Valentine’s Day can be so predictable. A card, a fancy restaurant and a red rose…

Maybe this year it’s time to surprise your Valentine with something unconventional. Here are a few tips:

1. Love notes

Go back to the basics by ditching SMS and e-mail for the day. Prepare love notes or quotes (see below for a few ideas) and jot them down on these pieces of paper.

Now trace his/her steps for the day, and at each stop, arrange for someone to deliver the notes. Think: One under her door in the morning, at the breakfast table, one for each lecture (you can be brave and ask an actual lecturer to give it to her) etc.

The second to last must have directions to where he/she can meet you – and the last one you deliver yourself can say “I love you”… trust me, they’ll believe you this time.

2. Balloon tied to radio aerial

This is good one if you want to be a anonymous Valentine. If you want to break the secret mms a picture of a balloon (form your phone) later that day.

3. Write her/his name on the black board before one of her classes

This may take some planning, but it possible. The quicker way is to make a small poster and just paste it on the board.

4. Candle light dinner – the student way

Ask him/her if you can collect their dinner for them from the res dininghall.

Set up the candles on the blanket outside. Every campus has an open field or lawn…it’s time you used it!

Once they start wondering where their food is, they’ll call or SMS you – that’s when you send the directions to your romantic set-up!

You could perhaps pick some flowers along the way (make sure you don’t get caught), or even ask him/her for a dance beneath the stars!

Tell us about your unconventional Valentines Day

Tell us about your original / unconventional Valentines Day plans and stand the chance to win a wine hamper (to be share with your Valentine, of course)

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Valentine’s quotes:

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

- Albert Einstein

A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. – Anonymous

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  ~Robert Frost

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  ~Voltaire

Source: studentvillage