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Goodies

3:53 PM

Goodies

When I was younger, carolling season meant lots of sweets and chocolates. After the singing was done at each house, there were always refreshments of cold drinks and goodies for the kids.

So assuming 2 sweets/chocs per house, on an average of 10 houses, that would be...

2 x 10 = 20 sweets/chocs by the end of the night.

And that was excluding those that we'd get from Santa Claus in between walking to the next house. And at the last house, there would be supper which normally had nuggets and hotdogs and yummy food and even more goodies.

And we normally carolled for 3 nights consecutively. So that would be

20+ x 3 = 60+ goodies

No wonder we always had sore throats and cough after carolling!

So, this year, my total haul of goodies come up to the grand sum of *drumroll* a big fat zero!!!

I pretty much cut down on collecting goodies as I grew older. For one thing, its no fun having to make your way through the scramble of little kids with a guitar in hand. And you can't put your guitar down because you don't want someone fooling around with your guitar and end up seeing your guitar crash to the floor from the sofa or from the wall where you propped it up against.

Plus, if you're like me, you're busy wearing your slippers and exiting the warm and mosquito-infested house before the crowd rushes through the door. The only exception to this is when the house is air-conditioned than you can sit in comfort for a while and let everyone go first. But that will mean playing catch-up to be at the head of the group when they're about to enter the next house because if you are like me and can only play the guitar sitting down, you need to pick out a good place to plop your butt down.

Sounds like a tough job isn't it?

The plus point is, everyone makes way for you as a guitarist and you can nicely tell that brat who's sitting down on the sofa to let you sit down. And he/she will apologize profusely and get up because the children are not supposed to sit down at all before we start singing. Hehe.
Okay, maybe I am stretching the truth an itsy-bitsy too far. Carolling isn't that horrendrous or dramatic. Its pretty much fun.

Anyway, this is what my mum prepared for those kids that came around to our house to carol

Don't you wish you were just a lil kid again?

I was hoping that the kids would leave the Hershey's alone, but nah...there were only 3 left after they were done raiding the goodies bowl.

I shall be pleasantly occupied for the next 6 days or so and I therefore decide to give my dear computer some well-deserved rest. So don't expect any more updates for now.

Worry not, I will be back.

I'm not so merciless as to leave you readers drooling for more, am I? ;)

Written on Saturday, December 16, 2006; 3:53 PM

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