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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Speak out: Love month
By Henry L. Yu, M.D.
February. Love Month. Heart Month. Valentines.
Yes, you know it's gonna be Valentines soon as malls are again bedecked with cut-outs of red hearts in all sizes and styles and other things relevant to the Love Season. And yes, the 1001 love songs filling the air with their meaningful lyrics and haunting melodies that would make Romeo and Juliet fall in love again and again, till death do they part.
We'll be hearing again the song:
"My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine, you made me smile with my heart/ Your lips are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art/ Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak?/ When you open it to speak, are you smart?/ Don't change your hair for me/ Not if you care for me/ Stay little valentine, stay/ Each day is Valentine's Day.”
Yes, we've been hearing this same old familiar song time and again, long before our uncles' and aunties' era when they used to sing or hum it, with that look of love in their eyes.
We remember how we would peep silently when uncle would visit auntie in the house and they would converse in the sala with some background music from Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole emanating from our RCA hi-fi stereo.
Oh, the memories of yesteryears when we were that young and the world was more peaceful and simpler in more ways than one. Yes, "those were the days, my friend, we thought would never end.”
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