Everywhere around KL you see articles of promotional pieces meant to entice its viewers to join in the merriment that is Christmas (but mostly to cash-in on the fact that people are just more willing to part with larger sums during occasions). Anywhere you walk into promises special Christmas promotions and Christmas menus, everything has hints of snowflakes and reindeer and Santa Clause and Christmas carols. Oh, the sheer commercialism of it all is almost too much for me to resist. And then the day before Christmas arrives, I wake up to a scratchy throat and an aching head. All the parties and all the dinners and bonding, all thrown out the window. Curses.