I Hear Christmas Already.
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I think it was the last Wednesday morning of the previous month, I was going about my work diligently (ahem, am using this term rather loosely… ahem…) when the familiar polyphonic Christmas tunes from the Chrismas tree four-coloured running lights back at the home in hometown suddenly started playing at the back of my mind. I was immediately brought back to the night scene of the dimly lit Christmas tree in the living room…
Back home, for the few years before I came to the big city to, uh, work (gave up on most of the rest of the reasons already, sigh…), I assigned myself to the task of decorating the Christmas tree at home, a task which I actually reveled in. *blush*
And on some nights, I would switch off the living room lights, leaving just the Christmas tree running lights on, with the lights’ polyphonic Christmas tunes playing softly while I lay myself on one of the living room sofas, my mind occasionally drifting to that Christmas scene some 2000 years ago where it all began…
Oh, how I miss the tranquility…
Man… Made me miss celebrating Christmas at home even more… T_T
I miss going for Christmas carolling… I miss the annual Christmas procession… I miss the Christmas masses, especially the grand hallelujah song… Oh, the nostalgia…
Everything is so different and strange here in the big city. I don’t think I’ll ever adapt to the way things are organized here… I really do feel so out of place, most of the time…
Perhaps I should make it a point to go back for Christmas every year too…
Or just go back for real.
cibol says:
well, sometimes i missed home a lot too especially during Christmas. i missed home cooked food, i miss caroling, i missed friends, families and the list goes on. things are a lot different here in the big city, i agree. here Christmas is just another day, too commercialized and somehow the atmosphere is like as if Christmas = shopping / year end sale.
I’m coming home this year. Christmas will be back to how it used to be when I’m at home. home is where the heart is ..
autumn: am sincerely happy for you
oh, i miss my mom’s cooking, frens and family too, y u remind me… T_T haha… not only the commercialized part of it, even the sense of belonging at the local church is missing also, sigh…
cibol says:
not to mention the local church .. yeah, I do get the same feeling sometimes. emptiness is loneliness ..
autumn: nod nod… then again, maybe it’s just me not being able to blend in with the local church community, my bad for lacking initiative…
cibol says:
by the way, is there something wrong with your RSS reader?
autumn: aiks, never really thought of rss before so i dun rly know how it works >.< ''' i tried googling it up and came up with this link http://lazyautumn.com/feed/rss/... eeeee, i think it looks like how it’s supposed to look lah… i’ve noticed my site’s url in ur blog, it has been stuck at a week’s old post, dunno wats wrong ==”’ i’ve searched hi and lo for some rss settings or something in my wordpress account and i hope i made the correct changes, hopefully it’ll work well now… *cross fingers*
but thanks for the link!! *happy!!*
suituapui says:
Early early…already Christmas mood. LOL!!!
autumn: sigh… yalor, homesick again, boo hoo…
housewife9988 says:
same as me, i missed home xmas than city ones.. sure it will not b same even the tunes of my church not same as my home town one though they r all called catholic church.. so sad .. .><
autumn: haha, dun feel so bad, i guess we’re just used to our church back in hometown (i assume we go to the same church =D) because that’s where we grew up