It’s Dec 17th, 8 days and its Christmas, the season of love? Happiness? whatever that means. Being in North America for a while one thing I noticed is that this coming week is the most hectic week in people's lives, malls which normally close at 9:00 pm are open 24/7, there's line up even at 3 in the morning with people getting last minute shopping done. Everyone here buys everyone else a present, whether you celebrate Christmas or not is just irrelevant, it’s a season of giving and taking i guess, cause people generally tend to expect gifts in return when u give something???? such a weird concept, I don’t think i will ever understand that, but i think its a part of life for people here something that goes beyond religion, culture etc, more like a seasonal norm i guess. What gets me raving and ranting is the fact that people spend so much this season, but mostly on themselves, I don’t think they understand what giving really means, for me Christmas would be giving something to someone who really needs it,,,, people who are starving, dying, but I guess that would be too utopian of a concept in this fast paced world we live in today.
Ok enough with this rant, on to more pleasant things, cricket:-), yes for a change I am happy with what the men in blue are doing, we might actually win a test in South Africa, still too early for predictions but I definitely am impressed with the showing in the first match so far:-), i read somewhere that a South African newspaper had a poll on the outcome of the series, and it was 1-0,2-0 or 3-0, all in favour of South Africa but that might just be reversed:-)(maybe some dreams are not utopian after all:-))
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