February 17, 2008 - 9:54 p.m.

The Economics of Valentines Day

presented to you by Jo

bouquet:$40
chocolates:$30
pink heart shape balloons:$18
cute pink things with mushy messages:$12
swensens vday meal:$72
expensive v'day present:$100
showing appreciation and seeing your loved one's face light up:priceless
for everything else, there's mastercard.

Haha. Valentines day is expensive for dudes. There's pressure to get a gift that will really impress the girl and make her go "awwww, that's so sweet and thoughtful". On this day, demand for gifts rises steeply and hence gift shops rejoice and take great delight in rising prices. Graphically, this change can be reflected by a huge outwards shift of the demand curve due to the the non-price determinant of seasonal changes, or rather, special festive season that results in a sudden increase demand for chocs and nice sweet things. In conclusion, valentines day can be explained with the help of a simple diagram depicting the free market forces of demand and supply in the economy.
omgsh. I do ramble alot of nonsense. I should really be getting back to my vectors 12A2 tut. I actually kinda skipped tut 12A1 cos i was behind time. I hate vectors! blargh. Anyway, yeah Happy Valentines to everyone. Show appreciation to everyone you love! Not just the special him or her (: Thanks and hugs to everyone for the lil gifts and candies. I think its nice to receive lil things and know that you are appreciated by someone. Haha. Thank you 3i guys, for uhh that lovely picture of you guys staring jh and his attempt to form a <3 with his hands albeit it looked more like an apple or orange. It's quite sweet of you guys. But to put it in perspective, quoth jo-elle: " Actually if you look at it in another way, only our class guys will give us a picture of THEMSELVES on valentines day." HAHA. xD But it's appreciated. I shall always look at the pic and smile and uhh be cheered up by the comic relief xD We went for k buffet on V'day. Quite fun, the food was surprisingly quite nice. Apparently it's done by Sakura. And so we spammed and sang songs and munched away from like 6-10 xD Then we snuck hy in so in the end we shared the cost of 4 ppl amongst 5. Saved quite a few bucks :D On the way home we were still damn high and kept shouting songs and especially when we were walking along the park area near dhoby ghaut mrt where alot of couples were trying to get a nice private moment. Heh. Ooops.But that was the fun. xD Poor xf had to use a jacket to like cover up the nice big word behind her pe shirt to avoid ppl seeing. Heh.

WHEEEE. Current fandom is korean drama my girl. OMGGG. haha. even though the romance plot is the damn typical two guys and two girls and both guys end up liking the female lead in the end. BUT IT IS STILL VERY NICE! Lee Jun Ki is acting in it! Lols in some shots I think he's like prettier than both of the girls lah :P But he can be quite good looking too. And the other guy is cute too! EYECANDY + stupid idol drama fluff = FLUFF UPSIZED! <<<<3 Whee. niceness. And lee jun ki is so sweet to the girl in the show! Whoa, he really knows how to make a girl happy man. Haha. He's funny, nice, cute, rich and always there for the girl. But he doesnt get her in the end! :( so sad. Oh wells. Haha, I finally know why people can get so addicted to idol dramas. all the fluff and pink hearts flying arnd xD okies. that's about it. Oh, everyone go vote for Spore for world monopoly! :D Oh and take five was abit sad and disappointing this year but talentime was quite good. maybe i'll post the links if ppl uploaded vids onto youtube.

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