In Japan, Valentine’s Day is observed by members of the female gender who present chocolate gifts (either store-bought or handmade), usually to a member of the male gender, as an expression of love. The handmade chocolate is usually preferred by the receiver, because it is a sign that the receiving male is the girl’s “only one”.
On White Day, the converse happens: males who received a “honmei-choco” chocolate of love or “Giri-choco“ chocolate of courtesy on Valentine’s Day are expected to return the favor by giving gifts, usually more expensive. Sometimes the term sanbai gaeshi (literally, “thrice the return”) is used to describe the generally recited rule that the return gift should be two to three times the cost of the Valentine’s gift.
The shops were buzzing Friday night with last minute shoppers, myself included, the last thing you want to do is arrive home. or wherever else you may need to go, empty handed.
By the way, the tardiness of my posting this week was due to a WordPress problem preventing me writing posts, it seems Apache was blocking my IP after to many queries were sent to the server … all seems to be fixed now so i have a bit of cacthing up to do.
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I have been wondering where you have been
-Mike
It’s still giving me grief too Mike …. not sure what’s causing it but i know how to fix it now and i know that when i get locked out it’s only my IP that’s getting blocked for ~ 30 minutes. Strange though and i want to fix it once and for all …. it has settled now though.
I’ve never given any girl a present on White Day. I just carried on like it was any other day. The girls I got chocolate from didn’t say anything either. That’s probably because they know my attitude is so out of tune with what they want. Why do girls like bad guys? I don’t get it……
I spent around 4-man which is not bad considering that was for about 40-50 girls.
Spending cash is cool but keepin track of who I gotta spend it on… is not!!
Geez Chris, i take it many of those were students!
Seems, the white day celebrated only in Japan…I never here about it in any else where before.
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