There comes a time each year when tunes of “Jingle Bells” and “Deck the Halls” gets blasted repeatedly almost everywhere you go. Concourses in shopping malls and display windows of shops would be filled with Christmas trees and snow flakes; Santas and Santarinas would be roaming around giving away product leaflets and offering to have their picture taken with passers-by. One cannot miss the fact that Christmas is just around the corner and I simply “love” this time of the year.
Somehow or rather, people become more friendly and light hearted during this time of the year and this makes the year-end period a good time to go out to mingle and socialize. Even the workplace becomes a lot more bearable as customers will be pushing aside all tough negotiations for the time being and bosses suddenly seem to have higher tolerance for misses in sales forecast. If I recall correctly, I read some survey indicating that the month of December is when the most alcohol is being consumed, most money spent on shopping and also the month with the lowest productivity in the workplace. These data points then brings to life the equation that more booze + higher purchasing power + less work = Happy Society.
Christmas and the year end period have always been a good time to get together with family and friends after a gruesome 11.5 months at work, school or whatever it is that have been keeping us occupied for most part of the year. It is also the time to exchange presents, send greeting cards and to throw parties. While most of us would get excited and enjoy being on the receiving end; that is to receive cards and presents, the giver does have their fair share of joy too. That is something I discovered this year as I decided to send out festive greeting cards with personalized notes to several people who have played a special part in my life throughout the year. The gleam in the eyes of the individuals I chose to present the cards to made the hassle of choosing the cards worth the while and I derived boundless satisfaction judging from the glee of the receivers.
As was mentioned earlier, everyone seems to be more compassionate and friendly and everything suddenly seems to come to a halt in the last week of the year. Hence in the true spirit of the “festive period”, I would be keeping my ramblings short and simple this time around before attempting the other “must-do” during the year end which is a post-mortem aka review of the year. In the meantime, I shall just sit back and chill with a couple of drinks and wish everyone a Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas!
*By the way, I also read somewhere that August & September are the months with the highest birth rate. I wonder why it’s nine months later and not in December.
Somehow or rather, people become more friendly and light hearted during this time of the year and this makes the year-end period a good time to go out to mingle and socialize. Even the workplace becomes a lot more bearable as customers will be pushing aside all tough negotiations for the time being and bosses suddenly seem to have higher tolerance for misses in sales forecast. If I recall correctly, I read some survey indicating that the month of December is when the most alcohol is being consumed, most money spent on shopping and also the month with the lowest productivity in the workplace. These data points then brings to life the equation that more booze + higher purchasing power + less work = Happy Society.
Christmas and the year end period have always been a good time to get together with family and friends after a gruesome 11.5 months at work, school or whatever it is that have been keeping us occupied for most part of the year. It is also the time to exchange presents, send greeting cards and to throw parties. While most of us would get excited and enjoy being on the receiving end; that is to receive cards and presents, the giver does have their fair share of joy too. That is something I discovered this year as I decided to send out festive greeting cards with personalized notes to several people who have played a special part in my life throughout the year. The gleam in the eyes of the individuals I chose to present the cards to made the hassle of choosing the cards worth the while and I derived boundless satisfaction judging from the glee of the receivers.
As was mentioned earlier, everyone seems to be more compassionate and friendly and everything suddenly seems to come to a halt in the last week of the year. Hence in the true spirit of the “festive period”, I would be keeping my ramblings short and simple this time around before attempting the other “must-do” during the year end which is a post-mortem aka review of the year. In the meantime, I shall just sit back and chill with a couple of drinks and wish everyone a Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas!
*By the way, I also read somewhere that August & September are the months with the highest birth rate. I wonder why it’s nine months later and not in December.
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