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Is it winter holidays yet?
Nov. 6th, 2006 01:38 pmOkay, seriously. I'm not dead, I really am not. I've just become... incredibly bad at updating and doing things online that I usually did a few hours a day back in college. I don't really know what happened, but now, I glance at LJ maybe twice a week and that makes me a sad kitty. For one thing, nothing has replaced LJ for me. It's like the networking portion of the internet has faded away and all I'm concentrating on is looking at interesting sites, reading fanfiction, surfing for random things, and just the oddball internet activity... like finding scary flash animations and watching them over and over.
Another thing is that I'm SO ready for my winter trip! Once December 23rd hits, I'll be on my way to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam for two weeks of sightseeing, shopping, and just random sunbathing. Except maybe not so much with the sun. Maybe I'll lie under an umbrella or something so I don't look like a lobster when I come back.
Also... CHRISTMAS IS HERE IN JAPAN. Everywhere I look, lights! trees! santa claus! everywhere! It's pretty cute, actually. For one thing, it's not about the holiday of the birth of Jesus Christ to them. It's an excuse to make everything shiny and sparkly and pretty and oh yes, a way to get people to spend tons of money on the most random things (though, OMG, some of their random things are to die for!) to give to other people. They set up special sections that are exclusively Christmas shopping. They advertise limited edition plates, cups, microwaves, Hello Kitty dolls, pencils, wigs, anything you can put a decent price on, it'll have some sort of special Christmas edition. And it warms my little capitalist heart to see it. ;)
Seeing all the things and remembering last years fiasco of:
A: Happy Holiday!
B: NO! It's MERRY CHRISTMAS.
A: TO BE CORRECT IT'S SOL INVICTUS.
B: TO ME IT'S CHRISTMAS.
A: TO ME IT's SOL INVICTUS.
C: HAHA, you're both wrong! It's a commercialized holiday created in order to sell billions of toys and create loyal shoppers for the future!!!1111
D: ... wtf?
A/B: STFU NOOBS
My poor mother was never so unsure of what to say to people. Especially since she's a lapsed Catholic, forgets Christmas if I'm not there to remind her to get something for my younger siblings, and generally thinks winter holidays are an excuse to get some more sleep and to go see a movie. Seriously. When we were younger, my parents would put in some effort (though they drew the line at a tree) but after we got into high school, it was money in nice envelopes and a beaming smile that we were old enough to pick our own presents. After a while, it was like, as long as we don't have to do anything, you can celebrate Christmas however you like!! And that was fine with me since I like planning things, so Christmas was usually a big dinner the night before and the day of, and then presents in the morning that I usually shopped for, bought, placed various names on, and then pretended it was from one person to another. It was GREAT. No, really! It was great because we always had a laugh over the fact that no one in my family really cares about Christmas.
And then the news reports of last year made it more ironic.
SWEET.
Another thing is that I'm SO ready for my winter trip! Once December 23rd hits, I'll be on my way to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam for two weeks of sightseeing, shopping, and just random sunbathing. Except maybe not so much with the sun. Maybe I'll lie under an umbrella or something so I don't look like a lobster when I come back.
Also... CHRISTMAS IS HERE IN JAPAN. Everywhere I look, lights! trees! santa claus! everywhere! It's pretty cute, actually. For one thing, it's not about the holiday of the birth of Jesus Christ to them. It's an excuse to make everything shiny and sparkly and pretty and oh yes, a way to get people to spend tons of money on the most random things (though, OMG, some of their random things are to die for!) to give to other people. They set up special sections that are exclusively Christmas shopping. They advertise limited edition plates, cups, microwaves, Hello Kitty dolls, pencils, wigs, anything you can put a decent price on, it'll have some sort of special Christmas edition. And it warms my little capitalist heart to see it. ;)
Seeing all the things and remembering last years fiasco of:
A: Happy Holiday!
B: NO! It's MERRY CHRISTMAS.
A: TO BE CORRECT IT'S SOL INVICTUS.
B: TO ME IT'S CHRISTMAS.
A: TO ME IT's SOL INVICTUS.
C: HAHA, you're both wrong! It's a commercialized holiday created in order to sell billions of toys and create loyal shoppers for the future!!!1111
D: ... wtf?
A/B: STFU NOOBS
My poor mother was never so unsure of what to say to people. Especially since she's a lapsed Catholic, forgets Christmas if I'm not there to remind her to get something for my younger siblings, and generally thinks winter holidays are an excuse to get some more sleep and to go see a movie. Seriously. When we were younger, my parents would put in some effort (though they drew the line at a tree) but after we got into high school, it was money in nice envelopes and a beaming smile that we were old enough to pick our own presents. After a while, it was like, as long as we don't have to do anything, you can celebrate Christmas however you like!! And that was fine with me since I like planning things, so Christmas was usually a big dinner the night before and the day of, and then presents in the morning that I usually shopped for, bought, placed various names on, and then pretended it was from one person to another. It was GREAT. No, really! It was great because we always had a laugh over the fact that no one in my family really cares about Christmas.
And then the news reports of last year made it more ironic.
SWEET.
