Happy New Year!
Peace and goodwill in 2012
Boxing Day Holiday!
I bet some of you are going back to work today with reluctance. I, on the other hand, being a teacher, am having a holiday break for about three weeks. It’s indeed gratifying to have such a benefit. But for other line of work, today is just a normal day, though not really if it’s a day after Christmas Day. Well, lucky for those who are celebrating Boxing Day because it’s still a holiday. At least here in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe celebrate this day as a non-working holiday.
I haven’t heard of Boxing Day until a student mentioned it last week. I’ve been accustomed to what it’s called in the Swedish calendar, Annanday Jul, which can be translated as Second Day Christmas. I was confused why it was called Boxing Day, I thought it had something to do with boxing, you know, fighting. Hubby couldn’t tell me either what it meant. All he knew was the 26th of December is a holiday.
Gladly, hubby showed me an article in a newspaper this morning that explained what Boxing Day was all about. I was enlightened after reading it. The word ”boxing” doesn’t mean the punching but comes from the word “box”. Hahaa! How did I miss it? I think it’s easy to associate “boxing” with fighting than with wrapping or packaging. Do you have lots of leftover from your Christmas dinner? Box them and share to the needy, then you will have Boxing Day. It’s what it’s all about. Though in the old times, it was about the rich boxing and giving leftovers and gifts to the workers or servants.
Happy Boxing Day!
No Thriller Night
I’m sure my family and relatives in Davao have been busy preparing for tomorrow’s highlight of the month. It’s always on the 1st and 2nd of November that we pay a visit to our demised loved ones in the cemetery. I must say I haven’t been with my family on this occasion for eleven years now. But the memories I used to celebrate with them are, of course, unforgettable. The cemetery were crowded from the crow of the cock in the morning till the wee hours of the next day. I remember some people were sleeping over the graveyard. We tried to do it once but it rained so we went home. Because of the crowd, the cemetery becomes a no-scary place on this occasion, that’s why many are staying longer than midnight.
a cemetery in the south of Sweden
It’s a no-thriller night for the cemeteries this Halloween, thanks to visiting people lighting candles, offering flowers on the graves of their loved ones. According to history, Halloween is the time when the dead spooked and disturbed the living. To scare them away, people started wearing spooky masquerade. But in a modern time, a Halloween party or gathering is organized not to scare away ghosts but to have fun. I don’t know, however, if I would have fun in this kind of a party when I see spooky faces in front of me. I haven’t been to a Halloween party.
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