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Christmas Thoughts
By Peace | December 25, 2006
Christmas or no Christmas doesn’t matter to me. Christmas is a day for Christians and Catholic to go Church, as it is supposed to be the ‘birth of Jesus Christ’. However, it is still a question mark whether Jesus Christ was really born on 25th December. Religion wise, the same doubts hold. Who really is God? There should only be one God. But there are so many religions around, worshipping different ‘God’. I do not wish to comment more about religion as it is very personal and everyone got their own real ‘God’.
Let’s come back to my Christmas Thoughts. Christmas for me is the just another ordinary day. However, for retailers and the entrepreneurs or businesspeople, it is a rare opportunity — ‘once a year opportunity’, for them to make more money. It is a time where bakeries, gifts shops, florists, fashion boutique, restaurants and many others trades have more sale. It is a special time where people can have a special reason to get together. It is a special time people can find excuses to ‘rest’ on this special holiday. Besides no work on Christmas Day, it is a special time of the year where people can exchange presents too. It is a special time of the year where people can have fun, caroling and partying.
Many years ago, I would and could be like these people. Indeed, many years ago, I love special occasion, like birthdays, Christmas, Chinese New Year, because I love presents! Well, now I have totally different views. I do not know whether I have been through how much hardships or trials of life. This is because, I know that people like my mother, has no good life too. I am much better if I were to compare myself to her. However, if I were to compare myself with other women whom I know, I am not much better than them either. I am not trying to compare myself with others, but in conveying my views of undergoing trials of life, I had to use such examples.
When there is too much expectations, you tend to get disappointments in life. Too much hope and you get feeling of despair and disappointments later on. After all these years, I learned not to expect too much in life. I don’t hope for more either. Everyday can be special day. Everyday can be good day. Everyday can be enjoyable if you have money and if you have the people you love to be with you. You do not need to wait until Christmas to call for any special celebration! Things are also more expensive on festive season. Places are also more crowded during festive seasons. Why spend extra money in crowded places, where you have no freedom of spaces. You see more people, you must keep a watchout for steps and people more than you can window shop! I would rather spend my money in a better way that I can really make full use of and feel worth it. I would not want to dine in a crowded restaurants or shop in a crowded shopping center. I would rather shop and dine in a quiet place where there is not much crowd.
When I was younger, I love to dine in restaurants. During special occasion, it would mean special occasion to ‘celebrate’. Now, I find that it is really a waste of money. However, I do miss some of the fine food, like lobster bisque at Gondon Grill; Sharks fins soup at Pan Pacific Hotel; steam prawns and chilli crabs. I also miss my mother’s cooking — it is something that even if you got money, you can never buy it anywhere. My mother’s cooking is so nice, she is just so good in cooking.
When I was young, I got to eat Christmas log cake which was given to my mum from her godson. That was the first Christmas log cake I had tried and I loved it. Not all Christmas log cake is nice though. This Christmas, I long for Christmas log cake. I have not eaten it for quite some time. I wanted to eat the normal ‘brown’ Christmas log cake. However, on 23rd December, my children wanted a vanilla Christmas log cake instead. I really like the chocolate Christmas log cake, but majority wins. Both children want Vanilla Christmas log cake, also happen to have mangoes in it. Though I do not really like it, but I still buy for the children to eat. Today I intend to go get one Chocolate Christmas log cake, however, I did not finally.
Ricsson asked me just now,”I thought you want to buy Christmas log cake?” I told him that it was raining and spending $38 for a christmas log cake is so expensive. So in the end we managed to save $38. $38 could be the money use to spend for consulting a doctor in future. $38 could be use to fill the stomachs for a day.
This Christmas, as usual, I went to my brother’s house for a little ‘celebration’ — ‘makan’ and gathering. It is a one year rare opportunity where we get to see most of the people in the family. However, I didn’t get to see my sister-in-law and my elder brother. They were busy on this day. They did not want to miss this golden opportunity to ‘earn more money’. So they are the people who serve the Christmas shoppers. There just need to have people to serve the Christmas party people, the Christmas shoppers and so on. If no people work on Christmas Day, then commuters will have trouble getting around, people cannot celebrate Christmas in restaurants and people cannot have fun at lounges and other entertainment places too.
I have no Christmas wishes. However, I always wish my mother, father and my children and my families good health, and ’safe’. The only thing I had missed this Christmas is a chocolate Christmas log cake (the type I have eaten when I was young). I would have to wait for another year to eat one.
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