Christmas in Singapore IV - How did I celebrate Christmas?

The first Christmas party for me was on the 2nd of December. This was a party with the whole commercial department of DHL. We started with a huge lunch followed by some toasts and a beer sculling competition. Of course the team full with @ interns and top management won :) Asians are bad in beer sculling, and of course our training and experience counted a lot :)

And we had some parties with the advertising agency and with the media agency and with the embassy and with the newspapers who invited us and I can't even remember how many Christmas parties and lunches I have attended...

On the 24th I felt very screwed. It was just weird to realise that it is Christmas and I am not home in my small little snowy town but in Singapore in my room. It was weird just to realise that most probably I will spend Christmas alone. I just felt very lonely. So I just went swimming, so at least I could feel a little bit better. And after that I have cleaned my room and the house so at least I can feel the Christmas preparation as well and I put my nice little Christmas tree on my desk (thanks Fayy for giving me this nice tree). I called my mom, but instead of feeling better, I felt even more depressed, as she was crying and it was just very depressing. At least I sent home a lot of presents...

I tried to watch a pathetic Christmas show on the TV but it did not help, so I called my friends just to meet and do something. We went for a nice Christmas dinner and to forget we really spent some money :) It was funny to talk with the other interns who felt the same... We take a bold step to change the situation and we said that we go in a club, so at least we will have a lot of people around us and we won't feel alone.

Clubs in Singapore are not really holy places and there is not much of a Christmas and family spirit there but I think that it was a good decision, because that bad feeling of being alone for Christmas disappeared. We went to Insomnia (a typical meeting point of cultures), I will write about Singaporean clubs later) and we had a great party :):)

On the 25th I just woke up really late and went to the swimming pool again. I was swimming, reading and enjoying the sun. It was really relaxing and I really enjoyed it. In the past period I had a very hectic period at work and I was always very stressed, so I really enjoyed this relaxation.

Later Luis, Albert, Irina, Nacho, Parki and a nice Singaporean girl came over for dinner. Luis was cooking and mainly Albert was helping him out while me and Irina was watching a nice movie (Snow in April). We had a very nice dinner again and it was just a good feeling to have such a great company for the second Christmas dinner. After the big eating ceremony and hot wine drinking ceremony some played some weird game and I was watching again movies with Irina. We had a really great evening.

Today is the 26th and I decided to be active. I started with swimming ( a lot of swimming heh?) and after that cleaning the house after the party. And now I am writing all these experiences in Singapore as I have time to do it. There are so many things to write and so many experiences, just that I do not have always the time.