Friday's 55: Christmas Week
Here's my piddly contribution this week for the theme. Tired and sleepy, but somewhat content. I like skipping work, though it adds some disorganisation and inattention to time that I am not comfortable with. Okay here goes...
Christmas in Bombay: people dressed up, performing at weddings. The laughter a cover for hours of arguments between mothers and daughters over waking up, making up, hooking up. The beginning of the business year for the marriage market. Not to mention difficult times for the digestive tract. Dreams, drunken tears and resolutions. But always hope.
What do you think? Do you agree? I want to know your Christmas experiences! Have a good weekend - I don't think I'll be online the rest of the weekend!
posted by Princess Joya | 3:07 pm
6 Comments:
No i dont!!
What is that abt i didnt quite get it
FOr me christmas always was about carols, christmas trees the stars outside balconies and yes cakes!!
Probably i live in a catholic neighbourhood, probably im from a convent, so for me i knowall the carols, some prayers!! Iv always wanted to attend a midnite mass but never cld manage it!! Ur view on bbay christams i feel is a lil outdated, now i think its a global thing everyone celebrates it! My hindu neighbour has her tree set!
But my best memory of christmas is being dressed as one of the shepherd boys in a christmas play and my pant made by some paper falling off!!! LOL....
Christmas makes me happy and brings hope into my life...i never actually ever felt what uv written
anyways,
cheers
I guess I agree. The same holds for New Year's, Diwali, etc.
But there is always hope.
I went to a Christian school too and went through the carols and nativity play stuff. It was a lot of fun. Not to mention the Christmas parties!!! But for us it's always been wedding season (the cool weather etc. and NRI's coming down for vacation). And lately it's been stressful! Xmas eve for people I know is just another reason to party. There's no religious spirit.
I wanna go for midnight mass too!!!
Christmas and December somehow equated to going home. Since the last four years atleast -- I returned to India twice in December. So invariably, even when I'm not going to India in December, come winter time - it just makes my heart glad and my days cherry.
Otherwise, Christmas still meant a lot. I went to a Catholic school and visited friends who gave me marzipan and red and green colored cookies. I d visit Akbarally's and have photos taken with the Santaclaus. (usually a free gift too!)
The slight chill in the air, the fairy lights at school and the church and the tiny, cheap christmas baubles on my cheap fake-looking christmas tree--- were what my christmas's were made of...
And they've only gotten better! Its xmas eve tonight and I'm going on a drive around philly to take photographs of all the merriment- the lights and the trees... the happiness!
Merry Christmas Aranyi. Hope the next year brings the best for both of us!
I forgot..........Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Aryani, nothing piddly about your Xmas 55. I thought that you captured the atmosphere beautifully!
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