Valentine Blues

Dear blogger!

Hello! Hello! February 14 is fast approaching! It’s only 5 days away… so the questions are:

1.       Who’s your date on Valentine’s?

2.       Where will you go on a date?

3.       Are you sure you have a date?

4.       Will there be someone who will ask you out?

5.       Date or just bed?

6.       What do you want to have on Valentine’s day?

7.       Let me rephrase no 6, what do you wish for on Valentine ’s Day?

This me on Valentine’s day…

Plan? Hmmm…. Of course, I have a plan! But my plan is very unusual. Actually, among the questions above, I would rather answer 6 and 7. I know, I know, those 2 are the same. So here it is!

WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR ON VALENTINE’S DAY????

I only have one wish… It’s not cheesy, it’s not romantic either. Okay! Here it is… For Valentine’s day, I only want a pink/orange/yellow-green/dark-blue ukulele from Uke Box. .. . okay that’s all!

I used to fantasize and to daydream of having a date on the 14^th of February. Take note of the words, I USED TO. I used to imagine what it’s like to be on a date, but when I knew my current boyfriend for 8 years, I would opt to keep using the phrase, I USED TO. Of course, in a relationship, it starts with being sweet then as time passes by, that sweetness fades. Grrrr!

Ok back to the subject on hand…

A ukulele! I’ve been dying to get a ukulele! I was on encouraged my staffs and dabakards from EAT BULAGA! (a noontime show in channel 7, GMA) to try ukulele. It seems that most of the people in that show are learning the ukulele. As a guitar player, I wanted to try something new, and I know it will not be hard for me to learn the uke since I have a background in playing the guitar. And, I think it’s easier to play the ukulele since it only has four strings compared to the 6 strings of a guitar.

So here is why I named this blog entry Valentine Blues:

Let me share this very irritating and still continues to piss me off convo that me and my boyfriend had two days ago.

I was busy tweeting and he came into the room, me (being the “ME”), told him… “Moy, I know what I want for V-day”, and he was like giving me that stern-look of his asked me what, then I said, “ Can you please buy me a Ukelele from Uke Box in Quezon City? They can ship it”, then again with that stern-look. He said, “Okay, but on one condition” me: “what?” him: “You sell first your guitar”. And I was like WTF! Why do I have to sell my guitar? Will that get in the way of me playing ukulele? Will my guitar get jealous because I will have a new friend? Does my guitar have feelings? Is my guitar alive to feel jealous? Or is my boyfriend so irrational? I guess the last question is the one…

I was so pissed off that I kept on ranting in Twitter the whole afternoon. You may call me OA but you don’t get what I was feeling that day. In order to have something new, do you need to let go of something you had for a very long time? Wow naman Tsong, ang babaw mo!

(c) pretteatraveler, Uke Box Caffe, FB page: www.facebook.com/ukeboxcaffe

Until now, I’m not ready to drop off that subject, I still insist the Ukelele even though I get the same response from him. If he won’t really buy me then I’m planning to buy it for myself next month since I will be traveling to Manila. Valentine blues, I bet this will still continue post- Valentine.

With love,

Shan (a lover of sting instruments)

P.S.: This is me ranting again and I’m not gonna move on. 

if you plan to buy a Ukelele i recommend you come and visit Uke Box Caffe in Quezon City.

here is there FB page: www.facebook.com/ukeboxcaffe