black day

april 14th, today is black day. quoting wikipedia:

Black Day is an informal tradition for single people to get together and eat noodles with black bean sauce in South Korea. The idea is that those who didn't give or receive gifts on Valentine's Day or White Day, can get together and eat Jjajangmyeon (짜장면), Korean noodles with black bean sauce (hence the name) to commiserate their singledom.

why jjajangmyeon? who knows, but it gives me an excuse to eat some more. so to celebrate the holiday (since i didn't receive any gifts on valentine's day) i had a bowl of the spicy variety of jjajangmyeon:

yumminess

see on valentine's day in korea, the woman is supposed to give the guy a gift and on white day the guy gives a gift in return. why doesn't the states have holidays where girls are supposed to give gifts to the guys? ah, we're so backwards. commercial holidays, you gotta love 'em.