Vals day is 2 weeks away. I'm sure you got the memo. If you didn't then its either you live in a vacuum or you are not smart enough. I suspect the latter. Because how else do you want to explain the extra attention you've been getting from the girl next door, the girl who sits behind you in class and even the girl you buy recharge card from who smiles way too much at you lately. Pfft! Come off it, you really didn't think you suddenly developed super powers and became all sorts of smoking HOT overnight did you?
So its going through the motions all over again this year. There's the usual dilemma. What to buy for the girlfriend? Who actually deserves spending Val with, the girlfriend or the side chick? And while Cynthia has been waiting all week for her crush at work to ask her to be his val, she's been turning down offers from every Ekene, Ali and Akpos.
Which makes you wonder when girls are ever going to come off the stereotype and ask a guy out for once. not to be a boyfriend or anything like that, but to a dinner, a movie, a couple of drinks, a concert. It doesn't make you 'cheap' it only says 'I'm available, and I'm daring'.
So anyways, expectations are going to be high, you know especially for the ladies who would be spending their fast Valentine with their man. But while they keep expectations high on what their man is going to do for them, they largely end up disappointing in what they do for their man. So my advice to the men, while you've got that table for two at that expensive restaurant reserved together with the violin playing quartet, do not, I repeat do not unveil your plans for the nights before she does presents you with whatever she's got. So that if it turns out to be boxers and singlets as is the tradition, well, just run to the nearby store and get her a bar soap and vaseline. Yes, vaseline!
Its amazing when people really fall short of what gifts to buy their partner. Everytime I'm asked by some chic who has zoned me, on what to buy her boyfriend for his birthday or Val's day, I get to appreciate that I was zoned. Makes me think they weren't even worth it. I mean, do you even really know this person? Gifts should be bought in line with the persons interests and hobbies. Do not buy me an expensive wristwatch when you pretty much know in our 8 months of dating that I don't fancy them, when you could have just bought me a paperback collection of John Grisham's whom I absolutely adore.
If you know your girlfriend is crazy about dance, download the best dance movies there are, compile in a CD and present it to her along with the usuals of perfumes, and assorted biscuits, but trust me that CD is what would really get to her. If your boyfriend is a soccer maniac, ok since he already has a Manchester United jersey, why not get one for yourself, as well as a soccerball, hit the photostudio, take a picture wearing just the jersey and panties, in a sexy pose with the soccerball. Frame the picture and wrap with other items, even the traditional boxers and singlet and see if he won't kiss your feet.
Gifting, when not philantrophic should be creative. So get to your creative best when sorting out what to gift your partner this season.
For many couples who have spent a couple of Vals day together, maybe there's nothing really exciting to look forward to this year. The only thing that has probaly kept the relationship together over the last few months is that he doesn't cheat, you don't nag, he is quick to apologise, and the you don't say no when he asks you to blow him. But in terms of direction, yall are really heading nowhere. So guys, don't beat yourself too much pondering what to get her. She won't appreciate it. She'll smile and hug you and tell you you are a darling, but on the inside, she's all gon be 'here we go again'. So what should you really do, go and see her parents, and propose right in her fathers sitting room.
Single ladies, do not pretend Val's day has no meaning to you. If you are spending Val's day alone, do not hate on others who are caught up in the moment. Spoil yourself. Take yourself out, go see a movie, buy yourself a box of chocolates, and don't share them. Get yourself that dress you've being eyeing in the store, but don't be mailing gifts to yourself and making everyone believe your boyfriend in the UK sent them, that's really low!
