My childhood Yuletide in the exhausted snowed-in Austrian village was all about the gifts. When we left for college, returning for Yuletide became some-more about meeting the family in person as the rest of the year it has been usually through the mechanism webcam.
This year, instead of seeing those desired ones for Yuletide, we got to see Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
He substantially wasn't wakeful or cared about my participation as most as we did about his. we was the single of hundreds of attendees of a'Christmas open house'in Kajang upon December 26.
A vast cooled tent housed around 200 invited guests, the media as well as the guest of honour: the emissary budding apportion with spouse, the apportion of report with associate as well as the Catholic priest.
Their speeches to an unfeeling assembly were interrupted by pseudo-ethnic as well as pseudo-Christmas performances of the cold as well as damp as well as visibly dispirited dance group.
I have to admit we do not assimilate Bahasa as well as had to be told thereafter what the speeches were about.
The complete insusceptibility of the assembly who accepted the language struck me even more. The guest as well as media seemed some-more focussed upon the free food as well as after while, we was, too.
Observing Christ's birth?
Was this eventuality the domestic rally or the school-dance opening or the eremite Yuletide ga! thering?
Perhaps my ignorance blinds me. we am told which the 'event' is something utterly out of the typical in Malaysia.
Muhyiddin in his sp! eech sai d which Malaysia was the usually nation where people celebrated various cultural as well as eremite festivals together, despite their opposite backgrounds.
Well, that's great. My usually conflict would be which this wasn't the celebration of the many important Christian legal holiday of the year, the celebration of the bieing born of Christ.
This was the cheap self-staging eventuality derisive Yuletide and, most worse, Malaysia's colourful as well as unique multi-religious society.
As the (former) Catholic, we additionally am deeply uneasy by the priest, any priest, praising the politician, any politician.
Reverend George Harrison, wearing the shining white liturgical frock, from the Kajang Holy Family Church praised Muhyiddin for livening up the spirit of Christmas.
"Christmas is the time for us to give to the haves not. What the government has done today shows which the government understands this," he said.
Hedonistic moment
Of course, priests as well as non-priests ! might lo ve as well as crave for the limelight as well as central appreciation of their existence.
Yet, the clergyman should not feat his eremite authority, usually since to him to serve his community's spiritual needs, to support for his own hedonistic impulse of limelight.
Harrison! referre d to the RM1,000 donation done by the emissary budding apportion to the (random?) resident earlier upon Boxing Day as well as substantially to the computers since to students by Muhyiddin in the indirect ceremony.
Nothing is over divided from the model Christian munificence than carrying half the dozen TV camera crews as well as even some-more photographers, the single being myself, jot down which event.
Christmas, pronounced Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' Yuletide Carol, is "a bad excuse to pick the man's slot each 25th of December.
It's only as most the bad excuse to stage an frivolous eventuality for self-promotion, wasting public money upon it, causing traffic chaos, dressing the sweating aged man in the Santa Claus dress as well as handing out token gifts similar to the Gothic lord.
This year, instead of seeing those desired ones for Yuletide, we got to see Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.He substantially wasn't wakeful or cared about my participation as most as we did about his. we was the single of hundreds of attendees of a'Christmas open house'in Kajang upon December 26.
A vast cooled tent housed around 200 invited guests, the media as well as the guest of honour: the emissary budding apportion with spouse, the apportion of report with associate as well as the Catholic priest.
Their speeches to an unfeeling assembly were interrupted by pseudo-ethnic as well as pseudo-Christmas performances of the cold as well as damp as well as visibly dispirited dance group.
I have to admit we do not assimilate Bahasa as well as had to be told thereafter what the speeches were about.The complete insusceptibility of the assembly who accepted the language struck me even more. The guest as well as media seemed some-more focussed upon the free food as well as after while, we was, too.
Observing Christ's birth?
Was this eventuality the domestic rally or the school-dance opening or the eremite Yuletide ga! thering?
Perhaps my ignorance blinds me. we am told which the 'event' is something utterly out of the typical in Malaysia.Muhyiddin in his sp! eech sai d which Malaysia was the usually nation where people celebrated various cultural as well as eremite festivals together, despite their opposite backgrounds.
Well, that's great. My usually conflict would be which this wasn't the celebration of the many important Christian legal holiday of the year, the celebration of the bieing born of Christ.
This was the cheap self-staging eventuality derisive Yuletide and, most worse, Malaysia's colourful as well as unique multi-religious society.
As the (former) Catholic, we additionally am deeply uneasy by the priest, any priest, praising the politician, any politician.Reverend George Harrison, wearing the shining white liturgical frock, from the Kajang Holy Family Church praised Muhyiddin for livening up the spirit of Christmas.
"Christmas is the time for us to give to the haves not. What the government has done today shows which the government understands this," he said.
Hedonistic moment
Of course, priests as well as non-priests ! might lo ve as well as crave for the limelight as well as central appreciation of their existence.
Yet, the clergyman should not feat his eremite authority, usually since to him to serve his community's spiritual needs, to support for his own hedonistic impulse of limelight.
Harrison! referre d to the RM1,000 donation done by the emissary budding apportion to the (random?) resident earlier upon Boxing Day as well as substantially to the computers since to students by Muhyiddin in the indirect ceremony.Nothing is over divided from the model Christian munificence than carrying half the dozen TV camera crews as well as even some-more photographers, the single being myself, jot down which event.
Christmas, pronounced Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' Yuletide Carol, is "a bad excuse to pick the man's slot each 25th of December.
It's only as most the bad excuse to stage an frivolous eventuality for self-promotion, wasting public money upon it, causing traffic chaos, dressing the sweating aged man in the Santa Claus dress as well as handing out token gifts similar to the Gothic lord.
PATRICK BOEHLER has studied domestic science, international relations as well as Chinese studies in Milan, Vienna as well as Beijing. Formerly with the Austrian ministries of defence as well as unfamiliar affairs, he is right away the graduate journalism student in Hong Kong.
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