First of all, Merry Christmas to you. I've been very busy during this festive period, as usual. It's just that this time, I had a whole new schedule to follow on Christmas and the days following it. I'll start off with Christmas day.
Every year, I usually go to some of my relatives' house to visit them during Christmas. However, that wasn't really the case this year. One of my second-uncles passed away recently. So, many relatives were not celebrating or were just having a small celebration.
I had to go to my aunt's house in the morning. I actually wanted to go to my friend's house that morning. My mother said no and insisted that I follow my family to my aunt's house so that there will be a Christmas 'feel' and joy in her house. Well, sometimes we just have to sacrifice certain things.
Well, there wasn't anything that fun to do there. I just had a sumptuous lunch and played around with my small cousin. Besides that, I spent the rest of my time listening to the adults' conversations and making my own interpretation of each of it.
At night, I went to one of my friends' house. I was expecting to meet up with quite a number of my classmates but was left with a slight disappointment when only 3 classmates turned up. And the only other boy there left about 10 minutes after I arrived. So there you get it, I was practically stuck with the girls.
The four of us-me,2 other girls and the host-succumbed to our hunger and headed for the food table. We got our food and settled down at the dinner table. And the chit-chatting took off from that point.
Half the time, I couldn't understand what they were saying because they were speaking in Mandarin. I didn't want to interrupt as I know that the same way I'm comfortable with conversing in English, they might be comfortable conversing in their mother tongue. At times-based on intonation and facial expression-I felt like they were hiding something from me. Well, maybe somethings are meant to be kept as secrets.
The other half time I could make out what they were saying, I can say that I had a great opportunity to sneak into a "girl-gossip" conversation. They went on and on talking about guys-how some guys disturbed them, how to overcome it and the names of the boys who had asked them out.
I didn't interrupt much either just because I didn't have much comments on their topics of conversation. At times, I just said something and at other times just laughed to myself. To be honest, it was kinda interesting to hear but at that time, I wasn't really in the mood to talk about relationships.
Christmas this year had been a very different and unexpected affair for me. From disturbing small kids to listening to "girl-gossip" stories, I think that day was a nice change to my usual celebration of Christmas every year....
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