True Love In Middle Of Winter- Happy Valentine's Day!

The 14th February is supposed to be the festival of lovebirds across the world. It should be seen as a special day when you feel like you want to do something nice and completely different for the ones you love. There are so many beautiful ways to show them the way you feel. Of course, I think if you love someone you need to show it to them all year long, but it's still nice to be taken out for dinner or be given a bunch of roses on that one special day. However, some people see it as just another pointless and commercialized day where the shops attract us to spend more money. The Valentine's Day has a lot of traditions and history behind it though.

Here are some fun facts about the Valentines Day, taken from

http://festivals.iloveindia.com/valentines-day/valentine-day-fact.html, you can read more on the website:

1. The modern day celebration of Valentines Day is believed to begin in France and England.
2. Cupid (symbol for Roman God of love), doves, love birds, roses, hearts and arrows are all symbols of the Valentine’s Day celebration.
3. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D.
4. In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be celebrated around seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes.
5. In Medieval times, girls ate bizarre foods on St Valentine's Day to dream of their future spouse.
6. There was a belief in the Middle Ages that the first unmarried person (of the opposite sex) you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would become your spouse.
7. The first Valentine gift was sent by Duke of Orleans to his wife, after he was captured in 1415.
8. 73% of Valentine Day flowers are bought by men, whereas women buy only 23% of Valentine flowers.
9. Around 3% of pet owners prefer to give Valentine gifts to their pets, as they are more grateful than humans.
10. In oden times, some people believed that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.
11. The heart is the most common symbol of romantic love. Ancient cultures believed the human soul lived in the heart and its red color is though to be the most romantic.
12. The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Since red stands for strong feelings, red rose is a flower of love.
The first Valentine's Day box of chocolates was introduced by Richard Cadbury in 1868.
13. In Wales, wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on Valentine’s Day. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite Valentine decorations on the wooden spoons that meant, "You unlock my heart!"





We've had a lot of Valentine's love in the News Room today. Everything seemed to be working perfectly well, even the computers were so nice to us! It was a highly productive day for me. I've been trying to get all the technical matters ready for Wednesday so we don't have to run about like headless chickens 2 hours before the bulletin trying to get the headlines music!
I managed to produce a new headlines music. It is different to what we had last week, as I know Chris wasn't really keen on it anyway. I think it's more news-like and sounds more professional now. I've also managed to get the sports graphics to work which is fantastic as in the last bulletin the graphics had a primary school standard! At least we won't have to worry about those for the next few weeks till we decide it is time to change the template.
I was also very proud of myself after I sub-edited my first two articles, which went really well.

After coming back from the long break, I can fully say that so far I am enjoying my new role more than I did last semester. Currently I feel like a part of the News Room, whereas last semester I never spent a minute in there because I was out filming and editing my features. This semester I can feel the friendly, although sometimes tense atmosphere that flies in the air of the News Room, and I love it! Working on the Production side is definitely what I would choose to do after graduating.

Anyway, to all of my lovely journos and everybody else, especially Cait and Sybil and those who read my blog.. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! :) Lots of love to you all!