Happy Saint Patrick's Day

It's been ages since I celebrated St. Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day as the Irish call it. Maybe it's because I was in a high school named after him and once I was out, the holiday was out of my way just like my Chemistry or Physics text book. Or maybe I've never had enough motivation to celebrate it.

I read somewhere that St Patrick's Day is an official holiday in Ireland: they celebrate the coming of Christianity to their land. The best part of this celebration (no matter how Christian it should be) is that the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol are lifted for the day, which has encouraged and
propagated the holiday's tradition of alcohol consumption. Now I'm really sad that i didn't discover Wikipedia early enough. Otherwise each of my St. Patrick's High school mates would have been uniformly high on every 17th March and maybe we'd still be celebrating the holiday even after high school.

Well, no worries. I've read Wikipedia, check. I'm out of high school, check. Now, let us celebrate St Patrick's Day like we're supposed to, check. One more thing; remember to compensate on all those non-alcoholic St Patrick's Days you missed, double check !!

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY PEOPLE !!!