DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?

Christmas should be the most important day of the year. It should be well-celebrated by the whole world, not just Christians, Catholics and devotees. It is a very special birthday celebration.

I remembered all the birthdays that my Daddy threw in my honor. I loved the food and the people who came in with gifts, the aunts and uncles who provided the laughter by telling those neverending stories of my childhood to new friends. It was fun. Every December 25th, someone is celebrating His birthday, too. He deserves lots of balloons, food, cake and gifts--the same way people celebrated my birthday. He cannot be taken for granted. He is the most specail baby born in this world.

I am a big big fan of Christmas. I try to buy everybody gifts. I try my best to send out all my Christmas cards to everybody I know around the globe. To me, it's not Christmas until I get those colorful gift wrappers, those huge shopping bags in my trunk, those Santa hats scattered all over the house, those sweet-smelling rosted chestnuts in my oven. Christmas is my heaven. It is when I feel most loved, not by the people around me but by My Creator. Offering a baby to save me is something I should celebrate all year 'round.

But you see, there are people who do not know the importance of their existence in this world. Let me be a Grinch for a moment and tell you the stories of these people who never showed any goodness in their lifetimes:

I work with this woman. She is the most selfish, sneakiest, nastiest person I have ever known who still lives. She is paid good by my company by doing practically nothing. She assigns every little work to everybody, including me. She instigates every little thing and blows them out of proportion to annoy my boss and make her the"good one." She uses her evil side to destroy the goodness in people. She makes you hate her. She makes you the bad guy all the time so she can get credit for the things that you do. I wonder what will happen to her when she realizes she's going to hell for all the evil things that she has done to the people who got fired, who got terminated, who lost their accounts all because she felt threatened by these people due to their knowledge and perseverance. I know she feels very threatened by my presence in the office. There is only one thing I can say to her: Go to hell, you worthless b***h!

I am related to this woman. She is a good friend, a good neighbor, a good wife. But, ask her parenting skills. It really sucks. She has been favoring her sons over her daughters. She is more impressed with her good-for-nothing son than her smart daughter. With all the things she has done for her son, one day, she will see that she made the wrong move when she did not give her daughters the love they need because there will be no one who'll take care of her but them--that is if they don't mind not being loved all these years.

I talk to this woman out of respect for my partner. She sounds so nice but, as the years pass having her in our lives start to annoy the hell out of me. She would talk nice to you but she has hidden agenda in everything that you do for her or vice versa. She is nuts. She never had kids so everybody feels sorry for her so much so that she thinks it's ok to borrow my own son the day I'm taking him to Disneyland with friends? She must be out of her mind(which by the way, she really is). She loves to be miserable. From what I know, she always felt ugly. Come to think of it, she really is(not that I'm boasting about anything). She has money, she has a good job, she has a good husband. Those should be enough for her to be contented with herself. If not, then she should use her money for plastic surgery so she can feel good about herself. I am too busy babysitting other people's issues.

So, there goes these haters, pessimist, negative people that I am planning to ignore as much as I can all year next year and the years to come. If they are nice to me, I might give them a cookie for Christmas...this is why the Grinch thought of stealing Christmas. It's becasue of people like them who do nothing but hurt and destroy the beauty of life.

As for me, I am playing Santa once again to all those people in my NICE list. The naughty ones get nothing but a fake smile...