Sunday, December 18, 2005 | 7:15 PM

Dear Santa,

it must have been a busy month for you. Do take care of your health and don't overbinge on those christmas cookies ok? I don't think all those brats, I mean, adorable, sweet, well tempered kids all over the world would want Santa to collapse from a clogged attery before christmas. Much as you need to live up to people's expectations of a pot-bellied, genial and friendly man in a furry red and white suit.

Well, how is it over at the North pole? What with all those global warming and the melting icecaps and rising sea leves, I figured your home just got smaller and is now closer to the sky than before.

Think it is too late to tell you what I want for Xmas already coz you would probably have shredded this letter due to all those poisonous contents and also coz I think there is no more time to buy them!!! *induces panic attack* Well, here's a random list of what I would like for christmas. But here goes...

the possibles..

- new specs (which i could have gotten had I not chickened out and told my mum my last specs were from March and maybe I will get them next Mar)
- >5 MP digital camera (which I could also have gotten cox my mum wans to fufils her promise had I not suffer a guilt attack and chicken out too. mk, you lousy wimp.)
- a sling bag tts big enough for me to stuff my books in..
- a nice big book on sign language (beginner n intermediate level)

and the impossibles..

- A bulldozer (as compared to a car, so I can run down not only pedastrians but annoying motorists too)

- For America to just sign that damn Kyoto Protocol. It is bad enough reading an article every other week on global warming becoming a real danger and that there will be more natural disasters to come, but to constantly see Bush being in the news for not wanting to sign the protocol just because developing countries are not included is plain irritating. I do suppose you have been keeping up with the news, dear Santa, apart from reading long lists of christmas wishes like mine. Still, check this out.

"In a letter to Senator Chuck Hagel on 13 March, President Bush stated his opposition to the protocol on the basis that, by exempting countries such China and India from compliance, it is unfair. However, to put this into perspective, it is worth noting that the US is responsible for 25 per cent of global emissions of CO2, while it is home to a mere four per cent of the world's population. More importantly, its greenhouse gas emissions per capita are more than 20 times those of India and eight times those of China. There can be little doubt that the US has a huge historical carbon debt and should recognise its responsibility for contributing to solving this problem." (http://www.wwf.org.uk/News/n_0000000268.asp)

- Peace and love everywhere!! Oh man, even I think you will find that impossible. The only bottled intangible is death and there are many variations for example, poison. The other intangible that was managed to be extracted and contained is destruction, and that is in the form of bombs and missiles. But seriously, let's just aim for peace first, shall we?

Oh well, have a Merry Xmas, Santa.

Love,
mk.

PS: Can you please like fix up that ozone layer while you are at it? I think the idiot who wished for having a cooler world and warmer hearts messed up the descriptions and you took him literally. Maybe you can work at correcting it. Thanks.

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