Cupid's Chokehold

I do not recall ever celebrating V-Day with the so-called 'significant other half'. Well, maybe I did, once upon a time ago, but I do not have clear memories of it. Signs of erasing what's not worth remembering, they say.

My two anti-social V-dates

Thasha made cupcakes!

Some people were getting hyped up with the whole Valentine's spirit, while some resolved to hating it and poked fun of its whole 'capitalistic' idea, and there are some who 'God knows why' relate it to religion and blamed it for all mortal sin. Personally, it was just another working day, with 'go out' plans with my besties in the evening. If I must say so myself, I was bewildered by the sight of extremely congested traffic when I was heading out to work (which is later than everyone else) and on my way home.

WHY IS EVERYONE OUT?!?!

Anyway, regardless of that, I was more anxious about the freaking Air Asia sale at midnight. I kinda took a peek at the prices some time in the afternoon. They must've been fixing the system, prepping it for the midnight chaos when I harmlessly decided to try and 'do a booking'. Indeed, you should have seen my face during our karaoke session after dinner at Giza - due to the overzealous Klang Valley population out on the roads we decided to stick to one place for dinner and entertainment. As I was saying, I lugged my laptop out with me (thanks, Shaun, for carrying it) and was frantically trying to connect to the internet 15 minutes before midnight. Stress sial!

Before the *stress* kicks in

On the way home, I was logging in from my mobile, on Firefox and on Chrome - desperate right? only to discover my phone's battery was about to die, and the same goes for my laptop. Turned off my laptop but continued trying on my phone.

Air Asia ought to be proud with my perseverance. pfft!

Literally ran into my room once we reached my condo. Plugged everything into the power socket and continued surfing. For a solid 90-minutes, AA was being such a bitch to me, kicking me into the waiting room only to divert me to the fancier Error404 *bzzz* page. Ranted non-stop on Twitter, Twit-friended a Brit on Twitter who was also ranting about the terrible system supporting such heavy traffic on AA's website. Yet, I still stayed and found a way to access the booking page and avoid most of the 'waiting rooms sessions' - HAHA!!

..... and, I GOT MY TICKETS!!! *looks at wall clock*  exactly an hour and a half! Bugger.

So, that's how I spent V-Day. Fits the title, no? Feels like choking someonething when I was being diverted to AA's waiting room and Bzzzz page.

V-Day 2011 @ Giza

Conclusion: Instead of writing about V-Day, half of this post is dedicated to my stressful moments trying to snag a return ticket from AA's website. Bliss! So let me conclude this post in a lovelier manner (no pun intended). Did you manage to check out Google's Doodles yesterday?? Such creative people. Call it lame if you want to but I love yesterday's Doodle video. Gotta say, Tony Bennett's Cold, Cold Heart added that special touch to it