It is Valentine’s Day tomorrow! What a pleasure. Shops are probably filled with chocolates and alike presents for this day, and people are frantically looking around for things to buy. Presents are good, but love should not have a label. One shouldn’t express love relatively to the amount of money s/he could spend, or the amount of money that a ‘good’ present is ‘worth’. Let’s step back from the consumerism culture for a day and just pay attention to little things. Tell your loved ones that you love them, tell them how much you care and how much you appreciate their love; do it now or one day it might be just a little too late.

gifted these flowers last year; still think they are gorgeous, elegant, and unique.

In other news, it is also Chinese New Year, so Happy New Year to everyone. For those of you getting red money envelopes, enjoy, and everyone else just enjoy the fact that nearly 50% of the country will be celebrating tomorrow.

Lastly, it is finally Reading Week. Although described as the time to “study hard”, this is really the buffer put in place so that first and fourth year students don’t perform self-lobotomies. With so many things going on this year, I am quite please to have a break. Of course I have to do a ton of thesis-related work, work on some projects, apply to jobs, and then pay all the remaining time to NBTC (it’s actually questionable what takes the priority in this list), but after all it also feels great to have some time to oneself. It has been a while since I could just go for a two hour walk around downtown Toronto and absorb the culture.

To finish with a song, here’s a list of a few that played on my iTunes in last couple hours. These fit the Valentine’s spirt.

-Feel so Good, Razah
-Collide, Howie Day
-Sparrows, Grace Weber
-Cry Baby Cry, Carlos Santana
-Breezes from Santa Marie, Jesse Cook
-I don’t want to talk about it, Rod Stewart
-The Rest of My Life, Brian McKnight
-The Voice Inside, Amanda Marshall
-Feel So Good, Razah

“Good Luck, and Good Night.”