Christmas Letter

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There was a woman in her forties strolling through the hordes at Takashimaya the other day, singing out loudly, “All I want for Creamer is my two frontee, my two frontee, my two frontee”. Auntie, we hope you get your two frontee and more.

It’s time for Christmas wishes, and I don’t know why it is, but I’ve only just discovered that writing and sending Christmas letters is a tradition in some countries.

People write long, wordy letters to friends and family about how they, their kids, and their pets have been doing the past year. They obviously haven’t been blogging.

If I were to write a Christmas letter to my friends and family, it’d probably go something along the lines of ‘read my blog’s archives from Dec 2005 – Dec 2006, Merry Christmas’.

But seriously though, there are some things worth saying again for Christmas, however we may celebrate it.

For mine, this is my second Christmas with Naomi, and it’s something to celebrate all on it’s own. Apart from our own, we probably also attended a record number of weddings this year, each beautiful in their way, one with pyrotechnics, and others with the quiet reflection of a few special words. To these married friends and family, we wish you again, love, peace and happiness, and our heartfelt empathy at the chaos that is known as a wedding preparation.

We also witnessed, well, not quite, but you get what I mean, a record number of births. For bringing new lives, and for forging new bonds, congratulations to every new parent we know.

To Aunty Lynn, thank you for describing in detail how Teck and Cindy brought Cerys into the world, and re-acquainting us with what it means to form lasting bonds. Teckwyn, you da man, and Cindy, you da Mum.

Don't eat!We’ve been exceedingly lucky to witness and experience the little miracles that make up our lives, and to be able to endure rough days by realising that they are wide as they are long; by taking time out to chuckle, because it’s good to chuckle; at things such as there being a plethora of ‘Geisha’ books at Borders and Kinokuniya because everyone wants a Memoir of a Geisha – there are titles such as ‘Autobiography of a Geisha‘ – which presumably has the edginess of being written by a geisha herself; ‘The Secret Life of Geisha‘, which after you watch it, won’t be so secret already, and the infinitely intriguing ‘Kickboxing Geishas‘.

But I’m chuckling at there not being a book titled ‘Anatomy of a Geisha’, which would have been a seller, I tell you.

But never mind. Merry Christmas everyone. And remember, being merry goes a long way to getting peace, love and happiness.

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23 responses to “Christmas Letter”

  1. Alvina Avatar

    Happy Christmas &a Merry New Year Mr. Miyagi! (x May you receive lots of presents you’ll love, and enjoy the coming year.

  2. Alvina Avatar

    Happy Christmas &a Merry New Year Mr. Miyagi! (x May you receive lots of presents you’ll love, and enjoy the coming year.

  3. DK Avatar

    Merry Christmas!

  4. DK Avatar

    Merry Christmas!

  5. Oppsieless Avatar
    Oppsieless

    Ha ha ha Miyagi, didn’t know you were a writer. All my friends like the arts. I shall pass the word around the reading crowd. We are quite big in Singapore. Meanwhile agree with you abt the geisha tales. Perhaps you should ask the brotherhood press to do a special run of geisha’s – the confessions of a Singaporean Geisha in London??? Sounds catchy.

    Merry Christmas to you and Naomi.

  6. Oppsieless Avatar
    Oppsieless

    Ha ha ha Miyagi, didn’t know you were a writer. All my friends like the arts. I shall pass the word around the reading crowd. We are quite big in Singapore. Meanwhile agree with you abt the geisha tales. Perhaps you should ask the brotherhood press to do a special run of geisha’s – the confessions of a Singaporean Geisha in London??? Sounds catchy.

    Merry Christmas to you and Naomi.

  7. Wen Long Avatar

    Merry Belated Christmas & Happy Boxing Day,Mr Miyagi!

  8. Wen Long Avatar

    Merry Belated Christmas & Happy Boxing Day,Mr Miyagi!

  9. Lincoln Avatar

    And a Merry Christmas to you.

  10. Lincoln Avatar

    And a Merry Christmas to you.

  11. abodymous Avatar
    abodymous

    you mean those idiotic brotherhood people who threatened to hack mr miyagi’s blog????? please ask them to stay away. buncha wannabes!

  12. abodymous Avatar
    abodymous

    you mean those idiotic brotherhood people who threatened to hack mr miyagi’s blog????? please ask them to stay away. buncha wannabes!

  13. primataste Avatar
    primataste

    idiotic? Yes they certainly do come across as silly when they go on and on as they often do about space ships etc. Hackers? a criminal side perhaps even, an illicit, forbidden fruit appeal. I would imagine. Buncha wannabes? Most definitely, complete with lousy trite melodramatic rag a tag which they leader even has the cheek and temerity to pass of as literature Ha!

    But nonetheless terribly sweet, addictive and adorable 🙂

  14. primataste Avatar
    primataste

    idiotic? Yes they certainly do come across as silly when they go on and on as they often do about space ships etc. Hackers? a criminal side perhaps even, an illicit, forbidden fruit appeal. I would imagine. Buncha wannabes? Most definitely, complete with lousy trite melodramatic rag a tag which they leader even has the cheek and temerity to pass of as literature Ha!

    But nonetheless terribly sweet, addictive and adorable 🙂

  15. lazysusan Avatar
    lazysusan

    Mmmmmh……

  16. lazysusan Avatar
    lazysusan

    Mmmmmh……

  17. moshedayan Avatar
    moshedayan

    If we see him, we will just wack him.
    there may be more of them than us.
    they could also be better trained than us.
    but I am sure the blogging community will
    rally together and exterminate them once and for all like we did in the case of WSM. What they are doing is
    undermining our way of life and they are also stealing
    our readers. The brotherhood are like those aliens in the movie,
    Independence day. It is either them or us. We all need to get that
    darkness. Either he goes or we all end up mati one day

  18. moshedayan Avatar
    moshedayan

    If we see him, we will just wack him.
    there may be more of them than us.
    they could also be better trained than us.
    but I am sure the blogging community will
    rally together and exterminate them once and for all like we did in the case of WSM. What they are doing is
    undermining our way of life and they are also stealing
    our readers. The brotherhood are like those aliens in the movie,
    Independence day. It is either them or us. We all need to get that
    darkness. Either he goes or we all end up mati one day

  19. Ah Beng Avatar
    Ah Beng

    If we see him, we will just wack him..
    there may be more of them than us.
    they could also be better trained than us.
    but I am sure the blogging community will
    rally together and exterminate them once and for all like we did in the case of WSM. What they are doing is
    undermining our way of life and they are also stealing
    our readers. The brotherhood are like those aliens in the movie,
    Independence day. It is either them or us. We all need to get that
    darkness. Either he goes or we all end up mati one day

  20. Ah Beng Avatar
    Ah Beng

    If we see him, we will just wack him..
    there may be more of them than us.
    they could also be better trained than us.
    but I am sure the blogging community will
    rally together and exterminate them once and for all like we did in the case of WSM. What they are doing is
    undermining our way of life and they are also stealing
    our readers. The brotherhood are like those aliens in the movie,
    Independence day. It is either them or us. We all need to get that
    darkness. Either he goes or we all end up mati one day

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