Happy Howaito De! ホワイトデー,

Gaberdeen · (#1 (**permalink**))

Happy white day everyone

I had flowers and chocloates sent to my GF for today seeing as it's a (commercial) Japanese holiday! She arrives in London in less than 3 days - I'm so stoked

I had no idea about white day until the start of this month when I did some snooping on the significance 14th of March (means something COMPLETELY different in the UK!) - I thought Japan celebrated Valentines just like the rest of us, but as it turns out Valentines is 'chocolate or cakes for boys' day and white day is the three-fold return gift to girls day.

In case you didn't know what it was - he're is the wiki

White Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyway, happy Howaito De everyone

jene · (#2 (**permalink**))

man i have never herd of that before

but thank you man in case i did have a chance to go there
(it is my dream)

hypekstatic · (#3 (**permalink**))

yay Happy White Day!
I think I mentioned this before when it was Valentines Day.... haha

In Korea they also have BLACK day! I never knew that.... o_o;
its for single people.

Anyway I think I've shared this story before.... but one time I had a
guy give me candy and chocolate on March 14th and I thought he was
crazy because it's March not February and I laughed about it forever
until my mom explained to me what White Day is. That was when I was
in middle school but it was still kinda funny xD

ps, I never understand why both Japan and Korea say "H-WHITE" instead of just "WA-I-TO" or "WA-EET"
I mean it's phonetically spellable for both countries... but whatever.
I always think it's weird because "Hwa-eet" in Korea is like "fight"
so as the Japanese may cheer on, "GANBATTE!" or "GANBARUYO!"
Koreans say, "HWAITING." (fighting) hmm... random thought lol

Gaberdeen · (#4 (**permalink**))

I thought I'd see "Shiroi" in place of Howaito....

hypekstatic · (#5 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaberdeen

I thought I'd see "Shiroi" in place of Howaito....

Well it's westernized because it's a knock off of VALENTINE'S DAY,
which is a western tradition.

forgotenmemory · (#6 (**permalink**))

When I saw the topic, I thought this was going to be something racist, lol. SOrry. ^^

Ito · (#7 (**permalink**))

LOL today is my big brothers birthday and also the White day. lol