Boxing Day Revisited.
Somewhat irrevelent note, but during this winter season, where Christmas bells are in the air and we remember our Savior’s birth, just want to revisit the origin of the more celebrated ikon of boxing day — Santa Claus
taken from one of BMI3C [gr 11 Marketing] & this pretty article
The Santa Coke Deal
Interesting article to read — and to realize that the whole Santa Claus fat man in Red is simply the fruit tradition and CocaCola Ltd’s ingenious marketing. Hahaha oh the beautiful world of Arts 
haha kinda random… just to get my mind of more gloomy things
like scratching someone’s car yesterday when i was leaving for church (guest who visited, and i didn’t get around to looking at my blindspot/mirrors… boo)
but yeah… i don’t know why but my heart isn’t really into the whole celebrating mood, perhaps its cause i’m still exhausted from work, or my unconscious is upset at me for hitting the car, or something… but i dunno Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas…
kinda dry and sucky and oh look the snow has almost completely melted now… a grey gloom that fills my room.. with a bit of orangy homelyness from my incandescent light and my orangy floor…. *sighs* i feel disgust / sadness… but why? i feel brokeness and lonliness…. hms, Christmas… the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The celebration of lights, The celebration of family, and cheer, and coke… all things bright red and cheery… warmth? celebration, celebration… what is celebration? usually if its my birthday or one of my close friends’ i get gifts for them adn go hang out have dinner…. but Christmas.. Jesus is the after thought? do we talk to Jesus? do we even remember him? like i know for myself when i celebrate birthdays i don’t imagine ohh gabes/kat as a lil kid in the hospital and bla bla… i celebrate them.. i celebrate with them why is Christmas so different?
celebration… Jesus? celebration… i wonder how many of us are caught up with family dinners or the whole ‘christmas spirit’ thing that we forget Him? how heartbreaking it’d be that in our dinners we forget to invite Jesus to our party… have we spent that special time with him today? i know i haven’t yet…
first of all, merry CHRISTmas!
i agree that for so many of us, it takes an event like Christmas for us to finally realize how much we need to celebrate Jesus. it’s really a time of reflection…and when we sung Happy Birthday this morning, though it was a little ackward, it struck me – it’s Jesus’ birthday afterall!! So, why should it be ackward at all? I guess we tend to get wrapped in the little things, like the colours, the festivities, the decor. It’s sad really.
about the part when you mentioned that Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas – I’m going to hafta comment. I felt that way this morning, as in..’oh, this just seems like another day.’ But, after much thought, I pondered…what is Christmas really suppose to feel like? I don’t think it should be extra special…but, just another God-filled day in our lives that we celebrate Him coming to our world. it should be 365.25 days a year, instead of the 4/1461 days (can’t do decimals in fractions)
At any rate, Praise God for this time, and for every other time in our lives.
Oh yah, so..what’s going to happen with the scratched car?