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UPDATE: Currently having a life crisis. But no worries, because tetris cures everything. MATERIAL POSSESSIONS AREN'T IMPORTANT TO ME, ALL THAT MATTERS IS TETRIS.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
What’s the real meaning of Christmas? To experience the joy and soak up the festive season? Or to experience the boredom and soak up the alcohol?
Christmas in Singapore is as depressing as it can get. Surely the mention of ‘Christmas’ conjures up images of falling snow outside and a roaring fireplace inside with merrily crackling fires and plush hearth rugs. Frost coats windows in a gossamer layer outside and paper chain decorations strew thickly across the glass inside. Jack Frost’s mischief can’t hurt you while you’re enveloped by heavenly warmth.
That’s all illusory for a country located smack right on the Equator. Christmas here comes with 30°C weather and humidity almost high enough to us to stick our tongues out and drink the water. This inevitably makes everyone uncomfortably hot and sticky. The sweat and the odour, OH THE ODOUR! When we try to mask that stench with perfumes, deodorants, body mists, all those smells combine to form a fluid soup in the air. Everyone just mills around in that BO-perfume-soup. What about the snow? Yeah of course we have that, in a plastic Styrofoam version.
I do yearn for those material aspects of Christmas, but I’m far from agreeing with the spiritual side. It’s all that love again. Everything has to close in on this bloody love-thing! I wouldn’t mind celebrating Christmas with friends, but most people celebrate it with their family right? Of course my life is uneventful now, but I can just imagine how awkward and tiring it’ll be in future. Parents coming over, having to explain your life so far, having them judge if your life is going to turn out successful, hearing them hinting every five minutes on you making a baby soon, etc. I could collapse from all that tension.
Not so bad this year. In fact it’s gonna be absolutely marvelous, I think. I’m going to spend Christmas at YanTing’s house, complete with steamboat for dinner! Not exactly how you would imagine Christmas to be like especially if her Chinese New Year decorations are already up (as are mine, perpetually). But who cares, I’m going to spend it with nice people! Hopefully some of their nice-ness will rub off on me.
Saturday, December 24, 2011