Christmas: Is the spirit dying away slowly?

[tidus1203]

Is it just me or do you feel it? I remember 10 years ago Christmas was much more fun... Or is it just me cause I am getting older and getting more serious unlike 10 years ago I was just 16, a senior high school student so mas jolly pa ang buhay. Walang poblema maliban lang sa grades na ipapakita sa magulang...

Kayo what do you think? Mas nagiging malungkot na ba ang pasko ngayon kaysa kungwari 10-15 years ago?

[ghosthunter]

Is it just me or do you feel it? I remember 10 years ago Christmas was much more fun... Or is it just me cause I am getting older and getting more serious unlike 10 years ago I was just 16, a senior high school student so mas jolly pa ang buhay. Walang poblema maliban lang sa grades na ipapakita sa magulang...

Kayo what do you think? Mas nagiging malungkot na ba ang pasko ngayon kaysa kungwari 10-15 years ago?

Overall Christmas is still Christmas. It is just that as we get older, our viewpoint of this holiday season has changed. Christmas is just something that is more enjoyed by the young.

As we get older, we have more obligations so Christmas tends to become more of a burden to us in the form of increased expenses and many social obligations/responsibilities like charities, parties, family etc.

[safeorigin]

nothing's changed since I don't celebrate it to be honest...

[uls]

ganyan talaga tidus

as we get older, we no longer feel the same happy Christmas feeling we felt when we were kids

diba sabi Christmas is for kids?

naalala ko nung bata pako, October, November palang na-fi-feel ko na ang Christmas

ngayon kahit well into December na parang wala lang

ok lang yan dude

that's life

[tidus1203]

Pero there are visible changes talaga. I remember dato 10 years ago mga kapitbahay naman pabongahan ng decorations. Ngayon may iba dyan wala ngang decorations ang bahay eh.

[ghosthunter]

Pero there are visible changes talaga. I remember dato 10 years ago mga kapitbahay naman pabongahan ng decorations. Ngayon may iba dyan wala ngang decorations ang bahay eh.

As Christmas is for kids, your neighbors' kids might have grown up and moved away. Or limited decorations to inside the house.

[tidus1203]

As Christmas is for kids, your neighbors' kids might have grown up and moved away. Or limited decorations to inside the house.

But they do have grand kids now. Yung kababata ko (well 5 years older than me) has already married and has a 4 year old daughter pero wala nga decoration bahay nila unlike dati bonga sila...

[ghosthunter]

But they do have grand kids now. Yung kababata ko (well 5 years older than me) has already married and has a 4 year old daughter pero wala nga decoration bahay nila unlike dati bonga sila...

Maybe personal economic changes? Could be they are not as well off as before.

[uls]

But they do have grand kids now. Yung kababata ko (well 5 years older than me) has already married and has a 4 year old daughter pero wala nga decoration bahay nila unlike dati bonga sila...

baka sa loob ng bahay ang mga decor

malay mo meron sila malaking Xmas tree sa sala

teka lang... eh kayo... may decors ba bahay niyo? hehe

[safeorigin]

^inflation in christmas decoration

naalala ko lang pag christmas is the confines of my room kaya bale wala sa akin

ang nagbago lang siguro is I see it as a waste of time and money...

[tidus1203]

So the economy plays a part of it I assume? I also remember 10 years ago by this time lakas na ng benta ng fireworks for New Year naman. This year ang tumal ng benta... So yeah its the economy!

[uls]

So the economy plays a part of it I assume? I also remember 10 years ago by this time lakas na ng benta ng fireworks for New Year naman. This year ang tumal ng benta... So yeah its the economy!

di sa economy yan

dami pera mga pinoy this year

sa local stocks palang

OFW remittances record high

auto sales back to record level

the malls are packed

you're just getting older dude

[jimnyeatworld]

di sa economy yan

dami pera mga pinoy this year

sa local stocks palang

OFW remittances record high

auto sales back to record level

the malls are packed

you're just getting older dude

tingen ko naman *uls dami baon sa utang ngaun. sa dami ng nag-maxout ng credit cards, low downs sa condo at tsikot at yun mga discounted ensogo/gift certs,
kaya walang pera panlabas ngaun

i'm sure this will continue kasi ang forecast eh full recession ang asia in 2-3 years sa sobrang daming mababaon sa utang

pero alam ko kumbakit walang gano namimili ngaun, kasi last year hindi kami namili ng X'mas. namili kami after X'mas kasi nagsale lahat ng malls after bec. they're thinking la na pera pambili tao

imagine Dec. 23 yun hush puppies na gusto ko 4,500, December 28 nabile ko ng 3,200 san kapa hehe

[basti08]

pareho tayo tidus hehehe... affected din ako. or probably, 10 years ago hindi natin sariling pera ang ginagastos natin pag christmas hahaha... ngayon sariling bulsa na ang butas

[uls]

Pero there are visible changes talaga. I remember dato 10 years ago mga kapitbahay naman pabongahan ng decorations. Ngayon may iba dyan wala ngang decorations ang bahay eh.

busy lang siguro sila kaya di nag decor

or baka inisip nila katamad mag tanggal ng decor after the holidays so di na sila nag decor

kaw naman tidus, dont let your scroogey neighbors spoil your holidays

[tidus1203]

Yun na nga eh if people are lazy to put decors then the spirit of Christmas has already diminished... Putting up decors 10 years ago VS now still consumes the same amount of calories hehehe

[safeorigin]

people spend more time in front of computers na rin kasi kaya siguro tinatamad...

[uls]

Yun na nga eh if people are lazy to put decors then the spirit of Christmas has already diminished... Putting up decors 10 years ago VS now still consumes the same amount of calories hehehe

you're neighbors are also getting older

[jimnyeatworld]

Is it just me or do you feel it? I remember 10 years ago Christmas was much more fun... Or is it just me cause I am getting older and getting more serious unlike 10 years ago I was just 16, a senior high school student so mas jolly pa ang buhay. Walang poblema maliban lang sa grades na ipapakita sa magulang...

Kayo what do you think? Mas nagiging malungkot na ba ang pasko ngayon kaysa kungwari 10-15 years ago?

the explanation is very much how you approach life. sabi mo ikaw kumukuha ng interest, pero ikaw never ka makukuhaan ng interest ergo you buy in cash sa big purchases

ganyan din lahat ng tao ngaun kala mo ikaw lang. di ko alam kung sa tubig na iniinom natin, pero ang lahat ng tao kasi ngaun pakabig at tuso

so there goes X'mas the spirit of giving, bec. today everybody computes. scrooge is teh man these days

[ess]

For me, I guess I really am getting older.

Take for instance my office. I work for an IT company. I'm sure all of you who work for IT companies know that a lot of deadlines occur in Q4. (Honestly, I have no idea why they want to release a product in Q4.... Feeling ko mga GAME companies lang ang may karapatan mag release sa Q4. Non-game companies? Ewan.)

Now, nagpupuyat na ang department mo fixing lots of bugs ang slugging it out with an adamant QA team, with each member having a quota of bugs to log. Hence they log walang-kwenta bugs just to meet their quota.

Fine. It's just work. That's what I'm being paid for. To push the product out by Q4, and to ensure all the bugs, both legit bugs and nuisance bugs, are fixed.

Busy, busy busy.

Enter the admin group. The admin group demands that each department send out a representative to be a member of the Christmas party committee. Okay... I sacrifice a member to join the group. That member of mine must now render extra hours of work for that stupid committee. (As if mas importante yung Christmas party na yon kesa doon sa Q4 deadline.)

Then comes the result of the committee....

Monito monita ---> Buy 50php of stupid items every week. Waste 50php on stuff that gets thrown in the waste basket.

Monito monita final --> go crazy running around the mall to search for that final gift.

Presentation --> Remember the Q4 deadlines? Now you also have to think of a stupid Christmas presentation.

Christmas Party Venue --> Siempre it has to be located in a place that FAR away from the office. Car owners are conscripted by the committee to carpool. If you don't want ot carpool, you're made to look like the Christmas Scrooge...humbug! My office is at The FORT. Ang daming magandang venue dito na pwedeng lakarin. BUT nooooooo.... the Christmas committee wants to have it in Greenbelt on a FRIDAY night. Wow...nice...sarap mag hanap ng parking!

ME I'm not excited. Naiinis ako. IN fact, I really want to catch the flu next friday para lang may excuse ako not to attend. I just want to push the Q4 deadline so the company earns its money.

The ADMIN group? Excited like teenagers waiting for prom night.

Yep... I am getting old. I don't deny it.