A Quiet X’mas
I could remember the past years of school holidays. The air was filled with christmas mood. Every single mall we went to, christmas songs were chiming away with joy, people sang along. Even some malls invited Santa Claus costume men to help light up the wonderful festival.
This year's pre-christmas was, unsurprisingly, quiet.
The global financial crisis has taken its toll. Usually during christmas, people at malls would spend freely, buying christmas presents for their loved ones. Now that the world's economy was bad, the festive mood isn't there anymore. The magic has evaporated.
Even the non-stop christmas songs played in shopping malls fail to cheer up the people. The people, right now, try to save as much as possible, bracing for worse economic meltdowns. It is bad. Really bad.
Not only christmas was quiet, even Deepavali was not much celebrated of. Deepavali unfortunately fell on the period of time when the stock market tumbled. But still, Malaysia is fortunate enough to resist the terrible financial crisis which hit USA, Germany and Japan hard.
It is indeed, very difficult to build the festive mood we once had before.
Oh come on, this happens. I hope the crisis will not dampen the New Year mood, as well as Chinese New Year.
Ermm... merry christmas.
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December 16th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
hey...wanjin here. 1st time look into your blog. shock!
You missed class trip. Sad ya. Link me! Keep in touch.
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