So it's a week until Valentine's day - that fateful time of year where the singles get depressed and drink themselves into a state of severe inebriation, and the couples of the world get sickeningly loved up.

This year I am a member of the single's club for Valentine's, which I don't mind so much - at least it means I don't have to spend money on someone else (and women really make you spend). Last year on Valentines day I started going out with my now ex-girlfriend, which was entirely unplanned, but annoyingly cheesy nevertheless.

So this year, perhaps I'll stay in and join the rest of the single world in drinking myself half to death to avoid facing the depressing fact that I have nobody to be all loved up with, or perhaps I'll embrace my singledom and go out and get drunk instead.

Ultimately, Valentines day is really just a huge commercialised excuse to waste money and improve some large company's revenue for the month. I sound bitter about it, but honestly that's what I believe, even when I've been in relationships during previous Valentine's days.

So all you single folks out there, don't despair that you have nobody to waste your hard-earned cash on this year, but rather cherish these days when you don't have a woman getting irritated with you for spending too much time with your mates, or, in the case of the ladies, a man irritating you by spending too much time with his mates. And all the other crap that comes along with a relationship that we often don't think about when we're single.

Peace.