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Santa Claus Coming........

Postby wanyuhe » Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:01 am

Now..........

Christmas is coming,

So how do you celebrate Christmas ?

I live in Taiwan.

We don't have any activities to celebrate Christmas.

We just only discount in department stores.

It's very common and bored.

Can you share with me how do you celebrate your Christmas ?

Happy Christmas {-:

Hope you can received gift from Santa Claus !
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby Dixie » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:29 pm

wanyuhe wrote:
We don't have any activities to celebrate Christmas.

We just only discount in department stores.



I found this funny {-: {-:

I am not really sure if I like Christmas or not. On the one hand, it's a magical time when you're a kid. Even now I love the lights and the carol singing and above all the fact that I'm on vacation :lol: On the other hand, celebrating X-mas with relatives I hardly see during the year doesn't seem like a very amusing plan.
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby ArnauEstanyol » Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:41 pm

Well, always we still have the turkey... ;-)
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby Dixie » Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:08 pm

ArnauEstanyol wrote:Well, always we still have the turkey... ;-)


Do you have turkey for Christmas? I thought it was just an American tradition.
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby ArnauEstanyol » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:35 am

Hi Dixie.
I know that eat a good turkey is an America tradition. Although I think that meal is typical of Thanksgiving Day. What I don't know is if that tradition belongs exclusively to America. Well,anyway, at home we eat turkey sometimes in Christmas. Tonight we'll go to my fathers-in-law's home to devour a very fat one. Feathers included. :mrgreen:
What is your favourite dinner in this holy night?
No em diguis la sopa de galets i la carn d'olla que se'm fa la boca aigua!!! ;-)
BON NADAL DIXIE !!!
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby Dixie » Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:15 am

ArnauEstanyol wrote:What is your favourite dinner in this holy night?
No em diguis la sopa de galets i la carn d'olla que se'm fa la boca aigua!!! ;-)
BON NADAL DIXIE !!!



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't have a favorite meal for Christmas Eve, and I don't like traditions either. Yesterday I went to my parents' and we just had some omelette, some pa amb tomàquet and cured ham, and that was all. The big meal is today, with all the family gathering and all. We don't have the typical sopa de galets or carn d'olla, we just don't have this tradition here. Where I am from, seafood is very typical, so my mom always prepares angler with shrimps (rap amb llagostins). Unfortunately, I, the weirdo, don't like seafood.

Bon nadal, Arnau :-D
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby ArnauEstanyol » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:35 am

Dixie wrote:
ArnauEstanyol wrote:What is your favourite dinner in this holy night?
No em diguis la sopa de galets i la carn d'olla que se'm fa la boca aigua!!! ;-)
BON NADAL DIXIE !!!




I don't like traditions either. Yesterday I went to my parents' and we just had some omelette, some


Hi Dixie.
Well, I did refer to the traditions as a meeting with the family. No matter for me if baby Jesus was born or not. For me the most important is the family. The family ties. Friends as well. The past day 25th. we went to my Father-in-law's home for Christmas lunch. While my Mother-in-law was cooking I went to the kitchen and I started talking to her. During the conversation I embraced her and I kissed her. My two niece came in and embraced us, my wife, our two sons, the whole family came into the kitchen and embraced each other. It was a marvellous moment. My Mother-in-law started to cry for happiness. For me the best moment of the year. Looking everybody so happy. That's for me the Christmas time. Easy: That's my religion.
And now you can think my mother-in-law's kitchen is very wide. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yes, it's very wide... well... We had to put the turkey off from the kitchen to come in. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby Dixie » Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:31 pm

ArnauEstanyol wrote:
During the conversation I embraced her and I kissed her. My two niece came in and embraced us, my wife, our two sons, the whole family came into the kitchen and embraced each other. It was a marvellous moment. My Mother-in-law started to cry for happiness. For me the best moment of the year. Looking everybody so happy.


That's so sweet. And it's awesome to have such a good relationship with the in-laws. You're so lucky :-)
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby ArnauEstanyol » Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:58 pm

Dixie wrote:That's so sweet. And it's awesome to have such a good relationship with the in-laws. You're so lucky :-)


Thank you so much.
Yes, frequently I've seen that relationship is not very good in other families. Many people speak about their in-laws very angry. Not in my case at all. When my wife and myself started our relationship was hard with my in-laws. We broke our relation during a time for that reason.
But right now we are a very united family. I suppose my in-laws was scared of me or something like that. I don't know. I never asked them why. Maybe was my face. If you take a look on my avatar you'll see I'm not so beautiful. :lol: :lol:

Sorry I'm a little joker.

ATTENTION!! "in-laws" referring to my wife's parents. Another word I have learned from you.

Thanks for your kindness.
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Re: Santa Claus Coming........

Postby Dixie » Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:42 pm

Glad to help ;-)
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