I received two ‘Season’s greetings‘ cards from my former colleagues recently. My previous law firm must be referring to the rainy season because the last time I checked while orbiting around the earth, Malaysia is not floating somewhere near the English Isles, although I suspect legions of football fans wearing the pasar malam Man Utd jerseys believed so since Air Asia started to paint their planes with picture of Ruud Van Nisterooy (who is actually an actor now acting in Real Madrid).

And my guess is a whole lot of other oversized ‘majority’ companies also dishes out this innocuous ‘Seasons Greetings’ card. You just wait a few more days after Christmas to confirm this point because our Post Malaysia just cannot cope with the unusual surge during any festive season since majority of them already on leave to balik kampong or taken MC for stomach ache after eating roti kosong.

I suppose they must have a good reason to dish out these cards instead of simply wishing ‘Merry Christmas’. Perhaps, one is to cater for those who are not Christians or to people they don’t know are Christians or just generally to send a harmless card as a feel good factor and ‘use up their marketing budget’.

Of course there is always that other reason that most people don’t want to say for fear that some fundaMENTAL (flawed) folks will come down on them and burn their church or home or kill old nuns. But I suppose in our peaceful (yet crime-friendly) country, these are the minority compared to the overwhelming majority who just who just ignore such their skewed religious views and just go on and wish ‘Merry Christmas’.

I suppose next year, we should have cards that don’t say ‘Seasons Greetings’ but ‘Seasons Warnings’ since its about this time of the year that we have Tsunami (2004) and this year Typhon Utor (must be a mongolian typhon as retribution for Altantuya) bringing about massive devastation. There is certainly less merriment this year (err, so were the previous years in hindsight).

Incidentally, just like the Tsunami that hit our dear ‘pirates of the straits’ no one in the Kingdom of Bugis had any earlier warnings although we are the only country in this region to have now 3 satellites in space.

My wish this Christmas aka ‘Seasons’ time is that oil super rich barons in the middle east start becoming the major donor to help their fellow ‘brothers’ who are in need here.

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