Is it Chinese New Year today, bro?According to the dictionary, the definition of Valentine's Day is:
a holiday in some countries when people give special cards, candy or flowers to people they love (Longman Dictionary of American English)
Do school girls need to give chocolates to their teachers? If so, that's lame.
If you have lived in Japan, you may have known that March 14 is White Day, which requies guys to give some gifts to the girls who gave them chocolates on February 14. But, in Korea, they have one more day, which is called "Black Day":
But that's not the end of it; in fact, the ouch factor quickly quadruples, since men are reportedly expected to give gifts of up to four times more than the estimated cost of the chocolate they received.
All of which brings us to the very goth-sounding Black Day, which takes
place April 14, when singles who got totally left out of the chocolate-candy-gift-exchange-comparison frenzy get together at a Chinese restaurant to eat "black noodles" (noodles in a black bean sauce) and drink, all the while bitching about how it sucks to be without a mate, not to mention chocolate.
Actually, the way Moon described it, Black Day sounds totally cool, a love-among-the-noodles version of the Nerd's Revenge, a chance to find companionship even among the blackest of beans. And therein lies the charm of this ritual that has yet to be packaged and marketed to death, unlike its hearts and roses counterpart.
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/02.11.04/black-day-0407.html
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