For those living abroad, I'm sure you are missing the caroling activities of children that officially starts on December 16. We are fully prepared this early with lots of candies and snack foods like chips and biscuits to be given to the carolers. But we still have to go to the bank for the needed coins. Children would be knocking on our gate with their songs. Unlike before when children have those homemade musical instruments, I rarely see carolers with that anymore. They just sing with their voices, unmindful of the tune and the lyrics because they are only focused on us if we are going to give them something or not.