Presents

Right now, the holidays are really boring but they're passing by pretty fast. Sooner or later school's going to start again. And once again Ngee Ann Poly's semester starts the earliest. Bloody crap. It starts on December 6 while I heard from my friend that Nanyang Poly doesn't start their semester until December 20 something. I wanted to enjoy the December holidays a bit more, but thanks to the new academic year that the polys are adopting, there are no December holidays anymore.

I guess like most of the students out there, I'm not used to going to school in December. Together with Christmas and the New Year, the whole of December was always a holiday to me. It was really THE holiday season of the year. Christmas used to be really special too. But now... It's just going to feel like another public holiday, which really sucks.

Going to school during Christmas means another thing too. More presents to buy! Normally you wouldn't get presents for your classmates during Christmas because you didn't see them, but now that you'll see them almost everyday, you're more likely to get presents for them. Especially if someone in your class gets the ball rolling by giving you a present. Then you'll feel even more obliged to get them a present in return.

But come to think of it, the real meaning of Christmas isn't about the receiving and the stuff that you got. It's about giving. A present is meant to be given without expecting anything back. If you expect something back, then it wouldn't be called a present anymore. It would be called a trade instead. And let's not forget that the origin of Christmas was from a present too.

So this Christmas, if you give me a present but I don't get you one... Remember this entry and that it's all about giving! =)