It’s been forever since my last update. More than a month! *eep* I’ve been that busy with school and life. And I’m moving to a new domain soon! I love the new name I chose. I’ll keep you guys updated. Oh, this is going to be a quite a long post, really!

I’ll start with Valentines. This year’s landed on a Monday which is a school night. Coincidentally, hunbun had a long test on that day itself. Cruel, heartless teacher. *hmph* Also, I was a bit sick that time so we decided to have a nice romantic evening and advance celebration on February 13, 2005. He bought me gorgeous flowers, with his signature red roses. He is such a sweetie. *hehe* And I surprised him with a custom made chocolate house! It has 24 edible chocolate hearts inside as a symbol for our anniversary which is on the 24th of April. I ordered it months before as a special request to one of my friends. It was so hard keeping it as a secret from him!

We ate at the Tivoli - a “New Asian” fine dining restaurant inside Mandarin Oriental Manila. It’s beautiful inside and the gourmet food was delicious! (Actually, hunbun kept teasing me that we were dining at a pizza parlor. Only because I haven’t been to that restaurant before.) It was service deluxe there. We even had complimentary chocolate desserts on frosted glass with powdered sugar. And the Tivoli gave me a single red rose. How thoughtful!

The Celadon annual Valentines rose sale takes place during this love season soo. Hunbun and I co-headed last year’s “Petal Attraction” which was a success. This year’s is entitled “Say It With Roses” and I’m once again a project manager. It’s one of the projects I really enjoy handling. *hehe* We sold roses obviously, teddy bears, stuffed toys, cards, chocolates, and Valentines paraphernalia. I gave hunbun a Humor Post Tatty Bear doll holding six red roses. It now sits with all the other stuffed toys I’ve given him. This year, we had an added gimik which was a voting game. Other Ateneo students had the chance to vote for their favorite “Campus Heartthrobs”, “Valentines Couples”, etc etc - at a price of course. We had a lot of fun with it and earned a good amount of money too! Our harana was also really popular. You can have your special someone serenaded with the song of your choice. I had hunbun serenaded twice with single red roses. Once with “Grow Old With You” and the other with our theme song “At The Beginning”. He, of course, surprise me with an “At The Beginning” harana - which was really unexpected because I was extremely busy that time managing the booth. Due to a slight miscalculation of the amount of roses. In a good way though because too many people ordered. More demand than the actual product itself. But we dealt with the situation well and eventually satisfied all the customers. A job well done!

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