when you give someone flowers, how much thought and effort do you put into the process?
do you consider the person's preferences?
do you consider your own preferences?
or do you really read into the meanings associated with the type of flower, its colour and quantity?
the cliche rose, flower of choice of many, and aptly, it symbolizes love.
below is a list of symbolic meanings attached to a certain type of rose.
my personal favourite is the pink rose. well, my favourite flower is jasmine tho. i guess i got it from my grandmother - the most important woman in my life.
Rose Red - I Love You
Rose Pink - Happiness
Rose Yellow - Friendship
Rose White Innocence or Purity
Orange Rose - Pride, Desire
Rose White - Innocence and Purity, I am Worthy of You
Rosebud Red - Pure and Lovely
Lavender Rose - Opulence
Black Rose - Rebirth, New Beginnings
Blue Rose - Impossible, Unattainable
Blue roses exist in fantasy but not in nature. The blue rose symbolizes the unattainable or impossible which won't make it a good choice to give someone you would like to maintain a relationship with anyway. nice.
and the wrappings, the accompanying flowers and all that jazz, do you simply let the florist decide, or do you choose baby's breath because you know it symbolizes 'a delicate touch' as if to be the icing on the cake...
hmm...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I used to wait for you. Days would go by before I got a text or a hello, but I was so elated to finally hear from you that I ignored all the signs.
I forgot that I deserve better. I forgot that I actually need someone who's going to uplift and adore me, worship me, love me completely, just as I loved you. But I'll never get that from you.
I'll never get the sweet note or that hug or the awkward hand holding. I'll never be able to hold you again, to kiss you and run my fingers along your collar bone; you're simply too cruel. I can't deal with the insensitivity and the cutting jokes. I can't deal with the degrading behavior you're so trapped in.
You're sorry? Well that's wonderful, but I don't want apologies. I want a change in behavior, a change in character, and I'm not going to ask that of you because I know you too well. This is who you are, this is how you are, and I'm not supposed to try and change that. I'm accepting you as You, and moving on.
I'm falling out of love.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
the things that you do, have you ever stopped to think; why, why do you do them?
are you deluded when you help a friend - and whatever you do for this friend, especially if she's of the opposite sex/gender, you tell yourself that you do it out the kindness of your heart, and not cuz' you've got the hots for her? how do you know this is true?
why bother going through all this trouble. isn't it human nature to want something in return, be it gratitude, or even a warm bed at night? is it hard to believe that perhaps you just want your friend to be happy. seeing her happy makes you fuzzy inside - like collecting karma points.
and do you pick a fight just because you know you can win, because you hate the person or because of the alpha male syndrome?
in crisis, one's true character shows. this, i've been told time and time again.
how much would you fight for a friend?
how far would you go to hold on to a friendship?
how hard do you hold on to your principles?
and would you back down, even if you know you were right, just because sometimes, there are other things more important in life?
all that matters is today.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
today, i received zero smses.
the sound of silence,
scary.
depressing.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Romeo loved Juliet
Juliet felt the same
When he put his arms around her
He said Julie, baby, you're my flame.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Didn't you want to hear
the sound of all the places we could go
Do you fear
the expressions on the faces we don't know
It's a cold hard road when you wake up
and I don't think that I
Have the strength to let you go
Maybe it's just me, Couldn't you believe
that everything I said and did, wasn't just deceiving
And the tear in your eye, and your calm hard face
makes me wish that I was never brought into this place
There goes my ring
It might as well have been shattered
and I'm here to sing
about the things that mattered
about the things that made us feel alive for oh so long
about the things that kept you on my side when I was wrong
Maybe it's just me, Couldn't you believe
that everything I said and did, wasn't just deceiving
And the tear in your eye, and your calm hard face
makes me wish that I was never brought into this place
And someday, I promise I'll be gone
And someday, I might even sing this song
To you, I might even sing this song, to you
and I was crying alone tonight
and I was wasting all of my life just thinking of you
So just come back we'll make it better
So Just come back I'll make it
better than it ever was x2
Maybe it's just me, Couldn't you believe
that everything I said and did, wasn't just deceiving
And the tear in your eye, and your calm hard face
makes me wish that I was never brought into this place
Maybe it's just me, Couldn't you believe
that everything I said and did, wasn't just deceiving
And the tear in your eye, and your calm hard face
makes me wish that I was never brought into this place
( I want it all, Don't leave right now)
(I'll give you everything)
nice. on a lonely, cold saturday afternoon.