The Day of Love - Valentine Day

This year 2010, the year of the tiger collide with St. Valentine day. It was auspicious day and year for the chinese to get married  which usually every year on 14th Feb is a favourite date to get married. Even some couples tend to celebrate valentine day belated and celebrates it on other dates.

This year was quite special for me as i tend to suprise my wife with some valentine gifts. She knows that i’m not that romantic as before and i was labelled as a romantic mood killler by my wife. I tend to make funny joke and make humour out of it which my wife always told me that she learn not to be romantic from me.

But deep inside me, i’m kinda a person who hide his affection in the other way round. The dinner had been planned and booked by my wife at Uncle Chili’s Hilton PJ for a romantic candle light dinner for two with western cuisines.

On the 14th February morning itself, after sending my wife to work ( Yes indeed, my  wife do work on PH and i have to wake up as well to send her to work. It one of my task as a hubby.)  I go out and search for flower shops and it was my luck, there was a chinese flourist shop open and i straight stop my car in front of his shop and make the order for a bouquet of a dozen white roses which i will collect at 3:00p.m. As usual, the price for flowers and gift on V-day was quite expensive but for this shop it quite reasonable. Once i had paid for the flower, i wish the tauke happy chinese new year and he was thankful that i visit his shop on 1st day of chinese new year and  he told me that i bring him good luck as the first customer of his shop on the first lunar day in chinese calendar. Then i went home and later went to church in Shah Alam with my cousin as it was on the way sending him home. Once finished the mass, i sent my cousin back to his apartment and in my mind, i should go to my next destination which is Swatch and Hallmark in KLCC.

Once i reach KLCC, my 1st target was to get my wife a SWATCH as it was in her wish list. Each time we went to KLCC, she always stop by at the Swatch outlet to see the watch. I’m not a person who wearing a watch like her. As i’m a straight buyer, i just choose the latest and the nicest watch. There were two choices that i think nice but i take the other unit as the color is unique some sort like gun metals color and it was the latest edition of Swatch for 2010.

So without further ar due, I paid for the watch and went to Hallmark to purchase cards and wrap the swatch that i bought. Once completed and paid, i straight away went home and it only took me 45 minutes in KLCC.

As i reached home, i wrote some words on the cards to express my feeling and also print a photo of both of us during our wedding day. Although it was simple but it was meaningful for me to her. Then it was 3:30pm, i need to pick up the flower from the florist. On my way to the florist, my wife called to pick her up from her workplace. So i made a pit stop at the florist to collect the bouquet before pick up my wife. As i was in the rush and don’t want my wife to know about the flower, so i ask the florist helper to put in my car booth and she not willing to do so as the weather was hot but i told her do not mind as i had air conditioned the whole car with cold air even the booth are cold. So she put it in my bonnet and from there i sped off to pick up my wife.

When she enter the car, she keep on asking where is her flower till we reach at our apartment car park. She was expecting the flower was hid under her seat like what usually i did and i told her it is not there. I told her i didn’t bought any and she keep on sensing that i bought something for her. After few round of persuading, i asked her to open the rear booth as her flower was there. She was so happy and she straight away open her door and runs to the rear bonnet. As myvi we can open the back seat easily, before she can open the rear booth, i hid the bouquet behind the passenger seat. She look not so happy once she saw no flower in behind booth. But i show the bouquet of roses and she ran inside the car again. I gave it to her and she was happy with it.

My wife with her a bouquet of white roses

Me and my wife.

A dozen of white roses.

My plan was to send the flower to Hilton PJ for dinner surprise but my wife could sense earlier. So now left 2 more surprise. We both rested at home and at 6:30p.m we went off to Hilton PJ for our dinner. I brought my new DSLR bags which i hid the gifts.

The lights at the lobby look like mushrooms.

This love shape balloons can be seen everywhere in the hotel

The candle had been lit on our table.

Sorbet in Ice Igloo.

Once our dinner start, i gave her the cards and she was happy with the words i wrote and the picture of both of us during our wedding. So we chit chat and seeing other couples who went for the dinner. I’m notice that i’m the only one who bring SLR to the dinner. I snap few shot of the food and the atmospheres. Once finished our main course, the waiter send our appetizers, i took out the last gift from me. 

I gave her the last gift for that day.

She was happy with the SWATCH.

 Me and the appetizers

The appetizers

She was eager to open it up and once open, she was speechless and can’t believe i bought for her a SWATCH for her valentine. It was her most wanted things in her wish list.

We both enjoyed the nite and i hope that she will remain happy till the rest our lives living together as a husband and wife.

As all couples who went for the dinner entitled for complimentary photo session, we took our photo whereby the picture will be post for public voting. You may vote for us if you wanted to at www.zestpj.com. But the photo i had not scan yet but below are our photo taken using my DSLR.