I must be getting old as I have started sending Christmas cards this year, to friends whom I have not contacted for some time. On second thought, that should be changed to friends who are older than me. I learnt that it is not a good idea to attempt to finish all the cards (twenty of them) in one night, especially when I write quite a few words on each card. Speaking of that, Christmas cards do not exactly afford me much space to write on. After valiantly squeezing in everything on the first card, I decided that I had to omit some parts for the rest, especially when the cards are of different sizes. The smaller ones probably had a word limit of two hundred words. The Christmas cards were not exactly cheap and some of them looked in terrible condition. Did I buy them too late? Also, I should have noted that Christmas this year fell on a Monday, which meant that I had one day less to send out the cards. As it is, I think I did send them out one day too late, which means that they will only arrive one day after Christmas. Here is what I originally planned to write on one of the cards, as it turned out, I had to shorten it further when I penned the cards.
This is a Christmas card masquerading as a gesture of friendship. I do not go to church, so the significance of Christmas is lost on me. I do not buy into the eason to be jolly?tagline that the media feeds us year after year, since I believe in being jolly everyday.
Anyway, I thought I would start writing to people whom I consider my friends once a year. It was an absolute privilege to have worked with such a harmonious bunch of people. I still look back fondly at my few months working at UOB Hougang North. If we could be colleagues again after I graduate, it would be a job that I will give serious thought to.
I should keep this short, it will be quite troublesome to write out all this four times, I am tempted to either print this out and paste it onto the card, or just photocopy the card, haha.
Wishing you people all the best for 2007 and hopefully I will see you people soon, like Philip housewarming gathering.