Michaerlogy: HAPPY S.A.D.

wooooots! hi today's Valentines' Day!

look at the EVOLVING LEGEND about it =D [source: wikipedia]

The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were excerpted by Bede and briefly expounded in Legenda Aurea, According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer. Legenda Aurea still providing no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."

In another apparently modern embellishment, while Valentine was imprisoned, people would leave him little notes, folded up and hidden in cracks in the rocks around his cell. He would find them and offer prayers for them.

hahaha actually i've heard of the legend before. ohyah and my school sec4 has got one guy's name which is "Felix Valentino" or something lidat i think. cool right! LOL

today is more like a S.A.D for me. Singles' Awareness Day. hahaha so i quickly got myself a hubby today! & his name is Justin! =D whooooo~ lols

& sadly, i had english remedial with Mrs Poon cuz my english is like ........... =.= but OMG it was freaking boring... actually she's a good teacher lah but she can't communicate with students very well, she makes students irritated easily. i completed more than half of a comprehension! woots =D

here are some super delayed photos =P