Decorations: Waste of money.
Don't really get all this hype about Christmas. They waste money putting up Christmas decorations all over the place,
then take them off,
then puts up Chinese New Year decorations,
then takes them off,
then puts up whatever-other-occasion-there-is decorations,
then takes them off.
And then it's back to Christmas, and the cycle repeats.
It's such a waste of money. Does it make you happier? People walk on the streets to walk on the streets and not look at decorations hanging on trees. You suck money from such people when they enter shopping malls to buy stuff.
Some people drive cars all the way to Orchard Road to view such decorations.
You don't earn money from them. Unless you're talking about ERP.
Why bother putting up such superfluous bullshit? You don't earn money from them, they don't normally get appreciated much, and even if they get appreciated there's no real difference in their presence/absence.
But they happy.
I just..don't really get the meaning of this occasion, this whole 'Merry Christmas' thing. That's why I won't bother to actively SMS people telling them 'Merry Christmas, hohoho, a fat red man will be gifting you a present from me, etc'. Because I don't believe in Christmas, because I'm not an Angmoh, because I'm not a Christian. But if people spam me on MSN I'd reply courteously.
I mean, it'd be even more lonely if you're totally neglected by your friends too. Imagine everyone else having SMSes wishing them a Merry Christmas, while your phone stones as if off-ed. That is sad.
But besides this consolation factor, how much more can I relate to the 'magic of Christmas'?
Can't really.
But I always dread Christmas, because my mother will always ask our relatives to come to our house(small house), and the place would be crowded, people are oft found standing because of a lack of chairs and space to put available chairs, my room would be defiled, noise would be made, sleep would be deprived, etc.
But I'm still OK with this, because it's family time and I like family bonding. What I don't like is when my mum asks her own friends over, some time after Christmas(that's why I don't like Christmas, it's like a prelude to disaster). I don't know her friends, and I don't know their kids.
And I don't want them in my room. I need my privacy. I mean, I don't have porn in my room except for a certain magazine, hidden in a weird folder like compartment from my bag, which was flown in from Japan by someone(coughs LLJZ coughs).
I just want to be left alone.
I don't really enjoy having weird, relatively unknown people in my house. I treat my house as like a place where I can hide in and not bother with strangers because I don't like dealing with strangers. It's a place that shouldn't be defiled by anyone, not even my friends, because I like my privacy. Why should other family members disturb me in my reverie with their friends?
Sometimes, I wake up to hear the dreadful drawl of mahjong tables and mahjong tiles cracking. It'd be my sis, and her friends, playing mahjong in the afternoon. And that day would be disrupted, because I'd be confined in my room, because it'd be weird for me a grown man to walk out to the living room populated by 4 women. I have to eat my lunch on my room table, I have to koupe my sister's laptop because the desktop is in the living room, life in that day becomes terrible.
That's why I don't invite people to my house, because that'd disrupt my sister's life if she's at home. See how considerate I am, I am so much better than my sister.
But really, I just kinda need my privacy. And I have to play a good host because no one wants to attend a party greeted by glum people.
And here's to WK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6FPEghwFc
An Eason song for the festive season.
-- 12/25/2009 04:06:00 AM
