Christmas time!!!

Ok, so Christmas is round the corner...everyone is in a celebratory mood, including the chaps in my office as the months salary will be distributed before Christmas...yipeee...so that means I start the new year broke!!!

This year the Finance department (which is viewed as the most boring department, where stiff collared and sense of humourless people abound) has decided to organise a group that will go to every department in the company and sing carols...yours truly has also volunteered to blast the eardrums of the unsupecting public with her singing...though I already warned the organisers that people run for cover when I sing...he just waved it off as a non hazard saying..."if you have the guts to sing, the job is yours"...El is to work on the motley crew of singers( most of us non-catholics) who would be singing carols for the first time(yours truly went to a church school so atleast knows the songs by ear), god bless her!!!...Psst, I intend to take a leaf out of our rock singers book, I hear they lip sync their songs at most concerts, so I will go along with the group and lip sync the song, my only worry is hope the rest of the "singers" are also not thinking on these lines, if they do, we will go down in history as the only silent carol singing group!!!...The Team has also organised something called as a Kris Kringle, kind of like Secret Santa...where you have to buy gifts for someone anonymously, I like this idea a lot...El if you are my Secret Santa, you know what I want gift wrapped :))

I remember one Christmas when I was about eight, the myth of Santa Claus died a natural death, I had just seen some cartoon films where Santa Claus leaves gifts for all children who have been good all year. I was heartbroken that Santa did not send me any gifts even though I had been good all year and also been sensitive enough to kept a clean sock hanging in the wash line outside the house, my logic for leaving the sock outside the house was, that since we in India did not have chimneys, which incidently is Santa's all time favourite route to enter a house, he may bypass our house and not leave gifts!!!

My wish is to celebrate a white christmas before I die, I know, I know, too many movies I hear you guys say, but the image of a cute little cottage covered in snow, with smoke coming out of its chimney, a partially frost covered window through which you can see a happy family sitting around the fire place exchanging gifts, while a Christmas tree with fairy lights and decorations, twinkles away in the corner is my all time favourite Christmas scene!!!

So all you guys out there wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!