Nativity Play

Nativity Play at Changunnie's school on Tuesday. In fact, I am not going to talk about that. It was a precious moment for me as Changunnie was being on stage for the first time and she's been practicing her singing at home for three weeks. All nice but don't think anyone outside of the immediate family will be interested. What I want to talk about was all the work leading up to it. I said "Holy crap" each time my email went "ting".

The play was scheduled for Tuesday mid morning. Lots of parents (especially the fathers) were trying to wrap up their work in the office so that the family can take off on Friday for two weeks back home. Couple mothers decided that it'd be good to have a video made so that parents and families could share the moment. We circulated emails, found a professional photographer, no one objected to the cost of about HKD 200 per family....

Just when we thought we did a sterling job organising in a short period of time, one family wrote back and said "I know of a film student who can do it at about HKD 170 per family". Everyone else ignored that and sent thank you note to confirm order with the pro. The offensive struck again, "I have a HD camera".

On the fateful day, the pro set up all the cameras and took the before and after clips as well as the play itself. The offensive? They got in the same time everyone else did which is 3 minutes before the play and was stuck in the corner with some 8 to 9 relatives when the school said 3 people from each family. They were loud to a point parents sitting in front of them turned around to "Shh" them.

What I don't get is they have expensive watches, handbags. The diaper bag that Mrs Offensive used was a Gucci! The cameras they have? Things that I have only seen around the goal pole in a NFL game. Why is spending HKD 200 that difficult and required them to send multiple emails to object and yet the video that they took will likely come out like the Blair Witch Project?

Merry Christmas!