I hate Valentine day.

My co-worker sent me mail this morning. "Hi, Mari. It costs 1500yen for each person to buy chocolates in this section. I will collect money later." This means all women at my work got chocolate for the male co-workers for a Valentine gift. This is a crazy custom. Everybody knows this is a paltry trick by the chocolate makers. I don't want to spend money to buy chocolate for some guy I hardly talk with. It's not a money issue, I don't like to follow such tricks, but if I stop, I feel bad for my women coworkers. I'm not the only woman who thinks like this, but I am not sure we will stop this even though we all are unhappy. You know, we can guess many women will think like this when they buy giri choco. "Ah, maybe I have to buy chocolate for that baldie sitting next to me. But that beer barrel will sulk, if I only gave to baldie...Wow I think I need to send one to my boss to ask for three days off next week. Ah, I want to eat a nice lunch instead of spending my money on this!" Will you enjoy a chocolate when you imagine this? By that I mean, guys can't be happy to get such a gift. Who can be happy in this Japanese valentine? Not women, not guys. Only chocolate makers.

Do you think I post this type of topic every day? he he he. I don't know why, but I can find such posts as nude, strip, or porn very often. I also can't skip kitsch design whenever I find it. Well, Spring will come soon; people's heads are getting into a flower garden mood, right? Panik House.com is an online shop. Their download page is funny. I am not sure: is this a shop of Omote Sando Hills? great window desplay. Check thier official site. I wonder if D&G's theme for guys is "brief." :-)

By the way, EL EL said Dolce & Gobbana sounds like some Banana chocolate sweets. I agree. D & G sounds so sweet to me. I got a mail interview about Natto from International Internatioal Herald Tribune/The Asahi shinbuni shinbun. Here is the article. Hmm, as if I am a big Natto supporter. Maybe it could be true.

Comments

[valentine gift philippines]

I enjoyed reading this,anyway i am waiting for valentines every year its a very memorable to me. :)

vee

[pass drug testing]

You seem to have got the niche from the root, Awesome work

[41nano]

I thought that Valentine's day was for people you love ?
Ah~ strange japanese custom to take western celebrations to make money..

[Cath]

Aww... just smile and give the chocolate. It's nice to give presents too...

[Mari]

Guys have to return the gift on 14th, of course. Then it should be more expensive than he got.

[Malia]

So do the guys spend that much on you ladies for White Day? Do they even get you chocolate?

[stuz]

couldnt stand the temptation:
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/02/valentines_day_.html
sooo funny drawing (''*)

[Marco]

Wow, 1500 Yen? Assuming there are as many guys as there are women, each of them must have gotten a lot of chocolate today.

How about this: On March 14th you don't eat the chocolate and just give it back to the guys next year on Valentine's day... If the guys want to they can do the same. This way the chocolate industry will be the loser. :-)

[Mari]

At any rate, I am not a Natto adviser. Martin
Anyway, I think guys will agree with me. Guys have to do the same on March 14th. We should stop this. I really want to stop this.

[Marco Bresciani]

I agree with your angry and hate for this day... and I think you and your female colleagues should stop buying chocolate for guys you don't like! :-)

[Martin]

Hahaha, you were intervied about natto?? That is so funny. You have a million cool opinions about a lot of interesting topics, and all they could ask you about was natto. Tooo funny.

Valentine's Day got so bad at one Swedish Junior High School (with about 800 pupils) that the school now lets the kids have a day off. A couple of years ago, there was a lot of bullying on that day.

Mari, I think you have a right to refuse, after all you are the cool one, even getting into IHT/Asahi.

[stuz]

Have you heard of "white gloves day", once a year where women are allowed to propose to a man..

[bshock]

Seems like whenever a holiday develops some annoying commercial aspect, the U.S. is somehow involved. We should probably apologize for that, though it might be selfish to grab all the blame for ourselves;-)

When I was a child, growing up in the U.S. state of Indiana, our Valentine's Day custom was to buy colorful Valentine cards (about the size of postcards) for everyone in our class at elementary school. We were told that if we were going to give out any Valentines at all, everyone should get one, regardless of whether they were boys or girls. On Valentines Day, we would all run around our classroom delivering these cards, which we had individually addressed to each classmate the night before. Very strange, I always thought.

For U.S. adults, I believe that Valentine's Day is more of a burden for males than females. Men are expected to give their girlfriends or wives at least a card and a box of chocolates. Often we take them out for dinner as well, though now all of the restaurants are usually too busy. Sometimes we are expected to buy more expensive gifts, like jewelry (or at least a dozen roses).

The worst possible Valentine's Day gift an American male can give his "significant other" is some sort of stuffed animal, such as a bear holding a heart; this is an indication that he forgot Valentine's Day until the last second, and only stopped to buy something at a gas station or convenience store on the way home from work ;-)

My wife is a pastry chef (her last day of culinary school is this week) and so she has worked with chocolate so much that she's sick of it. She thinks that Valentine's Day should be just like Christmas, and so she always asks for specific gifts. This year, she wants her gift to be a new copy of the famous cookbook "Larousse Gastronomique." I haven't found this yet; hope I don't end up buying her a stuffed bear instead.

[Vorteks]

Japanese Valentine's day is so different from the way it's celebrated in the states.

[Vorteks]

Japanese Valentine's day is so different from the way it's celebrated in the states.

[Misha]

The article from that Gili choco link is very interesting. Thanks for sharing ! :)

[Misha]

I hate Valentine`s too :) It`s more like a marketing holliday, but in a Big Brother`s voice - "buy! buy! you haven`t buy it yet? aaah! sucker!!" B)... where`s the romance? And after all, it`s not healthy - from sugar & cocoa they`ll get pimples :))