anti-Christs on Christmas eve
Last night I saw at least three kids with red, glowing horns on their heads. That’s right, horns, and I was just on my way to Marriot’s so I wasn’t drunk yet. They were wearing headbands with two big, red christmas bulbs to celebrate (in weird Chinese sensibilities) the coming of Christ. But I swear they look like glowing horns like those headbands sold during Halloween. The young devils were innocently walking hand in hand with their parents, or being carried. It is the weirdest, scariest sight to see on Christmas eve. I swear. When I see them I see the anti-Christ.
Maybe they didn’t realize the irony, since Christmas for most mainlanders is just another reason to party and shop. They don’t know the concept of Christ, much less the concept of Anti-Christ. Maybe this is China’s revenge on me, because the other day I wore a Red Guard’s hat with my stylish red trench coat. The Singaporeans laughed, my Shanghainese colleague told me I’m scaring people because they don’t want to be reminded of the past. (Past? Underneath the sass pizazz & razmatazz, isn’t China still communist?) I guess that’s the equivalent of doing the Hail Hitler salute in Germany hehe.
