P for Poem~

ဆားပက္ခံရျခင္း(သို.)ပံုရိပ္ေယာင္

ဟိုး …ဆီက ေကာင္းကင္မွာ
သကာရည္အလိမ္းလိမ္းနဲ.
မိုးတိမ္ရိပ္ေတြပါလား

မသြန္းျဖိဳးဘဲနဲ.
မာယာမိုးႀကိဳးေတြ
ခဏခဏျခိမ္းျပီး
အနာစိမ္းေတြအေပၚ
အပ္စိုက္ေနခဲ.တယ္

တျဖည္းျဖည္းက်ြမ္းေလာင္ေစျပီးမွ
စီးကရက္တစ္ေတာင္.ရဲ.
ေနာက္ဆံုးအေငြ.မွာ
ပံုျပင္တစ္ပုဒ္ဟာ
မိုးတိမ္ေတြနဲ.အတူ
စိမ္ေျပနေျပ
လြင္.ေမ်ာသြားခဲ.ျပီ။

သံေယာဇဥ္

အခုတေလာ နားေထာင္မိေနတဲ. သီခ်င္းေလးတစ္ပုဒ္ေပါ.၊ေလးျဖဴရဲ. ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္ အေခြထဲကပါ....
လူကို အရစ္ေႏွာင္ႏိုင္ဆံုး အရာေလးတစ္ခု အေႀကာင္းကို ထိထိမိမိ ေရးဖြဲ.ထားတာကို ခ်က္ခ်င္းပဲ သတိထားမိျပီး စစနားေထာင္ခ်င္းမွာပဲ ရင္ထဲကို တန္းေရာက္သြားတဲ. သီခ်င္းေလးတစ္ပုဒ္ပါ။

သံေယာဇဥ္ -ေလးျဖဴ

မေတြးခ်င္လည္း ျပန္ေတြးေနမိ
ေမ့ရင္လည္း ျပန္သတိရၿပီး
အမွတ္မရွိေသးဘူး ငါ လြမ္းဆြတ္
မျဖစ္ခ်င္ခဲ့တာေတြ ျဖစ္ကုန္ၿပီ
မွားေနလည္း ငါ ဆက္မွားၿပီး ဒုကၡမ်ားကုန္ၿပီ

ရုန္းထြက္ရင္းနဲ႔ ဆက္ဆက္နစ္ခဲ့နစ္ခဲ့
ျဖတ္ေတာက္တိုင္းလည္း ပိုျဖတ္ဖို႔ခက္တဲ့ သံေယာဇဥ္

သံေယာဇဥ္.. သံေယာဇဥ္..
ငါေလ အပ်က္ပ်က္နဲ႔ ေသြးထြက္ခဲ့တယ္
သံေယာဇဥ္.. သံေယာဇဥ္..
လူကို အရူးတစ္ပိုင္းျဖစ္ေစတဲ့
သံေယာဇဥ္.. သံေယာဇဥ္
ေနျမင့္လို႔ အရူးရင့္ခဲ့တယ္
ဒီသံေယာဇဥ္.. ဒီသံေယာဇဥ္..
ဒီသံေယာဇဥ္.. ဒီသံေယာဇဥ္.. သံေယာဇဥ္..

မၾကားခ်င္ပဲ ငါၾကားေယာင္မိ
မသြားခ်င္လည္း ငါဆက္သြားၿပီး
အစိုးမရတဲ့ စိတ္ေၾကာင့္ ငါ ခက္ၿပီ
မေမႊးသင့္ပဲ ငါေမြးတဲ့မီး
မတိုးခ်င္လည္း ငါဆက္တိုးၿပီး
ငါ့ဘ၀ ကၽြမ္းေလာင္ၿပီ...........

Zodiac Signs

Pisces

Aquarius

Capricon

Sagittarius

Scorpio

Libra

Virgo

Leo

Gemini

Cancer

Taurus

Aries

blog skinေတြ လိုက္ရွာရင္းနဲ. ေတြ.လာတဲ. ပံုေလးေတြပါ။ခ်စ္လို. ဒီမွာပဲ လာသိမ္းထားလိုက္တယ္။ တစ္ပံုခ်င္းလိုခ်င္ရင္ ပံုေတြေပၚမွာ click ႏွိပ္ ျပီးယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ပံု အကုန္လိုခ်င္ရင္ ေတာ. ေအာက္က link ဆိုတာေလးကို clickလိုက္ပါေနာ္..
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Self motivational quote.....

Self motivational quote.....

Loved....................

Though you are miles from the home that you love-
a strange soil beneath you,a strange sky above
morning & evening & all the day through.
Someone is thinking of you.......

In danger & weariness,peril & pain
In moments of doubting when faith seems in vain
Forget not those things that are lovely & true
Someone is thinking about you.......

Someone remembers, & somebody cares.
Your name is whispered in somebody's prayers
Keep the bright hope of the future in view.
Someone is thinking of you.....................

Thanks NZ for my making my day special with these words.....

An inspiring song.......

အားလံုးကို ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္ရမယ္-ခိုင္ထူး

တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ႀကဳံမယ္အေကာင္း
အဆုိးလည္းေတြ႔ရမယ္
အလိုက္အထိုက္ေပါ႔ေလ
ဘယ္အေမွာင္ ဘယ္လိုေမွာင္လည္း
တစ္ေန႔ေတာ႔လင္းရမယ္ စိတ္မေလွ်ာ႔နဲ႔ေလ။

အားလုံးကိုေက်ာ္ၿဖတ္ရမယ္
ေႏြကႏၱာခရီးႀကမ္းေတြ
ဆူးခင္းလမ္း ခေရာင္းေတာနက္ေတြ
စိတၱဇညေတြ တစ္လွမ္းခ်င္းလွမ္းလို႔
မေရာက္အေရာက္သြားမယ္ေလ
ေႀသာ္တစ္ေန႔ေတာ႔
အားလုံးကိုေက်ာ္ၿဖတ္ရမယ္။

တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ႀကဳံမယ႔္ေဆာင္း
မိုးလည္းေတြ႔ရမယ္
အလိုက္အထိုက္ေပါ႔ေလ
ဘယ္လိုေလ ဘယ္ေလာက္ေ၀း
တစ္ေန႔ေတာ႔ နီးရမယ္
အရႈံးမေပးနဲ႔ေလ။

အားလုံးကိုေက်ာ္ၿဖတ္ရမယ္
ေႏြကႏၱာခရီးႀကမ္းေတြ
ဆူးခင္းလမ္း ခေရာင္းေတာနက္ေတြ
စိတၱဇညေတြ တစ္လွမ္းခ်င္းလွမ္းလို႔
မေရာက္အေရာက္သြားမယ္ေလ
ေႀသာ္တစ္ေန႔ေတာ႔
အားလုံးကိုေက်ာ္ၿဖတ္ရမယ္။

တစ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ႀကဳံမယ္အေကာင္း
အဆုိးေတြ ေပ်ာက္ရမယ္
အလိုက္အထိုက္ေပါ႔ေလ
ဘယ္အငို ဘယ္လိုငိုလည္း
တစ္ေန႔ေတာ႔ၿပဳံးရမယ္
တိတ္..တိတ္ေတာ႔ေလ။

Terribly & urgently needed......

Just a note to myself~

! Be yourself~~~(there are so many "should do" & norms in this world but by the time u are sure yourself u can't do some of them anymore,let's leave them out & just be yourself;;;;don't feel blamed by yourself & don't ever get hard feelings.....)
! Be positive~~~
! Be realistic~~~
! Be capable~~~
!Be ever adjusted your feelings~~~(always reign over your feelings & emotions not to be excessive)

I made my day worthwhile!

I have ever heard enough of this name....Topayoh Monastery... but i have never been there until then.Today, i happened to get there thanks to my friend SSK...I have been here for over 2 years but i've been only to Lavender & Eunos monasteries out of many monasteries in singapore.How poor i am!!
Though the linear distance between MRT and Monastery isn't too far(can say it's close enough to walk),we don't know how to go there by foot.So we went there by bus & it took almost 10 min & had to pass through 5 bus stops...
When i stepped into the compound, i was amazed by the splendid & big monastery building together with a dazzling golden pagoda on the top of the building.It's a 3 storey monastery & also the biggest monastery in singapore.
As today is a week day,there are only 3 or 4 people in the monastery.So it's very nice to say prayers, pay homage to the Buddha Statue & meditate in the peaceful & quiet place at that time of moment. After saying prayers & paying homage to the pagoda, we had took some photos of ourselves & the surroundings...On the roof from the third storey,it's quite pleasant to see scenery of the town..& especially the moving & varying colourful clouds.(i don't know why...in these days,i'm in love with the movements of the clouds & their varying pattern & colours).I do like this place really & decide to go there often whenever i'm free.
Going to the religious place like this make me feel full sense of peace & calmness in body & soul!

My Pre Birthday~~~

Thanks my friends for making me a big smile today!!!!

Birthday Flowers

Like the slow beauty of winter, the carnation reveals its color with a subtle grace and rewards close, attentive viewing. The carnation is a rich and fragrant flower, a sensual feast perfect for birthdays during this winter month.



The deep, warm color of the iris foreshadows the luxuries of spring. A February birthday also portends warmth and prosperity, making these two an excellent match. Match a lucky February birthday with this slender, magnificent flower.


The appearance of daffodils in the spring has long been associated with rays of sunshine emanating from the ground, bringing color, comfort, and beauty back to the world. March birthdays also add comfort and beauty to our lives, so celebrate this month with the daffodil’s fragrant sunshine blossom.



The modest, unassuming beauty of the daisy has a playful, childlike character that brings joy and happiness wherever it arrives. The many colored options of the daisy provide ample opportunity to match this lovely flower to a specific personality. No other flower can match the daisy for pure joy.



The subtle, majestic lily holds its delicate white blossoms snugly between its strong, broad leaves. This flower represents the both the strength and wild beauty in May birthdays. A fresh bouquet of lilies is a magnificent way to send your best, birthday wishes.



June must be the month of love, as it has been paired with the flower of passion, the rose. Roses have many significant meanings depending on their color and the number of flowers in the bouquet. June birthdays are also known for their passion, making June and the rose a perfect match.



The long, blossom filled stem of the larkspur has been chosen to represent July because their gorgeous and lush beauty fills summer meadows with an unmistakable color and fragrance. July birthdays are also known for their particular summer radiance.



The sword like blossoms of the gladiola are responsible for its name and also for its symbolic meaning of strength of character. August birthdays are also known for a strong sense of character and moral integrity. The gladiola also reminds us that strength of character and integrity can look gorgeous and be full of rich personality.



The dense petal formation of the beautiful aster allows its rich, deep color to radiate through with a lush, almost aquatic texture. This combination makes the aster the flower of magic and transcendence. September, the beginning of Autumn, is also a time of otherworldly transcendence, and September birthdays contain elements of seeing aspects of life often hidden from view.



The brilliant and unusual calendula represents October birthdays because its broad, colorful flowers follow the path of the sun throughout the day, soaking up all remaining sunlight left in Autumn. October birthdays are also known for being warm, receptive people who are easy going and easy to talk to. Celebrate their one of a kind beauty with the one of a kind calendula.



The bright butter yellow glow of the chrysanthemum brings joy, light, and cheer to the dwindling days of November. Chosen because of the cheer and joy November birthdays bring throughout the year, the chrysanthemum’s color and perseverance are a beacon of happiness.



The translucent white petals of the narcissus blossom bring the beauty and peace of a fresh snowfall indoors. The grace and sophistication of the narcissus bring a redemptive beauty to poor Narcissus, the mythological figure that fell in love with his own beauty and drowned kissing his reflection in a lake. Now, the narcissus represents peace and the possibility of renewal.

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ဘာ၇ယ္မဟုတ္ပါဘူး.....ဒီေန. ဟိုဟိုဒီဒီ ေလွ်ာက္သြား၇င္း ေျဖျဖစ္ခဲ.တာေလး ကို တင္လိုက္တာပါ...အေပ်ာ္သေဘာေပါ.
ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ. ေတြးမိတယ္ IQ မို.သာ ဒီေလာက္၇တာ...EQဆို ဒီေလာက္၇မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို.
ကိုယ္က emotion ပိုင္းမွာ strong ျဖစ္ဖို. လိုေသးတယ္ေလ...တကယ္ေတာ. လက္ရွိ လက္ေတြ.ေလာကမွာ EQ က IQထက္ ပိုအေ၇းႀကီးတာ မဟုတ္လားေနာ္။

My thoughts on the moment

I feel like i've lost my confidence ,what's actually needed to get back my real life ,quite a long ago.In these days...I'm trying to seek a cure for my inferiority complex.What i have seen is that I need to finish up my ACCA as soon as possible .It's the only solution to boost my mood & confidence.To achieve ACCA, I should pay so much efforts into it.Sitting,gazing & thinking too much won't get me anything absolutely....I must strive to attain it as fast and as much as i can!

My exam is drawing near & near and i haven't studied much until right now.Only 30 days are left to study for 2 papers.Truthfully,i feel worried so much with the wavering thoughts/ doubts of whether i can make it or not.
No matter what, I have to pass both papers this exam.....
So let me make not to think too much & try my best!
I really want these 30 days to be very productive & bring the good results for me.
I promise to give my best shot and accordingly please let my destiny give me the best of health,mind & luck.
Wish me to get rid of my doubts and make me believe & adopt "i can make it" attitude.
Wish me the best of luck for this exam!
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I have to believe in myself; otherwise who else will!

Apologized.......

တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္၇ဲ. စိတ္ထဲမွာ နင္.အေႀကာင္း bad image ထင္သြားတာ နင္ေတာ္ေတာ္စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္ေနတယ္ ဆိုတာသိပါတယ္ Polaris။
ဒါေပမယ္.ဟာ သိပ္ျပီးမခံစားပါနဲ. ..........
ဟုတ္တယ္ နင္လုပ္ခဲ.တယ္...ဒါေပမယ္. ဘယ္လို Intention လဲဆိုတာနင္ကိုယ္နင္သိေန၇င္ျပီးတာပဲ မဟုတ္လား။
နင္ကို လာျပီး cheat လုပ္တယ္ လာေက်ာတယ္ အခ်ဥ္လာဖမ္းတယ္ လို. နင္ misunderstand ျဖစ္ျပီး နင္ျပန္လုပ္ခဲ.တယ္။နင္ irritate ျဖစ္သလို သူကိုလည္း ျပန္ျပီး irritate ျဖစ္ေစခ်င္တဲ. ဆႏၵပဲ ၇ွိခဲ.တယ္။ဒီထက္ဘာမွ မပိုခဲ.ဘူး.....
ဒီလုပ္၇ပ္က ေတာ္ေတာ္ childish ျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာ ဟုတ္ပါတယ္၊နင္စိတ္ကို နင္မႏိုင္ေသးဘူး ဆိုတာ...နင္ဟာ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္၇ဲ. influence ကိုoverly sensitiveness နဲ. တုန္.ျပန္တတ္တယ္ ဆိုတာ ေတာ. နင္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္ နင္သိသြားတယ္ မလား။
အဲဒီ အက်င္. က မေကာင္းဘူးေနာ္.....ျပင္ပါဟာ ႀကိဳးစားျပီး ျပင္ပါ။
နင္၇ဲ. အဲဒီလို မေကာင္းတဲ. အက်င္.ေတြ မျပင္ႏိုင္သေ၇ြ. နင္လိုခ်င္တဲ. ဘ၀မ်ဳိးေ၇ာက္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။

Think of this event as if u have learned a piece of lessons from the real world. ေနာက္ျပီး တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ လူေတြဟာ ကိုယ္ ထင္သေလာက္မဆိုး၇ြားလွပါဘူး ဆိုတာ ကိုလည္း အေကာင္းျမင္ေတြးဖို. မေမ.ပါနဲ.
ငါခံ၇ေတာ. မလား ဆိုျပီး သိပ္ျပီး over-precaution ေတြလည္း မလုပ္မိေအာင္ ဆင္ျခင္ပါ။
We're so busy thinking about our own bruises, our scars and we forget how to forgive. But if we just take the time to peek into someone else's world, even unforgivable can be forgiven
ဟိုေန.ကတင္ ဒီစကားစုေလး ကို ဖို၇မ္က member တစ္ေယာက္၇ဲ. signature မွာဖတ္လိုက္ရေသးတယ္ မလား။ဘယ္ေလာက္မွန္တဲ. စကားေလးလဲေနာ္......

ကိုယ္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္လည္း အျပစ္မတင္ေနပါနဲ. ေတာ. ျပီးတာေတြကိုထားပစ္ခဲ.ပါ...နင္အဲဒီ အခ်ိန္တုန္း က အဆင္မေျပတာ ေတြမ်ားလြန္းေတာ.အ၇မ္းကို အားငယ္ေနျပီး aggressive ေတြျဖစ္...နင္ကိုယ္ ဘယ္သူမွ လာလုပ္တာ မခံဘူးဆိုတဲ. စိတ္ေတြမ်ားေနတယ္ မလား...
ဒါေႀကာင္.လည္းနင္ဒါမ်ဳိး လုပ္မိသြားတာေလ...ေနာက္ကိုသာ ဆင္ျခင္ပါဟာ။
ဘာလို.လဲ ဆိုေတာ. နင္သိျပီး သား ျဖစ္ေပမယ္.ထပ္ေျပာမယ္ေနာ္ နင္လုပ္သမွ် အ၇ာ အားလံုးဟာ ေကာင္းက်ဳိးပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ဆိုးက်ဳိးပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ. နင္ပဲခံ၇၊စံ၇တာေလ။
ဒီ ကိစၥကိုေတာ. ထားလိုက္ပါေတာ. ရွင္းလည္းမျပေနပါနဲ.ေတာ႕.....သူဘာသာသူထင္ခ်င္သလိုသာ ထင္ပါေစေတာ.။ ေနာက္ကိုသာ....နင္ဆင္ျခင္လိုက္ပါ။
တကယ္ေတာ. လက္တံု.ျပန္ျခင္းဆိုတာ LOSE-LOSE situation တစ္ခုမဟုတ္လား။

Words are missing to express my apology!

အီးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးးရူးေတာ.မယ္ထင္တယ္။ကိုယ္.အတတ္ကိုယ္စူး ကိုယ္ရွဴး ကိုယ္ပတ္...... ေသသာေသခ်င္ေတာ.တာပဲ။ အခုထိလည္းအိပ္လို.မ၇ေသးဘူး။မနက္၇ နာ၇ီထိုးျပီ။အတန္းက ၁၀ နာ၇ီ၇ွိတယ္။ဘယ္လိုလုပ္၇မွန္းေတာင္မသိေတာ.ဘူး။

ေနာက္တစ္ခါ ဘယ္ေတာ.မွ မလုပ္ေတာ.ဘူး။ငါ.လို guilty ျဖစ္တတ္တဲ. သူအတြက္၊စိတ္ေပ်ာ.လြန္းတဲ.သူအတြက္ ျပန္ေပး၇တဲ. စိတ္ဒုကၡက ႀကီးလြန္းတယ္။

အဲဒါေႀကာင္. ငါ.အစ္ကိုေတြက ေျပာတာ...မလည္ဘဲနဲ. က်ြဲျပဲမစီးပါနဲ. ေျပာတာ။

သူမ်ားကိုလည္း တကယ္ မထိခိုက္ေစခ်င္ဘူး။ ကိုယ္လည္း အဲဒီလိုမျဖစ္ခ်င္ဘူး။။။။။။
ဒါေပမယ္. သူမ်ားလည္းျဖစ္..ကိုယ္လည္းျဖစ္lose-lose situation ႀကီးပါပဲ.....

အခုတကယ္ကိုဘာလုပ္၇မွန္းမသိေတာ.ဘူး။
ငါ၇ူးေတာ.မယ္ ထင္တာပဲ.....နင္စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္သလို ငါလည္း စိတ္မေကာင္းပါဘူး။ေက်းဇူးျပဳျပီး ငါႏိုင္တယ္လို.မေျပာပါနဲ႕............ဒီပြဲမွာ ဘယ္သူမွ မႏိုင္ပါဘူး..သူငယ္ခ်င္း၇ယ္။

2008 Champanion Leagues

I had so much hope for today's event but....
I couldn't blame all of you guys;
You all did the best in your own way.
I'm so sad that i couldn't say anymore.....
Only what i can wish and say is "Best of Luck for the next year " &
i'll be your perfect fan forever!

The History of Valentine's Day

Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday? The history of Valentine's Day -- and its patron saint -- is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred.

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men -- his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.

According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl -- who may have been his jailor's daughter -- who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,' an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial -- which probably occurred around 270 A.D -- others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.

The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D. The Roman 'lottery' system for romantic pairing was deemed un-Christian and outlawed. Later, during the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of February -- Valentine's Day -- should be a day for romance. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. The greeting, which was written in 1415, is part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England. Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.

In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be popularly celebrated around the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers in all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of the century, printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one's feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine's Day greetings. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.

According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.)

Approximately 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. In addition to the United States, Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.

Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages (written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400), and the oldest known Valentine card is on display at the British Museum. The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of the Valentine, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as "scrap".

Source:www.history.com

Be a day filled with love for everyone!

Happy Valentine's Day
to my parents,
my friends,
my relatives & all those i love
and lastly to each & everyone of you!!!

Be a day filled with love......

Cute Alphabets

ဘာ၇ယ္မဟုတ္ပါဘူး...ပ်င္းလို. ဟို၇ွာဒီ၇ွာ၇င္းနဲ. ခ်စ္စ၇ာ ပံုေလးေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ၇တယ္..ဒီေန. အကၡ၇ာ အျပည္.အစံုကို လိုခ်င္၇င္ေတာ. ဒီမွာ ေဒါင္းလုပ္ဆြဲႏိုင္ပါတယ္။