 is a heathen holiday not suitable for the homeland of Islam.
This year is no different -- reminders have gone out from clerics of a years-old fatwa reminding people that Islam does not recognise Valentine's Day, which originally commemorated one or more Christian martyrs called Saint Valentine.
According to media reports this week, the education ministry sent out circulars about the proscribed day in an effort to prevent the most vulnerable -- dreamy-eyed students -- from succumbing to Westernised thoughts of romance.
Meanwhile supermarkets have tucked away red gift items that might get them shut down for a day or two, and chocolate shops have done the same.
Two days before the big day a florist in Riyadh's upmarket Suleimaniya district was shipping out wreaths of red roses and crimson apples in the middle of the afternoon, the time that everyone else, including the Muttawa, is at rest.
"Every year they try to stop Valentine's Day," said a Pakistani deliveryman as he packed the wreaths into a van. "The Muttawa will come tonight. If they catch me they will take all of these and destroy them."
The Western version of Valentine's Day -- lovers raining flowers, chocolates and toys, all with a red theme, on each other -- would be a challenge in Saudi Arabia at any time of the year.
Strict Islamic religious rules keep men and women separate until they are married -- and marriages are usually arranged by their families.
There is no taking a girlfriend out to a coffee shop or restaurant: the cafes and restaurants all have separate sections, one for single men and the other for women and families.
But the Muttawa -- which go by the official name of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices-- are only a nuisance, not a reign of terror, said a choclatier in front of his shop Wednesday.
His Valentine's assortments are mixed colours -- red, blue, green etc -- so that he doesn't attract undo attention.
"Sales are still good," he said, not wanting to be identified to be on the safe sideLast edited by chua_riwap; February 14th, 2009 at 04:43 PM.
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February 14th, 2009 05:02 PM #56
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February 14th, 2009 10:59 PM #57
there's this conservative girl i've recently started dating. i gave her a wake up call at 3am this morning. drove to her place at 5am to pick her up then went to the mountains to view the sunrise at 6:20am. arrived there while it was still dark. had breakfast and coffee. didn't exactly see the sunrise coz the clouds were too thick hehehe but that was ok. sat beside her on the ledge. put my arm around her. held her hands... then...
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February 15th, 2009 09:47 AM #59
... and then they fell over the ledge because the girl tried to avoid him trying to kiss her.
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February 15th, 2009 06:21 PM #60
Or was this the reason why he lost P450K on Friday the 13th for a good cause?
7505:bravo:
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