(Belated) Happy VDay...

...to ALL!
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by PAM


I have to admit that Valentine's Day is truly a special day... forget the 'commercial' aspect of it, and just focus on the warmth that one feels from one's toes to one's head just imagining those cute little red and pink hearts that 'fly' around us on 'VDay'... like electric

Roses are red, er, pink... violets are blue.
It's Valentine's Day, therefore, happy Vday to you!

current flying around, occasionally touching us, and making us 'giddy' with teenage love feels.  It seems that the day warrants heightened loving and the feeling of being loved... and that's just beautiful!

Having said the above, I truly do not understand all those 'anti-Valentine' sentiments... and I'm single!  Okay, I wasn't about to join the bandwagon of smug 'in-a-relationship' peeps who cling to their partners in rather scandalously conspicuous manner just to get the best selfie to be posted on all sorts of social media platform on VDay season... just to be "in".  I do believe in being proud of one's loving feelings for someone... but I don't believe in deliberately flaunting it - for no apparent reason. Furthermore, I do believe that Vday is not exclusive to celebration of love between couples.  There is enough space on Valentine's for love of family and true friends, love between spiritual parents and kids, and love between kindred spirits... just because sometimes these kinds of unconditional love are the ones that get us through life's complex twists and turns... those unfathomable mysteries that can only be uncovered and conquered by love.

And here's one song that somewhat captures that warm feeling of loving... and being loved... at whatever age, under whatever circumstance, in spite of distance and time zones, no matter how painful sometimes, through all the good times and bad... 

🎶 Oh, you can fit me

Inside the necklace you got when you were sixteen
Next to your heartbeat where I should be
Keep it deep within your soul. 🎶

Oh, boy, so beautiful! So, yes, Happy (belated) Happy Valentine's Day to all... of us! 💘😍

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About the Photo: Thanks, from the bottom of my heart, to the UST Engineering Student Council (ESC) for this gorgeous bouquet of flowers. 

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Obama cares...

...to sing about 'the shape of you'!
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by PAM


I know, I know, the past few posts were grim.  OK, so let me make it up to you (assuming we have a 'you' here, that is) with this, and see if it doesn't crack you up like it did me...

"Come on, now, follow my lead...
I'm in love with the shape of you..."

Hahaha.... oh, gosh!  Now, isn't that fun?  So hilarious!  

But, really, seriously... what if, the great "Presidential Lecturer" himself really tried singing "Shape of you"?  I'd wager he'd do really great.  Are we ever going to find out?  Ah, gosh... I wish we'd see the day when Pres. Barack Obama really gets the pop singing going, seriously!

OK, I wish I had more time here... but I gotta go.  'Daily grind', ya know... whatever.

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Video credit:  Thanks, YouTube, for the video link.

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He's back...

...and he's great - as ever!
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by PAM


Yes, he is back! :) Ed Sheeran is back... not that he's ever left our lives though.  We were just sucked into the Bruno Mars planet for sometime now with 24K magic and all that magical stuff that The Bruno weaves.

"Come on now, follow my lead.  I maybe crazy, don't mind me...

...I'm in love with the shape of you.

...come on, be my baby."

That was a fun tune right there... kinda catchy lyrics as well.  It's definitely a departure from Ed's usually heart-breakingly beautiful songs with cool and yet incredibly romantic lyrics.  This new song does capture how commitment-phobic people these days use language... they are careful to not bind themselves with anyone and/or anything by correctly spelling their feelings, and use 'detached' language that allows them 'space', and leaves the back door open - for quick escape.  Well, it's either that, or Ed is just singing about some boy just giving in to the peer pressure of being with someone... and "discovering something brand new" in the process.

Whatever it is, I'm one happy (big) fan listening to another hit from The Ed!  

Hmmm... lower backache's gone, I think.  Gotta 'love this body'.

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Video credit:  Thanks, YouTube, for the video link.

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