i’ve received my first christmas card for this year yesterday. a real one, made of paper and writtten with ink! i retrieved the card from our mailbox (with a key, you know, not a mouseclick) and for a few seconds, i was startled that the words were not written in arial font 10 or times new roman font 12.

i appreciate words written with pen-and-paper. i’ve got a fairly nice penmanship, if i may say so myself, but it’s getting rusty. i try to take the opportunity to write more often, usually taking advantage of the time i spend on the infamous deutsche bahn on my way to and from work every fridays. prior to that, the most i get to write off-keyboard are my grocery lists. writing during the train ride gives my penmanship a bit more exposure, even if it’s on just a piece of scrap, or the margins of the db magazin. i often get frustrated though, seeing how slow i’ve become and how much i’ve missed the backspace key. argh, pathetic, i know.

r is right. sending electronic cards makes more sense, being more environmentally friendly and all. but having been using non-renewable resources to rev up our car (and guilt-free at that) and having used disposable diapers for the last three years, i think it’s a bit ill-timed (not to mention hypocritical!) of me to suddenly claim i’ve become über-environmentally-conscious this month and that i’m deferring use of paper for christmas cards in the name of environmental friendliness. so i’m gonna stick to the old routine of sending real cards. hopefully, i get to send them all out before the 4th advent candle is alight.

who knows, maybe one day, hundreds of years from now, one of my cards will be unearthed and placed in a museum and people will gush:

“oh look here. it’s a christmas card, from the beginning of the 21st century, made of paper and written in ink! notice the tediousness and craftmanship devoted to it. the font used is very similar to script but is less regular… blah…blah…blah”

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incidentally, the january issue of pinoyexpats will be about the influence of technology on the way we communicate and connect. if you’d like to contribute an article, just shoot an email to pinoyexpats@gmail.com. meanwhile, go and check out the nov-dec issue of pinoyexpats on retail therapy!

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