The Curious Commercial Holiday

After years of morphing, a day to celebrate the birth of the Savior (actually, I think the origins is more convoluted and goes way back to Pagan rites) has turned into one that revolves around money.

Was in town earlier today to get some gifts and it was so jammed up that the minute I stepped into the cool air conditioning, I felt drained. The crowds were thronging around the items on sale and glittery decorations were all over the place. I'm absolutely certain that this holiday purchases contributes to our GDP to an extent.

Gift wrapping corners, masses standing around a rendition of the birth of the One and the odor of sweaty armpits. Not a very pleasant way to spend the weekend, going head to head against the traffic's flow. I wonder how a day set for religious purposes can be transmogrified over the years into one that celebrates the spirit of spending...

Hey, at least the manufacturers are laughing their way to the bank and people receive (hopefully) well thought out gifts. But it's just way too tiring for me!

Christmas Cards

This is the first year I actually prepared and sent out e-cards to clients and contacts...it's really a tiring job but I had fun doing it. It does help to keep you in contact with people whom you would normally not talk to otherwise. I think I may have left out some people in the process but I guess you can't possibly send it to everyone!

Listless

Next year could potentially see me traveling across Asia for school/work-related reasons. I do hope that it becomes possible...I'm feeling kinda numb with things here. Not sure why but everything just feels bland...the migrane doesn't help either. Had absolutely the best results in school for three years and I don't even feel excited about it. Lol. Waiting for some paychecks to arrive and I doubt I would be happy when I see them.

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Overworked.

I think I'm suffering from burn out, immune system is down and I just don't feel like doing anymore work. I really need to take a break for now...wish I could be enjoying myself overseas. Frankly speaking, I'm jealous of all my friends who are going/already on holiday somewhere. I guess the only (easiest) option for me is to go up to KL for a few days. The whole family's going up and it's been so many years that we actually traveled together, it just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Oh man.

I thought I was gonna have a brief break in my life this week, seeing that I have cleared my exams and quite a number of clients' stuff...but I guess things just have a knack of happening.

It seems like I'm working full-time or something, people call me at weird hours to ask for things. There are things to do everyday and stuff just keep popping up! I just want to have some personal time to do some shoots that I've planned and it doesn't seem like it's gonna be happening. And before I know it, the holidays would be over and it'd be full-swing school mode again! Darn! I think not choosing to go traveling this holiday may not be such a good choice...

I think I gotta go do some post-processing of my cousin's wedding photos now. Somehow, I think I like it this way, I'm not really complaining about the amount of work, I'm actually happy that I've got things to do. I got so restless last night when I sort of cleared this big project with an MNC (underpaying me though), it's like I just can't stop to do nothing!