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Won’t you be my valentine?
“Will you be valentine?” the most popular phrase of February is coming closer to being echoed in every country of the world soon. As we all know, this is the time of the year when for just one day love is in the air literally with all those banners, balloons, posters, cards, advertisements and people wishing each other ‘Happy Vals Day’. This is time of goodwill, love gestures and telling people you care, so in the spirit of love let’s explore the land of WWW and search for the some powerful ‘Objects of Affection’ that will give us the power to make this day a great one for those whom we love the most.
The web is a very powerful tool for demonstrating your love for another and there are many creative ways to show a special someone in your family like a brother, sister, parents, a friend or friends, a sweetheart, or even your dog how much you care. One of the most popular way, however, is to use ‘e-cards’. E-Cards, like the name implies, are greeting cards available on sites like http://greetings.yahoo.com, www.123greetings.com, www.bluemountain.com and www.lovingyou.com (for others type ‘Valentine Greeting Cards’ as keywords in www.google.com). These are usually animated pictures or flash based movie files that will tell someone that you love them. To send a card, you can visit one of the sites and choose from amongst the hundreds of cards available. Fill out a form with your personal information, message and the recipient’s email address (without this you cannot send the e-card) and send. The receiver will get a link which they will click on to view their e-card.
Another highly effective way (which has also been used for centuries) is to write your valentine a love letter or a poem. However, since not all of us are writers, you can use the writings of authors worldwide to convey your message. These you can email to your val. or can deliver personally written on paper or greeting cards. These writings range from the immortal words of Emily Bronte’s ‘How much do I love thee…” to the emotionally Charged Pablo Neruda and his ‘I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz…’ to Desi writers like Ahmed Faraz, Parveen Shakir, Meer Taqi Meer, and Ghalib. For English poetry you can search www.google.com for ‘Valentines Day Poetry’ or ‘Classic Love Poems’ and for good Urdu love poetry, I would recommend www.urdupoetry.com or www.urdupoint.com. For love letters, you can visit sites like www.lovingyou.com, or search Google with the keywords for ‘Classic Love Letters’. You will also find plenty of Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) which are dedicated to love poetry or love letters and can also browse these for ideas.
Now we have proven we love our val. in the online world. Let’s make their offline world special too. For hundreds of ideas on how to make your Valentine Day really really special you can visit http://www.theromantic.com/stories/valentines/main.htm, http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/valentines_main_ms/, http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/ and http://www.links2love.com/valentine.htm.
Some ideas here range from decorating the house or room (be sure to ask your parents permission first, before decorating your own house) with cutouts of hearts, cutting a heart shaped cake with your val. (or ice cream), or recording a CD of your favorite love songs for your val. (You can use the software ‘EZ CD Creator 6.0 for this purpose. It will also design a personalized CD Cover for you, which you can print out. Please ensure that you have a CD writer and a printer for this purpose).
These are just a few ideas that can be used to make someone’s day special. There are thousands more which are just waiting on the web. So go forth young hearted mortals, bedeck your beloved’s screens with hearts that float, message mates that make them laugh, love poetry that will make them melt, and those hundreds of ways that show them that you care and for just one day let’s all celebrate the beauty of love together. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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