O' x'mas tree.. oh.. a taiwanese x'mas tree?
when I came home last night.. my mummy bounced over with a twinkle in her eye.. (an UH-OH alarm went off in my head as the twinkle is often associated with her being naughty in buying useless crap or guilt of her breaking something of mine or decided to chuck out my favourite outfit/book/kitchen stuff/electrical appliance).. then she told me she has bought some sparkly stringy stuff.. “’tinsels’ yeah?? See I know the English word for them” she proclaimed in chinese except for the tinsel bit..*sigh*
she then took me into our lounge and showed me a bag of x’mas tinsels.. “to put up around the house.. for x’mas!”.. at this point.. my jaw hit the floor..
first. We are Buddhists.. and last time I checked.. x’mas ain’t on the calendar..
second. Mum is the most anti-festivity person E-V-E-R! She don’t like celebrating anything.. not birthdays, anniversaries or even chinese new year! Yep.. we always had to beg her if we could do something that resembles some sort of celebrating.. so, after her half a century of anti-holidays, all of sudden she has decided to join the rest of civilised world in celebrating a holiday that she doesn’t believe in..
but since I’m a celebrate-anything-on-any-calendar-any-chance-i-get-opportunist, I embraced her ideas of decorating the house.. plus she's so cute when she's excited abt something.... :)
so.. here's our version of a x’mas tree.. a plastic plant in our front entry.. which took a good 20 mins and two tinsel rearrangements.. (btw, the yellow/black thing in the tree is a toy monkey with banana that dad thought was appropriate since monkeys like trees)
yup.. shameful really.. but I’m so happy that at least this year we've got some sort of festivity going on that we won't be longingly looking into our neighbours’ windows at their trees.. I don’t really care how tacky it looked...
she then took me into our lounge and showed me a bag of x’mas tinsels.. “to put up around the house.. for x’mas!”.. at this point.. my jaw hit the floor..
first. We are Buddhists.. and last time I checked.. x’mas ain’t on the calendar..
second. Mum is the most anti-festivity person E-V-E-R! She don’t like celebrating anything.. not birthdays, anniversaries or even chinese new year! Yep.. we always had to beg her if we could do something that resembles some sort of celebrating.. so, after her half a century of anti-holidays, all of sudden she has decided to join the rest of civilised world in celebrating a holiday that she doesn’t believe in..
but since I’m a celebrate-anything-on-any-calendar-any-chance-i-get-opportunist, I embraced her ideas of decorating the house.. plus she's so cute when she's excited abt something.... :)
so.. here's our version of a x’mas tree.. a plastic plant in our front entry.. which took a good 20 mins and two tinsel rearrangements.. (btw, the yellow/black thing in the tree is a toy monkey with banana that dad thought was appropriate since monkeys like trees)
yep.. it’s our tv.. it’s practically family..
left over tinsel that we dunno what to do with it..
yup.. shameful really.. but I’m so happy that at least this year we've got some sort of festivity going on that we won't be longingly looking into our neighbours’ windows at their trees.. I don’t really care how tacky it looked...
except this morning, the tree tinsel were rearranged to mum's satisfaction (apparently i don't have the artistic eye), and i was informed the TV tinsel will be relocated to somewhere else more appropriate.. *SIGH*
posted by j | 12:00 pm
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And the TV tinsels did get relocated elsewhere, above the pictures near the kitchen... by me last night. And of course, followed mum's artistics vision =P
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