{"id":2262,"date":"2011-02-15T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T20:01:04","slug":"how-i-spent-our-vday-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"How we spent our Vday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vday is such a HUGE thing in the U S of A. Ok.. not that it&#8217;s a small thing in SG.. haha&#8230; so I really wanted us to dine at a nice resturant.. just like a normal date.. BUT&#8230;. the resturant that I wanna go to is FULLY BOOKED ( about 4 days before Vday!) Boo&#8230; Blame it on bad planning on our part&#8230; <strong>Mental note to self: Make reservations for Vday dinner at least 1 week beforehand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just when I was going to wallow in self pity&#8230; I had to go down to the leasing office to collect my parcels.. and the really sweet and nice lady at the office asked me how BH and I gonna are celebrating Vday..<\/p>\n<p>Me: we are doing nothing..<br \/>\nLady: not even dinner??<br \/>\nMe: oh.. we had it last night ( BH cooked&#8230; that&#8217;s another story)<br \/>\nLady: what about flowers?<br \/>\nMe: nah.. he&#8217;s not the romantic type<br \/>\nLady: well&#8230; my bf sends me flowers when I&#8217;m sick but not on Vday<br \/>\nMe: that&#8217;s better than nothing&#8230; better than none at all!! *ouch!! hurts!*<br \/>\nLady: but my bf is a nice guy&#8230;<br \/>\nMe: *trying to comfort us and not mk BH look so bad* haha.. maybe we&#8217;ll get a surprise later!!<\/p>\n<p>Then again.. a &#8216;surprise&#8217; is no &#8216;surprise&#8217; when u are expecting it.. haha<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow.. I was so convinced that I was gonna have a bad Vday&#8230; I kept my mouth shut.. I know that if i were to tell BH.. he try to &#8216;force&#8217; something out of nothing&#8230; oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>seconds, minutes, hours crawled by.. it was evening time and BH was still not home at his usual time. I called him and he was like &#8221; I&#8217;m around the corner.. reaching&#8230; alot of things to do today&#8230;&#8221; I was like&#8230;. &#8220;Ok&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When he walked in the door&#8230; and I realised that he bought pretty tuilips and other goodies ( desserts!) .. I was feeling very happy and relieved but acted like it was nothing&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he got &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2268\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130943.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1130943\" width=\"212\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130943.jpg 212w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130943-159x300.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuilips! Love the colour! \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2263\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cats.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cats\" width=\"340\" height=\"478\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cats.jpg 340w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cats-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love the choco dip strawberries... and the so cute tiramisu cup!<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130948.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1130948\" width=\"418\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130948.jpg 418w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130948-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guess what we had for Vday dinner???? Out of sianest.. I cooked spam and eggs for our Vday dinner&#8230; hahaha&#8230; :X oh well&#8230; everyday is Vday right???<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n1 day before Vday&#8230; BH cooked dinner&#8230; phew.. he cook 1 meal&#8230; asked 18 qns! Yes.. I noted down!! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bh-cook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bh-cook.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bh cook\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bh-cook.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bh-cook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bh-cook-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was super upset when I told him how badly he messed up the kitchen&#8230; :X<\/p>\n<p>anyhow.. the delicious food!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130932.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1130932\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130932.jpg 270w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130932-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n2 day before Vday&#8230; we went to eat at Claim Jumper ( it&#8217;s an american diner&#8230; no need to mk reservations.. and they don&#8217;t have special menu for Vday&#8230;) I find the food v salty&#8230; a nice pic the server helped us take&#8230; hehe&#8230;<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130872.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130872.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1130872\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130872.jpg 400w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1130872-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how we spent our Vday&#8230; You?? haha&#8230; oh.. forgt to add&#8230; we played Xbox Kinect after our crappy Egg and spam dinner.. haha.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vday is such a HUGE thing in the U S of A. Ok.. not that it&#8217;s a small thing in SG.. haha&#8230; so I really wanted us to dine at a nice resturant.. just like a normal date.. BUT&#8230;. the resturant that I wanna go to is FULLY BOOKED ( about 4 days before Vday!) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How we spent our Vday?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}