Christmas at 20 degrees Celcius

It's Christmas time in Hong Kong and the skies are white and the earth is green.
It's Christmas time in Hong Kong, it may not be right but I'm happy as a bean.


It's been a while. I've been working like a mad-man to get as much stuff off the way as possible so I can take the holiday season a bit easier. Next week I still have to go to work, but thanks to my extra-effort, I don't have too much stuff to do anymore, so I can pretty much take it easy for the whole next week. Nice.

This is my first Christmas not being at home. Feels a bit strange. But then, everything has changed since last January when I moved to Hong Kong, so why would this be any different. It's just a matter of circumstance. I did hope to have enough money at hand to visit Finland, but well, that never happened. Doesn't matter that much, I suppose. I can go during summer, and I still got some visitors coming in before that - bringing some fresh air from home.

There's not much of a "Christmas-mood" in Hong Kong for a Finn, I must admit. While the locals seem to be more or less committed to their local way of celebrating this religious spending-fest, as I Finn I just can't find "Christmas" from Hong Kong. I'm not saying it's very important to me right now, but it's just a notion I've made: It's Christmas but it just mostly annoys me here. In Finland, even if I didn't really care for Christmas, it still has that special little atmosphere. Oh, and I do like the atmosphere in Finland during Christmas - religious or not, commercial or not; it's just a nice season.

Well, have to make the best of it here. I was planning to buy some Christmas decoration to my apartment but finally voted agaist it. Too expensive, too much of a fuss to arrange everything. I will, however, probably try make-shift some food. It may not be traditional Christmas foods (I mean, ham is the only really good food during Christmas) but at least something Finnish. I can get ham of some sort from a few supermarkets, and maybe I can do some simple dishes to accomodate it. Since it'll be just me and Chi eating then, however, I need to keep everything to rather simple level not to exceed my budget and buy food that'll just end up in the garbage. I must think of the kids in Africa. And my wallet.