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Q: Who will you spend Christmas with this year?
Seasons Greetings.
Who will everyone be spending their christmas with this year? Friends? Family? Random neighbours?
I'm hosting Christmas this year and I'm having all my friends round throughout the day, I'm cooking a full roast and I've invited some of my old grandpa friends from the hutong! Should be good!
There is no real concept of Christmas here, it is just another thing to drive people to buy pointless crap for a festival that they don't understand.
Hulk:
So... same as America?
The Bible never tells us when Jesus was born, but from what I've gathered, it wasn't during December, let alone December 25th. There would've been snow on the ground, and it would've been mentioned.
pbrown22:
Unfortunately, it is becoming that way in America and western countries as more and more people leave the birth of Jesus out of it all together. Though Christmas might have its origins in a pagan holiday there's no way it would have caught on and lasted if not for Christians deciding to celebrate Jesus birthday on that date.
my wife is planning a xmas dinner for me with her/our local family. just another dinner out so she don't have to cook for me?
My 3 years here I have become somewhat of a "GRINCH" largely because the season starts in early December and doesn't end until late February ...... I request of my family to choose, western holiday season or Chinese holiday season.... ..they don't choose, just party for 3 months. I have never been a real fan of xmas, although I have made some of the finest gifts for some of my family members, treasured gifts that they remember me by .... thoughtful things that I do...... not exactly a pair of socks or a TV or Iphone. I am not a religious kind of guy, but I do enjoy family time together. I will be spending Xmas with my Chinese family and accepting their best wishes, and then I will be just as nonchalant with them when they carry on to extremism for the Chinese New Year... it's like, la dee dah de dah .... 3 months of little production or 3 months of glorious family fun or 3 months of, GOD, I wish I was younger.
With the wife and baby in the morning, so the wee one can open her presents.
Then head downtown for a Turkey dinner in a pub. Possibly with friends. We will take the MIL with us. I am supposed to be at work that day.... but nahhh.
I don't really do Christmas anyway. New Year is my thing.
At new year we have a family wedding at the wife's hometown in west Guangdong. I am looking forward to that. The family have hired a bus to take us there so I plan on it being well loaded with beer.
And... even better.... there is a real possibility of there being 3 echinacities posters at the wedding. Hell, the local press might even turn up, on account of there never having been so many foreigners in my wife's hometown at the same time 
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On the downside, the beer will probably be warm 
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royceH:
I stopped o/n there recently and the only beer they had was Pearl River. It was complete piss. Only 2.7%. Warm, naturally. Is that the best they can do down there?
ScotsAlan:
The flash people drink that Kingsway stuff .
The daft people drink Bud... I managed to find Tsingtao
ScotsAlan:
Paddyfield in Guangzhou I think. It's expensive but it's probably the best of the lot.
Sinobear:
The Paddy Field is THE best Christmas spread around. Darren really knows how to run the place and service there is headache-free (until the hangover).
ScotsAlan:
Yeah. I like the Paddyfield. But it just dont feel right on the 2nd floor....
It's a work day but I have Thursdays off. Probably stay home and polish the knob and shout myself something special. See if the supermarket has any Danish beer because sometimes they do.
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Wednesday I will be a bit old fashioned busy : Prepare for the dinner, decorations, carol singing with son, and evening dinner only with my family. At Thursday classical - still digesting the insane amount of meat and potato salad eaten day before while on sofa watching movies and play with son's new toys together and eating sweets and small stuff, drinking some nice wine. evening will come friends after work for dinner, and Friday will do same as Thursday. Yeah, i got my 5 days of paid holidays for my Christmas. Finally !
Myself. I don't see the purpose of spending Christmas or any "western celebration" (we are all from waiguo right?) with Chinese, they don't understand and don't want to understand the true meaning of the moment (trust me I tried to explain it to many locals), for them it's about gifts, gifts and also gifts, an excuse to get drunk on wine and trying (but failing miserably) to "look Western and international" to gain face.
Hotwater:
Hahaha, so funny! Xmas in the UK is now almost exactly as you describe here. Gifts, gifts, gifts, overspending, overeating & overspending! Without mush thought to its pagan origins!
I'll be spending it with a 6 pack of Bud. Or maybe Blue Ribbon cos I'm hipster.
DrMonkey:
It's Christmas, treat yourself with some fancy import beer from Belgium ^^
xunliang:
I have no idea. But apparently hipsters like to drink PBR now.
royceH:
I've tried it. It's piss. I suggest you take the Belgium option.
Sinobear:
PBR has already been copied: you can buy 'Blue Cowrie Beer.' Not sure what a 'cowrie' is though.
Spiderboenz:
Cowrie shells were one of the earliest forms of currency in China.
I don't really celebrate anything... so I guess I'll be with my wife and kids... you know, if the CIA doesn't assassinate me?
