Yuletide Spirit

It is 5 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes and counting before Christmas day. My friend Shane posted on her wall telling that the town seems to be quiet with less cars and people. Not a very typical Keningau setting, because this little town is always bustling with life all year round.

Well, perhaps, not for today.

If you’re a chap born and raised or you’ve worked and lived here in Keningau, you’ll catch the drift. But I guess it is pretty much like any other places. Now is the time when everyone will start to work their butts and end their day in beer or any of that sort. Canopies and camps would be erected, house would be sparkling clean, family starts gathering in anticipation of Christmas Day. Homes well decked with fake Christmas trees, plastic mistletoes, colors toned up to red and green, just nice to jumpstart the Christmas mood. It’s the ultimate Christmas concoction.

We do not have snow here, but with all the family members gathering, you can actually feel the warmth of unity and the love shared as one family that it makes you feel all cozy inside.

Yep, that’s the Yuletide Spirit.

As a child Christmas was an exciting event, but now as an adult it feels like a chore. Christmas has changed so much in recent years for me, that I don’t look forward to it anymore. It’s to commercial and people don’t think about the real meaning of Christmas.
In the 1980’s when I was a child , I couldn’t wait for Christmas and all that goes along with it. Family was a very important part of the season. We had cousins, aunts, uncles, even people I never met that were related to us came over to our house. I can remember watching the women making all kinds of biscuits, the men prepping and decking the house, and all of us kids messing around. The entire family would eat dinner together, obviously I sat at the kid table. Through out Christmas Eve, their was a lot of music playing ,laughter, and warmth. Once everyone ate and it started to get late, it was time to put the kids to bed. I would try really hard to go to bed, but I was so excited it was difficult. So I would stay up and try to listen to the adult conversations.

Then as the next day dawns on us, we would all sports our newest clothes, pampered ourselves and went to the church for the Christmas Mass. The sheer enjoyment, that wonderful, intense aura of joy ~

Christmas. It is about the birth of Jesus Christ, and with that in mind, we gathered together united as a family. As the evening approached, the smell of Christmas dinner excited me. This was the time I had waited for all day. My stomach rumbled with hunger and I could smell the roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and the sight of the colorful foods ; it was wonderful. The supply of food was tremendous, more than I could ever imagine. The table looked like a royal feast. The sparkling crystal, beautiful arrangement of flowers placed so neatly in the middle of the table and the light brown of the glazed turkey made our eyes gleam with anticipation. The family gathered around the spectacular table setting, and my Uncle said grace. When the feasting began, the room turned silent, as everyone savored every breath-taking bite. Christmas dinner is the best meal of the year, because so much time and effort is put into making everything perfect. Every year after Christmas, I think about how the holiday means so much more than Santa, parades, and singing. It truly is about celebrating Jesus Christ, having family unity and eating Christmas dinner as a family. I will never forget the years.

Yep, that’s the Yuletide Spirit.

Merry Christmas Friends ^^

Ding A Ding Ding...Ho Ho Ho..Merry Christmas Fellas

Ho Ho Ho..Tis' is a season to be Jolly tralalalala....lalalala.. Poor Santa, he had been going around the globe at warp speed leaving a horny Mrs.Santa all alone at home. Well, Christmas is for loving and cherishing love, so who would blame Santa as he lies on the table, wasted, semi naked with a semi-hard dick. That must be one hell of a quickie he got hahaha.. I mean, look how worn out he was ^_^ Merry Christmas Fellas, Have a Blessed Days ahead ~wink~

Reminiscing My Christmas Memories

Day: Thursday, 10 December 2009 Time: 0022 Hours

This was the 6th conspicuous attempt in installing a decent, non-memory hogging anti-virus on my poor netbook. And on each and every attempts I've made, everything went square one and I've to start over again. While waiting in anticipation for my copy of Windows 7 which I'm so eager to try, I went through doing my routines on my main PC. It was just some dull routine. Downloading updates and degunking my PC. That kind of stuff. So went some Old edited music, some depressing songs I'd used to torture myself back then into my Recycle Bin, and a folder of some nameless files..so I thought. What was it? Like a complete dud, I wondered myself...

It was yet another collection went MIA in my 500GB Hard Drive. Without hesitation, I went on double clicking on it and voila... it was some Christmas song stashed away in the belly of my PC. Looking exasperatingly at my netbook, I decided to just lay down and stretch out after straining myself for a few hours back to back. How nice,the Old Christmasey music, from instrumental pieces to golden oldies.. God, suddenly an avalanche of memories from my fondest past came like a giant tsunami on me and how I missed those old care free days.. Where I would have fun and fool around with my cousins and kins like it's forever  (and) looking at the stars glistening in the sky above (for real, Christmas was so not a monsoon affair years ago..unlike now...) Since it's the second week of advent. I felt compelled to share with you guys and on behalf of my fondest Christmas yesteryears

"Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart’s memory so that it can discern the star of hope.…

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope."

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Seek That Which Is Above,1986

Happy Advent guys and girls and everyone in between =) 

Christmasey Feelin' Kickin In

How I love that Christmas feeling
How I treasure its friendly glow
See the way a stranger greets you
Just as though you'd met him Christmases ago
Christmas helps you to remember
To do what other folks hold dear
What a blessed place 
the world would be
If we had that Christmas feeling all year 

It's that season of the year again.. Bells jingling in the air, shopping complexes spinning off loads of Christmas songs,  and you'll see kids and teens alike wearing Santa's hat while walking around the streets. And carolers clad in their tees, hopping from home to home, singing Christmas Carols and fervently wishing the host a happy Christmas to come. Such is the Christmas feeling. The only thing is we don't have snow here (I could imagine how nice it would be, throwing snowballs and all those winter gigs). We have our off season monsoon downpour, which everyone comes to term it as 'Keningau's Snow'.. It's wet, it's cold... definitely.

The Christmas feeling is that of charm, bliss and happiness. There can be no better feeling in this world than being with your loved ones, sipping on hot chocolate and just enjoying life in general. It is the time when people go out Christmas shopping and indulge in getting some of the best gifts for everyone they love. There are also plenty of Christmas decorations that are bought and hung to give a complete festive feeling. Holly, mistletoe, pine trees, stars and candy canes have become popular decorations associated with Christmas and has become representative of the beauty that this season and festival seems to represent.

Popular colors of red and green predominate, with trees of green and Santa red being splashed all round the place. Decorations and lights dot the fringes of the neighborhood and people come together to meet their family and enjoy an amazing celebration. Xmas is a time of merriment and all cultures celebrate it with an equal enthusiasm and fervor. Traditional Christmas feasts differ from country to country but the mood is the same and the feeling of love and sharing is experienced by all.

Shops are replete with a lot of books, toys, and new gifts and items that are enthusiastically bought by everyone to be shared with their favorite people. Everyone has special Christmas memories attached with this amazing season because there are so many wonderful associations with this entire concept of Christmas. Children love it because they have fond loving thoughts about the Santa Claus bringing gifts. Cookies and milk are set in table for Santa to have as he comes on his nightly visit to the little children to leave them their favorite gifts by the fireside.

Pictures, symbols, representations and popular myths have become well associated with the entire concept of Christmas celebration. This much loved day is extremely enjoyed by people from different culture. Lights are put up, and decorations come out of the closet to adorn homes and neighborhoods, it is a wonderful feeling of love, hope and happiness. Cities, sub-urbs, nations –there is not a single community or place which has not been affected by the amazing spirit of Xmas. It is extremely special because it provides a relief of sorts from everyday existence and life that makes everything so complicated. It is often a good idea to take a break from everything complicated and speedy and that is exactly what the season of Christmas provides.

Make your Christmas extremely special by enjoying with people you love, give them a lot of time and take part in fun family activities. Prepare a hearty meal together even if you can’t cook too well! Go out ice skating or building a snowman from the snow, shop till you drop and get hold of all the amazing decorations from the shops, take long drives with people you love at night to enjoy the lights and the festive feel. Try helping others if you want to spread the feel.