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Sunday, December 12, 2004
Lim: Christmas rush
By Melanie T. Lim
I had a horrible week, the other week. Yeah…it’s hard to be polite and smiling when your head is breaking and you feel like throwing up so if you saw me scowling, blame it on the 7-day migraine. Still, I had to join the Christmas rush to buy last-minute Christmas presents.
No, they were not my Christmas presents. I don’t shop THIS late in the year. I started shopping in August and finished in October. I had all my presents wrapped by early November. And this was pretty late for me. Last year, all my Christmas presents were purchased in June and wrapped in September.
I know. The truth is terrifying. I admit to being an extremely neurotic individual. I like to be prepared. I prepare for death, insanity, comatose conditions and Christmas. I am organized most times. And I am unfailingly obsessive and compulsive. Is it any wonder that my goal everyday is to stay sane?
I was doing the shopping lists of family members. That’s the only time I join the Christmas rush or rather what normal people call “Christmas shopping” in December. And you certainly won’t find me hopping madly from one shop to another on the 24th. Most definitely not.
I guess that’s why I nag at my poor niece all the time. I hate people with eleventh-hour habits. But I guess I procrastinated at 10 too. Only, that’s so long ago, I can hardly remember what I did then. I can’t really recall when this obsession for order and organization started. But I’m pretty sure that four years in Accounting greatly contributed to this neurosis.
I remember during my college days that while I was taking one of our Accounting Departmental Exams at USC, the proctor suddenly announced before time was up that due to a bomb threat, we were to submit our papers and leave the building immediately. I was thinking, is he out of his mind? We have an hour to go. I had not yet balanced my worksheet. There was no way I was leaving the building.
For all those eleventh-hour people who must join the Christmas rush on the 24th, I wish you good luck, great gifts and no migraines. But for those who have the courage to change—I beg of you to do your Christmas shopping NOW. Unclog traffic. Decongest malls. Unload the burden of overworked salespeople during the holiday season. Unless of course you’re still waiting for Santa to bring the Christmas bonus.
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Congratulations to the organizers of the SHS-G Alumnae Homecoming Night last December 4. It was a blast. Prizes galore. Fabulous entertainment. The works. And dear Sr. Margarita Ho was flown in from Taiwan especially for the event. So Sacred Hearters, don’t miss the next one next year!
(Note: For those who do not reside in Cebu or the Philippines and wish to get a copy of my book, “Wide awake,” please e-mail me at wideawakeincebu@yahoo.com.)
(December 12, 2004 issue)
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