Friday, December 26, 2008

Boxing Day

Just listen to the news and remembered that today is Boxing Day.

"Boxing day is the day after Christmas where u just box anyone you see."

OK., the above fact is not totally wrong. It is an after-Christmas holiday where shopping malls and shops open at 5am just to let people to shop. The discount given is so attractive even during economic crisis like current time. Thus, we can conclude that human likes shop a lot. This is so obvious to see from a bunch of friends that went KL to shop during Christmas without telling me. No lah, just kidding. Just that i don't like shopping.

Human will feel happy when they own something. These is what we call 占有欲 (sorry, dunno how to say in English). It is because of this thing that created many incidents in the past and we called History. In 31 August 1957, ....

Back to boxing day...

I dunno why it is called boxing day. My friend told me it is celebrated in Australia only as Aussie's famous animal is kangaroo which has the image of boxer in many cartoons that we watch. however, seems that boxing day is celebrated in other country as well...

I think is because when u want to buy ur stuff during boxing day, u may need some boxing skills to fight for the stuff u want.

That seems more logic to me.

Note: The author has NO intention to promote violence.

3 comments:

  1. No! Boxing Day comes from the meaning of opening the boxes of presents on the 26th after receving them throughout the christmas holidays. In Europe UK is probably the only country which celebrates it, and since Australia was once a colony of UK it's not really surprising that it is celebrated there.

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