Nothing brings out the Christmas spirit like bagpipes

Yet another quite surreal experience. Today afternoon the whole department went out for a nice Christmas lunch. Starting with the fact that the whole concept of Christmas and Winter feel so much out of place over here under constant sun shine and 30+ degree weather. So there were we in a globally dispersed crowd eating happily excellent Silver Fish Fried Rice (the actual fish and not the wingless insect by the same name, hopefully!) and black pepper onion beef, when in comes a 3 man Asian boy band in kilts who are obviously playing bagpipes to celebrate the season. Even though to my unacquired hearing (you can't really say that, can you?) all the bagpipe songs sound exactly the same, I was actually able to distinguish that they were playing a medley of the original Christmas classics like Jingle Bells. How wintery (yet another made up word for you) is that?