So what has happened since I've been back home? Mostly nostalgia. Shopping in a supermarket to buy food stuff for the Christmas Eve dinner brought back some taken-for-granted memories. It feels like so much have changed but yet so little actually did. More drama from the family as my cousin's wedding on New Year's Day unfolds. This wedding is apparently going to be epic. I don't like where this is going. I really wish I can not go for the wedding. Anything else is better than mixing with cousins that you hardly know, uncles and aunties that tell really bad lame jokes. Oh, and I really wanted to go for my school's CF reunion on New Year's Day. I need an exit plan.
Christmas has been on a steady decline since I can't remember when. Christmas dinners or opening Christmas presents these days aren't the same anymore compared to the days of old. I feel more distant from family, much like the way that I feel about OCFers. But who are we kidding? Christmas is all about remembering that Jesus came to Earth as a man who will eventually deal with the problem of sin. I mean that is the more important thing for us Christians to remember. But everyone has their own cultural family traditions that we all remember and love as a result of this momentous occasion. Mine has left the building a long time ago.
Oh and as an aside, today we celebrated a friend's birthday. It was good to see a long-time-no-see friend and frankly one of the few people that I can talk to with ease regardless of the situation. There is no such thing as awkwardness or anything conflicting when we talk and I say that very few people can do that. I wish I had more friends who are like that. Anyway, everything was fine until she had to leave early and suddenly I feel like a stranger in the table. I retreated to my iPod, half listening to distract myself and half scanning the conversations for information that I can use if they were asking me a question. On a tangent, though on shuffle, the music seem to come a lot from Kelly Clarkson and Michelle Branch, two singers that I haven't heard in a long while. They are awesome.
Merry Christmas everyone.
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Merry Christmas, Juwen.