Tehehehe I wouldn’t buy it, but as far as gadgets go, this is awesome.

Pete organised a movie marathon at ECU last night. First movie on the list was Fight Club. Today I find that Tyler’s little speach about consumerism is being brought to the forefront of my mind everywhere I turn. Vallentine’s Day is a completely fictional creation of an English poet, that has become vaguely dedicated to one of 3 even more vague characters from the Christian church. And everybody seams to celebrate it with an almost religious dedication; paying exhorbitant prices for cut flowers, restaurant dinners and silly gifts with love hearts on them. Why do we do this? Christmas, Easter, Chinese New Year, etc do have commercial sides to them, but they have at least some sort of understandable reason behind them. Why Vallentine’s Day? Why are we, not just eager but hell bent, on throwing our money at commercial industries just because THEY tell us that we’re supposed to celebrate our love for that someone special, by buying their products for said someone, on this particular day? I’ve never understood the fanaticism over Valentine’s Day. Somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve always wondered if my pessimism over Valentines Day might be due more to the lack of someone special to share it with than anything else. But now I do have someone special in my life, and I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND all the fuss over vallentines day.