Namhe:Herman Bin Hasim

Matric: 113229

Do you think Valentine’s Day Celebration is important nowadays?

Valentine’s Day or V- day! The day was first associated with an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards. Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves and the figure of the winged Cupid. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them. However, in my personal view, I guess this day is not important anymore to be celebrated especially among the Malaysians.

As far as everyone is concern, the main purpose of V- day is for lovers to express their love towards their partners. Therefore, I believe that it irrelevant to celebrate it as we do not need to have one special day to express our deepest love to our partners. We should always show our affection to them at all times, 365 days a year. There should not be a special day like V-day since everyone is free to confess and express their feelings to their loved ones. By having an exceptional day like V-day, I believe that people would tend to wait for that particular one day to do all out for their partners as they want them to be contented and remember it. What about other days? Again, I always keep in mind that love is not something that is based on time.

Besides, during a V-day celebration, it is so obvious that love is in the air. V-day has becomes over-commercialized nowadays. It has been converted into a trend to celebrate V-day as most of the youngsters are seen to be at concerts and pubs to celebrate it. When V-day has becomes a trend, it has already defeated the purpose of its original reason of celebrating it. Instead of to express love, it has turned out to be an event of showing off to the public what couples may do to impress their spouses. In addition, couples may want to blow their own horn about the expensive and branded gifts to be given to their other half. Therefore, it is not anymore on giving something special sincerely but to brag to buddies on how filthy rich they are.

Finally, the reason why I think Valentine’s Day should not be celebrated nowadays as it has been reported the V-day celebration, there were various social illnesses mushrooming in the country. In November 2000, it was reported that a bubble parties was held in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with the V-day celebration. On that night, most of the youngsters were dancing nakedly before an ambush by the authorities. In Thailand on the hand, it was reported that in year that in year 2011, 27% of 2400 of university students were caught having sex on the February 14 as a way for them to celebrate it.

In the nutshell, there are lots of negative impacts when V-day is celebrated in Malaysia. Thus, I urge everyone to stop this celebration before it is too late. I understand that it has to be done gradually as Rome is not built in a day!