Merry Christmas!

So I wrote on my Facebook status ‘Christmas in Asia is…business as usual…sigh’, that kind of sums up my Christmas this year. For the second time since I was 6, my Christmas was spent working, 3 hours total of commuting, and suffering from the bewildered looks of my coworkers when I wish them Merry Christmas. Sadly Christmas is just another day here in Taiwan, celebrated only by shopping malls and restaurants in order to try to generate more revenue for the year end. Some people do take it off, usually Christians or people looking for excuse to take a day off. The big holiday in China and Taiwan of course is Chinese New Years which this year comes in the 3rd week of February. So it would be a little strange celebrating 2 big holidays so close to each other especially since Christmas is so revolved around Christianity. However…it is a little strange going about it like it is just another day.

So yesterday on Christmas Eve in order to put a little of the Christmas spirit into our lives, Annie and I did fork out the money to eat a ‘Christmas Dinner’ at one of the better restaurants here in Hsinchu. The place was decorated nicely with Christmas trees, candles, and balloons. They even had a choir singing Christmas carols in English and Chinese to everyone. Mimi got a chance to meet Santa for the second time in her life, of course this was the first Chinese Santa she met and he wasn’t that fat…kinda slim actually for a Santa. I think Mimi was a little freaked out as you can see from the picture. Anyways though Christmas is what it is here in Taiwan…Annie, Mimi, and I with everyone a happy and safe holidays. Merry Christmas everyone!