![]() ![]() Hours later at the club, dress code is more chic than thematic. Maybe because I didn’t grow up with Christmas, and find little personal reason to celebrate the birth of Christ.īut I suppose that depends on how you define “celebrate.”īack home in Taiwan, school friends were soaked up in Tequila shots at a local bar with secret santa offerings on their laps loaded with quirk and creativity, trying to impress. Despite their good intentions I still find the sympathetic “aw that’s sad” inherently presumptuous. Most of my annoyance, however, comes from the overwhelming pity I received from friends, college acquaintances, shop attendants, tutors and my scout for not “going home” for Christmas. Not much traveling or transportation either. No cafés, no cinema, no pubs or eating out. Yet the actual holiday itself is arguably, for someone not going home, more of a pain: the inconvenience of reduced supermarket hours, radio silence from maintenance/customer services/parcel tracking. People seem a lot more laid back with increased wearing of ugly sweaters. ![]() Any such attempt would be an inevitable failure – in this country, everything Christmas touches turns into glittering excitement and world peace.Ĭhristmas is great, especially the cold weeks leading up to it, all mulled wine and mistotle. It’s hard not to celebrate Christmas– you would have to try very very hard, from dodging the Broad Street market on your grocery trips to killing your social life by disappearing from Oxmas formals, bops, carols (often only realizing they are themed such after showing up) and enduring conversations on how much we all look forward to home and the vac.
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