This December I am glad for the distraction of the glitter and tinsel the Christmas season offers! I am not one who is taken up by the elaborate decor and sparkling lights that some people go to great lengths to put up. I don’t mind it; it lends a certain brightness to the season and I see it as an invitation to enjoy what the season means.

For my home, the decorations are minimal but I strive to maximize the opportunities to enjoy more people during this season. But, as the years go by, you lose a number of people along the way, and this season it is a noticeable hole.

Being in that mood and made worse by the latest political shenanigan of going after an old man with an impressive record as a prime minister, over his role concerning that tiny rock island Batu Puteh, the Christmas ambience took some of that heaviness off!

Walking into a mall to get groceries, I actually took in the atmosphere and lingered here and there in the midst of that decor and forgot that that political episode was a new low, even by Malaysian standards!

I am quite politically involved, but once I have written what I want to write I forget about it and go on to the next thing. But this time, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that this was not right at all — going after an old man who served the nation even in his old age. It just shows we are not good people. Not good people at all! The world sees it.

Hopefully, the Christmas season will help people see that intrinsically we are better than this and bring out that better nature.

So, there will be no more political comments from me in this blog this December. I want to refresh my spirit with Christmas, enjoy the people the season brings around, take in the decor while shopping for presents for my little relatives, try out different foods, and just revel in the happiest of the holidays!

Next year, hopefully, there will be better things to write about. Until then, folks, season’s greetings!