To the right you can see the atrocity forced upon the poor palm trees living in our compound: tinsel and other assorted x-mas decorations. Having grown up in places where winter = snow, this seems wrong to me.
We're hearing a lot more holiday songs being played over store speaker systems these days, too. Songs like "Jingle Bells" and "What Child is This? [instrumental version] are played all year 'round here (Chinese folks seem to dig x-mas carols for some reason), but there's been a definite uptick in the airtime given to tunes like "Up on the Rooftop." One of the villa owners in our compound has even strung up some cheesy holiday lights (I keep expecting the compound guards -- who practice military drills every morning -- to drag the owners out into the street and beat them. Our compound has a very "planned community" feel. It seems to me that a lights display probably violates some clause in the property agreement).
3 comments:
Don't feel bad Heather and Dwight, with the weather not feeling like Christmas. Other than the palm trees, our's look pretty stupid too, with no leaves, decorated with lights and 71 degrees yesterday and today! Record highs since 1846! Love you both
Aunt Julie
We put up our xmas tree last night... it's a smallish fellow in a pot ready for post-holiday planting. And then we lit the menorah and read the grinch. Oh, yes.
At least you don't have to listen to an endless loop of a boys' choir singing, "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."
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