Getting ready for Christmas, or what!

Yesterday a colleague of mine told me that there was only 30 working days left before the Christmas break. So today it must be 29 days, right?

This means about 6 weeks to the next holiday, which sounds quite nice, but it also means about 6 weeks to the beginning of a new year. No more 2010. And yet another year has passed, and how on earth did that happen, without me really realizing it?
I think I just got use to write 2010, and soon I have to write –and get used to write- 2011. Two thousand eleven or twenty eleven, sounds actually not as bad but never as good as the one we’ve got now, but that is something that has already been up here, so let us leave it with this now.
I guess that at this time of the year, Europe is already completely decorated for Christmas and that every shop tries their best to get people to buy and buy and buy. That is what I can remember from living in Europe, every year the Christmas decoration came out a bit earlier than the year before. Quite so, that it was beginning just after the Schools autumn break.
Thank god it isn’t like this here in Asia.
They do something special at Christmas time, but it hasn’t at all the same hysteria and complete Christmas maniac around it like in the culture I come from. And I am not sad about that, and do not miss it a bit.
Maybe this has also something to do with the weather and the temperatures, coz who on earth feel the Christmas mood in 24 degrees wearing a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, while staggering past some silly Santa figures and some Reindeer's or like here, some silver plastic horses, dragging a sledge full of parcels, not I.
By the way; these photos are from last year, there is still no Christmas decorations anywhere.

State of the MOustache :

Day three of the MOvember; it is starting to feel like sandpaper on my face.