presenting xmas

xmas is an emotionally stressful time. personally, i prefer bdays where it's clear who is the giver and who is the receiver. at xmas, there is always guilt and rarely graciousness when people give you gifts and you have nothing to return. so most set the ground rules of a non-gift exchange xmas. then if one party breaks the rules, ta-dah ..... the guilt sets in. it's better to give than to receive.

then there are those, who received "bad" pressies last year and decide to re-gift. tricky coz you need to remember who gave you that gift and which circles they move in so that you dun get discovered. (c'mon, dun gawk, we've all done it sometime.geez)

but that's the real irony of it coz on one hand, you've got the rationale that it's now YOUR gift so YOU can do what you want with it but on the other, you dun want to hurt the feelings of the giver who may have felt that they "knew you" hence bought you the perfect gift.

so this year people, i am buying gifts and if you din receive one, it's not coz you didn't make the list. it's coz i din see anything that i think you would like. know that i was thinking abt you anyways. and for those whom i did buy something for, it's all good - no buts, no ifs and no guilt.
kapesh :)