Christmas in Singapore III

Christmas in Singapore seems to be a big event. If you roam around the city, everything is decorated for Christmas with two months before. By default Singapore is not a Christian country, there is a small minority of Christians and the majority are of those are expats. Still in Singapore the whole country looks like a big Christmas tree? Why? Well, it is a good occasion for shopping, Christmas sales, Christmas parties... It is a big business, it is working well, therefore why not to have it?

And all the huge malls have a huge Christmas tree which attracts people to buy some more things they don't need anyway.... Even on the TV on Christmas eve there was a cheap Christmas show. It was just funny... I can't categorize otherwise....

However the non-Christian Singaporeans do not celebrate Christmas in their homes. Besides the shopping there is not much happening. They just go out in the town and make a lot of pictures with Santa Claus (we are in Asia at the end of the day) and they go for a party in one of the many clubs here. Some might gather for a dinner with the family, but they do not have a Christmas tree and they do not exchange gifts.

It is interesting, outside you can find all these Christmas trees and decorations, but in the houses they keep their traditions and do not let in the western commercial Christmas.

Just one more funny link which summarizes what Christmas is in Singapore:

http://www.syfc.org.sg/christmas05/12days.htm

(play from the 12th day backwards to the 1st)

And if Christmas is over, in one day the whole country changes, the Christmas decorations disappear and the Chinese New Year decorations appear. New reason for shopping, new reason to party and spend some money.

Anyway for two days after Christmas there are the final sales of the year, they get rid of everything they couldn't sell for Christmas, so all the people in the town, attack the malls :) Everything is damn cheap :)